Књига пророка Језекиља 31

1 А једанаесте године, трећег месеца, првог дана, дође ми реч Господња говорећи:

And it came to pass in the eleventh year, in the third month, in the first day of the month, that the word of the LORD came to me, saying,

2 Сине човечји, кажи Фараону цару мисирском и народу његовом: На шта си налик у величини својој?

Son of man, speak to Pharaoh king of Egypt, and to his multitude; Whom are you like in your greatness?

3 Ето, Асирац беше кедар на Ливану, лепих грана и дебелог хлада и високог раста, коме врхови беху међу густим гранама.

Behold, the Assyrian was a cedar in Lebanon with fair branches, and with a shadowing shroud, and of an high stature; and his top was among the thick boughs.

4 Вода га одгоји, бездана га узвиси; она рекама својим течаше око његовог стабла и пушташе потоке своје к свим дрветима пољским.

The waters made him great, the deep set him up on high with her rivers running round about his plants, and sent her little rivers to all the trees of the field.

5 Зато раст његов надвиси сва дрвета пољска, и умножише се гране његове, и од мноштва воде раширише се одводе његове кад их пушташе.

Therefore his height was exalted above all the trees of the field, and his boughs were multiplied, and his branches became long because of the multitude of waters, when he shot forth.

6 На гранама његовим вијаху гнезда све птице небеске, и под гранама његовим све звери пољске лежаху се, и у хладу његовом сеђаху сви велики народи.

All the fowls of heaven made their nests in his boughs, and under his branches did all the beasts of the field bring forth their young, and under his shadow dwelled all great nations.

7 И беше леп величином својом и дужином грана својих, јер му корен беше код велике воде.

Thus was he fair in his greatness, in the length of his branches: for his root was by great waters.

8 Кедри у врту Божјем не могаху га заклонити, јеле не могаху се изједначити с његовим гранама, и јавори не беху као огранци његови; ниједно дрво у врту Божјем не беше на лепоту тако као он.

The cedars in the garden of God could not hide him: the fir trees were not like his boughs, and the chestnut trees were not like his branches; nor any tree in the garden of God was like to him in his beauty.

9 Учиних га лепог мноштвом грана да му завиђаху сва дрвета едемска што беху у врту Божјем.

I have made him fair by the multitude of his branches: so that all the trees of Eden, that were in the garden of God, envied him.

10 Зато овако вели Господ Господ: Што је висок нарастао, и дигао врх свој међу густе гране, и срце се његово понело висином његовом,

Therefore thus says the Lord GOD; Because you have lifted up yourself in height, and he has shot up his top among the thick boughs, and his heart is lifted up in his height;

11 Зато га дадох у руку најсилнијем међу народима да чини с њим шта хоће, одвргох га за безбожност његову.

I have therefore delivered him into the hand of the mighty one of the heathen; he shall surely deal with him: I have driven him out for his wickedness.

12 И туђинци, најљући између народа, посекоше га и оставише га; гране му попадаше по горама и по свим долинама, и огранци му се изломише по свим потоцима на земљи; и сви народи земаљски отидоше из хлада његовог и оставише га.

And strangers, the terrible of the nations, have cut him off, and have left him: on the mountains and in all the valleys his branches are fallen, and his boughs are broken by all the rivers of the land; and all the people of the earth are gone down from his shadow, and have left him.

13 На изваљеном пању његовом станују све птице небеске, и на гранама су његовим све звери пољске,

On his ruin shall all the fowls of the heaven remain, and all the beasts of the field shall be on his branches:

14 Да се не поноси висином својом ни једно дрво крај воде и не диже врха свог међу густе гране, и од свих што се натапају да се ни једно не узда у себе ради своје величине; јер су сви предани на смрт, бачени у најдоњи крај земље међу синове људске с онима који силазе у јаму.

To the end that none of all the trees by the waters exalt themselves for their height, neither shoot up their top among the thick boughs, neither their trees stand up in their height, all that drink water: for they are all delivered to death, to the nether parts of the earth, in the middle of the children of men, with them that go down to the pit.

15 Овако вели Господ Господ: У који дан сиђе у гроб, учиних жалост, покрих бездану њега ради, и уставих реке њене, и велика вода стаде, и расцвелих за њим Ливан, и сва дрвета пољска повенуше за њим. (Sheol h7585)

Thus says the Lord GOD; In the day when he went down to the grave I caused a mourning: I covered the deep for him, and I restrained the floods thereof, and the great waters were stayed: and I caused Lebanon to mourn for him, and all the trees of the field fainted for him. (Sheol h7585)

16 Праском падања његовог устресох народе, кад га свалих у гроб с онима који силазе у јаму; и утешише се на најдоњој страни земље сва дрвета едемска, што је најбоље и најлепше на Ливану, сва што се натапаху. (Sheol h7585)

I made the nations to shake at the sound of his fall, when I cast him down to hell with them that descend into the pit: and all the trees of Eden, the choice and best of Lebanon, all that drink water, shall be comforted in the nether parts of the earth. (Sheol h7585)

17 И они сиђоше с њим у гроб к онима што су побијени мачем, и мишица његова, и који сеђаху у хладу његовом међу народима. (Sheol h7585)

They also went down into hell with him to them that be slain with the sword; and they that were his arm, that dwelled under his shadow in the middle of the heathen. (Sheol h7585)

18 На које си међу дрветима едемским налик славом и величином? Али ћеш бити оборен с дрветима едемским у најдоњи крај земље, међу необрезанима ћеш лежати с онима који су побијени мачем. То је Фараон и сав народ његов, говори Господ Господ.

To whom are you thus like in glory and in greatness among the trees of Eden? yet shall you be brought down with the trees of Eden to the nether parts of the earth: you shall lie in the middle of the uncircumcised with them that be slain by the sword. This is Pharaoh and all his multitude, says the Lord GOD.