Ezekiel 19
1 And thou, take thou up a lamentation for the princes of Israel,
| ואתה שא קינה אל נשיאי ישראל |
2 and say, What was thy mother? A lioness: she lay down among lions, she nourished her whelps in the midst of the young lions.
| ואמרת מה אמך לביא בין אריות רבצה בתוך כפרים רבתה גוריה |
3 And she brought up one of her whelps; it became a young lion, and he learned to catch the prey; he devoured men.
| ותעל אחד מגריה כפיר היה וילמד לטרף טרף אדם אכל |
4 And the nations heard of him; he was taken in their pit, and they brought him with nose-rings into the land of Egypt.
| וישמעו אליו גוים בשחתם נתפש ויבאהו בחחים אל ארץ מצרים |
5 And when she saw that she had waited [and] her hope was lost, she took another of her whelps, [and] made him a young lion.
| ותרא כי נוחלה אבדה תקותה ותקח אחד מגריה כפיר שמתהו |
6 And he went up and down among the lions; he became a young lion, and learned to catch the prey; he devoured men.
| ויתהלך בתוך אריות כפיר היה וילמד לטרף טרף אדם אכל |
7 And he knew their [desolate] palaces, and he laid waste their cities, so that the land was desolate, and all it contained, by the noise of his roaring.
| וידע אלמנותיו ועריהם החריב ותשם ארץ ומלאה מקול שאגתו |
8 Then the nations set against him on every side from the provinces, and spread their net over him; he was taken in their pit.
| ויתנו עליו גוים סביב ממדינות ויפרשו עליו רשתם בשחתם נתפש |
9 And they put him in a cage with nose-rings, and brought him to the king of Babylon; they brought him into strongholds, that his voice should no more 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 Thy mother was as a vine, in thy rest, planted by the waters: it was fruitful and full of branches by reason of many waters.
| אמך כגפן בדמך על מים שתולה פריה וענפה היתה ממים רבים |
11 And it had strong rods for sceptres of them that bear rule, and its stature was exalted between the thick boughs; and it was conspicuous by its height with the multitude of its branches.
| ויהיו לה מטות עז אל שבטי משלים ותגבה קומתו על בין עבתים וירא בגבהו ברב דליתיו |
12 But it was plucked up in fury, it was cast down to the ground, and the east wind dried up its fruit; its strong rods were broken and withered; the fire consumed them.
| ותתש בחמה לארץ השלכה ורוח הקדים הוביש פריה התפרקו ויבשו מטה עזה אש אכלתהו |
13 And now it is planted in the wilderness, in a dry and thirsty ground:
| ועתה שתולה במדבר בארץ ציה וצמא |
14 and a fire is gone out of a rod of its branches, [which] hath devoured its fruit; so that it hath no strong rod to be a sceptre for ruling. This is a lamentation, and shall be for a lamentation.
| ותצא אש ממטה בדיה פריה אכלה ולא היה בה מטה עז שבט למשול קינה היא ותהי לקינה |
