Lamentations 2
1 ALEPH. O how the Lord has covered the daughter of Zion with gloom in his fury! O how he has thrown down from heaven to earth the famous one of Israel, and he has not remembered his footstool in the day of his fury.
Huru hafver Herren förmörkrat dottrena Zion med sine vrede? Han hafver kastat Israels härlighet af himmelen neder på jordena; han hafver icke tänkt uppå sin fotapall, i sine vredes dag.
2 BETH. The Lord has cast down, and he has not been lenient, with all the beauties of Jacob. In his fury, he has destroyed the fortifications of the virgin of Judah, and he has thrown them down to the ground. He has polluted the kingdom and its leaders.
Herren hafver utan barmhertighet alla Jacobs boningar förlagt; han hafver i sine grymhet afbrutit dottrenes Juda fäste, och slagit dem omkull, han hafver oskärat både hennes rike och hennes Förstar.
3 GHIMEL. In the anger of his fury, he has broken the entire horn of Israel. He has drawn back his right hand before the face of the enemy. And he has kindled within Jacob a flaming fire, devouring all around.
Han hafver sönderbrutit Israels starkhet uti sine grymma vrede; han hafver dragit sina högra hand tillbaka, då fienden kom, och hafver upptändt en eld i Jacob, den allt omkring förtärer.
4 DALETH. He has bent his bow like an enemy. He has fixed his right hand like an adversary. And he has cut down all that was beautiful to behold in the tabernacle of the daughter of Zion. He has poured out his indignation like fire.
Han hafver spänt sin båga, lika som en fiende; sina högra hand hafver han fört såsom en ovän, och dräpit allt det som lustigt var till seendes, och utgjutit sina grymnet, lika som en eld uti dottrenes Zions hyddo.
5 HE. The Lord has become like an enemy. He has thrown down Israel. He has thrown down all of his defenses. He has torn apart his fortifications. And he has filled the daughter of Judah with humbled men and humbled women.
Herren är lika som en fiende; han hafver omstört Israel, han hafver omstört alla hans palats, och förderfvat hans fäste; han hafver gjort dottrene Juda mycken klagan och sorg.
6 VAU. And he has torn apart her tent like a garden. He has demolished her tabernacle. In Zion, the Lord has delivered feast and Sabbath into oblivion, and king and priest into disgrace, and into the indignation of his fury.
Han hafver uppgrafvit hans tjäll, lika som en örtegård, och förderfvat hans boning; Herren hafver låtit förgäta i Zion både helgedag och Sabbath, och låtit i sine grymma vrede skämma både Konung och Prest.
7 ZAIN. The Lord has pushed away his own altar. He has cursed his own sanctuary. He has delivered the walls of its towers into the hand of the enemy. They have made a noise in the house of the Lord, as if on the day of a solemnity.
Herren hafver förkastat sitt altare, och tillspillogifvit sin helgedom; han hafver gifvit hans palats murar uti fiendans händer, så att de hafva ropat i Herrans hus, lika som uppå enom helgedag.
8 HETH. The Lord has decided to tear down the wall of the daughter of Zion. He has stretched out his measuring line, and he has not turned away his hand from perdition. And the rampart has mourned, and with the wall it has been torn apart.
Herren tänkte till att förderfva dottrenes Zions murar; han drog snöret deröfver, och icke afvände sina hand, tilldess han henne förderfvade; tornen stå ömkeliga, och muren ligger jämmerliga.
9 TETH. Her gates have been buried in the ground. He has ruined and crushed its bars. Her king and her princes are with the Gentiles. There is no law, and her prophets have found no vision from the Lord.
Hans portar ligga djupt neder i jordene; hans bommar hafver han sönderbrutit, och tillintetgjort; hans Konungar och Förstar äro ibland Hedningarna, der de intet kunna öfva lagen, och hans Propheter hafva ingen syn af Herranom.
10 JOD. The elders of the daughter of Zion have become idle; they sit on the ground. They have sprinkled their heads with ashes. They have been wrapped with haircloth. The virgins of Jerusalem have cast their heads down to the ground.
Dottrenes Zions äldste ligga på jordene, och äro tyste; de kasta stoft uppå sin hufvud, och hafva dragit säcker uppå sig Jerusalems jungfrur hänga deras hufvud neder åt jordene.
11 CAPH. My eyes have exhausted their tears. My internal organs have become disturbed. My liver has been poured out on the earth, over the grief of the daughter of my people, when the little ones and the infants passed away in the streets of the town.
Jag hafver nästan gråtit mig ögonen ut, så att det gör mig ondt i mitt lif; min lefver är utgjuten uppå jordena, öfver mins folks dotters jämmer, då spenabarn och öfvermagar försmäktades på gatomen i stadenom;
12 LAMED. They said to their mothers, “Where is the wheat and the wine?” when they fell like the wounded in the streets of the city, when they breathed out their lives into the bosoms of their mothers.
Då de sade till sina mödrar: Hvar är bröd och vin? då de försmäktades på gatomen i stadenom, såsom de der dödssåre voro, och uppgåfvo sin anda i deras mödrars famn.
13 MEM. To what shall I compare you, or to what shall I liken you, O daughter of Jerusalem? To what shall I equate you, so as to console you, O virgin daughter of Zion? For your destruction is as great as the sea. Who will cure you?
O du dotter Jerusalem, hvem skall jag likna dig vid? Och för hvad skall jag hålla dig, du jungfru dotter Zion? Vid hvad skall jag likna dig, der jag dig med trösta måtte. Ty din skade är stor, lika som ett haf; ho kan hela dig?
14 NUN. Your prophets have seen false and foolish things for you. And they have not laid open your iniquity, so as to provoke you to repentance. Yet they have seen for you false revelations and banishments.
Dine Propheter hafva dig predikat lösa och dåraktiga syner, och icke uppenbarat dig dina missgerning, der de med måtte förtagit dig ditt fängelse; utan hafva predikat dig lösa predikan, på det de skulle predika dig utu landena.
15 SAMECH. All those who passed by the way have clapped their hands over you. They have hissed and shook their heads over the daughter of Jerusalem, saying, “Is this the city of perfect dignity, the joy of all the earth?”
Alle de som der framom gå, de klappa med händerna, hvissla åt dig, och rista hufvudet öfver dottrena Jerusalem: Är detta den staden, der man af säger, att han är den aldraskönaste, af hvilkom allt landet gläder sig?
16 PHE. All your enemies have opened their mouth over you. They have hissed and gnashed their teeth, and they said: “We will devour her. Yes, this is the day we waited for. We have found it, we have seen it.”
Alle dine fiender gapa med munnen emot dig; hvissla till dig, gnissla med tänderna, och säga: Huj, vi hafve förderfvat honom; detta är den dagen, som vi begärat hafve; vi hafve fått det, vi hafve lefvat så länge.
17 AIN. The Lord has done what he decided to do. He has fulfilled his word, which he instructed since the days of antiquity. He has destroyed, and he has not been lenient, and he has caused the enemy to rejoice over you, and he has exalted the horn of your adversaries.
Herren hafver gjort det han i sinnet hade; han hafver fullkomnat sitt ord, som han långt tillförene budit hade; han hafver förderfvat utan barmhertighet; han hafver fröjdat fiendan öfver dig, och upphöjt dina ovänners magt.
18 SADE. Their heart cried out to the Lord from the walls of the daughter of Zion. Let tears run down like a torrent throughout the day and the night. Do not give rest to yourself, and do not allow the pupil of your eye to cease.
Deras hjerto ropade till Herran: O du dottrenes Zions mur, låt tårar flyta både dag och natt, lika som en bäck; håll intet upp, och din ögnasten vände intet åter.
19 COPH. Rise up. Give praise in the night, in the first of the watches. Pour out your heart like water before the sight of the Lord. Lift up your hands to him on behalf of the souls of your little ones, who have passed away from famine at the head of all the crossroads.
Statt upp om nattena, och ropa; utgjut ditt hjerta i första väktene inför Herranom, lika som vatten; lyft upp dina händer till honom, för din unga barns själar, som af hunger dö i all gatomot.
20 RES. O Lord, see and consider those whom you have made into such a vintage. So then, shall women eat their own fruit, little ones measured by the palm of the hand? Shall priest and prophet be killed in the sanctuary of the Lord?
Herre, skåda dock; och se till hvem du så förderfvat hafver. Skola nu qvinnorna äta sin lifsfrukt, de yngsta barnen, som näppliga en spann lång äro? Skola Propheterna och Presterna uti Herrans helgedom så dräpne varda?
21 SIN. The boy and the old man lie down on the ground outside. My virgins and my youths have fallen by the sword. You have slain them in the day of your fury. You have struck down, and you have not shown pity.
På gatorna, neder på jordene, lågo både unge och gamle; mina jungfrur och ynglingar, äro fallne genom svärd; du hafver dräpit på dine vredes dag, du hafver slagtat utan barmhertighet.
22 THAU. You have called, as if to a day of solemnity, those who would terrify me all around. And there was no one, in the day of the fury of the Lord, who escaped or was left behind. Those whom I educated and nourished, my enemy has consumed.
Du hafver kallat mina fiendar allt omkring, lika som till en helgedag, så att på Herrans vredes dag ingen undsluppen och igenlefd är; de som jag uppfödt och uppfostrat hafver, dem hafver fienden förgjort.
