Ezekiel 19
1 Take up now a song of grief for the ruler of Israel, and say,
Et toi, prophète, emploie un chant lugubre pour les princes d’Israël,
2 What was your mother? Like a she-lion among lions, stretched out among the young lions she gave food to her little ones.
Et tu diras: Pourquoi ta mère, qui est une lionne, s’est elle reposée parmi des lions, et a-t-elie nourri ses petits au milieu des lionceaux?
3 And one of her little ones came to growth under her care, and became a young lion, learning to go after beasts for his food; and he took men for his meat.
Elle a fait sortir un de ses lionceaux, et il est devenu lion; et il a appris à ravir sa proie et à dévorer des hommes.
4 And the nations had news of him; he was taken in the hole they had made: and, pulling him with hooks, they took him into the land of Egypt.
Et les peuples ont ouï parler de lui, et ils l’ont saisi, mais non sans recevoir des blessures, et ils l’ont emmené enchaîné en Egypte.
5 Now when she saw that her hope was made foolish and gone, she took another of her little ones and made him into a young lion.
Comme la mère vit qu’elle était sans force, et que son attente était détruite, elle prit un autre de ses lionceaux, l’établit lion.
6 And he went up and down among the lions and became a young lion, learning to go after beasts for his food; and he took men for his meat.
Il marchait parmi les lions, et il devint lion; et il apprit à ravir sa proie et à dévorer des hommes.
7 And he sent destruction on their widows and made waste their towns; and the land and everything in it became waste because of the loud sound of his voice.
Il apprit à faire des veuves et à réduire les cités en déserts: et la terre ainsi que sa plénitude fut désolée à la voix de son rugissement.
8 Then the nations came against him from the kingdoms round about: their net was stretched over him and he was taken in the hole they had made.
Et contre lui des nations s’assemblèrent de toutes parts des provinces, et elles étendirent sur lui leurs rets, il fut pris, mais eu leur faisant des blessures.
9 They made him a prisoner with hooks, and took him to the king of Babylon; they put him in the strong place so that his voice might be sounding no longer on the mountains of Israel.
Et ils le mirent dans une cage, l’emmenèrent enchaîné au roi de Babylone; et ils le mirent dans la prison, afin qu’on n’entendit plus sa voix sur les montagnes d’Israël.
10 Your mother was in comparison like a vine, planted by the waters: she was fertile and full of branches because of the great waters.
Ta mère comme la vigne a été plantée dans ton sang sur le bord de l’eau; son fruit et ses feuilles ont crû par de grandes eaux.
11 And she had a strong rod for a rod of authority for the rulers, and it became tall among the clouds and it was seen lifted up among the number of its branches.
Et ses branches solides sont devenues des sceptres de dominateurs, et sa tige s’est élevée parmi ses feuilles, et elle a vu sa hauteur parmi la multitude de ses sarments.
12 But she was uprooted in burning wrath, and made low on the earth; the east wind came, drying her up, and her branches were broken off; her strong rod became dry, the fire made a meal of it.
Et elle a été arrachée avec colère, et jetée sur la terre; et un vent brûlant a desséché son fruit; les branches qui faisaient sa force se sont flétries et devenues arides; un feu l’a dévorée.
13 And now she is planted in the waste land, in a dry and unwatered country.
Et maintenant elle a été transplantée dans le désert, dans une terre sans voie et altérée.
14 And fire has gone out from her rod, causing the destruction of her branches, so that there is no strong rod in her to be the ruler's rod of authority. This is a song of grief, and it was for a song of grief.
Et il est sorti un feu de la tige de ses rameaux, lequel a dévoré son fruit, et il n’y a plus eu en elle une tige forte, sceptre de dominateurs. C’est un chant lugubre, et ce sera un chant lugubre.
