Ezequiel 31

1 In the eleventh year, in the third month, in the first day of the month, Yahweh’s word came to me, saying, 2 "Son of man, tell Pharaoh king of Egypt and his multitude:

‘Whom are you like in your greatness?

3 Behold, the Assyrian was a cedar in Lebanon

with beautiful branches,

and with a forest-like shade,

of high stature;

and its top was among the thick boughs.

4 The waters nourished it.

The deep made it to grow.

Its rivers ran all around its plantation.

It sent out its channels to all the trees of the field.

5 Therefore its stature was exalted above all the trees of the field;

and its boughs were multiplied.

Its branches became long by reason of many waters,

when it spread them out.

6 All the birds of the sky made their nests in its boughs.

Under its branches, all the animals of the field gave birth to their young.

All great nations lived under its shadow.

7 Thus it was beautiful in its greatness,

in the length of its branches;

for its root was by many waters.

8 The cedars in the garden of God could not hide it.

The cypress trees were not like its branches.

The pine trees were not like its branches;

nor was any tree in the garden of God like it in its beauty.

9 I 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.’

10 "Therefore thus said the Lord Yahweh: ‘Because he is exalted in stature, and he has set his top among the thick branches, and his heart is lifted up in his height, 11 I will deliver him into the hand of the mighty one of the nations. He will surely deal with him. I have driven him out for his wickedness. 12 Foreigners, the tyrants of the nations, have cut him off and have left him. His branches have fallen on the mountains and in all the valleys, and his boughs are broken by all the watercourses of the land. All the peoples of the earth have gone down from his shadow and have left him. 13 All the birds of the sky will dwell on his ruin, and all the animals of the field will be on his branches, 14 to the end that none of all the trees by the waters exalt themselves in their stature, and don’t set their top among the thick boughs. Their mighty ones don’t stand up on their height, even all who drink water; for they are all delivered to death, to the lower parts of the earth, among the children of men, with those who go down to the pit.’

15 "The Lord Yahweh says: ‘In the day when he went down to Sheol,*31:15 Sheol is the place of the dead. I caused a mourning. I covered the deep for him, and I restrained its rivers. The great waters were stopped. I caused Lebanon to mourn for him, and all the trees of the field fainted for him. 16 I made the nations to shake at the sound of his fall, when I cast him down to Sheol*31:16 Sheol is the place of the dead. with those who descend into the pit. All the trees of Eden, the choice and best of Lebanon, all that drink water, were comforted in the lower parts of the earth. 17 They also went down into Sheol with him to those who are slain by the sword; yes, those who were his arm, who lived under his shadow in the middle of the nations.

18 "‘To 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 will lie in the middle of the uncircumcised, with those who are slain by the sword.

"‘This is Pharaoh and all his multitude,’ says the Lord Yahweh."

Te Hīta Teitei

1 I te tekau mā tahi o ngā tau, i te toru o ngā marama, i te tuatahi o ngā rā o te marama, ka puta mai te kupu a Ihowā ki ahau, i mea: 2 "E te tama a te tangata, mea atu ki a Parao kīngi o Īhipa, rātou ko āna mano tini:

I a koe e nui nā ko wai tōu rite?

3 Nanā, he hīta i Repanōna te Ahiriana,

he pai ngā manga, pūruru tonu,

marumaru tonu, he roa rawa, pūrero rawa;

i roto anō tōna kōuru i ngā manga pūruru.

4 Nui tonu ia, nā te wai hoki roa tonu,

he mea nā te wai hōhonu;

i rere hoki ōna awa

i tētahi taha o ōna māhuri, i tētahi taha;

i tukua atu anō ōna awa ririki

ki ngā rākau katoa o te pārae.

5 Nā reira roa rawa ia,

pūrero rawa ki runga ake i ngā rākau katoa o te pārae;

kua maha anō ōna peka, kua roroa ōna manga,

he maha hoki nō ngā wai,

i a ia e kōkiri ake ana.

6 I hangā ō rātou ōhanga

e ngā manu katoa o te rangi ki ōna peka,

i whānau anō ngā kīrehe katoa

o te pārae ki raro i ōna manga,

i noho anō ngā iwi nunui katoa

ki raro i tōna taumarumarunga iho.

7 Heoi, ātaahua tonu ia, i a ia i nui rā,

i te roa hoki o ōna manga;

i te taha hoki o ngā wai nui tōna pakiaka.

8 Kīhai ia i ngaro i ngā hīta o tā te Atua kāri;

kīhai ngā kauri i rite ki ōna peka,

kīhai anō ngā rākau pereni i rite ki ōna manga;

kāhore he rākau o te kāri a te Atua hei rite mōna;

i a ia i ātaahua tonu rā.

9 I meinga ia e ahau kia ātaahua tonu

i te maha o ōna manga;

ā, hae ana ngā rākau katoa o Erene,

i te kāri a te Atua, ki a ia.

10 "Nā reira ko te kupu tēnei a te Ariki, a Ihowā: Kua tiketike nā koe, kua roa, ā, kōkiri atu ana tōna kōuru ki roto ki ngā manga pūruru, ā, neke ake ana tōna ngākau i a ia i tiketike rā; 11 mō reira ka tukua ia e ahau ki te ringa o te mea kaha o ngā tauiwi. Ka nui tā tērā mahi ki a ia; he kino nōna i peia ai ia e ahau. 12 Nā, kua hātepea atu ia e ngā tautāngata, e ngā mea nanakia o ngā iwi, ā, kua whakarērea iho. Kua taka ōna rārā ki runga ki ngā maunga, ki ngā awaawa katoa; kua whatiwhatiia ōna manga ki te taha o ngā awa katoa o te whenua; kua heke mai anō ngā iwi katoa o te whenua i tōna taumarumarutanga iho, whakarērea ake e rātou. 13 Kei runga i a ia, ina hinga, he kāinga mō ngā manu katoa o te rangi, ā, ka noho ngā kīrehe katoa o te pārae ki ōna manga. 14 He mea kei neke ake, kei pūrero ki runga tētahi o ngā rākau i te taha o ngā wai, kei kōkiri ake ō rātou kōuru ki roto ki ngā manga pūruru, kei tū hoki, kei teitei ngā rākau katoa e inu wai ana. Kua tukua katoatia hoki ki te mate, ki ngā wāhi o raro rawa o te whenua, ki roto ki ngā tama a te tangata, ki te hunga e heke ana ki te rua.

15 "Ko te kupu tēnei a te Ariki, a Ihowā: I te rā i heke ai ia ki te rua i meinga ia e ahau kia tangihia, he whakaaro ki a ia i hīpokina ai e ahau te rire, i puritia ai ōna awa, ā, ko ngā wai nunui mau rawa. Ā, meinga ana e ahau a Repanōna kia tangi ki a ia, ā, ko ngā rākau katoa o te pārae ngohe kau ki a ia. 16 Meinga ana e ahau kia rurea ngā iwi e te haruru o tōna hinganga, i tāku makanga i a ia ki raro i te rēinga, rātou tahi ko te hunga e heke ana ki te rua; ko ngā rākau katoa anō hoki o Erene, ko ngā mea whiriwhiri, ko ngā mea papai o Repanōna, ko ngā mea katoa e inu ana i te wai, ka whai whakamārietanga i ngā wāhi o raro rawa o te whenua. 17 I heke tahi anō rātou me ia ki te rēinga, ki te hunga kua patua ki te hoari; āe rā, me te hunga anō i waiho nei hei ringa mōna, i noho nei i raro i tōna taumarumarunga iho i waenganui o ngā tauiwi.

18 "Ko wai hei rite mōu, te korōria, te nui, i roto i ngā rākau o Erene? Heoi, ka tukua ngātahitia iho koutou ko ngā rākau o Erene ki ngā wāhi o raro rawa o te whenua. Ka takoto koe i roto i te hunga kokotikore, i roto i te hunga i patua ki te hoari.

"Ko Parao tēnei, rātou ko āna mano tini katoa, e ai tā te Ariki, tā Ihowā."