耶利米哀歌 5
1 耶和華啊，求你記念我們所遭遇的事， 觀看我們所受的凌辱。
Remember, LORD, what has come on us. Look, and see our disgrace.
2 我們的產業歸與外邦人； 我們的房屋歸與外路人。
Our inheritance is turned over to strangers, our houses to foreigners.
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 like widows.
4 我們出錢才得水喝； 我們的柴是人賣給我們的。
We have to pay for a drink of water; 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， 為要得糧吃飽。
We have submitted to the Egyptians and to the Assyrians, to get enough 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; but 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 none to deliver us out of their hand.
9 因為曠野的刀劍， 我們冒着險才得糧食。
We get our bread at the peril of our lives, because of the sword in the wilderness.
10 因飢餓燥熱， 我們的皮膚就黑如爐。
Our skin is hot like an oven, because of the burning heat of famine.
11 敵人在錫安玷污婦人， 在猶大的城邑玷污處女。
They raped 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 hung by their hands; elders were shown no respect.
13 少年人扛磨石， 孩童背木柴，都絆跌了。
The young men grind at the mill; the boys stagger under loads of wood.
14 老年人在城門口斷絕； 少年人不再作樂。
The elders have gone from the gate, the young men from their music.
15 我們心中的快樂止息， 跳舞變為悲哀。
The joy of our heart has ceased; our dancing 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 is 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 grow dim.
18 錫安山荒涼， 野狗行在其上。
For the mountain of Zion, which is desolate; the foxes walk on it.
19 耶和華啊，你存到永遠； 你的寶座存到萬代。
But you, LORD, abide forever; your throne is from generation to generation.
20 你為何永遠忘記我們？ 為何許久離棄我們？
Why do you keep on forgetting us? Why do you forsake us so long?
21 耶和華啊，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。
Restore us to you, LORD, and we shall be restored; renew our days as in former times,
22 你竟全然棄絕我們， 向我們大發烈怒？
unless you have completely rejected us and are angry with us beyond measure.
