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1 ¡Cómo se ha opacado el oro! ¡Cómo ha perdido su brillo el más fino oro! ¡Regadas por las esquinas de las calles se han quedado las joyas sagradas!
1 How the gold has become dim! The most pure gold has changed! The stones of the sanctuary are poured out at the head of every street.
2 Los apuestos habitantes de Jerusalén, los que antes valían su peso en oro, hoy los tratan como a simples ollas de barro sin valor alguno.
2 The precious sons of Zion, comparable to fine gold, how they are esteemed as earthen pitchers, the work of the hands of the potter!
3 Aun los chacales alimentan a sus crías, pero no así mi pueblo, Israel. Ellos son como crueles avestruces del desierto, ignorando el clamor de sus hijos.
3 Even the jackals offer their breast. They nurse their young ones. But the daughter of my people has become cruel, like the ostriches in the wilderness.
4 La lengua de los niños se les pega por la sed al paladar. Los niños piden pan pero no hay quien se preocupe por ellos.
4 The tongue of the nursing child clings to the roof of his mouth for thirst. The young children ask for bread, and no one breaks it for them.
5 Los que antes comían las comidas más costosas están ahora mendigando por las calles por cualquier cosa que puedan llevarse a la boca. Los que vivían con todo lujo en sus palacios, ahora revuelven los basureros en busca de comida.
5 Those who ate delicacies are desolate in the streets. Those who were brought up in purple embrace dunghills.
6 Y ello porque los delitos de mi pueblo son peores que los de Sodoma, que fue destruida en un abrir y cerrar de ojos sin que ningún ser humano tuviera que intervenir en su ruina.
6 For the iniquity of the daughter of my people is greater than the sin of Sodom, which was overthrown as in a moment. No hands were laid on her.
7 Sus príncipes eran más puros que la nieve, y muy apuestos, tan elegantes como una joya preciosa;
7 Her nobles were purer than snow. They were whiter than milk. They were more ruddy in body than rubies. Their polishing was like sapphire.
8 pero ahora su aspecto es muy lamentable, nadie puede reconocerlos. Ahora son puro pellejo sobre los huesos, consumidos.
8 Their appearance is blacker than a coal. They are not known in the streets. Their skin clings to their bones. It is withered. It has become like wood.
9 Les fue menos mal a los que fueron muertos por las heridas de espada que a aquellos que lentamente se mueren de hambre.
9 Those who are killed with the sword are better than those who are killed with hunger; for these pine away, stricken through, for lack of the fruits of the field.
10 Tiernas madres han cocido y comido a sus propios hijos; ¡sólo así han podido sobrevivir al sitio de la ciudad!
10 The hands of the pitiful women have boiled their own children. They were their food in the destruction of the daughter of my people.
11 Pero ahora por fin la cólera del Señor está aplacada, su terrible enojo se ha calmado. Le prendió fuego a Jerusalén que la ha consumido hasta sus cimientos.
11 Yahweh has accomplished his wrath. He has poured out his fierce anger. He has kindled a fire in Zion, which has devoured its foundations.
12 ¡Nadie se hubiera podido imaginar que un enemigo podría entrar por las puertas de Jerusalén para conquistarla!
12 The kings of the earth didn’t believe, neither did all the inhabitants of the world, that the adversary and the enemy would enter into the gates of Jerusalem.
13 Todo aconteció a causa de las maldades cometidas por sus profetas y sacerdotes, quienes llenaron la ciudad con la sangre de muchos inocentes.
13 It is because of the sins of her prophets and the iniquities of her priests, that have shed the blood of the just in the middle of her.
14 Ahora andan vagando como ciegos por las calles, tan sucios de sangre que nadie se atreve a tocar siquiera sus ropas.
14 They wander as blind men in the streets. They are polluted with blood, So that men can’t touch their garments.
15 «¡Apártense!», la gente les grita. «¡Están inmundos, no nos toquen!». Entonces huyen a tierras lejanas y andan errantes entre extranjeros, pero nadie les permite quedarse.
15 “Go away!” they cried to them. “Unclean! Go away! Go away! Don’t touch! When they fled away and wandered, men said among the nations, “They can’t live here any more.”
16 El Señor mismo los dispersó, ya no les ayuda más. No hubo respeto para los sacerdotes ni compasión para los ancianos.
16 Yahweh’s anger has scattered them. He will not pay attention to them any more. They didn’t respect the persons of the priests. They didn’t favor the elders.
17 Miramos esperanzados que nuestros aliados nos vengan a salvar, pero es en vano. Estamos en espera de una nación que no puede ayudarnos.
17 Our eyes still fail, looking in vain for our help. In our watching we have watched for a nation that could not save.
18 No podemos salir a la calle sin correr peligro. Nuestro fin está cerca, nuestros días están contados, ¡nos ha llegado la hora!
18 They hunt our steps, so that we can’t go in our streets. Our end is near. Our days are fulfilled, for our end has come.
19 Nuestros enemigos son más veloces que las águilas. Si huimos a las montañas, nos encuentran, si nos escondemos en el desierto, allí nos están esperando.
19 Our pursuers were swifter than the eagles of the sky. They chased us on the mountains. They set an ambush for us in the wilderness.
20 De nuestro rey, el escogido del Señor, el que era para nosotros como el aire que respiramos, de quien decíamos: ¡Bajo su protección podremos resistir a cualquier nación sobre la tierra!, él también ha sido apresado.
20 The breath of our nostrils, the anointed of Yahweh, was taken in their pits; of whom we said, under his shadow we will live among the nations.
21 ¿Te alegras, oh pueblo de Edom, que habitas en la región de Uz? ¡Tú también tendrás que sufrir todo este tormento!
21 Rejoice and be glad, daughter of Edom, who dwells in the land of Uz. The cup will pass through to you also. You will be drunken, and will make yourself naked.
22 ¡Tu castigo ha terminado, Jerusalén, pronto terminará tu condición de esclava en tierra lejana! ¡Pero para ti, Edom, el castigo apenas empieza! ¡Pronto quedarán al descubierto todas tus maldades!
22 The punishment of your iniquity is accomplished, daughter of Zion. He will no more carry you away into captivity. He will visit your iniquity, daughter of Edom. He will uncover your sins.
Cross references (22)
Related passages for each verse, from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge as collected and ranked by readers at OpenBible.info.
- 1 Ezekiel 7:19–22; Lamentations 2:19; Isaiah 1:21; 2 Kings 25:9–10; Jeremiah 52:13
- 2 Isaiah 30:14; Romans 9:21–23; Jeremiah 19:11; 2 Timothy 2:20; 2 Corinthians 4:7
- 3 Luke 23:28–29; Ezekiel 5:10; Lamentations 4:10; Lamentations 2:20; Job 39:13–16
- 4 Psalm 22:15; Lamentations 2:11–12; Psalm 137:6; Deuteronomy 32:24; Matthew 7:9–11
- 5 Luke 16:19; Proverbs 31:21; Amos 6:3–7; Luke 15:16; 1 Timothy 5:6
- 6 Genesis 19:25; Isaiah 1:9–10; Luke 12:47; Luke 10:12; Matthew 24:21
- 7 Psalm 51:7; Song of Songs 5:10; Psalm 144:12; 1 Samuel 16:12; Numbers 6:2–21
- 8 Lamentations 5:10; Job 30:30; Psalm 102:3–5; Job 19:20; Psalm 119:83
- 9 Jeremiah 16:4; Ezekiel 24:23; Leviticus 26:39; Ezekiel 33:10
- 10 Isaiah 49:15; Lamentations 2:20; 2 Kings 6:26–29; Jeremiah 19:9; Lamentations 4:3
- 11 Jeremiah 7:20; Ezekiel 22:31; Lamentations 2:17; Jeremiah 17:27; Ezekiel 20:47–48
- 12 Psalm 48:4–6; Deuteronomy 29:24–28; 1 Kings 9:8–9; Jeremiah 21:13
- 13 Jeremiah 5:31; Jeremiah 6:13; Matthew 23:31; Jeremiah 26:8–9; Ezekiel 22:26–28
- 14 Isaiah 1:15; Jeremiah 2:34; Numbers 19:16; Deuteronomy 28:28–29; Isaiah 56:10
- 15 Leviticus 13:45–46
- 16 Isaiah 9:14–16; Lamentations 5:12; Deuteronomy 32:26; Jeremiah 24:9; Deuteronomy 28:64–65
- 17 Ezekiel 29:16; Isaiah 20:5; 2 Kings 24:7; Jeremiah 2:36; Lamentations 1:7
- 18 Amos 8:2; Psalm 140:11; Ezekiel 7:2–12; Lamentations 3:52; Jeremiah 16:16
- 19 Habakkuk 1:8; Jeremiah 4:13; Isaiah 5:26–28; Deuteronomy 28:49; Isaiah 30:16–17
- 20 2 Samuel 1:14; Genesis 2:7; Ezekiel 12:13; Jeremiah 39:5; 2 Samuel 19:21
- 21 Revelation 16:15; Amos 1:11; Job 1:1; Psalm 137:7; Ezekiel 25:12–14
- 22 Isaiah 40:2; Jeremiah 50:20; Psalm 137:7; Lamentations 4:6; Malachi 1:4
Cross references: OpenBible.info (CC BY), drawn mainly from the public-domain Treasury of Scripture Knowledge. · Sources & licences
What the Fathers said
Passages from the Church Fathers that expound or quote this chapter, verbatim from the public-domain Schaff edition (19th-century English translations).
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“Commentary” is the opening of a homily or exposition on this chapter (John Chrysostom’s homilies, Augustine’s tractates, sermons and expositions of the Psalms). “Quotes” are sentences where the edition’s own footnotes identify a quotation of a verse here, kept only when the wording matches the verse. Only works whose authorship is not in doubt are used. Psalms follow the Hebrew/English numbering (Augustine numbers them as the Septuagint does: his Psalm 50 is Psalm 51 here).
… salvation, thus: "God hath made known His salvation (salutare) in the sight of the heathen." For He is indeed Saviour, as being the Son and Word of God; but salutary, since [He is] Spirit; for he says: "The Spirit of our countenance, Christ the Lord." But salvation, as being flesh: for "the Word was made flesh, and dwelt among us." …
Jeremiah, in prophesying of Christ, says, "The breath of our mouth, the Lord Christ, was taken in our sins," thus briefly showing both that Christ is our Lord and that He suffered for us.
Read in context · Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, series 1, vol. 2 (1887)
Lamenting then he says, The breath of our countenance, Christ the Lord was taken in our corruptions.
Read in context · Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, series 2, vol. 7 (1894)
He is called Spirit, as "God is a Spirit," and "the breath of our nostrils, the anointed of the Lord." He is called holy, as the Father is holy, and the Son is holy, for to the creature holiness was brought in from without, but to the Spirit holiness is the fulfilment of nature, and it is for this reason …
Read in context · Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, series 2, vol. 8 (1895)