Isaías 10
1 Ai dos que ordenam ordenanças injustas, e dos que prescrevem trabalho aos escrivães.
Terrible things will happen to you judges who are unjust and who make unfair laws.
2 Para desviarem aos pobres do seu direito, e para arrebatarem o direito dos afflictos do meu povo, para despojarem as viuvas e para roubarem os orphãos!
You refuse to help poor people, and you do not allow them to get the things that they should get. You [allow people to] steal things from widows and do unfair things to orphans.
3 Mas que fareis vós-outros no dia da visitação, e da assolação, que ha de vir de longe? a quem vos refugiareis para obter soccorro, e onde deixareis a vossa gloria?
When I punish you by sending people from distant lands to cause you to experience disasters, (to whom will you run to get help?/there will be no one who can help you.) [RHQ] Your valuable possessions will certainly [not be safe] [RHQ] anywhere.
4 Sem que cada um se abata entre as prezas, e caia entre os mortos? Com tudo isto a sua ira se não apartou, mas ainda está estendida a sua mão.
You will be able only to stumble along as you are taken away with other prisoners, or [else] your corpses will lie on the ground with others who have been killed. But even after that happens, Yahweh will still be very angry with you. He will still be ready to strike you again with his fist.
5 Ai da Assyria! a vara da minha ira: porque a minha indignação é o bordão nas suas mãos.
[Yahweh says], “Terrible things will happen to Assyria. [It is true that their army] is like a rod/club [DOU] with which I [punish other nations] because I am very angry with those nations [DOU].
6 Envial-o-hei contra uma nação hypocrita, e contra o povo do meu furor lhe darei ordem, para que lhe roube o roubo, e lhe despoje o despojo, e o ponha para ser pisado aos pés, como a lama das ruas:
[Sometimes] I send the armies of Assyria to attack a godless nation, to fight against [other] people who have caused me to be angry. I send them to capture people and to seize and take away their possessions, and to trample them like [SIM] people walk on mud in the streets.
7 Ainda que elle não cuide assim, nem o seu coração assim o imagine: antes no seu coração intentará destruir e desarraigar nações não poucas.
But the [king of Assyria] does not understand, he does not realize [that he is only like a weapon in my hand]. He wants [only] to destroy people, to get rid of many nations.
8 Porque diz: Porventura todos os meus principes não são elles reis?
He says, ‘All of my army commanders will soon be kings [of these nations that I conquer]!
9 Não é Calno como Carchemis? não é Hamath como Arphad? e Samaria como Damasco?
We destroyed Calno [city] like we destroyed Carchemish [city], We destroyed Hamath [city] like we destroyed Arpad [city]; we destroyed Samaria just like we destroyed Damascus.
10 Como a minha mão achou os reinos dos idolos, ainda que as suas imagens de vulto fossem melhores do que as de Jerusalem e de que as de Samaria.
We were able to destroy [all] those kingdoms [that were full] of idols, kingdoms whose idols were greater than the idols in Jerusalem and Samaria.
11 Porventura como fiz a Samaria e aos seus idolos, não faria eu tambem assim a Jerusalem e aos seus idolos?
So we will defeat Jerusalem and destroy the idols that are there, just like we destroyed Samaria and the idols that were there!’
12 Porque acontecerá que, havendo o Senhor acabado toda a sua obra no monte de Sião e em Jerusalem, então visitarei o fructo da arrogante grandeza do coração do rei da Assyria e a pompa da altivez dos seus olhos.
[But, I, Yahweh, say that] after I [have used Assyria to] finish what I want to do to punish the people in Jerusalem [DOU], I will punish the king of Assyria because he has been very proud and arrogant/boastful [DOU].
13 Porquanto disse: Com a força da minha mão o fiz, e com a minha sabedoria, porque sou entendido: e terei os limites dos povos, e roubei a sua provisão, e como valente abati aos moradores.
He says, ‘By my own great power [MTY] I have done these things. I have been able to do them because I am very wise and very intelligent. My army removed the barriers [at the borders] of nations and carried away all their valuable things. My army has knocked down their kings like [SIM] a ferocious bull would.
14 E achou a minha mão as riquezas dos povos como a um ninho, e como se ajuntam os ovos deixados, assim eu ajuntei a toda a terra, e não houve quem movesse a aza, ou abrisse a bocca, ou chilrasse.
Like [MET] a farmer reaches into a bird’s nest [to take away the eggs], we have taken away the treasures of other countries [DOU]. The people were not like birds that would flap their wings or chirp loudly [to protest about their eggs being stolen]; the people did not object at all [to their treasures being stolen].’
15 Porventura gloriar-se-ha o machado contra o que corta com elle? ou presumirá a serra contra o que puxa por ella? como se o bordão movesse aos que o levantam, ou a vara se levantasse como não sendo pau?
[But I, Yahweh, say that] an axe certainly cannot [RHQ] boast about being stronger than the person who uses it, and a saw is not greater than the person who uses it. A rod cannot control the one who holds it [RHQ], and a wooden club cannot lift up a person [RHQ]. [So the king of Assyria should not boast that he has done these things with his own wisdom and strength].
16 Pelo que o Senhor, o Senhor dos Exercitos, enviará magreza entre os seus gordos, e debaixo da sua gloria accenderá incendio, como incendio de fogo.
And [I], the Commander of the armies of angels, will send a plague among the proud soldiers of Assyria; it will be like [MET] a fire that will kill them and get rid of their glory/wealth.
17 Porque a Luz d'Israel virá a ser por fogo e o seu Sancto por labareda, que abraze e consuma os seus espinheiros e as suas sarças n'um dia.
[I], Yahweh, who am like [MET] a light for the people of Israel, will be the fire; [I], the Holy One, will be like a flame. [The soldiers of Assyria are like] [MET] thorns and briers, and I will burn them up in one night.
18 Tambem consumirá a gloria da sua brenha, e do seu campo fertil, desde a alma até á carne, e será como quando o porta-bandeira se desmaia.
There are glorious forests and fertile farmlands in Assyria, but I will completely destroy them; they will be like [SIM] a [very] sick person who shrivels up and then dies.
19 E o resto das arvores da sua brenha será tão pouco em numero, que um menino as possa escrever.
There will be very few trees left in those forests; even a child will be able to count them.”
20 E acontecerá n'aquelle dia que os residuos d'Israel, e os escapados da casa de Jacob, nunca mais se estribarão sobre o que os feriu: antes se estribarão verdadeiramente sobre o Senhor, o Sancto d'Israel.
In the future there will be only a few people left in Israel; not many descendants of Jacob will still be alive. [But] they will no longer rely on [the king of Assyria], [the king of the nation] that tried to destroy them. Instead, they will faithfully/sincerely trust in Yahweh, the Holy One of Israel.
21 Os residuos se converterão, os residuos, digo, de Jacob, ao Deus forte.
Those Israelis will return to their mighty God.
22 Porque ainda que o teu povo, ó Israel, seja como a areia do mar, todavia só um resto d'elle se converterá: já a destruição está determinada, trasbordando em justiça.
[Now], the people of Israel are as numerous as the grains of sand on the seashore, but only a few of them will return [from the countries to which they were exiled]. Yahweh has decided to destroy [most of the Israelis] and that is what [he must do because he is completely] just/righteous.
23 Porque determinada já a destruição, o Senhor Jehovah dos Exercitos a executará no meio de toda esta terra.
[Yes, ] the Commander of the armies of angels has [already] decided to destroy the entire land [of Israel].
24 Pelo que assim diz o Senhor Jehovah dos Exercitos: Não temas, povo meu, que habitas em Sião, á Assyria, quando te ferir com a vara, e contra ti levantar o seu bordão ao modo dos egypcios,
This is what the Commander of the armies of angels says: “My people in Jerusalem, do not be afraid of the army of Assyria when they beat you with rods and clubs, like the men of Egypt did [to your ancestors long ago].
25 Porque d'aqui a bem pouco se cumprirão a minha indignação e a minha ira, para os consumir.
Soon I will no longer be angry with you, and [then] I will be angry with the people of Assyria and destroy them!”
26 Porque o Senhor dos Exercitos levantará um açoite contra elle, qual a matança de Midian junto á rocha d'Oreb, e qual a sua vara sobre o mar, que levantará ao modo dos egypcios.
The Commander of the armies of angels will whip them. He will do to them like he did when he helped Gideon [and his 300 soldiers] to defeat the [army of the] Midian people-group, and like he did when he showed his mighty power [MTY] [by causing the army of Egypt to drown] in the [Red] Sea.
27 E acontecerá, no mesmo dia, que tirará a sua carga do teu hombro, e o seu jugo do teu pescoço: e o jugo será despedaçado por amor do ungido.
Some day, Yahweh will cause the army of Assyria to stop oppressing you, [his people]; he will end your suffering and your being slaves of the people of Assyria [MET]; he will take away the load that you people of Judah have been carrying, and cause things to go well for you.
28 Já vem chegando a Aiath, já vae passando por Migron, e em Michmas lança a sua bagagem.
[The army of Assyria will enter northern Judah] near Aiath [town], they will go through Migron [town] and store their supplies at Micmash [town north of Jerusalem].
29 Já vão passando o vau, já se alojam em Geba: já Rama treme, e Gibeah de Saul vae fugindo.
They will cross through a mountain pass and set up their tents at Geba [town]. [People in] Ramah [town] will tremble [because of being afraid]. [The people of] Gibeah [town], where King Saul [was born], will [all] run away.
30 Grita altamente com a tua voz, ó filha de Gallim! ouve ó Lais! ó tu pobre Anathoth.
You people of Gallim [town] will cry out [for help]. You will shout to [the people of] Laish [city near Jerusalem] to warn them! [The people of] Anathoth [town] will suffer a lot.
31 Já Madmena se foi, os moradores de Gebim vão fugindo em bandos.
[The people of] Madmenah [town north of Jerusalem will all] be running away, and [the people of] Gebim [town close to Jerusalem] will be trying to hide.
32 Ainda um dia parará em Nob: moverá a sua mão contra o monte da filha de Sião, o outeiro de Jerusalem.
The soldiers of Assyria will stop at Nob [city outside Jerusalem]. They will shake their fists [as they threaten the people] on Zion Hill in Jerusalem.
33 Porém eis-que o Senhor Jehovah dos Exercitos decotará os ramos com violencia, e os de alta estatura serão cortados, e os altivos serão abatidos.
But listen to this! The Commander of the armies of angels with his great power will destroy [MET] the mighty army of Assyria. [It is as though they are] a huge tree [MET] that he will cut down.
34 E cortará com o ferro a espessura da brenha, e o Libano cairá á mão de um poderoso.
He will destroy the [soldiers of Assyria] like men use big axes to cut down the tall trees in the forests of Lebanon.
