Ezekiel 19
1 Moreover take thou up a lamentation for the princes of Israel,
Και συ ανάλαβε θρήνον διά τους ηγεμόνας του Ισραήλ,
2 And say, What is thy mother? A lioness: she lay down among lions, she nourished her whelps among young lions.
και ειπέ, Τι είναι η μήτηρ σου; Λέαινα· κείται μεταξύ λεόντων, έθρεψε τα βρέφη αυτής εν μέσω σκύμνων.
3 And she brought up one of her whelps: it became a young lion, and it learned to catch the prey; it devoured men.
Και ανέθρεψεν εν εκ των βρεφών αυτής και έγεινε σκύμνος και έμαθε να αρπάζη το θήραμα· ανθρώπους έτρωγε.
4 The nations also heard of him; he was taken in their pit, and they brought him with chains unto the land of Egypt.
Και τα έθνη ήκουσαν περί αυτού· επιάσθη εν τω λάκκω αυτών, και έφεραν αυτόν με αλύσεις εις την γην της Αιγύπτου.
5 Now when she saw that she had waited, and her hope was lost, then she took another of her whelps, and made him a young lion.
Και ιδούσα ότι η ελπίς αυτής εματαιώθη και εχάθη, έλαβεν εν άλλο εκ των βρεφών αυτής και έκαμεν αυτό σκύμνον.
6 And he went up and down among the lions, he became a young lion, and learned to catch the prey, and devoured men.
Και αναστρεφόμενον εν μέσω των λεόντων έγεινε σκύμνος και έμαθε να αρπάζη θήραμα· ανθρώπους έτρωγε.
7 And he knew their desolate palaces, and he laid waste their cities; and the land was desolate, and the fulness thereof, by the noise of his roaring.
Και εγνώρισε τα παλάτια αυτών και ερήμονε τας πόλεις αυτών· και ήτο ηφανισμένη η γη και το πλήρωμα αυτής από του ήχου του βρυχήματος αυτού.
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.
Και τα έθνη παρετάχθησαν εναντίον αυτού κυκλόθεν εκ των επαρχιών και ήπλωσαν κατ' αυτού τα βρόχια αυτών, και επιάσθη εν τω λάκκω αυτών.
9 And they put him in ward in chains, and brought him to the king of Babylon: they brought him into holds, that his voice should no more be heard upon the mountains of Israel.
Και έβαλον αυτόν με αλύσεις εις κλωβίον και έφεραν αυτόν προς τον βασιλέα της Βαβυλώνος· εν δεσμωτηρίω εισήγαγον αυτόν, διά να μη ακουσθή πλέον φωνή αυτού επί τα όρη του Ισραήλ.
10 Thy mother is like a vine in thy blood, planted by the waters: she was fruitful and full of branches by reason of many waters.
Η μήτηρ σου, καθ' ομοίωσίν σου, ήτο ως άμπελος πεφυτευμένη πλησίον των υδάτων· έγεινε καρποφόρος και πλήρης κλάδων διά τα πολλά ύδατα.
11 And she had strong rods for the sceptres of them that bare rule, and her stature was exalted among the thick branches, and she appeared in her height with the multitude of her branches.
Και έγειναν εις αυτήν ράβδοι ισχυραί διά σκήπτρα των κρατούντων· και ο κορμός αυτής υψώθη εν μέσω των πυκνών κλάδων, και έγεινε περίβλεπτος κατά το ύψος αυτής μεταξύ του πλήθους των βλαστών αυτής.
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 and withered; the fire consumed them.
Απεσπάσθη όμως μετά θυμού, ερρίφθη κατά γης, και ανατολικός άνεμος κατεξήρανε τον καρπόν αυτής· αι ισχυραί αυτής ράβδοι συνεθλάσθησαν και εξηράνθησαν· πυρ κατέφαγεν αυτάς.
13 And now she is planted in the wilderness, in a dry and thirsty ground.
Και τώρα είναι πεφυτευμένη εν ερήμω, εν ξηρά και ανύδρω γη.
14 And fire is gone out of a rod of her branches, which hath devoured her fruit, so that she hath no strong rod to be a sceptre to rule. This is a lamentation, and shall be for a lamentation.
Και εξήλθε πυρ από ράβδου τινός εκ των κλάδων αυτής και κατέφαγε τον καρπόν αυτής, ώστε δεν υπήρχε πλέον εν αυτή ράβδος ισχυρά διά σκήπτρον ηγεμονίας· ούτος είναι ο θρήνος και θέλει είσθαι εις θρήνον.
