Jeremias 31— comparação

1“Naquele tempo”, diz o SENHOR, “serei o Deus de todas as famílias de Israel, e eles serão o meu povo.”

2O SENHOR diz: “O povo que sobreviveu à espada encontrou favor no deserto; o próprio Israel, quando eu fui dar-lhe descanso.”

3O SENHOR me apareceu no passado, dizendo:

4Eu a edificarei novamente,

5Novamente você plantará vinhas nos montes de Samaria.

6Pois haverá um dia em que os vigias nas colinas de Efraim clamarão:

7Pois assim diz o SENHOR:

8Eis que eu os trarei da terra do norte,

9Eles virão com choro.

10“Ouçam a palavra do SENHOR, ó nações,

11Pois o SENHOR resgatou Jacó,

12Eles virão e cantarão nas alturas de Sião,

13Então a virgem se alegrará na dança,

14Saciarei a alma dos sacerdotes com fartura,

15O SENHOR diz:

16O SENHOR diz:

17Há esperança para o seu futuro”, diz o SENHOR.

18“Certamente ouvi Efraim se lamentando assim:

19Certamente, depois que voltei,

20Efraim é o meu filho querido?

21“Coloque sinais na estrada.

22Até quando você andará de um lado para outro,

23O SENHOR dos Exércitos, o Deus de Israel, diz: “Mais uma vez eles usarão estas palavras na terra de Judá e em suas cidades, quando eu reverter o seu cativeiro: 'O SENHOR abençoe você, habitação de justiça, monte de santidade.'

24Judá e todas as suas cidades habitarão ali juntos, os agricultores e os que andam com os rebanhos.

25Pois eu saciei a alma cansada, e revigorei toda alma entristecida.”

26Nisso eu acordei e olhei; e o meu sono foi doce para mim.

27“Eis que vêm dias”, diz o SENHOR, “em que semearei a casa de Israel e a casa de Judá com semente de homens e com semente de animais.

28Acontecerá que, assim como vigiei sobre eles para arrancar, despedaçar, derrubar, destruir e afligir, assim vigiarei sobre eles para edificar e plantar”, diz o SENHOR.

29“Naqueles dias não dirão mais:

30Mas cada um morrerá pela sua própria iniquidade. Todo homem que comer as uvas verdes, os seus dentes se embotarão.

31“Eis que vêm dias”, diz o SENHOR, “em que farei uma nova aliança com a casa de Israel e com a casa de Judá,

32não conforme a aliança que fiz com seus pais, no dia em que os tomei pela mão para tirá-los da terra do Egito, aliança minha que eles quebraram, embora eu fosse um marido para eles”, diz o SENHOR.

33“Mas esta é a aliança que farei com a casa de Israel depois daqueles dias”, diz o SENHOR:

34Eles não ensinarão mais cada um ao seu próximo,

35O SENHOR, que dá o sol para ser luz de dia,

36“Se estas ordenanças se afastarem de diante de mim”, diz o SENHOR,

37O SENHOR diz: “Se os céus lá em cima puderem ser medidos,

38“Eis que vêm dias”, diz o SENHOR, “em que a cidade será edificada para o SENHOR, desde a torre de Hananeel até a porta da esquina.

39A linha de medir se estenderá mais adiante, direto até a colina de Garebe, e virará em direção a Goa.

40Todo o vale dos cadáveres e das cinzas, e todos os campos até o ribeiro de Cedrom, até a esquina da porta dos cavalos em direção ao leste, serão santos para o SENHOR. Não será mais arrancada nem derrubada para sempre.”

1“At that time,” says Yahweh, “I will be the God of all the families of Israel, and they will be my people.”

2Yahweh says, “The people who survive the sword found favor in the wilderness; even Israel, when I went to cause him to rest.”

3Yahweh appeared of old to me, saying, “Yes, I have loved you with an everlasting love. Therefore I have drawn you with loving kindness.

4I will build you again, and you will be built, O virgin of Israel. You will again be adorned with your tambourines, and will go out in the dances of those who make merry.

5Again you will plant vineyards on the mountains of Samaria. The planters will plant, and will enjoy its fruit.

6For there will be a day that the watchmen on the hills of Ephraim cry, ‘Arise! Let’s go up to Zion to Yahweh our God.’”

7For Yahweh says, “Sing with gladness for Jacob, and shout for the chief of the nations. Publish, praise, and say, ‘Yahweh, save your people, the remnant of Israel!’

8Behold, I will bring them from the north country, and gather them from the uttermost parts of the earth, along with the blind and the lame, the woman with child and her who travails with child together. They will return as a great company.

9They will come with weeping. I will lead them with petitions. I will cause them to walk by rivers of waters, in a straight way in which they won’t stumble; for I am a father to Israel. Ephraim is my firstborn.

10“Hear Yahweh’s word, you nations, and declare it in the distant islands. Say, ‘He who scattered Israel will gather him, and keep him, as a shepherd does his flock.’

11For Yahweh has ransomed Jacob, and redeemed him from the hand of him who was stronger than he.

12They will come and sing in the height of Zion, and will flow to the goodness of Yahweh, to the grain, to the new wine, to the oil, and to the young of the flock and of the herd. Their soul will be as a watered garden. They will not sorrow any more at all.

13Then the virgin will rejoice in the dance, the young men and the old together; for I will turn their mourning into joy, and will comfort them, and make them rejoice from their sorrow.

14I will satiate the soul of the priests with fatness, and my people will be satisfied with my goodness,” says Yahweh.

15Yahweh says: “A voice is heard in Ramah, lamentation and bitter weeping, Rachel weeping for her children. She refuses to be comforted for her children, because they are no more.”

16Yahweh says: “Refrain your voice from weeping, and your eyes from tears, for your work will be rewarded,” says Yahweh. “They will come again from the land of the enemy.

17There is hope for your latter end,” says Yahweh. “Your children will come again to their own territory.

18“I have surely heard Ephraim grieving thus, ‘You have chastised me, and I was chastised, as an untrained calf. Turn me, and I will be turned, for you are Yahweh my God.

19Surely after that I was turned. I repented. After that I was instructed. I struck my thigh. I was ashamed, yes, even confounded, because I bore the reproach of my youth.’

20Is Ephraim my dear son? Is he a darling child? For as often as I speak against him, I still earnestly remember him. Therefore my heart yearns for him. I will surely have mercy on him,” says Yahweh.

21“Set up road signs. Make guideposts. Set your heart toward the highway, even the way by which you went. Turn again, virgin of Israel. Turn again to these your cities.

22How long will you go here and there, you backsliding daughter? For Yahweh has created a new thing in the earth: a woman will encompass a man.”

23Yahweh of Armies, the God of Israel, says: “Yet again they will use this speech in the land of Judah and in its cities, when I reverse their captivity: ‘Yahweh bless you, habitation of righteousness, mountain of holiness.’

24Judah and all its cities will dwell therein together, the farmers, and those who go about with flocks.

25For I have satiated the weary soul, and I have replenished every sorrowful soul.”

26On this I awakened, and saw; and my sleep was sweet to me.

27“Behold, the days come,” says Yahweh, “that I will sow the house of Israel and the house of Judah with the seed of man and with the seed of animal.

28It will happen that, like as I have watched over them to pluck up and to break down and to overthrow and to destroy and to afflict, so I will watch over them to build and to plant,” says Yahweh.

29“In those days they will say no more, “‘The fathers have eaten sour grapes, and the children’s teeth are set on edge.’

30But everyone will die for his own iniquity. Every man who eats the sour grapes, his teeth will be set on edge.

31“Behold, the days come,” says Yahweh, “that I will make a new covenant with the house of Israel, and with the house of Judah,

32not according to the covenant that I made with their fathers in the day that I took them by the hand to bring them out of the land of Egypt, which covenant of mine they broke, although I was a husband to them,” says Yahweh.

33“But this is the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel after those days,” says Yahweh: “I will put my law in their inward parts, and I will write it in their heart. I will be their God, and they shall be my people.

34They will no longer each teach his neighbor, and every man teach his brother, saying, ‘Know Yahweh;’ for they will all know me, from their least to their greatest,” says Yahweh, “for I will forgive their iniquity, and I will remember their sin no more.”

35Yahweh, who gives the sun for a light by day, and the ordinances of the moon and of the stars for a light by night, who stirs up the sea, so that its waves roar— Yahweh of Armies is his name, says:

36“If these ordinances depart from before me,” says Yahweh, “then the offspring of Israel also will cease from being a nation before me forever.”

37Yahweh says: “If heaven above can be measured, and the foundations of the earth searched out beneath, then I will also cast off all the offspring of Israel for all that they have done,” says Yahweh.

38“Behold, the days come,” says Yahweh, “that the city will be built to Yahweh from the tower of Hananel to the gate of the corner.

39The measuring line will go out further straight onward to the hill Gareb, and will turn toward Goah.

40The whole valley of the dead bodies and of the ashes, and all the fields to the brook Kidron, to the corner of the horse gate toward the east, will be holy to Yahweh. It will not be plucked up or thrown down any more forever.”