Jeremías 12

BIBLIA	CATHOLIC PUBLIC DOMAIN
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 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?
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, and they took root. They are prospering and bearing fruit. You are near to their mouths, but far from their hearts.
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 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.
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 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.”
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 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?
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 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.’ ”
7 Dejé mi casa, abandoné mi heredad, entregué el cariño de mi alma en manos de sus enemigos.	7 “I have abandoned my house. I have disowned my inheritance. I have given my beloved soul into the hand of its enemies.
8 Se ha portado conmigo mi heredad como un león en la selva: me acosaba con sus voces; por eso la aborrecí.	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.
9 ¿Es por ventura un pájaro pinto mi heredad? Las rapaces merodean sobre ella. ¡Andad, juntaos, fieras todas del campo: id al yantar!	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!
10 Entre muchos pastores destruyeron mi viña, hollaron mi heredad, trocaron mi mejor campa en un yermo desolado.	10 Many pastors have demolished my vineyard. They have trampled my portion. They have made my desirable portion into a desert of solitude.
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 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.”
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 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.
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 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.
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 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.
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 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.
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 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.
17 Mas si no obedecen, arrancaré a aquella gente y arrancada quedará y la haré perecer - oráculo de Yahveh -.	17 But if they will not listen, I will uproot that nation unto utter destruction and perdition, says the Lord.”