Ezekiel 31
1 And it came to pass in the eleventh year, the third month, the first day of the month, that the word of the Lord came to me, saying:
| در سال یازدهم تبعیدمان در روز اول ماه سوم، پیغام دیگری از جانب خداوند به من رسید: |
2 Son of man, speak to Pharao king of Egypt, and to his people: To whom art thou like in thy greatness?
| «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. |
3 Behold, the Assyrian was like a cedar in Libanus, with fair branches, and full of leaves, of a high stature, and his top was elevated among the thick boughs.
4 The waters nourished him, the deep set him up on high, the streams thereof ran round about his roots, and it sent forth its rivulets to all the trees of the country.
| آبهای زیر زمین و نهرها او را سیراب می‌کردند و باعث رشد آن می‌شدند، همچنین این آبها تمام درختان اطرافش را نیز آبیاری می‌نمودند. |
5 Therefore was his height exalted above all the trees of the country: and his branches were multiplied, and his boughs were elevated because of many waters.
| به سبب فراوانی آب، او از همهٔ درختان بلندتر و پر شاخ و برگ‌تر شد. |
6 And when he had spread forth his shadow, all the fowls of the air made their nests in his boughs, and all the beasts of the forest brought forth their young under his branches, and the assembly of many nations dwelt under his shadow.
| در میان شاخه‌هایش پرندگان آشیانه می‌ساختند و در زیر شاخه‌هایش، گله‌ها و رمه‌ها بچه می‌زاییدند. تمام قومهای بزرگ جهان زیر سایهٔ او بودند. |
7 And he was most beautiful for his greatness, and for the spreading of his branches: for his root was near great waters.
| او بزرگ و زیبا بود و ریشه‌هایش در آب فرو رفته بودند. |
8 The cedars in the paradise of God wars not higher than he, the fir trees did not equal his top, neither were the plane trees to be compared with him for branches: no tree in the paradise of God was like him in his beauty.
| 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. |
9 For I made him beautiful and thick set with many branches: and all the trees of pleasure, that were in the paradise of God, envied him.
| به سبب عظمتی که من به او بخشیده بودم، تمام درختان باغ عدن به او حسادت می‌کردند.» |
10 Therefore thus saith the Lord God Because he was exalted in height, and shot up his top green and thick, and his heart was lifted up in his height:
| 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، |
11 I have delivered him into the hands of the mighty one of the nations, he shall deal with him: I have cast him out according to his wickedness.
| پس، او را به دست یک قوم نیرومند تسلیم می‌کنم تا او را به سزای شرارتش برساند. من خودم او را سرنگون می‌کنم. |
12 And strangers, and the most cruel of the nations shall cut him down, and cast him away upon the mountains, and his boughs shall fall in every valley, and his branches shall be broken on every rock of the country: and all the people of the earth shall depart from his shadow, and leave him.
| 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. |
13 All the fowls of the air dwelt upon his ruins, and all the beasts of the field were among his branches.
| پرندگان، بر تنهٔ آن لانه می‌کنند و حیوانات وحشی در میان شاخه‌های بزرگ آن می‌خوابند. |
14 For which cause none of the trees by the waters shall exalt themselves for their height: nor shoot up their tops among the thick branches and leaves, neither shall any of them that are watered stand up in their height: for they are all delivered unto death to the lowest parts of the earth, in the midst of the children of men, with them that go down into the pit.
| 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.» |
15 Thus saith the Lord God: In the day when he went down to hell, I brought in mourning, I covered him with the deep: and I withheld its rivers, and restrained the many waters: Libanus grieved for him, and all the trees of the field trembled. (Sheol h7585)
| 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 h7585) |
16 I shook the nations with the sound of his fall, when I brought him down to hell with them that descend into the pit: and all the trees of pleasure, the choice and best in Libanus, all that were moistened with waters, were comforted in the lowest parts of the earth. (Sheol h7585)
| 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 h7585) |
17 For they also shall go down with him to hell to them that are slain by the sword: and the arm of every one shall sit down under his shadow in the midst of the nations. (Sheol h7585)
| تمام هم‌پیمانان او نیز که در زیر سایه‌اش بودند هلاک شده، همراه وی به دنیای مردگان خواهند رفت. (Sheol h7585) |
18 To whom art thou like, O thou that art famous and lofty among the trees of pleasure? Behold, thou art brought down with the trees of pleasure to the lowest parts of the earth: thou shalt sleep in the midst of the uncircumcised, with them that are slain by the sword: this is Pharao, and all his multitude, saith the Lord God.
| «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.» |
