| 1 Abre tus puertas, Líbano; | devore el fuego tus cedros. | 1 Open thy gates, 0 Libanus, and let fire devour thy cedars. |
| 2 Laméntate, ciprés, | pues ha caído el cedro; | los majestuosos árboles | están asolados. | Lamentaos, robles de Basán, | pues ahí está, por tierra, | el bosque impenetrable. | 2 Howl, thou fir tree, for the cedar is fallen, for the mighty are laid waste: howl, ye oaks of Basan, because the fenced forest is cut down. |
| 3 Lamento de los pastores, | pues quedó asolado su esplendor; | rugido de los leones, | pues quedó arrasada la espesura del Jordán. | 3 The voice of the howling of the shepherds, because their glory is laid waste: the voice of the roaring of the lions, because the pride of the Jordan is spoiled. |
| 4 «Esto dice el Señor mi Dios: Apacienta las ovejas de matanza, | 4 Thus saith the Lord my God: Feed the flock of the slaughter, |
| 5 esas que ellos compran y matan sin escrúpulos; sus compradores decían: “¡Bendito el Señor que me ha hecho rico!”. Pero los pastores no se compadecieron de ellas. | 5 Which they that possessed, slew, and repented not, and they sold them, saying: Blessed be the Lord, we are become rich: and their shepherds spared them not. |
| 6 Pues ya no volveré a compadecerme de los habitantes del país —oráculo del Señor—. Mirad: voy a entregar a todos y cada uno en manos de su vecino y de su rey, que arrasarán el país, y no los libraré de sus manos. | 6 And I will no more spare the inhabitants of the land, saith the Lord: behold I will deliver the men, every one into his neighbour's hand, and into the hand of his king: and they shall destroy the land, and I will not deliver it out of their hand. |
| 7 Apacenté las ovejas de matanza para los tratantes de ovejas; tomé dos cayados: a uno llamé Bondad y al otro Concordia; y apacenté a las ovejas. | 7 And I will feed the hock of slaughter for this, O ye poor of the dock. And I took unto me two rods, one I called Beauty, and the other I called a Cord, and I fed the flock. |
| 8 Eliminé a tres pastores en un mes, pues me harté de ellos y ellos de mí». | 8 And I cut off three shepherds in one month, and my soul was straitened in their regard: for their soul also varied in my regard. |
| 9 Y dije: «Ya no os apacentaré más; la que tenga que morir, que muera, y la que tenga que desaparecer, que desaparezca; y las que queden, que se coman unas a otras». | 9 And I said: I will not feed you: that which dieth, let it die: and that which is cut off, let it be cut off: and let the rest devour every one the flesh of his neighbour. |
| 10 Tomé el cayado Bondad y lo partí, para romper el acuerdo que había contraído con todos los pueblos. | 10 And I took my rod that was called Beauty, and I cut it asunder to make void my covenant, which I had made with all people. |
| 11 Aquel día quedó roto, y los tratantes de ovejas que me observaban se dieron cuenta de que era el que había hablado. | 11 And it was made void in that day: and so the poor of the flock that keep for me, understood that it is the word of the Lord. |
| 12 Y les dije: «Si os parece bien, pagadme mi salario; si no, dejadlo». Y contaron mi salario: treinta monedas de plata. | 12 And I said to them: If it be good in your eyes, bring hither my wages: and if not, be quiet. And they weighed for my wages thirty pieces of silver. |
| 13 Me dijo el Señor: «Echa al tesoro el valioso precio en que me han tasado». Cogí las treinta monedas de plata y las eché en el tesoro del templo. | 13 And the Lord said to me: Cast it to the statuary, a handsome price, that I was prized at by them. And I took the thirty pieces of silver, and I cast them into the house of the Lord to the statuary. |
| 14 Rompí el segundo cayado, Concordia, para deshacer la hermandad entre Judá e Israel. | 14 And I cut off my second rod that was called a Cord, that I might break the brotherhood between Juda and Israel. |
| 15 Me dijo el Señor: «Toma también los aparejos de un mal pastor, | 15 And the Lord said to me: Take to thee yet the instruments of a foolish shepherd. |
| 16 pues establezco un pastor en el país que no se ocupará de la oveja extraviada, ni buscará a la perdida, ni curará a la maltrecha, ni se preocupará de la sana, sino que se comerá la carne de las gordas y les arrancará las pezuñas». | 16 For behold I will raise up a shepherd in the land, who shall not visit what is forsaken, nor seek what is scattered, nor heal what is broken, nor nourish that which standeth, and he shall eat the flesh of the fat ones, and break their hoofs. |
| 17 ¡Ay del pastor inútil | que pierde las ovejas! | La espada le alcanzará | el brazo y hasta el ojo derecho; | se le secará totalmente el brazo, | y el ojo derecho se le cegará. | 17 O shepherd, and idol, that forsaketh the flock: the sword upon his arm and upon his right eye: his arm shall quite wither away, and his right eye shall be utterly darkened. |
