Prophetia Ezechielis, 19

1. et tu adsume planctum super principes Israël

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

2. et dices quare mater tua leæna inter leones cubavit in medio leunculorum enutrivit catulos suos

2. And say: Why did thy mother the lioness lie down among the lions, and bring up her whelps in the midst of young lions?

3. et eduxit unum de leunculis suis leo factus est et didicit capere prædam hominemque comedere

3. And she brought out one of her whelps, and he became a lion: and he learned to catch the prey, and to devour men.

4. et audierunt de eo gentes et non absque vulneribus suis ceperunt eum et adduxerunt eum in catenis in terram Ægypti

4. And 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. quæ cum vidisset quoniam infirmata est et periit expectatio ejus tulit unum de leunculis suis leonem constituit eum

5. But she seeing herself weakened, and that her hope was lost, took one of her young lions, and set him up for a lion.

6. qui incedebat inter leones et factus est leo didicit prædam capere et homines devorare

6. And he went up and down among the lions, and became a lion: and he learned to catch the prey, and to devour men.

7. didicit viduas facere et civitates eorum in desertum adducere et desolata est terra et plenitudo ejus a voce rugitus illius

7. He 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. et convenerunt adversum eum gentes undique de provinciis et expanderunt super eum rete suum in vulneribus earum captus est

8. And the nations Game together against him on every side out of the provinces, and they spread their net over him, in their wounds he was taken.

9. et miserunt eum in caveam in catenis adduxerunt eum ad regem Babylonis miseruntque eum in carcerem ne audiretur vox ejus ultra super montes Israël

9. And 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. mater tua quasi vinea in sanguine tuo super aquam plantata fructus ejus et frondes ejus creverunt ex aquis multis

10. Thy mother is like a vine in thy blood planted by the water: her fruit and her branches have grown out of many waters.

11. et factæ sunt ei virgæ solidæ in sceptra dominantium et exaltata est statura ejus inter frondes et vidit altitudinem suam in multitudine palmitum suorum

11. And 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. et evulsa est in ira in terramque projecta et ventus urens siccavit fructum ejus marcuerunt et arefactæ sunt virgæ roboris ejus ignis comedit eam

12. But 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. et nunc transplantata est in desertum in terra invia et sitienti

13. And now she is transplanted into the desert, in a land not passable, and dry.

14. et egressus est ignis de virga ramorum ejus qui fructum ejus comedit et non fuit in ea virga fortis sceptrum dominantium planctus est et erit in planctum

14. And 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.