Ezekiel 19
1 Moreover, take thou up a lamentation for the princes of Israel,
| ואתה שא קינה אל נשיאי ישראל׃ |
2 and say: How was thy mother a lioness; among lions she couched, in the midst of the young lions she reared her whelps!
| ואמרת מה אמך לביא בין אריות רבצה בתוך כפרים רבתה גוריה׃ |
3 And she brought up one of her whelps, he 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 Then the nations assembled against him, he was taken in their pit; and they brought him with hooks unto the land of Egypt.
| וישמעו אליו גוים בשחתם נתפש ויבאהו בחחים אל ארץ מצרים׃ |
5 Now when she saw that she was disappointed, and her hope was lost, then 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 he learned to catch the prey, he devoured men.
| ויתהלך בתוך אריות כפיר היה וילמד לטרף טרף אדם אכל׃ |
7 And he knew their castles, and laid waste their cities; and the land was desolate, and the fulness thereof, because of the noise of his roaring.
| וידע אלמנותיו ועריהם החריב ותשם ארץ ומלאה מקול שאגתו׃ |
8 Then the nations cried out against him on every side from the provinces; and they 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 hooks, and brought him to the king of Babylon; that they might bring him into strongholds, so 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 like a vine, in thy likeness, planted by the waters; she was fruitful and full of branches by reason of many waters.
| אמך כגפן בדמך על מים שתולה פריה וענפה היתה ממים רבים׃ |
11 And she had strong rods to be sceptres for them that bore rule; and her stature was exalted among the thick branches, and she was seen in her height with the multitude of her tendrils.
| ויהיו לה מטות עז אל שבטי משלים ותגבה קומתו על בין עבתים וירא בגבהו ברב דליתיו׃ |
12 But she was plucked up in fury, she was cast down to the ground, and the east wind dried up her fruit; her strong rods were broken off and withered, the fire consumed her.
| ותתש בחמה לארץ השלכה ורוח הקדים הוביש פריה התפרקו ויבשו מטה עזה אש אכלתהו׃ |
13 And now she is planted in the wilderness, in a dry and thirsty ground.
| ועתה שתולה במדבר בארץ ציה וצמא׃ |
14 And fire is gone out of the rod of her branches, it hath devoured her fruit, so that there is in her no strong rod to be a sceptre to rule.' This is a lamentation, and it was for a lamentation.
| ותצא אש ממטה בדיה פריה אכלה ולא היה בה מטה עז שבט למשול קינה היא ותהי לקינה׃ |
