Jeremias 2
1 E veio a mim palavra do SENHOR, dizendo:
Yahweh gave me another message
2 Vai, e clama aos ouvidos de Jerusalém, dizendo: Assim diz o SENHOR: Lembro-me de ti, da [tua] bondade que tinhas em tua juventude, do amor do teu noivado, quando andavas após mim no deserto, em terra não semeada.
[to proclaim to everyone in Jerusalem. He said that I should tell them this] [MET]: “I, Yahweh, remember that you very much wanted to please me [long ago]. [You tried to please me like] a bride [tries to please her husband]; You loved me, and you followed me through the desert [DOU].
3 Israel era santidade ao SENHOR, era os primeiros de sua colheita. Todos os que o prejudicavam cometiam pecado [e] o mal vinha sobre eles, diz o SENHOR.
[At that time you] Israelis (were set apart/belonged only) to me; [you belonged to me like] the first part of the harvests belong to me [MET]. I promised to punish all those who harmed you, my people, and truly I did send disasters on them. [That happened because I], Yahweh, said [that it would happen].”
4 Ouvi a palavra do SENHOR, ó casa de Jacó, e todas as famílias da casa de Israel.
So, you [descendants of] [MTY] Jacob, all you people of [MTY] Israel,
5 Assim diz o SENHOR: Que maldade vossos pais acharam em mim, para terem se afastado de mim, [de modo que] seguiram coisas inúteis, e eles [mesmos] se tornarão inúteis?
listen to what Yahweh says: “(What sin did I commit [RHQ] that caused your ancestors to turn far away from me?/Though your ancestors found no fault in me, they turned far away from me.) They worshiped worthless idols, and they themselves became worthless.
6 Eles nem disseram: Onde está o SENHOR, que nos fez subir de terra do Egito, que nos guiou pelo deserto, por uma terra deserta e esburacada, por uma terra seca e de sombra de morte, por uma terra pela qual ninguém passava, nem ali homem algum habitava?
They did not say, ‘Yahweh brought us [safely] out of Egypt, and he led us through a desert where there were a lot of pits; he led us where there was no water and where it was very dangerous, through a land where no one lives, and no one even travels. (So where is Yahweh now?/So he should be helping us now!) [RHQ]’
7 E eu vos trouxe à terra de Carmelo, para que comêsseis seu fruto e seu bem; mas entrastes, e contaminastes minha terra, e fizestes minha propriedade abominável.
And when I brought you into a very fertile land, in order that you could enjoy [all] the fruit and [other] good things that you would harvest, you caused the land that I promised to give to you to be unfit for me and to become disgusting/detestable to me.
8 Os sacerdotes não disseram: Onde está o SENHOR? E os que teriam de usar a lei não me conheceram; e os líderes se rebelaram contra mim, e os profetas profetizaram em [nome de] Baal, e seguiram aquilo que não tem proveito algum
[Your] priests also did not say, ‘(Where is Yahweh now?/Yahweh should be helping us now!)’ [RHQ] Those who teach/explain my laws do not [want to] know me, and [your] leaders have rebelled against me. [Your] prophets gave you messages from [their god] Baal, and they worship worthless idols.”
9 Por isso ainda brigarei em juízo convosco, diz o SENHOR, e disputarei com os filhos de vossos filhos.
“So, I will accuse you in court. [In future years], I will say what your children and your grandchildren have done that is wrong. [That will happen because I], Yahweh, have said [that it will happen].
10 Pois passai às ilhas do Chipre e vede; e enviai [mensageiros] a Quedar, e prestai atenção, e vede se aconteceu alguma coisa semelhante a esta,
If you go [west] to the island of Cyprus, or if you go [east] to Kedar [land, ] and if you ask people in those places, they will tell you that no people [from their countries] have ever done the wicked things that you people have done!
11 Se alguma nação tenha mudado de deuses, ainda que eles não sejam deuses. Mas meu povo trocou sua glória pelo que não tem proveito algum.
The people of no other nation have ever [RHQ] abandoned their gods that they thought were glorious and started to worship gods that are not really gods, but you people have abandoned me, your glorious God, and are worshiping gods that are useless.
12 Espantai-vos, céus, por causa disto, e horrorizai-vos; ficai bastante desolados, diz o SENHOR.
[It is as though everything in] the sky is surprised and dismayed/appalled [about what you have done]; [it is as though] they tremble because they are very horrified.
13 Pois meu povo fez dois males: deixaram a mim, [que sou] fonte de água viva, para cavarem para si cisternas, cisternas rachadas, que não retêm águas.
[You], my people, have done two evil things: You have rejected me, the one who is [like] [MET] a fountain [where you can obtain] fresh water, and you [are worshiping gods that are like] [MET] pits in the ground that are cracked and which are not able to hold any water.
14 Por acaso Israel é um servo? É um escravo de nascimento? Por que, [então], ele se tornou uma presa?
You Israeli people, you were certainly not [RHQ] slaves when you were born; you were captured [by your enemies].
15 Os filhotes de leão bramaram sobre ele, deram sua voz; e tornaram sua terra uma assolação; suas cidades estão queimadas, sem morador;
[Your enemies] [MET] roared [like] lions, and they destroyed your land. [Now] your towns have been burned, and no one lives in them.
16 Até os filhos de Nofe e de Tafnes te quebraram o topo da cabeça.
Soldiers from Memphis and Tahpenes, [cities in Egypt], have [defeated you] [and] shaved your heads [to show that you are their slaves].
17 Não foi tu mesmo que procuraste isto para ti, de abandonar ao SENHOR teu Deus, enquanto andavas pelo caminho?
But it is [RHQ] because you abandoned [me], Yahweh, that these disasters have happened to you.
18 Ora, o que tu tens a ver com o caminho do Egito, para que bebas água do Nilo? E o que tens a ver com o caminho de Assíria, para que bebas água do rio [Eufrates]?
So (why are you trying to make an alliance with [MET] the rulers of Egypt?/it certainly will not help you to make an alliance with the rulers of Egypt) [RHQ]. Why are you trying to make an alliance with [MET] the rulers of Assyria who live near the [Euphrates] River?
19 A tua maldade te castigará e tuas infidelidades te repreenderão; então conhece e vê como é mal e amargo teres abandonado ao SENHOR teu Deus, e não teres tido temor a mim, diz o Senhor DEUS dos exércitos.
[It is because] you have been [very] wicked that I [PRS] will punish you. It is because you have turned away from me that I [PRS] will condemn you. [When I do that], you will realize that painful and evil [DOU] things will happen to you because you have forsaken [me], Yahweh, your God, and you no [longer] revere me. [That will certainly happen because] I, Yahweh, the Commander of the armies of angels in heaven, have said it.
20 Pois muito tempo atrás, eu quebrei teu jugo, e rompi tuas amarras, e tu disseste: Não servirei. Porém sobre todo morro alto e abaixo de toda árvore frondosa tu te deitavas [como] prostituta.
Long ago, you stopped obeying [me] [MET], and you would not allow [me] to lead you [MET]; you refused to worship [me]. Instead, you worship idols that are under trees on the top of every hill, and your young women have sex with [EUP] [men at those places].
21 E eu te plantei de boa vide; ela toda era semente confiável. Como, pois, te tornaste para mim ramos de vide estranha?
[It is as though] [MET] you were a grapevine that I planted when it was a cutting from a very good vine. So now it is disgusting that [RHQ] you have become [like] a rotten worthless vine.
22 Ainda que te laves com potassa, e passes muito sabão sobre ti, teu pecado está marcado diante de mim, diz o Senhor DEUS.
Your guilt from your sins is like [MET] very bad stains on a cloth, and you cannot get rid of those stains even by using very strong soap. [This is true because I], Yahweh, have said it.
23 Como podes dizer: Nunca me contaminei, nunca andei atrás dos baalins? Olha o teu caminho no vale; reconhece o que fizeste, ó dromedária ligeira, que anda errante seus percursos,
You say that you have not sinned. You say ‘We have not become unacceptable to God; we have not worshiped Baal.’ But think about [the disgusting things that you do very eagerly] in [Hinnom] Valley [outside Jerusalem]. You are like desperate female camels, running here and there [to find male camels to have sex with].
24 jumenta selvagem acostumada ao deserto, que aspira o vento por causa do desejo da alma; de seu cio quem a deteria? Todos os que a buscarem não se cansarão; no mês dela a acharão.
You are [like] wild female donkeys in the desert. They sniff the air to find where the male donkeys are, and no one can [RHQ] restrain them. The male donkeys that want them do not become tired searching for them, because at mating time they find them [easily].
25 Impede que teus pés andem descalços, e tua garganta tenha sede. Porém tu disseste: Não há mais esperança; não, porque amo estranhos, e tenho que ir atrás deles.
You constantly run here and there [to find idols to worship], with the result that your sandals are worn out, and your throats have become dry. [I told you to stop doing that], but you said, ‘We cannot stop, because we love foreign gods, and we must worship them.’”
26 Tal como o ladrão se envergonha quando é pego, assim se envergonharão os da casa de Israel; eles, seus reis, seus príncipes, seus sacerdotes, e seus profetas;
[Yahweh says this]: “A robber is disgraced when he is caught. And all of you, including your kings and priests and prophets, are similarly disgraced.
27 Que dizem à madeira: Tu és meu pai; e à pedra: Tu me geraste: pois viraram as costas em minha direção, e não o rosto; porém no tempo de sua angústia dizem: Levanta-te, e livra-nos.
You say to [a piece of] wood [that is carved to become a sacred idol], ‘You are our father!’ And you say to a stone [that you have set up], ‘You are our mother!’ You have rejected [IDM] me, but when you experience troubles, you cry out to me to rescue you.
28 Onde estão os teus deuses que fizeste para ti? Eles que se levantem, se é que eles podem te livrar no tempo de tua aflição; porque, ó Judá, os teus deuses foram tantos quantos o número de tuas cidades.
Why do you not [RHQ] cry out to the gods that you made? You have as many gods as you have cities [and towns] in Judah. So why do you not plead with them to rescue you when you experience disasters?
29 Por que discutis comigo? Todos vós transgredistes contra mim, diz o SENHOR.
You complain that it was wrong for me [not to have rescued you], but you have all rebelled against me.
30 Em vão afligi vossos filhos; eles não aceitaram correção. Vossa [própria] espada matou vossos profetas como um leão destruidor.
I punished some of you, but you did not learn anything from my doing that. You have killed many of the prophets that I [sent to you], like [SIM] fierce lions kill [other animals].
31 Ó geração, considerai vós a palavra do SENHOR. Por acaso eu fui um deserto ou uma terra de escuridão a Israel? Então por que meu povo tem dito: Somos senhores; nunca mais viremos a ti?
You people of Israel, pay attention to what I say. I have certainly [RHQ] never [abandoned you] in a desert; I have never [left you] in a land full of darkness. So, why do you, my people, say ‘We are free from God’s control; we will not return to [worship] God any more’?
32 Por acaso a virgem se esquece de seus enfeites, [ou] a noiva de seus adornos? Porém meu povo se esqueceu de mim há inúmeros dias.
A young woman would certainly never [RHQ] forget [to wear] her jewelry, and a bride would never [RHQ] forget to wear her wedding dress, but you my people have forgotten me for many years.
33 Como enfeitas teu caminho para buscar amor! Pois até às malignas ensinaste teus caminhos.
You know how to easily find [gods from other countries] whom you can love. You can find them as easily as a prostitute [can find men to sleep with].
34 Até nas bordas de tuas roupas se achou o sangue das almas dos pobres inocentes; não o achaste em arrombamento, mas em todas estas coisas.
Although you have on your clothes the blood of poor people whom you have murdered, people who (were innocent/had not done things that are wrong),
35 E dizes: Sou inocente, pois certamente sua ira já se afastou de mim. Eis que eu disputarei em juízo contigo, porque disseste: Não tenho pecado.
you say ‘We have not done anything that is wrong; so surely [Yahweh] is not angry with us.’ But I will punish [MTY] you [severely] for saying ‘We have not sinned.’
36 Por que tu te desvias tanto, mudando teus caminhos? Também serás envergonhada pelo Egito, tal como foste envergonhada pela Assíria.
Previously you requested [the army of] Assyria to help you, but they were not able to help you. Now you have requested [the army of] Egypt to help you, but they will not be able to help you, either.
37 Também sairás daqui com as mãos sobre tua cabeça; porque o SENHOR rejeitou tuas confianças, e nelas não terás sucesso.
They will capture you, and you will be [their prisoners] [MTY], led to Egypt, [very ashamed] with your hands on your heads. That will happen because I, Yahweh, have rejected those [nations] that you are relying on, and they will not be able to help you at all.”
