Ezekiel 19

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

«أَمَّا أَنْتَ فَارْفَعْ مَرْثَاةً عَلَى رُؤَسَاءِ إِسْرَائِيلَ،

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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

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

وَالآنَ غُرِسَتْ فِي الْقَفْرِ فِي أَرْضٍ يَابِسَةٍ عَطْشَانَةٍ.

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.

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