Lamentations 2
1 How the Lord has covered the Daughter of Zion with the cloud of His anger! He has cast the glory of Israel from heaven to earth. He has abandoned His footstool in the day of His anger.
TUHAN bertindak dalam kemarahan, Sion diliputi-Nya dengan kegelapan. Keagungan Israel yang setinggi langit, telah dicampakkan-Nya ke bumi. Pada saat TUHAN murka, rumah-Nya di Sion pun tak dihiraukan-Nya.
2 Without pity the Lord has swallowed up all the dwellings of Jacob. In His wrath He has demolished the fortified cities of the Daughter of Judah. He brought to the ground and defiled her kingdom and its princes.
Setiap padang rumput di negeri Yehuda, dihancurkan-Nya tanpa rasa iba. Dalam kemarahan-Nya Ia mendobrak sampai runtuh benteng-benteng yang melindungi negeri itu. Kerajaan itu bersama para pemimpinnya dijatuhkan-Nya sehingga menjadi hina.
3 In fierce anger He has cut off every horn of Israel and withdrawn His right hand at the approach of the enemy. He has burned in Jacob like a flaming fire that consumes everything around it.
Dalam kemarahan-Nya yang menyala-nyala, kekuatan Israel dipatahkan-Nya. Ketika kita diserang lawan, Ia enggan memberi pertolongan. Seperti api mengamuk membinasakan segala-galanya, demikianlah TUHAN marah kepada kita semua.
4 He has bent His bow like an enemy; His right hand is positioned. Like a foe He has killed all who were pleasing to the eye; He has poured out His wrath like fire on the tent of the Daughter of Zion.
Seperti musuh, Ia membentangkan busur-Nya dan mengarahkan anak panah-Nya kepada kita. Semua orang yang menyenangkan hati kita, habis dibunuh oleh-Nya. Ia menyemburkan kemarahan-Nya seperti api ke dalam kota Yerusalem ini.
5 The Lord is like an enemy; He has swallowed up Israel. He has swallowed up all her palaces and destroyed her strongholds. He has multiplied mourning and lamentation for the Daughter of Judah.
TUHAN menjadi seperti musuh; Ia memukul Israel sampai runtuh. Ia menghancurkan benteng-benteng serta istana, dan memperbanyak duka nestapa kepada penduduk Yehuda.
6 He has laid waste His tabernacle like a garden booth; He has destroyed His place of meeting. The LORD has made Zion forget her appointed feasts and Sabbaths. In His fierce anger He has despised both king and priest.
Ia menghancurkan rumah-Nya tempat umat-Nya berkumpul untuk menyembah Dia. Ia membuat orang lupa akan Sabat dan hari-hari raya. Karena TUHAN sangat murka, imam dan raja telah ditolak-Nya.
7 The Lord has rejected His altar; He has abandoned His sanctuary; He has delivered the walls of her palaces into the hand of the enemy. They have raised a shout in the house of the LORD as on the day of an appointed feast.
TUHAN menolak mezbah-Nya yang suci, dan meninggalkan Rumah-Nya sendiri; dibiarkan-Nya musuh merobohkan tembok-temboknya. Di tempat kita dahulu beribadah dan berpesta, musuh bersorak karena berjaya.
8 The LORD determined to destroy the wall of the Daughter of Zion. He stretched out a measuring line and did not withdraw His hand from destroying. He made the ramparts and walls lament; together they waste away.
TUHAN telah memutuskan bahwa tembok-tembok Sion harus diruntuhkan. Tembok-tembok itu telah diukur-Nya, supaya semua dapat dihancurkan-Nya. Tembok-tembok dan menara-menara, kini telah menjadi puing semua.
9 Her gates have sunk into the ground; He has destroyed and shattered their bars. Her king and her princes are exiled among the nations, the law is no more, and even her prophets find no vision from the LORD.
Gerbang-gerbangnya tertimbun tanah, semua palang-palangnya patah; raja dan pejabat pemerintah berada di pembuangan. Hukum TUHAN tidak lagi diajarkan; nabi tidak lagi menerima wahyu dari TUHAN.
10 The elders of the Daughter of Zion sit on the ground in silence. They have thrown dust on their heads and put on sackcloth. The young women of Jerusalem have bowed their heads to the ground.
Para tua-tua kota duduk membisu di tanah; mereka menaburkan debu di atas kepala, dan memakai kain karung tanda duka. Gadis-gadis pun menundukkan kepala sampai ke tanah.
11 My eyes fail from weeping; I am churning within. My heart is poured out in grief over the destruction of the daughter of my people, because children and infants faint in the streets of the city.
Mataku bengkak karena menangis tanpa henti, jiwaku merana tak terperi. Hatiku hancur melihat keruntuhan bangsa; melihat anak-anak serta bayi pingsan di jalan-jalan kota.
12 They cry out to their mothers: “Where is the grain and wine?” as they faint like the wounded in the streets of the city, as their lives fade away in the arms of their mothers.
Dengan letih mereka menangis minta makan dan minum kepada ibunya. Seperti orang terluka, mereka rebah di jalan-jalan lalu meninggal di pangkuan ibunda.
13 What can I say for you? To what can I compare you, O Daughter of Jerusalem? To what can I liken you, that I may console you, O Virgin Daughter of Zion? For your wound is as deep as the sea. Who can ever heal you?
O Yerusalem, Kota Sion yang tercinta, reruntuhanmu sebesar samudra. Apakah yang dapat kukatakan untuk memberikan penghiburan? Sebab, tak pernah ada yang menderita seperti engkau. Sungguh tak ada yang dapat memulihkan keadaanmu.
14 The visions of your prophets were empty and deceptive; they did not expose your guilt to ward off your captivity. The burdens they envisioned for you were empty and misleading.
Yang disampaikan nabi-nabi kepadamu, hanyalah tipuan dan dusta melulu. Mereka tak pernah menyingkapkan dosamu, sehingga karena itu engkau tidak bertobat. Sebaliknya mereka hanya menyampaikan kepadamu perkataan-perkataan dusta yang memikat.
15 All who pass by clap their hands at you in scorn. They hiss and shake their heads at the Daughter of Jerusalem: “Is this the city that was called the perfection of beauty, the joy of all the earth?”
Semua orang yang lewat, mencemooh engkau, karena kau sudah hancur seluruhnya. Mereka menggeleng-gelengkan kepala dan berkata, "Itukah kota yang paling indah, kota kebanggaan dunia?"
16 All your enemies open their mouths against you. They hiss and gnash their teeth, saying, “We have swallowed her up. This is the day for which we have waited. We have lived to see it!”
Semua musuhmu memandang mukamu dengan benci, mereka menertawakan engkau dan menyeringai. Mereka berkata, "Kota itu sudah kami musnahkan! Akhirnya tiba juga saatnya yang sudah lama kami nanti-nantikan!"
17 The LORD has done what He planned; He has accomplished His decree, which He ordained in days of old; He has overthrown you without pity. He has let the enemy gloat over you and exalted the horn of your foes.
TUHAN telah melaksanakan ancaman-Nya yang dahulu direncanakan dan diperingatkan-Nya kepada kita. Kita dihancurkan-Nya tanpa belas kasihan, musuh diberi-Nya kemenangan. Ia membuat mereka gembira melihat kejatuhan kita.
18 The hearts of the people cry out to the Lord. O wall of the Daughter of Zion, let your tears run down like a river day and night. Give yourself no relief, and your eyes no rest.
Hai tembok-tembok Yerusalem, berserulah kepada TUHAN! Cucurkan air mata seperti sungai mengalir siang malam. Teruslah menangis, jangan berhenti sampai badanmu menjadi letih!
19 Arise, cry out in the night from the first watch of the night. Pour out your heart like water in the presence of the Lord. Lift up your hands to Him for the lives of your children who are fainting from hunger on the corner of every street.
Bangunlah berulang-ulang sepanjang malam untuk berteriak mencurahkan isi hatimu kepada TUHAN. Mintalah supaya Ia berbelaskasihan kepada anak-anakmu yang kelaparan dan pingsan di setiap tikungan jalan.
20 Look, O LORD, and consider: Whom have You ever treated like this? Should women eat their offspring, the infants they have nurtured? Should priests and prophets be killed in the sanctuary of the Lord?
TUHAN, lihatlah dan perhatikanlah mereka yang Kausiksa itu! Apakah ada yang pernah Kau perlakukan begitu? Ibu memakan anak kandungnya yang tercinta, imam dan nabi dibunuh di dalam Rumah-Mu yang suci.
21 Both young and old lie together in the dust of the streets. My young men and maidens have fallen by the sword. You have slain them in the day of Your anger; You have slaughtered them without compassion.
Tua muda mati terkapar di jalan, pemuda-pemudi tewas oleh pedang. Pada hari Engkau murka, Kausembelih mereka tanpa rasa iba.
22 You summoned my attackers on every side, as for the day of an appointed feast. In the day of the LORD’s anger no one escaped or survived; my enemy has destroyed those I nurtured and reared.
Kau mengundang musuh-musuh yang kami takuti untuk mengadakan pesta kekejaman di sekeliling kami. Mereka membunuh semua yang kami asuh dan sayangi. Pada hari kemarahan-Mu, tak seorang pun dapat melarikan diri.
