Jeremias 29
1 E estas são as palavras da carta que Jeremias, o profeta, enviou de Jerusalém, ao resto do cativeiro dos anciãos, como também aos sacerdotes, e aos profetas, e a todo o povo que Nabucodonozor havia transportado de Jerusalém a Babilônia;
After King Jehoiachin, his mother, his palace officials, other officials in Judah, and all the various kinds of craftsmen [DOU] had been exiled to Babylon, I wrote a letter to the elders, the priests, the prophets and all the other people who had been taken from Jerusalem to Babylon by [soldiers of] Nebuchadnezzar.
2 Depois que sairam o rei Jechonias, e a rainha, e os eunucos, e os príncipes de Judá e Jerusalém, e os carpinteiros e ferreiros de Jerusalém,
3 Pela mão de Elasa, filho de Saphan, e de Gemarias, filho de Hilkias, os quais enviou Zedekias, rei de Judá, a Babilônia, a Nabucodonozor, rei de Babilônia, dizendo:
[I gave] the letter to Elasah the son of Shaphan, and to Gemariah the son of Hilkiah, when they were about to go to Babylon to be ambassadors from King Zedekiah to King Nebuchadnezzar. This is what I wrote in the letter:
4 Assim diz o Senhor dos exércitos, o Deus de Israel, a todos os que foram transportados, os quais fiz transportar de Jerusalém para Babilônia:
This is what the Commander of the armies of angels, the God whom [we] Israelis [worship], says to all you people who were captured [here] in Jerusalem and taken [there] to Babylon:
5 Edificai casas e habitai nelas; e plantai jardins, e comei o seu fruto.
“Build houses [there], and plan to stay there [because you will be there for many years]. Plant gardens, and eat the food that is produced in the gardens.
6 Tomai mulheres e gerai filhos e filhas, e tomai mulheres para vossos filhos, e dai vossas filhas a maridos, e parirão filhos e filhas; e multiplicai-vos ali, e não vos diminuais.
Get married and have children. Then [when they grow up], choose wives for your sons, and husbands for your daughters, in order that they [also] may have children. [In that way], the number of you people will increase, not decrease.
7 E procurai a paz da cidade, para onde vos fiz transportar, e orai por ela ao Senhor; porque na sua paz vós tereis paz.
Also, do things that will cause things to go well [for the other people there] in the city where I sent you. Pray that things will go well for [the people in] that city, because if things go well for them, things will go well for you, [also].”
8 Porque assim diz o Senhor dos exércitos, o Deus de Israel: Não vos enganem os vossos profetas que estão no meio de vós, nem os vossos adivinhos, nem deis ouvidos aos vossos sonhos, que vós sonhais:
This is what the Commander of the armies of angels, the God whom [we] Israeli people [worship], says: “There are [false] prophets and fortune-tellers among you. Do not allow them to deceive you. Do not pay attention to [them when they tell you] their dreams,
9 Porque eles vos profetizam falsamente no meu nome: não os enviei, diz o Senhor.
because they are telling you lies, saying that [MTY] [I have given them the messages that they are telling you]. But, I have not appointed them.”
10 Porque assim diz o Senhor: Certamente que em se cumprindo setenta anos em Babilônia, vos visitarei, e continuarei sobre vós a minha boa palavra, tornando-vos a trazer a este lugar.
This is [also] what Yahweh says: “After you [and your children] have been in Babylon for seventy years, I will help you, and do for you the things that I promised, and I will enable you to return here [to Jerusalem].
11 Porque eu bem sei os pensamentos que eu penso de vós, diz o Senhor; pensamentos de paz, e não de mal, para vos dar o fim que esperais.
I, Yahweh, know what I have planned for you. I am planning to cause things to go well for you, not to cause you to experience disasters. I am planning to give you many things that you confidently expect to receive in the future.
12 Então me invocareis, e ireis, e orareis a mim, e eu vos ouvirei.
At that time, when you pray, I will heed you.
13 E buscar-me-eis, e me achareis, quando me buscardes com todo o vosso coração.
If you earnestly desire for me [to bless you], you will experience me [blessing you].
14 E serei achado de vós, diz o Senhor, e farei tornar os vossos cativos, e congregar-vos-ei de todas as nações, e de todos os lugares para onde vos lancei, diz o Senhor, e tornarei a trazer-vos ao lugar de onde vos transportei.
I will make my help available to you [IDM]. I will cause you to no longer be slaves [in Babylon]. I will gather you from all the nations to which I have exiled you, and I will bring you back [here to your own land], to the place from which you were taken.”
15 Porque dizeis: O Senhor nos levantou profetas em Babilônia.
[Some of] you say that Yahweh has appointed prophets for you [there] in Babylon.
16 Porque assim diz o Senhor acerca do rei que se assenta no trono de David; e acerca de todo o povo que habita nesta cidade, a saber, de vossos irmãos, que não sairam convosco para o cativeiro;
But this is what Yahweh says about the king who rules [here] in Jerusalem, and about all the other people who are [still] living here—your relatives who were not taken to Babylon with you.
17 Assim diz o Senhor dos exércitos: Eis que enviarei entre eles a espada, a fome e a peste, e fa-los-ei como a figos podres, que não se podem comer, de maus que são.
The Commander of the armies of angels says this: “I will cause them to experience wars and famines and diseases. I will cause them to become like [SIM] bad figs that are very rotten, with the result that no one can eat them.
18 E persegui-los-ei com a espada, com a fome, e com a peste; dá-los-ei para servirem de comoção a todos os reinos da terra, como também por maldição, e por espanto, e por assobio, e por opróbrio entre toda sas nações para onde os lançar;
I will not stop causing them to experience wars and famines and diseases. And I will scatter them all around the world. In every country where I (force them to be taken/exile them), I will cause them to be people whom [others] curse and be horrified about and make fun of [DOU].
19 Porquanto não deram ouvidos às minhas palavras, diz o Senhor, enviando-lhes eu os meus servos, os profetas, madrugando e enviando; porém vós não escutastes, diz o Senhor.
[That will happen] because they have refused to pay attention to my messages, messages that I gave to the prophets whom I sent to them. And you [who have been exiled to Babylon] have not paid attention to them, [either].” [That is what] Yahweh says.
20 Vós, pois, ouvi a palavra do Senhor, todos os do cativeiro que enviei de Jerusalém a Babilônia.
[Therefore], you people who have been (exiled/forced to go) from Jerusalem to Babylon, listen to this message from Yahweh.
21 Assim diz o Senhor dos exércitos, o Deus de Israel, acerca de Ahab, filho de Colaias, e de Zedekias, filho de Maaseias, que vos profetizam falsamente no meu nome: Eis que os entregarei na mão de Nabucodonozor, rei de Babilônia, e ele os ferirá diante dos vossos olhos.
This is what the Commander of the armies of angels, the God whom [we] Israelis [worship], says about Ahab the son of Kolaiah, and about Zedekiah, the son of Maaseiah, who are telling lies to you, saying that they are giving messages [MTY] from him: “They will be seized and taken to [MTY] King Nebuchadnezzar, who will cause them to be executed while you are watching.
22 E tomarão deles uma maldição todos os transportados de Judá, que estão em Babilônia, dizendo: O Senhor te faça como Zedekias, e como Ahab, os quais o rei de Babilônia assou no fogo
Because of [what will happen to] them, all you people who have been taken from Judah to Babylon will say this when they curse someone: ‘I hope/wish that Yahweh will do to you the same thing that he did to Zedekiah and Ahab, whom the King of Babylon caused to be [killed by being] burned in a fire.’
23 Porquanto fizeram loucura em Israel, e cometeram adultério com as mulheres de seus companheiros, e falaram uma palavra no meu nome falsamente, que não lhes mandei, e eu o sei e sou testemunha disso, diz o Senhor.
They have done terrible things to [my] Israeli people. They have committed adultery with their neighbors’ wives, and they have spoken lies, saying that they were messages [MTY] from me. They have said things that I did not tell them to say, and I, Yahweh, have heard them [say those things].”
24 E a Shemaias, o nehelamita, falarás, dizendo:
[Yahweh told me to] send this message to Shemaiah, a man from Nehelam [town who was living in Babylon]:
25 Assim diz o Senhor dos exércitos, o Deus de Israel, dizendo: Porquanto tu enviaste no teu nome cartas a todo o povo que está em Jerusalém, como também a Sofonias, filho de Maaseias, o sacerdote, e a todos os sacerdotes, dizendo:
This is what the Commander of the armies of angels, the God whom [we] Israelis [worship], says: “You wrote a letter that no one told you to write. You sent it to Zephaniah the priest, the son of Maaseiah, and [you sent copies] to the other priests and all the [other] people here in Jerusalem. [This is what] you wrote to him:
26 O Senhor te pôs por sacerdote em lugar de Joiada, o sacerdote, para que sejais encarregados da casa do Senhor sobre todo o homem furioso, e que profetiza, para o lançares na prisão e no tronco.
[Zephaniah], Yahweh has appointed you to be the priest instead of Jehoiada, to supervise those who work in the temple. Anyone who acts like a crazy man and who claims that he is a prophet, you should put his arms and legs and head into (stocks/a wooden frame [so that he cannot move)].
27 Agora, pois, porque não repreendeste a Jeremias, o anathotita, que profetiza vos?
So why have you not done anything to stop Jeremiah, the man from Anathoth [town], who [pretends that he] is a prophet among you?
28 Porque por isso nos mandou a nós a Babilônia, dizendo: Ainda o cativeiro muito há de durar; edificai casas, e habitai nelas; e plantai jardins, e comei o seu fruto.
He sent a letter to us [who are here] in Babylon, saying that [we will be here for] a long time. He said that [therefore] we should build houses and plan to stay here, and plant gardens, and eat the food that is produced in the gardens.”
29 E lera Sofonias, o sacerdote, esta carta aos ouvidos de Jeremias, o profeta.
[But when] Zephaniah the priest [received] the letter from you, he [brought it to me and] read it to me.
30 E veio a palavra do Senhor a Jeremias, dizendo:
Then Yahweh gave me this message:
31 Manda a todos os do cativeiro, dizendo: Assim diz o Senhor acerca de Semaias, o nehelamita: Porquanto Semaias vos profetizou, e eu não o enviei, e vos fez confiar em mentiras,
“Send this message to all the people [from Judah] who are there [in Babylon]. Say that this is what Yahweh says about Shemaiah, the man from Nehelam: ‘I did not appoint him, but he has deceived you and caused you to believe the lies that he prophesied.
32 Portanto assim diz o Senhor: Eis que visitarei a Semaias, o nehelamita, e a sua semente: ele não terá ninguém que habite entre este povo, e não verá o bem que hei de fazer ao meu povo, diz o Senhor, porquanto falou rebelião contra o Senhor.
So, I will punish him and his family. He has incited you to rebel against me. Because of that, all of his descendants will soon die. I will do [many] good things for [you], my people, but he and his descendants will not see those things, [because they will be dead]. [That will surely happen because I], Yahweh, have said it!’”
