Ezekiel 31

1 On the first day of the third month of the eleventh year, a message from the Lord came to me, saying,

十一年三月初一日，耶和華的話臨到我說：

2 “Son of man, tell Pharaoh king of Egypt and all his many people: Who is as great as you?

「人子啊，你要向埃及王法老和他的眾人說： 在威勢上誰能與你相比呢？

3 Look at Assyria. It was like a cedar in Lebanon, with its beautiful branches providing shade in the forest. It was so high that its top reached the clouds.

亞述王曾如黎巴嫩中的香柏樹， 枝條榮美，影密如林， 極其高大，樹尖插入雲中。

4 Deep springs of water made it grow tall and sent streams all around it to water all the other trees.

眾水使它生長； 深水使它長大。 所栽之地有江河圍流， 汊出的水道延到田野諸樹。

5 It became really tall, higher than any other tree in the forest. Its branches grew thick and long because it was so well-watered.

所以它高大超過田野諸樹； 發旺的時候，枝子繁多， 因得大水之力枝條長長。

6 All kinds of birds nested in its branches, while underneath it different wild animals had their young, and all the powerful nations lived in its shade.

空中的飛鳥都在枝子上搭窩； 田野的走獸都在枝條下生子； 所有大國的人民都在它蔭下居住。

7 It was beautiful and majestic with its long branches, because its roots reached down to the plentiful water.

樹大條長，成為榮美， 因為根在眾水之旁。

8 The cedars in God's garden were no match for it. No pine tree had such great branches, nor did any plane tree. No tree in God's garden was as beautiful.

上帝園中的香柏樹不能遮蔽它； 松樹不及它的枝子； 楓樹不及它的枝條； 上帝園中的樹都沒有它榮美。

9 I made it beautiful with its many branches. All the trees of Eden in God's garden envied it.

我使它的枝條蕃多，成為榮美， 以致上帝伊甸園中的樹都嫉妒它。」

10 So this is what the Lord God says: Since it became so tall, reaching up into the clouds, it grew proud because of its height.

所以主耶和華如此說：「因它高大，樹尖插入雲中，心驕氣傲，

11 So I handed it over to the leader of a foreign nation who will punish it for its wickedness. I have thrown it out.

我就必將它交給列國中大有威勢的人；他必定辦它。我因它的罪惡，已經驅逐它。

12 Foreigners from the cruelest of all the nations chopped it down and left it lying there. Its branches lie fallen and broken in the mountains and valleys of the countryside. Everybody in earth came out of its shadow and abandoned it.

外邦人，就是列邦中強暴的，將它砍斷棄掉。它的枝條落在山間和一切谷中，它的枝子折斷，落在地的一切河旁。地上的眾民已經走去，離開它的蔭下。

13 Birds came to live on its fallen trunk, and wild animals hid among its fallen branches.

空中的飛鳥都要宿在這敗落的樹上，田野的走獸都要臥在它的枝條下，

14 This was in order that no other trees growing by the water would grow up so high and have their tops reach the clouds. This was so that no other trees, however much water they had, would be as tall as them, For they all will die and go down into earth, just like human beings who go down into the grave.

好使水旁的諸樹不因高大而自尊，也不將樹尖插入雲中，並且那些得水滋潤、有勢力的，也不得高大自立。因為它們在世人中，和下坑的人都被交與死亡，到陰府去了。」

15 This is what the Lord God says: On the day it was brought down to Sheol, I had the deep waters mourn for it; I stopped its rivers flowing; I held back all its waters. I covered Lebanon in darkness, and all the trees in the forest withered. (Sheol h7585)

主耶和華如此說：「它下陰間的那日，我便使人悲哀。我為它遮蓋深淵，使江河凝結，大水停流；我也使黎巴嫩為它悽慘，田野的諸樹都因它發昏。 (Sheol h7585)

16 I made the nations tremble when they heard it fall, when I threw it down into Sheol with those who die. Then all the trees of Eden, the finest and best in Lebanon, all the trees that had plenty of water, were happy that this tree joined them in the earth below. (Sheol h7585)

我將它扔到陰間，與下坑的人一同下去。那時，列國聽見它墜落的響聲就都震動，並且伊甸的一切樹－就是黎巴嫩得水滋潤、最佳最美的樹－都在陰府受了安慰。 (Sheol h7585)

17 They also went down with it into Sheol, to those who had been killed by the sword. They had been part of its army living in its shade among the nations. (Sheol h7585)

它們也與它同下陰間，到被殺的人那裏。它們曾作它的膀臂，在列國中它的蔭下居住。 (Sheol h7585)

18 Who is as great and glorious as you among the trees of Eden? But you too will be brought down to the earth below to be with the trees of Eden. You will lie there with the heathen, with those killed by the sword. This is what will happen to Pharaoh and all his many people, declares the Lord God.”

在這樣榮耀威勢上，在伊甸園諸樹中，誰能與你相比呢？然而你要與伊甸的諸樹一同下到陰府，在未受割禮的人中，與被殺的人一同躺臥。 「法老和他的群眾乃是如此。這是主耶和華說的。」