Ezekiel 19
1 યહોવાએ મને કહ્યું, “તું ઇસ્રાએલના આગેવાનો માટે મરશિયા ગા.
2 “‘તારી મા કેવી સ્ત્રી હતી! તે તો હતી સિંહણ, સિંહોના ટોળામાં રહીને પોતાના સંતાન ઉછેરતી હતી.
3 તે સ્ત્રીએ એમાનાં એક સિંહના બચ્ચાંનેઉછેર્યો અને તે શકિતશાળી સિંહ બની ગયો, પછી તે શિકાર કરતાં શીખ્યો અને લોકોનો ભક્ષ કરવા લાગ્યો.
4 બીજી પ્રજાઓએ એ સાંભળ્યું અને તેને ખાડામાં ફસાવ્યો. તેઓ તેને બેડીઓ પહેરાવી મિસર લઇ ગયા.
5 “‘જ્યારે સિંહણે જોયું કે તેની આશાઓ ધૂળમાં મળી ગઇ છે ત્યારે તેણે બીજા બચ્ચાંનેબધાં જંગલી પ્રાણીઓના રાજા થવા માટે તાલીમ આપીને ઉછેરીને મોટો કર્યો.
6 તે પણ મોટા સિંહોનો વનરાજ થયો, શિકાર કરતાં શીખ્યો અને માણસોનો ભક્ષ કરવા લાગ્યો.
7 તેણે કિલ્લાઓ તોડી પાડ્યા, નગરોને ખંડિયેર બનાવી દીધાં; અને તેની ગર્જનાથી દેશના લોકો ભયભીત થઇ ગયા.
8 આજુબાજુના પ્રાંતના લોકોએ તેના પર હુમલો કર્યો, તેમણે જાળ નાંખીને તેને ખાડામાં પકડી લીધો.
9 તેઓ તેને સાંકળે બાંધી પાંજરામાં પૂરીને બાબિલના રાજા પાસે લઇ ગયા. ત્યાં તેને જેલમાં પૂરવામાં આવ્યો. જેથી ઇસ્રાએલના પર્વતો પર તેની ગર્જના સંભળાતી બંધ થઇ જાય.
10 “‘તારી માતા પાણીના ઝરા પાસે રોપેલા દ્રાક્ષના વેલા જેવી હતી. પાણીની ખોટ નહોતી, એટલે તેને ખૂબ પાંદડાં અને ફળ આવ્યાં.
11 તેની ડાળીઓ એવી મજબૂત હતી કે તેના રાજદંડ બને. વેલ વધતી વધતી આજુબાજુની જાડીથી ઉપર નીકળી ગઇ, અને તેની ઘટા અને ઊંચાઇ સૌની નજરે ચડતી.
12 પરંતુ તે દ્રાક્ષાવેલો કોપને લીધે ઉખેડી નાખીને ભોંયભેગો કરવામાં આવ્યો, તેની ડાળીઓ ભાંગી નાખવામાં આવી. પૂર્વ તરફથી ફૂંકાતા પવનોને કારણે તે સુકાઇ ગઇ અને તેનાં ફળો તૂટી પડ્યા. સુકાઇ ગયેલી ડાળીઓ અગ્નિમાં ભસ્મીભૂત થઇ ગઇ.
13 હવે તેને સૂકા વેરાન અને નકામા રણમાં રોપવામાં આવી છે.
14 તેના થડમાંથી અગ્નિ પ્રગટીને તેની ડાળીઓ અને ફળોને ભરખી ગયો છે. હવે એની ડાળીઓ ફરીથી કદી મજબૂત નહિ થાય, અને તેમાંથી રાજદંડ પણ નહિ બને.’ આ શોકનું ગીત ભલે વારંવાર ગવાય. આ દુ:ખદ ગીત છે, જે વારંવાર ગવાતું આવ્યું છે.”
1 Moreover take thou up a lamentation for the princes of Israel,
2 And say, What is thy mother? A lioness: she lay down among lions, she nourished her whelps among young lions.
3 And she brought up one of her whelps: it became a young lion, and it learned to catch the prey; it devoured men.
4 The nations also heard of him; he was taken in their pit, and they brought him with chains unto the land of Egypt.
5 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.
6 And he went up and down among the lions, he became a young lion, and learned to catch the prey, and devoured men.
7 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.
8 Then the nations set against him on every side from the provinces, and spread their net over him: he was taken in their pit.
9 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.
10 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.
11 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.
12 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.
13 And now she is planted in the wilderness, in a dry and thirsty ground.
14 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.
1 And it came to pass in the twelfth year, in the twelfth month, in the first day of the month, that the word of the Lord came unto me, saying,
2 Son of man, take up a lamentation for Pharaoh king of Egypt, and say unto him, Thou art like a young lion of the nations, and thou art as a whale in the seas: and thou camest forth with thy rivers, and troubledst the waters with thy feet, and fouledst their rivers.
3 Thus saith the Lord God; I will therefore spread out my net over thee with a company of many people; and they shall bring thee up in my net.
4 Then will I leave thee upon the land, I will cast thee forth upon the open field, and will cause all the fowls of the heaven to remain upon thee, and I will fill the beasts of the whole earth with thee.
5 And I will lay thy flesh upon the mountains, and fill the valleys with thy height.
6 I will also water with thy blood the land wherein thou swimmest, even to the mountains; and the rivers shall be full of thee.
7 And when I shall put thee out, I will cover the heaven, and make the stars thereof dark; I will cover the sun with a cloud, and the moon shall not give her light.
8 All the bright lights of heaven will I make dark over thee, and set darkness upon thy land, saith the Lord God.
9 I will also vex the hearts of many people, when I shall bring thy destruction among the nations, into the countries which thou hast not known.
10 Yea, I will make many people amazed at thee, and their kings shall be horribly afraid for thee, when I shall brandish my sword before them; and they shall tremble at every moment, every man for his own life, in the day of thy fall.
11 For thus saith the Lord God; The sword of the king of Babylon shall come upon thee.
12 By the swords of the mighty will I cause thy multitude to fall, the terrible of the nations, all of them: and they shall spoil the pomp of Egypt, and all the multitude thereof shall be destroyed.
13 I will destroy also all the beasts thereof from beside the great waters; neither shall the foot of man trouble them any more, nor the hoofs of beasts trouble them.
14 Then will I make their waters deep, and cause their rivers to run like oil, saith the Lord God.
15 When I shall make the land of Egypt desolate, and the country shall be destitute of that whereof it was full, when I shall smite all them that dwell therein, then shall they know that I am the Lord.
16 This is the lamentation wherewith they shall lament her: the daughters of the nations shall lament her: they shall lament for her, even for Egypt, and for all her multitude, saith the Lord God.
17 It came to pass also in the twelfth year, in the fifteenth day of the month, that the word of the Lord came unto me, saying,
18 Son of man, wail for the multitude of Egypt, and cast them down, even her, and the daughters of the famous nations, unto the nether parts of the earth, with them that go down into the pit.
19 Whom dost thou pass in beauty? go down, and be thou laid with the uncircumcised.
20 They shall fall in the midst of them that are slain by the sword: she is delivered to the sword: draw her and all her multitudes.
21 The strong among the mighty shall speak to him out of the midst of hell with them that help him: they are gone down, they lie uncircumcised, slain by the sword.
22 Asshur is there and all her company: his graves are about him: all of them slain, fallen by the sword:
23 Whose graves are set in the sides of the pit, and her company is round about her grave: all of them slain, fallen by the sword, which caused terror in the land of the living.
24 There is Elam and all her multitude round about her grave, all of them slain, fallen by the sword, which are gone down uncircumcised into the nether parts of the earth, which caused their terror in the land of the living; yet have they borne their shame with them that go down to the pit.
25 They have set her a bed in the midst of the slain with all her multitude: her graves are round about him: all of them uncircumcised, slain by the sword: though their terror was caused in the land of the living, yet have they borne their shame with them that go down to the pit: he is put in the midst of them that be slain.
26 There is Meshech, Tubal, and all her multitude: her graves are round about him: all of them uncircumcised, slain by the sword, though they caused their terror in the land of the living.
27 And they shall not lie with the mighty that are fallen of the uncircumcised, which are gone down to hell with their weapons of war: and they have laid their swords under their heads, but their iniquities shall be upon their bones, though they were the terror of the mighty in the land of the living.
28 Yea, thou shalt be broken in the midst of the uncircumcised, and shalt lie with them that are slain with the sword.
29 There is Edom, her kings, and all her princes, which with their might are laid by them that were slain by the sword: they shall lie with the uncircumcised, and with them that go down to the pit.
30 There be the princes of the north, all of them, and all the Zidonians, which are gone down with the slain; with their terror they are ashamed of their might; and they lie uncircumcised with them that be slain by the sword, and bear their shame with them that go down to the pit.
31 Pharaoh shall see them, and shall be comforted over all his multitude, even Pharaoh and all his army slain by the sword, saith the Lord God.
32 For I have caused my terror in the land of the living: and he shall be laid in the midst of the uncircumcised with them that are slain with the sword, even Pharaoh and all his multitude, saith the Lord God.