Zacarías 11

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1 Abre tus puertas, Líbano, y el fuego devore tus cedros.	1 Open your gates, Lebanon, and let fire consume your cedars.
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.	2 Howl, you fir tree, for the cedar has fallen, because the magnificent have been devastated. Howl, you oaks of Bashan, because the secure forest passage has been cut down.
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.	3 The voice of the howling of the shepherds: for their magnificence has been devastated. The voice of the roaring of the lions: because the arrogance of the Jordan has been devastated.
4 Así dice Yahveh mi Dios: Apacienta las ovejas de matadero,	4 Thus says the Lord my God: Feed the flock of the slaughter,
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.	5 which those who possessed them cut down, and they did not feel sorrow, and they sold them, saying: “Blessed be the Lord; we have become wealthy. Even their shepherds did not spare them.”
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.	6 And so, I will no longer spare the inhabitants upon the earth, says the Lord. Behold, I will deliver men, each one into the hand of his neighbor and into the hand of his king. And they will cut down the land, and I will not rescue it from their hand.
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,	7 And I will pasture the flock of the slaughter, because of this, O poor of the flock. And I took to myself two staffs: the one I called Handsome, and the other I called Rope, and I pastured the flock.
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.	8 And I cut down three shepherds in one month. And my soul became contracted concerning them, just as their soul also varied concerning me.
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!»	9 And I said: I will not pasture you. Whatever dies, let it die. And whatever is cut down, let it be cut down. And let the rest of them devour, each one the flesh of his neighbor.
10 Tomé luego mi cayado «Gracia» y lo partí, para romper la alianza que Yahveh había concluido con todos los pueblos.	10 And I took my staff, which was called Handsome, and I tore it apart, so as to invalidate my pact, which I had struck with all of the people.
11 Quedó roto aquel día, y los tratantes de ovejas que me observaban supieron que era una palabra de Yahveh.	11 And it became invalid in that day. And so they understood, just like the poor of the flock who stay close to me, that this is the word of the Lord.
12 Yo les dije: «Si os parece bien, dadme mi jornal; sino, dejadlo». Ellos pesaron mi jornal: treinta siclos de plata.	12 And I said to them: If it is good in your eyes, bring me my wages. And if not, remain still. And they weighed for my wages thirty silver coins.
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.	13 And the Lord said to me: Cast it towards the statuary, the handsome price at which I have been valued by them. And I took the thirty silver coins, and I cast them into the house of the Lord, towards the statuary.
14 Después partí mi segundo cayado «Vínculo», para romper la fraternidad entre Judá e Israel.	14 And I cut short my second staff, which was called Rope, so that I might dissolve the brotherhood between Judah and Israel.
15 Yahveh me dijo entonces: «Toma todavía el hato de un pastor necio.	15 And the Lord said to me: Still they are to you the equipment of a foolish shepherd.
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.	16 For behold, I will raise up a shepherd in the land, who will not visit what is forsaken, nor seek what is scattered, nor heal what is broken, nor nourish what remains standing, and he will consume the flesh of the fatted ones and break their hoofs.
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!»	17 O shepherd and idol, abandoning the flock, with a sword upon his arm and over his right eye: his arm will be withered by drought, and his right eye will be obscured by darkness.