耶利米哀歌 2
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。
ALEPH. How has the Lord darkened in his wrath the daughter of Sion! he has cast down the glory of Israel from heaven to earth, and has not remembered his footstool.
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。
BETH. In the day of his wrath the Lord has overwhelmed [her] as in the sea, [and] not spared: he has brought down in his fury all the beautiful things of Jacob; he has brought down to the ground the strongholds of the daughter of Juda; he has profaned her kings and her 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。 他像火焰四圍吞滅，將雅各燒毀。
GIMEL. He has broken in his fierce anger all the horn of Israel: he has turned back his right hand from the face of the enemy, and has kindled a flame in Jacob as a fire, and it has devoured all things round about.
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。
DALETH. He has bent his bow as an opposing enemy: he has strengthened his right hand as an adversary, and has destroyed all the desirable things of my eyes in the tabernacle of the daughter of Sion: he has poured forth his anger as 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。
HE. The Lord is become as an enemy: he has overwhelmed Israel as in the sea, he has overwhelmed her palaces: he has destroyed her strongholds, and has multiplied the afflicted and humbled ones to the daughter of Juda.
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。
VAU. And he has scattered his tabernacle as a vine, he has marred his feast: the Lord has forgotten the feast and the sabbath which he appointed in Sion, and in the fury of his wrath has vexed the king, and priest, and prince.
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。
ZAIN. The Lord has rejected his altar, he has cast off his sanctuary, he has broken by the hand of the enemy the wall of her palaces; they have uttered their voice in the house of the Lord as on a feast day.
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。
HETH. And he has turned to destroy the wall of the daughter of Sion: he has stretched out the measuring line, he has not turned back his hand from afflicting [her]: therefore the bulwark mourned, and the wall was weakened with it.
9 錫安的門都陷入地內； 主將她的門閂毀壞，折斷。 她的君王和首領落在沒有律法的列國中； 她的先知不得見耶和華的異象。
TETH. Her gates are sunk into the ground: he has destroyed and broken to pieces her bars, [and] her king and her prince amongst the Gentiles: there is no law, nay, her prophets have seen no vision from the Lord.
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。
JOD. The elders of the daughter of Sion have sat upon the ground, they have kept silence: they have cast up dust upon their heads; they have girded themselves with sackcloths: they have brought down to the ground the chief virgins in Jerusalem.
11 我眼中流淚，以致失明； 我的心腸擾亂，肝膽塗地， 都因我眾民遭毀滅， 又因孩童和吃奶的在城內街上發昏。
CHAPH. Mine eyes have failed with tears, my heart is troubled, my glory is cast down to the ground, for the destruction of the daughter of my people; while the infant and suckling 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？
LAMED. They said to their mothers, Where is corn and wine? while they fainted like wounded men in the streets of the city, while their souls were poured out into their mother's 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？ 因為你的裂口大如海， 誰能醫治你呢？
MEM. What shall I testify to you, or what shall I compare to you, O daughter of Jerusalem? who shall save and comfort you, O virgin daughter of Sion? for the cup of your destruction is enlarged: who shall heal you?
14 你的先知為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； 卻為你見虛假的默示 和使你被趕出本境的緣故。
NUN. Your prophets have seen for you vanities and folly: and they have not discovered your iniquity, to turn back your captivity; but they have seen for you vain burdens, and worthless visions.
15 凡過路的都向你拍掌。 他們向耶路撒冷城嗤笑，搖頭，說： 難道人所稱為全美的， 稱為全地所喜悅的，就是這城嗎？
SAMECH. All that go by the way have clapped their hands at you; they have hissed and shaken their head at the daughter of Jerusalem. Is this the city, they say, the crown of joy of all the earth?
16 你的仇敵都向你大大張口； 他們嗤笑，又切齒說： 我們吞滅她。 這真是我們所盼望的日子臨到了！ 我們親眼看見了！
AIN. All your enemies have opened their mouth against you: they have hissed and gnashed their teeth, and said, We have swallowed her up: moreover this is the day which 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。
PHE. The Lord has done that which he purposed; he has accomplished his word, [even] the things which he commanded from the ancient days: he has thrown down, and has not spared: and he has caused the enemy to rejoice over you, he has exalted the horn of him that afflicted you.
18 錫安民的心哀求主。 錫安的城牆啊，願你流淚如河， 晝夜不息； 願你眼中的瞳人淚流不止。
TSADE. Their heart cried to the Lord, You walls of Sion, pour down tears like torrents day and night: give yourself no rest; let not the apple of your eyes cease.
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； 你要為他們的性命向主舉手禱告。
KOPH. Arise, rejoice in the night at the beginning of your watch: pour out your heart as water before the face of the Lord; lift up your hands to him for the life of your infants, who faint for hunger at the top of all the streets.
20 耶和華啊，求你觀看！ 見你向誰這樣行？ 婦人豈可吃自己所生育手裏所搖弄的嬰孩嗎？ 祭司和先知豈可在主的聖所中被殺戮嗎？
RHECHS. Behold, O Lord, and see for whom you has gathered thus. Shall the women eat the fruit of their womb? the cook has made a gathering: shall the infants sucking at the breasts be slain? will you kill the priest and prophet 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。
CHSEN. The child and old man have lain down in the street: my virgins and my young men are gone into captivity: you have slain [them] with the sword and with famine; in the day of your wrath you have mangled [them], you has not spared.
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。
THAU. He has called my sojourners round about to a solemn day, and there was not in the day of the wrath of the Lord any one that escaped or was left; whereas I have strengthened and multiplied all mine enemies.
