Zacarías 11
1 ¡Abre tus puertas, oh Líbano, y consuma el fuego tus cedros!
Open your gates, Lebanon, and let fire consume 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!
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 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 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 Yavé mi ʼElohim dice: Apacienta las ovejas para la matanza,
Thus says the Lord my God: Feed the flock of the slaughter,
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.
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 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.
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 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.
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 Entonces eliminé a tres pastores en un mes, porque yo me fastidié de ellos, y ellos también se disgustaron conmigo.
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 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 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 cayado Gracia y lo quebré en señal de anulación de mi pacto 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 fue anulado. Los que compraban las ovejas, quienes me observaban, reconocieron que era Palabra de Yavé.
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 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 is good in your eyes, bring me my wages. And if not, remain still. And they weighed for my wages thirty silver coins.
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: 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 quebré mi otro cayado, Atadura, 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 Y Yavé me dijo: Toma también la ropa y los objetos de un pastor insensato,
And the Lord said to me: Still they are to you the equipment of a foolish shepherd.
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 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! ¡Caiga una espada contra su mano derecha y su ojo derecho sea completamente oscurecido!
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.
