Lamentaciones 2
1 ¡Cómo el Señor en su ira ha oscurecido a la hija de Sión! ¡Cómo precipitó del cielo a la tierra la gloria de Israel, y en el día de su cólera se olvidó del escabel de sus pies!
How the Lord has covered the Daughter of Zion with the cloud of His anger! He has cast the glory of Israel from heaven to earth. He has abandoned His footstool in the day of His anger.
2 Arrasó el Señor, sin compasión, todas las moradas de Jacob; destruyó en su saña las fortalezas de la hija de Judá; echó por tierra y amancilló el reino y a sus príncipes.
Without pity the Lord has swallowed up all the dwellings of Jacob. In His wrath He has demolished the fortified cities of the Daughter of Judah. He brought to the ground and defiled her kingdom and its princes.
3 En el ardor de su ira quebrantó todo el poderío de Israel; retiró su diestra frente al enemigo; encendió en Jacob un fuego ardiente que por todas panes devora.
In fierce anger He has cut off every horn of Israel and withdrawn His right hand at the approach of the enemy. He has burned in Jacob like a flaming fire that consumes everything around it.
4 Entesó su arco como enemigo, extendió su diestra cual adversario, y destruyó cuanto era de bello aspecto; en el pabellón de la hija de Sión derramó como fuego su ira.
He has bent His bow like an enemy; His right hand is positioned. Like a foe He has killed all who were pleasing to the eye; He has poured out His wrath like fire on the tent of the Daughter of Zion.
5 El Señor se ha trocado en enemigo, ha devorado a Israel; ha derribado todos sus palacios, ha destruido sus fortalezas; ha multiplicado para la hija de Sión los llantos y plañidos.
The Lord is like an enemy; He has swallowed up Israel. He has swallowed up all her palaces and destroyed her strongholds. He has multiplied mourning and lamentation for the Daughter of Judah.
6 Ha devastado su tabernáculo como la choza de un huerto; ha destruido su Santuario; Yahvé ha borrado en Sión las fiestas y los sábados; y en el ardor de su ira ha despreciado al rey y al sacerdote.
He has laid waste His tabernacle like a garden booth; He has destroyed His place of meeting. The LORD has made Zion forget her appointed feasts and Sabbaths. In His fierce anger He has despised both king and priest.
7 El Señor ha desechado su altar, ha abominado su Santuario; ha entregado a los enemigos los muros de sus baluartes; resonaron gritos en la Casa de Yahvé como en día de fiesta.
The Lord has rejected His altar; He has abandoned His sanctuary; He has delivered the walls of her palaces into the hand of the enemy. They have raised a shout in the house of the LORD as on the day of an appointed feast.
8 Determinó Yahvé destruir la muralla de la hija de Sión, extendió el cordel, y no retiró su mano de la destrucción, envolvió en luto el antemural y el muro, que languidecen juntos.
The LORD determined to destroy the wall of the Daughter of Zion. He stretched out a measuring line and did not withdraw His hand from destroying. He made the ramparts and walls lament; together they waste away.
9 Sus puertas se han hundido en el suelo; destruyó y quebrantó sus cerrojos; su rey y sus príncipes están entre los gentiles; ya no hay Ley, y sus profetas no tienen visiones de Yahvé.
Her gates have sunk into the ground; He has destroyed and shattered their bars. Her king and her princes are exiled among the nations, the law is no more, and even her prophets find no vision from the LORD.
10 Sentados en tierra callan los ancianos de la hija de Sión; se cubren la cabeza de ceniza y se visten de cilicio; inclinan a tierra sus cabezas las vírgenes de Jerusalén.
The elders of the Daughter of Zion sit on the ground in silence. They have thrown dust on their heads and put on sackcloth. The young women of Jerusalem have bowed their heads to the ground.
11 Mis ojos se consumen de tanto llorar, mis entrañas hierven; se derrama en tierra mi hígado por el quebranto de la hija de mi pueblo, al ver cómo los pequeñuelos y los lactantes desfallecen en las plazas de la ciudad.
My eyes fail from weeping; I am churning within. My heart is poured out in grief over the destruction of the daughter of my people, because children and infants faint in the streets of the city.
12 Preguntan a sus madres: ¿Dónde hay pan y vino? cuando, cual heridos, se desmayan en las plazas de la ciudad; cuando exhalan su alma en el regazo de sus madres.
They cry out to their mothers: “Where is the grain and wine?” as they faint like the wounded in the streets of the city, as their lives fade away in the arms of their mothers.
13 ¿Qué puedo decirte, y a quién compararte, hija de Jerusalén? ¿A quién te asemejaré, para consolarte, oh virgen, hija de Sión? Grande como el mar es tu llaga, ¿quién podrá curarte?
What can I say for you? To what can I compare you, O Daughter of Jerusalem? To what can I liken you, that I may console you, O Virgin Daughter of Zion? For your wound is as deep as the sea. Who can ever heal you?
14 Tus profetas te anunciaron visiones vanas y necias; no manifestaron tu iniquidad para evitar tu cautiverio; te dieron por visiones profecías falsas y seductoras.
The visions of your prophets were empty and deceptive; they did not expose your guilt to ward off your captivity. The burdens they envisioned for you were empty and misleading.
15 Baten palmas contra ti cuantos pasan por el camino; silban, y menean la cabeza contra la hija de Jerusalén. ¿Es esta la ciudad que tenía por nombre “Perfecta belleza” y “Gozo de toda la tierra”?
All who pass by clap their hands at you in scorn. They hiss and shake their heads at the Daughter of Jerusalem: “Is this the city that was called the perfection of beauty, the joy of all the earth?”
16 Abren contra ti la boca todos tus enemigos; silban, rechinan los dientes diciendo: “La hemos devorado”; este es el día esperado; ha llegado ya; lo estamos viendo.
All your enemies open their mouths against you. They hiss and gnash their teeth, saying, “We have swallowed her up. This is the day for which we have waited. We have lived to see it!”
17 Yahvé ha ejecutado sus planes, ha cumplido lo decretado desde antiguo; ha destruido sin compasión para gozo del enemigo, ha robustecido a tus adversarios.
The LORD has done what He planned; He has accomplished His decree, which He ordained in days of old; He has overthrown you without pity. He has let the enemy gloat over you and exalted the horn of your foes.
18 Su corazón clama por auxilio al Señor: ¡Oh muro de la hija de Sión, derrama, cual torrente, tus lágrimas noche y día; no te concedas descanso; ni reposen las niñas de tus ojos.
The hearts of the people cry out to the Lord. O wall of the Daughter of Zion, let your tears run down like a river day and night. Give yourself no relief, and your eyes no rest.
19 Levántate, clama de noche, al comienzo de cada vigilia; derrama, como agua, tu corazón ante la faz del Señor; alza hacia Él tus manos por la vida de tus parvulitos que desfallecen de hambre en las esquinas de todas las calles.
Arise, cry out in the night from the first watch of the night. Pour out your heart like water in the presence of the Lord. Lift up your hands to Him for the lives of your children who are fainting from hunger on the corner of every street.
20 “¡Mira, Yahvé, y contempla! ¿A quién jamás has tratado así? ¿Han acaso de comer las mujeres el fruto de su seno, los niños que acarician? ¿Han de ser asesinados el sacerdote y el profeta en el Santuario de Yahvé?
Look, O LORD, and consider: Whom have You ever treated like this? Should women eat their offspring, the infants they have nurtured? Should priests and prophets be killed in the sanctuary of the Lord?
21 Yacen por tierra en las calles jóvenes y ancianos; mis doncellas y mis mancebos cayeron al filo de la espada; los mataste en el día de tu ira; hiciste matanza sin piedad.
Both young and old lie together in the dust of the streets. My young men and maidens have fallen by the sword. You have slain them in the day of Your anger; You have slaughtered them without compassion.
22 Llamaste, como para día señalado, de todas partes terrores contra mí, y en aquel día de la ira de Yahvé no hubo evadido ni fugitivo. El enemigo aniquiló a los que yo había acariciado y criado.”
You summoned my attackers on every side, as for the day of an appointed feast. In the day of the LORD’s anger no one escaped or survived; my enemy has destroyed those I nurtured and reared.
