Ezekiel 19

1 "Moreover, take up a lamentation for the princes of Israel,

你当为以色列的王作起哀歌，

2 and say, 'What was your mother? A lioness: she couched among lions, in the midst of the young lions she nourished her cubs.

说： 你的母亲是什么呢？ 是个母狮子，蹲伏在狮子中间， 在少壮狮子中养育小狮子。

3 She brought up one of her cubs: he became a young lion, and he learned to catch the prey; he devoured men.

在它小狮子中养大一个， 成了少壮狮子， 学会抓食而吃人。

4 The nations also heard of him; he was taken in their pit; and they brought him with hooks to the land of Egypt.

列国听见了就把它捉在他们的坑中， 用钩子拉到埃及地去。

5 "'Now when she saw that she had waited, and her hope was lost, then she took another of her cubs, and made him a young lion.

母狮见自己等候失了指望， 就从它小狮子中又将一个养为少壮狮子。

6 He went up and down among the lions; he became a young lion, and he learned to catch the prey; he devoured men.

它在众狮子中走来走去， 成了少壮狮子， 学会抓食而吃人。

7 He devastated their strongholds, and destroyed their cities; and the land was desolate, and its fullness, because of the noise of his roaring.

它知道列国的宫殿， 又使他们的城邑变为荒场； 因它咆哮的声音， 遍地和其中所有的就都荒废。

8 Then the nations set against him on every side from the provinces; and they spread their net over him; he was taken in their pit.

于是四围邦国各省的人来攻击它， 将网撒在它身上， 捉在他们的坑中。

9 They put him in a cage with hooks, and brought him to the king of Babylon; they brought him into strongholds, that his voice should no more be heard on the mountains of Israel.

他们用钩子钩住它，将它放在笼中， 带到巴比伦王那里， 将它放入坚固之所， 使它的声音在以色列山上不再听见。

10 "'Your mother was like a vine in your vineyard, planted by the waters: it was fruitful and full of branches by reason of many waters.

你的母亲先前如葡萄树， 极其茂盛，栽于水旁。 因为水多， 就多结果子，满生枝子；

11 It had strong rods for the scepters of those who bore rule, and their stature was exalted among the thick boughs, and they were seen in their height with the multitude of their branches.

生出坚固的枝干，可作掌权者的杖。 这枝干高举在茂密的枝中， 而且它生长高大，枝子繁多， 远远可见。

12 But it was plucked up in fury, it was cast down to the ground, and the east wind dried up its fruit: its strong rods were broken off and withered; the fire consumed them.

但这葡萄树因忿怒被拔出摔在地上； 东风吹干其上的果子， 坚固的枝干折断枯干， 被火烧毁了；

13 Now it is planted in the wilderness, in a dry and thirsty land.

如今栽于旷野干旱无水之地。

14 Fire is gone out of the rods of its branches, it has devoured its fruit, so that there is in it no strong rod to be a scepter to rule.' This is a lamentation, and shall be for a lamentation."

火也从它枝干中发出， 烧灭果子， 以致没有坚固的枝干可做掌权者的杖。 这是哀歌，也必用以作哀歌。