Lamentações 3

SAGRADA BIBLIA	CATHOLIC PUBLIC DOMAIN
1 Eu sou o homem que conheceu a dor, sob a vara de seu furor.	1 ALEPH. I am a man watching my own poverty by the rod of his indignation.
2 Conduziu-me e me fez caminhar nas trevas e não na claridade.	2 ALEPH. He has driven me and led me into darkness, and not into light.
3 Ele não cessa de voltar a mão todos os dias contra mim.	3 ALEPH. Against me only, he has turned and turned again his hand, all day long.
4 Consumiu minha carne e minha pele, partiu meus ossos.	4 BETH. My skin and my flesh, he has made old; he has crushed my bones.
5 Em torno de mim acumulou veneno e dor.	5 BETH. He has built all around me, and he has encircled me with gall and hardship.
6 Fez-me morar nas trevas como os mortos do tempo antigo.	6 BETH. He has gathered me into darkness, like those who are forever dead.
7 Cercou-me com muralhas sem saída, carregou-me de pesados grilhões.	7 GHIMEL. He has built against me all around, so that I may not depart. He has increased the burden of my confinement.
8 Não obstante meus gritos e apelos sufocou a minha prece!	8 GHIMEL. Yet even when I cry out and beg, he excludes my prayer.
9 Fechou-me a vereda com pedras e obstruiu o meu caminho.	9 GHIMEL. He has enclosed my ways with square stones; he has subverted my paths.
10 Foi ele para mim qual urso de emboscada, qual leão traiçoeiro.	10 DALETH. He has become to me like a bear lying in ambush, like a lion in hiding.
11 Desviou-me para me dilacerar, deixando-me no abandono.	11 DALETH. He has subverted my paths, and he has broken me. He has placed me in desolation.
12 Retesou o arco e me tomou para alvo de suas setas.	12 DALETH. He has bent his bow, and he has positioned me like a target for his arrows.
13 Cravou em meus rins as flechas de sua aljava.	13 HE. He has shot into my kidneys the daughters of his quiver.
14 Tornei-me escárnio do meu povo, objeto constante de suas canções.	14 HE. I have become a derision to all my people, their song throughout the day.
15 Saturou-me de amarguras, saciou-me de absinto.	15 HE. He has filled me with bitterness; he has inebriated me with wormwood.
16 Quebrou-me os dentes com cascalhos, mergulhou-me em cinzas.	16 VAU. And he has broken each one of my teeth; he has fed me with ashes.
17 A paz foi roubada de minha alma, nem sei mais o que é felicidade.	17 VAU. And my soul has been driven away from peace; I have forgotten what is good.
18 E eu penso: perdi minha força e minha esperança no Senhor.	18 VAU. And I said, “My end and my hope from the Lord has perished.”
19 A lembrança de meus tormentos e minhas misérias é para mim absinto e veneno.	19 ZAIN. Remember my poverty and my transgression, the wormwood and the gall.
20 A pensar nisso sem cessar, minha alma desfalece dentro de mim.	20 ZAIN. I will call to mind the past, and my soul shall languish within me.
21 Eis, porém, o que vou tomar a peito para recuperar a esperança.	21 ZAIN. These recollections are in my heart; therefore, I shall hope.
22 É graças ao Senhor que não fomos aniquilados, porque não se esgotou sua piedade.	22 HETH. By the mercies of the Lord, we are not consumed. For his compassion has not passed away.
23 Cada manhã ele se manifesta e grande é sua fidelidade.	23 HETH. I know it at first light; great is your faithfulness.
24 Disse-me a alma: o Senhor é minha partilha, e assim nele confio.	24 HETH. “The Lord is my portion,” said my soul. Because of this, I will wait for him.
25 O Senhor é bom para quem nele confia, para a alma que o procura.	25 TETH. The Lord is good to those who hope in him, to the soul that seeks him.
26 Bom é esperar em silêncio o socorro do Senhor.	26 TETH. It is good to stand ready in silence for the salvation of God.
27 É bom para o homem carregar seu jugo na mocidade.	27 TETH. It is good for a man, when he has carried the yoke from his youth.
28 Permaneça só e em silêncio, quando Deus lho determinar!	28 JOD. He shall sit solitary and silent. For he has lifted it upon himself.
29 Leve sua boca ao pó; haverá, talvez, esperança?	29 JOD. He shall place his mouth in the dirt, if perhaps there may be hope.
30 Estenda a face a quem o fere, e se farte de opróbrios!	30 JOD. He shall give his cheek to those who strike him; he shall be saturated with reproaches.
31 Porque o Senhor não repele para sempre.	31 CAPH. For the Lord will not rebuke forever.
32 Após haver afligido, ele tem piedade, porque é grande sua misericórdia.	32 CAPH. For, if he has cast down, he will also have compassion, according to the multitude of his mercies.
33 Não lhe alegra o coração humilhar e afligir os homens.	33 CAPH. For he has not humiliated from his heart, nor has he thrown aside the sons of men,
34 Calcar aos pés todos os cativos da terra;	34 LAMED. as if to crush under his feet all the prisoners of the land,
35 violar o direito de um homem à face do Altíssimo;	35 LAMED. as if to turn aside the judgment of a man in the sight of the presence of the Most High,
36 lesar os direitos de outros... Não vê tudo isso o Senhor?	36 LAMED. as if to pervert a man in his judgment: the Lord does not do this.
37 De quem se executa a ordem, sem que Deus a ordene?	37 MEM. Who is this, who said to do what the Lord did not command?
38 Não é da boca do Altíssimo que procedem males e bens?	38 MEM. Does not both misfortune and good proceed from the mouth of the Most High?
39 De que pode o homem em vida queixar-se? Que cada um se queixe de seus pecados.	39 MEM. Why has a living man murmured, a man suffering for his sins?
40 Examinemos, escrutemos o nosso proceder, e voltemos para o Senhor.	40 NUN. Let us examine our ways, and seek out, and return to the Lord.
41 Elevemos os corações, tanto quanto as mãos, para Deus lá nos céus.	41 NUN. Let us lift up our hearts, with our hands, toward the Lord in the heavens.
42 Pecamos, recalcitramos, e não nos perdoastes.	42 NUN. We have acted sinfully, and we have provoked to wrath. About this, you are relentless.
43 Cobristes-vos de cólera para nos perseguir. Matastes sem piedade.	43 SAMECH. You have covered us in your fury, and you have struck us. You have killed, and have not spared.
44 Numa nuvem vos envolvestes para impedir que a prece a atravessasse.	44 SAMECH. You have set a cloud opposite you, lest our prayer pass through.
45 E de nós fizestes raspas, refugo das nações.	45 SAMECH. In the midst of the peoples, you have uprooted me and cast me out.
46 Contra nós abrem a boca todos os nossos inimigos.	46 PHE. All our enemies have opened their mouths over us.
47 Fosso e terror - é o nosso quinhão, com ruínas e desolação.	47 PHE. Prediction has become for us a dread, and a snare, and a grief.
48 Rios de lágrimas correm-me dos olhos, por causa da ruína da filha de meu povo.	48 PHE. My eye has brought forth streams of water at the contrition of the daughter of my people.
49 Não cessam meus olhos de chorar, porque não cessa {a desgraça},	49 AIN. My eye has been afflicted, and it has not been quieted, because there would be no rest
50 até que do alto dos céus o Senhor desça seu olhar.	50 AIN. until the Lord looked down and saw from the heavens.
51 Minha alma se amargura, ao ver todas as filhas da minha cidade.	51 AIN. My eye has exhausted my soul over every one of the daughters of my city.
52 Caçaram-me como a um pardal os que, sem razão, me odeiam.	52 SADE. My enemies have chased me, and they have caught me like a bird, without reason.
53 Quiseram precipitar-me no fosso rolando uma pedra sobre mim.	53 SADE. My life has fallen into a pit, and they have placed a stone over me.
54 Acima de mim subiam as águas: Estou perdido!, exclamei.	54 SADE. The waters have flooded over my head. I said, “I am lost.”
55 Invoquei, Senhor, o vosso nome do profundo fosso.	55 COPH. I called upon your name, O Lord, from the furthest pit.
56 Ouvistes-me gritar: Não aparteis do meu chamado o vosso ouvido.	56 COPH. You have heard my voice. Do not turn away your ear from my sobbing and my cries.
57 E vós viestes no dia em que vos invoquei e dissestes: Não tenhas medo!	57 COPH. You drew near in the daytime, when I called upon you. You said, “Fear not.”
58 Defendestes, Senhor, a minha causa, e minha vida resgatastes.	58 RES. You have judged, O Lord, the case of my soul. You are the Redeemer of my life.
59 Vistes, Senhor, o mal que me fizeram: fazei-me justiça.	59 RES. You have seen, O Lord, their iniquity against me. Judge my case.
60 Vós vedes seus projetos vingativos e suas tramas contra mim.	60 RES. You have seen all their fury, every one of their thoughts is against me.
61 Senhor, ouvistes suas injúrias e todos os seus conluios contra mim;	61 SIN. You have heard their reproach, O Lord, all their thoughts are against me.
62 As palavras de meus inimigos e o que sem cessar estão tramando contra mim.	62 SIN. The lips of those who rise up against me, and their meditations, are against me all day long.
63 Observai-os: sentados ou de pé, fazem de mim objeto de suas canções.	63 SIN. Watch their sitting down and their rising up: I am their psalm.
64 Dai-lhes, Senhor, a paga, o que merece o seu proceder.	64 THAU. You shall pay a recompense to them, O Lord, according to the works of their hands.
65 Cegai-lhes o coração; feri-os com a vossa maldição;	65 THAU. You shall give them a heavy shield of the heart: your hardship.
66 persegui-os com vossa cólera, e exterminai-os do nosso universo, Senhor!	66 THAU. You shall pursue them in fury, and you shall destroy them under the heavens, O Lord.