Jeremias 9— comparação

1Ah, se a minha cabeça fosse águas,

2Ah, se eu tivesse no deserto

3“Eles entesam a língua,

4“Cada um tome cuidado com o seu próximo,

5Os amigos enganam uns aos outros,

6A sua habitação está no meio do engano.

7Portanto, assim diz o SENHOR dos Exércitos:

8A língua deles é uma flecha mortal.

9Não deveria eu puni-los por essas coisas?”, diz o SENHOR.

10Chorarei e lamentarei pelos montes,

11“Farei de Jerusalém um amontoado de ruínas,

12Quem é sábio o suficiente para entender isso? Quem é aquele a quem a boca do SENHOR falou, para que possa declará-lo? Por que a terra pereceu e se queimou como um deserto, de modo que ninguém passa por ela?

13O SENHOR diz: “Porque eles abandonaram a minha lei, que coloquei diante deles, e não obedeceram à minha voz, nem andaram nos meus caminhos,

14mas andaram segundo a teimosia do seu próprio coração e atrás dos baalins, como os seus pais lhes ensinaram.”

15Portanto, assim diz o SENHOR dos Exércitos, o Deus de Israel: “Eis que alimentarei este povo com absinto e lhes darei água envenenada para beber.

16Eu também os espalharei entre as nações, que nem eles nem os seus pais conheceram. Enviarei a espada atrás deles, até que eu os tenha consumido.”

17Assim diz o SENHOR dos Exércitos:

18Que elas se apressem

19Pois uma voz de lamento é ouvida de Sião:

20Contudo, ouçam a palavra do SENHOR, ó mulheres.

21Pois a morte subiu pelas nossas janelas.

22Diga: “Assim diz o SENHOR:

23Assim diz o SENHOR:

24Mas aquele que se gloriar, glorie-se nisto:

25“Eis que vêm dias”, diz o SENHOR, “em que punirei todos os que são circuncidados apenas na carne:

26o Egito, Judá, Edom, os filhos de Amom, Moabe, e todos os que cortam os cantos do cabelo, que habitam no deserto; pois todas as nações são incircuncisas, e toda a casa de Israel é incircuncisa de coração.”

1Oh that my head were waters, and my eyes a spring of tears, that I might weep day and night for the slain of the daughter of my people!

2Oh that I had in the wilderness a lodging place of wayfaring men, that I might leave my people and go from them! For they are all adulterers, an assembly of treacherous men.

3“They bend their tongue, as their bow, for falsehood. They have grown strong in the land, but not for truth; for they proceed from evil to evil, and they don’t know me,” says Yahweh.

4“Everyone beware of his neighbor, and don’t trust in any brother; for every brother will utterly supplant, and every neighbor will go around like a slanderer.

5Friends deceive each other, and will not speak the truth. They have taught their tongue to speak lies. They weary themselves committing iniquity.

6Your habitation is in the middle of deceit. Through deceit, they refuse to know me,” says Yahweh.

7Therefore Yahweh of Armies says, “Behold, I will melt them and test them; for how should I deal with the daughter of my people?

8Their tongue is a deadly arrow. It speaks deceit. One speaks peaceably to his neighbor with his mouth, but in his heart, he waits to ambush him.

9Shouldn’t I punish them for these things?” says Yahweh. “Shouldn’t my soul be avenged on a nation such as this?

10I will weep and wail for the mountains, and lament for the pastures of the wilderness, because they are burned up, so that no one passes through; Men can’t hear the voice of the livestock. Both the birds of the sky and the animals have fled. They are gone.

11“I will make Jerusalem heaps, a dwelling place of jackals. I will make the cities of Judah a desolation, without inhabitant.”

12Who is wise enough to understand this? Who is he to whom the mouth of Yahweh has spoken, that he may declare it? Why has the land perished and burned up like a wilderness, so that no one passes through?

13Yahweh says, “Because they have forsaken my law which I set before them, and have not obeyed my voice or walked in my ways,

14but have walked after the stubbornness of their own heart and after the Baals, which their fathers taught them.”

15Therefore Yahweh of Armies, the God of Israel, says, “Behold, I will feed them, even this people, with wormwood and give them poisoned water to drink.

16I will scatter them also among the nations, whom neither they nor their fathers have known. I will send the sword after them, until I have consumed them.”

17Yahweh of Armies says, “Consider, and call for the mourning women, that they may come. Send for the skillful women, that they may come.

18Let them make haste and take up a wailing for us, that our eyes may run down with tears and our eyelids gush out with waters.

19For a voice of wailing is heard out of Zion, ‘How we are ruined! We are greatly confounded because we have forsaken the land, because they have cast down our dwellings.’”

20Yet hear Yahweh’s word, you women. Let your ear receive the word of his mouth. Teach your daughters wailing. Everyone teach her neighbor a lamentation.

21For death has come up into our windows. It has entered into our palaces to cut off the children from outside, and the young men from the streets.

22Speak, “Yahweh says, “‘The dead bodies of men will fall as dung on the open field, and as the handful after the harvester. No one will gather them.’”

23Yahweh says, “Don’t let the wise man glory in his wisdom. Don’t let the mighty man glory in his might. Don’t let the rich man glory in his riches.

24But let him who glories glory in this, that he has understanding, and knows me, that I am Yahweh who exercises loving kindness, justice, and righteousness in the earth, for I delight in these things,” says Yahweh.

25“Behold, the days come,” says Yahweh, “that I will punish all those who are circumcised only in their flesh:

26Egypt, Judah, Edom, the children of Ammon, Moab, and all who have the corners of their hair cut off, who dwell in the wilderness, for all the nations are uncircumcised, and all the house of Israel are uncircumcised in heart.”