Ezekiel 31
1 On the first day of the third month of the eleventh year, a message from the Lord came to me, saying,
十一年三月初一日，耶和华的话临到我说：
2 “Son of man, tell Pharaoh king of Egypt and all his many people: Who is as great as you?
“人子啊，你要向埃及王法老和他的众人说： 在威势上谁能与你相比呢？
3 Look at Assyria. It was like a cedar in Lebanon, with its beautiful branches providing shade in the forest. It was so high that its top reached the clouds.
亚述王曾如黎巴嫩中的香柏树， 枝条荣美，影密如林， 极其高大，树尖插入云中。
4 Deep springs of water made it grow tall and sent streams all around it to water all the other trees.
众水使它生长； 深水使它长大。 所栽之地有江河围流， 汊出的水道延到田野诸树。
5 It became really tall, higher than any other tree in the forest. Its branches grew thick and long because it was so well-watered.
所以它高大超过田野诸树； 发旺的时候，枝子繁多， 因得大水之力枝条长长。
6 All kinds of birds nested in its branches, while underneath it different wild animals had their young, and all the powerful nations lived in its shade.
空中的飞鸟都在枝子上搭窝； 田野的走兽都在枝条下生子； 所有大国的人民都在它荫下居住。
7 It was beautiful and majestic with its long branches, because its roots reached down to the plentiful water.
树大条长，成为荣美， 因为根在众水之旁。
8 The cedars in God's garden were no match for it. No pine tree had such great branches, nor did any plane tree. No tree in God's garden was as beautiful.
神园中的香柏树不能遮蔽它； 松树不及它的枝子； 枫树不及它的枝条； 神园中的树都没有它荣美。
9 I made it beautiful with its many branches. All the trees of Eden in God's garden envied it.
我使它的枝条蕃多，成为荣美， 以致 神伊甸园中的树都嫉妒它。”
10 So this is what the Lord God says: Since it became so tall, reaching up into the clouds, it grew proud because of its height.
所以主耶和华如此说：“因它高大，树尖插入云中，心骄气傲，
11 So I handed it over to the leader of a foreign nation who will punish it for its wickedness. I have thrown it out.
我就必将它交给列国中大有威势的人；他必定办它。我因它的罪恶，已经驱逐它。
12 Foreigners from the cruelest of all the nations chopped it down and left it lying there. Its branches lie fallen and broken in the mountains and valleys of the countryside. Everybody in earth came out of its shadow and abandoned it.
外邦人，就是列邦中强暴的，将它砍断弃掉。它的枝条落在山间和一切谷中，它的枝子折断，落在地的一切河旁。地上的众民已经走去，离开它的荫下。
13 Birds came to live on its fallen trunk, and wild animals hid among its fallen branches.
空中的飞鸟都要宿在这败落的树上，田野的走兽都要卧在它的枝条下，
14 This was in order that no other trees growing by the water would grow up so high and have their tops reach the clouds. This was so that no other trees, however much water they had, would be as tall as them, For they all will die and go down into earth, just like human beings who go down into the grave.
好使水旁的诸树不因高大而自尊，也不将树尖插入云中，并且那些得水滋润、有势力的，也不得高大自立。因为它们在世人中，和下坑的人都被交与死亡，到阴府去了。”
15 This is what the Lord God says: On the day it was brought down to Sheol, I had the deep waters mourn for it; I stopped its rivers flowing; I held back all its waters. I covered Lebanon in darkness, and all the trees in the forest withered. (Sheol h7585)
主耶和华如此说：“它下阴间的那日，我便使人悲哀。我为它遮盖深渊，使江河凝结，大水停流；我也使黎巴嫩为它凄惨，田野的诸树都因它发昏。 (Sheol h7585)
16 I made the nations tremble when they heard it fall, when I threw it down into Sheol with those who die. Then all the trees of Eden, the finest and best in Lebanon, all the trees that had plenty of water, were happy that this tree joined them in the earth below. (Sheol h7585)
我将它扔到阴间，与下坑的人一同下去。那时，列国听见它坠落的响声就都震动，并且伊甸的一切树—就是黎巴嫩得水滋润、最佳最美的树—都在阴府受了安慰。 (Sheol h7585)
17 They also went down with it into Sheol, to those who had been killed by the sword. They had been part of its army living in its shade among the nations. (Sheol h7585)
它们也与它同下阴间，到被杀的人那里。它们曾作它的膀臂，在列国中它的荫下居住。 (Sheol h7585)
18 Who is as great and glorious as you among the trees of Eden? But you too will be brought down to the earth below to be with the trees of Eden. You will lie there with the heathen, with those killed by the sword. This is what will happen to Pharaoh and all his many people, declares the Lord God.”
在这样荣耀威势上，在伊甸园诸树中，谁能与你相比呢？然而你要与伊甸的诸树一同下到阴府，在未受割礼的人中，与被杀的人一同躺卧。 “法老和他的群众乃是如此。这是主耶和华说的。”
