< Ezekiel 19 >

1 “And you, lift up a lamentation to princes of Israel,
ואתה שא קינה אל נשיאי ישראל
2 and you have said: What [is] your mother? A lioness, She has crouched down among lions, She has multiplied her whelps in the midst of young lions.
ואמרת מה אמך לביא בין אריות רבצה בתוך כפרים רבתה גוריה
3 And she brings up one of her whelps, He has been a young lion, And he learns to tear prey, He has devoured man.
ותעל אחד מגריה כפיר היה וילמד לטרף טרף אדם אכל
4 And nations hear of him, He has been caught in their pit, And they bring him to the land of Egypt in chains.
וישמעו אליו גוים בשחתם נתפש ויבאהו בחחים אל ארץ מצרים
5 And as she waited she sees that her hope has perished, And she takes one of her whelps, She has made him a young lion.
ותרא כי נוחלה אבדה תקותה ותקח אחד מגריה כפיר שמתהו
6 And he goes up and down in the midst of lions, He has been a young lion, And he learns to tear prey, He has devoured man.
ויתהלך בתוך אריות כפיר היה וילמד לטרף טרף אדם אכל
7 And he knows his forsaken habitations, And he has laid waste [to] their cities, And the land and its fullness is desolate, Because of the voice of his roaring.
וידע אלמנותיו ועריהם החריב ותשם ארץ ומלאה מקול שאגתו
8 And surrounding nations set against him from the provinces. And they spread out their net for him, He has been caught in their pit.
ויתנו עליו גוים סביב ממדינות ויפרשו עליו רשתם בשחתם נתפש
9 And they put him in prison—in chains, And they bring him to the king of Babylon, They bring him into bulwarks, So that his voice is not heard On mountains of Israel anymore.
ויתנהו בסוגר בחחים ויבאהו אל מלך בבל יבאהו במצדות למען לא ישמע קולו עוד אל הרי ישראל
10 Your mother, like the vine in your blood, Is being planted by waters, She was bearing fruit and full of boughs, Because of many waters.
אמך כגפן בדמך על מים שתולה פריה וענפה היתה ממים רבים
11 And she has strong rods for scepters of rulers, And she is high in stature above—between thick branches, And it appears in its height In the multitude of its thin shoots.
ויהיו לה מטות עז אל שבטי משלים ותגבה קומתו על בין עבתים וירא בגבהו ברב דליתיו
12 And she is plucked up in fury, She has been cast to the earth, And the east wind has dried up her fruit, [The] rod of her strength has been broken and withered, Fire has consumed it.
ותתש בחמה לארץ השלכה ורוח הקדים הוביש פריה התפרקו ויבשו מטה עזה אש אכלתהו
13 And now she is planted in a wilderness, In a dry and thirsty land.
ועתה שתולה במדבר בארץ ציה וצמא
14 And fire goes forth from a rod of her boughs, It has devoured her fruit, And she has no rod of strength—a scepter to rule, A lamentation—and she has become for a lamentation!”
ותצא אש ממטה בדיה פריה אכלה ולא היה בה מטה עז שבט למשול קינה היא ותהי לקינה

< Ezekiel 19 >