Ezekiel 31
1 Now in the eleventh year, in the third month, on the first day of the month, the word of the Lord came to me, saying,
十一年三月一日，上主的話傳給我說：「
2 Son of man, say to Pharaoh, king of Egypt, and to his people; Whom are you like in your great power?
人子，你要向埃及王法郎和他的民眾說：你的偉大相似誰呢﹖
3 See, a pine-tree with beautiful branches and thick growth, giving shade and very tall; and its top was among the clouds.
看，你是一棵黎巴嫩香柏，枝葉美觀，蔭影濃密，枝幹高大，樹梢插入雲霄。
4 It got strength from the waters and the deep made it tall: its streams went round about its planted land and it sent out its waterways to all the trees of the field.
水使它長大，淵泉使它長高；河水由四周流入栽植它之地，支流灌溉田中其他的樹木。
5 In this way it became taller than all the trees of the field; and its branches were increased and its arms became long because of the great waters.
為此它的枝幹高過田間的一切樹木，因為水多，生長時枝業繁茂，枝條特長。
6 In its branches all the birds of heaven came to rest, and under its arms all the beasts of the field gave birth to their young, and great nations were living in its shade.
天上的一切飛鳥在它枝幹上築巢，田間的野獸在他的枝葉下生子，各國的人民住在它的蔭影下。
7 So it was beautiful, being so tall and its branches so long, for its root was by great waters.
它的枝葉廣闊，高大華麗，因為它的根深入多水之地。
8 No cedars were equal to it in the garden of God; the fir-trees were not like its branches, and plane-trees were as nothing in comparison with its arms; no tree in the garden of God was so beautiful.
天主樂園中的香柏，都不能同它相比，扁柏不及它的枝幹，楓樹不及它的枝椏，天主樂園中所有的樹木都沒有它那樣美麗。
9 I made it beautiful with its mass of branches: so that all the trees in the garden of God were full of envy of it.
我使它枝葉茂盛而美麗，致令「伊甸」──天主樂園──中所有的樹木都嫉妒它。
10 For this cause the Lord has said: Because he is tall, and has put his top among the clouds, and his heart is full of pride because he is so high,
因此吾主上主這樣說：因它枝幹高大，枝梢插入雲霄，遂因自己高大而心高氣傲。
11 I have given him up into the hands of a strong one of the nations; he will certainly give him the reward of his sin, driving him out.
我必將它交在列國最強的人手中，他們要任意對待它；我必要因它的罪行而將它剷除；
12 And men from strange lands, who are to be feared among the nations, after cutting him off, have let him be: on the mountains and in all the valleys his branches have come down; his arms are broken by all the waterways of the land; all the peoples of the earth have gone from his shade, and have let him be.
列國最兇殘的人必要將它伐倒，把它拋棄在山上；它的枝椏，倒臥在山谷中，枝條折落在一切窪地上；萬國的人民都要離開它的蔭影，而棄捨它；
13 All the birds of heaven have come to rest on his broken stem where it is stretched on the earth, and all the beasts of the field will be on his branches:
天上飛鳥都棲在它倒了的枝幹上，田間的各種野獸都停在它的枝條下，
14 In order that no trees by the waters may be lifted up in their growth, putting their tops among the clouds; and that no trees which are watered may take their place on high: for they are all given up to death, to the lowest parts of the earth among the children of men, with those who go down to the underworld.
這是為使一切有水滋潤的樹木，不要因自己的軀幹高大而自負，不要再讓枝梢插入雲霄，免得各種有水滋潤的樹木，因高聳而自大，因為他們都要歸於死亡，降到陰間，到那些已降入深淵的人子中。 (questioned)
15 This is what the Lord has said: The day when he goes down to the underworld, I will make the deep full of grief for him; I will keep back her streams and the great waters will be stopped: I will make Lebanon dark for him, and all the trees of the field will be feeble because of him. (Sheol h7585)
吾主上主這樣說：在它下到陰府的那天，我要使人哀弔它；為了它我要使深淵閉塞，使江河凝結，洪水停流，使黎巴嫩為它舉哀，使田間所有的樹木因它而枯萎。 (Sheol h7585)
16 I will send shaking on the nations at the sound of his fall, when I send him down to the underworld with those who go down into the deep: and on earth they will be comforting themselves, all the trees of Eden, the best of Lebanon, even all the watered ones. (Sheol h7585)
當我使它下到陰府與已在深淵的人在一起時，也使列國因它下墜之聲而戰慄；那時「伊甸」中的各種樹木，黎巴嫩一切有水滋潤的華麗而高大的樹木，在陰間都感到安慰。 (Sheol h7585)
17 And they will go down with him to the underworld, to those who have been put to the sword; even those who were his helpers, living under his shade among the nations (Sheol h7585)
那些在各國住在它蔭影下幫助過它的的人，也隨它下到陰府，同那喪身刀下的人在一起。「 (Sheol h7585)
18 Whom then are you like? for you will be sent down with the trees of Eden into the lowest parts of the earth: there you will be stretched out among those without circumcision, with those who were put to the sword. This is Pharaoh and all his people, says the Lord.
伊甸」的樹木中，就華麗和高大說，你相似那一棵﹖你也要同「伊甸」的樹木一起被推入陰間，在未受割損的人中，同喪身刀下的人臥在一起：這是指法郎和他所有的人民說的──吾主上主的斷語。」 (questioned)
