مَراثِي إرْمِي 5

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

Remember, LORD, what has come on us. Look, and see our disgrace.

٢ 2 قَدْ تَحَوَّلَ مِيرَاثُنَا إِلَى الْغُرَبَاءِ وَبُيُوتُنَا إِلَى الأَجَانِبِ.

Our inheritance is turned over to strangers, our houses to foreigners.

٣ 3 أَصْبَحْنَا أَيْتَاماً لَا أَبَ لَنَا، وَأُمَّهَاتُنَا كَالأَرَامِلِ.

We are orphans and fatherless. Our mothers are like widows.

٤ 4 بِالْفِضَّةِ شَرِبْنَا مَاءَنَا. وَبِثَمَنٍ ابْتَعْنَا حَطَبَنَا.

We have to pay for a drink of water; our wood is sold to us.

٥ 5 دَاسَ مُضْطَهِدُونَا أَعْنَاقَنَا، أَعْيَيْنَا وَلَمْ نَجِدْ رَاحَةً.

Our pursuers are on our necks; we are weary, and have no rest.

٦ 6 خَضَعْنَا بَاسِطِينَ أَيْدِينَا إِلَى أَشُّورَ وَمِصْرَ لِنَشْبَعَ خُبْزاً.

We have submitted to the Egyptians and to the Assyrians, to get enough bread.

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

Our fathers sinned, and are no more; but we have borne their iniquities.

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

Servants rule over us: There is none to deliver us out of their hand.

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

We get our bread at the peril of our lives, because of the sword in the wilderness.

١٠ 10 جِلْدُنَا مُلْتَهِبٌ كَتَنُّورٍ مِنْ نِيرَانِ الْجُوعِ الْمُحْرِقَةِ.

Our skin is hot like an oven, because of the burning heat of famine.

١١ 11 اغْتَصَبُوا النِّسَاءَ فِي صِهْيَوْنَ وَالْعَذَارَى فِي مُدُنِ يَهُوذَا.

They raped the women in Zion, the virgins in the cities of Judah.

١٢ 12 عُلِّقَ النُّبَلاءُ بِأَيْدِيهِمْ وَلَمْ يُوَقِّرُوا الشُّيُوخَ.

Princes were hung by their hands; elders were shown no respect.

١٣ 13 سَخَّرُوا الشُّبَّانَ لِلطَّحْنِ، وَهَوَى الصِّبْيَانُ تَحْتَ الْحَطَبِ.

The young men grind at the mill; the boys stagger under loads of wood.

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

The elders have gone from the gate, the young men from their music.

١٥ 15 انْقَطَعَ فَرَحُ قَلْبِنَا وَتَحَوَّلَ رَقْصُنَا إِلَى نَوْحٍ.

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

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

The crown is fallen from our head; woe to us, for we have sinned.

١٧ 17 لِهَذَا غُشِيَ عَلَى قُلُوبِنَا، وَأَظْلَمَتْ عُيُونُنَا.

For this our heart is faint; for these things our eyes grow dim.

١٨ 18 لأَنَّ جَبَلَ صِهْيَوْنَ أَضْحَى أَطْلالاً تَرْتَعُ فِيهِ الثَّعَالِبُ.

For the mountain of Zion, which is desolate; the foxes walk on it.

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

But you, LORD, abide forever; your throne is from generation to generation.

٢٠ 20 لِمَاذَا تَنْسَانَا إِلَى الأَبَدِ وَتَتْرُكُنَا طُولَ الأَيَّامِ؟

Why do you keep on forgetting us? Why do you forsake us so long?

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

Restore us to you, LORD, and we shall be restored; renew our days as in former times,

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

unless you have completely rejected us and are angry with us beyond measure.