حِزْقِيَال 19

١ 1 «أَمَّا أَنْتَ فَٱرْفَعْ مَرْثَاةً عَلَى رُؤَسَاءِ إِسْرَائِيلَ،

Moreover do you take up a lamentation for the prince of Israel,

٢ 2 وَقُلْ: مَا هِيَ أُمُّكَ؟ لَبْوَةٌ رَبَضَتْ بَيْنَ ٱلْأُسُودِ، وَرَبَّتْ جِرَاءَهَا بَيْنَ ٱلْأَشْبَالِ.

and say, Why is your mother become a whelp in the midst of lions? in the midst of lions she has multiplied her whelps.

٣ 3 رَبَّتْ وَاحِدًا مِنْ جِرَائِهَا فَصَارَ شِبْلًا، وَتَعَلَّمَ ٱفْتِرَاسَ ٱلْفَرِيسَةِ. أَكَلَ ٱلنَّاسَ.

And one of her whelps sprang forth; he became a lion, and learnt to take prey, he devoured men.

٤ 4 فَلَمَّا سَمِعَتْ بِهِ ٱلْأُمَمُ أُخِذَ فِي حُفْرَتِهِمْ، فَأَتَوْا بِهِ بِخَزَائِمَ إِلَى أَرْضِ مِصْرَ.

And the nations heard a report of him; he was caught in their pit, and they brought him into the land of Egypt in chains.

٥ 5 فَلَمَّا رَأَتْ أَنَّهَا قَدِ ٱنْتَظَرَتْ وَهَلَكَ رَجَاؤُهَا، أَخَذَتْ آخَرَ مِنْ جِرَائِهَا وَصَيَّرَتْهُ شِبْلًا.

And she saw that he was driven away from her, [and] her hope [of him] perished, and she took another of her whelps; she made him a lion.

٦ 6 فَتَمَشَّى بَيْنَ ٱلْأُسُودِ. صَارَ شِبْلًا وَتَعَلَّمَ ٱفْتِرَاسَ ٱلْفَرِيسَةِ. أَكَلَ ٱلنَّاسَ.

And he went up and down in the midst of lions, he became a lion, and learnt to take prey, he devoured men.

٧ 7 وَعَرَفَ قُصُورَهُمْ وَخَرَّبَ مُدُنَهُمْ، فَأَقْفَرَتِ ٱلْأَرْضُ وَمِلْؤُهَا مِنْ صَوْتِ زَمْجَرَتِهِ.

And he prowled in his boldness and laid waste their cities, and made the land desolate, and the fullness of it, by the voice of his roaring.

٨ 8 فَٱتَّفَقَ عَلَيْهِ ٱلْأُمَمُ مِنْ كُلِّ جِهَةٍ مِنَ ٱلْبُلْدَانِ، وَبَسَطُوا عَلَيْهِ شَبَكَتَهُمْ، فَأُخِذَ فِي حُفْرَتِهِمْ،

Then the nations set upon him from the countries round about, and they spread their nets upon him: he was taken in their pit.

٩ 9 فَوَضَعُوهُ فِي قَفَصٍ بِخَزَائِمَ وَأَحْضَرُوهُ إِلَى مَلِكِ بَابِلَ، وَأَتَوْا بِهِ إِلَى ٱلْقِلَاعِ لِكَيْلَا يُسْمَعَ صَوْتُهُ بَعْدُ عَلَى جِبَالِ إِسْرَائِيلَ.

And they put him in chains and in a cage, [and] he came to the king of Babylon; and he cast him into prison, that his voice should not be heard on the mountains of Israel.

١٠ 10 «أُمُّكَ كَكَرْمَةٍ، مِثْلِكَ غُرِسَتْ عَلَى ٱلْمِيَاهِ. كَانَتْ مُثْمِرَةً مُفْرِخَةً مِنْ كَثْرَةِ ٱلْمِيَاهِ.

Your mother was as a vine and as a blossom on a pomegranate tree, planted by water: her fruit and her shoot abounded by reason of much water.

١١ 11 وَكَانَ لَهَا فُرُوعٌ قَوِيَّةٌ لِقُضْبَانِ ٱلْمُتَسَلِّطِينَ، وَٱرْتَفَعَ سَاقُهَا بَيْنَ ٱلْأَغْصَانِ ٱلْغَبْيَاءِ، وَظَهَرَتْ فِي ٱرْتِفَاعِهَا بِكَثْرَةِ زَرَاجِينِهَا.

And she became a rod for a tribe of princes, and was elevated in her bulk in the midst of [other] trees, and she saw her bulk in the multitude of her branches.

١٢ 12 لَكِنَّهَا ٱقْتُلِعَتْ بِغَيْظٍ وَطُرِحَتْ عَلَى ٱلْأَرْضِ، وَقَدْ يَبَّسَتْ رِيحٌ شَرْقِيَّةٌ ثَمَرَهَا. قُصِفَتْ وَيَبِسَتْ فُرُوعُهَا ٱلْقَوِيَّةُ. أَكَلَتْهَا ٱلنَّارُ.

But she was broken down in wrath, she was cast upon the ground, and the east wind dried up her choice [branches]: vengeance came upon them, and the rod of her strength was withered; fire consumed it.

١٣ 13 وَٱلْآنَ غُرِسَتْ فِي ٱلْقَفْرِ فِي أَرْضٍ يَابِسَةٍ عَطْشَانَةٍ.

And now they have planted her in the wilderness, in a dry land.

١٤ 14 وَخَرَجَتْ نَارٌ مِنْ فَرْعِ عِصِيِّهَا أَكَلَتْ ثَمَرَهَا. وَلَيْسَ لَهَا ٱلْآنَ فَرْعٌ قَوِيٌّ لِقَضِيبِ تَسَلُّطٍ. هِيَ رِثَاءٌ وَتَكُونُ لِمَرْثَاةٍ».

And fire is gone out of a rod of her choice [boughs], and has devoured her; and there was no rod of strength in her. Her race is become a parable of lamentation, and it shall be for a lamentation.