¹And it came to pass in the eleventh year, in the third month, in the first day of the month, that the word of the LORD came unto me, saying,

¹In zgodilo se je v enajstem letu, prvi dan tretjega meseca, da mi pride beseda GOSPODOVA, govoreč:

²Son of man, speak unto Pharaoh king of Egypt, and to his multitude; Whom art thou like in thy greatness?

²Sin človečji, govori Faraonu, kralju egiptovskemu, in vsej množici njegovi: Komu si enak v velikosti svoji?

³Behold, the Assyrian was a cedar in Lebanon with fair branches, and with a shadowing shroud, and of an high stature; and his top was among the thick boughs.

³Glej, Asur je bil ceder na Libanonu, z lepimi vejami, košat za senco in silno visok, in vrh njegov je segal med oblake.

⁴The waters made him great, the deep set him up on high with her rivers running round about his plants, and sent her little rivers unto all the trees of the field.

⁴Vode so storile, da se je tako povzpel, globočina, da je visoko vzrastel: reke njene so tekle povsod okoli njegovih korenin in potoke svoje je izlivala do vseh dreves na polju.

⁵Therefore his height was exalted above all the trees of the field, and his boughs were multiplied, and his branches became long because of the multitude of waters, when he shot forth.

⁵Zato je vzrastel više nego vsa drevesa na polju in mladike njegove so se pomnožile ter veje njegove podaljšale vsled obilnih vod, ko se je razširjal.

⁶All the fowls of heaven made their nests in his boughs, and under his branches did all the beasts of the field bring forth their young, and under his shadow dwelt all great nations.

⁶Vsi ptiči nebeški so gnezdili v njegovih vejah in vse zverine poljske so rodile pod njegovimi mladikami, in v senci njegovi so prebivali vsi veliki narodi.

⁷Thus was he fair in his greatness, in the length of his branches: for his root was by great waters.

⁷In bil je prelep v velikosti svoji in ker je imel široko raztegnjene odrastke: kajti korenine njegove so bile ob obilih vodah.

⁸The cedars in the garden of God could not hide him: the fir trees were not like his boughs, and the chestnut trees were not like his branches; nor any tree in the garden of God was like unto him in his beauty.

⁸Cedre na vrtu Božjem ga niso nadkriljevale, ciprese se niso mogle enačiti z vejami njegovimi in javori niso bili kakor mladike njegove; nobeno drevo na vrtu Božjem mu ni bilo enako v lepoti.

⁹I have made him fair by the multitude of his branches: so that all the trees of Eden, that were in the garden of God, envied him.

⁹Lepega sem ga naredil z množino odrastkov njegovih; in zavidala so mu vsa drevesa edenska, ki so bila na vrtu Božjem.

¹⁰Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD; Because thou hast lifted up thyself in height, and he hath shot up his top among the thick boughs, and his heart is lifted up in his height;

¹⁰Zato je tako rekel Gospod Jehova: Ker si tako visoko vzrastel – da, vrh je iztezal tja med oblake in srce njegovo se je prevzelo zaradi visokosti njegove:

¹¹I have therefore delivered him into the hand of the mighty one of the heathen; he shall surely deal with him: I have driven him out for his wickedness.

¹¹zato ga dam v pest mogočniku med narodi, naj le ravna ž njim, kakor hoče; zaradi brezbožnosti njegove sem ga zavrgel.

¹²And strangers, the terrible of the nations, have cut him off, and have left him: upon the mountains and in all the valleys his branches are fallen, and his boughs are broken by all the rivers of the land; and all the people of the earth are gone down from his shadow, and have left him.

¹²In tujci, silovitniki med narodi, so ga posekali ter vrgli na tla: njegovi odrastki so popadali po gorah in po vseh dolinah in veje njegove so se polomile in obležale po vseh globinah dežele; in vsa zemeljska ljudstva so šla izpod sence njegove in se niso več zanj zmenila;

¹³Upon his ruin shall all the fowls of the heaven remain, and all the beasts of the field shall be upon his branches:

¹³na podrti trup njegov so sedli vsi ptiči nebeški in po vejah njegovih čepé vse zverine zemlje:

¹⁴To the end that none of all the trees by the waters exalt themselves for their height, neither shoot up their top among the thick boughs, neither their trees stand up in their height, all that drink water: for they are all delivered unto death, to the nether parts of the earth, in the midst of the children of men, with them that go down to the pit.

¹⁴da naj se ne povzdiguje nobeno drevo ob vodah zaradi visokosti svoje ter ne izteza vrha tja med oblake, da se tudi njih mogočneži ne zanašajo nase zaradi visokosti svoje, ker vsi pijejo vodo; zakaj vsi so izročeni smrti v spodnje kraje zemlje, sredi med sinove človeške, k njim, ki se pogrezajo v jamo.

¹⁵Thus saith the Lord GOD; In the day when he went down to the grave I caused a mourning: I covered the deep for him, and I restrained the floods thereof, and the great waters were stayed: and I caused Lebanon to mourn for him, and all the trees of the field fainted for him.

¹⁵Tako pravi Gospod Jehova: V dan, ko je šel doli v pekel [Hebr. šeol.], sem napravil žalovanje; zagrnil sem globočino zaradi njega in ustavil njene reke, in velike vode so se zajezile; Libanonu pa sem velel žalovati po njem, in zaradi njega so omedlevala vsa drevesa na polju.

¹⁶I made the nations to shake at the sound of his fall, when I cast him down to hell with them that descend into the pit: and all the trees of Eden, the choice and best of Lebanon, all that drink water, shall be comforted in the nether parts of the earth.

¹⁶Storil sem, da so se od hrupa njegovega padca tresli narodi, ko sem ga pahnil doli v pekel k njim, ki so se pogreznili v jamo. In potolažila so se vsa drevesa Božja, vsa izbrana in najboljša drevesa libanonska, vsa, ki jih namaka voda, v spodnjih krajih zemlje.

¹⁷They also went down into hell with him unto them that be slain with the sword; and they that were his arm, that dwelt under his shadow in the midst of the heathen.

¹⁷Tudi ona so šla ž njim doli v pekel k pobitim od meča, ki so kot njegovi pomočniki sedeli v senci njegovi med narodi.Komu si enak v taki slavi in velikosti med drevesi edenskimi? A pahnjen boš z drevesi edenskimi v spodnje kraje zemlje, med neobrezanci boš ležal ž njimi, ki so pobiti z mečem. To je Faraon in vsa množica njegova, govori Gospod Jehova.

¹⁸To whom art thou thus like in glory and in greatness among the trees of Eden? yet shalt thou be brought down with the trees of Eden unto the nether parts of the earth: thou shalt lie in the midst of the uncircumcised with them that be slain by the sword. This is Pharaoh and all his multitude, saith the Lord GOD.

¹⁸Komu si enak v taki slavi in velikosti med drevesi edenskimi? A pahnjen boš z drevesi edenskimi v spodnje kraje zemlje, med neobrezanci boš ležal ž njimi, ki so pobiti z mečem. To je Faraon in vsa množica njegova, govori Gospod Jehova.