¹Ja üheteistkümnendal aastal, kolmanda kuu esimesel päeval tuli mulle Issanda sõna; ta ütles:

¹It happened in the eleventh year, in the third month, in the first day of the month, that the word of Yahweh came to me, saying,

²'Inimesepoeg, ütle vaaraole ja tema hiilgusele: Kelle sarnane sa oled oma suuruses?

²Son of man, tell Pharaoh king of Egypt, and to his multitude: Whom are you like in your greatness?

³Vaata küpressi, Liibanoni seedrit, mis on okstelt ilus, metsataolist varju andev, kasvult kõrge ja mille latv on keset pilvi.

³Behold, the Assyrian was a cedar in Lebanon with beautiful branches, and with a forest-like shade, and of high stature; and its top was among the thick boughs.

⁴Veed kasvatasid seda, põhjavesi laskis sirguda sel suureks, pannes voolama oma jõed ümber selle istutuspaiga ja lähetades nired kõigi metsapuude juurde.

⁴The waters nourished it, the deep made it to grow: its rivers ran all around its plantation; and it sent out its channels to all the trees of the field.

⁵Seetõttu oli selle kasv kõrgem kõigist metsapuudest, sel oli palju harusid ja selle oksad kasvasid pikaks rohkest veest, kui see ennast sirutas.

⁵Therefore its stature was exalted above all the trees of the field; and its boughs were multiplied, and its branches became long by reason of many waters, when it shot them forth.

⁶Selle harudel pesitsesid kõiksugu taeva linnud, selle okste all poegisid kõiksugu metsloomad ja selle varjus elasid kõik suured rahvad.

⁶All the birds of the sky made their nests in its boughs; and under its branches all the animals of the field brought forth their young; and all great nations lived under its shadow.

⁷Ilus oli see oma suuruses oma lopsaka lehestikuga, sest selle juur oli rohke vee ääres.

⁷Thus was it beautiful in its greatness, in the length of its branches; for its root was by many waters.

⁸Seedrid Jumala aias ei olnud sellega võrdsed, küpressid ei olnud harude poolest selle sarnased, ja plataanidel ei olnud selle oksi; ükski puu Jumala aias ei olnud ilu poolest selle sarnane.

⁸The cedars in the garden of God could not hide it; the fir trees were not like its boughs, and the plane trees were not as its branches; nor was any tree in the garden of God like it in its beauty.

⁹Mina tegin selle nii ilusaks rikkaliku lehestikuga ja kõik Eedeni puud, mis olid Jumala aias, kadestasid seda.

⁹I made it beautiful by the multitude of its branches, so that all the trees of Eden, that were in the garden of God, envied it.

¹⁰Seepärast ütleb Issand Jumal nõnda: Et see sai kasvult kõrgeks ja sirutas oma ladva pilvedesse ning et selle süda läks ülbeks oma kõrgusest,

¹⁰Therefore thus said the Lord Yahweh: Because you are exalted in stature, and he has set his top among the thick boughs, and his heart is lifted up in his height;

¹¹siis andsin ma selle ühe rahvaste valitseja kätte: tema talitas sellega nagu tahtis, vastavalt selle süüle. Mina tõukasin selle ära.

¹¹I will even deliver him into the hand of the mighty one of the nations; he shall surely deal with him; I have driven him out for his wickedness.

¹²Ja võõrad, julmimad rahvaste seast, raiusid selle maha ning jätsid sinna; selle lehed langesid mägedele ja kõigisse orgudesse, ja selle oksad jäid murtuina kõigisse maa ojadesse; kõik maa rahvad läksid ära selle varju alt ja jätsid selle maha.

¹²Strangers, the terrible of the nations, have cut him off, and have left him: on the mountains and in all the valleys his branches are fallen, and his boughs are broken by all the watercourses of the land; and all the peoples of the earth are gone down from his shadow, and have left him.

¹³Selle langetatud tüve peale asusid kõik taeva linnud ja selle okste peale kõik metsloomad -

¹³On his ruin all the birds of the sky shall dwell, and all the animals of the field shall be on his branches;

¹⁴et ükski veeäärne puu ei läheks ülbeks oma kasvu pärast ega sirutaks oma latva pilvede vahele, ja et oma ülbuses ei jääks püsima võimsamad neist, kõik, kellel on rohkesti vett -, sest need kõik antakse surma, maa sügavustesse inimlaste sekka, kes on läinud alla hauda.

¹⁴to the end that none of all the trees by the waters exalt themselves in their stature, neither set their top among the thick boughs, nor that their mighty ones stand up on their height, even all who drink water: for they are all delivered to death, to the lower parts of the earth, in the midst of the children of men, with those who go down to the pit.

¹⁵Nõnda ütleb Issand Jumal: Päeval, kui ta astus alla surmavalda, korraldasin ma leinamise; ma katsin tema pärast põhjavee ja hoidsin tagasi tema jõed, suured veed peeti kinni; ma tegin tema pärast Liibanoni mustaks ja tema pärast närbusid kõik metsapuud.

¹⁵Thus says the Lord Yahweh: In the day when he went down to Sheol Sheol is the place of the dead. I caused a mourning: I covered the deep for him, and I restrained its rivers; and the great waters were stayed; and I caused Lebanon to mourn for him, and all the trees of the field fainted for him.

¹⁶Tema langemise raginast panin ma rahvad värisema, kui ma tõukasin ta surmavalda koos haudaminejatega. Maa sügavustes leidsid troosti kõik Eedeni puud, valitud ja parimad Liibanonilt, kõik, kellel oli rohkesti vett,

¹⁶I made the nations to shake at the sound of his fall, when I cast him down to Sheol Sheol is the place of the dead. with those who descend into the pit; and all the trees of Eden, the choice and best of Lebanon, all that drink water, were comforted in the lower parts of the earth.

¹⁷needki läksid koos temaga surmavalda mõõgaga mahalöödute juurde, jah, pillutati need, kes istusid tema varju all rahvaste keskel.

¹⁷They also went down into Sheol with him to those who are slain by the sword; yes, those who were his arm, that lived under his shadow in the midst of the nations.

¹⁸Millisega Eedeni puude seast saaks sind võrrelda au ja suuruse poolest? Sind tõugatakse koos Eedeni puudega maa sügavustesse, sa magad ümberlõikamatute keskel koos mõõgaga mahalöödutega. Nõnda käib vaarao ja tema hiilguse käsi, ütleb Issand Jumal.'

¹⁸To whom are you thus like in glory and in greatness among the trees of Eden? yet you will be brought down with the trees of Eden to the lower parts of the earth: you shall lie in the midst of the uncircumcised, with those who are slain by the sword. This is Pharaoh and all his multitude, says the Lord Yahweh.