ʻIsikieli 19

1 “Ko ia foki ke ke fai ha tangilāulau koeʻuhi ko e ngaahi houʻeiki ʻo ʻIsileli.

Moreover take thou up a lamentation for the princes of Israel,

2 Pea ke pehē, ‘Ko e hā ʻa hoʻo faʻē? Ko e laione fefine: naʻa ne tokoto hifo ʻi he lotolotonga ʻoe fanga laione, naʻa ne tauhiʻi ʻa hono ʻuhiki ʻi he lotolotonga ʻoe fanga laione mui.

And say: Why did thy mother the lioness lie down among the lions, and bring up her whelps in the midst of young lions?

3 Pea naʻa ne tauhi ʻae taha ʻa hono ʻuhiki: naʻe hoko ia ko e laione mui, pea ne fakaʻaʻau ia ke poto ʻi he pō ʻa ʻene meʻakai; naʻa ne kai tangata.

And she brought out one of her whelps, and he became a lion: and he learned to catch the prey, and to devour men.

4 Naʻe fanongo foki ki ai ʻae ngaahi puleʻanga: pea naʻe moʻua ia ʻi heʻenau luo, pea naʻa nau ʻomi ia ki ʻIsipite kuo haʻisia ia ʻaki ʻae ukamea.

And the nations heard of him, and took him, but not without receiving wounds: and they brought him in chains into the land of Egypt.

5 “‘Pea ʻi heʻene tatali ʻo mamata, kuo mole ʻaia naʻa ne ʻamanaki ki ai, naʻa ne hiki ki he taha kehe ʻi hono ʻuhiki mo ne ngaohi ia ko e laione mui.

But she seeing herself weakened, and that her hope was lost, took one of her young lions, and set him up for a lion.

6 Pea naʻe ʻalu fano pe ia ʻi he lotolotonga ʻoe fanga laione mui, naʻe hoko ia ko e laione mui, mo ne poto ʻi he pō ʻa ʻene meʻakai, pea naʻa ne kai tangata.

And he went up and down among the lions, and became a lion: and he learned to catch the prey, and to devour men.

7 Pea naʻa ne ʻilo honau ngaahi fale fakaʻeiʻeiki naʻe maumau, pea naʻa ne fakalala honau ngaahi kolo; pea naʻe ngaongao ʻae fonua, mo hono fonu ʻo ia, ko e meʻa ʻi he ʻuʻulu ʻo ʻene tangi.

He learned to make widows, and to lay waste their cities: and the land became desolate, and the fulness thereof by the noise of his roaring.

8 Pea ne toki tuʻu hake kiate ia ʻae ngaahi puleʻanga mei he potu kotoa pē ʻoe ngaahi vahe fonua, pea naʻa nau ʻaʻau atu kiate ia ʻa honau kupenga: pea naʻe moʻua ia ʻi heʻenau luo.

And the nations Game together against him on every side out of the provinces, and they spread their net over him, in their wounds he was taken.

9 Pea naʻa nau fakapōpulaʻi ia ʻo haʻi ʻaki ʻae ukamea, pea ʻomi ia ki he tuʻi ʻo Papilone: naʻa nau ʻai ia ki he ʻana, ke ʻoua naʻa toe ongo atu ʻa hono leʻo ki he ngaahi moʻunga ʻo ʻIsileli.

And they put him into a cage, they brought him in chains to the king of Babylon: and they cast him into prison, that his voice should no more be heard upon the mountains of Israel.

10 “‘ʻOku tatau hoʻo faʻē mo e vaine ʻi he ngoue vaine ʻoku ʻi he veʻe vai: naʻe fua ngafuhifuhi ia, pea lahi hono vaʻa, koeʻuhi ko e lahi ʻoe vai.

Thy mother is like a vine in thy blood planted by the water: her fruit and her branches have grown out of many waters.

11 Pea naʻe ʻiate ia ʻae ngaahi vaʻa mālohi, ko e tokotoko ʻonautolu naʻe fai ʻae pule, pea naʻe fakamāʻolunga hake ia ʻi he ngaahi vaʻa matolutolu, pea naʻe hā mai ia, ʻa ʻene māʻolunga, pea mo e lahi ʻo hono ngaahi vaʻa.

And she hath strong rods to make sceptres for them that bear rule, and her stature was exalted among the branches: and she saw her height in the multitude of her branches.

12 Ka naʻe taʻaki fuʻu hake ia ʻi he mālohi, naʻe lī hifo ia ki he kelekele, pea naʻe fakamae hono fua ʻe he matangi hahake: naʻe mafesifesi mo fakamae hono ngaahi vaʻa mālohi: pea ne keina ia ʻe he afi.

But she was plucked up in wrath, and cast on the ground, and the burning wind dried up her fruit: her strong rods are withered, and dried up: the fire hath devoured her.

13 Pea ko eni, kuo tō ia ʻi he toafa ʻi he kelekele mōmoa mo kakā.

And now she is transplanted into the desert, in a land not passable, and dry.

14 Pea kuo ʻalu atu ʻae afi mei he manga ʻo hono ngaahi vaʻa, ʻaia kuo keina ai hono fua, ko ia ʻoku ʻikai kei ai hono vaʻa mālohi, ke hoko ko e tokotoko ke pule ʻaki.’ Ko eni ʻae meʻa ke tēngihia, pea ʻe hoko ia ko e meʻa ke tangilāulau ai.”

And a fire is gone out from a rod of her branches, which hath devoured her fruit: so that she now hath no strong rod, to be a sceptre of rulers. This is a lamentation, and it shall be for a lamentation.