Ezekiel 19

«أَمَّا أَنْتَ فَارْفَعْ مَرْثَاةً عَلَى رُؤَسَاءِ إِسْرَائِيلَ،

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

وَقُلْ: مَا هِيَ أُمُّكَ؟ لَبْوَةٌ رَبَضَتْ بَيْنَ الأُسُودِ، وَرَبَّتْ جِرَاءَهَا بَيْنَ الأَشْبَالِ.

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

رَبَّتْ وَاحِدًا مِنْ جِرَائِهَا فَصَارَ شِبْلاً، وَتَعَلَّمَ افْتِرَاسَ الْفَرِيسَةِ. أَكَلَ النَّاسَ.

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

فَلَمَّا سَمِعَتْ بِهِ الأُمَمُ أُخِذَ فِي حُفْرَتِهِمْ، فَأَتَوْا بِهِ بِخَزَائِمَ إِلَى أَرْضِ مِصْرَ.

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

فَلَمَّا رَأَتْ أَنَّهَا قَدِ انْتَظَرَتْ وَهَلَكَ رَجَاؤُهَا، أَخَذَتْ آخَرَ مِنْ جِرَائِهَا وَصَيَّرَتْهُ شِبْلاً.

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.

فَتَمَشَّى بَيْنَ الأُسُودِ. صَارَ شِبْلاً وَتَعَلَّمَ افْتِرَاسَ الْفَرِيسَةِ. أَكَلَ النَّاسَ.

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

وَعَرَفَ قُصُورَهُمْ وَخَرَّبَ مُدُنَهُمْ، فَأَقْفَرَتِ الأَرْضُ وَمِلْؤُهَا مِنْ صَوْتِ زَمْجَرَتِهِ.

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

فَاتَّفَقَ عَلَيْهِ الأُمَمُ مِنْ كُلِّ جِهَةٍ مِنَ الْبُلْدَانِ، وَبَسَطُوا عَلَيْهِ شَبَكَتَهُمْ، فَأُخِذَ فِي حُفْرَتِهِمْ،

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

فَوَضَعُوهُ فِي قَفَصٍ بِخَزَائِمَ وَأَحْضَرُوهُ إِلَى مَلِكِ بَابِلَ، وَأَتَوْا بِهِ إِلَى الْقِلاَعِ لِكَيْلاَ يُسْمَعَ صَوْتُهُ بَعْدُ عَلَى جِبَالِ إِسْرَائِيلَ.

And they put him in ward 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.

«أُمُّكَ كَكَرْمَةٍ، مِثْلِكَ غُرِسَتْ عَلَى الْمِيَاهِ. كَانَتْ مُثْمِرَةً مُفْرِخَةً مِنْ كَثْرَةِ الْمِيَاهِ.

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.

وَكَانَ لَهَا فُرُوعٌ قَوِيَّةٌ لِقُضْبَانِ الْمُتَسَلِّطِينَ، وَارْتَفَعَ سَاقُهَا بَيْنَ الأَغْصَانِ الْغَبْيَاءِ، وَظَهَرَتْ فِي ارْتِفَاعِهَا بِكَثْرَةِ زَرَاجِينِهَا.

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

لكِنَّهَا اقْتُلِعَتْ بِغَيْظٍ وَطُرِحَتْ عَلَى الأَرْضِ، وَقَدْ يَبَّسَتْ رِيحٌ شَرْقِيَّةٌ ثَمَرَهَا. قُصِفَتْ وَيَبِسَتْ فُرُوعُهَا الْقَوِيَّةُ. أَكَلَتْهَا النَّارُ.

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.

وَالآنَ غُرِسَتْ فِي الْقَفْرِ فِي أَرْضٍ يَابِسَةٍ عَطْشَانَةٍ.

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

وَخَرَجَتْ نَارٌ مِنْ فَرْعِ عِصِيِّهَا أَكَلَتْ ثَمَرَهَا. وَلَيْسَ لَهَا الآنَ فَرْعٌ قَوِيٌّ لِقَضِيبِ تَسَلُّطٍ. هِيَ رِثَاءٌ وَتَكُونُ لِمَرْثَاةٍ».

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