Hiezechielis Prophetæ 19

1 et tu adsume planctum super principes Israhel

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

2 et dices quare mater tua leaena 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 leo factus est et didicit capere praedam 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 Aegypti

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 quae 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 didicit praedam 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 eorum 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 adversum 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 Israhel

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 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 factae sunt ei virgae solidae 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 arefactae sunt virgae 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.