Ezequiel 19

BIBLIA	NEW JERUSALEM
1 Y tú entona una elegía sobre los príncipes de Israel.	1 'Now, raise a lament for the princes of Israel.
2 Dirás: ¿Qué era tu madre? Una leona entre leones. Echada entre los leoncillos, criaba a sus cachorros.	2 Say: What was your mother? A lioness among lions; lying among the cubs she nursed her whelps.
3 Exaltó a uno de sus cachorros, que se hizo un león joven; y aprendió a desgarrar su presa, devoró hombres.	3 She reared one of her whelps: he grew into a young lion; he learnt to tear his prey; he became a man-eater.
4 Oyeron hablar de él las naciones, en su fosa quedó preso; con garfios le llevaron al país de Egipto.	4 The nations came to hear of him; he was caught in their pit; they dragged him away with hooks toEgypt.
5 Vio ella que su espera era fallida, fallida su esperanza; y tomo otro de sus cachorros, le hizo un león joven.	5 Her expectation thwarted, and seeing her hope dashed, she took another of her whelps and made ayoung lion of him.
6 Andaba éste entre los leones, se hizo un león joven, aprendió a desgarrar su presa, devoró hombres;	6 He prowled among the lions, he grew into a young lion, he learnt to tear his prey; he became a man-eater.
7 derribó sus palacios, devastó sus ciudades; la tierra y sus habitantes estaban aterrados por la voz de su rugido.	7 He tore down their palaces, he destroyed their cities; the land and al its inhabitants were appal ed bythe sound of his roars.
8 Se alzaron contra él las naciones, las provincias circundantes; tendieron sobre él su red y en su fosa quedó preso.	8 The nations marched out against him from the surrounding provinces; they spread their net over him;he was caught in their pit.
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 shackled him with hooks, they took him to the king of Babylon and threw him into a fortress, sothat his voice could never again 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 beside the water, fruitful and leafy, because the water flowed soful .
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 She had stout stems which became kingly sceptres; she grew higher and higher, up into the clouds;she was admired for her height and the number of her branches.
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 furiously uprooted and thrown on the ground; the east wind dried up her fruit, she wasbroken to pieces; her stout stem dried up, the fire devoured it.
13 Y ahora está plantada en el desierto, en tierra de sequía y de sed.	13 Now she has been transplanted to the desert, to a dry and thirsty land.
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 Fire burst out of her stem devouring her branches and fruit. No more stout stem for her, no morekingly sceptre.' This is a lament; it was used as such.