Jeremiah 12

tsaddiq attah Adonai ki ariv elekha akh mishpatim adabber otakh maddua derekh resha'im tsalekhah shalu kol-bogede vaged

You will win, O ETERNAL One, if I make claim against You, Yet I shall present charges against You: Why does the way of the wicked prosper? Why are the workers of treachery at ease?

netatam gam-shorashu yelekhu gam-asu feri qarov attah befihem verakhoq mikkilyotehem

You have planted them, and they have taken root, They spread, they even bear fruit. You are present in their mouths, But far from their thoughts.

ve'attah Adonai yedatani tireni uvakhanta libbi ittakh hattiqem ketson letivkhah vehaqdishem leyom haregah

Yet You, ETERNAL One, have noted and observed me; You have tested my heart, and found it with You. Drive them out like sheep to the slaughter, Prepare them for the day of slaying!

ad-matay te'eval ha'arets ve'esev kol-hassadeh yivash mera'at yosheve-vah safetah vehemot va'of ki ameru lo yireh et-akharitenu

How long must the land languish, And the grass of all the countryside dry up? Must beasts and birds perish, Because of the evil of its inhabitants, Who say, “[God] will not look upon our future”?

ki et-raglim ratstah vayyalukha ve'ekh tetakhareh et-hassusim uve'erets shalom attah voteakh ve'ekh ta'aseh bigon hayyarden

If you race with the foot-runners and they exhaust you, How then can you compete with horses? If you are secure only in a tranquil land, How will you fare in the jungle of the Jordan?

ki gam-akhekha uvet-avikha gam-hemmah bagedu vakh gam-hemmah qare'u akharekha male al-ta'amen bam ki-yedabberu elekha tovot

For even your own kin and your father’s house— Even they are treacherous toward you; They cry after you as a mob. Do not believe them When they speak cordially to you.

azavti et-beti natashti et-nakhalati natatti et-yedidut nafshi bekhaf oyeveha

I have abandoned My House, I have deserted My possession, I have given over My dearly beloved Into the hands of her enemies.

hayetah-lli nakhalati ke'aryeh vayya'ar natenah alay beqolah al-ken senetiha

My own people acted toward Me Like a lion in the forest; She raised her voice against Me— Therefore I have rejected her.

ha'ayit tsavua nakhalati li ha'ayit saviv aleha lekhu isfu kol-khayyat hassadeh hetayu le'okhlah

My own people acts toward Me Like a bird of prey [or] a hyena; Let the birds of prey surround her! Go, gather all the wild beasts, Bring them to devour!

ro'im rabbim shikhatu kharmi bosesu et-khelqati natenu et-khelqat khemdati lemidbar shemamah

Many shepherds have destroyed My vineyard, Have trampled My field, Have made My delightful field A desolate wilderness.

samah lishmamah avelah alay shememah nashammah kol-ha'arets ki en ish sam al-lev

They have made her a desolation; Desolate, she pours out grief to Me. The whole land is laid desolate, But nobody gives it thought.

al-kol-shefayim bammidbar ba'u shodedim ki kherev la-Adonai okhelah miqtseh-erets ve'ad-qetseh ha'arets en shalom lekhol-basar

Spoilers have come Upon all the bare heights of the wilderness. For a sword of GOD devours From one end of the land to the other; No flesh is safe.

zare'u khittim veqotsim qatsaru nekhlu lo yo'ilu uvoshu mittevu'otekhem mekharon af-Adonai

They have sown wheat and reaped thorns, They have endured pain to no avail. Be shamed, then, by your harvest— By GOD’s blazing wrath!

koh amar Adonai al-kol-shekhenay hara'im hannoge'im bannakhalah asher-hinkhalti et-ammi et-yisra'el hinni notesham me'al admatam ve'et-bet yehudah ettosh mittokham

Thus said GOD: As for My wicked neighbors who encroach on the heritage that I gave to My people Israel—I am going to uproot them from their soil, and I will uproot the House of Judah out of the midst of them.

vehayah akhare notshi otam ashuv verikhamtim vahashivotim ish lenakhalato ve'ish le'artso

Then, after I have uprooted them, I will take them back into favor, and restore them all to their own inheritance and their own land.

vehayah im-lamod yilmedu et-darkhe ammi lehishavea bishmi khay-Adonai ka'asher limmedu et-ammi lehishavea babba'al venivnu betokh ammi

And if they learn the ways of My people, to swear by My name—“As GOD lives”—just as they once taught My people to swear by Baal, then they shall be built up in the midst of My people.

ve'im lo yishma'u venatashti et-haggoy hahu natosh ve'abbed ne'um-Adonai

But if they do not give heed, I will tear out that nation, tear it out and destroy it—declares GOD.