Ezekiel 31

وَكَانَ فِي السَّنَةِ الْحَادِيَةِ عَشَرَةَ، فِي الشَّهْرِ الثَّالِثِ، فِي أَوَّلِ الشَّهْرِ، أَنَّ كَلاَمَ الرَّبِّ كَانَ إِلَيَّ قَائِلاً:

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 unto me, saying,

«يَا ابْنَ آدَمَ، قُلْ لِفِرْعَوْنَ مَلِكِ مِصْرَ وَجُمْهُورِهِ: مَنْ أَشْبَهْتَ فِي عَظَمَتِكَ؟

Son of man, speak unto Pharaoh king of Egypt, and to his multitude; Whom art thou like in thy greatness?

هُوَذَا أَعْلَى الأَرْزِ فِي لُبْنَانَ جَمِيلُ الأَغْصَانِ وَأَغْبَى الظِّلِّ، وَقَامَتُهُ طَوِيلَةٌ، وَكَانَ فَرْعُهُ بَيْنَ الْغُيُومِ.

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.

قَدْ عَظَّمَتْهُ الْمِيَاهُ، وَرَفَعَهُ الْغَمْرُ. أَنْهَارُهُ جَرَتْ مِنْ حَوْلِ مَغْرِسِهِ، وَأَرْسَلَتْ جَدَاوِلَهَا إِلَى كُلِّ أَشْجَارِ الْحَقْلِ.

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

فَلِذلِكَ ارْتَفَعَتْ قَامَتُهُ عَلَى جَمِيعِ أَشْجَارِ الْحَقْلِ، وَكَثُرَتْ أَغْصَانُهُ، وَطَالَتْ فُرُوعُهُ لِكَثْرَةِ الْمِيَاهِ إِذْ نَبَتَ.

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.

وَعَشَّشَتْ فِي أَغْصَانِهِ كُلُّ طُيُورِ السَّمَاءِ، وَتَحْتَ فُرُوعِهِ وَلَدَتْ كُلُّ حَيَوَانِ الْبَرِّ، وَسَكَنَ تَحْتَ ظِلِّهِ كُلُّ الأُمَمِ الْعَظِيمَةِ.

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 dwelt all great nations.

فَكَانَ جَمِيلاً فِي عَظَمَتِهِ وَفِي طُولِ قُضْبَانِهِ، لأَنَّ أَصْلَهُ كَانَ عَلَى مِيَاهٍ كَثِيرَةٍ.

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

اَلأَرْزُ فِي جَنَّةِ اللهِ لَمْ يَفُقْهُ، السَّرْوُ لَمْ يُشْبِهْ أَغْصَانَهُ، وَالدُّلْبُ لَمْ يَكُنْ مِثْلَ فُرُوعِهِ. كُلُّ الأَشْجَارِ فِي جَنَّةِ اللهِ لَمْ تُشْبِهْهُ فِي حُسْنِهِ.

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

جَعَلْتُهُ جَمِيلاً بِكَثْرَةِ قُضْبَانِهِ، حَتَّى حَسَدَتْهُ كُلُّ أَشْجَارِ عَدْنٍ الَّتِي فِي جَنَّةِ اللهِ.

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.

«لِذلِكَ هكَذَا قَالَ السَّيِّدُ الرَّبُّ: مِنْ أَجْلِ أَنَّكَ ارْتَفَعَتْ قَامَتُكَ، وَقَدْ جَعَلَ فَرْعَهُ بَيْنَ الْغُيُومِ، وَارْتَفَعَ قَلْبُهُ بِعُلُوِّهِ،

Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD; Because thou hast lifted up thyself in height, and he hath shot up his top among the thick boughs, and his heart is lifted up in his height;

أَسْلَمْتُهُ إِلَى يَدِ قَوِيِّ الأُمَمِ، فَيَفْعَلُ بِهِ فِعْلاً. لِشَرِّهِ طَرَدْتُهُ.

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.

وَيَسْتَأْصِلُهُ الْغُرَبَاءُ عُتَاةُ الأُمَمِ، وَيَتْرُكُونَهُ، فَتَتَسَاقَطُ قُضْبَانُهُ عَلَى الْجِبَالِ وَفِي جَمِيعِ الأَوْدِيَةِ، وَتَنْكَسِرُ قُضْبَانُهُ عِنْدَ كُلِّ أَنْهَارِ الأَرْضِ، وَيَنْزِلُ عَنْ ظِلِّهِ كُلُّ شُعُوبِ الأَرْضِ، وَيَتْرُكُونَهُ.

And strangers, the terrible of the nations, have cut him off, and have left him: upon 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.

عَلَى هَشِيمِهِ تَسْتَقِرُّ جَمِيعُ طُيُورِ السَّمَاءِ، وَجَمِيعُ حَيَوَانِ الْبَرِّ تَكُونُ عَلَى قُضْبَانِهِ.

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

لِكَيْلاَ تَرْتَفِعَ شَجَرَةٌ مَّا وَهِيَ عَلَى الْمِيَاهِ لِقَامَتِهَا، وَلاَ تَجْعَلُ فَرْعَهَا بَيْنَ الْغُيُومِ، وَلاَ تَقُومُ بَلُّوطَاتُهَا فِي ارْتِفَاعِهَا كُلُّ شَارِبَةٍ مَاءً، لأَنَّهَا قَدْ أُسْلِمَتْ جَمِيعًا إِلَى الْمَوْتِ، إِلَى الأَرْضِ السُّفْلَى، فِي وَسْطِ بَنِي آدَمَ مَعَ الْهَابِطِينَ فِي الْجُبِّ.

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 unto death, to the nether parts of the earth, in the midst of the children of men, with them that go down to the pit.

هكَذَا قَالَ السَّيِّدُ الرَّبُّ: فِي يَوْمِ نُزُولِهِ إِلَى الْهَاوِيَةِ أَقَمْتُ نَوْحًا. كَسَوْتُ عَلَيْهِ الْغَمْرَ، وَمَنَعْتُ أَنْهَارَهُ، وَفَنِيَتِ الْمِيَاهُ الْكَثِيرَةُ، وَأَحْزَنْتُ لُبْنَانَ عَلَيْهِ، وَكُلُّ أَشْجَارِ الْحَقْلِ ذَبُلَتْ عَلَيْهِ.

Thus saith 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.

مِنْ صَوْتِ سُقُوطِهِ أَرْجَفْتُ الأُمَمَ عِنْدَ إِنْزَالِي إِيَّاهُ إِلَى الْهَاوِيَةِ مَعَ الْهَابِطِينَ فِي الْجُبِّ، فَتَتَعَزَّى فِي الأَرْضِ السُّفْلَى كُلُّ أَشْجَارِ عَدْنٍ، مُخْتَارُ لُبْنَانَ وَخِيَارُهُ كُلُّ شَارِبَةٍ مَاءً.

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.

هُمْ أَيْضًا نَزَلُوا إِلَى الْهَاوِيَةِ مَعَهُ، إِلَى الْقَتْلَى بِالسَّيْفِ، وَزَرْعُهُ السَّاكِنُونَ تَحْتَ ظِلِّهِ فِي وَسْطِ الأُمَمِ.

They also went down into hell with him unto them that be slain with the sword; and they that were his arm, that dwelt under his shadow in the midst of the heathen.

مَنْ أَشْبَهْتَ فِي الْمَجْدِ وَالْعَظَمَةِ هكَذَا بَيْنَ أَشْجَارِ عَدْنٍ؟ سَتُحْدَرُ مَعَ أَشْجَارِ عَدْنٍ إِلَى الأَرْضِ السُّفْلَى، وَتَضْطَجعُ بَيْنَ الْغُلْفِ مَعَ الْمَقْتُولِينَ بِالسَّيْفِ. هذَا فِرْعَوْنُ وَكُلُّ جُمْهُورِهِ، يَقُولُ السَّيِّدُ الرَّبُّ».

To whom art thou thus like in glory and in greatness among the trees of Eden? yet shalt thou be brought down with the trees of Eden unto the nether parts of the earth: thou shalt lie in the midst of the uncircumcised with them that be slain by the sword. This is Pharaoh and all his multitude, saith the Lord GOD.