< حِزِقیال 31 >
در سال یازدهم تبعیدمان در روز اول ماه سوم، پیغام دیگری از جانب خداوند به من رسید: | 1 |
It happened in the eleventh year, in the third month, in the first day of the month, that the word of Jehovah came to me, saying,
«ای پسر انسان، به پادشاه مصر و تمام قوم او بگو: تو نیز مانند آشور هستی. آشور قومی بزرگ و توانا بود؛ او همچون درخت سرو لبنان، پر شاخ و برگ و سایهگستر بود و سرش به ابرها میرسید. | 2 |
"Son of man, tell Pharaoh king of Egypt, and to his multitude: 'Whom are you like in your greatness?
Look, the Assyrian was a cedar in Lebanon with beautiful branches, and with a forest-like shade, and of high stature; and its top was among the thick boughs.
آبهای زیر زمین و نهرها او را سیراب میکردند و باعث رشد آن میشدند، همچنین این آبها تمام درختان اطرافش را نیز آبیاری مینمودند. | 4 |
The waters nourished it, the deep made it to grow: its rivers ran all around its plantation; and it sent out its channels to all the trees of the field.
به سبب فراوانی آب، او از همهٔ درختان بلندتر و پر شاخ و برگتر شد. | 5 |
Therefore its stature was exalted above all the trees of the field; and its boughs were multiplied, and its branches became long by reason of many waters, when it shot them forth.
در میان شاخههایش پرندگان آشیانه میساختند و در زیر شاخههایش، گلهها و رمهها بچه میزاییدند. تمام قومهای بزرگ جهان زیر سایهٔ او بودند. | 6 |
All the birds of the sky made their nests in its boughs; and under its branches all the animals of the field brought forth their young; and all great nations lived under its shadow.
او بزرگ و زیبا بود و ریشههایش در آب فرو رفته بودند. | 7 |
Thus was it beautiful in its greatness, in the length of its branches; for its root was by many waters.
این درخت از هر درخت دیگری در باغ خدا بلندتر و زیباتر بود. شاخههای هیچ درخت صنوبری مثل شاخههای آن نبود و جوانههای هیچ درختی به جوانههای آن نمیرسید. | 8 |
The cedars in the garden of God could not hide it; the fir trees were not like its boughs, and the plane trees were not as its branches; nor was any tree in the garden of God like it in its beauty.
به سبب عظمتی که من به او بخشیده بودم، تمام درختان باغ عدن به او حسادت میکردند.» | 9 |
I made it beautiful by the multitude of its branches, so that all the trees of Eden, that were in the garden of God, envied it.'
خداوند یهوه میفرماید: «اکنون مصر، این درخت بلند، مغرور و متکبر شده است و خود را از دیگران بهتر و برتر میداند و سر به فلک کشیده است، | 10 |
"Therefore thus said Jehovah: 'Because you are exalted in stature, and he has set his top among the thick boughs, and his heart is lifted up in his height;
پس، او را به دست یک قوم نیرومند تسلیم میکنم تا او را به سزای شرارتش برساند. من خودم او را سرنگون میکنم. | 11 |
I will even deliver him into the hand of the mighty one of the nations; he shall surely deal with him; I have driven him out for his wickedness.
لشکر بیگانهای که مایهٔ وحشت و دلهرهٔ قومهاست میآید و او را قطع میکند و به زمین میاندازد. شاخههای شکستهٔ آن در اطراف کوهها، درهها و رودخانهها پخش و پراکنده میشود. تمام کسانی که در زیر سایهاش بودند آن را به همان حال افتاده، میگذارند و از آنجا میروند. | 12 |
Strangers, the terrible of the nations, have cut him off, and have left him: on the mountains and in all the valleys his branches are fallen, and his boughs are broken by all the watercourses of the land; and all the peoples of the earth are gone down from his shadow, and have left him.
پرندگان، بر تنهٔ آن لانه میکنند و حیوانات وحشی در میان شاخههای بزرگ آن میخوابند. | 13 |
On his ruin all the birds of the sky shall dwell, and all the animals of the field shall be on his branches;
این درس عبرتی است برای قومهای قوی و کامیاب، تا مغرور نشوند؛ زیرا همه محکوم به مرگ هستند و مثل تمام مردم دیگر به دنیای مردگان میروند.» | 14 |
to the end that none of all the trees by the waters exalt themselves in their stature, neither set their top among the thick boughs, nor that their mighty ones stand up on their height, even all who drink water: for they are all delivered to death, to the lower parts of the earth, among human beings who go down to the pit.'
خداوند یهوه میفرماید: «وقتی مصر سقوط کند دریاها را برمیانگیزم تا برایش ماتم گیرند و از حرکت باز ایستند. لبنان را سیاهپوش میکنم و تمام درختان، پژمرده میشوند. (Sheol ) | 15 |
"Thus says Jehovah: 'In the day when he went down to Sheol I caused a mourning: I covered the deep for him, and I restrained its rivers; and the great waters were stayed; and I caused Lebanon to mourn for him, and all the trees of the field fainted for him. (Sheol )
وقتی مصر و تمام کسانی را که مانند وی هستند به دنیای مردگان بفرستم، قومها از صدای افتادنش وحشت خواهند کرد. تمام درختان عدن، مرغوبترین و بهترین درختان لبنان که همیشه سیراب بودند، وقتی ببینند که مصر هم در دنیای مردگان در کنار آنهاست، خوشحال خواهند شد. (Sheol ) | 16 |
I made the nations to shake at the sound of his fall, when I cast him down to Sheol with those who descend into the pit; and all the trees of Eden, the choice and best of Lebanon, all that drink water, were comforted in the lower parts of the earth. (Sheol )
تمام همپیمانان او نیز که در زیر سایهاش بودند هلاک شده، همراه وی به دنیای مردگان خواهند رفت. (Sheol ) | 17 |
They also went down into Sheol with him to those who are slain by the sword; yes, those who were his arm, that lived under his shadow in the midst of the nations. (Sheol )
«ای مصر، تو در میان درختان عدن (یعنی ممالک جهان)، بسیار باشکوه و عظیم هستی، ولی همراه همهٔ ممالک دیگر به قعر دنیای مردگان سرنگون خواهی شد و در میان ممالکی قرار خواهی گرفت که آنها را پست شمرده، با شمشیر کشتی.» خداوند یهوه میفرماید: «این است عاقبت پادشاه مصر و تمام قوم او.» | 18 |
To whom are you thus like in glory and in greatness among the trees of Eden? Yet you will be brought down with the trees of Eden to the lower parts of the earth: you shall lie in the midst of the uncircumcised, with those who are slain by the sword. This is Pharaoh and all his multitude,' says Jehovah."