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Lamentações de Jeremias 2
Nova Traduҫão na Linguagem de Hoje 2000
Lamentações de Jeremias 2
Nova Traduҫão na Linguagem de Hoje 2000
Deus castiga Jerusalém
2 Quando ficou irado,
o Senhor cobriu Jerusalém de escuridão.
Ele transformou num monte de ruínas
a cidade de Jerusalém, que parecia um céu
e que era o orgulho do povo de Israel.
No dia da sua ira,
Deus abandonou até o seu próprio Templo.
2 Sem dó nem piedade,
o Senhor destruiu todas as cidades de Judá
e na sua ira acabou completamente com as suas fortalezas.
Ele jogou por terra, humilhados, o reino de Judá e as suas autoridades.
3 No calor da sua ira,
Deus acabou de uma vez com o poder de Israel.
Quando os inimigos chegaram,
ele não quis nos ajudar
e ainda se jogou contra nós
como um fogo que destrói tudo ao seu redor.
4 Como se fosse um inimigo,
Deus apontou as suas flechas contra nós
e, com a sua força, matou as pessoas mais estimadas do nosso povo.
Ele derramou a sua ira, como se fosse fogo,
sobre os moradores de Jerusalém.
5 O Senhor é como um inimigo.
Ele destruiu Israel,
derrubou as suas fortalezas
e arrasou os seus palácios,
trazendo com isso tristeza e choro sem fim para o povo de Judá.
6 Deus arrasou o seu Templo,
como se fosse uma horta,
e destruiu o lugar onde o adorávamos.
Ele nos fez esquecer as festas religiosas e os sábados.
No calor da sua ira, ele rejeitou com desprezo os reis e os sacerdotes.
7 O Senhor desprezou o seu altar,
abandonou o seu Templo
e deixou que os inimigos derrubassem as suas paredes.
Ali eles deram os seus gritos de vitória,
como nós fazíamos nos dias de festa.
8 O Senhor decidiu arrasar as muralhas de Jerusalém.
Ele fez o plano de destruição
e, sem descanso, o levou até o fim.
Muralhas e paredes racharam
e vieram abaixo ao mesmo tempo.
9 Os portões da cidade estão enterrados no entulho,
e as suas trancas foram despedaçadas.
O rei e as autoridades estão espalhados pelas nações pagãs.
Não se ensina mais a lei,
e os profetas não recebem mais visões de Deus, o Senhor.
10 Os moradores mais velhos de Jerusalém
estão sentados no chão, em silêncio.
Em sinal de tristeza, puseram terra na cabeça
e vestiram roupa feita de pano grosseiro.
As moças estão ajoelhadas,
com a cabeça encostada no chão.
11 Os meus olhos estão gastos de tanto chorar;
estou muito aflito.
A tristeza acabou comigo
por causa da destruição do meu povo,
e porque vejo crianças e bebês morrendo de fome nas ruas da cidade.
12 Essas crianças dizem:
“Mamãe, estou com fome!
Mamãe, estou com sede!”
Elas caem pelas ruas, como se estivessem feridas,
e morrem aos poucos nos braços das mães.
13 Jerusalém querida, o que posso lhe dizer?
Como posso consolar você?
Nunca ninguém sofreu assim;
a sua desgraça é tão grande como o mar.
Quem poderá lhe dar esperança?
14 As visões dos seus profetas foram falsas e enganosas.
Se eles tivessem condenado abertamente os seus pecados,
tudo teria sido diferente e melhor para você.
O que esses profetas fizeram foi enganá-la com mentiras.
15 Os que vão passando zombam de você.
Eles sacodem a cabeça, dão risadas e perguntam:
“É esta a cidade que era chamada de ‘Beleza Perfeita’?
É esta o orgulho do mundo inteiro?”
16 Todos os seus inimigos falam contra você e zombam.
Com ódio, eles dizem:
“Nós destruímos Jerusalém!
Chegou o dia que estávamos esperando!
Nós vimos tudo o que aconteceu!”
17 O Senhor fez o que havia planejado;
ele cumpriu as ameaças
que havia feito há muito tempo.
Ele nos destruiu sem dó nem piedade,
deixando que os inimigos nos vencessem
e se alegrassem com a nossa derrota.
18 Que as suas muralhas, ó Jerusalém, peçam ajuda ao Senhor!
Que as suas lágrimas corram dia e noite como um rio!
Não descanse; chore sem parar!
19 Levante-se várias vezes de noite
para clamar, pedindo ajuda ao Senhor.
Derrame o coração na presença dele
e peça pela vida dos seus filhos,
que morrem de fome nas esquinas das ruas.
20 Olha, ó Senhor Deus, e pensa:
Alguma vez trataste alguém assim?
Será que as mães deviam devorar os filhinhos que elas tanto amam?
Será que profetas e sacerdotes deviam ser assassinados no próprio Templo?
21 Há mortos, tanto jovens como velhos, largados nas ruas;
os meus moços e as minhas moças foram mortos à espada.
No dia em que ficaste irado,
tu, ó Deus, os mataste sem dó nem piedade.
22 Fizeste chegar, de todos os lados, os meus terríveis inimigos,
que vieram como se fosse para uma festa religiosa.
Ó Senhor, no dia em que ficaste irado,
ninguém escapou, ninguém ficou vivo.
Os inimigos destruíram os meus filhos
que criei com tanto amor.
Lamentations 2
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Lamentations 2
New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition
God’s Warnings Fulfilled
2 How the Lord in his anger
has humiliated[a] daughter Zion!
He has thrown down from heaven to earth
the splendor of Israel;
he has not remembered his footstool
in the day of his anger.(A)
2 The Lord has destroyed without mercy
all the dwellings of Jacob;
in his wrath he has broken down
the strongholds of daughter Judah;
he has brought down to the ground in dishonor
the kingdom and its rulers.(B)
3 He has cut down in fierce anger
all the might of Israel;
he has withdrawn his right hand from them
in the face of the enemy;
he has burned like a flaming fire in Jacob,
consuming all around.(C)
4 He has bent his bow like an enemy,
with his right hand set like a foe;
he has killed all those
in whom we took pride
in the tent of daughter Zion;
he has poured out his fury like fire.(D)
5 The Lord has become like an enemy;
he has destroyed Israel.
He has destroyed all its palaces,
laid in ruins its strongholds,
and multiplied in daughter Judah
mourning and lamentation.(E)
6 He has broken down his booth like a garden;
he has destroyed his tabernacle;
the Lord has abolished in Zion
festival and Sabbath
and in his fierce indignation has spurned
king and priest.(F)
7 The Lord has scorned his altar,
disowned his sanctuary;
he has delivered into the hand of the enemy
the walls of her palaces;
a clamor was raised in the house of the Lord
as on a day of festival.(G)
8 The Lord determined to lay in ruins
the wall of daughter Zion;
he stretched the line;
he did not withhold his hand from destroying;
he caused rampart and wall to lament;
they languish together.(H)
9 Her gates have sunk into the ground;
he has ruined and broken her bars;
her king and princes are among the nations;
guidance is no more,
and her prophets obtain
no vision from the Lord.(I)
10 The elders of daughter Zion
sit on the ground in silence;
they have thrown dust on their heads;
they put on sackcloth;
the young women of Jerusalem
have bowed their heads to the ground.(J)
11 My eyes are spent with weeping;
my stomach churns;
my bile is poured out on the ground
because of the destruction of my people,[b]
because infants and babes faint
in the streets of the city.(K)
12 They cry to their mothers,
“Where is bread and wine?”
as they faint like the wounded
in the streets of the city,
as their life is poured out
on their mothers’ bosoms.(L)
13 What can I say for you, to what compare you,
O daughter Jerusalem?
To what can I liken you, that I may comfort you,
O virgin daughter Zion?
For vast as the sea is your ruin;
who can heal you?(M)
14 Your prophets have seen for you
false and deceptive visions;
they have not exposed your iniquity
to restore your fortunes
but have seen oracles for you
that are false and misleading.(N)
15 All who pass along the way
clap their hands at you;
they hiss and wag their heads
at daughter Jerusalem:
“Is this the city that was called
the perfection of beauty,
the joy of all the earth?”(O)
16 All your enemies
open their mouths against you;
they hiss, they gnash their teeth,
they cry: “We have devoured her!
Ah, this is the day we longed for;
at last we have seen it!”(P)
17 The Lord has done what he purposed;
he has carried out his threat;
as he ordained long ago,
he has demolished without pity;
he has made the enemy rejoice over you
and exalted the might of your foes.(Q)
18 Cry aloud[c] to the Lord!
O wall of daughter Zion!
Let tears stream down like a torrent
day and night!
Give yourself no rest,
your eyes no respite!(R)
19 Arise, cry out in the night,
at the beginning of the watches!
Pour out your heart like water
before the presence of the Lord!
Lift your hands to him
for the lives of your children,
who faint for hunger
at the head of every street.(S)
20 Look, O Lord, and consider!
To whom have you done this?
Should women eat their offspring,
the children they have borne?
Should priest and prophet be killed
in the sanctuary of the Lord?(T)
21 The young and the old are lying
on the ground in the streets;
my young women and my young men
have fallen by the sword;
in the day of your anger you have killed them,
slaughtering without mercy.(U)
22 You invited my enemies from all around
as if for a day of festival;
and on the day of the anger of the Lord,
no one escaped or survived;
those whom I bore and reared,
my enemy has destroyed.(V)
Lamentations 2
New International Version
Lamentations 2
New International Version
2 [a]How the Lord has covered Daughter Zion
with the cloud of his anger[b]!(A)
He has hurled down the splendor of Israel
from heaven to earth;
he has not remembered his footstool(B)
in the day of his anger.(C)
2 Without pity(D) the Lord has swallowed(E) up
all the dwellings of Jacob;
in his wrath he has torn down
the strongholds(F) of Daughter Judah.
He has brought her kingdom and its princes
down to the ground(G) in dishonor.
3 In fierce anger he has cut off
every horn[c][d](H) of Israel.
He has withdrawn his right hand(I)
at the approach of the enemy.
He has burned in Jacob like a flaming fire
that consumes everything around it.(J)
4 Like an enemy he has strung his bow;(K)
his right hand is ready.
Like a foe he has slain
all who were pleasing to the eye;(L)
he has poured out his wrath(M) like fire(N)
on the tent(O) of Daughter Zion.
5 The Lord is like an enemy;(P)
he has swallowed up Israel.
He has swallowed up all her palaces
and destroyed her strongholds.(Q)
He has multiplied mourning and lamentation(R)
for Daughter Judah.(S)
6 He has laid waste his dwelling like a garden;
he has destroyed(T) his place of meeting.(U)
The Lord has made Zion forget
her appointed festivals and her Sabbaths;(V)
in his fierce anger he has spurned
both king and priest.(W)
7 The Lord has rejected his altar
and abandoned his sanctuary.(X)
He has given the walls of her palaces(Y)
into the hands of the enemy;
they have raised a shout in the house of the Lord
as on the day of an appointed festival.(Z)
8 The Lord determined to tear down
the wall around Daughter Zion.(AA)
He stretched out a measuring line(AB)
and did not withhold his hand from destroying.
He made ramparts(AC) and walls lament;
together they wasted away.(AD)
9 Her gates(AE) have sunk into the ground;
their bars(AF) he has broken and destroyed.
Her king and her princes are exiled(AG) among the nations,
the law(AH) is no more,
and her prophets(AI) no longer find
visions(AJ) from the Lord.
10 The elders of Daughter Zion
sit on the ground in silence;(AK)
they have sprinkled dust(AL) on their heads(AM)
and put on sackcloth.(AN)
The young women of Jerusalem
have bowed their heads to the ground.(AO)
11 My eyes fail from weeping,(AP)
I am in torment within(AQ);
my heart(AR) is poured out(AS) on the ground
because my people are destroyed,(AT)
because children and infants faint(AU)
in the streets of the city.
12 They say to their mothers,
“Where is bread and wine?”(AV)
as they faint like the wounded
in the streets of the city,
as their lives ebb away(AW)
in their mothers’ arms.(AX)
13 What can I say for you?(AY)
With what can I compare you,
Daughter(AZ) Jerusalem?
To what can I liken you,
that I may comfort you,
Virgin Daughter Zion?(BA)
Your wound is as deep as the sea.(BB)
Who can heal you?
14 The visions of your prophets
were false(BC) and worthless;
they did not expose your sin
to ward off your captivity.(BD)
The prophecies they gave you
were false and misleading.(BE)
15 All who pass your way
clap their hands at you;(BF)
they scoff(BG) and shake their heads(BH)
at Daughter Jerusalem:(BI)
“Is this the city that was called
the perfection of beauty,(BJ)
the joy of the whole earth?”(BK)
16 All your enemies open their mouths
wide against you;(BL)
they scoff and gnash their teeth(BM)
and say, “We have swallowed her up.(BN)
This is the day we have waited for;
we have lived to see it.”(BO)
17 The Lord has done what he planned;
he has fulfilled(BP) his word,
which he decreed long ago.(BQ)
He has overthrown you without pity,(BR)
he has let the enemy gloat over you,(BS)
he has exalted the horn[e] of your foes.(BT)
18 The hearts of the people
cry out to the Lord.(BU)
You walls of Daughter Zion,(BV)
let your tears(BW) flow like a river
day and night;(BX)
give yourself no relief,
your eyes no rest.(BY)
19 Arise, cry out in the night,
as the watches of the night begin;
pour out your heart(BZ) like water
in the presence of the Lord.(CA)
Lift up your hands(CB) to him
for the lives of your children,
who faint(CC) from hunger
at every street corner.
20 “Look, Lord, and consider:
Whom have you ever treated like this?
Should women eat their offspring,(CD)
the children they have cared for?(CE)
Should priest and prophet be killed(CF)
in the sanctuary of the Lord?(CG)
Footnotes
- Lamentations 2:1 This chapter is an acrostic poem, the verses of which begin with the successive letters of the Hebrew alphabet.
- Lamentations 2:1 Or How the Lord in his anger / has treated Daughter Zion with contempt
- Lamentations 2:3 Or off / all the strength; or every king
- Lamentations 2:3 Horn here symbolizes strength.
- Lamentations 2:17 Horn here symbolizes strength.
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