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 és tu, SENHOR, mesmo quando eu discuto contigo; falarei, porém, de juízos contigo. Por que o caminho dos perversos prospera, e todos os que agem enganosamente têm boa vida?
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.
Tu os plantaste, e firmaram raízes; eles progridem, e dão fruto; tu estás perto de suas bocas, porém longe de seus sentimentos.
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, SENHOR, me conheces; tu me vês, e provas o meu coração para contigo. Arranca-os como a ovelhas para o matadouro, e reserva-os para o 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 a erva de todo o campo ficará seca? Pela maldade dos que nela habitam, os animais e as aves perecem; porque dizem: Ele não verá ele nosso 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 ao correres com os que estão a pé, eles te cansam, como competirás com os cavalos? E se [somente] em terra de paz te sentes seguro, como agirás tu nos matagais junto ao 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 teus irmãos e a casa de teu pai passaram a agir traiçoeiramente contra ti, até eles gritaram atrás de ti. Não creias neles, quando te falarem 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.
Deixei minha casa, abandonei minha herança, entreguei a amada de minha alma nas mãos 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.
Minha herança se tornou para mim como um leão na floresta: ela levantou sua voz contra mim; por isso que eu a odeio.
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].
Não é minha herança para mim uma ave de rapina de muitas cores? Não estão contra ela aves de rapina ao redor? Vinde, ajuntai-vos, todas os animais do campo, vinde para devorá-la.
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 destruíram minha vinha, pisaram meu campo; tornaram meu campo desejado em um deserto devastado.
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.
Tornaram-no em desolação, e lamenta a mim, desolado; toda a terra está desolada, porque ninguém há que pense [nisso] no coração.
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 lugares altos do deserto vieram destruidores; porque a espada do SENHOR devora desde um extremo da terra até o outro extremo; não haverá 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 ceifarão espinhos; cansaram-se, mas não tiveram proveito algum. Envergonhai-vos de vossos frutos, por causa da ardente 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 quanto a todos os meus maus vizinhos, que tocam a minha herança, a qual dei por herança a meu povo Israel: Eis que eu os arrancarei de sua terra, e arrancarei a casa de Judá do meio deles.
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 arrancar, voltarei, terei compaixão deles, e os farei voltar cada um à sua herança, e cada um à 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 cuidadosamente aprenderem os caminhos de meu povo, para jurar em meu nome, [dizendo]: Vive o SENHOR, assim como ensinaram a meu povo a jurar por Baal; eles serão edificados em 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 quiserem ouvir, arrancarei à tal nação por completo, e a destruirei, diz o SENHOR.
