1 O h Líbano, abre tus puertas, y consuma el fuego tus cedros.

Open your doors, O Lebanon, that the fire may devour your cedars!

2 A úlla, oh ciprés, porque el cedro cayó, porque los árboles majestuosos han sido devastados. Aullad, encinas de Basán, porque el bosque espeso ha sido talado.

Wail, O fir tree and cypress, for the cedar has fallen, because the glorious and lofty trees are laid waste! Wail, O you oaks of Bashan, for the thick and inaccessible forest has in flames been felled!

3 V oz de aullido de pastores, porque su magnificencia es asolada; estruendo de rugidos de cachorros de leones, porque la gloria del Jordán ha sido arrasada. Los pastores inútiles

A voice of the wailing of the shepherds, for their glory, the broad pasturage, is laid waste! A voice of the roaring of young lions, for the pride of the Jordan is ruined!

4 A sí dice Jehová mi Dios: Apacienta las ovejas de la matanza,

Thus says the Lord my God: Shepherd the flock for slaughter,

5 a las cuales matan sus compradores, y no se tienen por culpables; y el que las vende, dice: Bendito sea Jehová, porque me he enriquecido; ni sus pastores tienen compasión de ellas.

Whose buyers or possessors slay them and hold themselves not guilty; and they who sell them say, Blessed be the Lord, for I have become rich! And their own shepherds neither pity nor spare them.

6 P or tanto, no tendré ya más compasión de los moradores de la tierra, dice Jehová; porque he aquí que yo entregaré los hombres cada cual en mano de su compañero y en mano de su rey; y asolarán la tierra, y yo no los libraré de sus manos.

For I will no more pity or spare the inhabitants of the land, says the Lord; but behold, I will deliver every man into his neighbor’s hand and into the hand of his king. And shall lay waste the land, and I will not deliver out of the hand.

7 A pacenté, pues, las ovejas destinadas al matadero, ciertamente, a los más desdichados del rebaño. Y tomé para mí dos cayados: al uno le puse por nombre Gracia, y al otro Ataduras; y apacenté las ovejas.

So I shepherded the flock of slaughter, truly the most miserable of sheep. And I took two staffs, the one I called Beauty or Grace and the other I called Bands or Union; and I fed and shepherded the flock.

8 Y destruí a tres pastores en un mes; pues mi alma se impacientó contra ellos, y también el alma de ellos me aborreció a mí.

And I cut off the three shepherds in one month, for I was weary and impatient with them, and they also loathed me.

9 Y dije: No os apacentaré; la que se haya de morir, que se muera; y la que haya de desaparecer, que desaparezca; y las que queden, que cada una se coma la carne de su compañera.

So I said, I will not be your shepherd. What is to die, let it die, and what is to be destroyed, let it be destroyed; and let the survivors devour one another’s flesh.

10 T omé luego mi cayado Gracia, y lo quebré, para romper mi pacto que yo había concertado con todos los pueblos.

And I took my staff, Beauty or Grace, and broke it in pieces to show that I was annulling the covenant or agreement which I had made with all the peoples.

11 Y fue deshecho en ese día, y así conocieron los traficantes de ovejas que me observaban, que era palabra de Jehová.

So the covenant was annulled on that day, and thus the most wretched of the flock and the traffickers in the sheep who were watching me knew (recognized and understood) that it was truly the word of the Lord.

12 Y les dije: Si os parece bien, dadme mi salario; y si no, dejadlo. Y pesaron por mi salario treinta piezas de plata.

And I said to them, If it seems just and right to you, give me my wages; but if not, withhold them. So they weighed out for my price thirty pieces of silver.

13 Y me dijo Jehová: Échalo al tesoro; ¡hermoso precio en que me han valorado! Y tomé las treinta piezas de plata, y las eché al tesoro en la casa de Jehová.

And the Lord said to me, Cast it to the potter —the munificently sum at which I am priced by them! And I took the thirty pieces of silver and cast them to the potter in the house of the Lord.

14 Q uebré luego el otro cayado, Ataduras, para romper la hermandad entre Judá e Israel.

Then I broke into pieces my other staff, Bands or Union, indicating that I was annulling the brotherhood between Judah and Israel.

15 Y me dijo Jehová: Toma aún los aperos de un pastor insensato;

And the Lord said to me, Take up once more the implements of a worthless and wicked shepherd.

16 p orque he aquí, yo voy a suscitar en la tierra a un pastor que no visitará a las perdidas, ni buscará a la extraviada, ni curará a la perniquebrada, ni llevará a cuestas a la cansada, sino que comerá la carne de la gorda, y le romperá las pezuñas.

For behold, I will raise up a false shepherd in the land; the lost and perishing he will not miss or visit, the young and scattered he will not go to seek, the wounded and broken he will not heal, nor will he feed those that are sound and strong; but he will eat the flesh of the fat ones and break off their hoofs.

17 ¡ Ay del pastor inútil que abandona el ganado! Hiera la espada su brazo, y su ojo derecho; del todo se secará su brazo, y su ojo derecho será enteramente oscurecido.

Woe to the worthless and foolish shepherd who deserts the flock! The sword shall smite his arm and his right eye; his arm shall be utterly withered and his right eye utterly blinded.