Ezekiel 31
1 Now it came to pass in the eleventh year, in the third month, on the first day of the month, that the word of Jehovah came to me, saying:
| در سال یازدهم تبعیدمان در روز اول ماه سوم، پیغام دیگری از جانب خداوند به من رسید: |
2 Son of man, say to Pharaoh, king of Egypt, and to his multitude: To whom art thou like in thy greatness?
| «ای پسر انسان، به پادشاه مصر و تمام قوم او بگو: تو نیز مانند آشور هستی. آشور قومی بزرگ و توانا بود؛ او همچون درخت سرو لبنان، پر شاخ و برگ و سایه‌گستر بود و سرش به ابرها می‌رسید. |
3 Behold, the Assyrian was a cedar upon Lebanon, with fair branches; An overshadowing thicket, high of stature; And his top was among thick boughs.
4 The waters made him great; the deep waters made him high; Their streams went around their plantation, And sent forth their channels to all the trees of the field.
| آبهای زیر زمین و نهرها او را سیراب می‌کردند و باعث رشد آن می‌شدند، همچنین این آبها تمام درختان اطرافش را نیز آبیاری می‌نمودند. |
5 Therefore his height was exalted Above all the trees of the field. And his boughs were multiplied, and his branches became long, Because of the abundance of water when he shot forth.
| به سبب فراوانی آب، او از همهٔ درختان بلندتر و پر شاخ و برگ‌تر شد. |
6 In his boughs all the birds of heaven made their nests, And under his branches all the beasts of the field brought forth their young; And under his shadow dwelt all the great nations.
| در میان شاخه‌هایش پرندگان آشیانه می‌ساختند و در زیر شاخه‌هایش، گله‌ها و رمه‌ها بچه می‌زاییدند. تمام قومهای بزرگ جهان زیر سایهٔ او بودند. |
7 Thus was he beautiful in his greatness, in the length of his branches; For his root was by many waters.
| او بزرگ و زیبا بود و ریشه‌هایش در آب فرو رفته بودند. |
8 The cedars in the garden of God could not hide him; The cypress-trees were not like his boughs, And the plane-trees were not like his branches. Not any tree in the garden of God Was like to him in his beauty.
| این درخت از هر درخت دیگری در باغ خدا بلندتر و زیباتر بود. شاخه‌های هیچ درخت صنوبری مثل شاخه‌های آن نبود و جوانه‌های هیچ درختی به جوانه‌های آن نمی‌رسید. |
9 I made him beautiful in the multitude of his branches, So that all the trees of Eden, which were in the garden of God, envied him.
| به سبب عظمتی که من به او بخشیده بودم، تمام درختان باغ عدن به او حسادت می‌کردند.» |
10 Therefore thus saith the Lord Jehovah: Because he lifted himself up in stature, And shot up his top among the thick boughs, And his heart was lifted up on account of his height,
| خداوند یهوه می‌فرماید: «اکنون مصر، این درخت بلند، مغرور و متکبر شده است و خود را از دیگران بهتر و برتر می‌داند و سر به فلک کشیده است، |
11 Therefore I delivered him into the hand of the mighty one of the nations, To deal hardly with him; I drave him out for his wickedness;
| پس، او را به دست یک قوم نیرومند تسلیم می‌کنم تا او را به سزای شرارتش برساند. من خودم او را سرنگون می‌کنم. |
12 And strangers, the terrible of the nations, cut him off and cast him away. Upon the mountains and in all the valleys his branches fell; And his boughs were broken in all the valleys of the land. And all the nations of the earth withdrew from his shadow and left him;
| لشکر بیگانه‌ای که مایهٔ وحشت و دلهرهٔ قومهاست می‌آید و او را قطع می‌کند و به زمین می‌اندازد. شاخه‌های شکستهٔ آن در اطراف کوهها، دره‌ها و رودخانه‌ها پخش و پراکنده می‌شود. تمام کسانی که در زیر سایه‌اش بودند آن را به همان حال افتاده، می‌گذارند و از آنجا می‌روند. |
13 Upon his ruin dwelt all the birds of the heavens, And upon his branches were all the beasts of the forest.
| پرندگان، بر تنهٔ آن لانه می‌کنند و حیوانات وحشی در میان شاخه‌های بزرگ آن می‌خوابند. |
14 To the end that none of all the trees by the waters Might exalt themselves for their stature, Nor shoot up their top among the thick boughs, And that none of the trees that drink water should cleave to them on account of their height; For all of them are delivered to death, to the lower parts of the earth, In the midst of the sons of men, To them that have gone down to the pit.
| این درس عبرتی است برای قومهای قوی و کامیاب، تا مغرور نشوند؛ زیرا همه محکوم به مرگ هستند و مثل تمام مردم دیگر به دنیای مردگان می‌روند.» |
15 Thus saith the Lord Jehovah: In the day when he went down to the grave, I caused the deep to mourn, I covered it for him; I restrained on account of him the streams, and the great waters were kept back; And I caused Lebanon to mourn for him, And all the trees of the field fainted for him. (Sheol h7585)
| خداوند یهوه می‌فرماید: «وقتی مصر سقوط کند دریاها را برمی‌انگیزم تا برایش ماتم گیرند و از حرکت باز ایستند. لبنان را سیاه‌پوش می‌کنم و تمام درختان، پژمرده می‌شوند. (Sheol h7585) |
16 At the sound of his fall I made the nations to shake, When I cast him down to the grave, To them that have gone down to the pit; And all the trees of Eden, The choice and best of Lebanon, Even all that drink water, Were comforted in the lower parts of the earth. (Sheol h7585)
| وقتی مصر و تمام کسانی را که مانند وی هستند به دنیای مردگان بفرستم، قومها از صدای افتادنش وحشت خواهند کرد. تمام درختان عدن، مرغوبترین و بهترین درختان لبنان که همیشه سیراب بودند، وقتی ببینند که مصر هم در دنیای مردگان در کنار آنهاست، خوشحال خواهند شد. (Sheol h7585) |
17 They also went down into the grave with him, To them that have been slain with the sword; They also that were his arm, That dwelt under his shadow among the nations. (Sheol h7585)
| تمام هم‌پیمانان او نیز که در زیر سایه‌اش بودند هلاک شده، همراه وی به دنیای مردگان خواهند رفت. (Sheol h7585) |
18 To whom art thou thus like in glory and greatness among the trees of Eden? Thou shalt be brought down with the trees of Eden To the lower parts of the earth; Thou shalt lie down in the midst of the uncircumcised, With them that are slain by the sword. Thus shall it be with Pharaoh and all his multitude, Saith the Lord Jehovah.
| «ای مصر، تو در میان درختان عدن (یعنی ممالک جهان)، بسیار باشکوه و عظیم هستی، ولی همراه همهٔ ممالک دیگر به قعر دنیای مردگان سرنگون خواهی شد و در میان ممالکی قرار خواهی گرفت که آنها را پست شمرده، با شمشیر کشتی.» خداوند یهوه می‌فرماید: «این است عاقبت پادشاه مصر و تمام قوم او.» |
