Ezequiel 4
1 Tu pois, ó filho do homem, toma um tijolo, e pôl-o-has diante de ti, e grava n'elle a cidade de Jerusalem.
[Yahweh also said to me, ] “You human, take a large clay tablet/brick and put it in front of you. Then on the [engrave/draw] on it lines that represent Jerusalem.
2 E põe contra ella um cerco, e edifica contra ella uma fortificação, e levanta contra ella uma tranqueira, e põe contra ella arraiaes, e põe-lhe vaevens em redor.
[draw figures around it to represent enemy soldiers who will] surround the city. Make mounds around it and a dirt ramp up against the [around the city]. [figures around it that represent] (battering rams/heavy logs that will break though the walls).
3 E tu toma uma sertã de ferro, e põe-n'a por muro de ferro entre ti e entre a cidade; e dirige para ella o teu rosto, e assim será cercada, e a cercarás; isto servirá de signal á casa de Israel.
Then take an iron pan, and place it [to be] like an iron wall between you [the drawing of] the city. Then turn your face toward the drawing. It will symbolize [enemy troops will] surround the city to attack it. That will be a warning to the Israeli people [MTY].
4 Tu tambem deita-te sobre o teu lado esquerdo, e põe a maldade da casa de Israel sobre elle: conforme o numero dos dias que te deitares sobre elle, levarás as suas maldades.
Then lie on your left side, and stay like that for 390 days. That [symbolize that the Israeli people will be punished for] their sins; you must lie like that one day for each year during which they will be punished.
5 Porque eu já te tenho dado os annos da sua maldade, conforme o numero dos dias, trezentos e noventa dias; e levarás a maldade da casa de Israel.
6 E, quando cumprires estes, tornar-te-has a deitar sobre o teu lado direito, e levarás a maldade da casa de Judah quarenta dias: um dia te dei por cada anno.
After that, lie down again. This time, lie on your right side for 40 days. That [symbolize that the Israeli people will be punished more] for their sins, one day for each [during which they will be punished].
7 Dirigirás pois o teu rosto para o cerco de Jerusalem, e o teu braço estará descoberto, e prophetizarás contra ella.
Turn your face [the drawing of] Jerusalem and bare your [like a soldier does who prepares to go into a battle] [MTY], and prophesy [what will happen to] the city.
8 E eis que porei sobre ti cordas: assim tu não te voltarás d'um lado para o outro, até que cumpras os dias do teu cerco.
[You will not be able to move; it will be as though] I have tied you with ropes in order that you cannot turn from one side to the other until you have [symbolizing how many years the city] will be (besieged/surrounded by enemy soldiers).
9 E tu toma trigo, e cevada, e favas, e lentilhas, e milho, e aveia, e mette-os n'um vaso, e faze d'elles pão: conforme o numero dos dias que tu te deitares sobre o teu lado, trezentos e noventa dias, comerás d'isso.
[Before you do that, ] take some wheat and barley, beans, lentils, spelt and millet, and put them in a [storage] jar, and use that to bake [for yourself]. That is what you will eat during the 390 days while you lie on your [left] side.
10 E a tua comida, que has de comer, será do peso de vinte siclos cada dia: de tempo em tempo a comerás.
You will eat (8 ounces/a small loaf) of bread each day.
11 Tambem beberás a agua por medida, a saber, a sexta parte d'um hin: de tempo em tempo beberás.
[Also] measure out (1.5 pints/0.6 liter) of water to drink each day.
12 E o comerás como bolos de cevada, e o cozerás com o esterco que sae do homem, diante dos olhos d'elles.
Eat that bread like you would eat a loaf of barley bread. But use your own dried dung for fuel to bake the bread while people are watching.
13 E disse o Senhor: Assim comerão os filhos de Israel o seu pão immundo, entre as nações ás quaes os lançarei.
That will symbolize that the Israeli people will be forced to eat food that is unacceptable to me when they are living in the nations to which I will force them to go.”
14 Então disse eu: Ah! Senhor, Senhor! eis que a minha alma não foi contaminada, porque nunca comi coisa morta, nem despedaçada, desde a minha mocidade até agora: nem carne abominavel entrou na minha bocca.
Then I said, “No, Yahweh God![Do not force me to do that]! I have never caused myself to become unacceptable to you [by doing anything like that]. From the time when I was young, I have never eaten meat of any [animal] that was found dead or that had been killed by wild animals. And I have never eaten any meat that is unacceptable to you.”
15 E disse-me: Vê, tenho-te dado bosta de vaccas, em logar de esterco de homem; e com ella prepararás o teu pão.
Yahweh replied, “Okay, I will allow you to bake your bread using dried cow manure instead of human [for fuel].”
16 Então me disse: Filho do homem, eis que eu quebranto o sustento do pão em Jerusalem, e comerão o pão por peso, e com desgosto; e a agua beberão por medida, e com espanto;
Then he said to me, “You human, I will cause the supply of food to Jerusalem to be cut off. [Then] the people will eat the small amounts of food and drink the small amounts of [that the government permits them to have], and they will be [very] distressed and anxious as they do that,
17 Para que o pão e a agua lhes falte, e se espantem uns com os outros, e se consumam nas suas maldades.
because water and food will be very scarce. They will see each other becoming extremely thin, and they will be appalled; [but this will happen] because they are being punished [for the sins that they have committed].”
