Lamentations 1
1 See her seated by herself, the town which was full of people! She who was great among the nations has become like a widow! She who was a princess among the countries has come under the yoke of forced work!
Πως εκάθησε μόνη η πόλις η πεπληθυμμένη λαών. Κατέστη ως χήρα η πεπληθυμμένη εν έθνεσιν, η άρχουσα εν ταις επαρχίαις· έγεινεν υποτελής.
2 She is sorrowing bitterly in the night, and her face is wet with weeping; among all her lovers she has no comforter: all her friends have been false to her, they have become her haters.
Ακαταπαύστως κλαίει την νύκτα και τα δάκρυα αυτής καταρρέουσιν επί τας σιαγόνας αυτής· εκ πάντων των αγαπώντων αυτήν δεν υπάρχει ο παρηγορών αυτήν· πάντες οι φίλοι αυτής εφέρθησαν προς αυτήν απίστως· εχθροί έγειναν εις αυτήν.
3 Judah has been taken away as a prisoner because of trouble and hard work; her living-place is among the nations, there is no rest for her: all her attackers have overtaken her in a narrow place.
Ηχμαλωτίσθη ο Ιούδας υπό θλίψεως και υπό βαρείας δουλείας· κάθηται εν τοις έθνεσι· δεν ευρίσκει ανάπαυσιν· πάντες οι διώκται αυτού κατέλαβον αυτόν εν μέσω των στενών.
4 The ways of Zion are sad, because no one comes to the holy meeting; all her doorways are made waste, her priests are breathing out sorrow: her virgins are troubled, and it is bitter for her.
Αι οδοί της Σιών πενθούσι, διότι ουδείς έρχεται εις τας εορτάς· πάσαι αι πύλαι αυτής είναι έρημοι οι ιερείς αυτής αναστενάζουσιν· αι παρθένοι αυτής είναι περίλυποι και αυτή πλήρης πικρίας.
5 Those who are against her have become the head, everything goes well for her haters; for the Lord has sent sorrow on her because of the great number of her sins: her young children have gone away as prisoners before the attacker.
Οι εναντίοι αυτής έγειναν κεφαλή, οι εχθροί αυτής ευημερούσι· διότι ο Κύριος κατέθλιψεν αυτήν διά το πλήθος των ανομιών αυτής· τα νήπια αυτής επορεύθησαν εις αιχμαλωσίαν έμπροσθεν του εχθρού.
6 And all her glory has gone from the daughter of Zion: her rulers have become like harts with no place for food, and they have gone in flight without strength before the attacker.
Και έφυγεν από της θυγατρός Σιών πάσα η δόξα αυτής· οι άρχοντες αυτής έγειναν ως έλαφοι μη ευρίσκουσαι βοσκήν, και εβάδιζον χωρίς δυνάμεως έμπροσθεν του διώκοντος.
7 Jerusalem keeps in mind, in the days of her sorrow and of her wanderings, all the desired things which were hers in days gone by; when her people came into the power of her hater and she had no helper, her attackers saw their desire effected on her and made sport of her destruction.
Ενεθυμήθη η Ιερουσαλήμ εν ταις ημέραις της θλίψεως αυτής και της εξώσεως αυτής πάντα τα επιθυμητά αυτής, τα οποία είχεν από χρόνων αρχαίων, ότε έπεσεν ο λαός αυτής εις την χείρα του εχθρού και δεν υπήρχεν ο βοηθών αυτήν· είδον αυτήν οι εχθροί, εγέλασαν επί τη καταπαύσει αυτής.
8 Great is the sin of Jerusalem; for this cause she has become an unclean thing: all those who gave her honour are looking down on her, because they have seen her shame: now truly, breathing out grief, she is turned back.
Αμαρτίαν ημάρτησεν η Ιερουσαλήμ· διά τούτο έγεινεν ως ακάθαρτος· πάντες οι δοξάζοντες αυτήν κατεφρόνησαν αυτήν, διότι είδον την ασχημοσύνην αυτής· αυτή δε ανεστέναζε και απεστράφη εις τα οπίσω.
9 In her skirts were her unclean ways; she gave no thought to her end; and her fall has been a wonder; she has no comforter: see her sorrow, O Lord; for the attacker is lifted up.
Η ακαθαρσία αυτής ήτο εις τα κράσπεδα αυτής· δεν ενεθυμήθη τα τέλη αυτής· όθεν εταπεινώθη εξαισίως· δεν υπήρχεν ο παρηγορών αυτήν. Ιδέ, Κύριε, την θλίψιν μου, διότι εμεγαλύνθη ο εχθρός.
10 The hand of her hater is stretched out over all her desired things; for she has seen that the nations have come into her holy place, about whom you gave orders that they were not to come into the meeting of your people.
Ο εχθρός εξήπλωσε την χείρα αυτού επί πάντα τα επιθυμητά αυτής· διότι αυτή είδε τα έθνη εισερχόμενα εις το αγιαστήριον αυτής, τα οποία προσέταξας να μη εισέλθωσιν εις την συναγωγήν σου.
11 Breathing out grief all her people are looking for bread; they have given their desired things for food to give them life: see, O Lord, and take note; for she has become a thing of shame.
Πας ο λαός αυτής καταστενάζει, ζητών άρτον· έδωκαν τα επιθυμητά αυτών αντί τροφής, διά να επανέλθη η ψυχή αυτών. Ιδέ, Κύριε, και επίβλεψον· διότι έγεινα εξουθενημένη.
12 Come to me, all you who go by! Keep your eyes on me, and see if there is any pain like the pain of my wound, which the Lord has sent on me in the day of his burning wrath.
Ω, προς υμάς, πάντες οι διαβαίνοντες την οδόν· επιβλέψατε και ιδέτε, αν ήναι πόνος κατά τον πόνον μου, όστις έγεινεν εις εμέ, με τον οποίον με έθλιψεν ο Κύριος εν τη ημέρα της οργής του θυμού αυτού.
13 From on high he has sent fire into my bones, and it has overcome them: his net is stretched out for my feet, I am turned back by him; he has made me waste and feeble all the day.
Εξαπέστειλεν εξ ύψους πυρ επί τα οστά μου και κατεκράτησεν αυτά· ήπλωσε δίκτυον εις τους πόδας μου· με έστρεψεν εις τα οπίσω· με κατέστησεν ηφανισμένην, όλην την ημέραν οδυνωμένην.
14 A watch is kept on my sins; they are joined together by his hand, they have come on to my neck; he has made my strength give way: the Lord has given me up into the hands of those against whom I have no power.
Ο ζυγός των ασεβημάτων μου συνεσφίγχθη διά της χειρός αυτού· περιεπλέχθησαν, ανέβησαν επί τον τράχηλόν μου, κατέλυσε την δύναμίν μου· ο Κύριος με παρέδωκεν εις χείρας, εξ ων δεν δύναμαι να εγερθώ.
15 The Lord has made sport of all my men of war in me, he has got men together against me to send destruction on my young men: the virgin daughter of Judah has been crushed like grapes under the feet of the Lord.
Ο Κύριος κατέστρωσε πάντας τους δυνατούς μου εν τω μέσω μου· εκάλεσεν επ' εμέ ωρισμένον καιρόν διά να συντρίψη τους εκλεκτούς μου· ο Κύριος επάτησεν εν ληνώ την παρθένον, την θυγατέρα Ιούδα.
16 For these things I am weeping; my eye is streaming with water; because the comforter who might give me new life is far from me: my children are made waste, because the hater is strong.
Διά ταύτα εγώ θρηνώ· οι οφθαλμοί μου, οι οφθαλμοί μου καταρρέουσιν ύδατα· διότι απεμακρύνθη απ' εμού ο παρηγορητής ο αναζωοποιών την ψυχήν μου· οι υιοί μου ηφανίσθησαν, διότι υπερίσχυσεν ο εχθρός.
17 Zion's hands are outstretched; she has no comforter; the Lord has given orders to the attackers of Jacob round about him: Jerusalem has become like an unclean thing among them.
Η Σιών εκτείνει τας χείρας αυτής, δεν υπάρχει ο παρηγορών αυτήν· ο Κύριος προσέταξε περί του Ιακώβ· οι εχθροί αυτού περιεκύκλωσαν αυτόν· η Ιερουσαλήμ έγεινε μεταξύ αυτών ως ακάθαρτος.
18 The Lord is upright; for I have gone against his orders: give ear, now, all you peoples, and see my pain, my virgins and my young men have gone away as prisoners.
Δίκαιος είναι ο Κύριος διότι απεστάτησα από του λόγου αυτού. Ακούσατε, παρακαλώ, πάντες οι λαοί, και ιδέτε τον πόνον μου· αι παρθένοι μου και οι νεανίσκοι μου επορεύθησαν εις αιχμαλωσίαν.
19 I sent for my lovers, but they were false to me: my priests and my responsible men were breathing their last breath in the town, while they were looking for food to give them new life.
Εκάλεσα τους αγαπώντάς με, αλλ' αυτοί με ηπάτησαν· οι ιερείς μου και οι πρεσβύτεροί μου εξέπνευσαν εν τη πόλει, διότι εζήτησαν τροφήν υπέρ εαυτών διά να επανέλθη η ψυχή αυτών.
20 See, O Lord, for I am in trouble; the inmost parts of my body are deeply moved; my heart is turned in me; for I have been uncontrolled: outside the children are put to the sword, and in the house there is death.
Ιδέ, Κύριε, διότι θλίβομαι· τα εντόσθιά μου ταράττονται, η καρδία μου αναστρέφεται εντός μου, διότι μεγάλως απεστάτησα· έξωθεν ητέκνωσεν η μάχαιρα· εν τω οίκω ο θάνατος.
21 Give ear to the voice of my grief; I have no comforter; all my haters have news of my troubles, they are glad because you have done it: let the day of fate come when they will be like me.
Ήκουσαν, διότι στενάζω· δεν υπάρχει ο παρηγορών με· πάντες οι εχθροί μου ήκουσαν την συμφοράν μου· εχάρησαν ότι συ έκαμες τούτο · όταν φέρης την ημέραν, την οποίαν εκάλεσας, αυτοί θέλουσι γείνει ως εγώ.
22 Let all their evil-doing come before you; do to them as you have done to me for all my sins: for loud is the sound of my grief, and the strength of my heart is gone.
Ας έλθη ενώπιόν σου πάσα η κακία αυτών· και κάμε εις αυτούς ως έκαμες εις εμέ διά πάντα τα αμαρτήματά μου· διότι πολλοί είναι οι στεναγμοί μου και η καρδία μου εξέλιπε.
