Jeremiah 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?
Justo serias, ó Senhor, ainda que eu contendesse contra ti: comtudo fallarei comtigo dos teus juizos. Porque prospera o caminho dos impios, e vivem em paz todos os que commettem aleivosia aleivosamente?
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.
Plantaste-os, arraigaram-se tambem, avançam, dão tambem fructo: chegado estás á sua bocca, porém longe dos seus rins
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.
Mas tu, ó Senhor, me conheces, tu me vês, e provas o meu coração para comtigo; arranca-os como a ovelhas para o matadouro, e dedica-os ao dia da matança.
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.
Até quando lamentará a terra, e se seccará a herva de todo o campo? pela maldade dos que habitam n'ella, perecem os animaes e as aves; porquanto dizem: Não verá o nosso ultimo fim.
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?
Se corres com os homens de pé, fazem-te cançar; como pois competirás com os cavallos? se tão sómente na terra de paz te confias, como farás na enchente do Jordão?
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.
Porque até os teus irmãos, e a casa de teu pae, elles tambem se hão deslealmente contra ti; até os mesmos clamam após ti em altas vozes: Não te fies n'elles, quando te fallarem coisas boas.
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.
Já desamparei a minha casa, abandonei a minha herança: entreguei a amada da minha alma na mão de seus inimigos.
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.
Tornou-se-me a minha herança como leão em brenha: levantou a sua voz contra mim, por isso eu a aborreci.
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.
A minha herança me é ave de varias côres; andam as aves contra ella em redor: vinde, pois, ajuntae-vos todos os animaes do campo, vinde a devoral-a.
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;
Muitos pastores destruiram a minha vinha, pisaram o meu campo: tornaram em deserto de assolação o meu campo desejado.
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.
Em assolação o tornaram, e assolado clama a mim: toda a terra está assolada, porquanto não ha nenhum que tome isso a peito.
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.
Sobre todos os logares altos do deserto vieram destruidores; porque a espada do Senhor devora desde um extremo da terra até outro extremo da terra: não ha paz para nenhuma carne.
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.
Semearam trigo, e segaram espinhos; cançaram-se, mas de nada se aproveitaram: envergonhae-vos pois em razão de vossas colheitas, e por causa do ardor da ira do Senhor.
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.
Assim diz o Senhor, ácerca de todos os meus maus visinhos, que tocam a minha herança, a qual dei por herança ao meu povo Israel: Eis que os arrancarei da sua terra, e a casa de Judah arrancarei do meio d'elles.
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.
E será que, depois de os haver arrancado, tornarei, e me compadecerei d'elles, e os farei tornar cada um á sua herança, e cada um á sua terra.
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.
E será que, se diligentemente aprenderem os caminhos do meu povo, jurando pelo meu nome, dizendo: Vive o Senhor, como ensinaram a meu povo a jurar por Baal, edificar-se-hão no meio do meu povo.
17 But if they will not give ear, then I will have that nation uprooted, and given to destruction, says the Lord.
Porém, se não quizerem ouvir, totalmente arrancarei a tal nação, e a farei perecer, diz o Senhor.
