Ezekiel 19
1 "Moreover, take up a lamentation for the princes of Israel,
あなたはイスラエルの君たちのために悲しみの歌をのべて
2 and say, 'What was your mother? A lioness: she couched among lions, in the midst of the young lions she nourished her cubs.
言え、あなたの母はししのうちにあって、どんな雌じしであったろう。彼女は若いししのうちに伏して子じしを養った。
3 She brought up one of her cubs: he became a young lion, and he learned to catch the prey; he devoured men.
彼女は子じしの一つを育てたが、それは若いししとなって、獲物をとることを学び、人を食べた。
4 The nations also heard of him; he was taken in their pit; and they brought him with hooks to the land of Egypt.
国々の人は彼に対して叫び声をあげ、落し穴でこれを捕え、かぎでこれをエジプトの地に引いて行った。
5 "'Now when she saw that she had waited, and her hope was lost, then she took another of her cubs, and made him a young lion.
雌じしは自分の思いが破れ、その望みを失ったのを見たので、ほかの子じしをとって、これを若い子じしとした。
6 He went up and down among the lions; he became a young lion, and he learned to catch the prey; he devoured men.
彼はししのうちに行き来し、若いししとなって、獲物をとることを学び、人を食べた。
7 He devastated their strongholds, and destroyed their cities; and the land was desolate, and its fullness, because of the noise of his roaring.
彼はその要害を荒し、その町々を滅ぼした。そのほえる声によって、その地とその中に満ちるものとは皆恐れた。
8 Then the nations set against him on every side from the provinces; and they spread their net over him; he was taken in their pit.
そこで国々の人は彼に対して四方にわなを設け、彼に網を打ちかけ、落し穴で彼を捕えた。
9 They put him in a cage with hooks, and brought him to the king of Babylon; they brought him into strongholds, that his voice should no more be heard on the mountains of Israel.
彼らはかぎをもって、これをかごに入れ、これをバビロンの王のもとに連れて行き、これをおりの中に入れて、再びその声をイスラエルの山々に聞えさせないようにした。
10 "'Your mother was like a vine in your vineyard, planted by the waters: it was fruitful and full of branches by reason of many waters.
あなたの母は水のほとりに移し植えられたぶどう畑のぶどうの木のようで、水が多いために実りがよく、枝がはびこった。
11 It had strong rods for the scepters of those who bore rule, and their stature was exalted among the thick boughs, and they were seen in their height with the multitude of their branches.
その強い幹は君たる者のつえとなった。それは茂みの中に高くそびえ、多くの枝をつけて高く見えた。
12 But it was plucked up in fury, it was cast down to the ground, and the east wind dried up its fruit: its strong rods were broken off and withered; the fire consumed them.
しかしこのぶどうの木は憤りによって抜かれ、地に投げうたれ、東風がそれを枯らし、その実はもぎ取られ、その強い幹は枯れて、火に焼き滅ぼされた。
13 Now it is planted in the wilderness, in a dry and thirsty land.
今これは荒野に、かわいた、水のない地に移し植えられ、
14 Fire is gone out of the rods of its branches, it has devoured its fruit, so that there is in it no strong rod to be a scepter to rule.' This is a lamentation, and shall be for a lamentation."
火がその幹から出て、その枝と実とを滅ぼしたので、強い幹で、君たる者のつえとなるべきものはそこにない。これが悲しみの言葉、また悲しみの歌となった。
