Lamentations 2
1 [ALEPH-BET] How the Lord clouds in His anger the daughter of Zion, He has cast from the heavens [to] earth the beauty of Israel, And has not remembered His footstool in the day of His anger.
怎麼! 上主竟然發怒，使熙雍女郎暗淡無光! 將以色列的榮華由高天拋在地上! 在他震怒之日，不再想念自己的腳凳!
2 The Lord has swallowed up, He has not pitied any of the pleasant places of Jacob, He has broken down in His wrath The fortresses of the daughter of Judah, He has caused to come to the earth, He defiled the kingdom and its princes.
上主毫不留情地破壞了雅各伯所有的牧場；他滿含怒氣，夷平了猶大女郎的一切保壘，將她的君王及首長推倒在地，加以侮辱。
3 He has cut off in the heat of anger every horn of Israel, He has turned backward His right hand From the face of the enemy, And He burns against Jacob as a flaming fire, It has devoured all around.
他怒火炎炎，粉碎了以色列的一切勢力；在仇人前，抽回他的右手；他像吞滅四周的烈火，焚燒了雅各伯；
4 He has bent His bow as an enemy, His right hand has stood as an adversary, And He slays all the desirable ones of the eye, In the tent of the daughter of Zion, He has poured out as fire His fury.
他像敵人一樣，安穩地舉起自己的右手；拉開他的弓。像敵人似的屠殺了一切英俊的少年；在熙雍女郎的帳幕內，發洩了他似火的烈怒。
5 The Lord has been as an enemy, He has swallowed up Israel, He has swallowed up all her palaces, He has destroyed His fortresses, And He multiplies in the daughter of Judah Mourning and moaning.
上主好像一個仇人，毀滅了以色列，毀滅了她所有的宮室，蕩平了她的一切保壘，增加猶大女郎的哀號哭泣。
6 And He shakes as a garden His dwelling place, He has destroyed His appointed place, YHWH has forgotten in Zion the appointed time and Sabbath, And despises, in the indignation of His anger, king and priest.
上主像破壞園圃一樣，破壞了他自己的帷幔，毀滅了自己的會幕，使人在熙雍忘卻慶節和安息日；他在烈怒下，廢棄了君王和司祭。
7 The Lord has cast off His altar, He has rejected His sanctuary, He has shut up into the hand of the enemy The walls of her palaces, A noise they have made in the house of YHWH Like a day of appointment.
上主厭棄了自己的祭壇，嫌惡了自己的聖所；將宮殿的牆垣交在敵人手中，讓他們在上主的殿宇內，叫囂喧嚷，好像節日一樣。
8 YHWH has devised to destroy the wall of the daughter of Zion, He has stretched out a line, He has not turned His hand from destroying, And He causes bulwark and wall to mourn, Together—they have been weak.
上主已經決意毀壞熙雍女郎的牆垣，既展開了繩索，決不抽回自己的手，直到將它完全推翻，使城郭和保壘哀哭，一同傾覆。
9 Sunk into the earth have her gates, He has destroyed and broken her bars, Her king and her princes [are] among the nations, There is no law, also her prophets Have not found vision from YHWH.
城門已陷於地中，上主已折斷她的門閂，她的君王首長，流落異鄉，再沒有法律；她的眾先知也不再獲得上主的神視。
10 Sit on the earth—[the] elderly of Zion’s daughter keep silent, They have caused dust to go up on their head, They have girded on sackcloth, The virgins of Jerusalem have Put their head down to the earth.
熙雍女郎的眾長老，坐在地上默然不語，頭上撒上灰土，腰間束著麻衣；耶路撒冷的處女都俯首至地。
11 My eyes have been consumed by tears, My bowels have been troubled, My liver has been poured out to the earth, For the breach of the daughter of my people; In infant and suckling being feeble, In the broad places of the city,
我的眼痛哭，至於失明，五內沸騰，肝腦塗地。眼見我的女兒──人民遭受摧殘，眼看著幼童乳兒昏厥在城中的街道上。
12 To their mothers they say, “Where [are] grain and wine?” In their becoming feeble as a pierced one In the broad places of the city, In their soul pouring itself out into the bosom of their mothers.
他們對母親說：「那裏有餅有酒﹖」他們在城中的街道上，正奄奄一息，有如受傷的人，在母親的懷中，氣絕夭折!
13 What do I testify [to] you, what do I liken to you, O daughter of Jerusalem? What do I equal to you, and I comfort you, O virgin daughter of Zion? For great as a sea [is] your breach, Who gives healing to you?
耶路撒冷女郎! 我可用什麼來譬喻你，拿什麼來比擬你呢﹖處女，熙雍女郎! 我可用什麼來幫助你，拿什麼來安慰你呢﹖因為你的創傷，浩大如海，又有誰能夠治愈你﹖
14 Your prophets have seen for you a false and insipid thing, And have not revealed concerning your iniquity, To return your captivity, And they see for you false burdens and causes of expulsion.
你的眾先知有關你的神視，盡是虛幻欺詐；他們從未揭露你的罪惡，以挽回你的命運；他們關於你所提供的神諭，盡是虛幻和騙局。
15 Everyone passing by the way clapped hands at you, They have hissed—and they shake the head At the daughter of Jerusalem: “Is this the city of which they said: The perfection of beauty, a joy to all the land?”
所有過路的人，都向你鼓掌，向耶路撒冷女郎噓唏，且搖頭說：「難道這就是人人所說美麗無比，全世界的喜悅﹖」
16 Opened against you their mouth have all your enemies, They have hissed, indeed, they gnash the teeth, They have said: “We have swallowed [her] up, Surely this [is] the day that we looked for, We have found—we have seen.”
你的仇人都向你張開口，噓唏而切齒說：「我們終於吞滅了她! 這就是我們所期待的一日，我們終於得到手，終於看見了! 」
17 YHWH has done that which He devised, He has fulfilled His saying That He commanded from the days of old, He has broken down and has not pitied, And causes an enemy to rejoice over you, He lifted up the horn of your adversaries.
上主實踐了自己的計劃，完成了他昔日所宣告的斷語；實行破壞，毫無憐憫，使仇人幸災樂禍，使敵人高舉他的角。
18 Their heart has cried to the Lord; O wall of the daughter of Zion, Cause to go down tears as a stream daily and nightly, do not give rest to yourself, Do not let the daughter of your eye stand still.
處女，熙雍女郎! 你應該從心裏呼號上主；白天黑夜，讓眼淚像江河般地湧流，不要歇息也不要讓你的眼睛休息。
19 Arise, cry aloud in the night, At the beginning of the watches. Pour out your heart as water, Before the face of the Lord, Lift up to Him your hands, for the soul of your infants, Who are feeble with hunger at the head of all out-places.
夜間每到交更時分，你該起來哀禱，像傾水似的，向上主傾訴你心；應為了你嬰兒的性命，向上主舉起你的雙手，因為他們因饑餓而昏迷街頭!
20 See, O YHWH, and look attentively, To whom You have acted thus, Do women eat their fruit, infants of a handbreadth? Slain in the sanctuary of the Lord are priest and prophet?
上主，請你迴目憐視! 你這樣做，究竟是對付誰呢﹖難道婦女應該吃掉自己的兒子﹖吃掉自己孕育的嬰兒﹖難道在上主的聖所裏，應該殺死司祭和先知﹖
21 Lain on the earth [in] out-places have young and old, My virgins and my young men have fallen by the sword, You have slain in a day of Your anger, You have slaughtered—You have not pitied.
街上遍地躺臥的，盡是孩童和老人；喪身刀下的，盡是我的處女和少年；在你震怒之日，你斬殺誅戮，毫不留情。
22 You call as [at] a day of appointment, My fears from all around, And there has not been in the day of the anger of YHWH, An escaped and remaining one, They whom I stretched out and nourished, My enemy has consumed!
你由四方給我召來施行恐怖的人，好像過節一樣；在上主發怒之日，無人能夠逃脫，或者幸免；我孕育撫養的，我的仇人都殺盡滅絕。
