Lamentações de Jeremias 2
1 Como cobriu o Senhor de nuvens na sua ira a filha de Sião? derribou do céu à terra a glória de Israel, e não se lembrou do escabelo de seus pés, no dia da sua ira.
ALEPH. O how the Lord has covered the daughter of Zion with gloom in his fury! O how he has thrown down from heaven to earth the famous one of Israel, and he has not remembered his footstool in the day of his fury.
2 Devorou o Senhor todas as moradas de Jacob, e não se apiedou: derribou no seu furor as fortalezas da filha de Judá, e as achegou à terra: profanou o reino e os seus príncipes.
BETH. The Lord has cast down, and he has not been lenient, with all the beauties of Jacob. In his fury, he has destroyed the fortifications of the virgin of Judah, and he has thrown them down to the ground. He has polluted the kingdom and its leaders.
3 Cortou no furor da sua ira toda a força de Israel: retirou para traz a sua dextra de diante do inimigo; e ardeu contra Jacob, como labareda de fogo que consome em redor.
GHIMEL. In the anger of his fury, he has broken the entire horn of Israel. He has drawn back his right hand before the face of the enemy. And he has kindled within Jacob a flaming fire, devouring all around.
4 Armou o seu arco como inimigo: firmou a sua dextra como adversário, e matou tudo o que era formoso à vista; derramou a sua indignação como fogo na tenda da filha de Sião.
DALETH. He has bent his bow like an enemy. He has fixed his right hand like an adversary. And he has cut down all that was beautiful to behold in the tabernacle of the daughter of Zion. He has poured out his indignation like fire.
5 Tornou-se o Senhor como inimigo; devorou a Israel, devorou a todos os seus palácios, destruiu as suas fortalezas; e multiplicou na filha de Judá a lamentação e tristeza.
HE. The Lord has become like an enemy. He has thrown down Israel. He has thrown down all of his defenses. He has torn apart his fortifications. And he has filled the daughter of Judah with humbled men and humbled women.
6 E arrancou a sua cabana com violência, como a de uma horta, e destruiu a sua congregação: o Senhor em Sião pôs em esquecimento a solenidade e o sábado, e na indignação da sua ira rejeitou com desprezo o rei e o sacerdote.
VAU. And he has torn apart her tent like a garden. He has demolished her tabernacle. In Zion, the Lord has delivered feast and Sabbath into oblivion, and king and priest into disgrace, and into the indignation of his fury.
7 Rejeitou o Senhor o seu altar, detestou o seu santuário; entregou na mão do inimigo os muros dos seus palácios: levantaram grita na casa do Senhor, como em dia de solenidade.
ZAIN. The Lord has pushed away his own altar. He has cursed his own sanctuary. He has delivered the walls of its towers into the hand of the enemy. They have made a noise in the house of the Lord, as if on the day of a solemnity.
8 Intentou o Senhor destruir o muro da filha de Sião: já estendeu o cordel sobre ele, não retirou a sua mão de devorar; já fez gemer o antemuro e o muro juntamente, já estão enfraquecidos.
HETH. The Lord has decided to tear down the wall of the daughter of Zion. He has stretched out his measuring line, and he has not turned away his hand from perdition. And the rampart has mourned, and with the wall it has been torn apart.
9 Já subverteram as suas portas, destruiu e quebrou os seus ferrolhos: estão entre as nações o seu rei e os seus príncipes: já não há lei, nem acham visão alguma do Senhor os seus profetas.
TETH. Her gates have been buried in the ground. He has ruined and crushed its bars. Her king and her princes are with the Gentiles. There is no law, and her prophets have found no vision from the Lord.
10 Estão assentados por terra, estão calados os anciãos da filha de Sião; lançam pó sobre as suas cabeças, cingiram sacos: as virgens de Jerusalém abaixam as suas cabeças até à terra.
JOD. The elders of the daughter of Zion have become idle; they sit on the ground. They have sprinkled their heads with ashes. They have been wrapped with haircloth. The virgins of Jerusalem have cast their heads down to the ground.
11 Já se consumiram os meus olhos com lágrimas, turbadas estão as minhas entranhas, o meu fígado se derramou pela terra por causa do quebrantamento da filha do meu povo; porquanto desfalecem o menino e a criança de mama pelas ruas da cidade.
CAPH. My eyes have exhausted their tears. My internal organs have become disturbed. My liver has been poured out on the earth, over the grief of the daughter of my people, when the little ones and the infants passed away in the streets of the town.
12 A suas mães dizem: Onde há trigo e vinho? quando desfalecem como o ferido pelas ruas da cidade, derramando-se a sua alma no regaço de suas mães.
LAMED. They said to their mothers, “Where is the wheat and the wine?” when they fell like the wounded in the streets of the city, when they breathed out their lives into the bosoms of their mothers.
13 Que testemunho te trarei? a quem te compararei, ó filha de Jerusalém? a quem te assemelharei, para te consolar a ti, ó virgem filha de Sião? porque grande é como o mar a tua quebradura; quem te sarará?
MEM. To what shall I compare you, or to what shall I liken you, O daughter of Jerusalem? To what shall I equate you, so as to console you, O virgin daughter of Zion? For your destruction is as great as the sea. Who will cure you?
14 Os teus profetas virão para ti, vaidade e loucura, e não manifestaram a tua maldade, para desviarem o teu cativeiro: antes viram para ti cargas vãs e expulsões.
NUN. Your prophets have seen false and foolish things for you. And they have not laid open your iniquity, so as to provoke you to repentance. Yet they have seen for you false revelations and banishments.
15 Todos os que passam pelo caminho palmeiam sobre ti com as mãos, assobiam e meneiam as suas cabeças, sobre a filha de Jerusalém, dizendo: É esta a cidade de que se dizia: Perfeita é em formosura, o gozo de toda a terra.
SAMECH. All those who passed by the way have clapped their hands over you. They have hissed and shook their heads over the daughter of Jerusalem, saying, “Is this the city of perfect dignity, the joy of all the earth?”
16 Todos os teus inimigos abrem as suas bocas sobre ti, assobiam, e rangem os dentes; dizem: Já a temos devorado; pois este é o dia que esperávamos; já o achamos, já o vimos.
PHE. All your enemies have opened their mouth over you. They have hissed and gnashed their teeth, and they said: “We will devour her. Yes, this is the day we waited for. We have found it, we have seen it.”
17 Fez o Senhor o que intentou; cumpriu a sua palavra, que mandara desde os dias da antiguidade: derrubou, e não se apiedou; e alegrou o inimigo sobre ti, exaltou o poder dos teus adversários.
AIN. The Lord has done what he decided to do. He has fulfilled his word, which he instructed since the days of antiquity. He has destroyed, and he has not been lenient, and he has caused the enemy to rejoice over you, and he has exalted the horn of your adversaries.
18 O coração deles clamou ao Senhor: Ó muralha da filha de Sião: derrama lágrimas como um ribeiro, de dia e de noite; não te dês descanço, nem parem as meninas de teus olhos.
SADE. Their heart cried out to the Lord from the walls of the daughter of Zion. Let tears run down like a torrent throughout the day and the night. Do not give rest to yourself, and do not allow the pupil of your eye to cease.
19 Levanta-te, dá vozes de noite no princípio das velas; derrama o teu coração como águas diante da face do Senhor: levanta a ele as tuas mãos, pela vida de teus filhinhos, que desfalecem de fome à entrada de todas as ruas
COPH. Rise up. Give praise in the night, in the first of the watches. Pour out your heart like water before the sight of the Lord. Lift up your hands to him on behalf of the souls of your little ones, who have passed away from famine at the head of all the crossroads.
20 Vê, ó Senhor, e considera a quem fizeste de tal modo: porventura comerão as mulheres o fruto das suas entranhas, as crianças que trazem nos braços? ou matar-se-á no santuário do Senhor o sacerdote e o profeta?
RES. O Lord, see and consider those whom you have made into such a vintage. So then, shall women eat their own fruit, little ones measured by the palm of the hand? Shall priest and prophet be killed in the sanctuary of the Lord?
21 Jazem em terra pelas ruas o moço e o velho, as minhas virgens e os meus mancebos vieram a cair à espada: tu os mataste no dia da tua ira; degolaste e não te apiedaste.
SIN. The boy and the old man lie down on the ground outside. My virgins and my youths have fallen by the sword. You have slain them in the day of your fury. You have struck down, and you have not shown pity.
22 Convocaste os meus temores em redor como num dia de solenidade; nem houve alguém no dia da ira do Senhor que escapasse, nem quem ficasse: aos que trouxe nas mãos e sustentei o meu inimigo os consumiu.
THAU. You have called, as if to a day of solemnity, those who would terrify me all around. And there was no one, in the day of the fury of the Lord, who escaped or was left behind. Those whom I educated and nourished, my enemy has consumed.
