< 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.
Ah, betapa Tuhan menyelubungi puteri Sion dengan awan dalam murka-Nya! Keagungan Israel dilemparkan-Nya dari langit ke bumi. Tak diingat-Nya akan tumpuan kaki-Nya tatkala Ia murka.
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.
Tanpa belas kasihan Tuhan memusnahkan segala ladang Yakub. Ia menghancurkan dalam amarah-Nya benteng-benteng puteri Yehuda. Ia mencampakkan ke bumi dan mencemarkan kerajaan dan pemimpin-pemimpinnya.
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.
Dalam murka yang menyala-nyala Ia mematahkan segala tanduk Israel, menarik kembali tangan kanan-Nya pada waktu si seteru mendekat, membakar Yakub laksana api yang menyala-nyala, yang menjilat ke sekeliling.
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.
Ia membidikkan panah-Nya seperti seorang seteru dengan mengacungkan tangan kanan-Nya seperti seorang lawan; membunuh segala yang menyenangkan mata dalam kemah puteri Sion, memuntahkan geram-Nya seperti api.
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.
Tuhan menjadi seperti seorang seteru; Ia menghancurkan Israel, meremukkan segala purinya, mempuingkan benteng-bentengnya, memperbanyak susah dan kesah pada puteri Yehuda.
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.
Ia melanda kemah-Nya seperti kebun, menghancurkan tempat pertemuan-Nya. Di Sion TUHAN menjadikan orang lupa akan perayaan dan sabat, dan menolak dalam kegeraman murka-Nya raja dan imam.
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.
Tuhan membuang mezbah-Nya, meninggalkan tempat kudus-Nya, menyerahkan ke dalam tangan seteru tembok puri-purinya. Teriakan ramai mereka dalam Bait Allah seperti keramaian pada hari perayaan jemaah.
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.
TUHAN telah memutuskan untuk mempuingkan tembok puteri Sion. Ia mengukur semuanya dengan tali pengukur, Ia tak menahan tangan-Nya untuk menghancurkannya. Ia menjadikan berkabung tembok luar dan tembok dalam, mereka merana semua.
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.
Terbenam gapura-gapuranya di dalam tanah; TUHAN menghancurkan dan meluluhkan palang-palang pintunya. Rajanya dan pemimpin-pemimpinnya berada di antara bangsa-bangsa asing. Tak ada petunjuk dari TUHAN, bahkan nabi-nabi tidak menerima lagi wahyu dari pada-Nya.
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.
Duduklah tertegun di tanah para tua-tua puteri Sion; mereka menabur abu di atas kepala, dan mengenakan kain kabung. Dara-dara Yerusalem menundukkan kepalanya ke tanah.
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,
Mataku kusam dengan air mata, remuk redam hatiku; hancur habis hatiku karena keruntuhan puteri bangsaku, sebab jatuh pingsan kanak-kanak dan bayi di lapangan-lapangan kota.
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.
Kepada ibunya mereka bertanya: "Mana roti dan anggur?", sedang mereka jatuh pingsan seperti orang yang gugur di lapangan-lapangan kota, ketika menghembuskan nafas di pangkuan ibunya.
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?
Apa yang dapat kunyatakan kepadamu, dengan apa aku dapat menyamakan engkau, ya puteri Yerusalem? Dengan apa aku dapat membandingkan engkau untuk dihibur, ya dara, puteri Sion? Karena luas bagaikan laut reruntuhanmu; siapa yang akan memulihkan engkau?
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.
Nabi-nabimu melihat bagimu penglihatan yang dusta dan hampa. Mereka tidak menyatakan kesalahanmu, guna memulihkan engkau kembali. Mereka mengeluarkan bagimu ramalan-ramalan yang dusta dan menyesatkan.
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?”
Sekalian orang yang lewat bertepuk tangan karena engkau. Mereka bersuit-suit dan menggelengkan kepalanya mengenai puteri Yerusalem: "Inikah kota yang disebut orang kota yang paling indah, kesukaan dunia semesta?"
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.”
Terhadap engkau semua seterumu mengangakan mulutnya. Mereka bersuit-suit dan menggertakkan gigi: "Kami telah memusnahkannya!", kata mereka, "Nah, inilah harinya yang kami nanti-nantikan, kami mengalaminya, kami melihatnya!"
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.
TUHAN telah menjalankan yang dirancangkan-Nya, Ia melaksanakan yang difirmankan-Nya, yang diperintahkan-Nya dahulu kala; Ia merusak tanpa belas kasihan, Ia menjadikan si seteru senang atas kamu, Ia meninggikan tanduk lawan-lawanmu.
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.
Berteriaklah kepada Tuhan dengan nyaring, hai, puteri Sion, cucurkanlah air mata bagaikan sungai siang dan malam; janganlah kauberikan dirimu istirahat, janganlah matamu tenang!
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.
Bangunlah, mengeranglah pada malam hari, pada permulaan giliran jaga malam; curahkanlah isi hatimu bagaikan air di hadapan Tuhan, angkatlah tanganmu kepada-Nya demi hidup anak-anakmu, yang jatuh pingsan karena lapar di ujung-ujung jalan!
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?
Lihatlah, TUHAN, dan tiliklah, kepada siapakah Engkau telah berbuat ini? Apakah perempuan harus makan anak kandungnya, anak-anak yang masih dibuai? Apakah dalam tempat kudus Tuhan harus dibunuh imam dan nabi?
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.
Terbaring di debu jalan pemuda dan orang tua; dara-daraku dan teruna-terunaku gugur oleh pedang; Engkau membunuh mereka tatkala Engkau murka, tanpa belas kasihan Engkau menyembelih mereka!
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!
Seolah-olah pada hari perayaan Engkau mengundang semua yang kutakuti dari sekeliling. Tatkala TUHAN murka tak ada seorang yang luput atau selamat. Mereka yang kubuai dan kubesarkan dibinasakan seteruku.

< Lamentations 2 >