Ezekiel 31

1 And it came to pass in the eleventh year, in the third [month], in the first [day] of the month, [that] the word of the LORD came to me, saying,

١ وَفِي مَطْلَعِ الشَّهْرِ الثَّالِثِ الْعِبْرِيِّ (أَيْ أَيَّارَ – مَايُو) مِنَ السَّنَةِ الْحَادِيَةِ عَشْرَةَ (لِسَبْيِ الْمَلِكِ يَهُويَاكِينَ)، أَوْحَى إِلَيَّ الرَّبُّ بِكَلِمَتِهِ قَائِلاً:

2 Son of man, speak to Pharaoh king of Egypt, and to his multitude; Whom art thou like in thy greatness?

٢ «يَا ابْنَ آدَمَ، قُلْ لِفِرْعَوْنَ مَلِكِ مِصْرَ وَلِشَعْبِهِ: مَنْ مَاثَلْتَ بِعَظَمَتِكَ؟

3 Behold, the Assyrian [was] a cedar in Lebanon with fair branches, and with a shady cover, and of a high stature; and his top was among the thick boughs.

٣ إِنَّنِي أُشَبِّهُكَ بِشَجَرَةِ أَرْزٍ فِي لُبْنَانَ، بَهِيَّةِ الأَغْصَانِ، وَارِفَةِ الظِّلِّ، شَامِخَةٍ تُطَاوِلُ قِمَّتُهَا الْغُيُومَ،

4 The waters made him great, the deep set him up on high with her rivers running round his plants, and sent out her little rivers to all the trees of the field.

٤ تُرْوِيهَا الْمِيَاهُ، وَتُنَمِّيهَا اللُّجَجُ. تَجْرِي أَنْهَارُهَا حَوْلَ مَغْرَسِهَا، وَتَنْسَابُ جَدَاوِلُهَا إِلَى كُلِّ أَشْجَارِ الْحَقْلِ.

5 Therefore his hight was exalted above all the trees of the field, and his boughs were multiplied, and his branches became long because of the multitude of waters, when he shot forth.

٥ لِهَذَا طَاوَلَتْ قَامَتُهَا جَمِيعَ أَشْجَارِ الْحَقْلِ وَتَكَاثَرَتْ أَغْصَانُهَا، وَامْتَدَّتْ فُرُوعُهَا الَّتِي نَبَتَتْ لِغَزَارَةِ مِيَاهِهَا.

6 All the fowls of heaven made their nests in his boughs, and under his branches did all the beasts of the field bring forth their young, and under his shade dwelt all great nations.

٦ وَعَشَّشَتْ فِي أَغْصَانِهَا كُلُّ طُيُورِ السَّمَاءِ، وَتَحْتَ فُرُوعِهَا وَلَدَتْ كُلُّ حَيَوَانِ الْبَرِّ، وَأَوَتْ تَحْتَ ظِلِّهَا كُلُّ أَمَمِ الأَرْضِ الْعَظِيمَةِ.

7 Thus was he fair in his greatness, in the length of his branches: for his root was by great waters.

٧ فَكَانَتْ رَائِعَةً فِي عَظَمَتِهَا وَفِي شُمُوخِ قَامَتِهَا لأَنَّ جُذُورَهَا كَانَتْ مَغْروسَةً فِي مِيَاهٍ غَزِيرَةٍ.

8 The cedars in the garden of God could not hide him: the fir-trees were not like his boughs, and the chesnut-trees were not like his branches; not any tree in the garden of God was like to him in his beauty.

٨ لَمْ يُضَاهِهَا الأَرْزُ فِي جَنَّةِ اللهِ، وَلَمْ يُعَادِلِ السَّرْوُ أَغْصَانَهَا، وَلَمْ يُمَاثِلِ الدُّلْبُ فُرُوعَهَا. كُلُّ الأَشْجَارِ فِي جَنّةِ اللهِ لَمْ تُشْبِهْهَا فِي حُسْنِهَا.

9 I have made him fair by the multitude of his branches: so that all the trees of Eden, that [were] in the garden of God, envied him.

٩ جَعَلْتُهَا بَهِيَّةً لِكَثْرَةِ أَغْصَانِهَا حَتَّى حَسَدَتْهَا كُلُّ أَشْجَارِ عَدْنٍ الَّتِي فِي جَنَّةِ اللهِ.

10 Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD; Because thou hast lifted up thyself in hight, and he hath shot up his top among the thick boughs, and his heart is lifted up in his hight;

١٠ لِذَلِكَ يَقُولُ السَّيِّدُ الرَّبُّ: لأَنَّكَ يَا فِرْعَوْنُ شَمَخْتَ بِقَامَتِكَ وَطَاوَلْتَ بِهَامَتِكَ الْغُيُومَ، تَكَبَّرَ قَلْبُكَ مِنْ جَرَّاءِ عَظَمَتِكَ.

11 I have therefore delivered him into the hand of the mighty one of the heathen; he shall surely deal with him: I have driven him out for his wickedness.

١١ أَسْلَمْتُكَ إِلَى يَدِ الْمُتَسَلِّطِ عَلَى الأُمَمِ فَيُعَامِلُكَ أَقْسَى مُعَامَلَةٍ. إِنِّي نَبَذْتُكَ لِفَرْطِ شَرِّكَ.

12 And strangers, the terrible of the nations, have cut him off, and have left him: upon the mountains and in all the valleys his branches are fallen, and his boughs are broken by all the rivers of the land; and all the people of the earth have gone down from his shade, and have left him.

١٢ وَيَسْتَأْصِلُهُ الغُرَبَاءُ عُتَاةُ الأُمَمِ، وَيَتْرُكُونَهُ، فَتَتَهَاوَى أَغْصَانُهُ عَلَى الْجِبَالِ وَفِي جَمِيعِ الأَوْدِيَةِ، وَتَتَحَطَّمُ فُرُوعُهُ إِلَى جُوَارِ كُلِّ أَنْهَارِ الأَرْض، وَيَهْجُرُ ظِلَّهُ كُلُّ شُعُوبِ الأَرْضِ وَيَنْبِذُونَهُ.

13 Upon his ruin shall all the fowls of the heaven remain, and all the beasts of the field shall be upon his branches:

١٣ وَتَجْثُمُ عَلَى حُطَامِهِ طُيُورُ السَّمَاءِ جَمِيعُهَا، وَتَرْبِضُ فَوْقَ قُضْبَانِهِ كُلُّ حَيَوَانِ الْبَرِّ

14 To the end that none of all the trees by the waters exalt themselves for their hight, neither shoot up their top among the thick boughs, neither their trees stand up in their hight, all that drink water: for they are all delivered to death, to the nether parts of the earth, in the midst of the children of men, with them that go down to the pit.

١٤ لِئَلّا تَشْمَخَ شَجَرَةٌ مَا مَغْرُوسَةٌ عَلَى الْمِيَاهِ لاِرْتِفَاعِ قَامَتِهَا، وَلا تُطَاوِلُ بِهَامَتِهَا الْغُيُومَ، وَلِكَيْ لَا تَبْلُغَ أَيَّةُ شَجَرَةٍ تُرْوِيهَا الْمِيَاهُ مِثْلَ هَذَا الْعُلُوِّ، لأَنَّهَا جَمِيعَهَا مَآلُهَا الْمَوْتُ، حَيْثُ تَمْضِي إِلَى الأَرْضِ السُّفْلَى بَيْنَ الْفَانِينَ مِنْ بَنِي آدَمَ، مَعَ الْهَابِطِينَ إِلَى الْهَاوِيَةِ.

15 Thus saith the Lord GOD; In the day when he went down to the grave I caused a mourning: I covered the deep for him, and I restrained its floods, and the great waters were stayed: and I caused Lebanon to mourn for him, and all the trees of the field fainted for him. (Sheol h7585)

١٥ وَهَذَا مَا يُعْلِنُهُ السَّيِّدُ الرَّبُّ: وَفِي يَوْمِ هُبُوطِهِ إِلَى الْهَاوِيَةِ يَعُمُّ النُّوَاحُ الطَّبِيعَةَ، فَأَكْسُو الْغَمْرَ ثِيَابَ الْحِدَادِ عَلَيْهِ، وَأَكْبَحُ جَرَيَانَ أَنْهَارِهِ، وَتَكُفُّ مِيَاهُهُ عَنِ التَّدَفُّقِ وَأَجْعَلُ لُبْنَانَ يَنُوحُ عَلَيْهِ، وَتَذْبُلُ كُلُّ أَشْجَارِ الْحَقْلِ حُزْناً عَلَى هَلاكِهِ. (Sheol h7585)

16 I made the nations to shake at the sound of his fall, when I cast him down to the grave with them that descend into the pit: and all the trees of Eden, the choice and best of Lebanon, all that drink water, shall be comforted in the nether parts of the earth. (Sheol h7585)

١٦ مِنْ جَلَبَةِ سُقُوطِهِ حِينَ أَنْزَلْتُهُ إِلَى الْهَاوِيَةِ مَعَ الْهَابِطِينَ إِلَيْهَا ارْتَعَدَتِ الأُمَمُ، فَتَتَعَزَّى فِي الأَرْضِ السُّفْلَى كُلُّ أَشْجَارِ عَدْنٍ وَنُخْبَةُ أَشْجَارِ لُبْنَانَ، وَكُلُّ مُرْتَوِيَةٍ مِنْ مَاءٍ. (Sheol h7585)

17 They also went down into the grave with him to [them that are] slain with the sword; and [they that were] his arm, [that] dwelt under his shade in the midst of the heathen. (Sheol h7585)

١٧ هُمْ أَيْضاً يَنْحَدِرُونَ مَعَهُ إِلَى الْهَاوِيَةِ لِيَنْضَمُّوا إِلَى قَتْلَى السَّيْفِ، وَكَذَلِكَ يَهْلِكُ حُلَفَاؤُهُ مِنَ الأُمَمِ الْمُقِيمِينَ تَحْتَ ظِلِّهِ. (Sheol h7585)

18 To whom art thou thus like in glory and in greatness among the trees of Eden? yet shalt thou be brought down with the trees of Eden to the nether parts of the earth: thou shalt lie in the midst of the uncircumcised with [them that are] slain by the sword. This [is] Pharaoh and all his multitude, saith the Lord GOD.

١٨ مَنْ مَاثَلْتَ بَيْنَ أَشْجَارِ عَدْنٍ فِي الْمَجْدِ وَالْعَظَمَةِ؟ سَتَنْحَدِرُ إِلَى الأَرْضِ السُّفْلَى مَعَ أَشْجَارِ عَدْنٍ، وَتَرْقُدُ مَعَ الْغُلْفِ، مَعَ الْمَقْتُولِينَ بِالسَّيْفِ. هَذَا هُوَ مَصِيرُ فِرْعَوْنَ وَكُلِّ شَعْبِهِ، يَقُولُ السَّيِّدُ الرَّبُّ».