Zacarías 11

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

Open your gates, Lebanon, and let fire consume 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.

Howl, you fir tree, for the cedar has fallen, because the magnificent have been devastated. Howl, you oaks of Bashan, because the secure forest passage has been cut 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 voice of the howling of the shepherds: for their magnificence has been devastated. The voice of the roaring of the lions: because the arrogance of the Jordan has been devastated.

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

Thus says the Lord my God: Feed the flock of the 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.

which those who possessed them cut down, and they did not feel sorrow, and they sold them, saying: “Blessed be the Lord; we have become wealthy. Even their shepherds did not spare 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.

And so, I will no longer spare the inhabitants upon the earth, says the Lord. Behold, I will deliver men, each one into the hand of his neighbor and into the hand of his king. And they will cut down the land, and I will not rescue it 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.

And I will pasture the flock of the slaughter, because of this, O poor of the flock. And I took to myself two staffs: the one I called Handsome, and the other I called Rope, and I pastured 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.

And I cut down three shepherds in one month. And my soul became contracted concerning them, just as their soul also varied concerning 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.

And I said: I will not pasture you. Whatever dies, let it die. And whatever is cut down, let it be cut down. And let the rest of them devour, each one the flesh of his neighbor.

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

And I took my staff, which was called Handsome, and I tore it apart, so as to invalidate my pact, which I had struck with all of the people.

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

And it became invalid in that day. And so they understood, just like the poor of the flock who stay close to me, that this is the word of the Lord.

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

And I said to them: If it is good in your eyes, bring me my wages. And if not, remain still. And they weighed for my wages thirty silver coins.

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.

And the Lord said to me: Cast it towards the statuary, the handsome price at which I have been valued by them. And I took the thirty silver coins, and I cast them into the house of the Lord, towards the statuary.

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

And I cut short my second staff, which was called Rope, so that I might dissolve the brotherhood between Judah and Israel.

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

And the Lord said to me: Still they are to you the equipment of a foolish shepherd.

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 behold, I will raise up a shepherd in the land, who will not visit what is forsaken, nor seek what is scattered, nor heal what is broken, nor nourish what remains standing, and he will consume the flesh of the fatted ones and break their hoofs.

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.

O shepherd and idol, abandoning the flock, with a sword upon his arm and over his right eye: his arm will be withered by drought, and his right eye will be obscured by darkness.