Ezekiel 19
1 “And as for you, take up a lament over the leaders of Israel,
汝イスラエルの君等のために哀の詞をのべて
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?
言ふべし汝の母なる牝獅は何故に牡獅の中に伏し小獅の中にその子を養ふや
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.
彼その一の子を育てたれば小獅となりて食を攫ことを學ひ遂に人を食へり
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.
國々の人これの事を聞きこれを陷阱にて執へ鼻環をほどこしてこれをエジプトの地にひきいたれり
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.
牝獅姑く待しがその望を失ひしを見たれば又一個の子を取てこれを小獅とならしむ
6 And he advanced among the lions, and he became a lion. And he learned to seize prey and to devour men.
是すなはち牝獅の中に歩みて小獅となり食を攫ことを學ひしが亦人を食ひ
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.
其寡婦をしりその邑々を滅せりその咆哮聲によりてその地とその中に盈る者荒たり
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.
是をもて四方の國人その國々より攻來り網をこれにうちかけ陷阱にてこれを執へ
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.
鼻環をほどこして籠にいれ之をバビロンの王の許に曳いたりて城の中に携へ入れ其聲を再びイスラエルの山々に聞えざらしむ
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.
汝の母は汝の血にして水の側に植たる葡萄樹のごとし水の多きがために結實多く蔓はびこれり
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.
是に強き枝ありて君王等の杖となすべし是の長は雲に至りその衆多の枝のために高く聳えて見へたり
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.
然るに是怒をもて拔れて地に擲たる東風その實を吹乾かしその強き枝は折れて枯れ火に焚る
13 And now she has been transplanted into the desert, into a land impassable and dry.
今これは荒野にて乾ける水なき地に植りてあり
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.”
その枝の芽より火いでてその果を燒けば復強き枝の君王等の杖となるべき者其になし是哀の詞なり哀の詞となるべし
