Lamentaciones 2
1 ¡Cómo el Señor en su ira ha oscurecido a la hija de Sión! ¡Cómo precipitó del cielo a la tierra la gloria de Israel, y en el día de su cólera se olvidó del escabel de sus pies!
The Lord has covered the daughter of Zion under the cloud of his anger. He has thrown the splendor of Israel down from heaven to earth. He has not remembered his footstool on the day of his anger.
2 Arrasó el Señor, sin compasión, todas las moradas de Jacob; destruyó en su saña las fortalezas de la hija de Judá; echó por tierra y amancilló el reino y a sus príncipes.
The Lord has swallowed up and has had no compassion on all the towns of Jacob. In the days of his anger he has thrown down the fortified cities of the daughter of Judah; in dishonor he has brought down to the ground the kingdom and its rulers.
3 En el ardor de su ira quebrantó todo el poderío de Israel; retiró su diestra frente al enemigo; encendió en Jacob un fuego ardiente que por todas panes devora.
With fierce anger he has cut off every horn of Israel. He has withdrawn his right hand from before the enemy. He has burned up Jacob like a blazing fire that devours everything around it.
4 Entesó su arco como enemigo, extendió su diestra cual adversario, y destruyó cuanto era de bello aspecto; en el pabellón de la hija de Sión derramó como fuego su ira.
Like an enemy he has bent his bow toward us, with his right is ready to shoot. He has slaughtered all who had been so pleasing to him in the tent of the daughter of Zion; he has poured out his wrath like fire.
5 El Señor se ha trocado en enemigo, ha devorado a Israel; ha derribado todos sus palacios, ha destruido sus fortalezas; ha multiplicado para la hija de Sión los llantos y plañidos.
The Lord has become like an enemy. He has swallowed up Israel. He has swallowed up all her palaces. He has destroyed her strongholds. He has increased mourning and lamentation within the daughter of Judah.
6 Ha devastado su tabernáculo como la choza de un huerto; ha destruido su Santuario; Yahvé ha borrado en Sión las fiestas y los sábados; y en el ardor de su ira ha despreciado al rey y al sacerdote.
He has attacked his tabernacle like a garden hut. He has destroyed the place of the solemn assembly. Yahweh has caused both solemn assembly and Sabbath to be forgotten in Zion, for he has despised both king and priest in the indignation of his anger.
7 El Señor ha desechado su altar, ha abominado su Santuario; ha entregado a los enemigos los muros de sus baluartes; resonaron gritos en la Casa de Yahvé como en día de fiesta.
The Lord has rejected his altar and disowned his sanctuary. He has given over the walls of her palaces into the hand of the enemy. They have raised a shout in the house of Yahweh, as on the day of an appointed feast.
8 Determinó Yahvé destruir la muralla de la hija de Sión, extendió el cordel, y no retiró su mano de la destrucción, envolvió en luto el antemural y el muro, que languidecen juntos.
Yahweh decided to destroy the city wall of the daughter of Zion. He has stretched out the measuring line and has not withheld his hand from destroying the wall. He has made the ramparts and wall to lament; together they wasted away.
9 Sus puertas se han hundido en el suelo; destruyó y quebrantó sus cerrojos; su rey y sus príncipes están entre los gentiles; ya no hay Ley, y sus profetas no tienen visiones de Yahvé.
Her gates have sunk into the ground; he has destroyed and broken the bars of her gate. Her king and her princes are among the nations, the law is no more and her prophets find no vision from Yahweh.
10 Sentados en tierra callan los ancianos de la hija de Sión; se cubren la cabeza de ceniza y se visten de cilicio; inclinan a tierra sus cabezas las vírgenes de Jerusalén.
The elders of the daughter of Zion sit on the ground in silence. They have thrown dust on their heads and put on sackcloth. The virgins of Jerusalem have bowed their heads to the ground.
11 Mis ojos se consumen de tanto llorar, mis entrañas hierven; se derrama en tierra mi hígado por el quebranto de la hija de mi pueblo, al ver cómo los pequeñuelos y los lactantes desfallecen en las plazas de la ciudad.
My eyes have failed from their tears; my stomach churns; my inner parts are poured out to the ground because of the destruction of the daughter of my people, children and infants faint in the streets of the city.
12 Preguntan a sus madres: ¿Dónde hay pan y vino? cuando, cual heridos, se desmayan en las plazas de la ciudad; cuando exhalan su alma en el regazo de sus madres.
They say to their mothers, “Where is grain and wine?” as they faint like a wounded man in the streets of the city, their lives are poured out on the bosom of their mothers.
13 ¿Qué puedo decirte, y a quién compararte, hija de Jerusalén? ¿A quién te asemejaré, para consolarte, oh virgen, hija de Sión? Grande como el mar es tu llaga, ¿quién podrá curarte?
What can I say to you, daughter of Jerusalem? To what can I compare to you, that I may comfort you, virgin daughter of Zion? Your wound is as great as the sea. Who can heal you?
14 Tus profetas te anunciaron visiones vanas y necias; no manifestaron tu iniquidad para evitar tu cautiverio; te dieron por visiones profecías falsas y seductoras.
Your prophets have seen false and worthless visions for you. They have not exposed your iniquity to restore your fortunes, but for you they gave utterances that are false and misleading.
15 Baten palmas contra ti cuantos pasan por el camino; silban, y menean la cabeza contra la hija de Jerusalén. ¿Es esta la ciudad que tenía por nombre “Perfecta belleza” y “Gozo de toda la tierra”?
All those who pass along the road clap their hands at you. They hiss and shake their heads against the daughter of Jerusalem and say, “Is this the city that they called 'The Perfection of Beauty,' 'The Joy for All of Earth'?”
16 Abren contra ti la boca todos tus enemigos; silban, rechinan los dientes diciendo: “La hemos devorado”; este es el día esperado; ha llegado ya; lo estamos viendo.
All your enemies open their mouths against you. They sneer and grind their teeth in rage and say, “We have swallowed her up! This is the day we have waited for! We have lived to see it!”
17 Yahvé ha ejecutado sus planes, ha cumplido lo decretado desde antiguo; ha destruido sin compasión para gozo del enemigo, ha robustecido a tus adversarios.
Yahweh has done what he planned to do. He has fulfilled his word. He has overthrown you without pity, for he has permitted the enemy to rejoice over you; he has lifted up the horn of your enemies.
18 Su corazón clama por auxilio al Señor: ¡Oh muro de la hija de Sión, derrama, cual torrente, tus lágrimas noche y día; no te concedas descanso; ni reposen las niñas de tus ojos.
Their heart cried out to the Lord, walls of the daughter of Zion! Make your tears flow down like a river day and night. Give yourself no relief, your eyes no relief.
19 Levántate, clama de noche, al comienzo de cada vigilia; derrama, como agua, tu corazón ante la faz del Señor; alza hacia Él tus manos por la vida de tus parvulitos que desfallecen de hambre en las esquinas de todas las calles.
Arise, cry out in the night, at the beginning of the night watches! Pour out your heart like water before the face of the Lord. Lift up your hands to him for the lives of your children who faint with hunger at the corner of every street.”
20 “¡Mira, Yahvé, y contempla! ¿A quién jamás has tratado así? ¿Han acaso de comer las mujeres el fruto de su seno, los niños que acarician? ¿Han de ser asesinados el sacerdote y el profeta en el Santuario de Yahvé?
See, Yahweh, and consider those you have dealt in this way. Should women eat the fruit of their wombs, the children whom they have cared for? Should priest and prophet be slaughtered in the sanctuary of the Lord?
21 Yacen por tierra en las calles jóvenes y ancianos; mis doncellas y mis mancebos cayeron al filo de la espada; los mataste en el día de tu ira; hiciste matanza sin piedad.
Both the young and the old lie on the dust of the streets. My young women and my young men have fallen by the sword; you have slaughtered them without taking pity on them.
22 Llamaste, como para día señalado, de todas partes terrores contra mí, y en aquel día de la ira de Yahvé no hubo evadido ni fugitivo. El enemigo aniquiló a los que yo había acariciado y criado.”
You have summoned, as you would call the people to a feast day, my terrors on every side, on the day of the anger of Yahweh no one escaped or survived; those I cared for and raised, my enemy has destroyed.
