Lamentations 2
1 How has the daughter of Zion been covered with a cloud by the Lord in his wrath! he has sent down from heaven to earth the glory of Israel, and has not kept in memory the resting-place of his feet in the day of his wrath.
Aleke Aƒetɔ la tsɔ eƒe dzikulilikpo tsyɔ Zion vinyɔnu dzi nye esi! Etsɔ Israel ƒe atsyɔ̃ tso dziƒo xlã ɖe anyigba dzi eye meɖo ŋku eƒe afɔɖodzinu dzi le eƒe dzikudogbe o.
2 The Lord has given up to destruction all the living-places of Jacob without pity; pulling down in his wrath the strong places of the daughter of Judah, stretching out on the earth the wounded, even her king and her rulers.
Aƒetɔ la gblẽ Yakob ƒe nɔƒewo katã nublanuimakpɔmakpɔtɔe. Eye le eƒe dziku me wògbã Yuda vinyɔnu ƒe mɔ sesẽwo ƒu anyi. Egbã eƒe fiaɖuƒe kple eƒe dumegãwo ƒu anyi le vlododo me.
3 In his burning wrath every horn of Israel has been cut off; his right hand has been turned back before the attacker: he has put a fire in Jacob, causing destruction round about.
Etsɔ dziku helĩhelĩ helã Israel ƒe dzo ɖe sia ɖe ɖa. Esi futɔwo gbɔna mía gbɔ la, eɖe eƒe nuɖusibɔ ɖa. Ebi le Yakob me abe dzo bibi si fia nu sia nu si ƒo xlãe la ene.
4 His bow has been bent for the attack, he has taken his place with his hand ready, in his hate he has put to death all who were pleasing to the eye: on the tent of the daughter of Zion he has let loose his passion like fire.
Ehe eƒe da me abe futɔ ene eye eƒe nuɖusibɔ le klalo. Ewu ame siwo katã nyo na eƒe ŋku abe ale si futɔ wɔnɛ ene. Etrɔ eƒe dziku kɔ ɖe Zion vinyɔnu ƒe agbadɔ dzi abe dzo ene.
5 The Lord has become like one fighting against her, sending destruction on Israel; he has sent destruction on all her great houses, making waste his strong places: increasing the grief and the sorrow of the daughter of Judah.
Aƒetɔ la zu futɔ eye wòtsrɔ̃ Israel. Etsrɔ̃ eƒe fiasãwo katã eye wògbã eƒe mɔ sesẽwo ƒu anyi. Edzi Yuda vinyɔnu ƒe nuxaxa kple konyifafa ɖe edzi.
6 And he has violently taken away his tent, as from a garden; he has made waste his meeting-place: the Lord has taken away the memory of feast and Sabbath in Zion, and in the passion of his wrath he is against king and priest.
Ekaka eƒe nɔƒe abe ale si wokakaa kpɔ le abɔ ŋu ene hegblẽ eƒe takpeƒe. Yehowa na Zion ŋlɔ eƒe ŋkekenyuiwo kple Dzudzɔgbewo be eye le eƒe dziku helĩhelĩ me wòdo vlo fia la kple nunɔla siaa.
7 The Lord has given up his altar and has been turned in hate from his holy place; he has given up into the hands of the attacker the walls of her great houses: their voices have been loud in the house of the Lord as in the day of a holy meeting.
Aƒetɔ la gbe nu le eƒe vɔsamlekpui kple eƒe kɔkɔeƒe la gbɔ. Etsɔ eƒe fiasãwo ƒe gliwo de asi na eƒe futɔwo eye wodo ɣli sesĩe le Yehowa ƒe gbedoxɔ me abe le ŋkekenyuiɖugbe ene.
8 It is the Lord's purpose to make waste the wall of the daughter of Zion; his line has been stretched out, he has not kept back his hand from destruction: he has sent sorrow on tower and wall, they have become feeble together.
Yehowa ɖoe kplikpaa be yeagbã gli le Zion vinyɔnu ŋu. Etsɔ nudzidzeka ɖo eŋu eye mehe eƒe asi ɖe megbe o, ke boŋ egbãe gudugudu. Ena be kpoƒuƒuwo kple gliwo siaa xa nu eye wo kple eve la siaa mu dze anyi.
9 Her doors have gone down into the earth; he has sent destruction on her locks: her king and her princes are among the nations where the law is not; even her prophets have had no vision from the Lord.
Eƒe agbowo ɖo do ɖe anyigba eye wòŋe eƒe gametiwo kple gakpo siwo ŋu wobla wo ɖo. Woɖe aboyo eƒe fia kple dumegãwo ɖo ɖe dukɔwo dome, se la megali o eye eƒe Nyagblɔɖilawo hã megaxɔa ɖeɖefia tso Yehowa gbɔ o.
10 The responsible men of the daughter of Zion are seated on the earth without a word; they have put dust on their heads, they are clothed in haircloth: the heads of the virgins of Jerusalem are bent down to the earth.
Zion vinyɔnu ƒe dumegãwo nɔ anyi ɖe anyigba le ɖoɖoezizi gã me. Wolɔ dzofi kɔ ɖe tame eye wota akpanya. Ke Yerusalem ɖetugbiwo ya de mo to.
11 My eyes are wasted with weeping, the inmost parts of my body are deeply moved, my inner parts are drained out on the earth, for the destruction of the daughter of my people; because of the young children and babies at the breast who are falling without strength in the open squares of the town.
Avifafa na nu te nye ŋkuwo ŋu, nye lãme katã ʋu dzo ɖe menye, nye dzi lolõ hekɔ ɖe anyigba, elabena wotsrɔ̃ nye amewo, eye nu ti kɔ na ɖeviwo kple vidzĩwo siaa le dua ƒe kpɔdomewo.
12 They say to their mothers, Where is grain and wine? when they are falling like the wounded in the open squares of the town, when their life is drained out on their mother's breast.
Wobia wo dadawo be, “Afi ka abolo kple wain le?” Elabena nu te wo ŋu le dua ƒe kpɔdomewo abe ame siwo ŋu wode abi ene eye woƒe agbe nu tso le wo dadawo ƒe akɔnu.
13 What example am I to give you? what comparison am I to make for you, O daughter of Jerusalem? what am I to make equal to you, so that I may give you comfort, O virgin daughter of Zion? for your destruction is great like the sea: who is able to make you well?
Nya ka magblɔ na wò? O Yerusalem vinyɔnu, nu ka matsɔ asɔ kpli wò? Nu ka magblɔ be ele abe wò ene, ne mafa akɔ na wò, O Zion vinyɔnu si menya ŋutsu o? Wò abiwo goglo abe atsiaƒu ene, ame ka ate ŋu ayɔ dɔ wò?
14 The visions which your prophets have seen for you are false and foolish; they have not made clear to you your sin so that your fate might be changed: but they have seen for you false words, driving you away.
Wò nyagblɔɖilawo ƒe ɖeɖefiawo nye alakpa kple yakanyawo, womeɖe wò nu vɔ̃wo fia wò, be womagaɖo wò ɖe aboyo me o. Ke gbedeasi si wona mi la nye aʋatso eye wòkplɔ mi trae.
15 All who go by make a noise with their hands at you; they make hisses, shaking their heads at the daughter of Jerusalem, and saying, Is this the town which was the crown of everything beautiful, the joy of all the earth?
Ame siwo katã va toa wò mɔ dzi yina la si akpe ɖe ŋuwò, woɖua fewu heʋuʋua ta ɖe wò Yerusalem vinyɔnu ŋu be, “Du siae woyɔna be tugbefia kple anyigba blibo la ƒe dzidzɔa?”
16 All your haters are opening their mouths wide against you; making hisses and whistling through their teeth, they say, We have made a meal of her: certainly this is the day we have been looking for; it has come, we have seen it.
Wò futɔwo katã ke woƒe nuwo baa ɖe ŋuwò, woɖua fewu eye woɖua aɖukli ɖe ŋuwò be, “Míemi eya amea agbagbe. Esiae nye ŋkeke si míele mɔ kpɔm na, enyo be míele agbe kpɔ eteƒe.”
17 The Lord has done that which was his purpose; he has put into force the orders which he gave in the days which are past; pulling down without pity, he has made your hater glad over you, lifting up the horn of those who were against you.
Yehowa wɔ nu si wòɖo, ena eƒe nya si wògblɔ ɖi gbe aɖe gbe ʋĩi la va eme. Etsɔ mi ƒu gbe nublanuimakpɔmakpɔtɔe, ena futɔwo kpɔ dzidzɔ le miaƒe anyidzedze ta eye wòkɔ míaƒe futɔwo ƒe dzo ɖe dzi bobobo.
18 Let your cry go up to the Lord: O wall of the daughter of Zion, let your weeping be flowing down like a stream day and night; give yourself no rest, let not your eyes keep back the drops of sorrow.
Ameawo ƒe dzi le ɣli dom na Aƒetɔ la. O Zion vinyɔnu ƒe gli, na be wò aɖatsiwo nasi abe tɔsisi ene zã kple keli, mègana gbɔdzɔe ɖokuiwò alo ana dzudzɔ wò ŋkuwo o.
19 Up! give cries in the night, at the starting of the night-watches; let your heart be flowing out like water before the face of the Lord, lifting up your hands to him for the life of your young children who are falling down, feeble for need of food, at the top of every street.
Fɔ, fa avi le zã me, dze egɔme ne zãdzɔɣi ƒe ga ƒo, trɔ wò dzi kɔ ɖe Aƒetɔ la ƒe ŋkume abe tsi ene. Tsɔ wò abɔwo do ɖe dzi nɛ le viwòwo ƒe agbe ta, ame siwo dɔwuame na wole kukum le kpɔdomewo.
20 Look! O Lord, see to whom you have done this! Are the women to take as their food the fruit of their bodies, the children who are folded in their arms? are the priest and the prophet to be put to death in the holy place of the Lord?
“O Yehowa, ɖo ŋku anyi nàkpɔ nu. Ame ka nèwɔ alea kpɔ? Ɖe nyɔnuwo aɖu woƒe dɔmevi, vi siwo dzi wokpɔa? Ɖe wòle be woawu nunɔla kple Nyagblɔɖila le Aƒetɔ la ƒe kɔkɔeƒea?
21 The young men and the old are stretched on the earth in the streets; my virgins and my young men have been put to the sword: you have sent death on them in the day of your wrath, causing death without pity.
“Ɖeviwo kple tsitsiawo siaa ɖo baba ɖe anyigba le kpɔdomewo, nye ɖekakpuiwo kple ɖetugbiwo tsi yi nu. Ewu wo le wò dzikudogbe, etsrɔ̃ wo nublanuimakpɔmakpɔtɔe.
22 As in the day of a holy meeting you have made fears come round me on every side, and no one got away or was kept safe in the day of the Lord's wrath: those who were folded in my arms, whom I took care of, have been sent to their destruction by my hater.
“Abe ale si nèyɔa amewo hena ŋkekenyuiɖuɖu ene la, nenemae nèyɔ ŋɔdzi be wòaƒo xlãm godoo. Le Yehowa ƒe dzikuŋkekea dzi la, ame aɖeke mesi alo tsi agbe o. Ame siwo mehe eye menyi la nye futɔ tsrɔ̃ wo katã.”
