Ezequiel, 19

1. Y tú entona una elegía sobre los príncipes de Israel.

1. And you, take up a lamentation for the princes of Israel,

2. Dirás: ¿Qué era tu madre? Una leona entre leones. Echada entre los leoncillos, criaba a sus cachorros.

2. and say: What a lioness was your mother among lions! She couched in the midst of young lions, rearing her whelps.

3. Exaltó a uno de sus cachorros, que se hizo un león joven; y aprendió a desgarrar su presa, devoró hombres.

3. And she brought up one of her whelps; he became a young lion, and he learned to catch prey; he devoured men.

4. Oyeron hablar de él las naciones, en su fosa quedó preso; con garfios le llevaron al país de Egipto.

4. The nations sounded an alarm against him; he was taken in their pit; and they brought him with hooks to the land of Egypt.

5. Vio ella que su espera era fallida, fallida su esperanza; y tomo otro de sus cachorros, le hizo un león joven.

5. When she saw that she was baffled, that her hope was lost, she took another of her whelps and made him a young lion.

6. Andaba éste entre los leones, se hizo un león joven, aprendió a desgarrar su presa, devoró hombres;

6. He prowled among the lions; he became a young lion, and he learned to catch prey; he devoured men.

7. derribó sus palacios, devastó sus ciudades; la tierra y sus habitantes estaban aterrados por la voz de su rugido.

7. And he ravaged their strongholds, and laid waste their cities; and the land was appalled and all who were in it at the sound of his roaring.

8. Se alzaron contra él las naciones, las provincias circundantes; tendieron sobre él su red y en su fosa quedó preso.

8. Then the nations set against him snares on every side; they spread their net over him; he was taken in their pit.

9. Con garfios le cerraron en jaula, le llevaron al rey de Babilonia en calabozos le metieron, para que no se oyese más su voz por los montes de Israel.

9. With hooks they put him in a cage, and brought him to the king of Babylon; they brought him into custody, that his voice should no more be heard upon the mountains of Israel.

10. Tu madre se parecía a una vid plantada a orillas de las aguas. Era fecunda, exuberante, por la abundancia de agua.

10. Your mother was like a vine in a vineyard transplanted by the water, fruitful and full of branches by reason of abundant water.

11. Tenía ramas fuertes para ser cetros reales; su talla se elevó hasta dentro de las nubes. Era imponente por su altura, por su abundancia de ramaje.

11. Its strongest stem became a ruler's scepter; it towered aloft among the thick boughs; it was seen in its height with the mass of its branches.

12. Pero ha sido arrancada con furor, tirada por tierra; el viento del este ha agostado su fruto; ha sido rota, su rama fuerte se ha secado, la ha devorado el fuego.

12. But the vine was plucked up in fury, cast down to the ground; the east wind dried it up; its fruit was stripped off, its strong stem was withered; the fire consumed it.

13. Y ahora está plantada en el desierto, en tierra de sequía y de sed.

13. Now it is transplanted in the wilderness, in a dry and thirsty land.

14. Ha salido fuego de su rama, ha devorado sus sarmientos y su fruto. No volverá a tener su rama fuerte, su cetro real. Esto es una elegía; y de elegía sirvió.

14. And fire has gone out from its stem, has consumed its branches and fruit, so that there remains in it no strong stem, no scepter for a ruler. This is a lamentation, and has become a lamentation.