Hiezechielis Prophetæ 19

1 Et tu assume planctum super principes Israel,

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

2 et dices: Quare mater tua leæna inter leones cubavit, in medio leunculorum enutrivit catulos suos?

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 Et eduxit unum de leunculis suis, et leo factus est: et didicit capere prædam, hominemque comedere.

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

4 Et audierunt de eo Gentes, et non absque vulneribus suis ceperunt eum: et adduxerunt eum in catenis in Terram Ægypti.

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 Quæ cum vidisset quoniam infirmata est, et periit expectatio eius: tulit unum de leunculis suis, leonem constituit eum.

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 Qui incedebat inter leones, et factus est leo: et didicit prædam capere, et homines devorare:

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

7 Didicit viduas facere, et civitates earum in desertum adducere: et desolata est terra, et plenitudo eius a voce rugitus illius.

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 Et convenerunt adversus eum Gentes undique de provinciis, et expanderunt super eum rete suum, in vulneribus earum captus est.

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 Et miserunt eum in caveam, in catenis adduxerunt eum ad regem Babylonis: miseruntque eum in carcerem, ne audiretur vox eius ultra super montes Israel.

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 Mater tua quasi vinea in sanguine tuo super aquam plantata est: fructus eius, et frondes eius creverunt ex aquis multis.

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 Et factæ sunt ei virgæ solidæ in sceptra dominantium, et exaltata est statura eius inter frondes: et vidit altitudinem suam in multitudine palmitum suorum.

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 Et evulsa est in ira, in terramque proiecta, et ventus urens siccavit fructum eius: marcuerunt, et arefactæ sunt virgæ roboris eius: ignis comedit eam.

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 Et nunc transplantata est in desertum, in terra invia, et sitienti.

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

14 Et egressus est ignis de virga ramorum eius, qui fructum eius comedit: et non fuit in ea virga fortis, sceptrum dominantium. Planctus est, et erit in planctum.

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.