Lamentations 5
1 Remember, O Lord, what hath occurred to us, look down, and behold our disgrace.
| اذْكُرْ يَا رَبُّ مَا أَصَابَنَا. انْظُرْ وَعَايِنْ عَارَنَا. | ١ |
2 Our inheritance is turned over to strangers, our houses to aliens.
| قَدْ تَحَوَّلَ مِيرَاثُنَا إِلَى الْغُرَبَاءِ وَبُيُوتُنَا إِلَى الأَجَانِبِ. | ٢ |
3 Orphans are we become, and [we are] without a father, our mothers are like widows.
| أَصْبَحْنَا أَيْتَاماً لَا أَبَ لَنَا، وَأُمَّهَاتُنَا كَالأَرَامِلِ. | ٣ |
4 Our water have we drunk for money: our wood cometh to us for a purchase price.
| بِالْفِضَّةِ شَرِبْنَا مَاءَنَا. وَبِثَمَنٍ ابْتَعْنَا حَطَبَنَا. | ٤ |
5 Up to our necks are we pursued: we are fatigued, and no rest is allowed us.
| دَاسَ مُضْطَهِدُونَا أَعْنَاقَنَا، أَعْيَيْنَا وَلَمْ نَجِدْ رَاحَةً. | ٥ |
6 To Egypt do we stretch out our hand, to Asshur, to be satisfied with bread.
| خَضَعْنَا بَاسِطِينَ أَيْدِينَا إِلَى أَشُّورَ وَمِصْرَ لِنَشْبَعَ خُبْزاً. | ٦ |
7 Our fathers have sinned, and are no more; but we have indeed to bear their iniquities.
| قَدْ أَخْطَأَ آبَاؤُنَا، وَتَوَارَوْا عَنِ الْوُجُودِ، وَنَحْنُ نَتَحَمَّلُ عِقَابَ آثَامِهِمْ. | ٧ |
8 Servants rule over us: no one delivereth us out of their hand.
| تَسَلَّطَ عَلَيْنَا عَبِيدٌ، وَلَيْسَ مَنْ يُنْقِذُنَا مِنْ أَيْدِيهِمْ. | ٨ |
9 At the peril of our life must we bring home our bread, because of the sword of the wilderness.
| بِأَنْفُسِنَا نَأْتِي بِخُبْزِنَا مُجَازِفِينَ بِحَيَاتِنَا مِنْ جَرَّاءِ السَّيْفِ الْكَامِنِ لَنَا فِي الصَّحْرَاءِ. | ٩ |
10 Our skin gloweth like an oven, because of the heat of famine.
| جِلْدُنَا مُلْتَهِبٌ كَتَنُّورٍ مِنْ نِيرَانِ الْجُوعِ الْمُحْرِقَةِ. | ١٠ |
11 Women have they ravished in Zion, virgins, in the cities of Judah.
| اغْتَصَبُوا النِّسَاءَ فِي صِهْيَوْنَ وَالْعَذَارَى فِي مُدُنِ يَهُوذَا. | ١١ |
12 Princes were hanged up by their hand: the faces of elders were not honored.
| عُلِّقَ النُّبَلاءُ بِأَيْدِيهِمْ وَلَمْ يُوَقِّرُوا الشُّيُوخَ. | ١٢ |
13 Young men they bore to the mill, and boys stumbled under the wood.
| سَخَّرُوا الشُّبَّانَ لِلطَّحْنِ، وَهَوَى الصِّبْيَانُ تَحْتَ الْحَطَبِ. | ١٣ |
14 The elders have ceased from the gate, young men, from their singing.
| هَجَرَ الشُّيُوخُ بَوَّابَةَ الْمَدِينَةِ، وَكَفَّ الشُّبَّانُ عَنْ غِنَائِهِمْ. | ١٤ |
15 Ceased hath the joy of our heart: our dance is changed into mourning.
| انْقَطَعَ فَرَحُ قَلْبِنَا وَتَحَوَّلَ رَقْصُنَا إِلَى نَوْحٍ. | ١٥ |
16 Fallen is the crown of our head: woe to us, for we have sinned.
| تَهَاوَى إِكْلِيلُ رَأْسِنَا، فَوَيْلٌ لَنَا لأَنَّنَا قَدْ أَخْطَأْنَا. | ١٦ |
17 Because of this is our heart made sick; for these things are our eyes dimmed;
| لِهَذَا غُشِيَ عَلَى قُلُوبِنَا، وَأَظْلَمَتْ عُيُونُنَا. | ١٧ |
18 Because of the mount of Zion which is wasted, foxes walk about on it.
| لأَنَّ جَبَلَ صِهْيَوْنَ أَضْحَى أَطْلالاً تَرْتَعُ فِيهِ الثَّعَالِبُ. | ١٨ |
19 O thou, Lord, wilt truly abide for ever, thy throne existeth throughout all generations.
| أَمَّا أَنْتَ يَا رَبُّ، فَتَمْلِكُ إِلَى الأَبَدِ، وَعَرْشُكَ ثَابِتٌ مِنْ جِيلٍ إِلَى جِيلٍ. | ١٩ |
20 Wherefore wilt thou forget us for ever! wilt thou forsake us for so long a time?
| لِمَاذَا تَنْسَانَا إِلَى الأَبَدِ وَتَتْرُكُنَا طُولَ الأَيَّامِ؟ | ٢٠ |
21 Cause us to return, O Lord, unto thee, and we will return: renew our days as of old.
| رُدَّنَا يَا رَبُّ إِلَيْكَ فَنَرْجِعَ. جِدِّدْ أَيَّامَنَا كَمَا فِي الْعُهُودِ السَّالِفَةِ. | ٢١ |
22 For wouldst thou entirely reject us, be wroth with us to the uttermost?
| إِلا إِنْ كُنْتَ قَدْ رَفَضْتَنَا كُلَّ الرَّفْضِ وَغَضِبْتَ عَلَيْنَا أَشَدَّ الْغَضَبِ. | ٢٢ |
