Ezequiel 19
Reina Valera Contemporánea
Lamentación sobre los príncipes de Israel
19 »Tú, dedica este lamento a los príncipes de Israel. 2 Diles:
»¡Leona entre las leonas era tu madre!
¡Entre los leones crió a sus cachorros!
3 A uno de ellos lo levantó del suelo,
y lo convirtió en un verdadero leoncillo.
Y éste aprendió a desmenuzar a su presa
y a devorarse a los hombres.
4 Cuando las naciones se enteraron,
lo hicieron caer en sus trampas
y encadenado lo llevaron a Egipto.
5 Cuando su madre perdió la esperanza
de que su cachorro volviera,
tomó a otro de sus cachorros
e hizo de él un león feroz.
6 Y el que antes era cachorro
llegó a ser león entre los leones,
y aprendió a desmenuzar a su presa
y a devorarse a los hombres.
7 Saqueó fortalezas, asoló ciudades,
y con el estruendo de sus rugidos
asustaba al país y a sus habitantes.
8 »Pero lo atacaron los pueblos vecinos.
Echaron su red sobre él,
y lo hicieron caer en un foso.
9 Lo encadenaron y, en una jaula,
lo presentaron ante el rey de Babilonia.
¡Lo confinaron en una mazmorra
para que nunca más sus rugidos
se oyeran sobre los montes de Israel!
10 »¡Vid entre las vides era tu madre!
Plantada junto a abundantes aguas,
daba abundantes frutos y vástagos;
11 sus fuertes varas servían para cetros,
y su altura sobresalía entre las ramas.
Era tal su altura, y tantos sus sarmientos,
que fácilmente se le reconocía.
12 ¡Pero fue arrancada con violencia,
y derribada por los suelos!
¡El viento solano marchitó sus frutos
y dejó secas sus fuertes ramas!
¡Rotas quedaron, y el fuego las consumió!
13 Ahora está plantada en el desierto,
en una tierra seca y desolada.
14 De una de sus varas salió fuego,
y ese fuego consumió sus frutos.
¡Ya no queda en ella ninguna vara fuerte
que sirva como cetro para un rey!»
Éste es un lamento, y lamento debe ser.
Ezekiel 19
English Standard Version
A Lament for the Princes of Israel
19 And you, (A)take up a lamentation for the princes of Israel, 2 and say:
What was your mother? (B)A lioness!
Among lions she crouched;
in the midst of young lions
she reared her cubs.
3 And she brought up one of her cubs;
(C)he became a young lion,
(D)and he learned to catch prey;
he devoured men.
4 The nations heard about him;
(E)he was caught in their pit,
(F)and they brought him with hooks
to the land of Egypt.
5 When she saw that she waited in vain,
that her hope was lost,
(G)she took another of her cubs
and made him a young lion.
6 He prowled among the lions;
he became a young lion,
and he learned to catch prey;
he devoured men,
7 and seized[a] their widows.
He laid waste their cities,
and the land was appalled and all who were in it
at the sound of his roaring.
8 (H)Then the nations set against him
from provinces on every side;
(I)they spread their net over him;
(J)he was taken in their pit.
9 With hooks (K)they put him in a cage[b]
and (L)brought him to the king of Babylon;
they brought him into custody,
that his voice should no more be heard
on (M)the mountains of Israel.
10 Your mother was (N)like a vine in a vineyard[c]
planted by the water,
(O)fruitful and full of branches
(P)by reason of abundant water.
11 Its strong stems became
rulers' scepters;
it towered aloft
among the thick boughs;[d]
it was seen in its height
with the mass of its branches.
12 But the vine was plucked up in fury,
cast down to the ground;
(Q)the east wind dried up its fruit;
they were stripped off and withered.
As for its strong stem,
fire consumed it.
13 (R)Now it is planted in the wilderness,
in a dry and thirsty land.
14 (S)And fire has gone out from the stem of its shoots,
has consumed its fruit,
(T)so that there remains in it no strong stem,
no scepter for ruling.
This is (U)a lamentation and has become a lamentation.
Footnotes
- Ezekiel 19:7 Hebrew knew
- Ezekiel 19:9 Or in a wooden collar
- Ezekiel 19:10 Some Hebrew manuscripts; most Hebrew manuscripts in your blood
- Ezekiel 19:11 Or the clouds
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