Ezekiel 19

1 Moreover, take thou up a lamentation for the princes of Israel,2 and say, What was thy mother? A lioness: she couched among lions, in the midst of the young lions she nourished her whelps.3 And she brought up one of her whelps: he became a young lion, and he learned to catch the prey; he devoured men.4 The nations also heard of him; he was taken in their pit; and they brought him with hooks 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 he learned to catch the prey; he devoured men.7 And he knew their palaces, and laid waste their cities; and the land was desolate, and the fulness thereof, because of the noise of his roaring.8 Then the nations set against him on every side from the provinces; and they spread their net over him; he was taken in their pit.9 And they put him in a cage with hooks, and brought him to the king of Babylon; they brought him into strongholds, that his voice should no more be heard upon the mountains of Israel.10 Thy mother was like a vine, in thy blood, planted by the waters: it was fruitful and full of branches by reason of many waters.11 And it had strong rods for the sceptres of them that bare rule, and their stature was exalted among the thick boughs, and they were seen in their height with the multitude of their branches.12 But it was plucked up in fury, it was cast down to the ground, and the east wind dried up its fruit: its strong rods were broken off and withered; the fire consumed them.13 And now it is planted in the wilderness, in a dry and thirsty land.14 And fire is gone out of the rods of its branches, it hath devoured its fruit, so that there is in it no strong rod to be a sceptre to rule. This is a lamentation, and shall be for a lamentation.

에스겔 19

슬픔의 노래

1 “너는 이스라엘 지도자들을 위해 이런 애가를 지어 불러라.

2 ‘네 어머니는 누구냐? 사자 중에서도 훌륭한 암사자가 아닌가! 그가 젊은 사자들 가운데 누워 새끼를 기르더니

3 새끼 한 마리를 키우자 그것이 젊은 사자가 되어서 먹이를 움켜잡는 법을 배워 사람을 삼켜 버렸네.

4 이방 나라들이 그것을 듣고 함정으로 그를 잡아 갈고리로 꿰어서 이집트로 끌고 갔다.

5 ‘암사자가 기다리다가 희망이 없는 것을 알고 또 다른 새끼 한 마리를 키워서 젊은 사자가 되게 하자

6 그것이 성장하여 다른 사자들과 함께 다니면서 먹이를 움켜잡는 법을 배워 사람을 삼키며

7 그들의 요새를 헐고 그 성들을 파괴하니 그 우는 소리에 그 땅 주민들의 간담이 서늘해졌네.

8 그때 주변의 이방 나라들이 와서 그물을 치고 함정으로 그를 잡아

9 갈고리에 꿰어서 철망 속에 넣고 바빌로니아 왕에게 끌고 가 감옥에 넣었으니 다시는 그 울음 소리가 이스라엘 산에 들리지 않았네.

10 ‘너의 어머니는 물가에 심은 포도나무 같아서 물이 충분하여 과실이 많고 잎이 무성하며

11 그 가지들은 통치자의 지휘봉이 될 정도로 튼튼하게 자랐으며 그것이 다른 나무들보다 높이 솟아올라 멀리서도 다 볼 수 있더니

12 분노의 손에 뽑혀 땅에 던져지자 동풍이 그 과실을 말렸고 튼튼한 가지들은 꺾이고 말라서 불타고 말았네.

13 이제 그것이 가물고 메마른 광야에 심겼으며

14 불이 그 가지에 붙어 잎과 과일을 태웠으니 통치자의 지휘봉이 될 만한 튼튼한 가지는 하나도 남지 않았구나.’ “이것은 애가이므로 앞으로도 계속 애가로 불려질 것이다.”