1 ¡ Cuán solitaria ha quedado la otrora ciudad populosa! ¡Cual viuda ha quedado la capital de las naciones! ¡La princesa de las provincias es ahora tributaria!

How the city sits solitary, that was full of people! She has become as a widow, who was great among the nations! She who was a princess among the provinces has become tributary!

2 P or las noches, amargas lágrimas corren por sus mejillas. Ni uno solo de sus amantes viene a consolarla. Sus amigos le fallaron; ¡se volvieron sus enemigos!

She weeps bitterly in the night, and her tears are on her cheeks; among all her lovers she has no one to comfort her: All her friends have dealt treacherously with her; they are become her enemies.

3 P resa de la aflicción y de cruel esclavitud, Judá marcha al cautiverio; ahora habita entre las naciones sin hallar descanso alguno. La acosan sus perseguidores, la ponen en aprietos.

Judah is gone into captivity because of affliction, and because of great servitude; she dwells among the nations, she finds no rest: all her persecutors overtook her within the straits.

4 D e luto están los caminos de Sión. Ya nadie asiste a las fiestas. Todas sus puertas están derribadas. Sus sacerdotes lloran. Amargada está Sión, y afligidas sus doncellas.

The ways of Zion do mourn, because no one come to the solemn assembly; all her gates are desolate, her priests do sigh: her virgins are afflicted, and she herself is in bitterness.

5 S us enconados enemigos son ahora grandes magnates. ¡El Señor la afligió por sus muchas rebeliones, y sus jóvenes marchan ahora al cautiverio, arreados por el enemigo!

Her adversaries are become the head, her enemies prosper; for Yahweh has afflicted her for the multitude of her transgressions: her young children are gone into captivity before the adversary.

6 L a sin par belleza de Sión se ha esfumado; sus príncipes andan como ciervos en busca de pastos; fuerzas no tienen para oponerse a sus perseguidores.

From the daughter of Zion all her majesty is departed: her princes are become like deer that find no pasture, they are gone without strength before the pursuer.

7 J erusalén recuerda su aflicción y sus rebeliones; recuerda tantas cosas agradables de que gozó en los tiempos antiguos; recuerda cuando cayó ante el enemigo y nadie vino en ayuda de su pueblo; recuerda cómo la miraban sus enemigos y se burlaban de su caída.

Jerusalem remembers in the days of her affliction and of her miseries all her pleasant things that were from the days of old: when her people fell into the hand of the adversary, and no one helped her, The adversaries saw her, they mocked at her desolations.

8 P ero Jerusalén pecó. ¡Por eso ha sido rechazada! Al verla desnuda, la desprecian quienes antes la admiraban; y ella, sollozante, corre a esconderse.

Jerusalem has grievously sinned; therefore she has become as an unclean thing; all who honored her despise her, because they have seen her nakedness: yes, she sighs, and turns backward.

9 C ubierta está de inmundicia. No tuvo en cuenta su futuro. Ha caído a lo más bajo, y en su desconsuelo exclama: «¡Mira, Señor, mi aflicción! ¡Mira cómo se regodean mis enemigos!»

Her filthiness was in her skirts; she didn’t remember her latter end; therefore is she come down wonderfully; she has no comforter: see, Yahweh, my affliction; for the enemy has magnified himself.

10 E l enemigo se ha adueñado de todos sus tesoros. Jerusalén ha visto a los paganos irrumpir en su santuario, aun cuando prohibiste que esa gente entrara en tu congregación.

The adversary has spread out his hand on all her pleasant things: for she has seen that the nations are entered into her sanctuary, concerning whom you commanded that they should not enter into your assembly.

11 E ntre sollozos, sus habitantes buscan algo qué comer; cambian por comida sus objetos más preciados para lograr volver a la vida. «¡Mírame, Señor! ¡Toma en cuenta mi desconsuelo!»

All her people sigh, they seek bread; they have given their pleasant things for food to refresh the soul: look, Yahweh, and see; for I am become abject.

12 U stedes, que van por el camino, ¿esto no los conmueve? ¡Consideren si hay dolor que se compare con el mío! ¡La ira del Señor se encendió y me envió este sufrimiento!

Is it nothing to you, all you who pass by? Look, and see if there is any sorrow like my sorrow, which is brought on me, With which Yahweh has afflicted me in the day of his fierce anger.

13 E nvió un fuego desde lo alto que me consumió los huesos; tendió una red a mi paso y me hizo retroceder; me dejó en completa ruina, y sufro a todas horas.

From on high has he sent fire into my bones, and it prevails against them; He has spread a net for my feet, he has turned me back: He has made me desolate and faint all the day.

14 E l Señor mismo me ha atado al yugo de mis rebeliones; me ha puesto en el cuello ataduras que acaban con mis fuerzas; me ha dejado en manos de enemigos que no puedo vencer.

The yoke of my transgressions is bound by his hand; They are knit together, they have come up on my neck; he has made my strength to fail: The Lord has delivered me into their hands, against whom I am not able to stand.

15 E l Señor ha pisoteado en mis calles a todos mis hombres fuertes; ha convocado tropas para derrotar a mis valientes; ¡ha prensado a la virginal Judá como si prensara uvas!

The Lord has set at nothing all my mighty men within me; He has called a solemn assembly against me to crush my young men: The Lord has trodden as in a wine press the virgin daughter of Judah.

16 É sta es la causa de mis lágrimas. El llanto brota de mis ojos, pues no tengo a nadie que me consuele; ¡no tengo a nadie que me reanime! ¡Mis hijos han sido derrotados! ¡El enemigo nos venció!

For these things I weep; my eye, my eye runs down with water; Because the comforter who should refresh my soul is far from me: My children are desolate, because the enemy has prevailed.

17 S ión tiende las manos suplicante, y no hay quien la consuele; el Señor hizo que los vecinos de Jacob se volvieran sus enemigos; ¡Jerusalén les resulta algo repugnante!

Zion spreads out her hands; there is no one to comfort her; Yahweh has commanded concerning Jacob, that those who are around him should be his adversaries: Jerusalem is among them as an unclean thing.

18 P ero el Señor es justo. ¡Yo me rebelé contra su palabra! ¡Oigan esto, pueblos todos, y consideren mi dolor! ¡Mis doncellas y mis jóvenes fueron llevados al cautiverio!

Yahweh is righteous; for I have rebelled against his commandment: Please hear all you peoples, and see my sorrow: My virgins and my young men are gone into captivity.

19 P edí ayuda a mis amantes, pero ellos me fallaron; en la ciudad, mis sacerdotes y mis ancianos perecieron; buscaban comida para volver a la vida.

I called for my lovers, but they deceived me: My priests and my elders gave up the spirit in the city, While they sought them food to refresh their souls.

20 ¡ Mírame, Señor, atribulada y con gran angustia interna! El corazón me da vuelcos por causa de mi gran rebeldía. Allá afuera, hace estragos la espada; aquí adentro, predomina la muerte.

See, Yahweh; for I am in distress; my heart is troubled; My heart is turned within me; for I have grievously rebelled: Abroad the sword bereaves, at home there is as death.

21 M e oyen sollozar, pero no hay quien me consuele; Saben mis enemigos de mi mal, y se alegran de lo que me haces. ¡Envía ya el día que tienes anunciado, y que les vaya como a mí!

They have heard that I sigh; there is no one to comfort me; All my enemies have heard of my trouble; they are glad that you have done it: You will bring the day that you have proclaimed, and they shall be like me.

22 ¡ Hazlos comparecer ante ti por toda su maldad, y trátalos como a mí por todas mis rebeliones! ¡Demasiadas son mis lágrimas! ¡Tengo deshecho el corazón!

Let all their wickedness come before you; Do to them, as you have done to me for all my transgressions: For my sighs are many, and my heart is faint.