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Lamentations
Five poems mourning the destruction of Jerusalem
Five acrostic poems lamenting the fall of Jerusalem and the desolation of its temple in 586 BCE. Traditionally attributed to Jeremiah, the poems combine communal grief with the affirmation that the steadfast love of God is new every morning.
1
先前滿有人民的城、現在何竟獨坐、先前在列國中爲大的、現在竟如寡婦．先前在諸省中爲王后的、現在成爲進貢的。
How the city sits solitary,
that was full of people!
She has become as a widow,
who was great among the nations!
She who was a princess among the provinces
has become a slave!
2
他夜間痛哭、淚流滿腮．在一切所親愛的中間、沒有一個安慰他的．他的朋友、都以詭詐待他、成爲他的仇敵。
She weeps bitterly in the night.
Her tears are on her cheeks.
Among all her lovers
she has no one to comfort her.
All her friends have dealt treacherously with her.
They have become her enemies.
3
猶大因遭遇苦難、又因多服勞苦、就遷到外邦．他住在列國中、尋不着安息．追逼他的都在狹窄之地將他追上。
Judah has gone into captivity because of affliction,
and because of great servitude.
She dwells among the nations.
She finds no rest.
All her persecutors overtook her within the straits.
4
錫安的路徑、因無人來守聖節就悲傷．他的城門淒涼、他的祭司歎息．他的處女受艱難、自己也愁苦。
The roads to Zion mourn,
because no one comes to the solemn assembly.
All her gates are desolate.
Her priests sigh.
Her virgins are afflicted,
and she herself is in bitterness.
5
他的敵人爲首．他的仇敵亨通．因耶和華爲他許多的罪過、使他受苦．他的孩童被敵人擄去。
Her adversaries have become the head.
Her enemies prosper;
for Yahweh has afflicted her for the multitude of her transgressions.
Her young children have gone into captivity before the adversary.
6
錫安城的威榮〈城原文作女子下同〉、全都失去．他的首領、像找不着草塲的鹿、在追趕的人前、無力行走。
All majesty has departed from the daughter of Zion.
Her princes have become like deer that find no pasture.
They have gone without strength before the pursuer.
7
耶路撒冷在困苦窘迫之時、就追想古時一切的樂境。他百姓落在敵人手中、無人救濟．敵人看見、就因他的荒涼嗤笑。
Jerusalem remembers in the days of her affliction and of her miseries
all her pleasant things that were from the days of old;
when her people fell into the hand of the adversary,
and no one helped her.
The adversaries saw her.
They mocked at her desolations.
8
耶路撒冷大大犯罪．所以成爲不潔之物．素來尊敬他的、見他赤露就都藐視他．他自己也歎息退後。
Jerusalem has grievously sinned.
Therefore she has become unclean.
All who honored her despise her,
because they have seen her nakedness.
Yes, she sighs, and turns backward.
9
他的汚穢是在衣襟上．他不思想自己的結局．所以非常的敗落、無人安慰他。他說、耶和華阿、求你看我的苦難、因爲仇敵誇大。
Her filthiness was in her skirts.
She didn’t remember her latter end.
Therefore she has come down astoundingly.
She has no comforter.
“See, Yahweh, my affliction;
for the enemy has magnified himself.”
10
敵人伸手、奪取他的美物．他眼見外邦人進入他的聖所．論這外邦人你曾吩咐不可入你的會中。
The adversary has spread out his hand on all her pleasant things;
for she has seen that the nations have entered into her sanctuary,
concerning whom you commanded that they should not enter into your assembly.
11
他的民都歎息、尋求食物．他們用美物換糧食、要救性命。他們說、耶和華阿、求你觀看、因爲我甚是卑賤。
All her people sigh.
They seek bread.
They have given their pleasant things for food to refresh their soul.
“Look, Yahweh, and see;
for I have become despised.”
12
你們一切過路的人哪、這事你們不介意麼．你們要觀看、有像這臨到我的痛苦沒有、就是耶和華在他發烈怒的日子使我所受的苦。
“Is it nothing to you, all you who pass by?
Look, and see if there is any sorrow like my sorrow,
which is brought on me,
with which Yahweh has afflicted me in the day of his fierce anger.
13
他從高天使火進入我的骨頭、尅制了我．他鋪下網羅、絆我的腳、使我轉回．他使我終日淒涼發昏。
“From on high has he sent fire into my bones,
and it prevails against them.
He has spread a net for my feet.
He has turned me back.
He has made me desolate and I faint all day long.
14
我罪過的軛、是他手所綁的、猶如軛繩縛在我頸項上．他使我的力量衰敗。主將我交在我所不能敵擋的人手中。
“The yoke of my transgressions is bound by his hand.
They are knit together.
They have come up on my neck.
He made my strength fail.
The Lord has delivered me into their hands,
against whom I am not able to stand.
15
主輕棄我中間的一切勇士、招聚多人〈原文作大會〉攻擊我、要壓碎我的少年人．主將猶大居民踹下、像在酒醡中一樣。
“The Lord has set at nothing all my mighty men within me.
He has called a solemn assembly against me to crush my young men.
The Lord has trodden the virgin daughter of Judah as in a wine press.
16
我因這些事哭泣．我眼淚汪汪．因爲那當安慰我、救我性命的、離我甚遠．我的兒女孤苦、因爲仇敵得了勝。
“For these things I weep.
My eye, my eye runs down with water,
because the comforter who should refresh my soul is far from me.
My children are desolate,
because the enemy has prevailed.”
17
錫安舉手、無人安慰．耶和華論雅各已經出令、使四圍的人作他仇敵．耶路撒冷在他們中間、像不潔之物。
Zion spreads out her hands.
There is no one to comfort her.
Yahweh has commanded concerning Jacob,
that those who are around him should be his adversaries.
Jerusalem is among them as an unclean thing.
18
耶和華是公義的．他這樣待我、是因我違背他的命令。衆民哪、請聽我的話、看我的痛苦、我的處女和少年人、都被擄去。
“Yahweh is righteous;
for I have rebelled against his commandment.
Please hear all you peoples,
and see my sorrow.
My virgins and my young men have gone into captivity.
19
我招呼我所親愛的、他們卻愚弄我．我的祭司和長老、正尋求食物救性命的時候、就在城中絕氣。
“I called for my lovers,
but they deceived me.
My priests and my elders gave up the spirit in the city,
while they sought food for themselves to refresh their souls.
20
耶和華阿、求你觀看、因爲我在急難中．我心腸擾亂．我心在我裏面翻轉．因我大大悖逆．在外刀劍使人喪子、在家猶如死亡。
“Look, Yahweh; for I am in distress.
My heart is troubled.
My heart turns over within me,
for I have grievously rebelled.
Abroad, the sword bereaves.
At home, it is like death.
21
聽見我歎息的有人．安慰我的卻無人．我的仇敵、都聽見我所遭的患難．因你作這事他們都喜樂。你必使你報告的日子來到、他們就像我一樣。
“They have heard that I sigh.
There is no one to comfort me.
All my enemies have heard of my trouble.
They are glad that you have done it.
You will bring the day that you have proclaimed,
and they will be like me.
22
願他們的惡行、都呈在你面前．你怎樣因我的一切罪過待我、求你照樣待他們．因我歎息甚多、心中發昏。
“Let all their wickedness come before you.
Do to them as you have done to me for all my transgressions.
For my sighs are many,
and my heart is faint.
1
主何竟發怒、使黑雲遮蔽錫安城．他將以色列的華美、從天扔在地上、在他發怒的日子、並不記念自己的腳凳。
How has the Lord covered the daughter of Zion with a cloud in his anger!
He has cast the beauty of Israel down from heaven to the earth,
and hasn’t remembered his footstool in the day of his anger.
2
主吞滅雅各一切的住處、並不顧惜、他發怒傾覆猶大民的保障、使這保障坍倒在地．他辱沒這國、和其中的首領。
The Lord has swallowed up all the dwellings of Jacob
without pity.
He has thrown down in his wrath the strongholds of the daughter of Judah.
He has brought them down to the ground.
He has profaned the kingdom and its princes.
3
他發烈怒、把以色列的角、全然砍斷、在仇敵面前收回右手．他像火燄四圍吞滅、將雅各燒燬。
He has cut off all the horn of Israel in fierce anger.
He has drawn back his right hand from before the enemy.
He has burned up Jacob like a flaming fire,
which devours all around.
4
他張弓、好像仇敵．他站着舉起右手、如同敵人、將悅人眼目的、盡行殺戮．在錫安百姓的帳棚上、倒出他的忿怒像火一樣。
He has bent his bow like an enemy.
He has stood with his right hand as an adversary.
Has killed all that were pleasant to the eye.
In the tent of the daughter of Zion, he has poured out his wrath like fire.
5
主如仇敵吞滅以色列、和錫安的一切宮殿、拆毀百姓的保障、在猶大民中、加增悲傷哭號。
The Lord has become as an enemy.
He has swallowed up Israel.
He has swallowed up all her palaces.
He has destroyed his strongholds.
He has multiplied mourning and lamentation in the daughter of Judah.
6
他強取自己的帳幕、好像是園中的窩棚、毀壞他的聚會之處、耶和華使聖節和安息日、在錫安都被忘記、又在怒氣的憤恨中、藐視君王和祭司。
He has violently taken away his tabernacle,
as if it were of a garden.
He has destroyed his place of assembly.
Yahweh has caused solemn assembly and Sabbath to be forgotten in Zion.
In the indignation of his anger, he has despised the king and the priest.
7
耶和華丟棄自己的祭壇、憎惡自己的聖所、將宮殿的牆垣交付仇敵。他們在耶和華的殿中喧嚷、像在聖會之日一樣。
The Lord has cast off his altar.
He has abhorred his sanctuary.
He has given the walls of her palaces into the hand of the enemy.
They have made a noise in Yahweh’s house,
as in the day of a solemn assembly.
8
耶和華定意拆毀錫安的城牆．他拉了準繩、不將手收回、定要毀滅．他使外郭和城牆都悲哀、一同衰敗。
Yahweh has purposed to destroy the wall of the daughter of Zion.
He has stretched out the line.
He has not withdrawn his hand from destroying;
He has made the rampart and wall lament.
They languish together.
9
錫安的門、都陷入地內．主將他的門閂毀壞、折斷．他的君王和首領落在沒有律法的列國中．他的先知不得見耶和華的異象。
Her gates have sunk into the ground.
He has destroyed and broken her bars.
Her king and her princes are among the nations where the law is not.
Yes, her prophets find no vision from Yahweh.
10
錫安城的長老坐在地上默默無聲．他們揚起塵土、落在頭上、腰束麻布．耶路撒冷的處女、垂頭至地。
The elders of the daughter of Zion sit on the ground.
They keep silence.
They have cast up dust on their heads.
They have clothed themselves with sackcloth.
The virgins of Jerusalem hang down their heads to the ground.
11
我眼中流淚、以致失明．我的心腸擾亂、肝膽塗地．都因我衆民遭毀滅、又因孩童和喫奶的在城內街上發昏．
My eyes fail with tears.
My heart is troubled.
My liver is poured on the earth,
because of the destruction of the daughter of my people,
because the young children and the infants swoon in the streets of the city.
12
那時、他們在城內街上發昏、好像受傷的、在母親的懷裏、將要喪命、對母親說、穀酒在哪裏呢。
They ask their mothers,
“Where is grain and wine?”
when they swoon as the wounded in the streets of the city,
when their soul is poured out into their mothers’ bosom.
13
耶路撒冷的民哪、我可用甚麼向你證明呢．我可用甚麼與你相比呢．錫安的民哪、我可拿甚麼和你比較、好安慰你呢．因爲你的裂口大如海、誰能醫治你呢。
What shall I testify to you?
What shall I liken to you, daughter of Jerusalem?
What shall I compare to you,
that I may comfort you, virgin daughter of Zion?
For your breach is as big as the sea.
Who can heal you?
14
你的先知爲你見虛假和愚昧的異象、並沒有顯露你的罪孽、使你被擄的歸回．卻爲你見虛假的默示、和使你被趕出本境的緣故。
Your prophets have seen false and foolish visions for you.
They have not uncovered your iniquity,
to reverse your captivity,
but have seen for you false revelations and causes of banishment.
15
凡過路的、都向你拍掌．他們向耶路撒冷城、嗤笑搖頭、說、難道人所稱爲全美的．稱爲全地所喜悅的、就是這城麼。
All that pass by clap their hands at you.
They hiss and wag their head at the daughter of Jerusalem, saying,
“Is this the city that men called ‘The perfection of beauty,
the joy of the whole earth’?”
16
你的仇敵、都向你大大張口．他們嗤笑、又切齒、說、我們吞滅他、這眞是我們所盼望的日子臨到了．我們親眼看見了。
All your enemies have opened their mouth wide against you.
They hiss and gnash their teeth.
They say, “We have swallowed her up.
Certainly this is the day that we looked for.
We have found it.
We have seen it.”
17
耶和華成就了他所定的、應驗了他古時所命定的．他傾覆了、並不顧惜、使你的仇敵向你誇耀、使你敵人的角、也被高舉。
Yahweh has done that which he planned.
He has fulfilled his word that he commanded in the days of old.
He has thrown down,
and has not pitied.
He has caused the enemy to rejoice over you.
He has exalted the horn of your adversaries.
18
錫安民的心哀求主．錫安的城牆阿、願你流淚如河、晝夜不息．願你眼中的瞳人、淚流不止。
Their heart cried to the Lord.
O wall of the daughter of Zion,
let tears run down like a river day and night.
Give yourself no relief.
Don’t let the your eyes rest.
19
夜間、每逢交更的時候要起來呼喊、在主面前傾心如水．你的孩童在各市口上受餓發昏．你要爲他們的性命向主舉手禱告。
Arise, cry out in the night,
at the beginning of the watches!
Pour out your heart like water before the face of the Lord.
Lift up your hands toward him for the life of your young children,
who faint for hunger at the head of every street.
20
耶和華阿、求你觀看、見你向誰這樣行．婦人豈可喫自己所生育手裏所搖弄的嬰孩麼．祭司和先知、豈可在主的聖所中被殺戮麼。
“Look, Yahweh, and see to whom you have done thus!
Should the women eat their offspring,
the children that they held and bounced on their knees?
Should the priest and the prophet be killed in the sanctuary of the Lord?
21
少年人和老年人、都在街上躺臥、我的處女和壯丁、都倒在刀下．你發怒的日子、殺死他們．你殺了、並不顧惜。
“The youth and the old man lie on the ground in the streets.
My virgins and my young men have fallen by the sword.
You have killed them in the day of your anger.
You have slaughtered, and not pitied.
22
你招聚四圍驚嚇我的、像在大會的日子招聚人一樣．耶和華發怒的日子、無人逃脫、無人存留．我所搖弄所養育的嬰孩、仇敵都殺淨了。
“You have called, as in the day of a solemn assembly, my terrors on every side.
There was no one that escaped or remained in the day of Yahweh’s anger.
My enemy has consumed those whom I have cared for and brought up.
1
我是因耶和華忿怒的杖、遭遇困苦的人。
I am the man who has seen affliction
by the rod of his wrath.
2
他引導我、使我行在黑暗中、不行在光明裏。
He has led me and caused me to walk in darkness,
and not in light.
3
他眞是終日再三反手攻擊我。
Surely he turns his hand against me
again and again all day long.
4
他使我的皮肉枯乾．他折斷〈或作壓傷〉我的骨頭。
He has made my flesh and my skin old.
He has broken my bones.
5
他築壘攻擊我、用苦楚〈原文作苦膽〉和艱難圍困我。
He has built against me,
and surrounded me with bitterness and hardship.
6
他使我住在幽暗之處、像死了許久的人一樣。
He has made me dwell in dark places,
as those who have been long dead.
7
他用籬笆圍住我、使我不能出去．他使我的銅鍊沉重。
He has walled me about, so that I can’t go out.
He has made my chain heavy.
8
我哀號求救、他使我的禱告、不得上達。
Yes, when I cry, and call for help,
he shuts out my prayer.
9
他用鑿過的石頭、擋住我的道．他使我的路彎曲。
He has walled up my ways with cut stone.
He has made my paths crooked.
10
他向我如熊埋伏、如獅子在隱密處。
He is to me as a bear lying in wait,
as a lion in secret places.
11
他使我轉離正路、將我撕碎、使我淒涼。
He has turned away my ways,
and pulled me in pieces.
He has made me desolate.
12
他張弓將我當作箭靶子。
He has bent his bow,
and set me as a mark for the arrow.
13
他把箭袋中的箭、射入我的肺腑。
He has caused the shafts of his quiver to enter into my kidneys.
14
我成了衆民的笑話．他們終日以我爲歌曲。
I have become a derision to all my people,
and their song all day long.
15
他用苦楚充滿我、使我飽用茵蔯。
He has filled me with bitterness.
He has stuffed me with wormwood.
16
他又用沙石磣斷我的牙、用灰塵將我蒙蔽。
He has also broken my teeth with gravel.
He has covered me with ashes.
17
你使我遠離平安．我忘記好處。
You have removed my soul far away from peace.
I forgot prosperity.
18
我就說、我的力量衰敗、我在耶和華那裏、毫無指望。
I said, “My strength has perished,
along with my expectation from Yahweh.”
19
耶和華阿、求你記念我如茵蔯和苦膽的困苦窘迫。
Remember my affliction and my misery,
the wormwood and the bitterness.
20
我心想念這些、就在裏面憂悶。
My soul still remembers them,
and is bowed down within me.
21
我想起這事、心裏就有指望。
This I recall to my mind;
therefore I have hope.
22
我們不至消滅、是出於耶和華諸般的慈愛、是因他的憐憫、不至斷絕。
It is because of Yahweh’s loving kindnesses that we are not consumed,
because his compassion doesn’t fail.
23
每早晨這都是新的．你的誠實、極其廣大。
They are new every morning.
Great is your faithfulness.
24
我心裏說、耶和華是我的分．因此、我要仰望他。
“Yahweh is my portion,” says my soul.
“Therefore I will hope in him.”
25
凡等候耶和華、心裏尋求他的、耶和華必施恩給他。
Yahweh is good to those who wait for him,
to the soul who seeks him.
26
人仰望耶和華、靜默等候他的救恩、這原是好的。
It is good that a man should hope
and quietly wait for the salvation of Yahweh.
27
人在幼年負軛、這原是好的。
It is good for a man that he bear the yoke in his youth.
28
他當獨坐無言、因爲這是耶和華加在他身上的。
Let him sit alone and keep silence,
because he has laid it on him.
29
他當口貼塵埃、或者有指望。
Let him put his mouth in the dust,
if it is so that there may be hope.
30
他當由人打他的顋頰．要滿受凌辱。
Let him give his cheek to him who strikes him.
Let him be filled full of reproach.
31
因爲主必不永遠丟棄人。
For the Lord will not cast off forever.
32
主雖使人憂愁、還要照他諸般的慈愛發憐憫。
For though he causes grief,
yet he will have compassion according to the multitude of his loving kindnesses.
33
因他並不甘心使人受苦、使人憂愁。
For he does not afflict willingly,
nor grieve the children of men.
34
人將世上被囚的、踹〈原文作壓〉在腳下、
To crush under foot all the prisoners of the earth,
35
或在至高者面前屈枉人、
to turn away the right of a man before the face of the Most High,
36
或在人的訟事上、顚倒是非．這都是主看不上的。
to subvert a man in his cause, the Lord doesn’t approve.
37
除非主命定、誰能說成就成呢。
Who is he who says, and it comes to pass,
when the Lord doesn’t command it?
38
禍福不都出於至高者的口麼。
Doesn’t evil and good come out of the mouth of the Most High?
39
活人因自己的罪受罰、爲何發怨言呢。
Why does a living man complain,
a man for the punishment of his sins?
40
我們當深深考察自己的行爲、再歸向耶和華。
Let us search and try our ways,
and turn again to Yahweh.
41
我們當誠心向天上的 神舉手禱告。
Let us lift up our heart with our hands to God in the heavens.
42
我們犯罪背逆、你並不赦免。
“We have transgressed and have rebelled.
You have not pardoned.
43
你自被怒氣遮蔽、追趕我們．你施行殺戮、並不顧惜。
“You have covered us with anger and pursued us.
You have killed.
You have not pitied.
44
你以黑雲遮蔽自己、以至禱告不得透入。
You have covered yourself with a cloud,
so that no prayer can pass through.
45
你使我們在萬民中成爲汚穢和渣滓。
You have made us an off-scouring and refuse
in the middle of the peoples.
46
我們的仇敵、都向我們大大張口。
“All our enemies have opened their mouth wide against us.
47
恐懼和陷坑、殘害和毀滅、都臨近我們。
Terror and the pit have come on us,
devastation and destruction.”
48
因我衆民遭的毀滅、我就眼淚下流如河。
My eye runs down with streams of water,
for the destruction of the daughter of my people.
49
我的眼多多流淚、總不止息、
My eye pours down
and doesn’t cease,
without any intermission,
50
直等耶和華垂顧、從天觀看。
until Yahweh looks down,
and sees from heaven.
51
因我本城的衆民、我的眼、使我的心傷痛。
My eye affects my soul,
because of all the daughters of my city.
52
無故與我爲仇的追逼我、像追雀鳥一樣。
They have chased me relentlessly like a bird,
those who are my enemies without cause.
53
他們使我的命在牢獄中斷絕、並將一塊石頭拋在我身上。
They have cut off my life in the dungeon,
and have cast a stone on me.
54
衆水流過我頭．我說、我命斷絕了。
Waters flowed over my head.
I said, “I am cut off.”
55
耶和華阿、我從深牢中求告你的名。
I called on your name, Yahweh,
out of the lowest dungeon.
56
你曾聽見我的聲音．我求你解救、你不要掩耳不聽。
You heard my voice:
“Don’t hide your ear from my sighing,
and my cry.”
57
我求告你的日子、你臨近我、說、不要懼怕。
You came near in the day that I called on you.
You said, “Don’t be afraid.”
58
主阿、你伸明了我的寃．你救贖了我的命。
Lord, you have pleaded the causes of my soul.
You have redeemed my life.
59
耶和華阿、你見了我受的委屈．求你爲我伸寃。
Yahweh, you have seen my wrong.
Judge my cause.
60
他們仇恨我、謀害我、你都看見了。
You have seen all their vengeance
and all their plans against me.
61
耶和華阿、你聽見他們辱罵我的話、知道他們向我所設的計、
You have heard their reproach, Yahweh,
and all their plans against me,
62
並那些起來攻擊我的人、口中所說的話、以及終日向我所設的計謀。
the lips of those that rose up against me,
and their plots against me all day long.
63
求你觀看、他們坐下起來、都以我爲歌曲。
You see their sitting down and their rising up.
I am their song.
64
耶和華阿、你要按着他們手所作的、向他們施行報應。
You will pay them back, Yahweh,
according to the work of their hands.
65
你要使他們心裏剛硬、使你的咒詛臨到他們。
You will give them hardness of heart,
your curse to them.
66
你要發怒追趕他們、從耶和華的天下除滅他們。
You will pursue them in anger,
and destroy them from under the heavens of Yahweh.
1
黃金何其失光．純金何其變色．聖所的石頭倒在各市口上。
How the gold has become dim!
The most pure gold has changed!
The stones of the sanctuary are poured out
at the head of every street.
2
錫安寶貴的衆子、好比精金、現在何竟算爲窰匠手所作的瓦瓶。
The precious sons of Zion,
comparable to fine gold,
how are they esteemed as earthen pitchers,
the work of the hands of the potter!
3
野狗尚且把奶乳哺其子、我民的婦人倒成爲殘忍、好像曠野的鴕鳥一般。
Even the jackals offer their breast.
They nurse their young ones.
But the daughter of my people has become cruel,
like the ostriches in the wilderness.
4
喫奶孩子的舌頭、因乾渴貼住上膛．孩童求餅、無人擘給他們。
The tongue of the nursing child clings to the roof of his mouth for thirst.
The young children ask bread,
and no one breaks it for them.
5
素來喫美好食物的、現今在街上變爲孤寒．素來臥朱紅褥子的、現今躺臥糞堆．
Those who ate delicacies are desolate in the streets.
Those who were brought up in purple embrace dunghills.
6
都因我衆民的罪孽、比所多瑪的罪還大．所多瑪雖然無人加手於他、還是轉眼之間被傾覆。
For the iniquity of the daughter of my people is greater than the sin of Sodom,
which was overthrown as in a moment.
No hands were laid on her.
7
錫安的貴胄、素來比雪純淨、比奶更白．他們的身體、比紅寶玉〈或作珊瑚〉更紅、像光潤的藍寶石一樣。
Her nobles were purer than snow.
They were whiter than milk.
They were more ruddy in body than rubies.
Their polishing was like sapphire.
8
現在他們的面貌比煤炭更黑、以致在街上無人認識．他們的皮膚、緊貼骨頭、枯乾如同槁木。
Their appearance is blacker than a coal.
They are not known in the streets.
Their skin clings to their bones.
It is withered.
It has become like a stick.
9
餓死的、不如被刀殺的、因爲這是缺了田間的土產、就身體衰弱、漸漸消滅。
Those who are killed with the sword are better than those who are killed with hunger;
For these pine away, stricken through,
for lack of the fruits of the field.
10
慈悲的婦人、當我衆民被毀滅的時候、親手煮自己的兒女作爲食物。
The hands of the pitiful women have boiled their own children.
They were their food in the destruction of the daughter of my people.
11
耶和華發怒成就他所定的、倒出他的烈怒．在錫安使火𤏲起、燒毀錫安的根基。
Yahweh has accomplished his wrath.
He has poured out his fierce anger.
He has kindled a fire in Zion,
which has devoured its foundations.
12
地上的君王、和世上的居民、都不信敵人和仇敵能進耶路撒冷的城門。
The kings of the earth didn’t believe,
neither did all the inhabitants of the world,
that the adversary and the enemy would enter into the gates of Jerusalem.
13
這都因他先知的罪惡、和祭司的罪孽．他們在城中流了義人的血。
It is because of the sins of her prophets
and the iniquities of her priests,
That have shed the blood of the just in the middle of her.
14
他們在街上如瞎子亂走、又被血玷汚、以致人不能摸他們的衣服。
They wander as blind men in the streets.
They are polluted with blood,
So that men can’t touch their garments.
15
人向他們喊着說、不潔淨的．躱開、躱開、不要挨近我．他們逃走飄流的時候、列國中有人說、他們不可仍在這裏寄居。
“Go away!” they cried to them.
“Unclean! Go away! Go away! Don’t touch!
When they fled away and wandered, men said among the nations,
“They can’t live here any more.”
16
耶和華發怒、將他們分散、不再眷顧他們．人不重看祭司、也不厚待長老。
Yahweh’s anger has scattered them.
He will not pay attention to them any more.
They didn’t respect the persons of the priests.
They didn’t favor the elders.
17
我們仰望人來幫助、以致眼目失明、還是枉然．我們所盼望的、竟盼望一個不能救人的國。
Our eyes still fail,
looking in vain for our help.
In our watching we have watched for a nation that could not save.
18
仇敵追趕我們的腳步像打獵的、以致我們不敢在自己的街上行走．我們的結局臨近、我們的日子滿足、我們的結局來到了。
They hunt our steps,
so that we can’t go in our streets.
Our end is near.
Our days are fulfilled,
for our end has come.
19
追趕我們的、比空中的鷹更快．他們在山上追逼我們、在曠野埋伏、等候我們。
Our pursuers were swifter than the eagles of the sky.
They chased us on the mountains.
They set an ambush for us in the wilderness.
20
耶和華的受膏者、好比我們鼻中的氣、在他們的坑中被捉住．我們曾論到他說、我們必在他蔭下、在列國中存活。
The breath of our nostrils,
the anointed of Yahweh,
was taken in their pits;
of whom we said,
under his shadow we will live among the nations.
21
住烏斯地的以東民哪、只管歡喜快樂．苦杯也必傳到你那裏．你必喝醉、以致露體。
Rejoice and be glad, daughter of Edom,
that dwells in the land of Uz.
The cup will pass through to you also.
You will be drunken,
and will make yourself naked.
22
錫安的民哪、你罪孽的刑罰受足了．耶和華必不使你再被擄去。以東的民哪、他必追討你的罪孽、顯露你的罪惡。
The punishment of your iniquity is accomplished, daughter of Zion.
He will no more carry you away into captivity.
He will visit your iniquity, daughter of Edom.
He will uncover your sins.
1
耶和華阿、求你記念我們所遭遇的事．觀看我們所受的凌辱。
Remember, Yahweh, what has come on us.
Look, and see our reproach.
2
我們的產業、歸與外邦人．我們的房屋、歸與外路人。
Our inheritance has been turned over to strangers,
our houses to aliens.
3
我們是無父的孤兒．我們的母親、好像寡婦。
We are orphans and fatherless.
Our mothers are as widows.
4
我們出錢纔得水喝．我們的柴是人賣給我們的。
We have drunken our water for money.
Our wood is sold to us.
5
追趕我們的、到了我們的頸項上．我們疲乏不得歇息。
Our pursuers are on our necks.
We are weary, and have no rest.
6
我們投降埃及人、和亞述人、爲要得糧喫飽。
We have given our hands to the Egyptians,
and to the Assyrians, to be satisfied with bread.
7
我們列祖犯罪、而今不在了．我們擔當他們的罪孽。
Our fathers sinned, and are no more.
We have borne their iniquities.
8
奴僕轄制我們．無人救我們脫離他們的手。
Servants rule over us.
There is no one to deliver us out of their hand.
9
因爲曠野的刀劍、我們冒着險、纔得糧食。
We get our bread at the peril of our lives,
because of the sword of the wilderness.
10
因飢餓燥熱、我們的皮膚就黑如爐。
Our skin is black like an oven,
because of the burning heat of famine.
11
敵人在錫安玷汚婦人、在猶大的城邑玷汚處女。
They ravished the women in Zion,
the virgins in the cities of Judah.
12
他們吊起首領的手、也不尊敬老人的面。
Princes were hanged up by their hands.
The faces of elders were not honored.
13
少年人扛磨石、孩童背木柴、都絆跌了。
The young men carry millstones.
The children stumbled under loads of wood.
14
老年人在城門口斷絕、少年人不再作樂。
The elders have ceased from the gate,
and the young men from their music.
15
我們心中的快樂止息、跳舞變爲悲哀。
The joy of our heart has ceased.
Our dance is turned into mourning.
16
冠冕從我們的頭上落下．我們犯罪了、我們有禍了。
The crown has fallen from our head.
Woe to us, for we have sinned!
17
這些事我們心裏發昏．我們的眼睛昏花。
For this our heart is faint.
For these things our eyes are dim.
18
錫安山荒涼、野狗〈或作狐狸〉行在其上。
For the mountain of Zion, which is desolate.
The foxes walk on it.
19
耶和華阿、你存到永遠、你的寶座、存到萬代。
You, Yahweh, remain forever.
Your throne is from generation to generation.
20
你爲何永遠忘記我們、爲何許久離棄我們。
Why do you forget us forever,
and forsake us for so long a time?
21
耶和華阿、求你使我們向你回轉、我們便得回轉．求你復新我們的日子、像古時一樣。
Turn us to yourself, Yahweh, and we will be turned.
Renew our days as of old.
22
你竟全然棄絕我們、向我們大發烈怒。
But you have utterly rejected us.
You are very angry against us.