Jeremiah 12
12:1You are righteous, O lord, that I may plead to you. I will speak to you only concerning judgments. Why is it that the way of the impious prospers? All the ones disrespecting in wickedness prospered.
12:2You planted them, and they were rooted. They produced children, and they produced fruit. You are near their mouth, and at a distance from their kidneys.
12:3And you, O lord, know me. You have tried my heart before you. Gather them as a flock for a sacrifice, and purify them for the day of slaughter!
12:4For how long will the land mourn, and all the grass of the field be dried, because of the evils of the ones dwelling in it? The cattle and the winged creatures were removed from view; for they said, God shall not see our ways.
12:5Your feet run, and they cause you to faint. How will you make preparations to ride upon horses? and you have relied in the land of your peace. How will you do in the neighing of the Jordan?
12:6For even your brethren and the house of your father, even they disregarded you; and they yelled out; they assembled at your rear; you should not trust in them when they speak with you good words.
12:7I have abandoned my house; I let go of my inheritance; I gave the one being loved of my soul into the hands of her enemies.
12:8My inheritance became to me as a lion in the forest; she uttered her voice against me; on account of this I detested her.
12:9Is not the cave of a hyena my inheritance to me, the cave round about her against her? Proceed, bring together all the wild beasts of the field, and let them come to eat her!
12:10Many shepherds corrupted my vineyard, they tainted my portion; they made my desirable portion for an untrodden wilderness.
12:11It was appointed for extinction by destruction; on account of me all the land was obliterated in extinction, for there is no man putting it to heart.
12:12Upon every mountain pass in the wilderness the ones causing misery came. For the sword of the lord shall devour from one tip of the land unto the other tip of the land; there is no peace to all flesh.
12:13You sowed wheat, and harvested thorn-bushes. Their lots shall not benefit them. Be ashamed of your boasting, because of scorn before the lord!
12:14For thus says the lord, Concerning all the wicked neighbors of the ones touching my inheritance, which I portioned to my people Israel -- behold, I draw them away from their land, and Judah I will cast out from the midst of them.
12:15And it will be after my casting them out, I will return, and I will show mercy on them, and I will settle them each in his inheritance, and each in his land.
12:16And it will be if in learning they should learn the way of my people, to swear by an oath to my name, saying, As the lord lives; as they taught my people to swear by an oath to Baal, then they shall be edified in the midst of my people.
12:17But if they should not return, then I shall lift away that nation by removal and destruction, says the lord.