Lamentaciones 2

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1 [Alef] ¡Cómo cubrió de nubes el Señor, en su enojo, a la hija de Sión! Precipitó del cielo a la tierra la gloria de Israel; no se acordó del estrado de sus pies, en el día de su ira.	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 devoró sin piedad todas las moradas de Jacob; derribó en su indignación las fortalezas de la hija de Judá; echó por tierra y profanó el reino y 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] Abatió, en el ardor de su ira, toda la fuerza de Israel; retiró su mano derecha frente al enemigo; encendió en Jacob una llama como de fuego que devora a su alrededor.	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] Tendió su arco como un enemigo, afirmó su mano derecha; como un adversario, dio muerte a lo más apuesto de la juventud; en el campamento de la hija de Sión derramó como un fuego su furor.	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] El Señor se portó como un enemigo y devoró a Israel: devoró todos sus palacios, destruyó sus fortalezas; multiplicó en la hija de Judá las lamentaciones y los lamentos.	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] Desmanteló su morada como una huerta, arrasó el Lugar de los encuentros. El Señor hizo olvidar en Sión las fiestas y los sábados; despreció, en el ímpetu de su ira, al rey y al 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 rechazó su propio altar, repudió su Santuario; entregó en manos del enemigo los muros de sus palacios; se lanzaron gritos en la Casa del Señor como en un día de fiesta.	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] El Señor decidió arrasar la muralla de la hija de Sión: tomó sus medidas y no retiró su brazo hasta dejarla derruida; cubrió de luto el antemural y el muro, que se desmoronaron juntamente.	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 se hundieron en la tierra, él quebró sus cerrojos; su rey y sus príncipes están entre las naciones, ¡no hay más Ley! Tampoco sus profetas obtienen visiones de parte del Señor.	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 [Iod] Están sentados en el suelo, silenciosos, los ancianos de la hija de Sión; se han cubierto la cabeza de polvo, se han vestido con un sayal. Dejan caer su cabeza hasta el suelo 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 [Caf] Mis ojos se deshacen en llanto, me hierven las entrañas; mi bilis se derrama en la tierra por el desastre de la hija de mi pueblo, mientras desfallecen sus niños y pequeños en las plazas de la ciudad.	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] Ellos preguntan a sus madres: «¿Dónde hay pan y vino?», mientras caen desfallecidos como heridos de muerte en las plazas de la ciudad, exhalando su 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 podré compararte? ¿A quién te asemejaré, hija de Jerusalén? ¿A quién te igualaré, para poder consolarte, virgen hija de Jerusalén? Porque tu desastre es inmenso como el mar: ¿quién te sanará?	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 te transmitieron visiones falsas e ilusorias. No revelaron tu culpa a fin de cambiar tu suerte, sino que te hicieron vaticinios falsos y engañosos.	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 [Sámec] Al verte, golpean las manos todos los que pasan por el camino; silban y mueven la cabeza sobre la hija de Jerusalén: «¿Es esta el dechado de toda hermosura, 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 [Ain] Abren sus fauces contra ti todos tus enemigos; silban, rechinan los dientes, diciendo: «¡La hemos devorado! Sí, este es el día que esperábamos: ya lo alcanzamos, lo estamos viendo».	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 [Pe] El Señor ha realizado su designio, ha cumplido su palabra, la que había decretado hace tiempo: demolió sin compasión, hizo que el enemigo se alegrara de tu suerte, exaltó el poder 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] ¡Invoca al Señor de corazón, gime, hija de Sión! ¡Deja correr tus lágrimas a raudales, de día y de noche: no te concedas descanso, que no repose la pupila de tus ojos!	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] ¡Levántate, y grita durante la noche, cuando comienza la ronda! ¡Derrama tu corazón como agua ante el rostro del Señor! ¡Eleva tus manos hacia él, por la vida de tus niños pequeños, que desfallecen de hambre en todas las esquinas!	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, Señor, y considera a quién has tratado así! ¿Puede ser que las mujeres se coman a sus hijos, a los pequeños que antes mimaban? ¿Puede ser que se asesine en el Santuario al sacerdote y al 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] En las calles están tendidos el niño y el anciano; mis vírgenes y mis jóvenes cayeron bajo la espada; tú has sembrado la muerte en el día de tu ira, has degollado 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] Convocaste como para un día de fiesta los terrores que me rodean; en el día de la ira del Señor no hay escapados ni sobrevivientes. ¡A los que yo había mimado y hecho crecer los aniquiló mi enemigo!	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.