Naum 2
1 O despedaçador está subindo contra ti; guarda a fortaleza, olha para o caminho, prepara os lombos, junta o poder de tuas forças.
A crusher has come up before your face: keep a good look-out, let the way be watched, make yourself strong, let your power be greatly increased.
2 Porque o SENHOR restituirá a glória de Jacó, como a glória de Israel, ainda que saqueadores tenham os saqueado, e destruído os seus ramos de videira.
For the Lord will make good the vine of Jacob, as well as the vine of Israel: for the wasters have made them waste and sent destruction on the branches of their vine.
3 Os escudos de seus guerreiros são vermelhos, os homens valentes andam vestidos de escarlate; as carruagens brilham no dia em que são preparadas, as lanças se sacodem.
The body-covers of his fighting men have been made red, the men of war are clothed in bright red: the war-carriages are like flames of fire in the day when he gets ready, the horses are shaking.
4 As carruagens se movem furiosamente pelas ruas, percorrem as vias; sua aparência é como tochas, correm como relâmpagos.
The war-carriages are rushing through the streets, pushing against one another in the wide ways, looking like burning lights, running like thunder-flames.
5 Seus nobres são convocados, porém tropeçam enquanto marcham; eles se apressam ao seu muro, e a proteção é preparada.
He takes the record of his great men: they go falling on their way; they go quickly to the wall, the cover is made ready.
6 As comportas dos rios são abertas, e o palácio é arruinado.
The river doorways are forced open, and the king's house is flowing away.
7 Está decretado: ela será levada cativa, e suas criadas a acompanharão com voz de pombas, batendo seus peitos.
And the queen is uncovered, she is taken away and her servant-girls are weeping like the sound of doves, hammering on their breasts.
8 Nínive é como um antigo tanque, cujas águas estão fugindo. [Dizem]: Parai, parai; porém ninguém sequer olha para trás.
But Nineveh is like a pool of water whose waters are flowing away; Keep your place, they say; but no one is turning back.
9 Saqueai prata, saqueai ouro; não há fim das riquezas e do luxo, de todo tipo de objetos valiosos.
Take silver, take gold; for there is no end to the store; take for yourselves a weight of things to be desired.
10 Ela está esvaziada, devastada e arruinada; os corações desmaiam, os joelhos tremem, os lombos doem, e os rostos deles todos ficam abatidos.
Everything has been taken from her, all is gone, she has nothing more: the heart is turned to water, the knees are shaking, all are twisted in pain, and colour has gone from all faces.
11 Onde está a morada dos leões, e o lugar onde os leões jovens se alimentavam, onde o leão, a leoa, e os filhotes de leão passeavam, e não havia quem os espantasse?
Where is the lions' hole, the place where the young lions got their food, where the lion and the she-lion were walking with their young, without cause for fear?
12 O leão caçava o suficiente para seus filhotes, e estrangulava para as suas leoas, e enchia suas cavernas de presa, e suas moradas de coisas capturadas.
Food enough for his young and for his she-lions was pulled down by the lion; his hole was full of flesh and his resting-place stored with meat.
13 Eis que eu sou contra ti, diz o SENHOR dos exércitos. Queimarei as tuas carruagens em fumaça, e espada consumirá teus jovens leões; exterminarei a tua presa da terra, e nunca mais a voz de teus mensageiros será ouvida.
See, I am against you, says the Lord of armies, and I will have your war-carriages burned in the smoke, and your young lions will be food for the sword: you will no longer get your food by force on the earth, and the voice of your she-lions will be stopped for ever.
