Jeremiah 12

New Jerusalem Bible	Nova Vulgata
¹ Your uprightness is too great, Yahweh, for me to dispute with you. But I should like to discuss somepoints of justice with you: Why is it that the way of the wicked prospers? Why do al treacherous people thrive?	¹ Iustus quidem tu es, Domine, si disputem tecum; verumtamen de iudiciis loquar ad te. Quare via impiorum prosperatur? Bene est omnibus, qui praevaricantur et inique agunt.
² You plant them, they take root, they flourish, yes, and bear fruit. You are on their lips, yet far from theirheart.	² Plantasti eos, et radicem miserunt, proficiunt et faciunt fructum; prope es tu ori eorum et longe a renibus eorum.
³ You know me, Yahweh, you see me, you probe my heart, which is close to yours. Drag them off likesheep for the slaughterhouse, reserve them for the day of butchery.	³ Et tu, Domine, nosti me, vidisti me et probasti cor meum tecum; segrega eos quasi gregem ad victimam et sanctifica eos in diem occisionis.
⁴ (How long will the land be in mourning, and the grass wither all over the countryside? The animals andbirds are dying as a result of the wickedness of the inhabitants.) For they say, 'God does not see our fate.'	⁴ Usquequo lugebit terra, et herba omnis regionis siccabitur propter malitiam habitantium in ea? Consumptum est animal et volucre, quoniam dixerunt: “Non videbit novissima nostra”.
⁵ 'If you find it exhausting to race against me on foot, how wil you compete against horses? In a countryat peace you feel secure, but how wil you fare in the thickets of the Jordan?	⁵ “ Si cum peditibus currens laborasti, quomodo contendere poteris cum equis? Cum autem in terra pacis securus fueris, quid facies in silva condensa Iordanis?
⁶ 'For even your brothers and your own family will betray you. They will pursue you in ful cry. Put no faithin them when they speak you fair!'	⁶ Nam et fratres tui et domus patris tui, etiam ipsi fraudulenter egerunt adversum te et clamaverunt post te plena voce; ne credas eis, cum locuti fuerint tibi bona ”.
⁷ I have abandoned my house, left my heritage, I have delivered what I dearly loved into the clutches ofits enemies.	⁷ “ Reliqui domum meam, dimisi hereditatem meam; dedi dilectam animae meae in manu inimicorum eius.
⁸ To me, my heritage has behaved like a lion in the forest, it roared at me ferociously: so I now hate it.	⁸ Facta est mihi hereditas mea quasi leo in silva; dedit contra me vocem, ideo odivi eam.
⁹ I see my heritage as a brightly-coloured bird of prey attacked by birds of prey on every side! Go,assemble al the wild animals, make them come and dine!	⁹ Numquid avis discolor hereditas mea mihi? Numquid aves in circuitu contra eam? Venite, congregamini, omnes bestiae campi, properate ad devorandum.
¹⁰ Many shepherds have laid my vineyard waste, have trampled over my plot of land, the plot of landwhich was my joy, reducing my favourite estate to a deserted wilderness.	¹⁰ Pastores multi demoliti sunt vineam meam, conculcaverunt partem meam; dederunt portionem meam desiderabilem in desertum solitudinis.
¹¹ They have made it a waste; wasted, it mourns before me. The whole country has been devastatedand no one takes it to heart.	¹¹ Posuerunt eam in dissipationem; lugetque coram me desolata, vastata est omnis terra, quia nullus est qui recogitet corde ”.
¹² The devastators have arrived on all the bare heights of the desert (for Yahweh wields a devouringsword); from one end of the country to the other, there is no peace for any living thing.	¹² Super omnes colles in deserto venerunt vastatores, quia gladius Domini devorat ab extremo terrae usque ad extremum eius; non est pax universae carni.
¹³ Wheat they have sown, thorns they reap: they have worn themselves out, to no profit. They aredisappointed in their harvests, because of Yahweh's burning anger.	¹³ Seminaverunt triticum et spinas messuerunt, laboraverunt, et non eis proderit; confundemini a fructibus vestris propter iram furoris Domini.
¹⁴ Yahweh says this, 'As regards al my evil neighbours who have laid hands on the heritage I grantedmy people Israel, look, I shal uproot them from their soil, (though I shall uproot the House of Judah from amongthem).	¹⁴ Haec dicit Dominus adversum omnes vicinos meos pessimos, qui tangunthereditatem, quam distribui populo meo Israel: “Ecce ego evellam eos de terrasua et domum Iudae evellam de medio eorum.
¹⁵ But having uprooted them, I shall take pity on them again and bring them back each to its ownheritage, each to its own country,	¹⁵ Et erit: cum evulsero eos,convertar et miserebor eorum et reducam eos, virum ad hereditatem suam et virumin terram suam.
¹⁶ and if they carefully learn my people's ways and swear by my name, "As Yahweh lives", as they havetaught my people to swear by Baal, then they wil be re-established among my people.	¹⁶ Et erit: si eruditi didicerint vias populi mei, ut iurent innomine meo: “Vivit Dominus!”, sicut docuerunt populum meum iurare in Baal,aedificabuntur in medio populi mei.
¹⁷ But if any nation refuses to listen, I shall uproot it for ever and destroy it, Yahweh declares.'	¹⁷ Quod si non audierint, evellam gentemillam evulsione et perditione ”, ait Dominus.