Jezekiel 19
1 Moreover do you take up a lamentation for the prince of Israel,
| ואתה שא קינה אל נשיאי ישראל׃ |
2 and say, Why is your mother become a whelp in the midst of lions? in the midst of lions she has multiplied her whelps.
| ואמרת מה אמך לביא בין אריות רבצה בתוך כפרים רבתה גוריה׃ |
3 And one of her whelps sprang forth; he became a lion, and learned to take prey, he devoured men.
| ותעל אחד מגריה כפיר היה וילמד לטרף טרף אדם אכל׃ |
4 And the nations heard a report of him; he was caught in their pit, and they brought him into the land of Egypt in chains.
| וישמעו אליו גוים בשחתם נתפש ויבאהו בחחים אל ארץ מצרים׃ |
5 And she saw that he was driven away from her, [and] her hope [of him] perished, and she took another of her whelps; she made him a lion.
| ותרא כי נוחלה אבדה תקותה ותקח אחד מגריה כפיר שמתהו׃ |
6 And he went up and down in the midst of lions, he became a lion, and learned to take prey, he devoured men.
| ויתהלך בתוך אריות כפיר היה וילמד לטרף טרף אדם אכל׃ |
7 And he prowled in his boldness and laid waste their cities, and made the land desolate, and the fullness of it, by the voice of his roaring.
| וידע אלמנותיו ועריהם החריב ותשם ארץ ומלאה מקול שאגתו׃ |
8 Then the nations set upon him from the countries round about, and they spread their nets upon him: he was taken in their pit.
| ויתנו עליו גוים סביב ממדינות ויפרשו עליו רשתם בשחתם נתפש׃ |
9 And they put him in chains and in a cage, [and] he came to the king of Babylon; and he cast him into prison, that his voice should not be heard on the mountains of Israel.
| ויתנהו בסוגר בחחים ויבאהו אל מלך בבל יבאהו במצדות למען לא ישמע קולו עוד אל הרי ישראל׃ |
10 Your mother was as a vine and as a blossom on a pomegranate tree, planted by water: her fruit and her shoot abounded by reason of much water.
| אמך כגפן בדמך על מים שתולה פריה וענפה היתה ממים רבים׃ |
11 And she became a rod for a tribe of princes, and was elevated in her bulk in the midst of [other] trees, and she saw her bulk in the multitude of her branches.
| ויהיו לה מטות עז אל שבטי משלים ותגבה קומתו על בין עבתים וירא בגבהו ברב דליתיו׃ |
12 But she was broken down in wrath, she was cast upon the ground, and the east wind dried up her choice [branches]: vengeance came upon them, and the rod of her strength was withered; fire consumed it.
| ותתש בחמה לארץ השלכה ורוח הקדים הוביש פריה התפרקו ויבשו מטה עזה אש אכלתהו׃ |
13 And now they have planted her in the wilderness, in a dry land.
| ועתה שתולה במדבר בארץ ציה וצמא׃ |
14 And fire is gone out of a rod of her choice [boughs], and has devoured her; and there was no rod of strength in her. Her race is become a parable of lamentation, and it shall be for a lamentation.
| ותצא אש ממטה בדיה פריה אכלה ולא היה בה מטה עז שבט למשול קינה היא ותהי לקינה׃ |
