Ezekiel 31 – NIV & CCL

New International Version

Ezekiel 31:1-18

Pharaoh as a Felled Cedar of Lebanon

1In the eleventh year, in the third month on the first day, the word of the Lord came to me: 2“Son of man, say to Pharaoh king of Egypt and to his hordes:

“ ‘Who can be compared with you in majesty?

3Consider Assyria, once a cedar in Lebanon,

with beautiful branches overshadowing the forest;

it towered on high,

its top above the thick foliage.

4The waters nourished it,

deep springs made it grow tall;

their streams flowed

all around its base

and sent their channels

to all the trees of the field.

5So it towered higher

than all the trees of the field;

its boughs increased

and its branches grew long,

spreading because of abundant waters.

6All the birds of the sky

nested in its boughs,

all the animals of the wild

gave birth under its branches;

all the great nations

lived in its shade.

7It was majestic in beauty,

with its spreading boughs,

for its roots went down

to abundant waters.

8The cedars in the garden of God

could not rival it,

nor could the junipers

equal its boughs,

nor could the plane trees

compare with its branches—

no tree in the garden of God

could match its beauty.

9I made it beautiful

with abundant branches,

the envy of all the trees of Eden

in the garden of God.

10“ ‘Therefore this is what the Sovereign Lord says: Because the great cedar towered over the thick foliage, and because it was proud of its height, 11I gave it into the hands of the ruler of the nations, for him to deal with according to its wickedness. I cast it aside, 12and the most ruthless of foreign nations cut it down and left it. Its boughs fell on the mountains and in all the valleys; its branches lay broken in all the ravines of the land. All the nations of the earth came out from under its shade and left it. 13All the birds settled on the fallen tree, and all the wild animals lived among its branches. 14Therefore no other trees by the waters are ever to tower proudly on high, lifting their tops above the thick foliage. No other trees so well-watered are ever to reach such a height; they are all destined for death, for the earth below, among mortals who go down to the realm of the dead.

15“ ‘This is what the Sovereign Lord says: On the day it was brought down to the realm of the dead I covered the deep springs with mourning for it; I held back its streams, and its abundant waters were restrained. Because of it I clothed Lebanon with gloom, and all the trees of the field withered away. 16I made the nations tremble at the sound of its fall when I brought it down to the realm of the dead to be with those who go down to the pit. Then all the trees of Eden, the choicest and best of Lebanon, the well-watered trees, were consoled in the earth below. 17They too, like the great cedar, had gone down to the realm of the dead, to those killed by the sword, along with the armed men who lived in its shade among the nations.

18“ ‘Which of the trees of Eden can be compared with you in splendor and majesty? Yet you, too, will be brought down with the trees of Eden to the earth below; you will lie among the uncircumcised, with those killed by the sword.

“ ‘This is Pharaoh and all his hordes, declares the Sovereign Lord.’ ”

Mawu a Mulungu mu Chichewa Chalero

Ezekieli 31:1-18

Mkungudza mu Lebanoni

1Pa tsiku loyamba la mwezi wachitatu, chaka cha khumi ndi chimodzi, Yehova anandiyankhula kuti: 2“Iwe mwana wa munthu, unene kwa Farao mfumu ya Igupto ndi gulu lake lankhondo. Awawuze kuti,

“ ‘Kodi mu ukulu wanu ndani angafanane ndi inu?

3Taonani, ndidzakufanizirani ndi mtengo wa mkungudza wa ku Lebanoni,

wa nthambi zokongola zochititsa mthunzi mʼnkhalango.

Unali wautali,

msonga zake zooneka pamwamba pa nkhalango.

4Madzi ndiwo ankawukulitsa mkungudzawo,

akasupe ozama ankawutalikitsa.

Mitsinje yake inkayenda

mozungulira malo amene unaliwo

ndipo ngalande zake zinkafika

ku mitengo yonse ya mʼmunda.

5Choncho unatalika kwambiri

kupambana mitengo yonse ya mʼmunda.

Nthambi zake zinachuluka

ndi kutalika kwambiri,

chifukwa inkalandira madzi ambiri.

6Mbalame zonse zamlengalenga

zinkamanga zisa zake mʼnthambi za mtengowo.

Nyama zakuthengo zonse

zinkaswanirana mʼmunsi mwa nthambi zake.

Mitundu yotchuka ya anthu

inkakhala mu mthunzi wake.

7Unali wokongola kwambiri,

wa nthambi zake zotambalala,

chifukwa mizu yake inazama pansi

kumene kunali madzi ochuluka.

8Mʼmunda wa Mulungu munalibe

mkungudza wofanana nawo,

kapena mitengo ya payini

ya nthambi zofanafana ndi nthambi zake.

Munalibenso mtengo wa mkuyu

nthambi zofanafana ndi zake.

Mʼmunda wa Mulungu munalibe mtengo wina uliwonse

wofanana ndi iwo kukongola kwake.

9Ine ndinawupanga wokongola

wa nthambi zochuluka.

Mitengo yonse ya mu Edeni, mʼmunda wa

Mulungu inawuchitira nsanje.

10“ ‘Nʼchifukwa chake Ine Ambuye Yehova ndikuti: Chifukwa kuti mtengowo unatalika kwambiri, unatulutsa songa zake mpaka ku thambo, ndipo unadzikweza chifukwa cha msinkhu wake, 11ndinawupereka mʼdzanja la mfumu ya mitundu ya anthu kuti awulange molingana ndi kuyipa kwake. 12Anthu ankhanza kwambiri amitundu ya anthu achilendo adzawudula ndi kuwusiya. Nthambi zake zidzagwera pa mapiri ndi mu zigwa zonse. Nthambi zake zidzathyokera mʼmitsinje ya mʼdzikomo. Motero mitundu yonse ya anthu a dziko lapansi amene ankasangalala mu mthunzi wake idzawusiya. 13Mbalame zonse zamlengalenga zidzakhala pa mtengo wakugwawo, ndipo nyama zakuthengo zonse zidzakhala pa nthambi zake. 14Zidzakutero kuti pasakhalenso mitengo inanso ya mʼmbali mwa madzi yotalika kwambiri, imene idzatalike kwambiri ndi songa zake kufika mpaka ku mitambo. Komanso kuti pasadzakhalenso mitengo yolandira bwino madzi, imene idzatalika motero. Paja yonseyo kutha kwake ndi kufa, kupita ku dziko lapansi kukhala ndi anthu akufa amene analowa mʼmanda kale.

15“ ‘Ine Ambuye Yehova ndikuti: Pa nthawi imene mkungudzawo unatsikira ku manda, ndinawuza nyanja kuti iwulire maliro pakuwuphimba. Ndinawumitsa mitsinje ndipo madzi ambiri anaphwa. Ndinabweretsa mdima pa Lebanoni chifukwa cha mtengowo ndipo mitengo yonse ya mʼdzikomo inawuma. 16Mitundu ya anthu inagwedezeka pakumva mkokomo wa kugwa kwake, pamene ndinawutsitsira ku manda pamodzi ndi iwo amene anafa. Pamenepo ku dziko la akufa mitengo yonse ya ku Edeni pamodzi ndi ya ku Lebanoni yosankhidwa bwino inasangalatsidwa chifukwa cha zimenezi. 17Amene ankakhala mu mthunzi wake, amene ankayanjana nawo, iwonso anapita nawo pamodzi ku manda, kukakhala pamodzi ndi amene anaphedwa ndi lupanga pakati pa mitundu ya anthu.

18“ ‘Ndi mitengo iti ya mu Edeni imene ingafanane ndi kukongola kwako ndi ulemerero wako? Komabe iwenso, udzatsikira ku dziko la anthu akufa pamodzi ndi mitengo ya mu Edeni. Udzagona pamodzi ndi anthu osachita mdulidwe, anthu amene anaphedwa pa nkhondo.

“ ‘Mtengowo ndi Farao ndi gulu lake lankhondo, akutero Ambuye Yehova.’ ”