Zechariah 11
1 Open your doors, Lebanon, that fire may devour your cedars!
¡Abre tus puertas, oh Líbano, y consuma el fuego tus cedros!
2 Lament, cypress trees, for the cedar trees have fallen! What was majestic has been devastated! Lament, you oaks of Bashan, for the strong forest has gone down.
¡Llora, oh ciprés, porque el cedro cayó, y los majestuosos fueron talados! ¡Laméntense, oh robles de Basán, porque el denso bosque cayó!
3 The shepherds howl, for their glory has been destroyed! The voice of the young lions' roar, for the pride of the Jordan River has been devastated!
Hay un gemido de los pastores, porque su esplendor quedó arruinado. Hay un rugido de los leoncillos, porque el esplendor del Jordán quedó destruido.
4 This is what Yahweh my God says, “Like a shepherd, watch over the flock set aside for slaughter!
Yavé mi ʼElohim dice: Apacienta las ovejas para la matanza,
5 (The ones who buy them slaughter them and are not punished, and the ones who sell them say, 'Blessed be Yahweh! I have become rich!' for the shepherds working for the flocks' owners have no pity on them.)
a las cuales sus compradores degüellan sin sentirse culpables. El que las vende piensa: Bendito sea Yavé, porque me enriquecí. Sus propios pastores no tienen compasión de ellas.
6 For I will no longer pity the inhabitants of the land!—this is Yahweh's declaration. See! I myself am about to turn over every person into the hand of his neighbor and into the hand of his king, and they will destroy the land and none of them will I deliver them from their hand.”
Por tanto ya no tendré compasión de los habitantes de la tierra, dice Yavé. Porque, miren, Yo entrego a los hombres, a cada uno en manos de su prójimo y en manos de su rey. Así desolarán la tierra, y Yo no los libraré de sus manos.
7 So I became the shepherd of the flock marked for slaughter, for those who dealt in sheep. I took two staffs; one staff I called “Favor” and the other I called “Unity.” In this way I shepherded the flock.
Así que apacenté las ovejas de matadero, esto es, las pobres del rebaño. Tomé para mí dos cayados. A uno llamé Gracia y al otro Atadura, y apacenté las ovejas.
8 In one month I destroyed the three shepherds. I became impatient with them, and they also hated me.
Entonces eliminé a tres pastores en un mes, porque yo me fastidié de ellos, y ellos también se disgustaron conmigo.
9 Then I said to the owners, “I will not work as a shepherd for you any longer. The sheep that are dying—let them die; the sheep that are being destroyed—let them be destroyed. Let the sheep that remain each eat the flesh of its neighbor.”
Les dije: No los alimentaré más a ustedes. Si alguna muere, que muera. Si alguna se pierde, que se pierda, y las que queden, que coman carne las unas de las otras.
10 So I took my staff “Favor” and broke it to break the covenant that I had made with all of my tribes.
Tomé mi cayado Gracia y lo quebré en señal de anulación de mi pacto con todos los pueblos.
11 On that day the covenant was broken, and those who dealt in sheep and who were watching me knew that Yahweh had spoken.
Aquel día fue anulado. Los que compraban las ovejas, quienes me observaban, reconocieron que era Palabra de Yavé.
12 I said to them, “If it seems good to you, pay me my wages. But if not, do not do it.” So they weighed out my wages—thirty pieces of silver.
Y les dije: Si les parece bien, denme mi salario, y si no, déjenlo. Y pesaron 30 piezas de plata como salario mío.
13 Then Yahweh said to me, “Deposit the silver in the treasury, the excellent price at which they valued you!” So I took the thirty pieces of silver and deposited them in the treasury in the house of Yahweh.
Y Yavé me dijo: Échalo al tesoro. ¡Valioso precio con el cual fui valuado por ellos! Y tomé las 30 piezas de plata y las eché en la vasija de arcilla del tesoro en la Casa de Yavé.
14 Then I broke my second staff, “Unity,” to break the brotherhood between Judah and Israel.
Luego quebré mi otro cayado, Atadura, para romper la hermandad entre Judá e Israel.
15 Yahweh said to me, “Again, take the equipment of a foolish shepherd for yourself,
Y Yavé me dijo: Toma también la ropa y los objetos de un pastor insensato,
16 for see, I am about to set in place a shepherd in the land. He will not care for the perishing sheep. He will not seek out the sheep gone missing, nor heal the crippled sheep. He will not feed the sheep that are healthy, but will eat the flesh of the fattened sheep and will tear off their hooves.
porque, ciertamente, Yo levanto en la tierra a un pastor que no se ocupará de las perdidas, ni buscará a la descarriada, ni curará a la perniquebrada, ni llevará a cuestas a la cansada, pero se comerá la carne de la robusta y romperá sus pezuñas.
17 Woe to the worthless shepherd who forsakes the flock! May the sword come against his arm and his right eye! May his arm wither away and may his right eye become blind!”
¡Ay del pastor inútil, que abandona el rebaño! ¡Caiga una espada contra su mano derecha y su ojo derecho sea completamente oscurecido!
