مَراثِي إرْمِي 5

١ 1 اذْكُرْ يَا رَبُّ مَا أَصَابَنَا. انْظُرْ وَعَايِنْ عَارَنَا.

Remember, O Lord, what has happened to us: behold, and look on our reproach.

٢ 2 قَدْ تَحَوَّلَ مِيرَاثُنَا إِلَى الْغُرَبَاءِ وَبُيُوتُنَا إِلَى الأَجَانِبِ.

Our inheritance has been turned away to aliens, our houses to strangers:

٣ 3 أَصْبَحْنَا أَيْتَاماً لَا أَبَ لَنَا، وَأُمَّهَاتُنَا كَالأَرَامِلِ.

we are become orphans, we have no father, our mothers are as widows.

٤ 4 بِالْفِضَّةِ شَرِبْنَا مَاءَنَا. وَبِثَمَنٍ ابْتَعْنَا حَطَبَنَا.

We have drunk our water for money; our wood is sold to us [for a burden] on our neck:

٥ 5 دَاسَ مُضْطَهِدُونَا أَعْنَاقَنَا، أَعْيَيْنَا وَلَمْ نَجِدْ رَاحَةً.

we have been persecuted, we have laboured, we have had no rest.

٦ 6 خَضَعْنَا بَاسِطِينَ أَيْدِينَا إِلَى أَشُّورَ وَمِصْرَ لِنَشْبَعَ خُبْزاً.

Egypt gave the hand [to us], Assur to their own satisfaction.

٧ 7 قَدْ أَخْطَأَ آبَاؤُنَا، وَتَوَارَوْا عَنِ الْوُجُودِ، وَنَحْنُ نَتَحَمَّلُ عِقَابَ آثَامِهِمْ.

Our fathers sinned, [and] are not: we have borne their iniquities.

٨ 8 تَسَلَّطَ عَلَيْنَا عَبِيدٌ، وَلَيْسَ مَنْ يُنْقِذُنَا مِنْ أَيْدِيهِمْ.

Servants have ruled over us: there is none to ransom [us] out of their hand.

٩ 9 بِأَنْفُسِنَا نَأْتِي بِخُبْزِنَا مُجَازِفِينَ بِحَيَاتِنَا مِنْ جَرَّاءِ السَّيْفِ الْكَامِنِ لَنَا فِي الصَّحْرَاءِ.

We shall bring in our bread with [danger of] our lives, because of the sword of the wilderness.

١٠ 10 جِلْدُنَا مُلْتَهِبٌ كَتَنُّورٍ مِنْ نِيرَانِ الْجُوعِ الْمُحْرِقَةِ.

Our skin is blackened like an oven; they are convulsed, because of the storms of famine.

١١ 11 اغْتَصَبُوا النِّسَاءَ فِي صِهْيَوْنَ وَالْعَذَارَى فِي مُدُنِ يَهُوذَا.

They humbled the women in Sion, the virgins in the cities of Juda.

١٢ 12 عُلِّقَ النُّبَلاءُ بِأَيْدِيهِمْ وَلَمْ يُوَقِّرُوا الشُّيُوخَ.

Princes were hanged up by their hands: the elders were not honored.

١٣ 13 سَخَّرُوا الشُّبَّانَ لِلطَّحْنِ، وَهَوَى الصِّبْيَانُ تَحْتَ الْحَطَبِ.

The chosen men lifted up [the voice in] weeping, and the youths fainted under the wood.

١٤ 14 هَجَرَ الشُّيُوخُ بَوَّابَةَ الْمَدِينَةِ، وَكَفَّ الشُّبَّانُ عَنْ غِنَائِهِمْ.

And the elders ceased from the gate, the chosen men ceased from their music.

١٥ 15 انْقَطَعَ فَرَحُ قَلْبِنَا وَتَحَوَّلَ رَقْصُنَا إِلَى نَوْحٍ.

The joy of our heart has ceased; our dance is turned into mourning.

١٦ 16 تَهَاوَى إِكْلِيلُ رَأْسِنَا، فَوَيْلٌ لَنَا لأَنَّنَا قَدْ أَخْطَأْنَا.

The crown has fallen [from] our head: yes, woe to us! for we have sinned.

١٧ 17 لِهَذَا غُشِيَ عَلَى قُلُوبِنَا، وَأَظْلَمَتْ عُيُونُنَا.

For this has grief come; our heart is sorrowful: for this our eyes are darkened.

١٨ 18 لأَنَّ جَبَلَ صِهْيَوْنَ أَضْحَى أَطْلالاً تَرْتَعُ فِيهِ الثَّعَالِبُ.

Over the mountain of Sion, because it is made desolate, foxes have walked therein.

١٩ 19 أَمَّا أَنْتَ يَا رَبُّ، فَتَمْلِكُ إِلَى الأَبَدِ، وَعَرْشُكَ ثَابِتٌ مِنْ جِيلٍ إِلَى جِيلٍ.

But you, O Lord, shall dwell for ever; your throne [shall endure] to generation and generation.

٢٠ 20 لِمَاذَا تَنْسَانَا إِلَى الأَبَدِ وَتَتْرُكُنَا طُولَ الأَيَّامِ؟

Therefore will you utterly forget us, and abandon us a long time?

٢١ 21 رُدَّنَا يَا رَبُّ إِلَيْكَ فَنَرْجِعَ. جِدِّدْ أَيَّامَنَا كَمَا فِي الْعُهُودِ السَّالِفَةِ.

Turn us, O Lord, to you, and we shall be turned; and renew our days as before.

٢٢ 22 إِلا إِنْ كُنْتَ قَدْ رَفَضْتَنَا كُلَّ الرَّفْضِ وَغَضِبْتَ عَلَيْنَا أَشَدَّ الْغَضَبِ.

For you have indeed rejected us; you have been very angry against us.