Ezequiel 19
1 Entona tú una elegía sobre los príncipes de Israel.
Moreover do you take up a lamentation for the prince of Israel,
2 Dirás: ¿Qué es tu madre? Una leona que se echó entre leones; en medio de leoncillos crió sus cachorros.
and say, Why is your mother become a whelp in the midst of lions? in the midst of lions she has multiplied her whelps.
3 Y ensalzó a uno de sus cachorros, el cual llegó a ser leoncillo; aprendió a hacer presa y devoró hombres.
And one of her whelps sprang forth; he became a lion, and learned to take prey, he devoured men.
4 Oyeron de él las gentes, y quedó preso en su hoyo; y le llevaron con ganchos a la tierra de Egipto.
And the nations heard a report of him; he was caught in their pit, and they brought him into the land of Egypt in chains.
5 Viendo ella que esperaba (en vano) y que era infructuosa su esperanza, tomó otro de sus cachorros y le puso por leoncillo.
And she saw that he was driven away from her, [and] her hope [of him] perished, and she took another of her whelps; she made him a lion.
6 Andaba este entre los leones, e se hizo leoncillo; aprendió a hacer presa y devoró hombres;
And he went up and down in the midst of lions, he became a lion, and learned to take prey, he devoured men.
7 aprendió a hacer viudas y devastar ciudades; y al oír su rugido se espantaba el país y cuanto en él había.
And he prowled in his boldness and laid waste their cities, and made the land desolate, and the fullness of it, by the voice of his roaring.
8 Pero se echaron sobre él las gentes de las comarcas circunvecinas; extendieron sobre él su red, y quedó preso en su hoyo.
Then the nations set upon him from the countries round about, and they spread their nets upon him: he was taken in their pit.
9 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.
And they put him in chains and in a cage, [and] he came to the king of Babylon; and he cast him into prison, that his voice should not be heard on the mountains of Israel.
10 Durante el tiempo de tu prosperidad tu madre era como una vid, plantada junto a las aguas, fecunda y frondosa por las muchas aguas.
Your mother was as a vine and as a blossom on a pomegranate tree, planted by water: her fruit and her shoot abounded by reason of much water.
11 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.
And she became a rod for a tribe of princes, and was elevated in her bulk in the midst of [other] trees, and she saw her bulk in the multitude of her branches.
12 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.
But she was broken down in wrath, she was cast upon the ground, and the east wind dried up her choice [branches]: vengeance came upon them, and the rod of her strength was withered; fire consumed it.
13 Plantada está ahora en el desierto, en una tierra seca y sedienta;
And now they have planted her in the wilderness, in a dry land.
14 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.
And fire is gone out of a rod of her choice [boughs], and has devoured her; and there was no rod of strength in her. Her race is become a parable of lamentation, and it shall be for a lamentation.
