Jeremiah 12
1 Yahweh, whenever I tell you that I am unhappy [about what is happening to me], you [always] act justly/fairly. So now allow me to ask about one more thing [that I do not understand]: Why are wicked people [often] very prosperous? Why do things go very well for dishonest/wicked people?
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 You allow them to prosper like [MET] trees that grow tall and bear [a lot of] fruit. They [always] say [MTY] good things about you, but their hearts are [really] far from you.
Plantaste-os, arraigaram-se tambem, avançam, dão tambem fructo: chegado estás á sua bocca, porém longe dos seus rins
3 But Yahweh, as for me, you know what is in my inner being. You see what I [do] and you are able to know what I am thinking. So drag away those [wicked] people, like [people drag away] sheep that they are going to butcher. Set them aside like sheep that are about to be slaughtered!
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 This land is [RHQ] becoming very dry and even the grass is withering. The wild animals and the birds have [all] died because the people are [very] wicked. [All that has happened] because the people have said, “Yahweh does not know what we are doing (OR, what will happen to us)!”
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 [Then to show me that I needed to be prepared to endure even greater difficulties, Yahweh said to me], [“It is as though] you have become exhausted from racing against men; so how will you be able to race against horses? If you [stumble and] fall when you are running on open/bare/smooth ground, what will happen to you when you are running through the thornbushes near the Jordan [River]?
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 [Already] your brothers and [other members of] your own family oppose you. They (plot against/plan to do evil things to) you and they say bad things about you. So even if they say nice things about you, do not trust them!
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 abandoned my [Israeli] people, the people whom I chose to belong to me. I have allowed their enemies to conquer the Israeli people, whom I love.
Já desamparei a minha casa, abandonei a minha herança: entreguei a amada da minha alma na mão de seus inimigos.
8 My people have become to me like [SIM] a lion in the forest. [It is as though] they roar at me like a lion, so now I hate them.
Tornou-se-me a minha herança como leão em brenha: levantou a sua voz contra mim, por isso eu a aborreci.
9 My chosen people have [RHQ] become like speckled hawks that are surrounded by vultures [waiting to eat their flesh after they are dead]. Tell all the wild animals to come and eat [the flesh of their corpses].
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 Many rulers [from other countries have come with their armies and] devastated/destroyed my people [whom I care for like a farmer takes care of his] vineyard. They have caused my beautiful land to become a barren desert where no one lives.
Muitos pastores destruiram a minha vinha, pisaram o meu campo: tornaram em deserto de assolação o meu campo desejado.
11 They have caused it to become completely empty; [it is as though] I hear the land crying sadly/mournfully. The whole land is desolate, and no one (worries about/pays any attention to) it.
Em assolação o tornaram, e assolado clama a mim: toda a terra está assolada, porquanto não ha nenhum que tome isso a peito.
12 The soldiers [of our enemies] have marched across all the barren hilltops. But [I], Yahweh, am using those armies [MTY] to punish your land from one end to the other, and no one will escape.
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 [It is as though] my people planted wheat, but now they are harvesting thorns. They have become very tired [because of much hard work], but they have gained nothing [from all that work]. They will be very disappointed because their harvests [will be very small], [and that will happen] because [I], Yahweh, am extremely angry [with them].”
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 [also] what Yahweh said to me: “[I will punish] the evil nearby nations that have been trying to take away the land that I gave to my Israeli people, and I will force them to leave their own land. But I will throw the people of Judah out of their land, also.
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 But later I will act mercifully toward those nations again, and I will bring them back to their own lands again. Each [clan] will come back to its own 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 if the people [of the other nations whose armies have invaded Israel] learn the [religious] customs of my people, and if they learn that I [am listening] when they solemnly promise that they will do something good, like they taught my people to believe that [their god] Baal [was listening] when they made solemn promises, I will cause them to become prosperous, and they also will be 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 I will expel any nation whose people refuse to obey me, and I will destroy that nation and its people. [That will surely happen because I], Yahweh, have said it.”
Porém, se não quizerem ouvir, totalmente arrancarei a tal nação, e a farei perecer, diz o Senhor.
