Ezekiel 19

1 And thou, take thou up a lamentation for the princes of Israel,

Et tu assume planctum super principes Israël,

2 and say, What was thy mother? A lioness: she lay down among lions, she nourished her whelps in the midst of the young lions.

et dices: Quare mater tua leæna inter leones cubavit? in medio leunculorum enutrivit catulos suos?

3 And she brought up one of her whelps; it became a young lion, and he learned to catch the prey; he devoured men.

Et eduxit unum de leunculis suis, et leo factus est: et didicit capere prædam, hominemque comedere.

4 And the nations heard of him; he was taken in their pit, and they brought him with nose-rings into the land of Egypt.

Et audierunt de eo gentes: et non absque vulneribus suis ceperunt eum, et adduxerunt eum in catenis in terram Ægypti.

5 And when she saw that she had waited [and] her hope was lost, she took another of her whelps, [and] made him a young lion.

Quæ cum vidisset quoniam infirmata est, et periit exspectatio ejus, tulit unum de leunculis suis; leonem constituit eum.

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

Qui incedebat inter leones, et factus est leo: et didicit prædam capere, et homines devorare:

7 And he knew their [desolate] palaces, and he laid waste their cities, so that the land was desolate, and all it contained, by the noise of his roaring.

didicit viduas facere, et civitates earum in desertum adducere: et desolata est terra et plenitudo ejus a voce rugitus illius.

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

Et convenerunt adversus eum gentes undique de provinciis, et expanderunt super eum rete suum: in vulneribus earum captus est,

9 And they put him in a cage with nose-rings, and brought him to the king of Babylon; they brought him into strongholds, that his voice should no more be heard upon the mountains of Israel.

et miserunt eum in caveam: in catenis adduxerunt eum ad regem Babylonis, miseruntque eum in carcerem, ne audiretur vox ejus ultra super montes Israël.

10 Thy mother was as a vine, in thy rest, planted by the waters: it was fruitful and full of branches by reason of many waters.

Mater tua quasi vinea in sanguine tuo super aquam plantata est: fructus ejus et frondes ejus creverunt ex aquis multis.

11 And it had strong rods for sceptres of them that bear rule, and its stature was exalted between the thick boughs; and it was conspicuous by its height with the multitude of its branches.

Et factæ sunt ei virgæ solidæ in sceptra dominantium, et exaltata est statura ejus inter frondes, et vidit altitudinem suam in multitudine palmitum suorum.

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 and withered; the fire consumed them.

Et evulsa est in ira, in terramque projecta, et ventus urens siccavit fructum ejus: marcuerunt et arefactæ sunt virgæ roboris ejus: ignis comedit eam.

13 And now it is planted in the wilderness, in a dry and thirsty ground:

Et nunc transplantata est in desertum, in terra invia et sitienti.

14 and a fire is gone out of a rod of its branches, [which] hath devoured its fruit; so that it hath no strong rod to be a sceptre for ruling. This is a lamentation, and shall be for a lamentation.

Et egressus est ignis de virga ramorum ejus, qui fructum ejus comedit: et non fuit in ea virga fortis, sceptrum dominantium. Planctus est, et erit in planctum.