Ezekiel 19
1 And thou, —do thou lift up a lamentation for the princes of Israel,
| ואתה שא קינה אל נשיאי ישראל |
2 And say, What a noble lioness was thy mother! among lions did she lie down, in the midst of young lions did she raise 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 tear in pieces the prey; [even] men he devoured.
| ותעל אחד מגריה כפיר היה וילמד לטרף טרף אדם אכל |
4 And when nations heard of him, he was caught in their pit, and they brought him with nose-rings unto the land of Egypt.
| וישמעו אליו גוים בשחתם נתפש ויבאהו בחחים אל ארץ מצרים |
5 Now when she saw that she had long waited, [that] her hope was lost, she took another one 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 in the midst of lions, he became a young lion; and he learned to tear in pieces the prey; even men he devoured.
| ויתהלך בתוך אריות כפיר היה וילמד לטרף טרף אדם אכל |
7 And he broke down their palaces, and their cities laid he in ruins: and then was terrified the land, with all that filled it, because of the noise of his roaring.
| וידע אלמנותיו ועריהם החריב ותשם ארץ ומלאה מקול שאגתו |
8 Then set themselves the nations against him on every side from the provinces; and they spread over him their net: in their pit was he caught.
| ויתנו עליו גוים סביב ממדינות ויפרשו עליו רשתם בשחתם נתפש |
9 And they put him in a cage with nose-rings [in his nose], and they brought him to the king of Babylon: they brought him into strong-holds, in order that his voice should no more 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 Thy mother was like a vine, if I compare thee to aught, planted by the waters: fruitful and full of boughs was she by reason of many waters.
| אמך כגפן בדמך על מים שתולה פריה וענפה היתה ממים רבים |
11 And she had strong branches [fit] for the sceptres of rulers, and her stature grew up high between the thick-branched [trees], and she was seen through her height by means of 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, to the ground was she cast down, and the east wind dried up her fruit: and torn off and dried up were her strong branches, a fire consumed them.
| ותתש בחמה לארץ השלכה ורוח הקדים הוביש פריה התפרקו ויבשו מטה עזה אש אכלתהו |
13 And now is she planted in the wilderness, in a dry and thirsty land.
| ועתה שתולה במדבר בארץ ציה וצמא |
14 And fire is gone out of a branch of her boughs, and hath devoured her fruit, so that there is no more on her a strong branch for a sceptre to rule. This is a lamentation, and it is become a lamentation.
| ותצא אש ממטה בדיה פריה אכלה ולא היה בה מטה עז שבט למשול קינה היא ותהי לקינה |
