Ezequiel 19
1 Y tú levanta esta endecha sobre los príncipes de Israel,
And thou, —do thou lift up a lamentation for the princes of Israel,
2 Y dirás: ¿Cómo se echó entre los leones tu madre la leona: entre los leoncillos crió sus cachorros?
And say, What a noble lioness was thy mother! among lions did she lie down, in the midst of young lions did she raise her whelps!
3 E hizo subir uno de sus cachorros: vino a ser leoncillo, y aprendió a prender presa, y a comer hombres.
And she brought up one of her whelps: he became a young lion, and he learned to tear in pieces the prey; [even] men he devoured.
4 Y las naciones oyeron de él: fue tomado con el lazo de ellas, y trajéronle con grillos a la tierra de Egipto.
And when nations heard of him, he was caught in their pit, and they brought him with nose-rings unto the land of Egypt.
5 Y viendo que había esperado mucho tiempo, y que se perdía su esperanza, tomó otro de sus cachorros, y púsole por leoncillo.
Now when she saw that she had long waited, [that] her hope was lost, she took another one of her whelps, and made him a young lion.
6 Y él andaba entre los leones, hízose leoncillo, aprendió a prender presa, comió hombres.
And he went up and down in the midst of lions, he became a young lion; and he learned to tear in pieces the prey; even men he devoured.
7 Y conoció sus viudas, y asoló sus ciudades; y la tierra, y su abundancia fue asolada de la voz de su bramido.
And he broke down their palaces, and their cities laid he in ruins: and then was terrified the land, with all that filled it, because of the noise of his roaring.
8 Y dieron sobre él las gentes de las provincias de al derredor; y extendieron sobre él su red: fue preso en su hoyo.
Then set themselves the nations against him on every side from the provinces; and they spread over him their net: in their pit was he caught.
9 Y pusiéronle en cárcel con cadenas, y trajéronle al rey de Babilonia: metiéronle en fortalezas, que su voz no se oyese más sobre los montes de Israel.
And they put him in a cage with nose-rings [in his nose], and they brought him to the king of Babylon: they brought him into strong-holds, in order that his voice should no more be heard on the mountains of Israel.
10 Tu madre fue como una vid en tu sangre, plantada junto a aguas, haciendo fruto, y echando ramas a causa de las muchas aguas.
Thy mother was like a vine, if I compare thee to aught, planted by the waters: fruitful and full of boughs was she by reason of many waters.
11 Y ella tuvo varas fuertes para cetros de señores, y su estatura se levantó encima entre las ramas; y fue vista con su altura, y con la multitud de sus ramos.
And she had strong branches [fit] for the sceptres of rulers, and her stature grew up high between the thick-branched [trees], and she was seen through her height by means of the multitude of her tendrils.
12 Y fue arrancada con ira, derribada en tierra, y viento solano secó su fruto: fueron quebradas sus ramas, y secáronse: la vara de su fuerza consumió fuego.
But she was plucked up in fury, to the ground was she cast down, and the east wind dried up her fruit: and torn off and dried up were her strong branches, a fire consumed them.
13 Y ahora es plantada en el desierto, en tierra de sequedad y de sequera.
And now is she planted in the wilderness, in a dry and thirsty land.
14 Y salió fuego de la vara de sus ramos que consumió su fruto, y no quedó en ella vara fuerte, cetro para enseñorear. Endecha es, y de endecha servirá.
And fire is gone out of a branch of her boughs, and hath devoured her fruit, so that there is no more on her a strong branch for a sceptre to rule. This is a lamentation, and it is become a lamentation.
