Ezequiel 19

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1 Y tú entona una elegía sobre los príncipes de Israel.	1 As for you, son of man, raise a lamentation over the prince of Israel:
2 Dirás: ¿Qué era tu madre? Una leona entre leones. Echada entre los leoncillos, criaba a sus cachorros.	2 What a lioness was your mother, a lion of lions! Among young lions she couched to rear her whelps.
3 Exaltó a uno de sus cachorros, que se hizo un león joven; y aprendió a desgarrar su presa, devoró hombres.	3 One whelp she raised up, a young lion he became; He learned to seize prey, men he devoured.
4 Oyeron hablar de él las naciones, en su fosa quedó preso; con garfios le llevaron al país de Egipto.	4 Then nations raised cries against him, in their pit he was caught; They took him away with hooks to the land of Egypt.
5 Vio ella que su espera era fallida, fallida su esperanza; y tomo otro de sus cachorros, le hizo un león joven.	5 Then she saw that in vain she had waited, her hope was destroyed. She took another of her whelps, him she made a young lion.
6 Andaba éste entre los leones, se hizo un león joven, aprendió a desgarrar su presa, devoró hombres;	6 He prowled among the lions, a young lion he became; He learned to seize prey, men he devoured;
7 derribó sus palacios, devastó sus ciudades; la tierra y sus habitantes estaban aterrados por la voz de su rugido.	7 He ravaged their strongholds, their cities he wasted. The land and all in it were appalled at the noise of his roar.
8 Se alzaron contra él las naciones, las provincias circundantes; tendieron sobre él su red y en su fosa quedó preso.	8 Nations laid out against him snares all about him; They spread their net to take him, in their pit he was caught.
9 Con garfios le cerraron en jaula, le llevaron al rey de Babilonia en calabozos le metieron, para que no se oyese más su voz por los montes de Israel.	9 They put him in a cage and took him away to the king of Babylon, So that his voice would not be heard on the mountains of Israel.
10 Tu madre se parecía a una vid plantada a orillas de las aguas. Era fecunda, exuberante, por la abundancia de agua.	10 Your mother was like a vine planted by the water; Fruitful and branchy was she because of the abundant water.
11 Tenía ramas fuertes para ser cetros reales; su talla se elevó hasta dentro de las nubes. Era imponente por su altura, por su abundancia de ramaje.	11 One strong branch she put out as a royal scepter. Stately was her height amid the dense foliage; Notably tall was she with her many clusters.
12 Pero ha sido arrancada con furor, tirada por tierra; el viento del este ha agostado su fruto; ha sido rota, su rama fuerte se ha secado, la ha devorado el fuego.	12 But she was torn up in fury and flung to the ground; The east wind withered her up, her fruit was torn off; Then her strong branch withered up, fire devoured it.
13 Y ahora está plantada en el desierto, en tierra de sequía y de sed.	13 So now she is planted in the desert, in a land dry and parched,
14 Ha salido fuego de su rama, ha devorado sus sarmientos y su fruto. No volverá a tener su rama fuerte, su cetro real. Esto es una elegía; y de elegía sirvió.	14 For fire came out of the branch and devoured her shoots; She is now without a strong branch, a ruler's scepter. This is a lamentation and serves as a lamentation.