Jeremias 27
1 No principio do reinado de Joaquim, filho de Josias, rei de Judah, veiu esta palavra a Jeremias da parte do Senhor, dizendo:
THE WORD OF THE LORD WHICH HE SPOKE AGAINST BABYLON.
2 Assim me disse o Senhor: Faze umas prisões e jugos, e pôl-os-has sobre o teu pescoço.
Proclaim you amongst the Gentiles, and cause the tidings to be heard, and suppress [them] not: say you, Babylon is taken, Belus is confounded; the fearless, the luxurious Maerodach is delivered up.
3 E envia-os ao rei de Edom, e ao rei de Moab, e ao rei dos filhos de Ammon, e ao rei de Tyro, e ao rei de Sidon, pela mão dos mensageiros que veem a Jerusalem a ter com Zedekias, rei de Judah.
For a nation has come up against her from the north, he shall utterly ravage her land, and there shall be none to dwell in it, neither man nor beast.
4 E lhes darás ordens, que digam aos seus senhores: Assim diz o Senhor dos Exercitos, o Deus d'Israel: Assim direis a vossos senhores:
In those days, and at that time, the children of Israel shall come, they and the children of Juda together; they shall proceed, weeping as they go, seeking the Lord their God.
5 Eu fiz a terra, o homem, e os animaes que estão sobre a face da terra, pela minha grande potencia, e com o meu braço estendido, e a dou áquelle que me agrada nos meus olhos.
They shall ask the way till [they come to] Sion, for that way shall they set their face; and they shall come and flee for refuge to the Lord their God; for the everlasting covenant shall not be forgotten.
6 E agora eu já dei todas estas terras na mão de Nabucodonozor, rei de Babylonia, meu servo: e ainda até os animaes do campo lhe dei, para que o sirvam.
My people have been lost sheep: their shepherds thrust them out, they caused them to wander on the mountains: they went from mountain to hill, they forgot their resting-place.
7 E todas as nações o servirão a elle, e a seu filho, e ao filho de seu filho, até que tambem venha o tempo da sua propria terra: então muitas nações e grandes reis se servirão d'elle.
All that found them consumed them: their enemies said, Let us not leave them alone, because they have sinned against the Lord: he that gathered their fathers [had] a pasture of righteousness.
8 E será que a nação e o reino que o não servirem, a saber, a Nabucodonozor, rei de Babylonia, e que não pozerem o seu pescoço debaixo do jugo do rei de Babylonia, com espada, e com fome, e com peste visitarei a tal nação, diz o Senhor, até que a consuma pela sua mão.
Flee you out of the midst of Babylon, and from the land of the Chaldeans, and go forth, and be as serpents before sleep.
9 E vós não deis ouvidos aos vossos prophetas, e aos vossos adivinhos, e aos vossos sonhos, e aos vossos agoureiros, e aos vossos encantadores, que vos fallam, dizendo: Não servireis ao rei de Babylonia.
For, behold, I stir up against Babylon the gatherings of nations out of the land of the north; and they shall set themselves in array against her: thence shall she be taken, as the dart of an expert warrior shall not return empty.
10 Porque mentiras vos prophetizam, para vos mandarem para longe da vossa terra, e eu vos lance d'ella, e vós pereçaes.
And Chaldea shall be a spoil: all that spoil her shall be satisfied.
11 Porém a nação que metter o seu pescoço sob o jugo do rei de Babylonia, e o servir, eu a deixarei na sua terra, diz o Senhor, e lavral-a-ha e habitará n'ella.
Because you rejoiced, and boasted, [while] plundering mine heritage; because you exulted as calves in the grass, and pushed with the horn as bulls.
12 E fallei com Zedekias, rei de Judah, conforme todas estas palavras, dizendo: Mettei os vossos pescoços no jugo do rei de Babylonia, e servi-o, a elle e ao seu povo, e vivereis.
Your mother is greatly ashamed; your mother that bore you for prosperity is confounded: [she is] the last of the nations, desolate,
13 Porque morrerias tu e o teu povo, á espada, e á fome, e de peste, como o Senhor já disse da gente que não servir ao rei de Babylonia?
by reason of the Lord's anger: it shall not be inhabited, but it shall be all a desolation; and every one that passes through Babylon shall scowl, and they shall hiss at all her plague.
14 E não deis ouvidos ás palavras dos prophetas, que vos fallam, dizendo: Não servireis ao rei de Babylonia: porque vos prophetizam mentiras.
Set yourselves in array against Babylon round about, all you that bend the bow; shoot at her, spare not your arrows,
15 Porque não os enviei, diz o Senhor, e prophetizam no meu nome falsamente, para que eu vos lance fóra, e pereçaes, vós e os prophetas que vos prophetizam.
and prevail against her: her hands are weakened, her bulwarks are fallen, and her wall is broken down: for it is vengeance from God: take vengeance upon her; as she has done, do to her.
16 Tambem fallei aos sacerdotes, e a todo este povo, dizendo: Assim diz o Senhor: Não deis ouvidos ás palavras dos vossos prophetas, que vos prophetizam, dizendo: Eis que os vasos da casa do Senhor agora cedo voltarão de Babylonia, porque vos prophetizam mentiras.
Utterly destroy seed out of Babylon, [and] him that holds a sickle in time of harvest: for fear of the Grecian sword, they shall return every one to his people, and every one shall flee to his own land.
17 Não lhes deis ouvidos, servi ao rei de Babylonia, e vivereis: porque se tornaria esta cidade em deserto?
Israel is a wandering sheep; the lions have driven him out: the king of Assyria first devoured him, and afterward this king of Babylon [has gnawed] his bones.
18 Porém, se são prophetas, e se ha palavras do Senhor com elles, orem agora ao Senhor dos Exercitos, para que os vasos que ficaram de resto na casa do Senhor, e na casa do rei de Judah, e em Jerusalem não venham a Babylonia.
Therefore thus says the Lord; Behold, I [will] take vengeance on the king of Babylon, and upon his land, as I took vengeance on the king of Assyria.
19 Porque assim diz o Senhor dos Exercitos ácerca das columnas, e do mar, e das bases, e do resto dos vasos que ficaram de resto na cidade,
And I will restore Israel to his pasture, and he shall feed on Carmel and on mount Ephraim and in Galaad, and his soul shall be satisfied.
20 Que Nabucodonozor, rei de Babylonia, não tomou, quando transportou de Jerusalem para Babylonia a Jechonias, filho de Joaquim, rei de Judah, como tambem a todos os nobres de Jerusalem;
In those days, and at that time, they shall seek for the iniquity of Israel, and there shall be none; and for the sins of Juda, and they shall not be found: for I will be merciful to them that are left
21 Assim pois diz o Senhor dos Exercitos, o Deus d'Israel, ácerca dos vasos que ficaram de resto na casa do Senhor, e na casa do rei de Judah, e em Jerusalem:
on the land, says the Lord. Go up against it roughly, and against them that dwell on it: avenge, O sword, and destroy utterly, says the Lord, and do according to all that I command you.
22 A Babylonia serão levados, e ali ficarão até ao dia em que os visitarei, diz o Senhor: então os farei subir, e os tornarei a trazer a este logar.
A sound of war, and great destruction in the land of the Chaldeans!
How is the hammer of the whole earth broken and crushed! How is Babylon become a desolation amongst the nations!
They shall come upon you, and you shall not know it, Babylon, that you will even be taken captive: you are found and taken, because you did resist the Lord.
The Lord has opened his treasury, and brought forth the weapons of his anger: for the Lord God [has] a work in the land of the Chaldeans.
For her times are come: open you her storehouses: search her as a cave, and utterly destroy her: let there be no remnant of her.
Dry you up all her fruits, and let them go down to the slaughter: woe to them! for their day is come, and the time of their retribution.
A voice of men fleeing and escaping from the land of Babylon, to declare to Sion the vengeance [that comes] from the Lord our God.
Summon many against Babylon, [even] every one that bends the bow: camp against her round about; let no one of her [people] escape: render to her according to her works; according to all that she has done, do to her: for she has resisted the Lord, the Holy God of Israel.
Therefore shall her young men fall in the streets, and all her warriors shall be cast down, says the Lord.
Behold, I am against you the haughty one, says the Lord: for your day is come, and the time of your retribution.
And your pride shall fail, and fall, and there shall be no one to set it up again: and I will kindle a fire in her forest, and it shall devour all things round about her.
Thus says the Lord; The children of Israel and the children of Juda have been oppressed: all they that have taken them captive have oppressed them together; for they would not let them go.
But their Redeemer is strong; the Lord Almighty is his name: he will enter into judgement with his adversaries, that he may destroy the earth;
and he will sharpen a sword against the Chaldeans, and against the inhabitants of Babylon, and upon her nobles and upon her wise men;
a sword upon her warriors, and they shall be weakened: a sword upon their horses, and upon their chariots:
a sword upon their warriors and upon the mixed people in the midst of her; and they shall be as women: a sword upon the treasures, and they shall be scattered upon her water,
and they shall be ashamed: for it is a land of graven [images]; and in the islands, where they boasted.
Therefore shall idols dwell in the islands, and the young of monsters shall dwell in it: it shall not be inhabited any more for ever.
As God overthrew Sodom and Gomorrha, and the cities bordering upon them, says the Lord: no man shall dwell there, and no son of man shall sojourn there.
Behold, a people comes from the north, and a great nation, and many kings shall be stirred up from the end of the earth; holding bow and dagger:
[the people] is fierce, and will have no mercy: their voices shall sound as the sea, they shall ride upon horses, prepared for war, like fire, against you, O daughter of Babylon.
The king of Babylon heard the sound of them, and his hands were enfeebled: anguish overcame him, pangs as of a woman in travail.
Behold, he shall come up as a lion from Jordan to Gaethan; for I will speedily drive them from her, and I will set all the youths against her: for who is like me? and who will resist me? and who is this shepherd who will stand before me?
Therefore hear you the counsel of the Lord, which he has taken against Babylon; and his devices, which he has devised upon the Chaldeans inhabiting [it]: surely lambs of their flock shall be destroyed: surely pasture shall be cut off from them.
For at the sound of the taking of Babylon the earth shall quake, and a cry shall be heard amongst the nations.
