Ezekiel 19
1 [Yahweh said to me, “Ezekiel], sing a sad funeral [a which will be a parable] [two of the] kings of Israel.
汝イスラエルの君等のために哀の詞をのべて
2 Say [to the Israeli people], ‘[It is as though] [MET] your mother was a brave female lion who raised her cubs among [other] lions.
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
3 She taught one of them to [for other animals to kill], and he [even] learned [kill and] eat people.
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
4 [When people from other] nations heard about him, they trapped him in a pit. Then they used hooks to drag him to Egypt.
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
5 His mother waited for him [to return], but [soon] she stopped hoping/expecting [that he would return]. So she raised another cub who [also] became very fierce.
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
6 He hunted along with [other] [for animals to kill], and he even learned [kill and] eat people.
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
7 He destroyed forts, and he ruined cities. When he roared [loudly], everyone was terrified.
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
8 So [people of other] nations planned to kill him, and men came from many places to spread out a net for him, and they caught him in a trap.
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
9 They tied him with chains and took him to Babylonia. And [there] he was locked in a prison, with the result that [no one on] the hills of Israel ever heard him roar again.’ [Also, say to the Israeli people, ]
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
10 ‘[It is as though] [SIM] your mother was a grapevine that was planted along a stream. There was plenty of water, so it had lots of branches and produced [a lot of] grapes.
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
11 That grapevine grew and became taller than all the nearby trees; [everyone could] see that it was very strong and healthy. And those branches were good for making scepters that symbolize the power/ [of a king].
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
12 [Yahweh] became very angry, so he pulled up the vine by its roots and threw it on the ground, where the [very hot] winds from the desert dried up all its fruit. The strong branches wilted and were burned in a fire.
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
13 Now that vine has been planted in a hot, dry desert.
今これは荒野にて乾ける水なき地に植りてあり
14 A fire started to burn its stem, and then started to burn the branches and burned all the grapes. [Now] not [even] one strong branch remains; they will never become scepters for a king.’ That funeral song must be sung very sadly.”
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
