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Ezekiel 19 Introduction
英文原文
Ezekiel regarded Zedekiah as an interloper (Ezekiel 17:1 note), therefore he here (in Ezekiel 19:1-14) passes over Jehoiakim and Zedekiah as mere creatures of Egypt and of Babylon, and recognizes Jehoahaz and Jehoiachin as the only legitimate sovereigns since the time of Josiah. This dirge is for them, while it warns the usurper Zedekiah of an approaching fate similar to that of the two earlier kings.
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Ezekiel 19:1
以色列的首领 - 以色列乃指整个民族,犹大王原是它的合法君主。比较 Ezekiel 2:3;Ezekiel 3:1,Ezekiel 3:7。
英文原文
Princes of Israel - Israel is the whole nation over which the king of Judah was the rightful sovereign. Compare Ezekiel 2:3; Ezekiel 3:1, Ezekiel 3:7.
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Ezekiel 19:2
你的母亲 - 指由犹大所代表的子民。比较 Genesis 49:9;Numbers 23:24。
英文原文
Thy mother - The people represented by Judah. Compare Genesis 49:9; Numbers 23:24.
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Ezekiel 19:3
比较旁注参考。约哈斯短促的统治以强暴和拜偶像为记,末了他被法老尼哥擒住,带到埃及去了。
英文原文
Compare the marginal reference. The short reign of Jehoahaz was marked by violence and idolatry, and was closed by Pharaoh-Necho's carrying him captive into Egypt.
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Ezekiel 19:4
锁链 - 参见 Ezekiel 19:9 的旁注译法，以及 Isaiah 27:9 的注释。
英文原文
Chains - See the marginal rendering to Ezekiel 19:9 and Isaiah 27:9, note.
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Ezekiel 19:5
另一只 - 指约雅斤，他不久便显明自己与约哈斯同样不配。百姓的「等候」，是在他们视为合法君主的约哈斯被掳埃及、不在位期间；那时他们认为是篡位者的约雅敬坐在王位上。直到约雅斤继位，他们才仿佛觉得自己有了一位本族的君王（2 Kings 24:6）。
英文原文
Another - Jehoiachin who soon showed himself no less unworthy than Jehoahaz. The "waiting" of the people was during the absence of their rightful lord Jehoahaz, a captive in Egypt while Jehoiakim, whom they deemed an usurper, was on the throne. It was not until Jehoiachin succeeded, that they seemed to themselves to have a monarch of their own 2 Kings 24:6.
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Ezekiel 19:7
他们荒凉的宫室 - 不如译作「他的宫室」，即建在他赶走了原主的那块地上。
英文原文
Their desolate palaces - Rather, his palaces, built upon the ground, from where he had ejected the former owners.
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Ezekiel 19:8
列国 - 这里指迦勒底人：见页边参考。
英文原文
The nations - are here the Chaldaeans: see the marginal references.
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Ezekiel 19:10
你的母亲 - 指犹大或耶路撒冷。说话的对象仍是约雅斤。
在你的血中 - 血等同于「生命」（Genesis 9:4）。这子句相当于说：「你的母亲是葡萄树，活在你血中」，即活在你的生命和你儿女的生命之中。葡萄树的可贵在于结果的枝子；母亲的荣耀在于高贵的儿女。耶利米曾奉命写明约雅斤必无子女（见 Jeremiah 22:30 注）；以西结在此是对王和王室血统的众首领作整体的观察。
英文原文
Thy mother - Judah or Jerusalem. Jehoiachin is still addressed.
In thy blood - Blood is equivalent to "life" Genesis 9:4. The clause is equivalent to "Thy mother is a vine, living in thy blood," i. e., in the life of thee and of thy children. The excellency of a vine is in her fruitful branches; the glory of a mother in her noble children. Jeremiah was to write Jehoiachin childless (see the note at Jeremiah 22:30); Ezekiel here takes a general view of the king and princes of the blood royal.
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Ezekiel 19:11
权杖 - 见 Genesis 49:10。
粗枝 - 或作「云」；Ezekiel 31:3、Ezekiel 31:10、Ezekiel 31:14 中亦然。
英文原文
Sceptres - Genesis 49:10.
The thick branches - Or, the clouds; so Ezekiel 31:3, Ezekiel 31:10, Ezekiel 31:14.
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Ezekiel 19:12
这是一首哀歌；因此，先知预先看见的事——耶路撒冷被攻取、被焚烧——被描述为已经成就。
英文原文
This is a dirge; and therefore that which is foreseen by the prophet, the capture and burning of Jerusalem, is described as already accomplished.
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Ezekiel 19:14
火从其中发出 - 可与页边参考比较。西底家与亚比米勒一样，被视为篡位者，是其百姓毁灭的缘由。
英文原文
Fire is gone out - Compare the marginal reference. Zedekiah is regarded, like Abimelech, as all usurper and the ruin of his people.
以西结视西底家为僭居其位的人（见 Ezekiel 17:1 注释）；因此他在此（Ezekiel 19:1-14 中）只把约雅敬和西底家当作埃及和巴比伦所立的傀儡而略过，惟独承认约哈斯和约雅斤是自约西亚以来仅有的合法君王。这首哀歌是为后二者写的，同时也警告篡位者西底家：一个与先前两位君王相似的命运正临近他。