エゼキエル書 19

1 汝イスラエルの君等のために哀の詞をのべて

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

2 言ふべし汝の母なる牝獅は何故に牡獅の中に伏し小獅の中にその子を養ふや

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

3 彼その一の子を育てたれば小獅となりて食を攫ことを學ひ遂に人を食へり

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

4 國々の人これの事を聞きこれを陷阱にて執へ鼻環をほどこしてこれをエジプトの地にひきいたれり

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

5 牝獅姑く待しがその望を失ひしを見たれば又一個の子を取てこれを小獅とならしむ

"'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.

6 是すなはち牝獅の中に歩みて小獅となり食を攫ことを學ひしが亦人を食ひ

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

7 其寡婦をしりその邑々を滅せりその咆哮聲によりてその地とその中に盈る者荒たり

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

8 是をもて四方の國人その國々より攻來り網をこれにうちかけ陷阱にてこれを執へ

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.

9 鼻環をほどこして籠にいれ之をバビロンの王の許に曳いたりて城の中に携へ入れ其聲を再びイスラエルの山々に聞えざらしむ

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.

10 汝の母は汝の血にして水の側に植たる葡萄樹のごとし水の多きがために結實多く蔓はびこれり

"'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.

11 是に強き枝ありて君王等の杖となすべし是の長は雲に至りその衆多の枝のために高く聳えて見へたり

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.

12 然るに是怒をもて拔れて地に擲たる東風その實を吹乾かしその強き枝は折れて枯れ火に焚る

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.

13 今これは荒野にて乾ける水なき地に植りてあり

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

14 その枝の芽より火いでてその果を燒けば復強き枝の君王等の杖となるべき者其になし是哀の詞なり哀の詞となるべし

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."