1 E l Señor, en su furor, hundió a Sión en profunda oscuridad. Derribó del cielo la hermosura de Israel; la hizo caer por tierra; en el día de su furor no se acordó del estrado de sus pies.

How the Lord has covered the Daughter of Zion with a cloud in His anger! He has cast down from heaven to the earth the beauty and splendor of Israel and has not remembered His footstool in the day of His anger!

2 E l Señor destruyó, y no perdonó; destruyó, en su furor, todas las tiendas de Jacob; derribó las fortalezas de la capital de Judá; humilló al rey y a sus príncipes.

The Lord has swallowed up all the country places and habitations of Jacob and has spared not nor pitied; He has demolished in His wrath the strongholds of the Daughter of Judah. He has cast down to the ground the kingdom and its rulers, polluting them and depriving them of their sanctity.

3 E n el ardor de su ira, puso fin al poderío de Israel; le retiró su apoyo cuando se enfrentó al enemigo; se encendió en Jacob un fuego que todo lo devoró.

He has broken off in His fierce anger every horn (means of defense) of Israel. He has drawn back His right hand from before the enemy. And He has burned amidst Jacob like a flaming fire consuming all around.

4 C ual enemigo, cual adversario, el Señor tensó su arco; afirmó su diestra y destruyó todo lo bello; ¡en las calles de la hermosa Sión cundió su enojo como fuego!

He has bent His bow like an enemy; He has stood with His right hand set like a foe and has slain all the delights and pride of the eye; on and in the tent of the Daughter of Zion He has poured out His wrath like fire.

5 E l Señor se volvió nuestro enemigo y destruyó a Israel; destruyó todos sus palacios, derribó sus fortalezas, y aumentó la tristeza y el lamento de Judá.

The Lord has become like an enemy; He has destroyed Israel. He has destroyed all its palaces, has laid in ruins its strongholds, and has multiplied in the Daughter of Judah groaning and moaning and lamentation.

6 C omo quien deshace la enramada de un huerto, dejó en ruinas la sede principal de sus festividades; en Sión, el Señor echó al olvido las fiestas y los días de reposo; en el ardor de su ira desechó al rey y al sacerdote.

And He has violently broken down His temple like a booth or hedge of a garden; He has destroyed the place of His appointed assembly. The Lord has caused the solemn appointed feasts and Sabbaths to be forgotten in Zion and has spurned and rejected in the indignation of His anger the king and the priest.

7 E l Señor rechazó su altar, menospreció su santuario; dejó caer en manos del enemigo los muros de sus palacios; en el templo del Señor éstos vociferan como si fuera un día de fiesta.

The Lord has scorned, rejected, and cast off His altar; He has abhorred and disowned His sanctuary. He has given into the hand of the enemy the walls of her palaces; they have raised a clamor in the house of the Lord as on a day of a solemn appointed feast.

8 E l Señor decidió destruir las murallas de la bella ciudad de Sión; con el nivel en la mano, no desistió de su plan de destrucción; entre lamentos, el muro y el antemuro fueron juntamente destruidos.

The Lord purposed to lay in ruins the wall of the Daughter of Zion. He marked it off by measuring line; He restrained not His hand from destroying. He made rampart and wall lament; they languished together.

9 L as puertas se vinieron abajo cuando el Señor destruyó sus cerrojos; esparcidos entre los paganos se hallan su rey y sus príncipes; ya no hay ley, ni los profetas reciben visiones del Señor.

Her gates have sunk into the ground; He has destroyed and broken her bars. Her king and her princes are among the nations; the law is no more; her prophets also obtain no vision from the Lord.

10 E n la bella Sión, los ancianos se sientan en el suelo; en silencio y vestidos de luto se echan polvo sobre la cabeza. En Jerusalén, las doncellas inclinan humilladas la cabeza.

The elders of the Daughter of Zion sit on the ground keeping silent; they have cast dust on their heads, they have girded themselves with sackcloth. The maidens of Jerusalem have bowed their heads to the ground.

11 M is ojos se inundan en lágrimas, mis entrañas se conmueven; mi ánimo rueda por los suelos al ver destruida a mi amada ciudad, ¡al ver que los niños de pecho desfallecen por sus calles!

My eyes fail from weeping, my emotions are deeply disturbed, my heart is poured out upon the ground because of the destruction of the daughter of my people, because infants and nurslings faint in the streets of the city.

12 A sus madres les preguntan por el trigo y por el vino; se desploman por las calles, como heridos de muerte, y en el regazo de sus madres lanzan el último suspiro.

They keep crying to their mothers, Where is corn and wine ? as they faint like wounded men in the streets of the city, as their lives ebb away on their mothers’ bosom.

13 ¿ Qué te puedo decir, bella Jerusalén? ¿A quién puedo compararte? ¿Comparada con quién podría yo consolarte, virginal ciudad de Sión? ¡Grande como el mar es tu desgracia! ¿Quién podrá sanarte?

What is sufficient for me to remind you for your ? To what shall I liken you, O Daughter of Jerusalem? With what shall I compare you, that I may comfort you, O Virgin Daughter of Zion? For your ruin is as measureless as the sea! Who can heal you?

14 T us profetas te hablaron de visiones falsas e ilusorias; tu cautiverio pudo haberse impedido, pero no te señalaron tu pecado; más bien, te engañaron con visiones sin sentido.

Your prophets have predicted for you falsehood and delusion and foolish things; and they have not exposed your iniquity and guilt to avert your captivity. But they have divined and declared to you false and deceptive prophecies, worthless and misleading.

15 A l verte, todos los viandantes aplaudían; silbaban y movían con sorna la cabeza, y decían de la ciudad de Jerusalén: «¿Y ésta es la ciudad de hermosura perfecta, la que alegraba a toda la tierra?»

All who pass by clap their hands at you; they hiss and wag their heads at the Daughter of Jerusalem, saying, Is this the city which was called the perfection of beauty, the joy of all the earth?

16 T odos tus enemigos abrieron la boca contra ti; rechinando los dientes, decían con sorna: «¡Acabemos con ella! ¡Éste es el día esperado! ¡Nos ha tocado verlo y vivirlo!»

All your enemies have opened wide their mouths against you; they scornfully hiss and gnash their teeth. They cry, We have swallowed her up! Certainly this is the day we have looked for; we have it, we see it!

17 E l Señor ha llevado a cabo lo que había decidido hacer. Ha cumplido lo que hace mucho tiempo había decidido hacer. Destruyó, y no perdonó; hizo que el enemigo se burlara de ti. ¡El Señor enalteció el poder de tus adversarios!

The Lord has done what He planned; He has carried out and finished His word which He threatened and decreed in the days of old. He has demolished without pity; He has made the enemy rejoice over you and has exalted the might of your foes.

18 T us habitantes demandaban la ayuda del Señor. ¡Que tus lágrimas, bella Sión, corran día y noche como arroyo! ¡No reprimas el llanto de tus ojos!

The hearts cried to the Lord. O wall of the Daughter of Zion, let tears run down like a river day and night; give yourself no rest, let not your eyes stop.

19 P or la noche, al comenzar las guardias, ¡levántate y grita! ¡Vierte tu corazón, como un torrente, en la presencia del Señor! ¡Levanta hacia él las manos y ruega por la vida de tus pequeños, que desfallecen de hambre en las esquinas de las calles!

Arise, cry out in the night, at the beginning of the watches; pour out your heart like water before the face of the Lord. Lift up your hands toward Him for the lives of your young children, who faint from hunger at the head of every street.

20 P onte a pensar, Señor: ¿A quién has tratado así? ¿Acaso han de comerse las madres a sus hijos, fruto de sus entrañas? ¿Acaso dentro de tu santuario han de asesinar a sacerdotes y profetas?

Behold, O Lord, and consider to whom You have done this. Should and shall women eat the fruit of their own bodies, the children whom they have tended and swaddled with their hands? Should and shall priest and prophet be slain in the place set apart of the Lord?

21 E n las calles, por los suelos, yacen cuerpos de niños y viejos; mis doncellas y mis jóvenes han muerto a filo de espada. ¡En el día de tu furor mataste y degollaste sin misericordia!

The young and the old lie on the ground in the streets; my maidens and my young men have fallen by the sword. You have slain them in the day of Your anger, slaughtering them without pity.

22 D e todas partes convocaste al terror, como si convocaras a una fiesta. En el día de tu furor, nadie, Señor, pudo escapar con vida. A los hijos que tuve y mantuve, el enemigo los aniquiló.

You called together, as on an appointed feast day of solemn assembly, my terrors (dangers) from every side. And there was not one in the day of God’s wrath who escaped or survived; those I have nursed and brought up, my enemy has destroyed.