1 \1:15\See on the mountains the feet of him who comes with good news, giving word of peace! Keep your feasts, O Judah, give effect to your oaths: for the good-for-nothing man will never again go through you; he is completely cut off.
2 \2:1\A crusher has come up before your face: keep a good look-out, let the way be watched, make yourself strong, let your power be greatly increased.
3 \2:2\For the Lord will make good the vine of Jacob, as well as the vine of Israel: for the wasters have made them waste and sent destruction on the branches of their vine.
4 \2:3\The body-covers of his fighting men have been made red, the men of war are clothed in bright red: the war-carriages are like flames of fire in the day when he gets ready, the horses are shaking.
5 \2:4\The war-carriages are rushing through the streets, pushing against one another in the wide ways, looking like burning lights, running like thunder-flames.
6 \2:5\He takes the record of his great men: they go falling on their way; they go quickly to the wall, the cover is made ready.
7 \2:6\The river doorways are forced open, and the king's house is flowing away.
8 \2:7\And the queen is uncovered, she is taken away and her servant-girls are weeping like the sound of doves, hammering on their breasts.
9 \2:8\But Nineveh is like a pool of water whose waters are flowing away; Keep your place, they say; but no one is turning back.
10 \2:9\Take silver, take gold; for there is no end to the store; take for yourselves a weight of things to be desired.
11 \2:10\Everything has been taken from her, all is gone, she has nothing more: the heart is turned to water, the knees are shaking, all are twisted in pain, and colour has gone from all faces.
12 \2:11\Where is the lions' hole, the place where the young lions got their food, where the lion and the she-lion were walking with their young, without cause for fear?
13 \2:12\Food enough for his young and for his she-lions was pulled down by the lion; his hole was full of flesh and his resting-place stored with meat.
14 \2:13\See, I am against you, says the Lord of armies, and I will have your war-carriages burned in the smoke, and your young lions will be food for the sword: you will no longer get your food by force on the earth, and the voice of your she-lions will be stopped for ever.
1 O destruidor avança contra você, Nínive! Guarde a fortaleza! Vigie a estrada! Prepare a resistência! Reúna todas as suas forças!
2 O SENHOR restaurará o esplendor de Jacó; restaurará o esplendor de Israel, embora os saqueadores tenham devastado e destruído as suas videiras.
3 Os escudos e os uniformes dos soldados inimigos são vermelhos. Os seus carros de guerra reluzem quando se alinham para a batalha; agitam-se as lanças de pinho.
4 Os carros de guerra percorrem loucamente as ruas e se cruzam velozmente pelos quarteirões. Parecem tochas de fogo e arremessam-se como relâmpagos.
5 Convocam-se as suas tropas de elite, mas elas vêm tropeçando; correm para a muralha da cidade para formar a linha de proteção.
6 As comportas dos canais são abertas, e o palácio desaba.
7 Está decretado: a cidade irá para o exílio, será deportada. As jovens tomadas como escravas batem no peito; seu gemer é como o arrulhar das pombas.
8 Nínive é como um açude antigo cujas águas estão vazando. "Parem, parem", eles gritam, mas ninguém sequer olha para trás.
9 Saqueiem a prata! Saqueiem o ouro! Sua riqueza não tem fim; está repleta de objetos de valor!
10 Ah! Devastação! Destruição! Desolação! Os corações se derretem, os joelhos vacilam, todos os corpos tremem e o rosto de todos empalidece!
11 Onde está agora a toca dos leões? Onde o lugar em que alimentavam seus filhotes, para onde iam o leão, a leoa e os leõezinhos, sem nada temer?
12 Onde está o leão que caçava o bastante para os seus filhotes e estrangulava animais para as suas leoas, e que enchia as suas covas de presas e suas tocas de vítimas?
13 "Estou contra você", declara o SENHOR dos Exércitos, "queimarei no fogo os seus carros de guerra, e a espada matará os seus leões. Eliminarei da terra a sua caça, e a voz dos seus mensageiros jamais será ouvida".