| 1 καὶ ἐγένετο ἐν τῷ ἑνδεκάτῳ ἔτει ἐν τῷ τρίτῳ μηνὶ μιᾷ τοῦ μηνὸς ἐγένετο λόγος κυρίου πρός με λέγων 2 υἱὲ ἀνθρώπου εἰπὸν πρὸς Φαραω βασιλέα Αἰγύπτου καὶ τῷ πλήθει αὐτοῦ τίνι ὡμοίωσας σεαυτὸν ἐν τῷ ὕψει σου 3 ἰδοὺ Ασσουρ κυπάρισσος ἐν τῷ Λιβάνῳ καὶ καλὸς ταῖς παραφυάσιν καὶ ὑψηλὸς τῷ μεγέθει εἰς μέσον νεφελῶν ἐγένετο ἡ ἀρχὴ αὐτοῦ 4 ὕδωρ ἐξέθρεψεν αὐτόν ἡ ἄβυσσος ὕψωσεν αὐτόν τοὺς ποταμοὺς αὐτῆς ἤγαγεν κύκλῳ τῶν φυτῶν αὐτοῦ καὶ τὰ συστέματα αὐτῆς ἐξαπέστειλεν εἰς πάντα τὰ ξύλα τοῦ πεδίου 5 ἕνεκεν τούτου ὑψώθη τὸ μέγεθος αὐτοῦ παρὰ πάντα τὰ ξύλα τοῦ πεδίου καὶ ἐπλατύνθησαν οἱ κλάδοι αὐτοῦ ἀ{F'} ὕδατος πολλοῦ 6 ἐν ταῖς παραφυάσιν αὐτοῦ ἐνόσσευσαν πάντα τὰ πετεινὰ τοῦ οὐρανοῦ καὶ ὑποκάτω τῶν κλάδων αὐτοῦ ἐγεννῶσαν πάντα τὰ θηρία τοῦ πεδίου ἐν τῇ σκιᾷ αὐτοῦ κατῴκησεν πᾶν πλῆθος ἐθνῶν 7 καὶ ἐγένετο καλὸς ἐν τῷ ὕψει αὐτοῦ διὰ τὸ πλῆθος τῶν κλάδων αὐτοῦ ὅτι ἐγενήθησαν αἱ ῥίζαι αὐτοῦ εἰς ὕδωρ πολύ 8 κυπάρισσοι τοιαῦται οὐκ ἐγενήθησαν ἐν τῷ παραδείσῳ τοῦ θεοῦ καὶ πίτυες οὐχ ὅμοιαι ταῖς παραφυάσιν αὐτοῦ καὶ ἐλάται οὐκ ἐγένοντο ὅμοιαι τοῖς κλάδοις αὐτοῦ πᾶν ξύλον ἐν τῷ παραδείσῳ τοῦ θεοῦ οὐχ ὡμοιώθη αὐτῷ ἐν τῷ κάλλει αὐτοῦ 9 διὰ τὸ πλῆθος τῶν κλάδων αὐτοῦ καὶ ἐζήλωσεν αὐτὸν τὰ ξύλα τοῦ παραδείσου τῆς τρυφῆς τοῦ θεοῦ |
1 That same year, on the first day of the third month, word came to me from the Lord: 2 Son of man, here is a message for Pharao, king of Egypt, and his retinue. Say to him, This greatness of thine, whose memory does it recall? 3 Not less powerful once was the Assyrian[1] king, a very cedar of Lebanon. How fair its boughs, yonder tree, its leaves how overshadowing; what height, what thickness of growth about its top! 4 Water nourished it, water came up from the depth beneath to sustain it, washed about its roots and parted into runnels to feed the trees around. 5 In all the country-side none rose so tall, had covert so thick, branches so wide; none fed so deep. 6 Among its boughs the birds nested, the beasts in their travail sought its shade; proud nations a many under Assyria’s shelter grew. 7 So fair it was, so tall and spreading, there by the brimming water’s side, 8 in God’s own garden cedar could not overtop it, fir-tree match it for height, or plane-tree for shade. God’s garden itself could not shew such beauty: 9 never a tree there, tree of Eden,[2] but must envy it the leafy loveliness that was my gift. |
1 Et factum est in anno undecimo, tertio mense, una mensis: factum est verbum Domini ad me, dicens: 2 Fili hominis, dic Pharaoni regi Ægypti et populo ejus:
Cui similis factus es in magnitudine tua? 3
ecce Assur quasi cedrus in Libano,
pulcher ramis, et frondibus nemorosus, excelsusque altitudine,
et inter condensas frondes elevatum est cacumen ejus. 4
Aquæ nutrierunt illum;
abyssus exaltavit illum:
flumina ejus manabant in circuitu radicum ejus,
et rivos suos emisit ad universa ligna regionis. 5
Propterea elevata est altitudo ejus super omnia ligna regionis,
et multiplicata sunt arbusta ejus,
et elevati sunt rami ejus præ aquis multis. 6
Cumque extendisset umbram suam,
in ramis ejus fecerunt nidos omnia volatilia cæli:
et sub frondibus ejus genuerunt omnes bestiæ saltuum,
et sub umbraculo illius habitabat cœtus gentium plurimarum. 7
Eratque pulcherrimus in magnitudine sua,
et in dilatatione arbustorum suorum:
erat enim radix illius juxta aquas multas. 8
Cedri non fuerunt altiores illo in paradiso Dei;
abietes non adæquaverunt summitatem ejus,
et platani non fuerunt æquæ frondibus illius:
omne lignum paradisi Dei non est assimilatum illi,
et pulchritudini ejus. 9
Quoniam speciosum feci eum,
et multis condensisque frondibus,
et æmulata sunt eum omnia ligna voluptatis
quæ erant in paradiso Dei. |