1 J usto eres tú, oh Jehová, para que yo dispute contigo; sin embargo, alegaré mi causa ante ti. ¿Por qué es prosperado el camino de los impíos, y lo pasan bien todos los que se portan deslealmente?

You are righteous, Yahweh, when I contend with you; yet I would reason the cause with you: why does the way of the wicked prosper? why are all they at ease who deal very treacherously?

2 L os plantaste, y echaron raíces; crecieron y dieron fruto; cercano estás tú en sus bocas, pero lejos de sus riñones.

You have planted them, yes, they have taken root; they grow, yes, they produce fruit: you are near in their mouth, and far from their heart.

3 P ero tú, oh Jehová, me conoces; me viste, y probaste mi corazón para contigo; arrebátalos como a ovejas para el degolladero, y señálalos para el día de la matanza.

But you, Yahweh, know me; you see me, and try my heart toward you: pull them out like sheep for the slaughter, and prepare them for the day of slaughter.

4 ¿ Hasta cuándo estará de luto la tierra, y marchita la hierba de todo el campo? Por la maldad de los que en ella moran, han desaparecido los ganados y las aves; porque dijeron: Dios no ve nuestro fin.

How long shall the land mourn, and the herbs of the whole country wither? for the wickedness of those who dwell therein, the animals are consumed, and the birds; because they said, He shall not see our latter end.

5 S i corriste con los de a pie, y te cansaron, ¿cómo contenderás con los de a caballo? Y si en la tierra de paz no estabas seguro, ¿cómo harás en la espesura del Jordán?

If you have run with the footmen, and they have wearied you, then how can you contend with horses? and though in a land of peace you are secure, yet how will you do in the pride of the Jordan?

6 P orque aun tus hermanos y la casa de tu padre, aun ellos se portaron deslealmente contigo, aun ellos dieron gritos en pos de ti. No los creas aun cuando bien te hablen.

For even your brothers, and the house of your father, even they have dealt treacherously with you; even they have cried aloud after you: don’t believe them, though they speak beautiful words to you.

7 H e dejado mi casa, desamparé mi heredad, he entregado lo que amaba mi alma en manos de sus enemigos.

I have forsaken my house, I have cast off my heritage; I have given the dearly beloved of my soul into the hand of her enemies.

8 M i heredad fue para mí como león en la selva; contra mí dio su rugido; por tanto, la aborrecí.

My heritage has become to me as a lion in the forest: she has uttered her voice against me; therefore I have hated her.

9 ¿ Es mi heredad para mí como ave de rapiña de muchos colores? ¿Están contra ella aves de rapiña en derredor? Venid, reuníos, vosotras todas las fieras del campo, venid a devorarla.

Is my heritage to me as a speckled bird of prey? are the birds of prey against her all around? Go, assemble all the animals of the field, bring them to devour.

10 M uchos pastores han destruido mi viña, hollaron mi heredad, convirtieron en desierto y soledad mi heredad agradable.

Many shepherds have destroyed my vineyard, they have trodden my portion under foot, they have made my pleasant portion a desolate wilderness.

11 F ue puesta en asolamiento, y lloró sobre mí desolada; fue asolada toda la tierra, porque no hubo hombre que reflexionase.

They have made it a desolation; it mourns to me, being desolate; the whole land is made desolate, because no man lays it to heart.

12 S obre todas las alturas del desierto vinieron saqueadores; porque la espada de Jehová devora desde un extremo de la tierra hasta el otro; no hay paz para ninguna carne.

Destroyers have come on all the bare heights in the wilderness; for the sword of Yahweh devours from the one end of the land even to the other end of the land: no flesh has peace.

13 S embraron trigo, y segaron espinos; se afanaron, mas no aprovecharon nada; se avergonzarán de sus frutos, a causa de la ardiente ira de Jehová.

They have sown wheat, and have reaped thorns; they have put themselves to pain, and profit nothing: and you shall be ashamed of your fruits, because of the fierce anger of Yahweh.

14 A sí dice Jehová: Contra todos mis malos vecinos, que tocan la heredad que hice poseer a mi pueblo Israel; he aquí que yo los arrancaré de su tierra, y arrancaré de en medio de ellos a la casa de Judá.

Yahweh says against all my evil neighbors, who touch the inheritance which I have caused my people Israel to inherit: behold, I will pluck them up from off their land, and will pluck up the house of Judah from among them.

15 Y después que los haya arrancado, volveré y tendré compasión de ellos, y los haré volver cada uno a su heredad y cada cual a su tierra.

It shall happen, after that I have plucked them up, I will return and have compassion on them; and I will bring them again, every man to his heritage, and every man to his land.

16 Y si diligentemente aprenden los caminos de mi pueblo, para jurar en mi nombre, diciendo: Vive Jehová, así como enseñaron a mi pueblo a jurar por Baal, ellos serán prosperados en medio de mi pueblo.

It shall happen, if they will diligently learn the ways of my people, to swear by my name, As Yahweh lives; even as they taught my people to swear by Baal; then shall they be built up in the middle of my people.

17 M as si no escuchan, arrancaré esa nación, sacándola de raíz y destruyéndola, dice Jehová.

But if they will not hear, then I will pluck up that nation, plucking up and destroying it, says Yahweh.