Jeremias 5
1 Dai voltas às ruas de Jerusalém, e vede agora; e informai-vos, e buscai pelas suas praças, a ver se achais alguém, ou se há algum que faça juízo ou busque a verdade; e eu lhe perdoarei a ela.
[Yahweh said to the people of Jerusalem], “Go up and down every street. Search in the marketplaces to find people who do what is fair/right, who try to be faithful to me. [If you find even one person like that], I will forgive [the people of Jerusalem and not destroy] their city.
2 E ainda que digam: Vive o Senhor, contudo falsamente juram.
But when people there say, ‘I solemnly declare that as surely as Yahweh lives, [I will do what he says],’ they are lying.”
3 Ah Senhor, porventura os teus olhos não atentam para a verdade? feriste-os, e não lhes doeu: consumiste-os, e não quizeram receber castigo: endureceram as suas faces mais do que uma rocha; não quizeram voltar.
Yahweh, you are certainly [RHQ] searching for [people who tell the] truth. You struck/punished your people, but they did not pay any attention. You crushed them, but they ignored what you were telling them to do. They were extremely stubborn [IDM] and refused to return to you.
4 Eu, porém, disse: deveras pobres são estes: estão enlouquecidos; pois não sabem o caminho do Senhor, o juízo do seu Deus
I thought, “[We cannot expect] these [people to act righteously, because they] are poor; they do not have any sense. They do not know the way Yahweh wants them to conduct their lives; they do not know what God requires them to do.
5 Irei aos grandes, e falarei com eles; porque eles sabem o caminho do Senhor, o juízo do seu Deus; porém estes juntamente quebrantaram o jugo, e romperam as ataduras.
So, I will go and talk to their leaders, because they [surely] know how God wants them to conduct their lives.” But they also have stopped obeying Yahweh [MET], and they will not allow him to lead them.
6 Por isso um leão do bosque os feriu, um lobo dos desertos os assolará; um leopardo vigia contra as suas cidades: qualquer que sair delas será despedaçado; porque as suas transgressões se multiplicaram, multiplicaram-se as suas apostasias.
Because of that, lions will come out of the forests and kill them; wolves from the desert will attack them; leopards that lurk/wait outside their cities will maul anyone who walks outside the cities. [Those things will happen] because the people have sinned very much against God and have turned away from him very frequently.
7 Como, vendo isto, te perdoaria? teus filhos me deixam a mim e juram pelos que não são deuses: quando os fartei, então adulteraram, e em casa de meretriz se ajuntaram em tropas.
Yahweh says, “I cannot [RHQ] forgive these people; [even] their children have abandoned me. When they solemnly declare something, they ask their gods [to show that what they say is true]. I gave my people everything that they needed, but they often went to [the shrines of their idols] and committed adultery there.
8 Como cavalos bem fartos, levantam-se pela manhã, rinchando cada um à mulher do seu companheiro.
[Just like] [MET] well-fed male horses neigh, wanting sex with female horses, each of the men desires to have sex with his neighbor’s wife.
9 Porventura não faria visitação por estas coisas, diz o Senhor, ou não se vingaria a minha alma de uma nação como esta?
(Should I not punish them for this [RHQ]?/I will certainly get revenge on this nation for this!) I will certainly get revenge [RHQ] on this nation whose people behave like that!
10 Subi aos seus muros, e destruí-os (porém não façais uma destruição final); tirai as suas ameias; porque não são do Senhor
[I will say to your enemies], ‘The people [of Judah and Israel are like a vineyard]. Go along the rows in their vineyards and get rid of [most of] the people, but do not kill all of them. These people do not belong to me, [so get rid of them], [like a gardener] [MET] lops/cuts off branches from a vine.
11 Porque aleivosissimamente se houveram contra mim a casa de Israel e a casa de Judá, diz o Senhor.
The people of Israel and Judah have turned away from me completely.’
12 Negam ao Senhor, e dizem: Não é ele: e; Nem nos sobrevirá mal, nem veremos espada nem fome.
They have lied about me and said, ‘He will not punish us! He will not cause us to experience disasters! We will not experience wars or famines!
13 E até os profetas pararão em vento, porque a palavra não está com eles: assim lhes sucederá a eles mesmos.
What [God’s] prophets say is nothing but hot air! They do not have messages [from God]! We would like [the disasters that they predict] to happen to them!’”
14 Portanto assim diz o Senhor, o Deus dos exércitos: Porquanto falaste tal palavra, eis que converterei as minhas palavras na tua boca em fogo, e a este povo em lenha, e os consumirá.
So, this is what Yahweh, the Commander of the armies of angels in heaven, has said to me: “Because my people are saying those things, I will give you a message to tell them [MTY] that will be [like] [MET] a fire, and [these people will be like] [MET] wood that the fire will burn up.
15 Eis que trarei sobre vós uma nação de longe, ó casa de Israel, diz o Senhor: é uma nação robusta, é uma nação antiquíssima, uma nação cuja língua ignorarás, e não entenderás o que ela falar.
Listen to this, you people of Israel: I will bring [the army of] a distant nation to attack you. It is a very powerful nation that has existed for a long time. They speak a language that you do not know and which you will not be able to understand.
16 A sua aljava é como uma sepultura aberta: todos eles são valentes.
Their soldiers are all very strong, and the arrows from their quivers [MET] will (send many Israeli men to their graves/cause many Israeli people to die).
17 E comerão a tua sega e o teu pão, que haviam de comer teus filhos e tuas filhas; comerão as tuas ovelhas e as tuas vacas; comerão a tua vide e a tua figueira: as tuas cidades fortes, em que confiavas, empobrecerão à espada.
They will eat the food that you have harvested from your fields, and eat your bread. They will kill your sons and daughters, and they will kill your flocks [of sheep] and herds [of cattle]. They will eat your grapes and your figs. They will [also] destroy your cities that have high walls around them and kill the people with their swords.
18 Contudo, ainda naqueles dias, diz o Senhor, não farei de vós uma destruição final.
But even when those things happen, I will not get rid of all of you.
19 E sucederá que, quando disserdes: Porque nos fez o Senhor nosso Deus todas estas coisas? então lhes dirás: Como vós me deixastes, e servistes a deuses estranhos na vossa terra, assim servireis a estrangeiros, em terra que não é vossa
And when the survivors ask, ‘Why is Yahweh our God doing this to us?’ you will tell them, ‘You rejected him and worshiped foreign gods in your [own] land, so [now] you will become slaves of foreigners in a land that is not your land.’”
20 Anunciai isto na casa de Jacob, e fazei-o ouvir em Judá, dizendo:
[Yahweh said to me], “Proclaim this to the people of Israel and Judah:
21 Ouvi agora isto, ó povo louco, e sem coração, que tendes olhos e não vêdes, que tendes ouvidos e não ouvis
Listen to this, you people who are foolish and who do not have any sense: You have eyes, but [it is as though] you cannot see; you have ears, but [it is as though] you cannot hear.
22 Porventura me não temereis a mim? diz o Senhor; não temereis diante de mim, que pus a areia por limite ao mar, por ordenança eterna, a qual não traspassará? ainda que se levantem as suas ondas, contudo não prevalecerão; ainda que bramam, contudo não a traspassarão.
Why do you not revere me [RHQ]? You should [RHQ] tremble when you are in my presence! I, Yahweh, am the one who put a barrier along the shores so that the waters of the ocean cannot cross it [and flood the land]. The waves roll and roar, but they cannot go past that barrier.
23 Porém este povo é de coração rebelde e pertinaz: já se rebelaram e se retiram.
But you people [are not like the waves that obey me]. You people are very stubborn and rebellious. You have constantly turned away from me.
24 E não dizem no seu coração: Temamos agora ao Senhor nosso Deus, que dá chuva, a temporã e a tardia, ao seu tempo; e as semanas determinadas da sega nos conserva.
You do not say to yourselves, ‘We should revere Yahweh our God, the one who sends us rain at the times when we need it, the one who causes the grain to become ripe at the harvest season.’
25 As vossas iniquidades desviam estas coisas, e os vossos pecados apartam de vós o bem.
It is because of the wrong things that you have done, that those good things have not happened; it is because of the sins that you have committed that you have been prevented from receiving those blessings.
26 Porque ímpios se acham entre o meu povo: cada um anda espiando, como se acaçapam os passarinheiros; armam laços perniciosos, com que prendem os homens.
Among my people are wicked people who hide along the roads to ambush/attack people like [SIM] men who hunt birds (put out nets/set traps) to catch them.
27 Como a gaiola está cheia de pássaros, assim estão cheias as suas casas de engano; por isso se engrandeceram, e enriqueceram.
Like [a hunter has] a cage full of birds [that he has captured], their homes are full of things that they have gotten by deceiving others. So now they are [very] rich and powerful.
28 Engordam-se, alisam-se, e sobrepujam até os feitos dos malignos; não julgam a causa do órfão; todavia prosperam: nem julgam o direito dos necessitados.
They are big and fat, and there is no limit to the evil things that they have done. They do not try to defend orphans in the courtrooms, and they do not help poor people to get what they have a right to receive.
29 Porventura sobre estas coisas não faria visitação? diz o Senhor; não se vingaria a minha alma de uma nação como esta?
So I will certainly [RHQ] punish them for doing those things. I will certainly [RHQ] (get revenge on their nation/do to their nation what they deserve).
30 Coisa espantosa e horrenda se anda fazendo na terra.
Very appalling/horrible and terrible [DOU] things are happening in this country:
31 Os profetas profetizam falsamente, e os sacerdotes dominam pelas mãos deles, e o meu povo assim o deseja: mas que fareis ao fim disto?
Prophets speak [only] lies and priests rule by their own authority, and you people like that! But when you [start to] experience disasters, what will you do [RHQ]?”
