Jeremias 2
1 E veiu a mim a palavra do Senhor, dizendo:
Yahweh gave me another message
2 Vae, e clama aos ouvidos de Jerusalem, dizendo: Assim diz o Senhor: Lembro-me de ti, da beneficencia da tua mocidade, e do amor dos teus desposorios, quando andavas após mim no deserto, n'uma terra que se não semeava.
[to proclaim to everyone in Jerusalem. He said that I should tell them this] [MET]: “I, Yahweh, remember that you very much wanted to please me [long ago]. [You tried to please me like] a bride [tries to please her husband]; You loved me, and you followed me through the desert [DOU].
3 Então Israel era sanctidade para o Senhor, e as primicias da sua novidade: todos os que comiam eram tidos por culpados; o mal vinha sobre elles, diz o Senhor.
[At that time you] Israelis (were set apart/belonged only) to me; [you belonged to me like] the first part of the harvests belong to me [MET]. I promised to punish all those who harmed you, my people, and truly I did send disasters on them. [That happened because I], Yahweh, said [that it would happen].”
4 Ouvi a palavra do Senhor, ó casa de Jacob, e todas as familias da casa de Israel:
So, you [descendants of] [MTY] Jacob, all you people of [MTY] Israel,
5 Assim diz o Senhor: Que injustiça acharam vossos paes em mim, para se alongarem de mim, e se foram após a vaidade, e se tornaram levianos?
listen to what Yahweh says: “(What sin did I commit [RHQ] that caused your ancestors to turn far away from me?/Though your ancestors found no fault in me, they turned far away from me.) They worshiped worthless idols, and they themselves became worthless.
6 E não disseram: Onde está o Senhor, que nos fez subir da terra do Egypto? que nos guiou pelo deserto, por uma terra de charnecas, e de covas, por uma terra de sequidão e sombra de morte, por uma terra pela qual ninguem passava, e homem nenhum morava n'ella?
They did not say, ‘Yahweh brought us [safely] out of Egypt, and he led us through a desert where there were a lot of pits; he led us where there was no water and where it was very dangerous, through a land where no one lives, and no one even travels. (So where is Yahweh now?/So he should be helping us now!) [RHQ]’
7 E eu vos introduzi n'uma terra fertil, para comerdes o seu fructo e o seu bem; mas quando entrastes n'ella contaminastes a minha terra, e da minha herança fizestes uma abominação.
And when I brought you into a very fertile land, in order that you could enjoy [all] the fruit and [other] good things that you would harvest, you caused the land that I promised to give to you to be unfit for me and to become disgusting/detestable to me.
8 Os sacerdotes não disseram: Onde está o Senhor? E os que tratavam da lei não me conheciam, e os pastores prevaricavam contra mim, e os prophetas prophetizavam por Baal, e andavam após o que de nada aproveita.
[Your] priests also did not say, ‘(Where is Yahweh now?/Yahweh should be helping us now!)’ [RHQ] Those who teach/explain my laws do not [want to] know me, and [your] leaders have rebelled against me. [Your] prophets gave you messages from [their god] Baal, and they worship worthless idols.”
9 Portanto ainda contenderei comvosco, diz o Senhor; e até com os filhos de vossos filhos contenderei.
“So, I will accuse you in court. [In future years], I will say what your children and your grandchildren have done that is wrong. [That will happen because I], Yahweh, have said [that it will happen].
10 Porque, passae ás ilhas de Chittim, e vêde; e enviae a Kedar, e attentae bem, e vêde se succedeu coisa similhante.
If you go [west] to the island of Cyprus, or if you go [east] to Kedar [land, ] and if you ask people in those places, they will tell you that no people [from their countries] have ever done the wicked things that you people have done!
11 Houve alguma nação que tenha trocado os seus deuses, ainda que não sejam deuses? Todavia o meu povo trocou a sua gloria pelo que de nada aproveita.
The people of no other nation have ever [RHQ] abandoned their gods that they thought were glorious and started to worship gods that are not really gods, but you people have abandoned me, your glorious God, and are worshiping gods that are useless.
12 Espantae-vos d'isto, ó céus! e pasmae; e sêde grandemente assolados, diz o Senhor.
[It is as though everything in] the sky is surprised and dismayed/appalled [about what you have done]; [it is as though] they tremble because they are very horrified.
13 Porque o meu povo fez duas maldades: a mim me deixaram, o manancial de aguas vivas, e cavaram cisternas, cisternas fendidas, que já não reteem aguas.
[You], my people, have done two evil things: You have rejected me, the one who is [like] [MET] a fountain [where you can obtain] fresh water, and you [are worshiping gods that are like] [MET] pits in the ground that are cracked and which are not able to hold any water.
14 Acaso é Israel um servo, ou nascido em casa? porque pois veiu a ser preza?
You Israeli people, you were certainly not [RHQ] slaves when you were born; you were captured [by your enemies].
15 Os filhos de leão bramaram sobre elle, levantaram a sua voz; e pozeram a sua terra em assolação; as suas cidades se queimaram, e ninguem habita n'ellas.
[Your enemies] [MET] roared [like] lions, and they destroyed your land. [Now] your towns have been burned, and no one lives in them.
16 Até os filhos de Noph e de Tachphanes te quebraram o alto da cabeça.
Soldiers from Memphis and Tahpenes, [cities in Egypt], have [defeated you] [and] shaved your heads [to show that you are their slaves].
17 Porventura tu não te fazes isto a ti mesmo? pois deixas ao Senhor teu Deus, no tempo em que elle te guia pelo caminho.
But it is [RHQ] because you abandoned [me], Yahweh, that these disasters have happened to you.
18 Agora, pois, que te importa a ti o caminho do Egypto, para beberes as aguas de Sihor? e que te importa a ti o caminho da Assyria, para beberes as aguas do rio?
So (why are you trying to make an alliance with [MET] the rulers of Egypt?/it certainly will not help you to make an alliance with the rulers of Egypt) [RHQ]. Why are you trying to make an alliance with [MET] the rulers of Assyria who live near the [Euphrates] River?
19 A tua malicia te castigará, e os teus apartamentos te reprehenderão: sabe, pois, e vê, quão mal e amargo é deixares ao Senhor teu Deus, e não teres o meu temor comtigo, diz o Senhor Jehovah dos Exercitos.
[It is because] you have been [very] wicked that I [PRS] will punish you. It is because you have turned away from me that I [PRS] will condemn you. [When I do that], you will realize that painful and evil [DOU] things will happen to you because you have forsaken [me], Yahweh, your God, and you no [longer] revere me. [That will certainly happen because] I, Yahweh, the Commander of the armies of angels in heaven, have said it.
20 Quando eu já ha muito quebrava o teu jugo, e rompia as tuas ataduras, dizias tu: Nunca mais transgredirei; comtudo em todo o outeiro alto e debaixo de toda a arvore verde te andas encurvando e fornicando.
Long ago, you stopped obeying [me] [MET], and you would not allow [me] to lead you [MET]; you refused to worship [me]. Instead, you worship idols that are under trees on the top of every hill, and your young women have sex with [EUP] [men at those places].
21 Eu mesmo te plantei por vide excellente, e todo fiel semente: como pois te tornaste para mim uma planta degenerada de vide estranha?
[It is as though] [MET] you were a grapevine that I planted when it was a cutting from a very good vine. So now it is disgusting that [RHQ] you have become [like] a rotten worthless vine.
22 Pelo que ainda que te laves com salitre, e amontoes sabão, comtudo a tua iniquidade está apontada diante de mim, diz o Senhor Jehovah.
Your guilt from your sins is like [MET] very bad stains on a cloth, and you cannot get rid of those stains even by using very strong soap. [This is true because I], Yahweh, have said it.
23 Como dizes logo: Não estou contaminado nem andei após os baalins? vê o teu caminho no valle, conhece o que fizeste: dromedaria ligeira és, que anda torcendo os seus caminhos.
You say that you have not sinned. You say ‘We have not become unacceptable to God; we have not worshiped Baal.’ But think about [the disgusting things that you do very eagerly] in [Hinnom] Valley [outside Jerusalem]. You are like desperate female camels, running here and there [to find male camels to have sex with].
24 Jumenta montez, acostumada ao deserto, que, conforme o desejo da sua alma, sorve o vento, quem deteria o seu encontro? todos os que a buscarem, não se cançarão; no mez d'ella a acharão.
You are [like] wild female donkeys in the desert. They sniff the air to find where the male donkeys are, and no one can [RHQ] restrain them. The male donkeys that want them do not become tired searching for them, because at mating time they find them [easily].
25 Retem o teu pé de ser descalço, e a tua garganta de ter sêde: porém tu dizes: Não ha esperança: não; porque amo os estranhos, e após elles andarei
You constantly run here and there [to find idols to worship], with the result that your sandals are worn out, and your throats have become dry. [I told you to stop doing that], but you said, ‘We cannot stop, because we love foreign gods, and we must worship them.’”
26 Como fica confundido o ladrão quando o apanham, assim se confundem os da casa de Israel; elles, os seus reis, os seus principes, e os seus sacerdotes, e os seus prophetas,
[Yahweh says this]: “A robber is disgraced when he is caught. And all of you, including your kings and priests and prophets, are similarly disgraced.
27 Que dizem ao páu: Tu és meu pae; e á pedra: Tu me geraste; porque me viraram as costas, e não o rosto: porém no tempo do seu trabalho dirão: Levanta-te, e livra-nos.
You say to [a piece of] wood [that is carved to become a sacred idol], ‘You are our father!’ And you say to a stone [that you have set up], ‘You are our mother!’ You have rejected [IDM] me, but when you experience troubles, you cry out to me to rescue you.
28 Onde pois estão os teus deuses, que fizeste para ti? que se levantem, se te podem livrar no tempo do teu trabalho: porque os teus deuses, ó Judah, são tantos em numero como as tuas cidades.
Why do you not [RHQ] cry out to the gods that you made? You have as many gods as you have cities [and towns] in Judah. So why do you not plead with them to rescue you when you experience disasters?
29 Porque contendeis comigo? todos vós transgredistes contra mim, diz o Senhor.
You complain that it was wrong for me [not to have rescued you], but you have all rebelled against me.
30 Em vão castigareis os vossos filhos; não acceitarão o castigo: a vossa espada devorou os vossos prophetas como um leão destruidor.
I punished some of you, but you did not learn anything from my doing that. You have killed many of the prophets that I [sent to you], like [SIM] fierce lions kill [other animals].
31 Oh geração! considerae vós a palavra do Senhor: porventura tenho eu sido para Israel um deserto? ou uma terra da mais espessa escuridão? porque pois diz o meu povo: Temos determinado nunca mais vir a ti.
You people of Israel, pay attention to what I say. I have certainly [RHQ] never [abandoned you] in a desert; I have never [left you] in a land full of darkness. So, why do you, my people, say ‘We are free from God’s control; we will not return to [worship] God any more’?
32 Porventura esquece-se a virgem dos seus enfeites, ou a esposa dos seus sendaes? todavia o meu povo se esqueceu de mim, innumeraveis dias.
A young woman would certainly never [RHQ] forget [to wear] her jewelry, and a bride would never [RHQ] forget to wear her wedding dress, but you my people have forgotten me for many years.
33 Porque enfeitas o teu caminho, para buscares o amor? de sorte que até ás malignas ensinaste os teus caminhos.
You know how to easily find [gods from other countries] whom you can love. You can find them as easily as a prostitute [can find men to sleep with].
34 Até nas orlas dos teus vestidos se achou o sangue das almas dos innocentes e necessitados: o que não achei minando, mas em todas estas coisas.
Although you have on your clothes the blood of poor people whom you have murdered, people who (were innocent/had not done things that are wrong),
35 E ainda dizes: Devéras que estou innocente, pois já a sua ira se desviou de mim: eis que entrarei em juizo comtigo, porquanto dizes: Não pequei.
you say ‘We have not done anything that is wrong; so surely [Yahweh] is not angry with us.’ But I will punish [MTY] you [severely] for saying ‘We have not sinned.’
36 Porque te desvias tanto, mudando o teu caminho? tambem do Egypto serás envergonhada, como foste envergonhada da Assyria.
Previously you requested [the army of] Assyria to help you, but they were not able to help you. Now you have requested [the army of] Egypt to help you, but they will not be able to help you, either.
37 Tambem d'aquelle sairás com as mãos sobre a tua cabeça; porque o Senhor rejeitou as tuas confianças, e não prosperarás com ellas
They will capture you, and you will be [their prisoners] [MTY], led to Egypt, [very ashamed] with your hands on your heads. That will happen because I, Yahweh, have rejected those [nations] that you are relying on, and they will not be able to help you at all.”
