Lamentations 2
1 ALEPH. O how the Lord has covered the daughter of Zion with gloom in his fury! O how he has thrown down from heaven to earth the famous one of Israel, and he has not remembered his footstool in the day of his fury.
¡Cómo ha cubierto el Señor a la hija de Sión con una nube en su ira! Ha hecho descender del cielo a la tierra la belleza de Israel, y no se ha acordado de su escabel en el día de su ira.
2 BETH. The Lord has cast down, and he has not been lenient, with all the beauties of Jacob. In his fury, he has destroyed the fortifications of the virgin of Judah, and he has thrown them down to the ground. He has polluted the kingdom and its leaders.
El Señor se ha tragado todas las moradas de Jacob sin piedad. Ha derribado en su ira las fortalezas de la hija de Judá. Los ha hecho caer al suelo. Ha profanado el reino y sus príncipes.
3 GHIMEL. In the anger of his fury, he has broken the entire horn of Israel. He has drawn back his right hand before the face of the enemy. And he has kindled within Jacob a flaming fire, devouring all around.
Ha cortado todo el cuerno de Israel con feroz ira. Ha retirado su mano derecha de delante del enemigo. Ha quemado a Jacob como un fuego ardiente, que devora todo a su alrededor.
4 DALETH. He has bent his bow like an enemy. He has fixed his right hand like an adversary. And he has cut down all that was beautiful to behold in the tabernacle of the daughter of Zion. He has poured out his indignation like fire.
Ha doblado su arco como un enemigo. Se ha levantado con su mano derecha como adversario. Ha matado todo lo que era agradable a la vista. En la tienda de la hija de Sión, ha derramado su ira como el fuego.
5 HE. The Lord has become like an enemy. He has thrown down Israel. He has thrown down all of his defenses. He has torn apart his fortifications. And he has filled the daughter of Judah with humbled men and humbled women.
El Señor se ha convertido en un enemigo. Se ha tragado a Israel. Se ha tragado todos sus palacios. Ha destruido sus fortalezas. Ha multiplicado el luto y el lamento en la hija de Judá.
6 VAU. And he has torn apart her tent like a garden. He has demolished her tabernacle. In Zion, the Lord has delivered feast and Sabbath into oblivion, and king and priest into disgrace, and into the indignation of his fury.
Se ha llevado violentamente su tabernáculo, como si fuera un jardín. Ha destruido su lugar de reunión. Yahvé ha hecho olvidar la asamblea solemne y el sábado en Sión. En la indignación de su ira, ha despreciado al rey y al sacerdote.
7 ZAIN. The Lord has pushed away his own altar. He has cursed his own sanctuary. He has delivered the walls of its towers into the hand of the enemy. They have made a noise in the house of the Lord, as if on the day of a solemnity.
El Señor ha desechado su altar. Ha aborrecido su santuario. Ha entregado los muros de sus palacios en manos del enemigo. Han hecho ruido en la casa de Yahvé, como en el día de una asamblea solemne.
8 HETH. The Lord has decided to tear down the wall of the daughter of Zion. He has stretched out his measuring line, and he has not turned away his hand from perdition. And the rampart has mourned, and with the wall it has been torn apart.
Yahvé se ha propuesto destruir el muro de la hija de Sión. Ha estirado la línea. No ha retirado su mano de la destrucción; Ha hecho que la muralla y el muro se lamenten. Languidecen juntos.
9 TETH. Her gates have been buried in the ground. He has ruined and crushed its bars. Her king and her princes are with the Gentiles. There is no law, and her prophets have found no vision from the Lord.
Sus puertas se han hundido en la tierra. Ha destruido y roto sus barrotes. Su rey y sus príncipes están entre las naciones donde no hay ley. Sí, sus profetas no encuentran ninguna visión de Yahvé.
10 JOD. The elders of the daughter of Zion have become idle; they sit on the ground. They have sprinkled their heads with ashes. They have been wrapped with haircloth. The virgins of Jerusalem have cast their heads down to the ground.
Los ancianos de la hija de Sión se sientan en el suelo. Guardan silencio. Han levantado polvo sobre sus cabezas. Se han vestido de cilicio. Las vírgenes de Jerusalén bajan la cabeza hasta el suelo.
11 CAPH. My eyes have exhausted their tears. My internal organs have become disturbed. My liver has been poured out on the earth, over the grief of the daughter of my people, when the little ones and the infants passed away in the streets of the town.
Mis ojos fallan con las lágrimas. Mi corazón está preocupado. Mi bilis se derrama sobre la tierra, por la destrucción de la hija de mi pueblo, porque los niños pequeños y los infantes se desmayan en las calles de la ciudad.
12 LAMED. They said to their mothers, “Where is the wheat and the wine?” when they fell like the wounded in the streets of the city, when they breathed out their lives into the bosoms of their mothers.
Le preguntan a sus madres, “¿Dónde está el grano y el vino?” cuando se desmayan como los heridos en las calles de la ciudad, cuando su alma se vierte en el seno de su madre.
13 MEM. To what shall I compare you, or to what shall I liken you, O daughter of Jerusalem? To what shall I equate you, so as to console you, O virgin daughter of Zion? For your destruction is as great as the sea. Who will cure you?
¿Qué te voy a testificar? ¿A qué te compararé, hija de Jerusalén? Qué voy a comparar contigo, ¿para que te consuele, virgen hija de Sión? Porque tu brecha es tan grande como el mar. ¿Quién puede curarte?
14 NUN. Your prophets have seen false and foolish things for you. And they have not laid open your iniquity, so as to provoke you to repentance. Yet they have seen for you false revelations and banishments.
Tus profetas han visto visiones falsas y necias para ti. No han descubierto tu iniquidad, para revertir su cautiverio, sino que han visto para ustedes falsas revelaciones y causas de destierro.
15 SAMECH. All those who passed by the way have clapped their hands over you. They have hissed and shook their heads over the daughter of Jerusalem, saying, “Is this the city of perfect dignity, the joy of all the earth?”
Todos los que pasan te aplauden. Sisean y mueven la cabeza ante la hija de Jerusalén, diciendo, “¿Es esta la ciudad que los hombres llamaron ‘La perfección de la belleza’, la alegría de toda la tierra”?
16 PHE. All your enemies have opened their mouth over you. They have hissed and gnashed their teeth, and they said: “We will devour her. Yes, this is the day we waited for. We have found it, we have seen it.”
Todos tus enemigos han abierto su boca contra ti. Sisean y rechinan los dientes. Dicen: “Nos la hemos tragado. Ciertamente, este es el día que buscábamos. Lo hemos encontrado. Lo hemos visto”.
17 AIN. The Lord has done what he decided to do. He has fulfilled his word, which he instructed since the days of antiquity. He has destroyed, and he has not been lenient, and he has caused the enemy to rejoice over you, and he has exalted the horn of your adversaries.
Yahvé ha hecho lo que había planeado. Ha cumplido su palabra que ordenó en los días de antaño. Se ha tirado al suelo, y no se ha compadecido. Ha hecho que el enemigo se alegre de ti. Ha exaltado el cuerno de tus adversarios.
18 SADE. Their heart cried out to the Lord from the walls of the daughter of Zion. Let tears run down like a torrent throughout the day and the night. Do not give rest to yourself, and do not allow the pupil of your eye to cease.
Su corazón clamaba al Señor. Oh, muro de la hija de Sión, deja que las lágrimas corran como un río día y noche. No te desahogues. No dejes que tus ojos descansen.
19 COPH. Rise up. Give praise in the night, in the first of the watches. Pour out your heart like water before the sight of the Lord. Lift up your hands to him on behalf of the souls of your little ones, who have passed away from famine at the head of all the crossroads.
Levántate, grita en la noche, ¡al principio de los relojes! Derrama tu corazón como agua ante el rostro del Señor. Levanta tus manos hacia él por la vida de tus hijos pequeños, que se desmayan de hambre a la cabeza de cada calle.
20 RES. O Lord, see and consider those whom you have made into such a vintage. So then, shall women eat their own fruit, little ones measured by the palm of the hand? Shall priest and prophet be killed in the sanctuary of the Lord?
“¡Mira, Yahvé, y mira a quién has hecho así! ¿Deberían las mujeres comerse a sus crías, los niños que sostenían y hacían rebotar sobre sus rodillas? ¿Deben morir el sacerdote y el profeta en el santuario del Señor?
21 SIN. The boy and the old man lie down on the ground outside. My virgins and my youths have fallen by the sword. You have slain them in the day of your fury. You have struck down, and you have not shown pity.
“El joven y el anciano yacen en el suelo en las calles. Mis vírgenes y mis jóvenes han caído por la espada. Los has matado en el día de tu ira. Has masacrado, y no has compadecido.
22 THAU. You have called, as if to a day of solemnity, those who would terrify me all around. And there was no one, in the day of the fury of the Lord, who escaped or was left behind. Those whom I educated and nourished, my enemy has consumed.
“Has convocado, como en el día de una asamblea solemne, mis terrores por todos lados. No hubo nadie que escapara o permaneciera en el día de la ira de Yahvé. Mi enemigo ha consumido a los que he cuidado y criado.
