耶12:1 耶和华啊！我跟你争辩的时候，总是你有理；然而我还要跟你讨论有关公正的问题。恶人的道路为什么亨通？所有行诡诈的为什么都得享安逸？
耶12:1 You are in the right, O Lord, when I put my cause before you: still let me take up with you the question of your decisions: why does the evil-doer do well? why are the workers of deceit living in comfort?
耶12:2 你栽种了他们，他们也扎了根，并且长大，结出果实；他们的口中有你，心里却没有你（“他们的口中有你，心里却没有你”原文作“你与他们的口很接近，却离他们的心很远”）。
耶12:2 They have been planted by you, they have taken root; they go on and give fruit: you are near in their mouths but far from their thoughts.
耶12:3 但耶和华啊！你认识我，了解我，你察验了我对你的心意。求你把他们拉出来，好像将宰的羊一般；求你把他们分别出来，留待宰杀的日子。
耶12:3 But you, O Lord, have knowledge of me; you see me, searching and testing how my heart is with you: let them be pulled out like sheep to be put to death, make them ready for the day of death.
耶12:4 这地悲哀，田野的青草都枯干，要等到几时呢？由于这地居民的恶行，走兽和飞鸟都灭绝了；因为他们说：“ 神看不见我们的作为（“作为”一词按照《马索拉抄本》应作“结局”；现参照《七十士译本》翻译）。”
耶12:4 How long will the land have grief, and the plants of all the land be dry? because of the sins of the people living in it, destruction has overtaken the beasts and the birds; because they said, God does not see our ways.
耶12:5 耶和华说：“如果你与徒步的人同跑，尚且觉得疲倦，怎能跟马赛跑呢？你在平安稳妥之地，尚且跌倒，在约旦河边的丛林怎么办呢？
耶12:5 If running with the fighting-men has made you tired, how will you be able to keep up with horses? and if in a land of peace you go in flight, what will become of you in the thick growth of Jordan?
耶12:6 因为连你的兄弟、你的父家，都以诡诈待你，连他们也在你后面高声喊叫。虽然他们对你说好话，你也不可信他们。”
耶12:6 For even your brothers, your father's family, even they have been untrue to you, crying loudly after you: have no faith in them, though they say fair words to you.
耶12:7 “我撇下了我的家，丢弃了我的产业；我把我心爱的交在她仇敌的手中。
耶12:7 I have given up my house, I have let my heritage go; I have given the loved one of my soul into the hands of her haters.
耶12:8 我的产业对我，就像树林中的狮子向我咆哮，因此我恨恶她。
耶12:8 My heritage has become like a lion in the woodland to me; her voice has been loud against me; so I have hate for her.
耶12:9 我的产业对我，不就像一只带斑点的鸷鸟，其他的鸷鸟都四围攻击她？你们去聚集田野各样的走兽，带牠们来吃吧！
耶12:9 My heritage is like a brightly coloured bird to me; the cruel birds are attacking her on every side: go, get together all the beasts of the field, make them come for destruction.
耶12:10 许多牧人毁坏了我的葡萄园，践踏了我的田地；他们使我美好的田地变为荒凉的旷野。
耶12:10 The keepers of sheep have been the destruction of my vine-garden, crushing my heritage under their feet; they have made my fair heritage an unplanted waste;
耶12:11 他们使地荒凉，在我面前一片荒凉悲哀；全地荒凉，却无人关心。”
耶12:11 They have made it waste; it is weeping to me, being wasted; all the land is made waste, because no man takes it to heart.
耶12:12 在旷野一切光秃的高冈上，行毁灭的已经来到了；因为耶和华的刀从地这边直到地那边，要吞灭一切；人人都没有平安。
耶12:12 Those who make waste have come on all the open hilltops in the waste land; for the sword of the Lord sends destruction from one end of the land to the other end of the land: no flesh has peace.
耶12:13 他们种的是小麦，收的却是荆棘；虽然筋疲力竭，却一无所获。因耶和华的烈怒，他们必为自己的（“自己的”原文作“你们的”）出产羞愧（本句或译：“你们必为你们的农获羞愧”）。
耶12:13 Though good grain was planted, they have got in thorns: they have given themselves pain without profit: they will be shamed on account of their produce, because of the burning wrath of the Lord.
耶12:14 耶和华这样说：“至于所有邪恶的邻国，他们侵犯我赐给我子民以色列的产业；看哪！我要把他们从本地拔出来，也要把犹大家从他们中间拔出来。
耶12:14 This is what the Lord has said against all my evil neighbours, who put their hands on the heritage which I gave my people Israel: See, I will have them uprooted from their land, uprooting the people of Judah from among them.
耶12:15 但我把他们拔出来以后，我必再怜悯他们，把他们领回来，各自归回自己的产业，自己的故乡。
耶12:15 And it will come about that, after they have been uprooted, I will again have pity on them; and I will take them back, every man to his heritage and every man to his land.
耶12:16 如果那些邻近的国家真的学习我子民的道路，指着我的名起誓，说：‘我指着永活的耶和华起誓！’正如他们从前教导我的子民指着巴力起誓一样，他们就必在我的子民中间被建立起来。
耶12:16 And it will be that, if they give their minds to learning the ways of my people, using my name in their oaths, By the living Lord; as they have been teaching my people to take oaths by the Baal; then their place will be made certain among my people.
耶12:17 他们如果有不听从的，我就把那国拔出来，把她拔除消灭。”这是耶和华的宣告。
耶12:17 But if they will not give ear, then I will have that nation uprooted, and given to destruction, says the Lord.