< Ezekiel 31 >
1 And it came to pass in the eleventh year, in the third [month], on the first of the month, [that] the word of Jehovah came unto me, saying,
Και εν τω ενδεκάτω έτει, τω τρίτω μηνί, τη πρώτη του μηνός, έγεινε λόγος Κυρίου προς εμέ, λέγων,
2 Son of man, say unto Pharaoh king of Egypt, and to his multitude: Whom art thou like in thy greatness?
Υιέ ανθρώπου, ειπέ προς τον Φαραώ βασιλέα της Αιγύπτου και προς το πλήθος αυτού· Με ποίον ώμοιώθης εν τη μεγαλειότητί σου;
3 Behold, Assyria was a cedar in Lebanon, with fair branches and a shadowing shroud, and of a high stature: and his top was amidst the thick boughs.
Ιδού, ο Ασσύριος ήτο κέδρος εν τω Λιβάνω με κλάδους ωραίους, και πυκνός την σκιάν και υψηλός το μέγεθος, και η κορυφή αυτού ήτο εν μέσω κλάδων πυκνών.
4 The waters made him great, the deep set him up on high; its streams ran round about his plantation, and it sent out its rivulets unto all the trees of the field.
Τα ύδατα ηύξησαν αυτόν, η άβυσσος ύψωσεν αυτόν με τους ποταμούς αυτής τους ρέοντας κύκλω των φυτών αυτού, και εξέπεμπε τους ρύακας αυτής εις πάντα τα δένδρα του αγρού.
5 Therefore his height was exalted above all the trees of the field, and his boughs were multiplied, and his branches became long, because of great waters, when he shot forth.
Όθεν το ύψος εαυτού ανέβη υπεράνω πάντων των δένδρων του αγρού και οι κλώνοι αυτού επλήθυναν και οι κλάδοι αυτού εξετάνθησαν διά το πλήθος των υδάτων, ενώ εβλάστανε.
6 All the fowl of the heavens made their nests in his boughs, and under his branches did all the beasts of the field bring forth their young, and under his shadow dwelt all the great nations.
Πάντα τα πετεινά του ουρανού εφώλευον εν τοις κλώνοις αυτού, και πάντα τα ζώα του αγρού εγέννων υπό τους κλάδους αυτού· υπό δε την σκιάν αυτού κατώκουν πάντα τα μεγάλα έθνη.
7 Thus was he fair in his greatness, in the length of his branches: because his root was by great waters.
Ήτο λοιπόν ώραίος κατά το μέγεθος αυτού και κατά την έκτασιν των κλάδων αυτού, διότι αι ρίζαι αυτού ήσαν πλησίον υδάτων πολλών.
8 The cedars in the garden of God could not hide him; the cypresses were not like his boughs, and the plane-trees were not as his branches: no tree in the garden of God was like unto him in his beauty.
Αι κέδροι εν τω παραδείσω του Θεού δεν ηδύναντο να κρύψωσιν αυτόν· αι έλατοι δεν εξισούντο με τους κλώνους αυτού, και αι κάστανοι δεν εξισούντο με τους κλάδους αυτού· ουδέν δένδρον εν τω παραδείσω του Θεού ώμοίαζεν αυτόν κατά την ώραιότητα αυτού.
9 I had made him fair by the multitude of his branches; and all the trees of Eden, that were in the garden of God, envied him.
Έκαμον αυτόν ώραίον κατά το πλήθος των κλάδων αυτού, ώστε πάντα τα δένδρα της Εδέμ, τα εν τω παραδείσω του Θεού, εζήλευον αυτόν.
10 Therefore thus saith the Lord Jehovah: Because thou hast lifted up thyself in stature, ...and he hath set his top amidst the thick boughs, and his heart is lifted up in his height,
Διά τούτο ούτω λέγει Κύριος ο Θεός· Επειδή ύψωσας σεαυτόν υψηλά, και επειδή εσήκωσε την κορυφήν αυτού μεταξύ των πυκνών κλώνων και η καρδία αυτού επήρθη εις το ύψος αυτού,
11 I have given him into the hand of the mighty one of the nations; he shall surely deal with him: I have driven him out for his wickedness.
διά τούτο παρέδωκα αυτόν εις την χείρα του δυνάστου των εθνών, όστις θέλει φερθή αξίως προς αυτόν· απέβαλον αυτόν διά την ασέβειαν αυτού.
12 And strangers, the terrible of the nations, have cut him off and have left him; upon the mountains and in all the valleys his branches are fallen, and his boughs are broken in all the watercourses of the land; and all the peoples of the earth are gone down from his shadow, and have left him.
Και ξένοι, οι τρομερώτεροι των εθνών, έκοψαν αυτόν και εγκατέλιπον αυτόν· οι κλάδοι αυτού έπεσον επί τα όρη και εν πάσαις ταις φάραγξι και οι κλώνοι αυτού συνετρίφθησαν υπό πάντων των ποταμών της γης, και πάντες οι λαοί της γης κατέβησαν από της σκιάς αυτού και εγκατέλιπον αυτόν.
13 Upon his fallen [trunk] do all the fowl of the heavens dwell, and all the beasts of the field are upon his branches:
Επί του πτώματος αυτού θέλουσιν επικάθησθαι πάντα τα πετεινά του ουρανού και επί τους κλάδους αυτού θέλουσιν είσθαι πάντα τα ζώα του αγρού·
14 to the end that none of all the trees by the waters exalt themselves in their stature, nor set their top amidst the thick boughs, and that none of them that drink water stand up in his height by himself; for they are all given over unto death in the lower parts of the earth, in the midst of the children of men, with them that go down to the pit.
διά να μη υψωθή εν τω ύψει αυτού ουδέν εκ των δένδρων των υδάτων μηδέ να σηκώσωσι την κορυφήν αυτών μεταξύ των πυκνών κλάδων, και εκ πάντων των πινόντων ύδωρ, ουδέν εκ τούτων να μη στέκηται εν τω ύψει αυτού· διότι πάντα παρεδόθησαν εις τον θάνατον, εις τα κατώτατα της γης, εν μέσω των υιών των ανθρώπων, μετά των καταβαινόντων εις λάκκον.
15 Thus saith the Lord Jehovah: In the day when he went down to Sheol, I caused a mourning: I covered the deep for him, and I restrained the floods thereof, and the great waters were stayed; and I made Lebanon black for him, and all the trees of the field fainted for him. (Sheol )
Ούτω λέγει Κύριος ο Θεός· Καθ' ην ημέραν κατέβη εις τον άδην, έκαμον να γείνη πένθος· εσκέπασα την άβυσσον δι' αυτόν και εμπόδισα τους ποταμούς αυτής και τα μεγάλα ύδατα εκρατήθησαν· και έκαμον να πενθήση ο Λίβανος δι' αυτόν και πάντα τα δένδρα του αγρού εμαράνθησαν δι' αυτόν. (Sheol )
16 I made the nations to shake at the sound of his fall, when I cast him down to Sheol, with them that go down into the pit; and all the trees of Eden, the choice and best of Lebanon, all that drink water, were comforted in the lower parts of the earth. (Sheol )
Έκαμον τα έθνη να σεισθώσιν εις τον ήχον της πτώσεως αυτού, ότε κατεβίβασα αυτόν εις τον άδην μετά των καταβαινόντων εις λάκκον· και πάντα τα δένδρα της Εδέμ, τα εκλεκτά και τα καλά του Λιβάνου, πάντα τα πίνοντα ύδωρ, παρηγορήθησαν εν τοις κατωτάτοις της γης. (Sheol )
17 They also went down into Sheol with him unto them that were slain with the sword, and [that were] his arm, that dwelt under his shadow in the midst of the nations. (Sheol )
Και αυτοί ότι κατέβησαν εις τον άδην μετ' αυτού, προς τους τεθανατωμένους εν μαχαίρα· και όσοι ήσαν ο βραχίων αυτού, οι κατοικούντες υπό την σκιάν αυτού εν μέσω των εθνών. (Sheol )
18 To whom art thou thus like in glory and in greatness among the trees of Eden? Yet shalt thou be brought down with the trees of Eden, unto the lower parts of the earth; thou shalt lie in the midst of the uncircumcised, with them that are slain by the sword. This is Pharaoh and all his multitude, saith the Lord Jehovah.
Με ποίον ώμοιώθης ούτως εν τη δόξη και εν τη μεγαλειότητι, μεταξύ των δένδρων της Εδέμ; θέλεις όμως καταβιβασθή μετά των δένδρων της Εδέμ εις τα κατώτατα της γής· θέλεις κοίτεσθαι εν μέσω των απεριτμήτων μετά των τεθανατωμένων εν μαχαίρα· ούτος είναι ο Φαραώ και άπαν το πλήθος αυτού, λέγει Κύριος ο Θεός.