Ezekiel 19
1 "Moreover, take up a lamentation for the princes of Israel,
Entona tú una elegía sobre los príncipes de Israel.
2 and say, 'What was your mother? A lioness: she couched among lions, in the midst of the young lions she nourished her cubs.
Dirás: ¿Qué es tu madre? Una leona que se echó entre leones; en medio de leoncillos crió sus cachorros.
3 She brought up one of her cubs: he became a young lion, and he learned to catch the prey; he devoured men.
Y ensalzó a uno de sus cachorros, el cual llegó a ser leoncillo; aprendió a hacer presa y devoró hombres.
4 The nations also heard of him; he was taken in their pit; and they brought him with hooks to the land of Egypt.
Oyeron de él las gentes, y quedó preso en su hoyo; y le llevaron con ganchos a la tierra de Egipto.
5 "'Now when she saw that she had waited, and her hope was lost, then she took another of her cubs, and made him a young lion.
Viendo ella que esperaba (en vano) y que era infructuosa su esperanza, tomó otro de sus cachorros y le puso por leoncillo.
6 He went up and down among the lions; he became a young lion, and he learned to catch the prey; he devoured men.
Andaba este entre los leones, e se hizo leoncillo; aprendió a hacer presa y devoró hombres;
7 He devastated their strongholds, and destroyed their cities; and the land was desolate, and its fullness, because of the noise of his roaring.
aprendió a hacer viudas y devastar ciudades; y al oír su rugido se espantaba el país y cuanto en él había.
8 Then the nations set against him on every side from the provinces; and they spread their net over him; he was taken in their pit.
Pero se echaron sobre él las gentes de las comarcas circunvecinas; extendieron sobre él su red, y quedó preso en su hoyo.
9 They put him in a cage with hooks, and brought him to the king of Babylon; they brought him into strongholds, that his voice should no more be heard on the mountains of Israel.
Le pusieron en una jaula, con un gancho (en la nariz), y le llevaron al rey de Babel; y le metieron en la cárcel, para que no se oyese más su voz sobre los montes de Israel.
10 "'Your mother was like a vine in your vineyard, planted by the waters: it was fruitful and full of branches by reason of many waters.
Durante el tiempo de tu prosperidad tu madre era como una vid, plantada junto a las aguas, fecunda y frondosa por las muchas aguas.
11 It had strong rods for the scepters of those who bore rule, and their stature was exalted among the thick boughs, and they were seen in their height with the multitude of their branches.
Había en ella ramas fuertes para cetros de reyes, se elevaba su tronco por encima de los arbustos, y sorprendía por su altura y la multitud de sus sarmientos.
12 But it was plucked up in fury, it was cast down to the ground, and the east wind dried up its fruit: its strong rods were broken off and withered; the fire consumed them.
Mas fue arrancada con furor y echada a tierra, y el viento solano secó sus frutos; se quebraron y se marchitaron sus robustas ramas y las devoró el fuego.
13 Now it is planted in the wilderness, in a dry and thirsty land.
Plantada está ahora en el desierto, en una tierra seca y sedienta;
14 Fire is gone out of the rods of its branches, it has devoured its fruit, so that there is in it no strong rod to be a scepter to rule.' This is a lamentation, and shall be for a lamentation."
más salió fuego de una vara de sus ramas, y devoró su fruto; y no le queda rama fuerte para cetro de rey. Elegía es esta, y de elegía servirá.
