Lamentations 2

1 Oh how hath the Lord covered in his anger the daughter of Zion with a cloud; he hath cast down from heaven unto the earth the ornament of Israel; and he hath not remembered his footstool on the day of his anger!

Hono ʻikai ʻufiʻufi ʻe Sihova ʻae ʻofefine ʻo Saione ʻaki ʻae ʻao ʻi hono houhau! Pea fakahifo mei he langi ki māmani ʻae nāunau ʻo ʻIsileli, pea taʻemanatu ki hono tuʻunga vaʻe ʻi he ʻaho ʻo hono houhau!

2 The Lord hath destroyed and hath not pitied all the habitation of Jacob: he hath thrown down in his wrath the strong-holds of the daughter of Judah: he hath thrown them down to the ground; he hath defiled the kingdom and its princes.

Kuo folo hifo ʻe Sihova ʻae ngaahi nofoʻanga ʻo Sēkope, pea naʻe ʻikai te ne manavaʻofa; kuo ne holoki hifo ʻi hono houhau ʻae ngaahi potu mālohi ʻoe ʻofefine ʻo Siuta; kuo ne hifo ʻakinautolu ki he kelekele: kuo ne fakaʻuliʻi ʻae puleʻanga mo e ngaahi houʻeiki ʻo ia.

3 He hath hewn away in his fierce anger the whole horn of Israel; he hath drawn back his right hand before the enemy; and he burnt against Jacob like a flaming fire, which devoureth round about.

Kuo ne tutuʻu ʻi hono houhau lahi ʻae nifo kotoa pē ʻo ʻIsileli: kuo ne toʻo ʻa hono nima toʻomataʻu mei he ʻao ʻoe fili, pea ne vela kia Sēkope ʻo hangē ko e afi kakaha, ʻaia ʻoku fakaʻauha takatakai.

4 He bent his bow like an enemy; he held out his right hand as an adversary, and slew all that were pleasant to the eye: in the tent of the daughter of Zion did he pour out like fire his fury.

Kuo ne teke ʻa ʻene kaufana ʻo hangē ha fili: naʻa ne tuʻu mai mo hono nima toʻomataʻu ʻo hangē ha fili, pea ne tāmateʻi ʻakinautolu kotoa pē naʻe hoihoifua ʻi he fale fehikitaki ʻoe ʻofefine ʻo Saione: naʻa ne lilingi hono houhau ʻo hangē ko e afi.

5 The Lord became like an enemy; he destroyed Israel, he destroyed all her palaces, he ruined her strong-holds, and he increased in the midst of the daughter of Judah groaning and wailing.

Naʻe hoko ʻa Sihova ke tatau mo e fili: kuo ne folo hifo ʻa ʻIsileli, kuo ne folo hifo ʻa hono ngaahi fale lelei kotoa pē: kuo ne maumauʻi ʻa hono ngaahi potu mālohi, pea kuo ne fakatupu ki he ʻofefine ʻo Saione ʻae mamahi mo e tangi.

6 And he violently wasted, as if it were a garden, his tabernacle; he destroyed his place of assembly: [yea, ] the Lord hath caused to be forgotten in Zion the solemn feast and the day of rest, and hath despised in the indignation of his anger both king and priest.

Pea kuo ne ʻave fakamālohi ʻa hono fale fehikitaki, ʻo hangē ko ha meʻa ʻoe ngoue: kuo ne fakaʻauha ʻae ngaahi potu ʻoe fakataha: kuo ngaohi ʻe Sihova ke ngalo ʻae ngaahi kātoanga mamafa mo e ngaahi ʻaho tapu ʻi Saione, pea kuo ne manuki ʻi hono houhau lahi ʻae tuʻi mo e taulaʻeiki.

7 The Lord hath cast off his altar, he hath made void his sanctuary, he hath surrendered into the hand of the enemy the walls of her palaces: they have made their voice to resound in the house of the Lord, as on a day of a solemn feast.

Kuo liʻaki ʻe Sihova ʻa hono feilaulauʻanga, kuo ne fehiʻa ki hono potu tapu, kuo ne tukuange ki he nima ʻoe fili ʻae ngaahi holisi ʻo hono ngaahi fale lelei; kuo nau mavava ʻi he fale ʻo Sihova, ʻo hangē ʻi he ʻaho ʻoe kātoanga mamafa.

8 The Lord hath resolved to destroy the wall of the daughter of Zion; he stretched out the measuring-line, he withdrew not his hand from destroying: and he caused the rampart and the wall to mourn; together they languish.

Kuo finangalo ʻa Sihova ke maumau ʻae ʻā ʻoe ʻofefine ʻo Saione: kuo ne falō ha afo, naʻe ʻikai te ne taʻofi hono nima mei he fakaʻauha: ko ia naʻa ne ngaohi ʻae tanu mo e ʻā ke tangi; naʻa nau fakaʻaʻau ki mui fakataha.

9 Sunk into the ground are her gates, he hath ruined and broken her bars: her king and her princes are among the nations without any law; her prophets also obtain no more any vision from the Lord.

Kuo ngalo hifo ʻi he kelekele ʻa hono ngaahi matapā: kuo ne fesiʻi mo maumauʻi hono ngaahi ʻakau songo; ʻoku ʻi he kakai Senitaile ʻa hono tuʻi mo hono houʻeiki: ʻoku ʻikai ha fono: ko ʻene kau palōfita foki ʻoku ʻikai ke kei ʻilo ha meʻa hā mai meia Sihova.

10 The elders of the daughter of Zion sit upon the ground, they keep silence: they have thrown dust upon their head; they have girt themselves with sackcloth: the virgins of Jerusalem have brought down low their head to the ground.

‌ʻOku nofo hifo ʻi he kelekele pea ʻoku longo pe ʻae kau mātuʻa ʻoe ʻofefine ʻo Saione: kuo nau pani efu ʻa honau ʻulu; kuo nau fakavala ʻaki ʻakinautolu ʻae tauangaʻa: ko e kau tāupoʻou ʻo Selūsalema ʻoku nau fakatōmapeʻe honau ʻulu ʻo aʻu ki he kelekele.

11 My eyes do fail with tears, my bowels are heated, my liver is poured upon the earth because of the breach of the daughter of my people; because babes and sucklings faint away in the streets of the town.

‌ʻOku vaivai ʻi he loʻimata ʻa hoku mata, ʻoku ngaue hoku fatu, ʻoku lilingi hoku ʻate ki he kelekele, ko e meʻa ʻi he fakaʻauha ʻae ʻofefine ʻo hoku kakai; koeʻuhi ʻoku pongia ʻae tamaiki mo e kau valevale ʻi he ngaahi hala ʻoe kolo.

12 To their mothers they say, Where is corn and wine? when they faint away like the deadly wounded in the streets of the city, when their soul is poured out on the bosom of their mother.

‌ʻOku nau pehē ki heʻenau ngaahi faʻē, “Kofaʻā ʻae koane mo e uaine?” ʻI heʻenau pongia ʻo hangē ko e kau kafo ʻi he hala ʻoe kolo, ʻi he ʻaho ko ia, ʻaia naʻe lilingi ai ʻa honau laumālie ki he fatafata ʻo ʻenau ngaahi faʻē.

13 What shall I take to witness for thee? what shall I compare unto thee, O daughter of Jerusalem? what shall I find equal to thee, that I may comfort thee, O virgin daughter of Zion? for great like the sea is thy breach; who can bring healing to thee?

Ko e hā te u ʻatu ke fakamoʻoni kiate koe? Ko e hā te u fakatātā ʻaki kiate koe ʻe ʻofefine ʻo Selūsalema? Ko e hā te u fakatatau mo koe, koeʻuhi ke u fakafiemālieʻi koe ʻe ʻofefine ʻo Saione? He ko hoʻo maumau ʻoku lahi ʻo hangē ko e lahi: ko hai ʻe fakamoʻui koe?

14 Thy prophets foresaw for thee vain and deceptive things; and they did not lay open thy iniquity, to cause thy backsliders to return: but they foresaw for thee prophecies of falsehood and seduction.

Kuo ʻilo ʻe hoʻo kau palōfita ʻae ngaahi meʻa vaʻinga mo vale koeʻuhi ko koe: pea naʻe ʻikai te nau fakahā hoʻo kovi koeʻuhi ke fakaʻafeʻi hoʻo pōpula; ka kuo nau ʻilo koeʻuhi ko koe ʻae ngaahi kikite loi, mo ngaahi meʻa fakahē.

15 All that pass by [this] way clap their hands on account of thee; they hiss and shake their head over the daughter of Jerusalem: [saying, ] Is this the city that men called The perfection of beauty. The joy for all the earth?

‌ʻOku pasi kiate koe ʻakinautolu kotoa pē ʻoku ʻalu ange; ʻoku nau ʻisa mo kalokalo honau ʻulu ki he ʻofefine ʻo Selusalema, ʻo nau pehē, “Ko eni koā ʻae kolo ʻaia ʻoku ui ʻe he kakai ko e toulekeleka haohaoa, ko e fiefiaʻanga ʻo māmani kotoa pē?”

16 All thy enemies open wide their mouth against thee; they hiss and gnash their teeth; they say, We have swallowed her up: ah, truly this is the day that we hoped for; we have found, we have seen it.

Kuo fakamanga honau ngutu kiate koe ʻe ho kau fili kotoa pē: ʻoku nau ʻisa pea fengaiʻitaki ʻae nifo: ʻonau pehē, “Kuo tau folo hifo ia: ko e moʻoni ko eni ʻae ʻaho naʻa tau ʻamanaki ki ai kuo tau ʻilo, kuo tau mamata ai.”

17 The Lord hath done what he had resolved; he hath accomplished his word which he had ordained already in the days of old; he hath thrown down, and hath not pitied; and he hath caused to rejoice over thee thy enemy, he hath raised on high the horn of thy adversaries.

Kuo fai ʻe Sihova ʻaia naʻa ne filioʻi; kuo ne fakamoʻoni ki heʻene folofola ʻaia naʻa ne fekau ʻi he ngaahi ʻaho ʻi muʻa: kuo ne holoki hifo, pea naʻe ʻikai te ne manavaʻofa; pea kuo ne pule ke fiefia ho fili kiate koe, kuo ne fokotuʻu ki ʻolunga ʻae nifo ʻo ho kau fili.

18 Their heart crieth unto the Lord, O thou wall of the daughter of Zion, let tears run down like a stream day and night; allow thyself no rest; let not the apple of thy eye be still.

Naʻe tangi honau loto kia Sihova, ʻE ʻā ʻoe ʻofefine ʻo Saione, tuku ke tafe hifo ʻae ngaahi loʻimata ʻi he ʻaho mo e pō, ʻo hangē ha vaitafe: ʻoua naʻa ke malolō; ke ʻoua naʻa tuku ʻe ho kanoʻi mata.

19 Arise, complain aloud in the night, in the beginning of the watches; pour out like water thy heart before the face of the Lord: lift up toward him thy hands because of the life of thy babes, that faint away for hunger at the corner of all the streets.

Tuʻu hake, pea ke kalanga ʻi he pō, ʻi he kamataʻanga ʻoe ngaahi leʻo, huaʻi ho loto ʻo hangē ko e vai ʻi he ʻao ʻoe fofonga ʻoe ʻEiki: hiki hake ho nima kiate ia koeʻuhi ke moʻui ʻa hoʻo tamaiki iiki, ʻaia ʻoku mate fiekaia, ʻi he muʻa hala kotoa pē.

20 See, O Lord, and behold! to whom hast thou ever done the like? Shall women, then, eat their own fruit, the babes they have tenderly nursed? or shall there be slain in the sanctuary of the Lord the priest and the prophet?

“ʻE ʻEiki ke ke vakai pea tokanga kiate kinautolu kuo ke fai pehē ki ai. ʻE kai ʻe he kau fefine ʻa honau fua, mo e tamaiki, ʻoku hanga pe taha ʻa honau lōloa? ʻE mate tāmateʻi, ʻae taulaʻeiki mo e palōfita ʻi he fale tapu ʻo Sihova?

21 There lie down on the ground in the streets the lad and the ancient: my virgins and my young men are fallen by the sword: thou hast slain on the day of thy anger; thou hast slaughtered, thou hast not pitied.

“ʻAe kakai talavou mo e mātuʻa ʻoku nau tokoto ʻi he kelekele ʻi he ngaahi hala: kuo tō ʻi he heletā ʻeku kau tāupoʻou mo ʻeku kau talavou: kuo ke tāmateʻi ʻakinautolu ʻi he ʻaho ʻo ho houhau; kuo ke tāmateʻi pea ʻikai manavaʻofa.

22 Thou hast called, as it were on a festive day, my evil neighbors from round about; and there was not on the day of the Lord's anger one that escaped or remained: those that I had tenderly nursed and reared up my enemy brought to their end.

Kuo ke uiuiʻi ʻae ngaahi fakamanavahē ke kāpui au, ʻo hangē ʻi ha ʻaho mamafa, ko ia naʻe ʻikai siʻi ke hao pe toe ha niʻihi ʻi he ʻaho ʻoe houhau ʻo Sihova: ʻakinautolu naʻe fakakofuʻi mo tauhiʻi ʻeau kuo fakaʻauha ʻe he fili.