Hezekiel 31

¹On birinci yılda, üçüncü ayda, ayın birinci gününde Rab'bin sözü bana söyleyerek geldi:

²"İnsanoğlu, Mısır Kralı Firavun’a ve onun büyük kalabalığına de ki: Kendi yüksekliğinde kendini kime benzettin?

³İşte, Lübnan’da dalları güzel, boyu yüksek, tepesi bulutların ortasına erişmiş bir selviydi Asur.

⁴Sular onu besledi, engin sular onu yükseltti; nehirlerini onun fidanlarının çevresine akıttı ve su birikintilerini kırdaki bütün ağaçlara gönderdi.

⁵Bu yüzden onun boyu kırdaki bütün ağaçlardan daha çok yükseldi ve bol su sayesinde dalları genişledi.

⁶Onun dallarında göğün bütün kuşları yuva yaptı, dallarının altında kırın bütün yaban hayvanları yavrularlardı ve onun gölgesinde ulusların bütün kalabalığı yaşadı.

⁷Ve dallarının çokluğu sayesinde yüksekliğinde güzel oldu; çünkü kökleri bol suya uzanmıştı.

⁸Tanrı’nın cennetinde böyle selviler olmadı, çamlar onun dallarına benzemezdi ve göknarlar onun dallarıyla karşılaştırılamazdı; Tanrı’nın cennetindeki hiçbir ağaç güzellikte ona benzemedi.

⁹Dallarının çokluğuyla onu güzel kıldım; Tanrı’nın o haz cennetindeki bütün ağaçlar onu kıskandı.

¹⁰Bu yüzden Rab şöyle diyor: Boyca büyük olduğun, tepeni bulutların ortasına uzattığın için ve onun yükseltilmesinde bunu gördüğüm için,

¹¹ben de onu ulusların önderinin ellerine teslim ettim; o da onun yıkımını gerçekleştirdi.

¹²Uluslardan yabancı yıkıcılar onu kesip yok ettiler ve onu dağların üzerine bıraktılar; dalları bütün vadilere düştü, gövdeleri ülkenin bütün kırlarında kırıldı. Ulusların bütün halkları onun gölgesinden çekilip indiler ve onu yere serdiler.

¹³Onun düşüşünün üzerine göğün bütün kuşları tünedi, gövdelerinin üzerine kırın bütün yaban hayvanları yerleşti.

¹⁴Öyle ki, sudaki ağaçların hiçbiri boylarıyla yükselmesin, tepelerini bulutların ortasına uzatmasın ve su içen hiçbir güçlü ağaç kendi yüksekliğinde onlara karşı dikilmesin. Çünkü hepsi ölüme, yerin derinliklerine, çukura inenlerle birlikte insanoğullarının ortasına teslim edildiler.

¹⁵Rab Rab şöyle diyor: Onun ölüler diyarına indiği gün, engin sular onun için yas tuttu; nehirlerini durdurdum, bol sularını engelledim. Onun yüzünden Lübnan’ı karanlığa bürüdüm, kırdaki bütün ağaçlar onun yüzünden güçsüz düştü.

¹⁶Onu çukura inenlerle birlikte ölüler diyarına indirdiğimde, düşüşünün sesinden uluslar sarsıldı; ve haz cennetinin bütün ağaçları, Lübnan’ın en seçkin ve en iyi ağaçları, su içen bütün ağaçlar yerin derinliklerinde onu teselli ettiler.

¹⁷Çünkü onlar da onunla birlikte, kılıçla öldürülenlerin yanına, ölüler diyarına indiler; onun gölgesi altında yaşayan soyu, kendi hayatlarının ortasında yok oldular.

¹⁸Güzellikte ve büyüklükte haz cennetinin ağaçlarından kime benzetildin? Sen de haz cennetinin ağaçlarıyla birlikte yerin derinliklerine indirileceksin; sünnetsizlerin arasında, kılıçla öldürülenlerle birlikte yatacaksın. İşte Firavun ve onun gücünün çokluğu budur, diyor Rab Rab."

¹ΚΑΙ ἐγένετο ἐν τῷ ἑνδεκάτῳ ἔτει, ἐν τῷ τρίτῳ μηνί, μιᾷ τοῦ μηνός, ἐγένετο λόγος Κυρίου πρός με λέγων·

²υἱὲ ἀνθρώπου, εἰπὸν πρὸς Φαραὼ βασιλέα Αἰγύπτου καὶ τῷ πλήθει αὐτοῦ· τίνι ὡμοίωσας σεαυτὸν ἐν τῷ ὕψει σου;

³ἰδοὺ ᾿Ασσοὺρ κυπάρισσος ἐν τῷ Λιβάνῳ καὶ καλὸς ταῖς παραφυάσι καὶ ὑψηλὸς τῷ μεγέθει, εἰς μέσον νεφελῶν ἐγένετο ἡ ἀρχὴ αὐτοῦ.

⁴ὕδωρ ἐξέθρεψεν αὐτόν, ἡ ἄβυσσος ὕψωσεν αὐτόν, τοὺς ποταμοὺς αὐτῆς ἤγαγε κύκλῳ τῶν φυτῶν αὐτοῦ καὶ τὰ συστέματα αὐτῆς ἐξαπέστειλεν εἰς πάντα τὰ ξύλα τοῦ πεδίου.

⁵ἕνεκεν τούτου ὑψώθη τὸ μέγεθος αὐτοῦ παρὰ πάντα τὰ ξύλα τοῦ πεδίου, καὶ ἐπλατύνθησαν οἱ κλάδοι αὐτοῦ ἀφ’ ὕδατος πολλοῦ.

⁶ἐν ταῖς παραφυάσιν αὐτοῦ ἐνόσσευσαν πάντα τὰ πετεινὰ τοῦ οὐρανοῦ, καὶ ὑποκάτω τῶν κλάδων αὐτοῦ ἐγεννῶσαν πάντα τὰ θηρία τοῦ πεδίου, ἐν τῇ σκιᾷ αὐτοῦ κατῴκησε πᾶν πλῆθος ἐθνῶν.

⁷καὶ ἐγένετο καλὸς ἐν τῷ ὕψει αὐτοῦ διὰ τὸ πλῆθος τῶν κλάδων αὐτοῦ, ὅτι ἐγενήθησαν αἱ ῥίζαι αὐτοῦ εἰς ὕδωρ πολύ.

⁸κυπάρισσοι 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

⁹διὰ τὸ πλῆθος τῶν κλάδων αὐτοῦ, καὶ ἐζήλωσαν αὐτὸν τὰ ξύλα τοῦ παραδείσου τῆς τρυφῆς τοῦ Θεοῦ.

¹⁰διὰ τοῦτο τάδε λέγει Κύριος· ἀνθ’ ὧν ἐγένου μέγας τῷ μεγέθει καὶ ἔδωκας τὴν ἀρχήν σου εἰς μέσον νεφελῶν, καὶ εἶδον ἐν τῷ ὑψωθῆναι αὐτόν,

¹¹καὶ παρέδωκα αὐτὸν εἰς χεῖρας ἄρχοντος ἐθνῶν, καὶ ἐποίησε τὴν ἀπώλειαν αὐτοῦ.

¹²καὶ ἐξωλόθρευσαν αὐτὸν ἀλλότριοι λοιμοὶ ἀπὸ ἐθνῶν καὶ κατέβαλον αὐτὸν ἐπὶ τῶν ὀρέων, ἐν πάσαις ταῖς φάραγξιν ἔπεσαν οἱ κλάδοι αὐτοῦ, καὶ συνετρίβη τὰ στελέχη αὐτοῦ ἐν παντὶ πεδίῳ τῆς γῆς, καὶ κατέβησαν ἀπὸ τῆς σκέπης αὐτῶν πάντες οἱ λαοὶ τῶν ἐθνῶν καὶ ἠδάφισαν αὐτόν.

¹³ἐπὶ τὴν πτῶσιν αὐτοῦ ἀνεπαύσαντο πάντα τὰ πετεινὰ τοῦ οὐρανοῦ, καὶ ἐπὶ τὰ στελέχη αὐτοῦ ἐγένοντο πάντα τὰ θηρία τοῦ ἀγροῦ,

¹⁴ὅπως μὴ ὑψωθῶσιν ἐν τῷ μεγέθει αὐτῶν πάντα τὰ ξύλα τὰ ἐν τῷ ὕδατι· καὶ ἔδωκαν τὴν ἀρχὴν αὐτῶν εἰς μέσον νεφελῶν καὶ οὐκ ἔστησαν ἐν τῷ ὕψει αὐτῶν πρὸς αὐτὰ πάντες οἱ πίνοντες ὕδωρ. πάντες ἐδόθησαν εἰς θάνατον, εἰς γῆς βάθος, ἐν μέσῳ υἱῶν ἀνθρώπων πρὸς καταβαίνοντας εἰς βόθρον. -

¹⁵Τάδε λέγει Κύριος Κύριος· ἐν ᾗ ἡμέρᾳ κατέβη εἰς ᾅδου, ἐπένθησεν αὐτὸν ἡ ἄβυσσος, καὶ ἐπέστησα τοὺς ποταμοὺς αὐτῆς καὶ ἐκώλυσα πλῆθος ὕδατος, καὶ ἐσκότασεν ἐπ’ αὐτὸν ὁ Λίβανος, πάντα τὰ ξύλα τοῦ πεδίου ἐπ’ αὐτῷ ἐξελύθησαν.

¹⁶ἀπὸ τῆς φωνῆς τῆς πτώσεως αὐτοῦ ἐσείσθησαν τὰ ἔθνη, ὅτε κατεβίβαζον αὐτὸν εἰς ᾅδου μετὰ τῶν καταβαινόντων εἰς λάκκον, καὶ παρεκάλουν αὐτὸν ἐν γῇ πάντα τὰ ξύλα τῆς τρυφῆς καὶ τὰ ἐκλεκτὰ τοῦ Λιβάνου, πάντα τὰ πίνοντα ὕδωρ.

¹⁷καὶ γὰρ αὐτοὶ κατέβησαν μετ’ αὐτοῦ εἰς ᾅδου ἐν τοῖς τραυματίαις ἀπὸ μαχαίρας, καὶ τὸ σπέρμα αὐτοῦ, οἱ κατοικοῦντες ὑπὸ τὴν σκέπην αὐτοῦ, ἐν μέσῳ τῆς ζωῆς αὐτῶν ἀπώλοντο.

¹⁸τίνι ὡμοιώθης; κατάβηθι καὶ καταβιβάσθητι μετὰ τῶν ξύλων τῆς τρυφῆς εἰς γῆς βάθος· ἐν μέσῳ ἀπεριτμήτων κοιμηθήσῃ μετὰ τραυματιῶν μαχαίρας. οὕτως Φαραὼ καὶ τὸ πλῆθος τῆς ἰσχύος αὐτοῦ, λέγει Κύριος Κύριος.

¹And it came to pass in the eleventh year, in the third month, on the first [day] of the month, the word of the Lord came to me, saying,

²Son of man, say to Pharao king of Egypt, and to his multitude; To whom hast thou compared thyself in thy haughtiness?

³Behold, the Assyrian was a cypress in Libanus, and was fair in shoots, and high in stature: his top reached to the midst of the clouds.

⁴The water nourished him, the depth made him grow tall; she led her rivers round about his plants, and she sent forth her streams to all the trees of the field.

⁵Therefore, was his stature exalted above all the trees of the field, and his branches spread far by the help of much water.

⁶All the birds of the sky made their nests in his boughs, and under his branches all the wild beasts of the field bred; the whole multitude of nations dwelt under his shadow.

⁷And he was fair in his height by reason of the multitude of his branches: for his roots were amidst much water.

⁸And such cypresses [as this] were in the paradise of God; and there were no pines like his shoots, and there were no firs like his branches: no tree in the paradise of God was like him in his beauty,

⁹because of the multitude of his branches: and the trees of God’s paradise of delight envied him.

¹⁰Therefore thus saith the Lord; Because thou art grown great, and hast set thy top in the midst of the clouds, and I saw when he was exalted;

¹¹therefore I delivered him into the hands of the prince of the nations, and he wrought his destruction.

¹²And ravaging strangers from the nations have destroyed him, and have cast him down upon the mountains: his branches fell in all the valleys, and his boughs were broken in every field of the land; and all the people of the nations are gone down from their shelter, and have laid him low.

¹³All the birds of the sky have settled on his fallen trunk, and all the wild beasts of the field came upon his boughs:

¹⁴in order that none of the trees by the water should exalt themselves by reason of their size: whereas they set their top in the midst of the clouds, yet they continued not in their high state in their place, all that drank water, all were consigned to death, to the depth of the earth, in the midst of the children of men, with them that go down to the pit.

¹⁵Thus saith the Lord God; In the day wherein he went down to Hades, the deep mourned for him: and I stayed her floods, and restrained her abundance of water: and Libanus saddened for him, all the trees of the field fainted for him.

¹⁶At the sound of his fall the nations quaked, when I brought him down to Hades with them that go down to the pit: and all the trees of Delight comforted him in the heart, and the choice of [plants] of Libanus, all that drink water.

¹⁷For they went down to hell with him among the slain with the sword; and his seed, [even] they that dwelt under his shadow, perished in the midst of their life.

¹⁸To whom art thou compared? descend, and be thou debased with the trees of paradise to the depth of the earth: thou shalt lie in the midst of the uncircumcised with them that are slain by the sword. Thus shall Pharao be, and the multitude of his host, saith the Lord God.