Ezekiel 19
1 Thou also, take vp a lamentation for the princes of Israel,
あなたはイスラエルの君たちのために悲しみの歌をのべて
2 And say, Wherefore lay thy mother as a lyonesse among the lyons? she nourished her yong ones among the lyons whelps,
言え、あなたの母はししのうちにあって、どんな雌じしであったろう。彼女は若いししのうちに伏して子じしを養った。
3 And she brought vp one of her whelps, and it became a lyon, and it learned to catch the praye, and it deuoured men.
彼女は子じしの一つを育てたが、それは若いししとなって、獲物をとることを学び、人を食べた。
4 The nations also heard of him, and he was taken in their nets, and they brought him in chaines vnto the land of Egypt.
国々の人は彼に対して叫び声をあげ、落し穴でこれを捕え、かぎでこれをエジプトの地に引いて行った。
5 Nowe when she sawe, that she had waited and her hope was lost, she tooke another of her whelps, and made him a lyon.
雌じしは自分の思いが破れ、その望みを失ったのを見たので、ほかの子じしをとって、これを若い子じしとした。
6 Which went among the lyons, and became a lyon, and learned to catch the praye, and he deuoured men.
彼はししのうちに行き来し、若いししとなって、獲物をとることを学び、人を食べた。
7 And he knew their widowes, and he destroyed their cities, and the land was wasted, and all that was therein by the noyse of his roaring.
彼はその要害を荒し、その町々を滅ぼした。そのほえる声によって、その地とその中に満ちるものとは皆恐れた。
8 Then the nations set against him on euery side of the countreys, and laide their nets for him: so he was taken in their pit.
そこで国々の人は彼に対して四方にわなを設け、彼に網を打ちかけ、落し穴で彼を捕えた。
9 And they put him in prison and in chaines, and brought him to the King of Babel, and they put him in holdes, that his voyce should no more be heard vpon the mountaines of Israel.
彼らはかぎをもって、これをかごに入れ、これをバビロンの王のもとに連れて行き、これをおりの中に入れて、再びその声をイスラエルの山々に聞えさせないようにした。
10 Thy mother is like a vine in thy blood, planted by the waters: she brought foorth fruite and branches by the abundant waters,
あなたの母は水のほとりに移し植えられたぶどう畑のぶどうの木のようで、水が多いために実りがよく、枝がはびこった。
11 And she had strong rods for the scepters of them that beare rule, and her stature was exalted among the branches, and she appeared in her height with the multitude of her branches.
その強い幹は君たる者のつえとなった。それは茂みの中に高くそびえ、多くの枝をつけて高く見えた。
12 But she was plucked vp in wrath: she was cast downe to the ground, and the East winde dried vp her fruite: her branches were broken, and withered: as for the rod of her strength, the fire consumed it.
しかしこのぶどうの木は憤りによって抜かれ、地に投げうたれ、東風がそれを枯らし、その実はもぎ取られ、その強い幹は枯れて、火に焼き滅ぼされた。
13 And now she is planted in the wildernes in a drie and thirstie ground.
今これは荒野に、かわいた、水のない地に移し植えられ、
14 And fire is gone out of a rod of her branches, which hath deuoured her fruite, so that she hath no strong rod to be a scepter to rule: this is a lamentation and shalbe for a lamentation.
火がその幹から出て、その枝と実とを滅ぼしたので、強い幹で、君たる者のつえとなるべきものはそこにない。これが悲しみの言葉、また悲しみの歌となった。
