Nahum 2
1 A crusher has come up before your face: keep a good look-out, let the way be watched, make yourself strong, let your power be greatly increased.
O destruidor subiu diante de ti, guarda tu a fortaleza, observa o caminho, esforça as lombos, fortalece muito a força.
2 For the Lord will make good the vine of Jacob, as well as the vine of Israel: for the wasters have made them waste and sent destruction on the branches of their vine.
Porque o Senhor tornará a excellencia de Jacob como a excellencia de Israel; porque os que despejam os vazaram, e corromperam os seus sarmentos.
3 The body-covers of his fighting men have been made red, the men of war are clothed in bright red: the war-carriages are like flames of fire in the day when he gets ready, the horses are shaking.
Os escudos dos seus valentes serão tintos de vermelho, os homens valorosos andam vestidos de escarlate, os carros correrão como fogo de tochas no dia do seu apercebimento, e os pinheiros se abalarão.
4 The war-carriages are rushing through the streets, pushing against one another in the wide ways, looking like burning lights, running like thunder-flames.
Os carros se enfurecerão nas praças, discorrerão pelas ruas: o seu parecer é como o de tochas, correrão como relampagos.
5 He takes the record of his great men: they go falling on their way; they go quickly to the wall, the cover is made ready.
Este se lembrará dos seus valentes, elles porém tropeçarão na sua marcha: apresentar-se-hão ao seu muro, quando o amparo fôr apparelhado.
6 The river doorways are forced open, and the king's house is flowing away.
As portas do rio se abrirão, e o palacio se derreterá.
7 And the queen is uncovered, she is taken away and her servant-girls are weeping like the sound of doves, hammering on their breasts.
Pois determinado está; será levada captiva, será feita subir, e as suas servas a acompanharão, gemendo como pombas, batendo em seus peitos.
8 But Nineveh is like a pool of water whose waters are flowing away; Keep your place, they say; but no one is turning back.
Ninive desde que existiu tem sido como um tanque de aguas, porém ellas agora fogem. Parae, parae, clamar-se-ha; mas ninguem olhará para traz.
9 Take silver, take gold; for there is no end to the store; take for yourselves a weight of things to be desired.
Saqueae a prata, saqueae o oiro, porque não tem termo o provimento, abastança ha de todo o genero de moveis appeteciveis.
10 Everything has been taken from her, all is gone, she has nothing more: the heart is turned to water, the knees are shaking, all are twisted in pain, and colour has gone from all faces.
Vazia, e vazada e esgotada ficará, e derreteu-se o seu coração, e tremem os joelhos, e em todos os lombos ha dôr, e os rostos de todos elles ennegrecem.
11 Where is the lions' hole, the place where the young lions got their food, where the lion and the she-lion were walking with their young, without cause for fear?
Onde está agora o covil dos leões, e as pastagens dos leõesinhos? onde passeava o leão velho, e o cachorro do leão, sem haver ninguem que os espantasse?
12 Food enough for his young and for his she-lions was pulled down by the lion; his hole was full of flesh and his resting-place stored with meat.
O leão arrebatava o que bastava para os seus cachorros, e afogava a preza para as suas leôas, e enchia de prezas as suas cavernas, e os seus covis de rapina.
13 See, I am against you, says the Lord of armies, and I will have your war-carriages burned in the smoke, and your young lions will be food for the sword: you will no longer get your food by force on the earth, and the voice of your she-lions will be stopped for ever.
Eis que eu estou contra ti, diz o Senhor dos exercitos, e queimarei no fumo os seus carros, e a espada devorará os teus leõesinhos, e arrancarei da terra a tua preza, e não se ouvirá mais a voz dos teus embaixadores.
