예레미야 12

1You are righteous, Yahweh, whenever I bring disputes to you. 2You planted them and they took root. They continue to produce fruit. 3Yet you, Yahweh, know me. You see me and you test my heart toward you. 4How long will the land go on drying up, and the plants in every field wither because of the wickedness of its inhabitants? 5Yahweh said, “Indeed, if you, Jeremiah, have run with foot soldiers and they have tired you out, how can you compete against horses? 6For even your brothers and your father's family have betrayed you and have loudly denounced you. 7I have abandoned my house; I have forsaken my inheritance. 8My inheritance has become to me like a lion in a thicket; 9Has not my prized possession become a speckled bird, that other birds of prey go against her all around? 10Many shepherds have destroyed my vineyard. They have stomped all over my portion of land; 11They have made her a desolation. I mourn for her; she is desolate. 12Destroyers have come against all the bare places in the wilderness, 13They have sown wheat but harvest thornbushes. They are exhausted from work but have gained nothing. 14Yahweh says this against all my neighbors, the wicked ones who strike at the possession that I made my people Israel inherit, “See, I am the one who is about to uproot them from their own ground, and I will pull up the house of Judah from among them. 15Then after I uproot those nations, it will happen that I will have compassion on them and bring them back; I will return them—each man to his inheritance and his land. 16It will come about that if those nations carefully learn the ways of my people, to swear by my name 'As Yahweh lives' just as they have taught my people to swear by Baal, then they will be built up in the midst of my people.