Zacarías 11

1 ¡Abre tus puertas, oh Líbano, y consuma el fuego tus cedros!

Let your doors be open, O Lebanon, so that fire may be burning among your cedars.

2 ¡Llora, oh ciprés, porque el cedro cayó, y los majestuosos fueron talados! ¡Laméntense, oh robles de Basán, porque el denso bosque cayó!

Give a cry of grief, O fir-tree, for the fall of the cedar, because the great ones have been made low: give cries of grief, O you oaks of Bashan, for the strong trees of the wood have come down.

3 Hay un gemido de los pastores, porque su esplendor quedó arruinado. Hay un rugido de los leoncillos, porque el esplendor del Jordán quedó destruido.

The sound of the crying of the keepers of the flock! for their glory is made waste: the sound of the loud crying of the young lions! for the pride of Jordan is made waste.

4 Yavé mi ʼElohim dice: Apacienta las ovejas para la matanza,

This is what the Lord my God has said: Take care of the flock of death;

5 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.

Whose owners put them to death and have no sense of sin; and those who get a price for them say, May the Lord be praised for I have much wealth: and the keepers of the flock have no pity for them.

6 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.

For I will have no more pity for the people of the land, says the Lord; but I will give up everyone into his neighbour's hand and into the hand of his king: and they will make the land waste, and I will not keep them safe from their hands.

7 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.

So I took care of the flock of death, for those who made profit out of the flock; and I took for myself two rods, naming one Beautiful, and the other Bands; and I took care of the flock.

8 Entonces eliminé a tres pastores en un mes, porque yo me fastidié de ellos, y ellos también se disgustaron conmigo.

And in one month I put an end to the three keepers of the flock; for my soul was tired of them, and their souls were disgusted with me.

9 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.

And I said, I will not take care of you: If death comes to any, let death be its fate; if any is cut off, let it be cut off; and let the rest take one another's flesh for food.

10 Tomé mi cayado Gracia y lo quebré en señal de anulación de mi pacto con todos los pueblos.

And I took my rod Beautiful, cutting it in two, so that the Lord's agreement, which he had made with all the peoples, might be broken.

11 Aquel día fue anulado. Los que compraban las ovejas, quienes me observaban, reconocieron que era Palabra de Yavé.

And it was broken on that day: and the sheep-traders, who were watching me, were certain that it was the word of the Lord.

12 Y les dije: Si les parece bien, denme mi salario, y si no, déjenlo. Y pesaron 30 piezas de plata como salario mío.

And I said to them, If it seems good to you, give me my payment; and if not, do not give it. So they gave me my payment by weight, thirty shekels of silver.

13 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.

And the Lord said to me, Put it into the store-house, the price at which I was valued by them. And I took the thirty shekels of silver and put them into the store-house in the house of the Lord.

14 Luego quebré mi otro cayado, Atadura, para romper la hermandad entre Judá e Israel.

Then I took my other rod, the one named Bands, cutting it in two, so that the relation of brothers between Judah and Israel might be broken.

15 Y Yavé me dijo: Toma también la ropa y los objetos de un pastor insensato,

And the Lord said to me, Take again the instruments of a foolish keeper of sheep.

16 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.

For see, I will put a sheep-keeper over the land, who will have no care for that which is cut off, and will not go in search of the wanderers, or make well what is broken, and he will not give food to that which is ill, but he will take for his food the flesh of the fat, and let their feet be broken.

17 ¡Ay del pastor inútil, que abandona el rebaño! ¡Caiga una espada contra su mano derecha y su ojo derecho sea completamente oscurecido!

A curse on the foolish keeper who goes away from the flock! the sword will be on his arm and on his right eye: his arm will become quite dry and his eye will be made completely dark.