エゼキエル書 19
1 あなたはイスラエルの君たちのために悲しみの歌をのべて
Moreover, take thou up a lamentation for the princes of Israel,
2 言え、あなたの母はししのうちにあって、どんな雌じしであったろう。彼女は若いししのうちに伏して子じしを養った。
and say: How was thy mother a lioness; among lions she couched, in the midst of the young lions she reared her whelps!
3 彼女は子じしの一つを育てたが、それは若いししとなって、獲物をとることを学び、人を食べた。
And she brought up one of her whelps, he became a young lion; and he learned to catch the prey, he devoured men.
4 国々の人は彼に対して叫び声をあげ、落し穴でこれを捕え、かぎでこれをエジプトの地に引いて行った。
Then the nations assembled against him, he was taken in their pit; and they brought him with hooks unto the land of Egypt.
5 雌じしは自分の思いが破れ、その望みを失ったのを見たので、ほかの子じしをとって、これを若い子じしとした。
Now when she saw that she was disappointed, and her hope was lost, then she took another of her whelps, and made him a young lion.
6 彼はししのうちに行き来し、若いししとなって、獲物をとることを学び、人を食べた。
And he went up and down among the lions, he became a young lion; and he learned to catch the prey, he devoured men.
7 彼はその要害を荒し、その町々を滅ぼした。そのほえる声によって、その地とその中に満ちるものとは皆恐れた。
And he knew their castles, and laid waste their cities; and the land was desolate, and the fulness thereof, because of the noise of his roaring.
8 そこで国々の人は彼に対して四方にわなを設け、彼に網を打ちかけ、落し穴で彼を捕えた。
Then the nations cried out against him on every side from the provinces; and they spread their net over him, he was taken in their pit.
9 彼らはかぎをもって、これをかごに入れ、これをバビロンの王のもとに連れて行き、これをおりの中に入れて、再びその声をイスラエルの山々に聞えさせないようにした。
And they put him in a cage with hooks, and brought him to the king of Babylon; that they might bring him into strongholds, so that his voice should no more be heard upon the mountains of Israel.
10 あなたの母は水のほとりに移し植えられたぶどう畑のぶどうの木のようで、水が多いために実りがよく、枝がはびこった。
Thy mother was like a vine, in thy likeness, planted by the waters; she was fruitful and full of branches by reason of many waters.
11 その強い幹は君たる者のつえとなった。それは茂みの中に高くそびえ、多くの枝をつけて高く見えた。
And she had strong rods to be sceptres for them that bore rule; and her stature was exalted among the thick branches, and she was seen in her height with the multitude of her tendrils.
12 しかしこのぶどうの木は憤りによって抜かれ、地に投げうたれ、東風がそれを枯らし、その実はもぎ取られ、その強い幹は枯れて、火に焼き滅ぼされた。
But she was plucked up in fury, she was cast down to the ground, and the east wind dried up her fruit; her strong rods were broken off and withered, the fire consumed her.
13 今これは荒野に、かわいた、水のない地に移し植えられ、
And now she is planted in the wilderness, in a dry and thirsty ground.
14 火がその幹から出て、その枝と実とを滅ぼしたので、強い幹で、君たる者のつえとなるべきものはそこにない。これが悲しみの言葉、また悲しみの歌となった。
And fire is gone out of the rod of her branches, it hath devoured her fruit, so that there is in her no strong rod to be a sceptre to rule.' This is a lamentation, and it was for a lamentation.
