< Jeremiah 12 >

1 Yahweh, whenever I tell you that I am unhappy [about what is happening to me], you [always] act justly/fairly. So now allow me to ask about one more thing [that I do not understand]: Why are wicked people [often] very prosperous? Why do things go very well for dishonest/wicked people?
Signore, se io litigo teco, tu [sei pur] giusto; nondimeno io [ti] proporrò le mie ragioni: Perchè prospera la via degli empi? [perchè] sono a lor agio tutti quelli che procedono dislealmente?
2 You allow them to prosper like [MET] trees that grow tall and bear [a lot of] fruit. They [always] say [MTY] good things about you, but their hearts are [really] far from you.
Tu li hai piantati, ed hanno messa radice; si avanzano, e fruttano; tu [sei] presso della lor bocca, ma lontano dalle lor reni.
3 But Yahweh, as for me, you know what is in my inner being. You see what I [do] and you are able to know what I am thinking. So drag away those [wicked] people, like [people drag away] sheep that they are going to butcher. Set them aside like sheep that are about to be slaughtered!
Ma, o Signore, tu mi conosci, tu mi vedi, ed hai provato [qual sia] il mio cuore inverso te; strascinali, a guisa di pecore, al macello, e preparali per lo giorno dell'uccisione.
4 This land is [RHQ] becoming very dry and even the grass is withering. The wild animals and the birds have [all] died because the people are [very] wicked. [All that has happened] because the people have said, “Yahweh does not know what we are doing (OR, what will happen to us)!”
Infino a quando farà cordoglio il paese, e seccherassi l'erba di tutta la campagna, per la malvagità degli abitanti di quello? le bestie, e gli uccelli son venuti meno; perciocchè hanno detto: [Iddio] non vede il nostro fine.
5 [Then to show me that I needed to be prepared to endure even greater difficulties, Yahweh said to me], [“It is as though] you have become exhausted from racing against men; so how will you be able to race against horses? If you [stumble and] fall when you are running on open/bare/smooth ground, what will happen to you when you are running through the thornbushes near the Jordan [River]?
Se, correndo co' pedoni, essi ti hanno stanco, come ti rimescolerai co' cavalli? e [se] hai [sol] fidanza in terra di pace, come farai, quando il Giordano sarà gonfio?
6 [Already] your brothers and [other members of] your own family oppose you. They (plot against/plan to do evil things to) you and they say bad things about you. So even if they say nice things about you, do not trust them!
Perciocchè, eziandio i tuoi fratelli, e que' della casa di tuo padre, si son portati dislealmente teco; ed essi ancora hanno a grida radunata la moltitudine dietro a te; non fidarti di loro, quando ti daranno buone parole.
7 I have abandoned my [Israeli] people, the people whom I chose to belong to me. I have allowed their enemies to conquer the Israeli people, whom I love.
IO ho lasciata la mia Casa, io ho abbandonata la mia eredità; io ho dato l'amor dell'anima mia nelle mani de' suoi nemici.
8 My people have become to me like [SIM] a lion in the forest. [It is as though] they roar at me like a lion, so now I hate them.
La mia eredità mi è stata come un leone nel bosco; ha data fuori la sua voce contro a me; perciò l'ho odiata.
9 My chosen people have [RHQ] become like speckled hawks that are surrounded by vultures [waiting to eat their flesh after they are dead]. Tell all the wild animals to come and eat [the flesh of their corpses].
La mia eredità mi [è stata] come un uccello vaiolato; o uccelli, [venite] contro a lei d'ogn'intorno; andate, radunatevi, [voi] tutte le fiere della campagna, venite per mangiare.
10 Many rulers [from other countries have come with their armies and] devastated/destroyed my people [whom I care for like a farmer takes care of his] vineyard. They have caused my beautiful land to become a barren desert where no one lives.
Molti pastori han guasta la mia vigna, han calpestata la mia possessione, han ridotta la mia cara possessione in un deserto di desolazione.
11 They have caused it to become completely empty; [it is as though] I hear the land crying sadly/mournfully. The whole land is desolate, and no one (worries about/pays any attention to) it.
È stata ridotta in desolazione; e, tutta desolata, ha fatto cordoglio appo me; tutta la terra è desolata, perciocchè non [vi è] alcuno che ponga mente [a queste cose].
12 The soldiers [of our enemies] have marched across all the barren hilltops. But [I], Yahweh, am using those armies [MTY] to punish your land from one end to the other, and no one will escape.
De'guastatori son venuti sopra tutti i luoghi elevati nel deserto; perciocchè la spada del Signore divorerà da una estremità del paese infino all'altra; non [vi è] pace alcuna per veruna carne.
13 [It is as though] my people planted wheat, but now they are harvesting thorns. They have become very tired [because of much hard work], but they have gained nothing [from all that work]. They will be very disappointed because their harvests [will be very small], [and that will happen] because [I], Yahweh, am extremely angry [with them].”
Han seminato del frumento, ed han ricolte delle spine; si sono affannati, e non hanno fatto alcun profitto; voi sarete confusi delle vostre rendite, per l'ardente ira del Signore.
14 This is [also] what Yahweh said to me: “[I will punish] the evil nearby nations that have been trying to take away the land that I gave to my Israeli people, and I will force them to leave their own land. But I will throw the people of Judah out of their land, also.
Così ha detto il Signore contro a tutti i suoi malvagi vicini, che toccano l'eredità, la quale egli ha data a possedere ad Israele, suo popolo: Ecco, io li divellerò d'in sul lor paese, e divellerò la casa di Giuda del mezzo di loro.
15 But later I will act mercifully toward those nations again, and I will bring them back to their own lands again. Each [clan] will come back to its own land.
Ed avverrà che dopo che io li avrò divelti, avrò di nuovo pietà di loro; e li ricondurrò, ciascuno alla sua eredità, e ciascuno alla sua terra.
16 And if the people [of the other nations whose armies have invaded Israel] learn the [religious] customs of my people, and if they learn that I [am listening] when they solemnly promise that they will do something good, like they taught my people to believe that [their god] Baal [was listening] when they made solemn promises, I will cause them to become prosperous, and they also will be my people.
Ed avverrà che, se pure imparano le vie del mio popolo per giurar per lo mio Nome, [dicendo] il Signore vive (siccome hanno insegnato al mio popolo di giurare per Baal), saranno edificati in mezzo del mio popolo.
17 But I will expel any nation whose people refuse to obey me, and I will destroy that nation and its people. [That will surely happen because I], Yahweh, have said it.”
Ma se non ubbidiscono, io divellerò una cotal gente, divellendo[la], ed [insieme] distruggendo[la], dice il Signore.

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