Zechariah 11

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1 Open your doors, O Lebanon, that the fire may devour your cedars!	1 Abre tus puertas, Líbano, y el fuego devore tus cedros.
2 Wail, you cypress trees, for the cedars are fallen, the mighty have been despoiled. Wail, you oaks of Bashan, for the impenetrable forest is cut down!	2 Gime, ciprés, porque ha caído el cedro, porque los majestuosos han sido arrasados. Gemid, encinas de Basán, porque ha sido abatida la selva impenetrable.
3 Hark! the wailing of the shepherds, their glory has been ruined. Hark! the roaring of the young lions, the jungle of the Jordan is laid waste.	3 Se oye gemido de pastores, porque ha sido arrasado su esplendor, se oye rugido de leones, porque ha sido arrasada la gloria del Jordán.
4 Thus said the LORD, my God: Shepherd the flock to be slaughtered.	4 Así dice Yahveh mi Dios: Apacienta las ovejas de matadero,
5 For they who buy them slay them with impunity; while those who sell them say, "Blessed be the LORD, I have become rich!" Even their own shepherds do not feel for them.	5 esas que sus compradores matan impunemente, mientras sus vendedores dicen: «¡Bendito sea Yahveh; ya soy rico!», y a las que no perdonan los pastores.
6 (Nor shall I spare the inhabitants of the earth any more, says the LORD. Yes, I will deliver each of them into the power of his neighbor, or into the power of his king; they shall crush the earth, and I will not deliver it out of their power.)	6 Pues yo no perdonaré más a los habitantes de esta tierra, oráculo de Yahveh; mas he aquí que voy a entregar a los hombres, a cada uno en manos de su vecino y en manos de su rey; ellos aplastarán la tierra y yo no los libraré de sus manos.
7 So I became the shepherd of the flock to be slaughtered for the sheep merchants. I took two staffs, one of which I called "Favor," and the other, "Bonds," and I fed the flock.	7 Apacenté, pues, las ovejas de matadero destinadas a los tratantes de ovejas, y me procuré dos cayados: a uno lo llamé «Gracia» y al otro «Vínculo». Me puse a apacentar las ovejas,
8 In a single month I did away with the three shepherds. I wearied of them, and they behaved badly toward me.	8 y me deshice de los tres pastores en un mes. Pero mi alma se impacientó con ellos y su alma también se hastió de mí.
9 "I will not feed you," I said. "What is to die, let it die; what is to perish, let it perish, and let those that are left devour one another's flesh."	9 Entonces dije: «¡No os apacentaré más; la que tenga que morir, que muera, la que tenga que desaparecer, que desaparezca, y las que queden, que se coman unas a otras!»
10 Then I took my staff "Favor" and snapped it asunder, breaking off the covenant which I had made with all peoples;	10 Tomé luego mi cayado «Gracia» y lo partí, para romper la alianza que Yahveh había concluido con todos los pueblos.
11 that day it was broken off. The sheep merchants who were watching me understood that this was the word of the LORD.	11 Quedó roto aquel día, y los tratantes de ovejas que me observaban supieron que era una palabra de Yahveh.
12 I said to them, "If it seems good to you, give me my wages; but if not, let it go." And they counted out my wages, thirty pieces of silver.	12 Yo les dije: «Si os parece bien, dadme mi jornal; sino, dejadlo». Ellos pesaron mi jornal: treinta siclos de plata.
13 But the LORD said to me, "Throw it in the treasury, the handsome price at which they valued me." So I took the thirty pieces of silver and threw them into the treasury in the house of the LORD.	13 Yahveh me dijo: «¡Echalo al tesoro, esa lindeza de precio en que me han apreciado!» Tomé, pues, los treinta siclos de plata y los eché en la Casa de Yahveh, en el tesoro.
14 Then I snapped asunder my other staff, "Bonds," breaking off the brotherhood between Judah and Israel.	14 Después partí mi segundo cayado «Vínculo», para romper la fraternidad entre Judá e Israel.
15 The LORD said to me: This time take the gear of a foolish shepherd.	15 Yahveh me dijo entonces: «Toma todavía el hato de un pastor necio.
16 For I will raise up a shepherd in the land who will take no note of those that perish, nor seek the strays, nor heal the injured, nor feed what survives--he will eat the flesh of the fat ones and tear off their hoofs!	16 Pues he aquí que yo voy a suscitar en esta tierra un pastor que no hará caso de la oveja perdida, ni buscará a la extraviada, ni curará a la herida, ni se ocupará de la sana, sino que comerá la carne de la cebada, y hasta las uñas les arrancará.
17 Woe to my foolish shepherd who forsakes the flock! May the sword fall upon his arm and upon his right eye; Let his arm wither away entirely, and his right eye be blind forever!	17 ¡Ay del pastor inútil que abandona las ovejas! ¡Espada sobre su brazo y sobre su ojo derecho; que su brazo se seque del todo, y del todo se oscurezca su ojo!»