Zacarías 11

1 Abre tus puertas, Líbano, para que el fuego devore tus cedros.

Open your gates, Lebanon, and let fire consume your cedars.

2 Lamenta, ciprés, porque el cedro ha caído, porque las majestuosas son destruidas. Aullad, robles de Basán, porque el bosque fuerte ha bajado.

Howl, you fir tree, for the cedar has fallen, because the magnificent have been devastated. Howl, you oaks of Bashan, because the secure forest passage has been cut down.

3 ¡La voz del lamento de los pastores! Porque su gloria está destruida: ¡una voz de rugido de leones jóvenes! Porque el orgullo del Jordán está arruinado.

The voice of the howling of the shepherds: for their magnificence has been devastated. The voice of the roaring of the lions: because the arrogance of the Jordan has been devastated.

4 El Señor, mi Dios, dice: “Apacienta el rebaño de la matanza.

Thus says the Lord my God: Feed the flock of the slaughter,

5 Sus compradores los sacrifican y quedan impunes. Los que los venden dicen: ‘Bendito sea Yahvé, porque soy rico’; y sus propios pastores no se apiadan de ellos.

which those who possessed them cut down, and they did not feel sorrow, and they sold them, saying: “Blessed be the Lord; we have become wealthy. Even their shepherds did not spare them.”

6 Porque ya no me apiadaré de los habitantes de la tierra — dice Yahvé —, sino que entregaré a cada uno de los hombres en manos de su vecino y en manos de su rey. Golpearán la tierra, y de su mano no los libraré”.

And so, I will no longer spare the inhabitants upon the earth, says the Lord. Behold, I will deliver men, each one into the hand of his neighbor and into the hand of his king. And they will cut down the land, and I will not rescue it from their hand.

7 Así que alimenté al rebaño que iba a ser sacrificado, especialmente a los oprimidos del rebaño. Tomé para mí dos bastones. Al uno lo llamé “Favor” y al otro lo llamé “Unión”, y alimenté al rebaño.

And I will pasture the flock of the slaughter, because of this, O poor of the flock. And I took to myself two staffs: the one I called Handsome, and the other I called Rope, and I pastured the flock.

8 En un mes eliminé a los tres pastores, porque mi alma estaba cansada de ellos, y su alma también me aborrecía.

And I cut down three shepherds in one month. And my soul became contracted concerning them, just as their soul also varied concerning me.

9 Entonces dije: “No los alimentaré. Lo que muera, que muera; y lo que deba ser cortado, que sea cortado; y que los que queden se coman la carne unos a otros”.

And I said: I will not pasture you. Whatever dies, let it die. And whatever is cut down, let it be cut down. And let the rest of them devour, each one the flesh of his neighbor.

10 Tomé mi bastón de mando y lo corté, para romper mi pacto que había hecho con todos los pueblos.

And I took my staff, which was called Handsome, and I tore it apart, so as to invalidate my pact, which I had struck with all of the people.

11 Aquel día se rompió, y así los pobres del rebaño que me escuchaban supieron que era palabra de Yahvé.

And it became invalid in that day. And so they understood, just like the poor of the flock who stay close to me, that this is the word of the Lord.

12 Les dije: “Si les parece mejor, denme mi salario; y si no, guárdenlo”. Así que pesaron por mi salario treinta piezas de plata.

And I said to them: If it is good in your eyes, bring me my wages. And if not, remain still. And they weighed for my wages thirty silver coins.

13 El Señor me dijo: “Tíralo al alfarero: el buen precio en que me valoraron”. Tomé las treinta piezas de plata y las arrojé al alfarero en la casa de Yahvé.

And the Lord said to me: Cast it towards the statuary, the handsome price at which I have been valued by them. And I took the thirty silver coins, and I cast them into the house of the Lord, towards the statuary.

14 Luego corté mi otro bastón, Unión, para romper la hermandad entre Judá e Israel.

And I cut short my second staff, which was called Rope, so that I might dissolve the brotherhood between Judah and Israel.

15 El Señor me dijo: “Vuelve a tomar para ti el equipo de un pastor insensato.

And the Lord said to me: Still they are to you the equipment of a foolish shepherd.

16 Porque he aquí que yo suscitaré en la tierra un pastor que no visitará a los desheredados, ni buscará a los dispersos, ni curará a los rotos, ni alimentará a los sanos; sino que comerá la carne de las ovejas gordas, y les desgarrará las pezuñas.

For behold, I will raise up a shepherd in the land, who will not visit what is forsaken, nor seek what is scattered, nor heal what is broken, nor nourish what remains standing, and he will consume the flesh of the fatted ones and break their hoofs.

17 ¡Ay del pastor inútil que abandona el rebaño! La espada golpeará su brazo y su ojo derecho. Su brazo se marchitará por completo, y su ojo derecho quedará totalmente ciego”.

O shepherd and idol, abandoning the flock, with a sword upon his arm and over his right eye: his arm will be withered by drought, and his right eye will be obscured by darkness.