Hiezechielis Prophetæ 19

1 Et tu assume planctum super principes Israel,

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

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

And say, What [is] thy mother: A lioness: she lay down among lions, she nourished her whelps among young lions.

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

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

4 Et audierunt de eo Gentes, et non absque vulneribus suis ceperunt eum: et adduxerunt eum in catenis in Terram Ægypti.

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

5 Quæ cum vidisset quoniam infirmata est, et periit expectatio eius: tulit unum de leunculis suis, leonem constituit eum.

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

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

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

7 Didicit viduas facere, et civitates earum in desertum adducere: et desolata est terra, et plenitudo eius a voce rugitus illius.

And he knew their desolate palaces, and he laid waste their cities; and the land was desolate, and the fullness of it, by the noise of his roaring.

8 Et convenerunt adversus eum Gentes undique de provinciis, et expanderunt super eum rete suum, in vulneribus earum captus est.

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

9 Et miserunt eum in caveam, in catenis adduxerunt eum ad regem Babylonis: miseruntque eum in carcerem, ne audiretur vox eius ultra super montes Israel.

And they put him in custody in chains, and brought him to the king of Babylon: they brought him into holds, that his voice should no more be heard upon the mountains of Israel.

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

Thy mother [is] like a vine in thy blood, planted by the waters: she was fruitful and full of branches by reason of many waters.

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

And she had strong rods for the scepters of them that bore rule, and her stature was exalted among the thick branches, and she appeared in her hight with the multitude of her branches.

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

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

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

And now she [is] planted in the wilderness, in a dry and thirsty ground.

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

And fire hath gone out of a rod of her branches, [which] hath devoured her fruit, so that she hath no strong rod [to be] a scepter to rule. This [is] a lamentation, and shall be for a lamentation.