Ezekiel 31

1 In the eleventh year, in the third month, in the first day of the month, the LORD’s word 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, tell Pharaoh king of Egypt and his multitude: ‘Whom are you like in your greatness?

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

3 Behold, the Assyrian was a cedar in Lebanon with beautiful branches, and with a forest-like shade, of high stature; and its top was amongst the thick boughs.

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

4 The waters nourished it. The deep made it to grow. Its rivers ran all around its plantation. It sent out its channels to all the trees of the field.

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

5 Therefore its stature was exalted above all the trees of the field; and its boughs were multiplied. Its branches became long by reason of many waters, when it spread them out.

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

6 All the birds of the sky made their nests in its boughs. Under its branches, all the animals of the field gave birth to their young. All great nations lived under its shadow.

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

7 Thus it was beautiful in its greatness, in the length of its branches; for its root was by many 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 it. The cypress trees were not like its branches. The pine trees were not like its branches; nor was any tree in the garden of God like it in its 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 made it beautiful by the multitude of its branches, so that all the trees of Eden, that were in the garden of God, envied it.’

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

10 “Therefore thus said the Lord GOD: ‘Because he is exalted in stature, and he has set his top amongst the thick branches, and his heart is lifted up in his height,

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

11 I will deliver him into the hand of the mighty one of the nations. He will 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 Foreigners, the tyrants of the nations, have cut him off and have left him. His branches have fallen on the mountains and in all the valleys, and his boughs are broken by all the watercourses of the land. All the peoples of the earth have gone down from his shadow 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 All the birds of the sky will dwell on his ruin, and all the animals of the field will be on 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 in their stature, and don’t set their top amongst the thick boughs. Their mighty ones don’t stand up on their height, even all who drink water; for they are all delivered to death, to the lower parts of the earth, amongst the children of men, with those who 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 “The Lord GOD says: ‘In the day when he went down to Sheol, I caused a mourning. I covered the deep for him, and I restrained its rivers. The great waters were stopped. 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 Sheol with those who descend into the pit. All the trees of Eden, the choice and best of Lebanon, all that drink water, were comforted in the lower 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 Sheol with him to those who are slain by the sword; yes, those who were his arm, who lived under his shadow in the middle of the nations. (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 are you thus like in glory and in greatness amongst the trees of Eden? Yet you will be brought down with the trees of Eden to the lower parts of the earth. You will lie in the middle of the uncircumcised, with those who are slain by the sword. “‘This is Pharaoh and all his multitude,’ says 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».