Jeremiah 12

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1 Certainly, O Lord, you are just. But if I may contend with you, while still speaking what is just to you: Why does the way of the impious prosper? Why is it well with all those who transgress and act unfairly?	1 Tú eres demasiado justo, Señor, para que yo te recrimine; sin embargo, quiero tratar contigo una cuestión de justicia. ¿Por qué prospera el camino de los malvados y están en paz todos los traidores?
2 You planted them, and they took root. They are prospering and bearing fruit. You are near to their mouths, but far from their hearts.	2 Tú los plantas y ellos echan raíces, crecen y producen fruto. Tú estás cerca de sus labios y lejos de sus sentimientos.
3 And you, O Lord, have known me well. You have seen me, and you have tested my heart with you. Gather them together like a flock for the sacrifice and sanctify them for the day of slaughter.	3 Pero tú me conoces, Señor, tú me ves, has sondeado mi actitud hacia ti. Arrástralos como ovejas al matadero, resérvalos para el día de la masacre.
4 How long shall the earth mourn? And how long shall the plants of every field whither because of the wickedness of the inhabitants within them? It has consumed the wild animals and the birds. For they said: “He will not see our very end.”	4 ¿Hasta cuándo el país estará de duelo y se secará toda la hierba del campo? Por la maldad de los que habitan en él perecen las bestias y los pájaros. Porque ellos dicen: «¡El no ve nuestros senderos!».
5 “If you have struggled to run on foot, how will you be able to compete with horses? And if you have been secure in a land of peace, what will you do about the arrogance of the Jordan?	5 Si ya te fatiga una carrera de a pie, ¿cómo competirás con los caballos? Si en una tierra de paz no te sientes seguro, ¿qué harás en la espesura del Jordán?
6 For even your brothers, and the house of your father, even these have fought against you. And they have cried out after you with loud voice: ‘You should not believe them, when they speak good things to you.’ ”	6 Porque hasta tus hermanos y la casa de tu padre, hasta ellos mismos te traicionan, ellos mismos gritan a voz en cuello detrás de ti. No te fíes de ellos, cuando te dirigen hermosas palabras.
7 “I have abandoned my house. I have disowned my inheritance. I have given my beloved soul into the hand of its enemies.	7 He abandonado mi casa, he rechazado mi herencia, he entregado lo que más quería al poder de sus enemigos.
8 My inheritance has become for me like a lion in the forest. It has uttered a voice against me, therefore, I have hated it.	8 Mi herencia ha sido para mí como un león en la selva; ella lanzó rugidos contra mí, por eso la detesto.
9 Is my inheritance to me like a discolored bird? Is it like a bird that has entirely changed color? Approach and assemble, all beasts of the earth! Hurry, so that you may devour!	9 Mi herencia es un pájaro multicolor, asediado por las aves de rapiña. ¡Vayan, re únanse, todas las fieras del campo, vengan a devorar!
10 Many pastors have demolished my vineyard. They have trampled my portion. They have made my desirable portion into a desert of solitude.	10 Muchos pastores han arrasado mi viña, han pisoteado mi parcela, han hecho de mi parcela deliciosa un desierto desolado;
11 They have squandered it, and it has grieved concerning me. The entire earth has become utterly desolate, because there is no one who understands with the heart.”	11 la han convertido en una desolación, está de duelo, desolada delante de mi; todo el país está devastado, sin que nadie se lo tome a pecho.
12 The devastators have arrived, over all the ways of the wilderness. For the sword of the Lord will devour, from one end of the earth even to its furthest limits. There is no peace for all that is flesh.	12 Por todos los montes del desierto llegaron devastadores, porque el Señor tiene una espada que devora de un extremo al otro del país; ¡no hay paz para ningún ser viviente!
13 They sowed wheat, but they reaped thorns. They received an inheritance, but it will not benefit them. You will be confounded by your own fruits, because of the wrath of the fury of the Lord.	13 Sembraron trigo y cosecharon espinas, se han agotado sin ningún provecho: ¡avergüéncense de sus cosechas, por el ardor de la ira del Señor!
14 Thus says the Lord against all my wicked neighbors, who touch the inheritance that I have distributed to my people Israel: “Behold, I will root them out of their own land, and I will root the house of Judah out of their midst.	14 Así habla el Señor: A todos mi malos vecinos que tocan la herencia que hice heredar a mi pueblo Israel, yo los voy a arrancar de su suelo, y a la casa de Judá la arrancaré de en medio de ellos.
15 And when I have rooted them out, I will turn back and take pity on them. And I will lead them back, one man to his inheritance, and another man to his land.	15 Pero, después de haberlos arrancado, me compadeceré nuevamente de ellos y los haré volver, cada uno a su herencia y cada uno a su país.
16 And this shall be: if they are taught and they learn the ways of my people, so that they swear by my name, ‘As the Lord lives,’ just as they had taught my people to swear by Baal, then they will be built up in the midst of my people.	16 Y si ellos aprenden los caminos de mi pueblo, jurando por mi Nombre, por la vida del Señor, como ellos enseñaron a mi pueblo a jurar por Baal, entonces serán edificados en medio de mi pueblo.
17 But if they will not listen, I will uproot that nation unto utter destruction and perdition, says the Lord.”	17 Pero si no escucha, yo arrancaré a esa gente: la arrancaré y la haré desaparecer –oráculo del Señor–.