יחזקאל 19

1 ואתה שא קינה אל נשיאי ישראל׃

Moreover do you take up a lamentation for the prince of Israel,

2 ואמרת מה אמך לביא בין אריות רבצה בתוך כפרים רבתה גוריה׃

and say, Why is your mother become a whelp in the midst of lions? in the midst of lions she has multiplied her whelps.

3 ותעל אחד מגריה כפיר היה וילמד לטרף טרף אדם אכל׃

And one of her whelps sprang forth; he became a lion, and learnt to take prey, he devoured men.

4 וישמעו אליו גוים בשחתם נתפש ויבאהו בחחים אל ארץ מצרים׃

And the nations heard a report of him; he was caught in their pit, and they brought him into the land of Egypt in chains.

5 ותרא כי נוחלה אבדה תקותה ותקח אחד מגריה כפיר שמתהו׃

And she saw that he was driven away from her, [and] her hope [of him] perished, and she took another of her whelps; she made him a lion.

6 ויתהלך בתוך אריות כפיר היה וילמד לטרף טרף אדם אכל׃

And he went up and down in the midst of lions, he became a lion, and learnt to take prey, he devoured men.

7 וידע אלמנותיו ועריהם החריב ותשם ארץ ומלאה מקול שאגתו׃

And he prowled in his boldness and laid waste their cities, and made the land desolate, and the fullness of it, by the voice of his roaring.

8 ויתנו עליו גוים סביב ממדינות ויפרשו עליו רשתם בשחתם נתפש׃

Then the nations set upon him from the countries round about, and they spread their nets upon him: he was taken in their pit.

9 ויתנהו בסוגר בחחים ויבאהו אל מלך בבל יבאהו במצדות למען לא ישמע קולו עוד אל הרי ישראל׃

And they put him in chains and in a cage, [and] he came to the king of Babylon; and he cast him into prison, that his voice should not be heard on the mountains of Israel.

10 אמך כגפן בדמך על מים שתולה פריה וענפה היתה ממים רבים׃

Your mother was as a vine and as a blossom on a pomegranate tree, planted by water: her fruit and her shoot abounded by reason of much water.

11 ויהיו לה מטות עז אל שבטי משלים ותגבה קומתו על בין עבתים וירא בגבהו ברב דליתיו׃

And she became a rod for a tribe of princes, and was elevated in her bulk in the midst of [other] trees, and she saw her bulk in the multitude of her branches.

12 ותתש בחמה לארץ השלכה ורוח הקדים הוביש פריה התפרקו ויבשו מטה עזה אש אכלתהו׃

But she was broken down in wrath, she was cast upon the ground, and the east wind dried up her choice [branches]: vengeance came upon them, and the rod of her strength was withered; fire consumed it.

13 ועתה שתולה במדבר בארץ ציה וצמא׃

And now they have planted her in the wilderness, in a dry land.

14 ותצא אש ממטה בדיה פריה אכלה ולא היה בה מטה עז שבט למשול קינה היא ותהי לקינה׃

And fire is gone out of a rod of her choice [boughs], and has devoured her; and there was no rod of strength in her. Her race is become a parable of lamentation, and it shall be for a lamentation.