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Lamentaciones 2
Nueva Versión Internacional (Castilian)
Lamentaciones 2
Nueva Versión Internacional (Castilian)
Álef
[a]2 ¡Ay, el Señor ha eclipsado a la bella Sión
con la nube de su furor![b]
Desde el cielo echó por tierra
el esplendor de Israel;
en el día de su ira se olvidó
del estrado de sus pies.
Bet
2 Sin compasión el Señor ha destruido
todas las moradas de Jacob;
en su furor ha derribado
los baluartes de la bella Judá
y ha puesto su honra por los suelos
al derrocar a su rey y a sus príncipes.
Guímel
3 Dio rienda suelta a su furor
y deshizo todo el poder[c] de Israel.
Nos vimos frente al enemigo,
y el Señor nos negó su ayuda.[d]
Ardió en Jacob como un fuego encendido
que consumía cuanto le rodeaba.
Dálet
4 Como enemigo, tensó el arco;
lista estaba su mano derecha.
Como enemigo, eliminó
a nuestros seres queridos.
Como fuego, derramó su ira
sobre las tiendas de la bella Sión.
He
5 El Señor se porta como enemigo:
ha destruido a Israel.
Ha destruido todos sus palacios
y derribado sus baluartes.
Ha multiplicado el luto y los lamentos
por la bella Judá.
Vav
6 Ha desolado su morada como a un jardín;
ha derribado su lugar de reunión.
El Señor ha hecho que Sión olvide
sus fiestas solemnes y sus sábados;
se desató su furia contra el rey
y dejó de lado al sacerdote.
Zayin
7 El Señor ha rechazado su altar;
ha abandonado su santuario.
Ha puesto en manos del enemigo
las murallas de sus palacios.
¡Lanzan gritos en la casa del Señor
como en día de fiesta!
Jet
8 El Señor decidió derribar
la muralla que rodea a la bella Sión.
Tomó la vara y midió;
destruyó sin compasión.
Hubo lamentos en rampas y muros;
todos ellos se derrumbaron.
Tet
9 Las puertas se han desplomado;
él rompió por completo sus cerrojos.
Su rey y sus príncipes
andan entre las naciones;
ya no hay ley ni profetas,
ni visiones de parte del Señor.
Yod
10 En la bella Sión, los ancianos
se sientan silenciosos en el suelo;
se echan ceniza sobre la cabeza
y se visten de luto.
Postradas yacen en el suelo
las jóvenes de Jerusalén.
Caf
11 El llanto me consume los ojos;
siento una profunda agonía.[e]
Estoy con el ánimo[f] por los suelos
porque mi pueblo ha sido destruido.
Niños e infantes desfallecen
por las calles de la ciudad.
Lámed
12 «¿Dónde hay pan y vino?»,
preguntan a sus madres
mientras caen por las calles
como heridos de muerte,
mientras en los brazos maternos
exhalan el último suspiro.
Mem
13 ¿Qué puedo decir de ti, bella Jerusalén?
¿A qué te puedo comparar?
¿Qué ejemplo darte como consuelo,
virginal ciudad de Sión?
Profundas como el mar son tus heridas.
¿Quién podría devolverte la salud?
Nun
14 Tus profetas te anunciaron
visiones falsas y engañosas.
No denunciaron tu maldad;
no evitaron tu cautiverio.
Los mensajes que te anunciaban
eran patrañas.
Sámej
15 Cuantos pasan por el camino
aplauden burlones al verte.
Ante ti, bella Jerusalén, hacen muecas,
y entre silbidos preguntan:
«¿Es esta la ciudad de belleza perfecta?
¿Es esta la alegría de toda la tierra?»
Pe
16 Todos tus enemigos abren la boca
para hablar mal de ti;
rechinando los dientes, declaran burlones:
«Nos la hemos comido viva.
Llegó el día tan esperado;
¡hemos vivido para verlo!»
Ayin
17 El Señor ha llevado a cabo sus planes;
ha cumplido su palabra,
que decretó hace mucho tiempo.
Sin piedad, te echó por tierra;
dejó que el enemigo se burlara de ti,
y enalteció el poder[g] de tus oponentes.
Tsade
18 El corazón de la gente
clama al Señor con angustia.
Bella Sión amurallada,
¡deja que día y noche
corran tus lágrimas como un río!
¡No te des un momento de descanso!
¡No retengas el llanto de tus ojos![h]
Qof
19 Levántate y clama por las noches,
cuando empiece la vigilancia nocturna.
Deja correr el llanto de tu corazón
como ofrenda derramada ante el Señor.
Eleva tus manos a Dios en oración
por la vida de tus hijos,
que desfallecen de hambre
y quedan tendidos por las calles.
Resh
20 «Mira, Señor, y ponte a pensar:
¿A quién trataste alguna vez así?
¿Habrán de comerse las mujeres
a sus hijos, fruto de sus entrañas?
¿Habrán de matar a sacerdotes y profetas
en el santuario del Señor?
Shin
21 »Jóvenes y ancianos por igual
yacen en el polvo de las calles;
mis jóvenes y mis doncellas
cayeron a filo de espada.
En tu enojo les quitaste la vida;
¡los masacraste sin piedad!
Tav
22 »Como si invitaras a una fiesta solemne,
enviaste contra mí terror de todas partes.
En el día de la ira del Señor,
nadie pudo escapar, nadie quedó con vida.
A mis seres queridos, a los que eduqué,
los aniquiló el enemigo».
Footnotes
- + Este capítulo es un poema acróstico, que sigue el orden del alfabeto hebreo.
- 2:1 ¡Ay … furor! Alt. ¡Cómo el Señor, en su enojo, / ha tratado con reproches a la hija de Sión!
- 2:3 todo el poder. Lit. todo cuerno.
- 2:3 nos negó su ayuda. Lit. retiró su mano derecha.
- 2:11 siento … agonía. Lit. mis entrañas se agitan.
- 2:11 Estoy con el ánimo. Lit. Mi hígado está derramado.
- 2:17 poder. Lit. cuerno.
- 2:18 no retengas … ojos. Lit. no acalles a la niña de tus ojos.
Lamentations 2
King James Version
Lamentations 2
King James Version
2 How hath the Lord covered the daughter of Zion with a cloud in his anger, and cast down from heaven unto the earth the beauty of Israel, and remembered not his footstool in the day of his anger!
2 The Lord hath swallowed up all the habitations of Jacob, and hath not pitied: he hath thrown down in his wrath the strong holds of the daughter of Judah; he hath brought them down to the ground: he hath polluted the kingdom and the princes thereof.
3 He hath cut off in his fierce anger all the horn of Israel: he hath drawn back his right hand from before the enemy, and he burned against Jacob like a flaming fire, which devoureth round about.
4 He hath bent his bow like an enemy: he stood with his right hand as an adversary, and slew all that were pleasant to the eye in the tabernacle of the daughter of Zion: he poured out his fury like fire.
5 The Lord was as an enemy: he hath swallowed up Israel, he hath swallowed up all her palaces: he hath destroyed his strong holds, and hath increased in the daughter of Judah mourning and lamentation.
6 And he hath violently taken away his tabernacle, as if it were of a garden: he hath destroyed his places of the assembly: the Lord hath caused the solemn feasts and sabbaths to be forgotten in Zion, and hath despised in the indignation of his anger the king and the priest.
7 The Lord hath cast off his altar, he hath abhorred his sanctuary, he hath given up into the hand of the enemy the walls of her palaces; they have made a noise in the house of the Lord, as in the day of a solemn feast.
8 The Lord hath purposed to destroy the wall of the daughter of Zion: he hath stretched out a line, he hath not withdrawn his hand from destroying: therefore he made the rampart and the wall to lament; they languished together.
9 Her gates are sunk into the ground; he hath destroyed and broken her bars: her king and her princes are among the Gentiles: the law is no more; her prophets also find no vision from the Lord.
10 The elders of the daughter of Zion sit upon the ground, and keep silence: they have cast up dust upon their heads; they have girded themselves with sackcloth: the virgins of Jerusalem hang down their heads to the ground.
11 Mine eyes do fail with tears, my bowels are troubled, my liver is poured upon the earth, for the destruction of the daughter of my people; because the children and the sucklings swoon in the streets of the city.
12 They say to their mothers, Where is corn and wine? when they swooned as the wounded in the streets of the city, when their soul was poured out into their mothers' bosom.
13 What thing shall I take to witness for thee? what thing shall I liken to thee, O daughter of Jerusalem? what shall I equal to thee, that I may comfort thee, O virgin daughter of Zion? for thy breach is great like the sea: who can heal thee?
14 Thy prophets have seen vain and foolish things for thee: and they have not discovered thine iniquity, to turn away thy captivity; but have seen for thee false burdens and causes of banishment.
15 All that pass by clap their hands at thee; they hiss and wag their head at the daughter of Jerusalem, saying, Is this the city that men call The perfection of beauty, The joy of the whole earth?
16 All thine enemies have opened their mouth against thee: they hiss and gnash the teeth: they say, We have swallowed her up: certainly this is the day that we looked for; we have found, we have seen it.
17 The Lord hath done that which he had devised; he hath fulfilled his word that he had commanded in the days of old: he hath thrown down, and hath not pitied: and he hath caused thine enemy to rejoice over thee, he hath set up the horn of thine adversaries.
18 Their heart cried unto the Lord, O wall of the daughter of Zion, let tears run down like a river day and night: give thyself no rest; let not the apple of thine eye cease.
19 Arise, cry out in the night: in the beginning of the watches pour out thine heart like water before the face of the Lord: lift up thy hands toward him for the life of thy young children, that faint for hunger in the top of every street.
20 Behold, O Lord, and consider to whom thou hast done this. Shall the women eat their fruit, and children of a span long? shall the priest and the prophet be slain in the sanctuary of the Lord?
21 The young and the old lie on the ground in the streets: my virgins and my young men are fallen by the sword; thou hast slain them in the day of thine anger; thou hast killed, and not pitied.
22 Thou hast called as in a solemn day my terrors round about, so that in the day of the Lord's anger none escaped nor remained: those that I have swaddled and brought up hath mine enemy consumed.
Lamentations 2
New International Version
Lamentations 2
New International Version
2 [a]How the Lord has covered Daughter Zion
with the cloud of his anger[b]!(A)
He has hurled down the splendor of Israel
from heaven to earth;
he has not remembered his footstool(B)
in the day of his anger.(C)
2 Without pity(D) the Lord has swallowed(E) up
all the dwellings of Jacob;
in his wrath he has torn down
the strongholds(F) of Daughter Judah.
He has brought her kingdom and its princes
down to the ground(G) in dishonor.
3 In fierce anger he has cut off
every horn[c][d](H) of Israel.
He has withdrawn his right hand(I)
at the approach of the enemy.
He has burned in Jacob like a flaming fire
that consumes everything around it.(J)
4 Like an enemy he has strung his bow;(K)
his right hand is ready.
Like a foe he has slain
all who were pleasing to the eye;(L)
he has poured out his wrath(M) like fire(N)
on the tent(O) of Daughter Zion.
5 The Lord is like an enemy;(P)
he has swallowed up Israel.
He has swallowed up all her palaces
and destroyed her strongholds.(Q)
He has multiplied mourning and lamentation(R)
for Daughter Judah.(S)
6 He has laid waste his dwelling like a garden;
he has destroyed(T) his place of meeting.(U)
The Lord has made Zion forget
her appointed festivals and her Sabbaths;(V)
in his fierce anger he has spurned
both king and priest.(W)
7 The Lord has rejected his altar
and abandoned his sanctuary.(X)
He has given the walls of her palaces(Y)
into the hands of the enemy;
they have raised a shout in the house of the Lord
as on the day of an appointed festival.(Z)
8 The Lord determined to tear down
the wall around Daughter Zion.(AA)
He stretched out a measuring line(AB)
and did not withhold his hand from destroying.
He made ramparts(AC) and walls lament;
together they wasted away.(AD)
9 Her gates(AE) have sunk into the ground;
their bars(AF) he has broken and destroyed.
Her king and her princes are exiled(AG) among the nations,
the law(AH) is no more,
and her prophets(AI) no longer find
visions(AJ) from the Lord.
10 The elders of Daughter Zion
sit on the ground in silence;(AK)
they have sprinkled dust(AL) on their heads(AM)
and put on sackcloth.(AN)
The young women of Jerusalem
have bowed their heads to the ground.(AO)
11 My eyes fail from weeping,(AP)
I am in torment within(AQ);
my heart(AR) is poured out(AS) on the ground
because my people are destroyed,(AT)
because children and infants faint(AU)
in the streets of the city.
12 They say to their mothers,
“Where is bread and wine?”(AV)
as they faint like the wounded
in the streets of the city,
as their lives ebb away(AW)
in their mothers’ arms.(AX)
13 What can I say for you?(AY)
With what can I compare you,
Daughter(AZ) Jerusalem?
To what can I liken you,
that I may comfort you,
Virgin Daughter Zion?(BA)
Your wound is as deep as the sea.(BB)
Who can heal you?
14 The visions of your prophets
were false(BC) and worthless;
they did not expose your sin
to ward off your captivity.(BD)
The prophecies they gave you
were false and misleading.(BE)
15 All who pass your way
clap their hands at you;(BF)
they scoff(BG) and shake their heads(BH)
at Daughter Jerusalem:(BI)
“Is this the city that was called
the perfection of beauty,(BJ)
the joy of the whole earth?”(BK)
16 All your enemies open their mouths
wide against you;(BL)
they scoff and gnash their teeth(BM)
and say, “We have swallowed her up.(BN)
This is the day we have waited for;
we have lived to see it.”(BO)
17 The Lord has done what he planned;
he has fulfilled(BP) his word,
which he decreed long ago.(BQ)
He has overthrown you without pity,(BR)
he has let the enemy gloat over you,(BS)
he has exalted the horn[e] of your foes.(BT)
18 The hearts of the people
cry out to the Lord.(BU)
You walls of Daughter Zion,(BV)
let your tears(BW) flow like a river
day and night;(BX)
give yourself no relief,
your eyes no rest.(BY)
19 Arise, cry out in the night,
as the watches of the night begin;
pour out your heart(BZ) like water
in the presence of the Lord.(CA)
Lift up your hands(CB) to him
for the lives of your children,
who faint(CC) from hunger
at every street corner.
20 “Look, Lord, and consider:
Whom have you ever treated like this?
Should women eat their offspring,(CD)
the children they have cared for?(CE)
Should priest and prophet be killed(CF)
in the sanctuary of the Lord?(CG)
Footnotes
- Lamentations 2:1 This chapter is an acrostic poem, the verses of which begin with the successive letters of the Hebrew alphabet.
- Lamentations 2:1 Or How the Lord in his anger / has treated Daughter Zion with contempt
- Lamentations 2:3 Or off / all the strength; or every king
- Lamentations 2:3 Horn here symbolizes strength.
- Lamentations 2:17 Horn here symbolizes strength.
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