Zacarías 11

1 ¡O Líbano! abre tus puertas, y queme fuego tus cedros.

Open your doors, Lebanon, that fire may devour your cedars!

2 Aulla, o! haya, porque el cedro cayó, porque los magníficos son talados. Aullád, alcornoques de Basán, porque el fuerte monte es derribado.

Lament, cypress trees, for the cedar trees have fallen! What was majestic has been devastated! Lament, you oaks of Bashan, for the strong forest has gone down.

3 Voz de aullido de pastores se oyó; porque su magnificencia es asolada: estruendo de bramido de cachorros de leones, porque la soberbia del Jordán es asolada.

The shepherds howl, for their glory has been destroyed! The voice of the young lions' roar, for the pride of the Jordan River has been devastated!

4 Así dijo Jehová mi Dios: Apacienta las ovejas de la matanza;

This is what Yahweh my God says, “Like a shepherd, watch over the flock set aside for slaughter!

5 Las cuales mataban sus compradores, y no se culpaban; y el que las vendía, decía: Bendito sea Jehová, que he enriquecido: ni sus pastores tenían de ellas piedad.

(The ones who buy them slaughter them and are not punished, and the ones who sell them say, 'Blessed be Yahweh! I have become rich!' for the shepherds working for the flocks' owners have no pity on them.)

6 Por tanto no tendré piedad más de los moradores de la tierra, dice Jehová; porque he aquí que yo entregaré los hombres, cada cual en mano de su compañero, y en mano de su rey; y quebrantarán la tierra, y yo no libraré de sus manos.

For I will no longer pity the inhabitants of the land!—this is Yahweh's declaration. See! I myself am about to turn over every person into the hand of his neighbor and into the hand of his king, and they will destroy the land and none of them will I deliver them from their hand.”

7 Y apacentaré las ovejas de la matanza, es a saber, los pobres del rebaño. Y porque me tomé dos cayados, al uno puse por nombre Noam Suavidad, y al otro Hobelim Ataduras; y apacenté las ovejas.

So I became the shepherd of the flock marked for slaughter, for those who dealt in sheep. I took two staffs; one staff I called “Favor” and the other I called “Unity.” In this way I shepherded the flock.

8 E hice matar tres pastores en un mes, y mi alma se angustió por ellos, también el alma de ellos me aborreció a mí.

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

9 Y dije: No os apacentaré más: la que muriere, muera; y la que se perdiere, se pierda; y las que quedaren, que cada una coma la carne de su compañera.

Then I said to the owners, “I will not work as a shepherd for you any longer. The sheep that are dying—let them die; the sheep that are being destroyed—let them be destroyed. Let the sheep that remain each eat the flesh of its neighbor.”

10 Y tomé mi cayado Noam Suavidad, y lo quebré, para deshacer mi concierto que concerté con todos los pueblos.

So I took my staff “Favor” and broke it to break the covenant that I had made with all of my tribes.

11 Y fue deshecho en ese día, y así conocieron los pobres del rebaño que miran a mí, que era palabra de Jehová.

On that day the covenant was broken, and those who dealt in sheep and who were watching me knew that Yahweh had spoken.

12 Y díjeles: Si os parece bien, dádme mi salario; y si no, dejádlo. Y apreciaron mi salario en treinta piezas de plata.

I said to them, “If it seems good to you, pay me my wages. But if not, do not do it.” So they weighed out my wages—thirty pieces of silver.

13 Y díjome Jehová: Échalo al tesorero, hermoso precio con que me han apreciado. Y tomé las treinta piezas de plata, y echélas en la casa de Jehová al tesorero.

Then Yahweh said to me, “Deposit the silver in the treasury, the excellent price at which they valued you!” So I took the thirty pieces of silver and deposited them in the treasury in the house of Yahweh.

14 Y quebré el otro mi cayado Hobelim Ataduras, para romper la hermandad entre Judá e Israel.

Then I broke my second staff, “Unity,” to break the brotherhood between Judah and Israel.

15 Y díjome Jehová: Tómate aun hato de pastor insensato.

Yahweh said to me, “Again, take the equipment of a foolish shepherd for yourself,

16 Porque he aquí que yo levanto pastor en la tierra, que no visitará las perdidas, no buscará la pequeña, no curará la perniquebrada, ni llevará a cuestas la cansada: mas comerse ha la carne de la gruesa, y romperá sus uñas.

for see, I am about to set in place a shepherd in the land. He will not care for the perishing sheep. He will not seek out the sheep gone missing, nor heal the crippled sheep. He will not feed the sheep that are healthy, but will eat the flesh of the fattened sheep and will tear off their hooves.

17 Mal haya el pastor de nada, que deja el ganado: espada sobre su brazo, y sobre su ojo derecho: secándose se secará su brazo, y su ojo derecho oscureciéndose será oscurecido.

Woe to the worthless shepherd who forsakes the flock! May the sword come against his arm and his right eye! May his arm wither away and may his right eye become blind!”