Lamentaciones 2

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1 Alef. ¡Cómo, ay, ha anublado, en su cólera, el Señor a la hija de Sión! ¡Del cielo a la tierra ha precipitado el esplendor de Israel, sin acordarse del estrado de sus pies, en el día de su cólera!	1 ALEPH. O how the Lord has covered the daughter of Zion with gloom in his fury! O how he has thrown down from heaven to earth the famous one of Israel, and he has not remembered his footstool in the day of his fury.
2 Bet. El Señor ha destruido sin piedad todas las moradas de Jacob; ha derruido, en su furor, las fortalezas de la hija de Judá; por tierra ha echado, ha profanado al reino y a sus príncipes.	2 BETH. The Lord has cast down, and he has not been lenient, with all the beauties of Jacob. In his fury, he has destroyed the fortifications of the virgin of Judah, and he has thrown them down to the ground. He has polluted the kingdom and its leaders.
3 Guímel. En el ardor de su cólera ha quebrado todo el vigor de Israel; ha echado atrás su diestra de frente al enemigo; ha prendido en Jacob como fuego llameante que devora a la redonda.	3 GHIMEL. In the anger of his fury, he has broken the entire horn of Israel. He has drawn back his right hand before the face of the enemy. And he has kindled within Jacob a flaming fire, devouring all around.
4 Dálet. Ha tensado su arco, igual que un enemigo, ha afirmado su diestra; como un adversario ha matado a todos los que eran encanto de los ojos; en la tienda de la hija de Sión ha vertido su furor como fuego.	4 DALETH. He has bent his bow like an enemy. He has fixed his right hand like an adversary. And he has cut down all that was beautiful to behold in the tabernacle of the daughter of Zion. He has poured out his indignation like fire.
5 He. Se ha portado el Señor como enemigo; ha destruido a Israel, ha destruido todos sus palacios, ha derruido sus fortalezas, ha acumulado en la hija de Judá gemidos y gemidos.	5 HE. The Lord has become like an enemy. He has thrown down Israel. He has thrown down all of his defenses. He has torn apart his fortifications. And he has filled the daughter of Judah with humbled men and humbled women.
6 Vau. Ha forzado, como a un huerto, su cerca, ha derruido su lugar de reunión. Ha hecho olvidar Yahveh en Sión solemnidades y sábados; ha desechado en el ardor de su cólera a rey y sacerdote.	6 VAU. And he has torn apart her tent like a garden. He has demolished her tabernacle. In Zion, the Lord has delivered feast and Sabbath into oblivion, and king and priest into disgrace, and into the indignation of his fury.
7 Zain. El Señor ha rechazado su altar, su santuario ha desdeñado; ha dejado a merced del enemigo los muros de sus palacios; ¡gritos se dieron en la Casa de Yahveh, como en día solemne!	7 ZAIN. The Lord has pushed away his own altar. He has cursed his own sanctuary. He has delivered the walls of its towers into the hand of the enemy. They have made a noise in the house of the Lord, as if on the day of a solemnity.
8 Jet. Yahveh decidió destruir la muralla de la hija de Sión. Tiró el cordel, y no retrajo su mano de arrasar; ha envuelto en luto antemural y muro, que a la vez se desmoronan.	8 HETH. The Lord has decided to tear down the wall of the daughter of Zion. He has stretched out his measuring line, and he has not turn away his hand from perdition. And the rampart has mourned, and with the wall it has been torn apart.
9 Tet. Sus puertas en tierra se han hundido, él ha deshecho y roto sus cerrojos; su rey y sus príncipes están entre las gentes; ¡ya no hay Ley! Y tampoco sus profetas logran visiones de Yahveh.	9 TETH. Her gates have been buried in the ground. He has ruined and crushed its bars. Her king and her princes are with the Gentiles. There is no law, and her prophets have found no vision from the Lord.
10 Yod. En tierra están sentados, en silencio, los ancianos de la hija de Sión; se han echado polvo en su cabeza, se han ceñido de sayal. Inclinan su cabeza hasta la tierra las vírgenes de Jerusalén.	10 JOD. The elders of the daughter of Zion have become idle; they sit on the ground. They have sprinkled their heads with ashes. They have been wrapped with haircloth. The virgins of Jerusalem have cast their heads down to the ground.
11 Ya lo alcanzamos, ya lo vemos!»	11 CAPH. My eyes have exhausted their tears. My internal organs have become disturbed. My liver has been poured out on the earth, over the grief of the daughter of my people, when the little ones and the infants passed away in the streets of the town.
12 Lámed. Dicen ellos a sus madres: «¿Dónde hay pan?», mientras caen desfallecidos, como víctimas, en las plazas de la ciudad, mientras exhalan el espíritu en el regazo de sus madres.	12 LAMED. They said to their mothers, “Where is the wheat and the wine?” when they fell like the wounded in the streets of the city, when they breathed out their lives into the bosoms of their mothers.
13 Mem. ¿A quién te compararé? ¿A quién te asemejaré, hija de Jerusalén? ¿Quién te podrá salvar y consolar, virgen, hija de Sión? Grande como el mar es tu quebranto: ¿quién te podrá curar?	13 MEM. To what shall I compare you, or to what shall I liken you, O daughter of Jerusalem? To what shall I equate you, so as to console you, O virgin daughter of Zion? For your destruction is as great as the sea. Who will cure you?
14 Nun. Tus profetas vieron para ti visiones de falsedad e insipidez. No revelaron tu culpa, para cambiar tu suerte. Oráculos tuvieron para ti de falacia e ilusión.	14 NUN. Your prophets have seen false and foolish things for you. And they have not laid open your iniquity, so as to provoke you to repentance. Yet they have seen for you false revelations and banishments.
15 Sámek. Sobre ti baten palmas todos los que pasan de camino; silban y menean la cabeza sobre la hija de Jerusalén. «¿Esa es la ciudad que llamaban la Hermosa, la alegría de toda la tierra?»	15 SAMECH. All those who passed by the way have clapped their hands over you. They have hissed and shook their heads over the daughter of Jerusalem, saying, “Is this the city of perfect dignity, the joy of all the earth?”
16 Pe. Abren su boca contra ti todos tus enemigos; silban y rechinan de dientes, dicen: «¡Nos la hemos tragado! ¡Ah, éste es el Día que esperábamos!	16 PHE. All your enemies have opened their mouth over you. They have hissed and gnashed their teeth, and they said: “We will devour her. Yes, this is the day we waited for. We have found it, we have seen it.”
17 Ain. Yahveh ha hecho lo que había resuelto, ha cumplido su palabra que había empeñado desde antiguo; ha destruido sin piedad; ha hecho alegrarse sobre ti al enemigo, ha exaltado la frente de tus adversarios.	17 AIN. The Lord has done what he decided to do. He has fulfilled his word, which he instructed since the days of antiquity. He has destroyed, and he has not been lenient, and he has caused the enemy to rejoice over you, and he has exalted the horn of your adversaries.
18 Sade. ¡Clama, pues, al Señor, muralla de la hija de Sión; deja correr a torrentes tus lágrimas, durante día y noche; no te concedas tregua, no cese la niña de tu ojo!	18 SADE. Their heart cried out to the Lord from the walls of the daughter of Zion. Let tears run down like a torrent throughout the day and the night. Do not give rest to yourself, and do not allow the pupil of your eye to cease.
19 Qof. ¡En pie, lanza un grito en la noche, cuando comienza la ronda; como agua tu corazón derrama ante el rostro del Señor, alza tus manos hacia él por la vida de tus pequeñuelos (que de hambre desfallecen por las esquinas de todas las calles)!	19 COPH. Rise up. Give praise in the night, in the first of the watches. Pour out your heart like water before the sight of the Lord. Lift up your hands to him on behalf of the souls of your little ones, who have passed away from famine at the head of all the crossroads.
20 Res. Mira, Yahveh, y considera: ¿a quién has tratado de esta suerte? ¿Tenían las mujeres que comer sus frutos, a sus niños de pecho? ¿Tenían que ser asesinados en el santuario del Señor sacerdote y profeta?	20 RES. O Lord, see and consider those whom you have made into a such vintage. So then, shall women eat their own fruit, little ones measured by the palm of the hand? Shall priest and prophet be killed in the sanctuary of the Lord?
21 Sin. Por tierra yacen en las calles niños y ancianos; mis vírgenes y mis jóvenes cayeron a cuchillo; ¡has matado en el día de tu cólera, has inmolado sin piedad!	21 SIN. The boy and the old man lie down on the ground outside. My virgins and my youths have fallen by the sword. You have slain them in the day of your fury. You have struck down, and you have not shown pity.
22 Tau. Como en día solemne congregaste por todo el ámbito terrores; no hubo en el día de la ira de Yahveh fugitivo ni evadido. Los que yo había criado y mantenido mi enemigo los exterminó.	22 THAU. You have called, as if to a day of solemnity, those who would terrify me all around. And there was no one, in the day of the fury of the Lord, who escaped or was left behind. Those whom I educated and nourished, my enemy has consumed.