エゼキエル書 19

1 汝イスラエルの君等のために哀の詞をのべて

And thou, take thou up a lamentation for the princes of Israel,

2 言ふべし汝の母なる牝獅は何故に牡獅の中に伏し小獅の中にその子を養ふや

and say, What was thy mother? A lioness: she lay down among lions, she nourished her whelps in the midst of the young lions.

3 彼その一の子を育てたれば小獅となりて食を攫ことを學ひ遂に人を食へり

And she brought up one of her whelps; it became a young lion, and he learned to catch the prey; he devoured men.

4 國々の人これの事を聞きこれを陷阱にて執へ鼻環をほどこしてこれをエジプトの地にひきいたれり

And the nations heard of him; he was taken in their pit, and they brought him with nose-rings into the land of Egypt.

5 牝獅姑く待しがその望を失ひしを見たれば又一個の子を取てこれを小獅とならしむ

And when she saw that she had waited [and] her hope was lost, she took another of her whelps, [and] made him a young lion.

6 是すなはち牝獅の中に歩みて小獅となり食を攫ことを學ひしが亦人を食ひ

And he went up and down among the lions; he became a young lion, and learned to catch the prey; he devoured men.

7 其寡婦をしりその邑々を滅せりその咆哮聲によりてその地とその中に盈る者荒たり

And he knew their [desolate] palaces, and he laid waste their cities, so that the land was desolate, and all it contained, by the noise of his roaring.

8 是をもて四方の國人その國々より攻來り網をこれにうちかけ陷阱にてこれを執へ

Then the nations set against him on every side from the provinces, and spread their net over him; he was taken in their pit.

9 鼻環をほどこして籠にいれ之をバビロンの王の許に曳いたりて城の中に携へ入れ其聲を再びイスラエルの山々に聞えざらしむ

And they put him in a cage with nose-rings, and brought him to the king of Babylon; they brought him into strongholds, that his voice should no more be heard upon the mountains of Israel.

10 汝の母は汝の血にして水の側に植たる葡萄樹のごとし水の多きがために結實多く蔓はびこれり

Thy mother was as a vine, in thy rest, planted by the waters: it was fruitful and full of branches by reason of many waters.

11 是に強き枝ありて君王等の杖となすべし是の長は雲に至りその衆多の枝のために高く聳えて見へたり

And it had strong rods for sceptres of them that bear rule, and its stature was exalted between the thick boughs; and it was conspicuous by its height with the multitude of its branches.

12 然るに是怒をもて拔れて地に擲たる東風その實を吹乾かしその強き枝は折れて枯れ火に焚る

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 and withered; the fire consumed them.

13 今これは荒野にて乾ける水なき地に植りてあり

And now it is planted in the wilderness, in a dry and thirsty ground:

14 その枝の芽より火いでてその果を燒けば復強き枝の君王等の杖となるべき者其になし是哀の詞なり哀の詞となるべし

and a fire is gone out of a rod of its branches, [which] hath devoured its fruit; so that it hath no strong rod to be a sceptre for ruling. This is a lamentation, and shall be for a lamentation.