Ezekiel 19
1 “And as for you, take up a lament over the leaders of Israel,
| ואתה שא קינה אל נשיאי ישראל׃ |
2 and you shall say: Why did your mother, the lioness, recline among the male lions, and raise her little ones in the midst of young lions?
| ואמרת מה אמך לביא בין אריות רבצה בתוך כפרים רבתה גוריה׃ |
3 And she led away one of her little ones, and he became a lion. And he learned to seize prey and to consume men.
| ותעל אחד מגריה כפיר היה וילמד לטרף טרף אדם אכל׃ |
4 And the Gentiles heard about him, and they seized him, but not without receiving wounds. And they led him away in chains to the land of Egypt.
| וישמעו אליו גוים בשחתם נתפש ויבאהו בחחים אל ארץ מצרים׃ |
5 Then, when she had seen that she was weakened, and that her hope had perished, she took one of her little ones, and appointed him as a lion.
| ותרא כי נוחלה אבדה תקותה ותקח אחד מגריה כפיר שמתהו׃ |
6 And he advanced among the lions, and he became a lion. And he learned to seize prey and to devour men.
| ויתהלך בתוך אריות כפיר היה וילמד לטרף טרף אדם אכל׃ |
7 He learned to make widows, and to lead their citizens into the desert. And the land, with its plenitude, was made desolate by the voice of his roaring.
| וידע אלמנותיו ועריהם החריב ותשם ארץ ומלאה מקול שאגתו׃ |
8 And the Gentiles came together against him, on every side, from the provinces, and they spread their net over him; by their wounds, he was captured.
| ויתנו עליו גוים סביב ממדינות ויפרשו עליו רשתם בשחתם נתפש׃ |
9 And they put him into a cage; they led him in chains to the king of Babylon. And they cast him into a prison, so that his voice would no longer be heard upon the mountains of Israel.
| ויתנהו בסוגר בחחים ויבאהו אל מלך בבל יבאהו במצדות למען לא ישמע קולו עוד אל הרי ישראל׃ |
10 Your mother is like a vine, in your blood, planted by the water; her fruit and her branches have increased because of many waters.
| אמך כגפן בדמך על מים שתולה פריה וענפה היתה ממים רבים׃ |
11 And her strong branches were made into scepters for the rulers, and her stature was exalted among the branches. And she saw her own loftiness among the multitude of her branches.
| ויהיו לה מטות עז אל שבטי משלים ותגבה קומתו על בין עבתים וירא בגבהו ברב דליתיו׃ |
12 But she was uprooted in wrath, and cast upon the ground. And the burning wind dried up her fruit. Her robust branches withered and were dried up. A fire consumed her.
| ותתש בחמה לארץ השלכה ורוח הקדים הוביש פריה התפרקו ויבשו מטה עזה אש אכלתהו׃ |
13 And now she has been transplanted into the desert, into a land impassable and dry.
| ועתה שתולה במדבר בארץ ציה וצמא׃ |
14 And a fire has gone forth from a rod of her branches, which has consumed her fruit. And there is no strong branch in her to become a scepter for the rulers. This is a lamentation, and it shall be a lamentation.”
| ותצא אש ממטה בדיה פריה אכלה ולא היה בה מטה עז שבט למשול קינה היא ותהי לקינה׃ |
