Geremia 12

NOVA VULGATA	NEW JERUSALEM
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.	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?
2 Plantasti eos, et radicem miserunt, proficiunt et faciunt fructum; prope es tu ori eorum et longe a renibus eorum.	2 You plant them, they take root, they flourish, yes, and bear fruit. You are on their lips, yet far from theirheart.
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.	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.
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”.	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.'
5 “ Si cum peditibus currens laborasti, quomodo contendere poteris cum equis? Cum autem in terra pacis securus fueris, quid facies in silva condensa Iordanis?	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?
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 ”.	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!'
7 “ Reliqui domum meam, dimisi hereditatem meam; dedi dilectam animae meae in manu inimicorum eius.	7 I have abandoned my house, left my heritage, I have delivered what I dearly loved into the clutches ofits enemies.
8 Facta est mihi hereditas mea quasi leo in silva; dedit contra me vocem, ideo odivi eam.	8 To me, my heritage has behaved like a lion in the forest, it roared at me ferociously: so I now hate it.
9 Numquid avis discolor hereditas mea mihi? Numquid aves in circuitu contra eam? Venite, congregamini, omnes bestiae campi, properate ad devorandum.	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!
10 Pastores multi demoliti sunt vineam meam, conculcaverunt partem meam; dederunt portionem meam desiderabilem in desertum solitudinis.	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.
11 Posuerunt eam in dissipationem; lugetque coram me desolata, vastata est omnis terra, quia nullus est qui recogitet corde ”.	11 They have made it a waste; wasted, it mourns before me. The whole country has been devastatedand no one takes it to heart.
12 Super omnes colles in deserto venerunt vastatores, quia gladius Domini devorat ab extremo terrae usque ad extremum eius; non est pax universae carni.	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.
13 Seminaverunt triticum et spinas messuerunt, laboraverunt, et non eis proderit; confundemini a fructibus vestris propter iram furoris Domini.	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.
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.	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).
15 Et erit: cum evulsero eos,convertar et miserebor eorum et reducam eos, virum ad hereditatem suam et virumin terram suam.	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,
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.	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.
17 Quod si non audierint, evellam gentemillam evulsione et perditione ”, ait Dominus.	17 But if any nation refuses to listen, I shall uproot it for ever and destroy it, Yahweh declares.'