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!
ALEPH. How has the Lord darkened in his wrath the daughter of Sion! he has cast down the glory of Israel from heaven to earth, and has not remembered his footstool.
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.
BETH. In the day of his wrath the Lord has overwhelmed [her] as in the sea, [and] not spared: he has brought down in his fury all the beautiful things of Jacob; he has brought down to the ground the strongholds of the daughter of Juda; he has profaned her kings and her 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.
GIMEL. He has broken in his fierce anger all the horn of Israel: he has turned back his right hand from the face of the enemy, and has kindled a flame in Jacob as a fire, and it has devoured all things round about.
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.
DALETH. He has bent his bow as an opposing enemy: he has strengthened his right hand as an adversary, and has destroyed all the desirable things of my eyes in the tabernacle of the daughter of Sion: he has poured forth his anger as fire.
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.
HE. The Lord is become as an enemy: he has overwhelmed Israel as in the sea, he has overwhelmed her palaces: he has destroyed her strongholds, and has multiplied the afflicted and humbled ones to the daughter of Juda.
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.
VAU. And he has scattered his tabernacle as a vine, he has marred his feast: the Lord has forgotten the feast and the sabbath which he appointed in Sion, and in the fury of his wrath has vexed the king, and priest, and prince.
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.
ZAIN. The Lord has rejected his altar, he has cast off his sanctuary, he has broken by the hand of the enemy the wall of her palaces; they have uttered their voice in the house of the Lord as on a feast day.
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.
HETH. And he has turned to destroy the wall of the daughter of Sion: he has stretched out the measuring line, he has not turned back his hand from afflicting [her]: therefore the bulwark mourned, and the wall was weakened with it.
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.
TETH. Her gates are sunk into the ground: he has destroyed and broken to pieces her bars, [and] her king and her prince amongst the Gentiles: there is no law, nay, her prophets have seen 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.
JOD. The elders of the daughter of Sion have sat upon the ground, they have kept silence: they have cast up dust upon their heads; they have girded themselves with sackcloths: they have brought down to the ground the chief virgins in Jerusalem.
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.
CHAPH. Mine eyes have failed with tears, my heart is troubled, my glory is cast down to the ground, for the destruction of the daughter of my people; while the infant and suckling swoon 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.
LAMED. They said to their mothers, Where is corn and wine? while they fainted like wounded men in the streets of the city, while their souls were poured out into their mother's bosom.
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?
MEM. What shall I testify to you, or what shall I compare to you, O daughter of Jerusalem? who shall save and comfort you, O virgin daughter of Sion? for the cup of your destruction is enlarged: who shall 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.
NUN. Your prophets have seen for you vanities and folly: and they have not discovered your iniquity, to turn back your captivity; but they have seen for you vain burdens, and worthless visions.
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”?
SAMECH. All that go by the way have clapped their hands at you; they have hissed and shaken their head at the daughter of Jerusalem. Is this the city, they say, the crown of 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.
AIN. All your enemies have opened their mouth against you: they have hissed and gnashed their teeth, and said, We have swallowed her up: moreover this is the day which we looked for; we have found it, we have seen 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.
PHE. The Lord has done that which he purposed; he has accomplished his word, [even] the things which he commanded from the ancient days: he has thrown down, and has not spared: and he has caused the enemy to rejoice over you, he has exalted the horn of him that afflicted you.
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.
TSADE. Their heart cried to the Lord, You walls of Sion, pour down tears like torrents day and night: give yourself no rest; let not the apple of your eyes cease.
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.
KOPH. Arise, rejoice in the night at the beginning of your watch: pour out your heart as water before the face of the Lord; lift up your hands to him for the life of your infants, who faint for hunger at the top of all the streets.
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?
RHECHS. Behold, O Lord, and see for whom you has gathered thus. Shall the women eat the fruit of their womb? the cook has made a gathering: shall the infants sucking at the breasts be slain? will you kill the priest and prophet 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.
CHSEN. The child and old man have lain down in the street: my virgins and my young men are gone into captivity: you have slain [them] with the sword and with famine; in the day of your wrath you have mangled [them], you has not spared.
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.”
THAU. He has called my sojourners round about to a solemn day, and there was not in the day of the wrath of the Lord any one that escaped or was left; whereas I have strengthened and multiplied all mine enemies.
