Ezekiel 19
1 Moreover take thou up a lamentation for the princes of Israel,
汝イスラエルの君等のために哀の詞をのべて
2 And say, What [is] thy mother? A lioness: she lay down among lions, she nourished her whelps among young lions.
言ふべし汝の母なる牝獅は何故に牡獅の中に伏し小獅の中にその子を養ふや
3 And she brought up one of her whelps: it became a young lion, and it learned to catch the prey; it devoured men.
彼その一の子を育てたれば小獅となりて食を攫ことを學ひ遂に人を食へり
4 The nations also heard of him; he was taken in their pit, and they brought him with chains unto the land of Egypt.
國々の人これの事を聞きこれを陷阱にて執へ鼻環をほどこしてこれをエジプトの地にひきいたれり
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.
牝獅姑く待しがその望を失ひしを見たれば又一個の子を取てこれを小獅とならしむ
6 And he went up and down among the lions, he became a young lion, and learned to catch the prey, [and] devoured men.
是すなはち牝獅の中に歩みて小獅となり食を攫ことを學ひしが亦人を食ひ
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.
其寡婦をしりその邑々を滅せりその咆哮聲によりてその地とその中に盈る者荒たり
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.
是をもて四方の國人その國々より攻來り網をこれにうちかけ陷阱にてこれを執へ
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.
鼻環をほどこして籠にいれ之をバビロンの王の許に曳いたりて城の中に携へ入れ其聲を再びイスラエルの山々に聞えざらしむ
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.
汝の母は汝の血にして水の側に植たる葡萄樹のごとし水の多きがために結實多く蔓はびこれり
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.
是に強き枝ありて君王等の杖となすべし是の長は雲に至りその衆多の枝のために高く聳えて見へたり
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.
然るに是怒をもて拔れて地に擲たる東風その實を吹乾かしその強き枝は折れて枯れ火に焚る
13 And now she [is] planted in the wilderness, in a dry and thirsty ground.
今これは荒野にて乾ける水なき地に植りてあり
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.
その枝の芽より火いでてその果を燒けば復強き枝の君王等の杖となるべき者其になし是哀の詞なり哀の詞となるべし
