Lamentations 3
1 ALEPH. I am the man that sees poverty, through the rod of his wrath upon me.
在上主盛怒的鞭責下，我成了受盡痛苦的人；
2 He has taken me, and led me away into darkness, and not [into] light.
他引我走入黑暗，不見光明；
3 Nay, against me has he turned his hand all the day.
且終日再三再四，伸手與我為敵；
4 He has made old my flesh and my skin; he has broken my bones.
他使我肌膚枯瘦，折斷我的骨頭；
5 BETH. He has built against me, and compassed my head, and brought travail [upon me].
他在我四周築起圍牆，用毒草和痛苦環繞我，
6 He has set me in dark places, as them that have long been dead.
讓我居住在黑暗之中，好像久已死去的人。
7 He has builded against me, and I cannot come forth: he has made my brazen [chain] heavy.
他用垣牆圍困我，不能逃脫；並且加重我的桎梏；
8 GIMEL. Yea, [though] I cry and shout, he shuts out my prayer.
我呼籲求救時，他卻掩耳不聽我的祈禱。
9 DALETH. He has built up my ways, he has hedged my paths;
他用方石堵住了我的去路，阻塞了我的行徑。
10 he has troubled me, [as] a she-bear lying in wait: he is to me [as] a lion in secret places.
上主之於我，像是一隻潛伏的狗熊，是一頭藏匿的獅子，
11 He pursued [me] after I departed, and brought me to a stand: he has utterly ruined me.
他把我拖到路旁，撲捉撕裂，加以摧殘；
12 HE. He has bent his bow, and set me as a mark for the arrow.
又拉開他的弓，瞄準我，把我當作眾矢之的。
13 He has caused the arrows of his quiver to enter into my reins.
他用箭囊的箭，射殺了我的雙腰；
14 I became a laughing-stock to all my people; and their song all the day.
使我成了萬民的笑柄，終日受他們的嘲笑；
15 VAU. He has filled me with bitterness, he has drenched me with gall.
他使我飽食苦菜，醉飲苦酒。
16 And he has dashed out my teeth with gravel, he has fed me with ashes.
他用砂礫破碎我的牙齒，用灰塵給我充饑。
17 He has also removed my soul from peace: I forgot prosperity.
他除去了我心中的平安，我已經忘記了一切幸福；
18 Therefore my success has perished, and my hope from the Lord.
於是我說：「我的光榮已經消逝，對上主的希望也已經幻滅。」
19 ZAIN. I remembered by reason of my poverty, and because of persecution my bitterness and gall shall be remembered;
我回憶著我的困厄和痛苦，盡是茹苦含辛!
20 and my soul shall meditate with me.
我的心越回想，越覺沮喪。
21 This will I lay up in my heart, therefore I will endure.
但是我必要追念這事，以求獲得希望：
22 HETH. [It is] the mercies of the Lord, that he has not failed me, because his compassions are not exhausted. Pity [us], O Lord, early [every] month: for we are not brought to an end, because his compassions are not exhausted.
上主的慈愛，永無止境；他的仁慈，無窮無盡。
23 [They are] new every morning: great is thy faithfulness.
你的仁慈，朝朝常新；你的忠信，浩大無垠!
24 The Lord is my portion, says my soul; therefore will I wait for him.
我心中知道：上主是我的福分；因此，我必信賴他。
25 TETH. The Lord is good to them that wait for him: the soul which shall seek him
上主對信賴他和尋求他的人，是慈善的。
26 [is] good, and shall wait for, and quietly expect salvation of the Lord.
最好是靜待上主的救援，
27 TETH. [It is] good for a man when he bears a yoke in his youth.
最好是自幼背負上主的重軛，
28 He will sit alone, and be silent, because he has borne [it] upon him.
默然獨坐，因為是上主加於他的軛；
他該把自己的口貼近塵埃，這樣或者還有希望；
30 JOD. He will give [his] cheek to him that smites him: he will be filled full with reproaches.
向打他的人，送上面頰，飽受凌辱。
31 For the Lord will not reject for ever.
因為上主決不會永遠把人遺棄；
32 CHAPH. For he that has brought down will pity, and [that] according to the abundance of his mercy.
縱使懲罰，他必按照自己豐厚的慈愛，而加以憐憫。
33 He has not answered [in anger] from his heart, though he has brought low the children of a man.
因為他苛待和懲罰世人，原不是出於他的心願。
34 LAMED. To bring down under his feet all the prisoners of the earth,
將世上所有的俘虜，都踐踏在腳下，
35 to turn aside the judgment of a man before the face of the Most High,
在至上者前剝奪人的權利,
36 to condemn a man [unjustly] in his judgment, the Lord has not given commandment.
與人爭訟時，欺壓他人：難道上主看不見﹖
37 Who has thus spoken, and it has come to pass? the Lord has not commanded it.
若非上主有命，誰能言出即成呢﹖
38 Out of the mouth of the Most High there shall not come forth evil and good.
吉凶禍福，難道不是出自至上者之口﹖
39 MEM. Why should a living man complain, a man concerning his sin?
人生在世，為自己的罪受罰，為什麼還叫苦﹖
40 NUN. Our way has been searched out and examined, and we will turn to the Lord.
我們應檢討考察我們的行為，回頭歸向上主!
41 Let us lift up our hearts with [our] hand to the lofty One in heaven.
應向天上的大主，雙手奉上我們的心!
42 We have sinned, we have transgressed; and thou hast not pardoned.
正因為我們犯罪背命，你纔沒有寬恕。
43 SAMECH. Thou has visited [us] in wrath, and driven us away: thou has slain, thou has not pitied.
你藏在盛怒之中，追擊我們，殺死我們，毫不留情。
44 Thou hast veiled thyself with a cloud because of prayer, that I might be blind,
你隱在濃雲深處，哀禱不能上達。
45 and be cast off. AIN. Thou hast set us [alone] in the midst of the nations.
你使我們在萬民中，成了塵垢和廢物。
46 All our enemies have opened their mouth against us.
我們所有的仇人，都向我們大張其口。
47 Fear and wrath are come upon us, suspense and destruction.
為我們只有恐怖和陷阱，破壞和滅亡。
48 Mine eye shall pour down torrents of water, for the destruction of the daughter of my people.
為了我女兒──人民的滅亡，我的眼淚湧流如江河。
49 PHE. Mine eye is drowned [with tears], and I will not be silent, so that there shall be no rest,
我的眼淚湧流不止，始終不停，
50 until the Lord look down, and behold from heaven.
直到上主從天垂顧憐視，
51 Mine eye shall prey upon my soul, because of all the daughters of the city.
因我城中的一切女兒，使我觸目傷心。
52 TSADE. The fowlers chased me as a sparrow, all mine enemies destroyed my life in a pit without cause,
我的仇人無故追捕我，像獵取飛鳥一樣；
53 and laid a stone upon me.
他們將我投入坑穴之中，把石塊擲在我身上；
54 Water flowed over my head: I said, I am cut off.
水淹沒了我的頭頂，我想：「我要死了! 」
55 KOPH. I called upon thy name, O Lord, out of the lowest dungeon.
上主，我從坑穴深處，呼號你的聖名；
56 Thou heardest my voice: close not thine ears to my supplication.
你曾俯聽過我的呼聲，對我的哀禱，不要掩耳不聞。
57 Thou drewest nigh to my help: in the day wherein I called upon thee thou saidst to me, Fear not.
在我呼號你的那一天，願你走近而對我說：「不要害怕! 」
58 RECHS. O Lord, thou has pleaded the causes of my soul; thou has redeemed my life.
上主，你辯護了我的案件，贖回我的性命。
59 Thou hast seen, O Lord, my troubles: thou hast judged my cause.
上主，你見我遭受冤屈，你替我伸了冤，
60 Thou hast seen all their vengeance, [thou hast looked] on all their devices against me.
你看見了他們對我的種種仇恨和陰謀。
61 CHSEN. Thou hast heard their reproach [and] all their devices against me;
上主，你聽見了他們加於我的種種侮辱和陰謀，
62 the lips of them that rose up against me, and their plots against me all the day;
你也聽見了反對我者的誹謗，和他們終日對我的企圖。
63 their sitting down and their rising up: look thou upon their eyes.
你看! 他們或坐或立，我始終是他們嘲笑的對象。
64 Thou wilt render them a recompense, O Lord, according to the works of their hands.
上主，求你按照他們雙手的作為，報復他們；
65 THAU. Thou wilt give them [as] a covering, the grief of my heart.
求你使他們的心思頑固，並詛咒他們。
66 Thou wilt persecute them in anger, and wilt consume them from under the heaven, O Lord.
上主，求你憤怒地追擊他們，將他們由普天之下除掉。
