Jeremiah 12

1 Righteous are You, O LORD, when I plead before You. Yet about Your judgments I wish to contend with You: Why does the way of the wicked prosper? Why do all the faithless live at ease?

1 耶和华啊，每次我与你争论， 都显明你是对的。 然而，我还是和你讨论公正： 为什么恶人总是得势？ 为什么诡诈之人反而生活安逸？

2 You planted them, and they have taken root. They have grown and produced fruit. You are ever on their lips, but far from their hearts.

2 你栽培他们，让他们生根长大， 结出果实。 他们嘴上尊崇你， 心却远离你。

3 But You know me, O LORD; You see me and test my heart toward You. Drag away the wicked like sheep to the slaughter and set them apart for the day of carnage.

3 但耶和华啊，你认识我，了解我， 察验我是否一心向你。 求你拖走他们， 就像拖走待宰的羊， 留到宰杀之日。

4 How long will the land mourn and the grass of every field be withered? Because of the evil of its residents, the animals and birds have been swept away, for the people have said, “He cannot see what our end will be.”

4 大地哀恸、 田野的植物枯槁要到何时呢？ 由于这地方居民的罪恶， 野兽和飞鸟都灭绝了。 他们说：“上帝看不见我们的行为 。”

5 “If you have raced with men on foot and they have worn you out, how can you compete with horses? If you stumble in a peaceful land, how will you do in the thickets of the Jordan?

5 耶和华说：“如果你与步行的人竞走， 尚且感到疲乏， 又怎能与马赛跑呢？ 如果你在安全之地尚且跌倒， 在约旦河边的丛林中又会怎样呢？

6 Even your brothers—your own father’s household—even they have betrayed you; even they have cried aloud against you. Do not trust them, though they speak well of you.

6 就连你的弟兄和家人都背叛了你， 叫嚣着与你为敌。 任他们甜言蜜语，你不要相信。

7 I have forsaken My house; I have abandoned My inheritance. I have given the beloved of My soul into the hands of her enemies.

7 “我已离开我的殿， 撇弃我的产业， 把我爱的子民交给他们的敌人。

8 My inheritance has become to Me like a lion in the forest. She has roared against Me; therefore I hate her.

8 我的产业像林中的狮子一样向我吼叫， 因此我憎恶他们；

9 Is not My inheritance to Me like a speckled bird of prey with other birds of prey circling against her? Go, gather all the beasts of the field; bring them to devour her.

9 我的产业就像一只带斑点的鸷鸟， 被其他鸷鸟围攻。 去招聚一切野兽来吞吃它吧！

10 Many shepherds have destroyed My vineyard; they have trampled My plot of ground. They have turned My pleasant field into a desolate wasteland.

10 列国的首领毁坏我的葡萄园， 践踏我美好的土地， 使之沦为荒凉的旷野。

11 They have made it a desolation; desolate before Me, it mourns. All the land is laid waste, but no man takes it to heart.

11 他们使这片土地荒凉， 荒凉之地在我面前哀哭。 遍地如此荒凉，却无人在意。

12 Over all the barren heights in the wilderness the destroyers have come, for the sword of the LORD devours from one end of the earth to the other. No flesh has peace.

12 毁灭者已上到旷野中光秃的山岭， 耶和华的刀剑横扫全境， 无人可以平安稳妥。

13 They have sown wheat but harvested thorns. They have exhausted themselves to no avail. Bear the shame of your harvest because of the fierce anger of the LORD.”

13 我的子民播种麦子， 却收割荆棘； 辛勤耕耘，却一无所获。 因耶和华的烈怒，他们必收获羞辱。”

14 This is what the LORD says: “As for all My evil neighbors who attack the inheritance that I bequeathed to My people Israel, I am about to uproot them from their land, and I will uproot the house of Judah from among them.

14 耶和华说：“邪恶的邻国侵占了我赐给我以色列子民的土地，我要将他们从本土连根拔起，我要将犹大家从他们中间连根拔起。

15 But after I have uprooted them, I will once again have compassion on them and return each one to his inheritance and to his land.

15 我将他们连根拔起以后，还要再怜悯他们，把他们带回各自的家园和故土。

16 And if they will diligently learn the ways of My people and swear by My name, saying, ‘As surely as the LORD lives’—just as they once taught My people to swear by Baal—then they will be established among My people.

16 如果他们真心学习我子民的信仰，凭永活的耶和华之名起誓，正如他们教导我子民凭巴力起誓一样，他们必归入我的子民中。

17 But if they will not obey, then I will uproot that nation; I will uproot it and destroy it, declares the LORD.”

17 如果哪一国不听我的话，我必把它连根拔起，彻底毁灭。这是耶和华说的。”