Miquéias 2
1 Ai d'aquelles que nas suas camas intentam a iniquidade, e obram o mal: á luz da alva o põem em obra, porque está no poder da sua mão!
Terrible things will happen to you who lie awake at night, planning to do wicked things. You get up at dawn, and you do those things, [as soon as] you are able to do them.
2 E cobiçam campos, e os arrebatam, e casas, e as tomam: assim fazem violencia a um homem e á casa, a uma pessoa e á sua herança.
You want fields [that belong to other people], so you seize them; you also take their houses. You cheat people to get their homes, taking away the property that belongs to their families.
3 Portanto, assim diz o Senhor: Eis que intento mal contra esta geração, d'onde não tirareis os vossos pescoços, nem andareis tão altivos, porque o tempo será mau.
Therefore, this is what Yahweh says: “I will cause you people to experience disasters, and you will not be able to escape [MTY] from them. You will no [longer] walk around proudly, because when those things happen, it will be a time of much trouble for you.
4 N'aquelle dia se levantará um proverbio sobre vós, e se pranteará pranto lastimoso, dizendo: Nós estamos inteiramente desolados! a porção do meu povo elle a troca! como me despoja! para nos tirar os nossos campos elle os reparte!
At that time, [your enemies] will make fun of you; they will ridicule you by singing this sad song about you: ‘We are completely ruined; Yahweh is taking our land/fields from us, and he will give it to those who will capture us.’”
5 Portanto, não terás tu na congregação do Senhor quem lance o cordel pela sorte.
So [when it is the time for the land to be given back to you] people who belong to Yahweh, there will be no one [MTY] who will be able to (cast lots/throw marked stones) to determine which land belongs to whom.
6 Não prophetizeis, os que prophetizam, não prophetizem d'este modo, que se não apartará a vergonha.
The people [who heard me say that] replied to me, “Do not prophesy such things! Do not say that [Yahweh] is going to humiliate us [by causing us to experience disasters]!”
7 Ó vós que sois chamados a casa de Jacob, porventura se tem encurtado o Espirito do Senhor? são estas as suas obras? e não é assim que fazem bem as minhas palavras ao que anda rectamente?
But you people [MTY] of Israel should not [RHQ] talk like that! The Spirit of Yahweh will certainly not [RHQ] be patient [with people who say such things]! People who continually do things that are righteous will certainly [RHQ] like/appreciate what I say.
8 Mas assim como fôra hontem, se levantou o meu povo por inimigo: de sobre a vestidura tirastes a capa d'aquelles que passavam seguros, como os que voltavam da guerra.
[But Yahweh says], “[Recently] my people have been acting toward me like an enemy. When soldiers return from fighting [against their enemies], you [rich people refuse to return the coats of those poor soldiers who have borrowed money from you] [and given you their coats to guarantee that they will pay back the money that they borrowed from you]. [It is as though] you are waiting to forcefully take their coats off their backs!
9 Lançaes fóra as mulheres do meu povo, da casa das suas delicias: dos seus meninos tirastes o meu louvor para sempre.
You have forced women to leave their nice homes, and you have stolen from their children forever the (blessings/good things) that I wanted to give them.
10 Levantae-vos, pois, e andae, porque não será esta terra o descanço; porquanto está contaminada, vos corromperá, e isso com grande corrupção.
[So] get up and leave [here]! This is not a place where you can rest [and be safe/protected], because you have (defiled it/caused it to be a place that I hate); it will be completely destroyed.
11 Se houver algum que siga o seu espirito, e está mentindo falsamente, dizendo: Eu te prophetizarei de vinho e de bebida forte; far-se-ha então este tal o propheta d'este povo.
[You people want] a prophet who will lie to you, saying ‘I will preach [that you should drink] plenty of wine and [other] alcoholic drinks!’ That is the [kind of] prophet who [would please] you.”
12 Certamente te ajuntarei todo inteiro, ó Jacob: certamente congregarei o restante de Israel: pôl-o-hei todo junto, como ovelhas de Bozra; como o rebanho no meio do seu curral, farão estrondo pela multidão dos homens.
“[But some day], you descendants of Jacob, you Israeli people who have survived, I will bring you back [from (exile/other countries)], I will gather you together like [SIM] [a shepherd gathers his] sheep from the pasture into a pen [DOU]; there will be many of you in your land/country.
13 Subirá diante d'elles o que romperá o caminho: elles romperão, e entrarão pela porta, e sairão por ella; e o rei irá adiante d'elles, e o Senhor á testa d'elles.
Your leader will enable them to leave the countries where they have been exiled; he will lead them out of the gates [of their enemies’ cities], [back to your own country]. Your king will lead them; [it is I], Yahweh, who will be their king!”
