Naum 3
1 Ai da cidade ensanguentada, que está toda cheia de mentiras e de rapina! não se aparta dela o roubo.
Terrible things will happen to [Nineveh], that city [that is full of people who] murder [MTY] and lie. [The city is] full of things that were seized [from other countries by their soldiers]; [their armies] continually [LIT] have acted brutally towards people whom they conquered.
2 Estrépito de açoite há, e o estrondo do ruído das rodas; e os cavalos atropelam, e carros vão saltando.
But [now listen to the enemy soldiers coming to attack Nineveh]; [listen to them] cracking their whips, and [listen to the] rattle of [their chariot] wheels! [Listen to] their galloping horses and their chariots as they bounce along!
3 O cavaleiro levanta assim a espada flammejante, como a lança relampagueante, e ali haverá uma multidão de mortos, e abundância de cadáveres, e não terão fim os defuntos; tropeçarão nos seus corpos
[Look at their] flashing swords and glittering spears as the horsemen race forward! Many [people of Nineveh will be] killed; [there will be] piles of corpses, [with the result that] people will stumble over them.
4 Por causa da multidão das fornicações da meretriz mui graciosa, da mestra das feitiçarias, que vendeu os povos com as suas fornicações, e as gerações com as suas feitiçarias.
All [that will happen] because [Nineveh is like] [MET] a beautiful prostitute [who lures men to where they will be ruined]; [Nineveh is a beautiful city] which has attracted/enticed [people of] other nations [to come there]. [The people of Nineveh] taught those people [of other nations rituals of] magic, and caused them to become their slaves.
5 Eis que eu estou contra ti, diz o Senhor dos exércitos, e descobrirei as tuas fraldas sobre a tua face, e às nações mostrarei a tua nudez, e aos reinos a tua vergonha.
[So] the Commander of the armies of angels says to [the people of Nineveh]: “I am your enemy, and I will [cause the people in other] nations to see you [completely] humiliated like [MET] [women who have committed adultery are humiliated by] having their skirts lifted high, [with the result that] people can see their naked [bodies].
6 E lançarei sobre ti coisas abomináveis, e te envergonharei, e pôr-te-ei como espetáculo.
I will cause rubbish/garbage to be thrown at you; I will show [others] that I despise you very much, and I will cause you to be publicly ridiculed.
7 E há de ser que, todos os que te virem, fugirão de ti, e dirão: Nínive está destruída, quem terá compaixão dela? de onde te buscarei consoladores?
All those who see you will turn their backs to you and say, ‘Nineveh is ruined, but absolutely no one [RHQ] will mourn for it.’ No one will regret Nineveh being destroyed!”
8 És tu melhor do que Nóammon, que está assentada nos rios, cercada de águas, que tinha por esplanada o mar, cuja muralha é do mar
Your city is certainly [RHQ] no safer than Thebes [city] was. [Thebes was an important city] beside the Nile [River]; the river was [like] [SIM] a wall that protected the city [DOU].
9 Ethiopia e Egito eram a sua força, e não havia fim: Put e Lybia te foram de socorro.
[The rulers of] Ethiopia and Egypt helped Thebes; there was no limit to their power. [The governments of the nearby countries of] Put and Libya were also allies of Thebes.
10 Todavia foi levada cativa para o desterro: também os seus filhos são despedaçados no topo de todas as ruas, e sobre os seus honrados lançaram sortes, e todos os seus grandes foram presos com grilhões.
But Thebes was captured, and [its people were] (exiled/forced to go to other countries). Their babies were dashed to pieces in the streets [of the city]. [Enemy soldiers] (cast lots/threw small marked stones) to decide who would get each official in Thebes [to become his slave]. All the leaders of Thebes were fastened/tied by chains.
11 Tu também serás embriagada, e te esconderás; também buscarás força por causa do inimigo.
You [people of Nineveh] will similarly become dazed and drunk, and you will search for places to hide [to escape] from your enemies.
12 Todas as tuas fortalezas serão como figueiras com figos temporãos; se se sacodem, caem na boca do que os há de comer.
[Your enemies will cause] the walls around your city to fall down like [SIM] the first figs that fall from fig trees [each year]. [Your city will be captured easily, like] [MET] [figs that fall] into the mouths [HYP] of those who shake the fig trees.
13 Eis que o teu povo no meio de ti será como de mulheres: as portas da tua terra estarão de todo abertas aos teus inimigos: o fogo consumirá os teus ferrolhos.
Look at your soldiers! They will be [as weak/helpless as] [MET] women! The gates of your city will be opened wide [to allow] your enemies [to enter them], [and then] the bars of those gates will be burned.
14 Tira águas para o cerco, fortifica as tuas fortalezas, entra no lodo, e pisa o barro, repara o forno dos ladrilhos.
Store up water [now to use when] your enemies surround the city! Repair the forts! Dig up clay and trample it [to make it soft], and put it into molds to make bricks [to repair the walls]!
15 O fogo ali te consumirá, a espada te exterminará, te consumirá, como a locusta; multiplica-te como a locusta, multiplica-te como os gafanhotos.
[Nevertheless, your enemies] will burn your [city]; they will kill you with their swords; they will kill you like [SIM] locusts [destroy crops].
16 Multiplicaste os teus negociantes mais do que as estrelas do céu, a locusta se espalhará e voará.
In your [city] there are now very many merchants; [it seems that] there are more of them than there are stars. But [when your city is being destroyed, those merchants will take the valuable things and disappear] [like] [SIM] locusts that strip the leaves from plants and [then] fly away.
17 Os teus coroados são como os gafanhotos, e os teus chefes como os gafanhotos grandes, que se acampam nas sebes nos dias de frio; em subindo o sol voam, de sorte que não se conhece mais o lugar onde estiveram.
Your leaders are [also] like a swarm of [SIM] locusts [DOU] that crowd together on the stone fences/walls on a cold day, and [then] fly away when the sun comes up, and no one knows where they have gone.
18 Os teus pastores dormitarão, ó rei da Assyria, os teus ilustres deitar-se-ão, o teu povo se derramará pelos montes; sem que haja quem o ajunte.
O King of Assyria, your officials will [all] be dead [EUP]; your important people will lie down and rest [forever]. Your people will be scattered over the mountains, and there will no one to gather them [together].
19 Não há cura para a tua quebradura, a tua ferida é dolorosa: todos os que ouvirem a tua fama baterão as palmas sobre ti; porque, sobre quem não passou continuamente a tua malícia?
You [are like someone who] has a wound that cannot be healed; [it will be] a wound that causes him to die. And all those who hear about what has happened to you will clap their hands [joyfully]. [They will say, ] “Everyone has [RHQ] suffered because he continually was [very] cruel to us.”
