1 ¡ Cómo nubló, en su ira el Señor a la hija de Sion! Ha arrojado del cielo a la tierra la gloria de Israel, y no se ha acordado del estrado de sus pies en el día de su ira.

How the Lord has covered the Daughter of Zion with a cloud in His anger! He has cast down from heaven to the earth the beauty and splendor of Israel and has not remembered His footstool in the day of His anger!

2 E l Señor ha devorado, no ha perdonado ninguna de las moradas de Jacob. Ha derribado en su furor las fortalezas de la hija de Judá, las ha echado por tierra; ha profanado al reino y a sus príncipes.

The Lord has swallowed up all the country places and habitations of Jacob and has spared not nor pitied; He has demolished in His wrath the strongholds of the Daughter of Judah. He has cast down to the ground the kingdom and its rulers, polluting them and depriving them of their sanctity.

3 H a exterminado en el ardor de su ira todas las fuerzas de Israel; ha echado atrás su diestra en presencia del enemigo; y se ha encendido en Jacob como llamas de fuego devorando todo en derredor.

He has broken off in His fierce anger every horn (means of defense) of Israel. He has drawn back His right hand from before the enemy. And He has burned amidst Jacob like a flaming fire consuming all around.

4 H a entesado su arco como enemigo, ha afirmado su diestra como adversario y ha matado todo lo que era agradable a la vista; en la tienda de la hija de Sion ha derramado su furor como fuego.

He has bent His bow like an enemy; He has stood with His right hand set like a foe and has slain all the delights and pride of the eye; on and in the tent of the Daughter of Zion He has poured out His wrath like fire.

5 S e ha vuelto el Señor como enemigo: ha devorado a Israel, ha devorado todos sus palacios, ha destruido sus fortalezas y ha multiplicado en la hija de Judá el lamento y el duelo.

The Lord has become like an enemy; He has destroyed Israel. He has destroyed all its palaces, has laid in ruins its strongholds, and has multiplied in the Daughter of Judah groaning and moaning and lamentation.

6 Y ha tratado con violencia a su tabernáculo, como a cabaña de huerto; ha destruido su lugar de reunión. El Señor ha hecho olvidar en Sion la fiesta solemne y el día de reposo, y ha rechazado en el furor de su ira al rey y al sacerdote.

And He has violently broken down His temple like a booth or hedge of a garden; He has destroyed the place of His appointed assembly. The Lord has caused the solemn appointed feasts and Sabbaths to be forgotten in Zion and has spurned and rejected in the indignation of His anger the king and the priest.

7 E l Señor ha rechazado su altar, ha despreciado su santuario; ha entregado en manos del enemigo los muros de sus palacios. Gritos se han dado en la casa del Señor como en día de fiesta solemne.

The Lord has scorned, rejected, and cast off His altar; He has abhorred and disowned His sanctuary. He has given into the hand of the enemy the walls of her palaces; they have raised a clamor in the house of the Lord as on a day of a solemn appointed feast.

8 E l Señor determinó destruir la muralla de la hija de Sion; ha extendido el cordel, no ha retraído su mano de destruir, y ha hecho que se lamenten el antemuro y el muro; a una desfallecen.

The Lord purposed to lay in ruins the wall of the Daughter of Zion. He marked it off by measuring line; He restrained not His hand from destroying. He made rampart and wall lament; they languished together.

9 S e han hundido en la tierra sus puertas, El ha destruido y quebrado sus cerrojos. Su rey y sus príncipes están entre las naciones; ya no hay ley; tampoco sus profetas hallan visión del Señor.

Her gates have sunk into the ground; He has destroyed and broken her bars. Her king and her princes are among the nations; the law is no more; her prophets also obtain no vision from the Lord.

10 E n tierra están sentados, en silencio, los ancianos de la hija de Sion. Han echado polvo sobre sus cabezas, se han ceñido de cilicio. Han inclinado a tierra sus cabezas las vírgenes de Jerusalén.

The elders of the Daughter of Zion sit on the ground keeping silent; they have cast dust on their heads, they have girded themselves with sackcloth. The maidens of Jerusalem have bowed their heads to the ground.

11 M is ojos se consumen por las lágrimas, hierven mis entrañas; mi hiel se derrama por tierra, a causa de la destrucción de la hija de mi pueblo, cuando niños y lactantes desfallecen en las calles de la ciudad.

My eyes fail from weeping, my emotions are deeply disturbed, my heart is poured out upon the ground because of the destruction of the daughter of my people, because infants and nurslings faint in the streets of the city.

12 D icen a sus madres: ¿Dónde hay grano y vino?, mientras desfallecen como heridos en las plazas de la ciudad, mientras exhalan su espíritu en el regazo de sus madres.

They keep crying to their mothers, Where is corn and wine ? as they faint like wounded men in the streets of the city, as their lives ebb away on their mothers’ bosom.

13 ¿ Cómo he de amonestarte ? ¿A qué te compararé, hija de Jerusalén? ¿A qué te igualaré al consolarte, virgen hija de Sion ? Porque grande como el mar es tu ruina, ¿quién te podrá sanar ?

What is sufficient for me to remind you for your ? To what shall I liken you, O Daughter of Jerusalem? With what shall I compare you, that I may comfort you, O Virgin Daughter of Zion? For your ruin is as measureless as the sea! Who can heal you?

14 T us profetas tuvieron para ti visiones falsas y necias, y no manifestaron tu iniquidad para que regresaras de tu cautiverio, sino que vieron para ti oráculos falsos y engañosos.

Your prophets have predicted for you falsehood and delusion and foolish things; and they have not exposed your iniquity and guilt to avert your captivity. But they have divined and declared to you false and deceptive prophecies, worthless and misleading.

15 B aten palmas contra ti todos los que pasan por el camino; silban y mueven sus cabezas contra la hija de Jerusalén, diciendo: ¿Es ésta la ciudad de la cual decían: “La perfección de la hermosura, el gozo de toda la tierra ”?

All who pass by clap their hands at you; they hiss and wag their heads at the Daughter of Jerusalem, saying, Is this the city which was called the perfection of beauty, the joy of all the earth?

16 H an abierto contra ti su boca todos tus enemigos; silban y rechinan los dientes, dicen: La hemos devorado. Ciertamente este es el día que esperábamos; lo hemos alcanzado, lo hemos visto.

All your enemies have opened wide their mouths against you; they scornfully hiss and gnash their teeth. They cry, We have swallowed her up! Certainly this is the day we have looked for; we have it, we see it!

17 E l Señor ha hecho lo que se propuso, ha cumplido su palabra que había ordenado desde tiempos antiguos; ha derribado sin perdonar, ha hecho que se alegre el enemigo sobre ti, ha exaltado el poder de tus adversarios.

The Lord has done what He planned; He has carried out and finished His word which He threatened and decreed in the days of old. He has demolished without pity; He has made the enemy rejoice over you and has exalted the might of your foes.

18 S u corazón clamó al Señor: Muralla de la hija de Sion, corran tus lágrimas como un río día y noche, no te des reposo, no tengan descanso tus ojos.

The hearts cried to the Lord. O wall of the Daughter of Zion, let tears run down like a river day and night; give yourself no rest, let not your eyes stop.

19 L evántate, da voces en la noche al comenzar las vigilias; derrama como agua tu corazón ante la presencia del Señor; alza hacia El tus manos por la vida de tus pequeños, que desfallecen de hambre en las esquinas de todas las calles.

Arise, cry out in the night, at the beginning of the watches; pour out your heart like water before the face of the Lord. Lift up your hands toward Him for the lives of your young children, who faint from hunger at the head of every street.

20 M ira, oh Señor, y observa: ¿a quién has tratado así ? ¿Habían de comer las mujeres el fruto de sus entrañas, a los pequeños criados con cariño? ¿Habían de ser muertos en el santuario del Señor el sacerdote y el profeta ?

Behold, O Lord, and consider to whom You have done this. Should and shall women eat the fruit of their own bodies, the children whom they have tended and swaddled with their hands? Should and shall priest and prophet be slain in the place set apart of the Lord?

21 Y acen por tierra en las calles jóvenes y viejos; mis vírgenes y mis mancebos han caído a espada. Has matado en el día de tu ira, has hecho matanza, no has perdonado.

The young and the old lie on the ground in the streets; my maidens and my young men have fallen by the sword. You have slain them in the day of Your anger, slaughtering them without pity.

22 C omo en día de fiesta solemne convocaste mis terrores de todas partes; y no hubo en el día de la ira del Señor quien escapara ni sobreviviera. A los que crié y mantuve, mi enemigo los exterminó.

You called together, as on an appointed feast day of solemn assembly, my terrors (dangers) from every side. And there was not one in the day of God’s wrath who escaped or survived; those I have nursed and brought up, my enemy has destroyed.