Zacarías 11

1¡Abre, oh Líbano, tus puertas, y devore el fuego tus cedros!

2¡Aúlla, oh abeto, porque ha caído el cedro, porque han sido derribados los (árboles) magníficos! ¡Aullad, encinas de Basán, porque destruido ha sido el bosque inaccesible!

3Se oyen los lamentos de los pastores, por la ruina de lo que era su gloria; retumban los rugidos de los leoncillos, porque ha sido destruida la gloria del Jordán.

4Así dice Yahvé, mi Dios: “Apacienta las ovejas del matadero;

5cuyos compradores las matan impunemente, y cuyos vendedores dicen: «¡Bendito sea Yahvé, pues me he hecho rico!» y los pastores no les tienen compasión.

6Así tampoco Yo me apiadaré de los habitantes de esta tierra, dice Yahvé. He aquí que entregaré a los hombres, los unos en manos de otros y en poder de su rey; ellos desolarán la tierra, y Yo no (los) libraré de su mano.

7Apacenté las ovejas del matadero, porque eran las ovejas más pobres; y tomé dos cayados; al uno le llamé Gracia, y al otro Unión; y apacenté el rebaño.

8Y di muerte a tres pastores en un mes. Entonces perdí la paciencia con las ovejas, y también ellas estaban cansadas de mí.

9Y dije: “No os apacentaré más; la que debe morir, que muera; la que debe perderse, que se pierda. Y las restantes, que se coman unas a otras.”

10Y tomé mi cayado Gracia, y lo rompí, para anular mi alianza que había hecho con todos los pueblos.

11Y quedó anulado en aquel día; y así aquellos más pobres del rebaño que hacían caso de mí, conocieron que era palabra de Yahvé.

12Y les dije: “Si os parece justo, pagad mi salario; y si no, dejadlo.” Y ellos pesaron mi salario; treinta (monedas) de plata.

13Entonces Yahvé me dijo: “¡Tira al alfarero ese lindo precio en que me estimaron!” Tomé las treinta (monedas) de plata, y las tiré al alfarero en la Casa de Yahvé.

14Luego rompí el otro cayado, Unión, para romper la hermandad entre Judá e Israel.

15Y Yahvé me dijo: “Toma también el pertrecho de un pastor insensato.

16Pues he aquí que suscitaré en la tierra un pastor que no cuidará de las (ovejas) que se pierden, que no buscará las descarriadas; ni curará las heridas, ni alimentará a las que están sanas; sino que comerá la carne de las gordas y les romperá las pezuñas.

17¡Ay del pastor inútil, que abandona el rebaño! ¡Espada sobre su brazo, y sobre su ojo derecho! ¡Que se seque completamente su brazo y oscurézcase del todo su ojo derecho!”

1[Aperi, Libane, portas tuas, et comedat ignis cedros tuas.

2Ulula, abies, quia cecidit cedrus, quoniam magnifici vastati sunt: ululate, quercus Basan, quoniam succisus est saltus munitus.

3Vox ululatus pastorum, quia vastata est magnificentia eorum: vox rugitus leonum, quoniam vastata est superbia Jordanis.]

4Hæc dicit Dominus Deus meus: Pasce pecora occisionis,

5quæ qui possederant occidebant, et non dolebant, et vendebant ea, dicentes: Benedictus Dominus ! divites facti sumus: et pastores eorum non parcebant eis.

6Et ego non parcam ultra super habitantes terram, dicit Dominus: ecce ego tradam homines, unumquemque in manu proximi sui, et in manu regis sui: et concident terram, et non eruam de manu eorum.

7Et pascam pecus occisionis propter hoc, o pauperes gregis ! et assumpsi mihi duas virgas: unam vocavi Decorem, et alteram vocavi Funiculum: et pavi gregem.

8Et succidi tres pastores in mense uno, et contracta est anima mea in eis, siquidem et anima eorum variavit in me.

9Et dixi: Non pascam vos: quod moritur, moriatur, et quod succiditur, succidatur: et reliqui devorent unusquisque carnem proximi sui.

10Et tuli virgam meam quæ vocabatur Decus, et abscidi eam, ut irritum facerem fœdus meum quod percussi cum omnibus populis.

11Et in irritum deductum est in die illa: et cognoverunt sic pauperes gregis, qui custodiunt mihi, quia verbum Domini est.

12Et dixi ad eos: Si bonum est in oculis vestris, afferte mercedem meam: et si non, quiescite. Et appenderunt mercedem meam triginta argenteos.

13Et dixit Dominus ad me: Projice illud ad statuarium, decorum pretium quo appretiatus sum ab eis. Et tuli triginta argenteos, et projeci illos in domum Domini, ad statuarium.

14Et præcidi virgam meam secundam, quæ appellabatur Funiculus, ut dissolverem germanitatem inter Judam et Israël.

15Et dixit Dominus ad me: Adhuc sume tibi vasa pastoris stulti.

16Quia ecce ego suscitabo pastorem in terra, qui derelicta non visitabit, dispersum non quæret, et contritum non sanabit, et id quod stat non enutriet, et carnes pinguium comedet, et ungulas eorum dissolvet.

17O pastor, et idolum derelinquens gregem: gladius super brachium ejus, et super oculum dextrum ejus: brachium ejus ariditate siccabitur, et oculus dexter ejus tenebrescens obscurabitur.

1Open thy gates, O Libanus, and let fire devour thy cedars.

2Howl, thou fir tree, for the cedar is fallen, for the mighty are laid waste: howl, ye oaks of Basan, because the fenced forest is cut down.

3The voice of the howling of the shepherds, because their glory is laid waste: the voice of the roaring of the lions, because the pride of the Jordan is spoiled.

4Thus saith the Lord my God: Feed the flock of the slaughter,

5Which they that possessed, slew, and repented not, and they sold them, saying: Blessed be the Lord, we are become rich: and their shepherds spared them not.

6And I will no more spare the inhabitants of the land, saith the Lord: behold I will deliver the men, every one into his neighbour’s hand, and into the hand of his king: and they shall destroy the land, and I will not deliver it out of their hand.

7And I will feed the hock of slaughter for this, O ye poor of the dock. And I took unto me two rods, one I called Beauty, and the other I called a Cord, and I fed the flock.

8And I cut off three shepherds in one month, and my soul was straitened in their regard: for their soul also varied in my regard.

9And I said: I will not feed you: that which dieth, let it die: and that which is cut off, let it be cut off: and let the rest devour every one the flesh of his neighbour.

10And I took my rod that was called Beauty, and I cut it asunder to make void my covenant, which I had made with all people.

11And it was made void in that day: and so the poor of the flock that keep for me, understood that it is the word of the Lord.

12And I said to them: If it be good in your eyes, bring hither my wages: and if not, be quiet. And they weighed for my wages thirty pieces of silver.

13And the Lord said to me: Cast it to the statuary, a handsome price, that I was prized at by them. And I took the thirty pieces of silver, and I cast them into the house of the Lord to the statuary.

14And I cut off my second rod that was called a Cord, that I might break the brotherhood between Juda and Israel.

15And the Lord said to me: Take to thee yet the instruments of a foolish shepherd.

16For behold I will raise up a shepherd in the land, who shall not visit what is forsaken, nor seek what is scattered, nor heal what is broken, nor nourish that which standeth, and he shall eat the flesh of the fat ones, and break their hoofs.

17O shepherd, and idol, that forsaketh the flock: the sword upon his arm and upon his right eye: his arm shall quite wither away, and his right eye shall be utterly darkened.