Mosaico decorativo

1. Abre tus puertas, Líbano, y el fuego devore tus cedros.

1. Open your doors, O Lebanon, that the fire may devour your cedars!

2. Gime, ciprés, porque ha caído el cedro, porque los majestuosos han sido arrasados. Gemid, encinas de Basán, porque ha sido abatida la selva impenetrable.

2. Wail, O cypress, for the cedar has fallen, for the glorious trees are ruined! Wail, oaks of Bashan, for the thick forest has been felled!

3. Se oye gemido de pastores, porque ha sido arrasado su esplendor, se oye rugido de leones, porque ha sido arrasada la gloria del Jordán.

3. Hark, the wail of the shepherds, for their glory is despoiled! Hark, the roar of the lions, for the jungle of the Jordan is laid waste!

4. Así dice Yahveh mi Dios: Apacienta las ovejas de matadero,

4. Thus said the LORD my God: "Become shepherd of the flock doomed to slaughter.

5. esas que sus compradores matan impunemente, mientras sus vendedores dicen: «¡Bendito sea Yahveh; ya soy rico!», y a las que no perdonan los pastores.

5. Those who buy them slay them and go unpunished; and those who sell them say, `Blessed be the LORD, I have become rich'; and their own shepherds have no pity on them.

6. Pues yo no perdonaré más a los habitantes de esta tierra, oráculo de Yahveh; mas he aquí que voy a entregar a los hombres, a cada uno en manos de su vecino y en manos de su rey; ellos aplastarán la tierra y yo no los libraré de sus manos.

6. For I will no longer have pity on the inhabitants of this land, says the LORD. Lo, I will cause men to fall each into the hand of his shepherd, and each into the hand of his king; and they shall crush the earth, and I will deliver none from their hand."

7. Apacenté, pues, las ovejas de matadero destinadas a los tratantes de ovejas, y me procuré dos cayados: a uno lo llamé «Gracia» y al otro «Vínculo». Me puse a apacentar las ovejas,

7. So I became the shepherd of the flock doomed to be slain for those who trafficked in the sheep. And I took two staffs; one I named Grace, the other I named Union. And I tended the sheep.

8. y me deshice de los tres pastores en un mes. Pero mi alma se impacientó con ellos y su alma también se hastió de mí.

8. In one month I destroyed the three shepherds. But I became impatient with them, and they also detested me.

9. Entonces dije: «¡No os apacentaré más; la que tenga que morir, que muera, la que tenga que desaparecer, que desaparezca, y las que queden, que se coman unas a otras!»

9. So I said, "I will not be your shepherd. What is to die, let it die; what is to be destroyed, let it be destroyed; and let those that are left devour the flesh of one another."

10. Tomé luego mi cayado «Gracia» y lo partí, para romper la alianza que Yahveh había concluido con todos los pueblos.

10. And I took my staff Grace, and I broke it, annulling the covenant which I had made with all the peoples.

11. Quedó roto aquel día, y los tratantes de ovejas que me observaban supieron que era una palabra de Yahveh.

11. So it was annulled on that day, and the traffickers in the sheep, who were watching me, knew that it was the word of the LORD.

12. Yo les dije: «Si os parece bien, dadme mi jornal; sino, dejadlo.» Ellos pesaron mi jornal: treinta siclos de plata.

12. Then I said to them, "If it seems right to you, give me my wages; but if not, keep them." And they weighed out as my wages thirty shekels of silver.

13. Yahveh me dijo: «¡Echalo al tesoro, esa lindeza de precio en que me han apreciado!» Tomé, pues, los treinta siclos de plata y los eché en la Casa de Yahveh, en el tesoro.

13. Then the LORD said to me, "Cast it into the treasury" -- the lordly price at which I was paid off by them. So I took the thirty shekels of silver and cast them into the treasury in the house of the LORD.

14. Después partí mi segundo cayado «Vínculo», para romper la fraternidad entre Judá e Israel.

14. Then I broke my second staff Union, annulling the brotherhood between Judah and Israel.

15. Yahveh me dijo entonces: «Toma todavía el hato de un pastor necio.

15. Then the LORD said to me, "Take once more the implements of a worthless shepherd.

16. Pues he aquí que yo voy a suscitar en esta tierra un pastor que no hará caso de la oveja perdida, ni buscará a la extraviada, ni curará a la herida, ni se ocupará de la sana, sino que comerá la carne de la cebada, y hasta las uñas les arrancará.

16. For lo, I am raising up in the land a shepherd who does not care for the perishing, or seek the wandering, or heal the maimed, or nourish the sound, but devours the flesh of the fat ones, tearing off even their hoofs.

17. ¡Ay del pastor inútil que abandona las ovejas! ¡Espada sobre su brazo y sobre su ojo derecho; que su brazo se seque del todo, y del todo se oscurezca su ojo!»

17. Woe to my worthless shepherd, who deserts the flock! May the sword smite his arm and his right eye! Let his arm be wholly withered, his right eye utterly blinded!"



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