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

¹あなたはイスラエルの君たちのために悲しみの歌をのべて

²And say, What is thy mother? A lioness: she lay down among lions, she nourished her whelps among young lions.

²言え、あなたの母はししのうちにあって、どんな雌じしであったろう。彼女は若いししのうちに伏して子じしを養った。

³And she brought up one of her whelps: it became a young lion, and it learned to catch the prey; it devoured men.

³彼女は子じしの一つを育てたが、それは若いししとなって、獲物をとることを学び、人を食べた。

⁴The nations also heard of him; he was taken in their pit, and they brought him with chains unto the land of Egypt.

⁴国々の人は彼に対して叫び声をあげ、落し穴でこれを捕え、かぎでこれをエジプトの地に引いて行った。

⁵Now 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.

⁵雌じしは自分の思いが破れ、その望みを失ったのを見たので、ほかの子じしをとって、これを若い子じしとした。

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

⁶彼はししのうちに行き来し、若いししとなって、獲物をとることを学び、人を食べた。

⁷And he knew their desolate palaces, and he laid waste their cities; and the land was desolate, and the fulness thereof, by the noise of his roaring.

⁷彼はその要害を荒し、その町々を滅ぼした。そのほえる声によって、その地とその中に満ちるものとは皆恐れた。

⁸Then the nations set against him on every side from the provinces, and spread their net over him: he was taken in their pit.

⁸そこで国々の人は彼に対して四方にわなを設け、彼に網を打ちかけ、落し穴で彼を捕えた。

⁹And they put him in ward in chains, and brought him to the king of Babylon: they brought him into holds, that his voice should no more be heard upon the mountains of Israel.

⁹彼らはかぎをもって、これをかごに入れ、これをバビロンの王のもとに連れて行き、これをおりの中に入れて、再びその声をイスラエルの山々に聞えさせないようにした。

¹⁰Thy mother is like a vine in thy blood, planted by the waters: she was fruitful and full of branches by reason of many waters.

¹⁰あなたの母は水のほとりに移し植えられたぶどう畑のぶどうの木のようで、水が多いために実りがよく、枝がはびこった。

¹¹And she had strong rods for the sceptres of them that bare rule, and her stature was exalted among the thick branches, and she appeared in her height with the multitude of her branches.

¹¹その強い幹は君たる者のつえとなった。それは茂みの中に高くそびえ、多くの枝をつけて高く見えた。

¹²But she was plucked up in fury, she was cast down to the ground, and the east wind dried up her fruit: her strong rods were broken and withered; the fire consumed them.

¹²しかしこのぶどうの木は憤りによって抜かれ、地に投げうたれ、東風がそれを枯らし、その実はもぎ取られ、その強い幹は枯れて、火に焼き滅ぼされた。

¹³And now she is planted in the wilderness, in a dry and thirsty ground.

¹³今これは荒野に、かわいた、水のない地に移し植えられ、火がその幹から出て、その枝と実とを滅ぼしたので、強い幹で、君たる者のつえとなるべきものはそこにない。これが悲しみの言葉、また悲しみの歌となった。

¹⁴And fire is gone out of a rod of her branches, which hath devoured her fruit, so that she hath no strong rod to be a sceptre to rule. This is a lamentation, and shall be for a lamentation.

¹⁴火がその幹から出て、その枝と実とを滅ぼしたので、強い幹で、君たる者のつえとなるべきものはそこにない。これが悲しみの言葉、また悲しみの歌となった。