Ezekiel:Chapter 19

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Ezekiel:Chapter 19

厄則克耳	Ezekiel
¹你應為以色列的君王唱一篇哀歌，	¹Moreover take thou up a lamentation for the princes of Israel,
²說：「你的母親原像什麼？她像群獅中的一隻牝獅，臥在壯獅中養大了幼獅。	²And say: Why did thy mother the lioness lie down among the lions, and bring up her whelps in the midst of young lions?
³牠養大了一隻幼小的。牠就長成了壯獅，學會了撕裂獵物，吞噬人類。	³And she brought out one of her whelps, and he became a lion: and he learned to catch the prey, and to devour men.
⁴列國於是下令追捕牠，牠遂在她們所設的陷阱中被捕，人便用鼻環把牠牽到埃及地。	⁴And the nations heard of him, and took him, but not without receiving wounds: and they brought him in chains into the land of Egypt.
⁵母獅見自己所等待的，所希望的落了空，就另取了一隻幼獅，使牠成為壯獅。	⁵But she seeing herself weakened, and that her hope was lost, took one of her young lions, and set him up for a lion.
⁶牠在群獅中徘徊，成了壯獅，學會了撕裂獵物，吞噬人類。	⁶And he went up and down among the lions, and became a lion: and he learned to catch the prey, and to devour men.
⁷牠把獵物帶到自己的穴中，恐嚇羊群，那地方和居民對牠的吼聲，無不驚懼。	⁷He learned to make widows, and to lay waste their cities: and the land became desolate, and the fulness thereof by the noise of his roaring.
⁸於是各國由四周各地追蹤牠，設下羅網捕捉牠，終於在她們的陷阱中被捕。	⁸And the nations came together against him on every side out of the provinces, and they spread their net over him, in their wounds he was taken.
⁹然後給牠帶上鼻環，把牠裝在籠中，將他解送到巴比倫王那裏，將牠囚禁在獄中，免得在以色列的山上再聽到牠的吼聲。	⁹And they put him into a cage, they brought him in chains to the king of Babylon: and they cast him into prison, that his voice should no more be heard upon the mountains of Israel.
¹⁰你的母親像園中的一棵葡萄樹，栽植在水旁，因為水多，果實纍纍，枝葉繁茂。	¹⁰Thy mother is like a vine in thy blood planted by the water: her fruit and her branches have grown out of many waters.
¹¹她生出一根粗壯的枝條，可作統治者的權杖，它的軀幹高大，超過其他的枝葉。因它身量高大，在密茂的枝葉中，也可以見到。	¹¹And she hath strong rods to make sceptres for them that bear rule, and her stature was exalted among the branches: and she saw her height in the multitude of her branches.
¹²但是在狂怒中，它竟被拔出，拋棄在地上，東風吹乾了它的果實，它粗壯的枝幹被折斷而乾枯，為火所焚燒。	¹²But she was plucked up in wrath, and cast on the ground, and the burning wind dried up her fruit: her strong rods are withered, and dried up: the fire hath devoured her.
¹³現今它被栽植在沙漠中，在那枯橾乾旱的地方。	¹³And now she is transplanted into the desert, in a land not passable, and dry.
¹⁴由枝梢上冒出一團火，焚燒了它的枝葉和果實，沒有給它留下一根粗壯的枝條，作統治者的權杖。」這是一篇哀歌，可為追悼之用。	¹⁴And a fire is gone out from a rod of her branches, which hath devoured her fruit: so that she now hath no strong rod, to be a sceptre of rulers. This is a lamentation, and it shall be for a lamentation.

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