< حِزِقیال 31 >
در سال یازدهم تبعیدمان در روز اول ماه سوم، پیغام دیگری از جانب خداوند به من رسید: | 1 |
In the eleventh year, in the third month, in the first day of the month, the LORD’s word 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 his multitude: ‘Whom are you like in your greatness?
Behold, the Assyrian was a cedar in Lebanon with beautiful branches, and with a forest-like shade, of high stature; and its top was amongst 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. 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. Its branches became long by reason of many waters, when it spread them out.
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. Under its branches, all the animals of the field gave birth to their young. All great nations lived under its shadow.
او بزرگ و زیبا بود و ریشههایش در آب فرو رفته بودند. | 7 |
Thus it was 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 cypress trees were not like its branches. The pine trees were not like 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 the Lord GOD: ‘Because he is exalted in stature, and he has set his top amongst the thick branches, 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 deliver him into the hand of the mighty one of the nations. He will 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 |
Foreigners, the tyrants of the nations, have cut him off and have left him. His branches have fallen on the mountains and in all the valleys, and his boughs are broken by all the watercourses of the land. All the peoples of the earth have 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 |
All the birds of the sky will dwell on his ruin, and all the animals of the field will 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, and don’t set their top amongst the thick boughs. Their mighty ones don’t stand up on their height, even all who drink water; for they are all delivered to death, to the lower parts of the earth, amongst the children of men, with those 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 |
“The Lord GOD says: ‘In the day when he went down to Sheol, I caused a mourning. I covered the deep for him, and I restrained its rivers. The great waters were stopped. 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. 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, who lived under his shadow in the middle 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 amongst the trees of Eden? Yet you will be brought down with the trees of Eden to the lower parts of the earth. You will lie in the middle of the uncircumcised, with those who are slain by the sword. “‘This is Pharaoh and all his multitude,’ says the Lord GOD.”