Jeremías 12

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1 Tu llevas la razón, Yahveh, cuando discuto contigo, no obstante, voy a tratar contigo un punto de justicia. ¿Por qué tienen suerte los malos, y son felices todos los felones?	1 You would be in the right, O LORD, if I should dispute with you; even so, I must discuss the case with you. Why does the way of the godless prosper, why live all the treacherous in contentment?
2 Los plantas, y enseguida arraigan, van a más y dan fruto. Cerca estás tú de sus bocas, pero lejos de sus riñones.	2 You planted them; they have taken root, they keep on growing and bearing fruit. You are upon their lips, but far from their inmost thoughts.
3 En cambio a mí ya me conoces, Yahveh; me has visto y has comprobado que mi corazón está contigo. Llévatelos como ovejas al matadero, y conságralos para el día de la matanza.	3 You, O Lord, know me, you see me, you have found that at heart I am with you. Pick them out like sheep for the slaughter, set them apart for the day of carnage.
4 (¿Hasta cuándo estará de luto la tierra y la hierba de todo el campo estará seca? Por la maldad de los que moran en ella han desaparecido bestias y aves.) Porque han dicho: «No ve Dios nuestros senderos».	4 How long must the earth mourn, the green of the whole countryside wither? For the wickedness of those who dwell in it beasts and birds disappear, because they say, "God does not see our ways."
5 - Si con los de a pie corriste y te cansaron, ¿cómo competirás con los de a caballo? Y si en tierra abierta te sientes seguro. ¿qué harás entre el boscaje del Jordán?	5 If running against men has wearied you, how will you race against horses? And if in a land of peace you fall headlong, what will you do in the thickets of the Jordan?
6 Porque incluso tus hermanos y la casa de tu padre, ésos también te traicionarán y a tus espaldas gritarán. No te fies de ellos cuando te digan hermosas palabras.	6 For even your own brothers, the members of your father's house, betray you; they have recruited a force against you. Do not believe them, even if they are friendly to you in their words.
7 Dejé mi casa, abandoné mi heredad, entregué el cariño de mi alma en manos de sus enemigos.	7 I abandon my house, cast off my heritage; The beloved of my soul I deliver into the hand of her foes.
8 Se ha portado conmigo mi heredad como un león en la selva: me acosaba con sus voces; por eso la aborrecí.	8 My heritage has turned on me like a lion in the jungle; Because she has roared against me, I treat her as an enemy.
9 ¿Es por ventura un pájaro pinto mi heredad? Las rapaces merodean sobre ella. ¡Andad, juntaos, fieras todas del campo: id al yantar!	9 My heritage is a prey for hyenas, is surrounded by vultures; Come, gather together, all you beasts of the field, come and eat!
10 Entre muchos pastores destruyeron mi viña, hollaron mi heredad, trocaron mi mejor campa en un yermo desolado.	10 Many shepherds have ravaged my vineyard, have trodden my heritage underfoot; The portion that delighted me they have turned into a desert waste.
11 La convirtieron en desolación lamentable, en inculta para mí. Totalmente desolado está todo el país porque no hay allí nadie que lo sienta.	11 They have made it a mournful waste, desolate it lies before me, Desolate, all the land, because no one takes it to heart.
12 Sobre todos los calveros del desierto han venido saqueadores (porque una espada tiene Yahveh devorada), de un cabo al otro de la tierra no hubo cuartel para alma viviente.	12 Upon every desert height brigands have come up. The LORD has a sword which consumes the land, from end to end: no peace for all mankind.
13 Sembraron trigo, y espinos segaron, se afanaron sin provecho. Vergüenza les dan sus cosechas, por causa de la ira ardiente de Yahveh.	13 They have sown wheat and reaped thorns, they have tired themselves out to no purpose; They recoil before their harvest, the flaming anger of the LORD.
14 Así dice Yahveh: En cuanto a todos los malos vecinos que han tocado la heredad que di en precio a mi pueblo Israel, he aquí que yo los arranco de su solar. (Y a la casa de Judá voy a arrancarla de en medio de ellos.)	14 Thus says the LORD against all my evil neighbors who plunder the heritage which I gave my people Israel as their own: See, I will pluck them up from their land; the house of Judah I will pluck up in their midst.
15 Pero luego de haberlos arrancado, me volveré y les tendré lástima, y les haré retornar, cada cual a su heredad y a su tierra.	15 But after plucking them up, I will pity them again and bring them back, each to his heritage, each to his land.
16 Y entonces, si de veras aprendieron el camino de mi pueblo jurando en mi Nombre: «¡Por vida de Yahveh!» - lo mismo que ellos enseñaron a mi pueblo a jurar por Baal - serán restablecidos a la par de mi pueblo.	16 And if they carefully learn my people's custom of swearing by my name, "As the LORD lives," they who formerly taught my people to swear by Baal shall be built up in the midst of my people.
17 Mas si no obedecen, arrancaré a aquella gente y arrancada quedará y la haré perecer - oráculo de Yahveh -.	17 But if they do not obey, I will uproot and destroy that nation entirely, says the LORD.
	19 Yet I, like a trusting lamb led to slaughter, had not realized that they were hatching plots against me: "Let us destroy the tree in its vigor; let us cut him off from the land of the living, so that his name will be spoken no more."
	20 But, you, O LORD of hosts, O just Judge, searcher of mind and heart, Let me witness the vengeance you take on them, for to you I have entrusted my cause!
	21 Therefore, thus says the LORD concerning the men of Anathoth who seek your life, saying, "Do not prophesy in the name of the LORD; else you shall die by our hand."
	22 Therefore, thus says the LORD of hosts: I am going to punish them. The young men shall die by the sword; their sons and daughters shall die by famine.