Ezekiel 19
1 Take up now a song of grief for the ruler of Israel, and say,
Y tú levanta esta endecha sobre los príncipes de Israel,
2 What was your mother? Like a she-lion among lions, stretched out among the young lions she gave food to her little ones.
Y dirás: ¿Cómo se echó entre los leones tu madre la leona: entre los leoncillos crió sus cachorros?
3 And one of her little ones came to growth under her care, and became a young lion, learning to go after beasts for his food; and he took men for his meat.
E hizo subir uno de sus cachorros: vino a ser leoncillo, y aprendió a prender presa, y a comer hombres.
4 And the nations had news of him; he was taken in the hole they had made: and, pulling him with hooks, they took him into the land of Egypt.
Y las naciones oyeron de él: fue tomado con el lazo de ellas, y trajéronle con grillos a la tierra de Egipto.
5 Now when she saw that her hope was made foolish and gone, she took another of her little ones and made him into a young lion.
Y viendo que había esperado mucho tiempo, y que se perdía su esperanza, tomó otro de sus cachorros, y púsole por leoncillo.
6 And he went up and down among the lions and became a young lion, learning to go after beasts for his food; and he took men for his meat.
Y él andaba entre los leones, hízose leoncillo, aprendió a prender presa, comió hombres.
7 And he sent destruction on their widows and made waste their towns; and the land and everything in it became waste because of the loud sound of his voice.
Y conoció sus viudas, y asoló sus ciudades; y la tierra, y su abundancia fue asolada de la voz de su bramido.
8 Then the nations came against him from the kingdoms round about: their net was stretched over him and he was taken in the hole they had made.
Y dieron sobre él las gentes de las provincias de al derredor; y extendieron sobre él su red: fue preso en su hoyo.
9 They made him a prisoner with hooks, and took him to the king of Babylon; they put him in the strong place so that his voice might be sounding no longer on the mountains of Israel.
Y pusiéronle en cárcel con cadenas, y trajéronle al rey de Babilonia: metiéronle en fortalezas, que su voz no se oyese más sobre los montes de Israel.
10 Your mother was in comparison like a vine, planted by the waters: she was fertile and full of branches because of the great waters.
Tu madre fue como una vid en tu sangre, plantada junto a aguas, haciendo fruto, y echando ramas a causa de las muchas aguas.
11 And she had a strong rod for a rod of authority for the rulers, and it became tall among the clouds and it was seen lifted up among the number of its branches.
Y ella tuvo varas fuertes para cetros de señores, y su estatura se levantó encima entre las ramas; y fue vista con su altura, y con la multitud de sus ramos.
12 But she was uprooted in burning wrath, and made low on the earth; the east wind came, drying her up, and her branches were broken off; her strong rod became dry, the fire made a meal of it.
Y fue arrancada con ira, derribada en tierra, y viento solano secó su fruto: fueron quebradas sus ramas, y secáronse: la vara de su fuerza consumió fuego.
13 And now she is planted in the waste land, in a dry and unwatered country.
Y ahora es plantada en el desierto, en tierra de sequedad y de sequera.
14 And fire has gone out from her rod, causing the destruction of her branches, so that there is no strong rod in her to be the ruler's rod of authority. This is a song of grief, and it was for a song of grief.
Y salió fuego de la vara de sus ramos que consumió su fruto, y no quedó en ella vara fuerte, cetro para enseñorear. Endecha es, y de endecha servirá.
