Livro de Judite 1

SAGRADA BIBLIA	NEW JERUSALEM
1 Arfaxad, rei dos medos, submetera ao seu império um grande número de nações. Ele edificou uma fortaleza de pedras polidas, à qual deu o nome de Ecbátana.	1 It was the twelfth year of Nebuchadnezzar who reigned over the Assyrians in the great city of Nineveh.Arphaxad was then reigning over the Medes in Ecbatana.
2 Cercou-a de muralhas de setenta côvados de altura e trinta de largura, e pôs-lhe torres de cem côvados de altura.	2 He surrounded this city with walls of dressed stones three cubits thick and six cubits long, making therampart seventy cubits high and fifty cubits wide.
3 Estas eram de forma quadrada, e seus lados estendiam-se por um espaço de vinte pés. As portas tinham uma altura proporcionada à das torres.	3 At the gates he placed towers one hundred cubits high and, at the foundations, sixty cubits wide,
4 Ele gloriava-se do poder invencível do seu exército e da imponência de seus carros.	4 the gates themselves being seventy cubits high and forty wide to al ow his forces to march out in a bodyand his infantry to parade freely.
5 Ora, no décimo segundo ano de seu reinado, Nabucodonosor, que reinava sobre os assírios em Nínive, a grande cidade, fez guerra a Arfaxad, e venceu-o	5 About this time King Nebuchadnezzar gave battle to King Arphaxad in the great plain lying in the territoryof Ragae.
6 na grande planície chamada Ragau. Aliaram-se-lhe todos os habitantes das regiões vizinhas do Tigre, do Eufrates e do Jadason, na planície de Erioc, rei dos eliceus.	6 Supporting him were al the peoples from the highlands, all from the Euphrates and Tigris andHydaspes, and those from the plains who were subject to Arioch, king of the Elymaeans. Thus many nations hadmustered to take part in the battle of the Cheleoudites.
7 Então engrandeceu-se o reino de Nabucodonosor e seu coração encheu-se de orgulho. Mandou emissários a todos os habitantes da Cilícia, de Damasco, do Líbano,	7 Nebuchadnezzar king of the Assyrians sent a message to al the inhabitants of Persia, to all theinhabitants of the western countries, Cilicia, Damascus, Lebanon, Anti-Lebanon, to al those along the coast,
8 aos povos do Carmelo e de Cedar, aos galileus, na grande planície de Esdrelon,	8 to the peoples of Carmel, Gilead, Upper Galilee, the great plain of Esdraelon,
9 aos habitantes de Samaria e aos povos de além do Jordão até Jerusalém, a toda a terra de Gessém e até aos confins da Etiópia.	9 to the people of Samaria and its outlying towns, to those beyond Jordan, as far away as Jerusalem,Bethany, Chelous, Kadesh, the river of Egypt, Tahpanhes, Rameses and the whole territory of Goshen,
10 A todos esses povos enviou Nabucodonosor emissários,	10 beyond Tanis too and Memphis, and to al the inhabitants of Egypt as far as the frontiers of Ethiopia.
11 mas todos protestaram unanimemente e os despediram de mãos vazias, chegando até a expulsá-los com desprezo.	11 But the inhabitants of these countries ignored the summons of Nebuchadnezzar king of the Assyriansand did not ral y to him to make war. They were not afraid of him, since in their view he appeared isolated.Hence they sent his ambassadors back with nothing achieved and in disgrace.
12 À vista disso, encheu-se de cólera o rei Nabucodonosor contra todos esses povos, e jurou pelo seu trono e pelo seu reino que havia de tomar vingança de todos eles.	12 Nebuchadnezzar was furious with al these countries. He swore by his throne and kingdom to takerevenge on al the territories of Cilicia, Damascus and Syria, of the Moabites and of the Ammonites, of Judaeaand Egypt as far as the limits of the two seas, and to ravage them with the sword.
	13 In the seventeenth year, he gave battle with his whole army to King Arphaxad and in this battledefeated him. He routed Arphaxad's entire army and al his cavalry and chariots;
	14 he occupied his towns and advanced on Ecbatana; he seized its towers and plundered its marketplaces, reducing its former magnificence to a mockery.
	15 He later captured Arphaxad in the mountains of Ragae and, thrusting him through with his spears,destroyed him once and for al .
	16 He then retired with his troops and al who had joined forces with him: a vast horde of armed men.Then he and his army gave themselves up to carefree feasting for a hundred and twenty days.