以西结书 31
1 十一年三月初一日，耶和华的话临到我说：
And it came to pass in the eleventh year, in the third month, on the first [day] of the month, the word of the Lord came to me, saying,
2 “人子啊，你要向埃及王法老和他的众人说： 在威势上谁能与你相比呢？
Son of man, say to Pharao king of Egypt, and to his multitude; To whom have you compared yourself in your haughtiness?
3 亚述王曾如黎巴嫩中的香柏树， 枝条荣美，影密如林， 极其高大，树尖插入云中。
Behold, the Assyrian was a cypress in Libanus, and was fair in shoots, and high in stature: his top reached to the midst of the clouds.
4 众水使它生长； 深水使它长大。 所栽之地有江河围流， 汊出的水道延到田野诸树。
The water nourished him, the depth made him grow tall; she led her rivers round about his plants, and she sent forth her streams to all the trees of the field.
5 所以它高大超过田野诸树； 发旺的时候，枝子繁多， 因得大水之力枝条长长。
Therefore was his stature exalted above all the trees of the field, and his branches spread far by the help of much water.
6 空中的飞鸟都在枝子上搭窝； 田野的走兽都在枝条下生子； 所有大国的人民都在它荫下居住。
All the birds of the sky made their nests in his boughs, and under his branches all the wild beasts of the field bred; the whole multitude of nations lived under his shadow.
7 树大条长，成为荣美， 因为根在众水之旁。
And he was fair in his height by reason of the multitude of his branches: for his roots were amidst much water.
8 神园中的香柏树不能遮蔽它； 松树不及它的枝子； 枫树不及它的枝条； 神园中的树都没有它荣美。
And such cypresses [as this] were in the paradise of God; and there were no pines like his shoots, and there were no firs like his branches: no tree in the paradise of God was like him in his beauty,
9 我使它的枝条蕃多，成为荣美， 以致 神伊甸园中的树都嫉妒它。”
because of the multitude of his branches: and the trees of God's paradise of delight envied him.
10 所以主耶和华如此说：“因它高大，树尖插入云中，心骄气傲，
Therefore thus says the Lord; Because you are grown great, and have set your top in the midst of the clouds, and I saw when he was exalted;
11 我就必将它交给列国中大有威势的人；他必定办它。我因它的罪恶，已经驱逐它。
therefore I delivered him into the hands of the prince of the nations, and he wrought his destruction.
12 外邦人，就是列邦中强暴的，将它砍断弃掉。它的枝条落在山间和一切谷中，它的枝子折断，落在地的一切河旁。地上的众民已经走去，离开它的荫下。
And ravaging strangers from the nations have destroyed him, and have cast him down upon the mountains: his branches fell in all the valleys, and his boughs were broken in every field of the land; and all the people of the nations are gone down from their shelter, and have laid him low.
13 空中的飞鸟都要宿在这败落的树上，田野的走兽都要卧在它的枝条下，
All the birds of the sky have settled on his fallen trunk, and all the wild beasts of the field came upon his boughs:
14 好使水旁的诸树不因高大而自尊，也不将树尖插入云中，并且那些得水滋润、有势力的，也不得高大自立。因为它们在世人中，和下坑的人都被交与死亡，到阴府去了。”
in order that none of the trees by the water should exalt themselves by reason of their size: whereas they set their top in the midst of the clouds, yet they continued not in their high state in their place, all that drank water, all were consigned to death, to the depth of the earth, in the midst of the children of men, with them that go down to the pit.
Thus says the Lord God; In the day wherein he went down to Hades, the deep mourned for him: and I stayed her floods, and restrained her abundance of water: and Libanus saddened for him, all the trees of the field fainted for him. (Sheol h7585)
At the sound of his fall the nations quaked, when I brought him down to Hades with them that go down to the pit: and all the trees of Delight comforted him in the heart, and the choice of [plants] of Libanus, all that drink water. (Sheol h7585)
For they went down to hell with him amongst the slain with the sword; and his seed, [even] they that lived under his shadow, perished in the midst of their life. (Sheol h7585)
18 在这样荣耀威势上，在伊甸园诸树中，谁能与你相比呢？然而你要与伊甸的诸树一同下到阴府，在未受割礼的人中，与被杀的人一同躺卧。 “法老和他的群众乃是如此。这是主耶和华说的。”
To whom are you compared? descend, and be you debased with the trees of paradise to the depth of the earth: you shall lie in the midst of the uncircumcised with them that are slain by the sword. Thus shall Pharao be, and the multitude of his host, says the Lord God.
