1 Samuel 2

1 Então orou Ana, e disse: O meu coração exulta ao Senhor, o meu poder está exaltado no Senhor: a minha boca se dilatou sobre os meus inimigos, porquanto me alegro na tua salvação.

Then Hannah prayed, saying, “I rejoice in [what] you, [, have done]. I am strong [MET] because I belong to you. I (laugh at/ridicule) my enemies, because you, Yahweh have rescued me [from being taunted by them].

2 Não há Santo como é o Senhor; porque não há outro fora de ti: e rocha nenhuma há como o nosso Deus.

There is no one who is holy like you, Yahweh. There is no other god like you. There is no one like you, our God, who can protect us [as though you were putting us beneath] a huge rock [where we can hide from danger].

3 Não multipliqueis palavras de altíssimas altivezas, nem saiam coisas arduas da vossa boca: porque o Senhor é o Deus de conhecimento, e por ele são as obras pesadas na balança.

[You people who oppose God], stop boasting! Yahweh is a God who knows [everything], and he will evaluate/judge everyone’s actions. So don’t speak so arrogantly!

4 O arco dos fortes foi quebrado, e os que tropeçavam foram cingidos de força.

Yahweh, you break the bows/weapons of mighty soldiers, and you give strength to those who stumble [because of being weak].

5 Os fartos se alugaram por pão, e cessaram os famintos: até a estéril pariu sete filhos, e a que tinha muitos filhos enfraqueceu.

Many people who previously had plenty to eat, now have to work for other people [to earn money] to buy food, but many who were always hungry are not hungry any more. The woman who did not have any children before, now has given birth to many/seven children, and the woman who had many children before, now is very lonely [because they have all died].

6 O Senhor é o que tira a vida e a dá: faz descer à sepultura e faz tornar a subir dela. (Sheol h7585)

Yahweh, you cause some people to die, and you restore some people who are almost dead. For some people, [it seems that they will soon] go to where the dead people are, but you cause them to become healthy again. (Sheol h7585)

7 O Senhor empobrece e enriquece: abaixa e também exalta.

Yahweh, you cause some people to be poor and you cause some people to be rich, you humble some people and you honor some people.

8 Levanta o pobre do pó, e desde o esterco exalta o necessitado, para o fazer assentar entre os príncipes, para os fazer herdar o trono de glória: porque do Senhor são os alicerces da terra, e assentou sobre eles o mundo.

[Sometimes] you lift poor people up so that they are no longer [despondent, sitting in the dust, ] or sitting on heaps of ashes; you cause them to sit next to princes; you cause them to sit on chairs/thrones where people who are highly honored sit. Yahweh, you are the one who laid the foundations of the earth, and you have set the whole world on those foundations.

9 Os pés dos seus santos guardará, porém os ímpios ficarão mudos nas trevas: porque o homem não prevalecerá pela força

You will protect your loyal/faithful people [SYN], but you will cause the wicked to die [EUP] and descend to the dark [place where dead people are]. We do not defeat [our enemies] by our own strength;

10 Os que contendem com o Senhor serão quebrantados, desde os céus trovejará sobre eles: o Senhor julgará as extremidades da terra: e dará força ao seu rei, e exaltará o poder do seu ungido

Yahweh, you will break into pieces those who oppose you. You will cause thunder in the sky to show that you (oppose/are angry with) them. Yahweh, you will judge [people everywhere, even those who live in] the most remote places on the earth. You will give strength to the king whom you will appoint, and give him great power [over his enemies].”

11 Então Elcana foi-se a Rama, à sua casa: porém o menino ficou servindo ao Senhor, perante o sacerdote Eli.

Then Elkanah [and his family] returned to Ramah, but Samuel, the little boy, stayed to help Eli the priest serve Yahweh.

12 Eram porém os filhos de Eli filhos de Belial, não conheciam ao Senhor.

Eli’s two [, who were also priests, ] were very wicked. They did not revere (OR, respect/obey) Yahweh.

13 Porquanto o costume daqueles sacerdotes com o povo era que, oferecendo alguém algum sacrifício, vinha o moço do sacerdote, estando-se cozendo a carne, com um garfo de três dentes em sua mão;

While the people were boiling the meat from their sacrifices [in the huge pot at the temple], one of Eli’s sons, [would send his servant to come with a large three-pronged fork in his hand].

14 E dava com ele na caldeira, ou na panela, ou no caldeirão, ou na marmita; e tudo quanto o garfo tirava, o sacerdote tomava para si: assim faziam a todo o Israel que ia ali a Silo.

[He] would stick the fork into [the meat in] the pot, and whatever meat fastened onto the fork, he would take [and give it] to the priest who sent him. Eli’s sons did this to all the Israeli people who came to Shiloh [to offer sacrifices].

15 Também antes de queimarem a gordura vinha o moço do sacerdote, e dizia ao homem que sacrificava: Dá essa carne para assar ao sacerdote: porque não tomará de ti carne cozida, senão crua

Furthermore, before the fat [on the meat] was [cut off and] and burned [as a sacrifice to Yahweh], the servant of the priest would [sometimes] come to the man who was making the sacrifice and say to him, “Give me some meat [now to take] to the priest for him to roast! He wants raw meat; he does not want boiled meat.”

16 E, dizendo-lhe o homem: Queimem primeiro a gordura de hoje, e depois toma para ti quanto desejar a tua alma, então ele lhe dizia: Não, agora a as de dar, e, se não, por força a tomarei.

If the man said to the servant, “Let the priests [cut off and] burn the fat first; then you can take what you want,” the servant would reply, “No, give it to me now; if you do not give it to me, I will take it forcefully!”

17 Era pois muito grande o pecado destes mancebos perante o Senhor, porquanto os homens desprezavam a oferta do Senhor.

Yahweh considered that the young [sons of Eli] were committing a very great sin, because they were treating very disrespectfully the offerings that were being given to Yahweh.

18 Porém Samuel ministrava perante o Senhor, sendo ainda mancebo, vestido com um éfode de linho.

As for Samuel, who was still a very young boy, he continued to do work for Yahweh, wearing a little sacred linen vest [like the Supreme Priest wore].

19 E sua mãe lhe fazia uma túnica pequena, e de ano em ano lha trazia, quando com seu marido subia a sacrificar o sacrifício anual.

Each year his mother made a [new] little robe for him and took it to him when she went up [to Shiloh] with her husband to offer a sacrifice.

20 E Eli abençoava a Elcana e a sua mulher, e dizia: O Senhor te dê semente desta mulher, pela petição que fez ao Senhor. E voltaram para o seu lugar.

Then Eli would [ask God to] bless Elkanah and his wife, and he would say to Elkanah, “I hope/desire that Yahweh will enable your wife to give birth to other children, to take the place of the one whom she dedicated to Yahweh.” Then Elkanah and his family would return home.

21 Visitou pois o Senhor a Ana, e concebeu, e pariu três filhos e duas filhas: e o mancebo Samuel crescia diante do Senhor.

And Yahweh was very kind to Hannah, and enabled her to give birth to three [other] sons and two daughters. Their son Samuel grew up while he was doing work for Yahweh [in the Sacred Tent].

22 Era porém Eli já muito velho, e ouvia tudo quanto seus filhos faziam a todo o Israel, e de como se deitavam com as mulheres que em bandos se ajuntavam à porta da tenda da congregação.

Eli became very old. He often heard about all the [evil] things that his sons were doing to the Israeli people. He heard that they [sometimes] (slept with/had sex with) the women who worked at the entrance to the tent where [God] spoke to [his people].

23 E disse-lhes: Porque fazeis tais coisas? porque ouço de todo este povo os vossos malefícios.

He said to them, “(It is terrible that you do such things!/Why do you do such things?) [RHQ] Many people keep telling me about the evil things that you do.

24 Não, filhos meus, porque não é boa fama esta que ouço: fazeis transgredir o povo do Senhor.

My sons, stop it! The reports [about you] that the people who belong to Yahweh tell others are terrible [EUP]!

25 Pecando homem contra homem, os juízes o julgarão; pecando porém o homem contra o Senhor, quem rogará por ele? Mas não ouviram a voz de seu pai, porque o Senhor os queria matar.

If one person sins against another person, God can (intercede/act as a referee) between them. But if someone sins against Yahweh, no one can [RHQ] (intercede/act as a referee) between them!” But Eli’s sons would not listen to what their father said. This was because Yahweh had decided [that someone should] them.

26 E o mancebo Samuel ia crescendo, e fazia-se agradável, assim para com o Senhor como também para com os homens.

The boy Samuel continued to grow up, and the things that he did pleased Yahweh and the people.

27 E veio um homem de Deus a Eli, e disse-lhe: Assim diz o Senhor. Não me manifestei, na verdade, à casa de teu pai, estando eles ainda no Egito, na casa de faraó?

One day, a prophet came to Eli and told him, “This is what Yahweh has told me: ‘When your ancestors were slaves of the king of Egypt, I appeared to Aaron.

28 E mo escolhi dentre todas as tribos de Israel por sacerdote, para oferecer sobre o meu altar, para acender o incenso, e para trazer o éfode perante mim, e dei à casa de teu pai todas as ofertas queimadas dos filhos de Israel.

From all the tribes of the Israeli people, I chose him [and his male descendants] to be priests for me. I appointed them to go up to my altar, to burn incense, to wear a sacred apron [as they worked] for me. And I declared that they could take [and eat some of the meat] that the Israeli people burned [on the altar].

29 Porque dais coices contra o sacrifício e contra a minha oferta de manjares, que ordenei na minha morada, e honras a teus filhos mais do que a mim, para vos engordardes do principal de todas as ofertas do meu povo de Israel?

So why do you show disrespect for the sacrifices and offerings that I commanded [the people to bring] to me [RHQ]? You are honoring your sons more than you are honoring me, by allowing them to get fat from eating the best parts of all the sacrifices that the Israeli people bring to me!’

30 Portanto, diz o Senhor Deus de Israel: Na verdade tinha dito eu que a tua casa e a casa de teu pai andariam diante de mim perpetuamente; porém agora diz o Senhor: Longe de mim tal coisa, porque aos que me honram honrarei, porém os que me desprezam serão envilecidos.

“Therefore, this is what Yahweh, the God whom we Israelis [worship], declares: ‘I definitely promised that Aaron and his descendants would continue to serve [IDM] me forever.’ But now I declare this: ‘It will not continue like that! I will honor those who honor me, but I will despise those who despise me.

31 Eis que veem dias em que cortarei o teu braço e o braço da casa de teu pai, para que não haja mais velho algum em tua casa.

Listen carefully! There will soon be a time when I will cause all the strong [young men] in your family to die. The result will be that no men in your family will [live long enough to] become old men.

32 E verás o aperto da morada de Deus, em lugar de todo o bem que houvera de fazer a Israel: nem haverá por todos os dias velho algum em tua casa.

You will be distressed and envious as you see the blessings that I will give to [the other people in] Israel. And [I repeat that] no men in your family will ever live long enough to become old men.

33 O homem porém que eu te não desarraigar do meu altar seria para vos consumir os olhos e para te entristecer a alma: e toda a multidão da tua casa morrerá quando chegar à idade varonil.

There is one of your descendants whom I will spare, and not prevent him from serving me as a priest. But he will become blind, and then he will always be sad and grieving. But all your other descendants will die violently.

34 E isto te será por sinal, a saber: o que sobrevirá a teus dois filhos, a Hophni e a Phineas, que ambos morrerão no mesmo dia.

And your two sons, Hophni and Phinehas, will both die on the same day. And that will prove to you [that all that I have said will come true/happen].

35 E eu suscitarei para mim um sacerdote fiel, que obrará segundo o meu coração e a minha alma, e eu lhe edificarei uma casa firme, e andará sempre diante do meu ungido.

‘have chosen another man to be my priest. He is one who will serve me faithfully: He will do everything I want [DOU] him to do. And I will enable him to have many descendants [IDM] who will be priests and will always serve me by helping the king whom I will choose.

36 E será que todo aquele que ficar de resto da tua casa virá a inclinar-se diante dele por uma moeda de prata e por um bocado de pão, e dirá: Rogo-te que me admitas a algum ministério sacerdotal, para que possa comer um pedaço de pão.

All of your descendants who remain alive will have to go to that priest and ask him to give them money and food, and they will each have to say, “Please allow me to help the other priests, in order that I may [earn some money to] buy some food.”’”