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EL LIBRO DEL PUEBLO DE DIOS	DOUAI-RHEIMS
1 ¡Ay de los que proyectan iniquidades y traman el mal durante la noche! Al despuntar el día, lo realizan, porque tienen el poder en su mano.	1 Woe to you that devise that which is unprofitable, and work evil in your beds: in the morning light they execute it, because their hand is against God.
2 Codician campos y los arrebatan, casas, y se apoderan de ellas; oprimen al dueño y a su casa, al propietario y a su herencia.	2 And they have coveted fields, and taken them by violence, and houses they have forcibly taken away: and oppressed a man and his house, a man and his inheritance.
3 Por eso, así habla el Señor: Yo proyecto contra esta gente una desgracia tal que ustedes no podrán apartar el cuello, ni andar con la cabeza erguida, porque será un tiempo de desgracia.	3 Therefore thus saith the Lord : Behold, I devise an evil against this family: from which you shall not withdraw your necks, and you shall not walk haughtily, for this is a very evil time.
4 Aquel día, se proferirá contra ustedes una sátira y se entonará esta lamentación: «Hemos sido completamente devastados; ¡se transfiere a otros la parte de mi pueblo! ¿Cómo me la quita a mí y reparte nuestros campos al que nos lleva cautivos?».	4 In that day a parable shall be taken up upon you, and a song shall be sung with melody by them that say: We are laid waste and spoiled: the portion of my people is changed: how shall he depart from me, whereas he is returning that will divide our land?
5 Por eso, no tendrás a nadie que arroje la cuerda para medirte un lote, en la asamblea del Señor.	5 Therefore thou shalt have none that shall cast the cord of a lot in the assembly of the Lord.
6 «¡No vaticinen! –vaticinan ellos–. No hagan estos vaticinios: ¡El oprobio no se alejará!	6 Speak ye not, saying: It shall not drop upon these, confusion shall not take them.
7 ¿Acaso ha sido maldecida la casa de Jacob? ¿Se ha agotado la paciencia del Señor? ¿Es esa su manera de obrar? ¿No habla con benevolencia al que camina con rectitud?».	7 The house of Jacob saith: Is the spirit of the Lord straitened, or are these his thoughts? Are not my words good to him that walketh uprightly?
8 Desde hace tiempo, mi pueblo se erige en enemigo; ustedes arrancan el manto de encima de la ropa a los que pasan confiados, al volver de la guerra.	8 But my people, on the contrary, are risen up as an enemy: you have taken away the cloak off from the coat: and them that passed harmless you have turned to war.
9 Echan de sus casas amadas a las mujeres de mi pueblo, a sus niños los privan para siempre de mi honor.	9 You have cast out the women of my people from their houses, in which they took delight: you have taken my praise for ever from their children.
10 ¡Levántense y caminen, este no es un lugar de reposo! A causa de la impureza, tú provocas la destrucción, y la destrucción será cruel.	10 Arise ye, and depart, for there is no rest here for you. For that uncleanness of the land, it shall be corrupted with a grievous corruption.
11 Si apareciera un hombre que corre tras el viento y propala esta mentira: «¡Yo te vaticino vino y licor!», ese sí sería el profeta de este pueblo.	11 Would God I were not a man that hath the spirit, and that I rather spoke a lie: I will let drop to thee of wine, and of drunkenness: and it shall be this people upon whom it shall drop.
12 Sí, yo voy a reunir a todo Jacob, voy a congregar al resto de Israel; los juntaré como a ovejas en un corral, como a un rebaño en medio de su pastizal: ¡será una ruidosa multitud de hombres!	12 I will assemble and gather together all of thee, O Jacob: I will bring together the remnant of Israel, I will put them together as a flock in the fold, as the sheep in the midst of the sheepcotes, they shall make a tumult by reason of the multitude of men.
13 El que abre camino sube a la vanguardia, los demás se abren camino, franquean la puerta y salen por ella: ¡su rey pasa al frente de ellos, el Señor marcha a la cabeza!	13 For he shall go up that shall open the way before them: they shall divide, and pass through the gate, and shall come in by it: and their king shall pass before them, and the Lord at the head of them.