Lamentations 2

1 How the LORD covered the daughter of Zion with a cloud in his anger. He has cast down from heaven to the earth the splendor of Israel, and hasn't remembered his footstool in the day of his anger.

١ كَيْفَ خَيَّمَ الرَّبُّ فِي غَضَبِهِ بِالظَّلامِ عَلَى ابْنَةِ صِهْيَوْنَ، وَطَرَحَ مِنَ السَّمَاءِ إِلَى الأَرْضِ جَلالَ إِسْرَائِيلَ، وَلَمْ يَذْكُرْ مَوْطِئَ قَدَمَيْهِ فِي يَوْمِ سُخْطِهِ؟

2 The LORD has swallowed up all the habitations of Jacob, and has not pitied. He has thrown down in his wrath the strongholds of the daughter of Judah. He has brought them down to the ground; he has humiliated the kingdom and its rulers.

٢ قَدْ هَدَمَ الرَّبُّ مِنْ غَيْرِ رَحْمَةٍ جَمِيعَ مَسَاكِنِ يَعْقُوبَ. قَوَّضَ بِغَضَبِهِ مَعَاقِلَ ابْنَةِ يَهُوذَا، وَأَلْحَقَ الْعَارَ بِالْمَمْلَكَةِ وَحُكَّامِهَا، إِذْ سَوَّاهَا بِالأَرْضِ.

3 He has cut off in fierce anger all the strength of Israel. He has drawn back his right hand before the enemy. He has blazed in Jacob like a flaming fire, which devours all around.

٣ بَتَرَ فِي احْتِدَامِ غَضَبِهِ كُلَّ قُوَّةِ إِسْرَائِيلَ. رَدَّ يَمِينَهُ إِلَى الْوَرَاءِ أَمَامَ الأَعْدَاءِ، وَاشْتَعَلَ مِثْلَ نَارٍ مُلْتَهِبَةٍ فِي إِسْرَائِيلَ، تَلْتَهِمُ كُلَّ مَا حَوْلَهَا.

4 He has bent his bow like an enemy; his right hand he has positioned like an adversary. He killed all that were pleasant to the eye. In the tent of the daughter of Zion he has poured out his wrath like fire.

٤ وَتَّرَ قَوْسَهُ كَعَدُوٍّ. نَصَبَ يَمِينَهُ كَمُبْغِضٍ. ذَبَحَ كَعَدُوٍّ كُلَّ عَزِيزٍ فِي عُيُونِنَا. وَسَكَبَ سُخْطَهُ كَنَارٍ عَلَى خَيْمَةِ ابْنَةِ صِهْيَوْنَ.

5 The LORD has become as an enemy; he has swallowed up Israel; he has swallowed up all her palaces and has destroyed its strongholds. He has multiplied in the daughter of Judah mourning and lamentation.

٥ وَأَصْبَحَ الرَّبُّ كَعَدُوٍّ، فَقَوَّضَ إِسْرَائِيلَ، وَهَدَمَ جَمِيعَ قُصُورِهَا، وَدَمَّرَ حُصُونَهَا، وَأَكْثَرَ النَّوْحَ وَالْعَويِلَ فِي ابْنَةِ صِهْيَوْنَ.

6 He has done violence to his temple, as if it were a vineyard; he has destroyed his place of assembly. The LORD has caused solemn assembly and Sabbath to be forgotten in Zion, and he has spurned in his fierce anger king and priest and prince.

٦ نَقَضَ مَظَلَّتَهُ كَمَا يُنْقَضُ كُوخٌ مِنَ الأَغْصَانِ فِي حَدِيقَةٍ، وَرَدَمَ مَقَرَّ مُجْتَمَعِهِ. جَعَلَ الرَّبُّ صِهْيَوْنَ تَنْسَى مَوَاسِمَ أَعْيَادِهَا وَسُبُوتَهَا. وَنَبَذَ بِاحْتِدَامِ سُخْطِهِ الْمَلِكَ وَالْكَاهِنَ.

7 The LORD has rejected his altar, he has disowned his sanctuary, and has given up into the hand of the enemy the walls of her palaces. They have made a shout in the house of the LORD, as in the day of a solemn assembly.

٧ كَرِهَ الرَّبُّ مَذْبَحَهُ، وَتَبَرَّأَ مِنْ مَقْدِسِهِ، وَسَلَّمَ أَسْوَارَ قُصُورِهَا إِلَى يَدِ الأَعْدَاءِ الَّذِينَ عَلا هُتَافُهُمْ فِي بَيْتِ الرَّبِّ كَمَا كَانَ يَعْلُو هُتَافُنَا فِي الأَعْيَادِ.

8 The LORD has determined to destroy the wall of the daughter of Zion. He has stretched out the line, he has not withdrawn his hand from destroying. He has made the rampart and wall to lament; they languish together.

٨ عَزَمَ الرَّبُّ أَنْ يُقَوِّضَ سُورَ ابْنَةِ صِهْيَوْنَ. مَدَّ خَيْطَ الْقِيَاسِ وَلَمْ يَرُدَّ يَدَهُ عَنْ سَحْقِهَا، فَاسْتَبْكَى الْمِتْرَسَةَ وَالسُّورَ فَسَقَطَا مَعاً.

9 Her gates are sunk into the ground; he has destroyed and broken her bars. Her king and her princes are among the nations where the law is no more, and her prophets find no vision from the LORD.

٩ غَاصَتْ فِي الأَرْضِ بَوَّابَاتُهَا، دَمَّرَ وَحَطَّمَ مَزَالِيجَهَا. نَفَى مَلِكَهَا وَرُؤَسَاءَهَا بَيْنَ الأُمَمِ. زَالَتِ الشَّرِيعَةُ، وَلَمْ يَعُدْ أَنْبِيَاؤُهَا يَحْصُلُونَ عَلَى رُؤْيَا مِنْ عِنْدِ الرَّبِّ.

10 The elders of the daughter of Zion sit on the ground in silence. They have cast up dust on their heads; they have clothed themselves with sackcloth. The virgins of Jerusalem hang down their heads to the ground.

١٠ يَجْلِسُ شُيُوخُ ابْنَةِ صِهْيَوْنَ عَلَى الأَرْضِ صَامِتِينَ. عَفَّرُوا بِالرَّمَادِ رُؤُوسَهُمْ، وَارْتَدَوْا الْمُسُوحَ، وَطَأْطَأَتْ عَذَارَى أُورُشَلِيمَ رُؤُوسَهُنَّ إِلَى الأَرْضِ.

11 My eyes are worn out from weeping, my stomach is churning. My heart is poured on the earth, because of the destruction of the daughter of my people, because the young children and the infants faint in the streets of the city.

١١ كَلَّتْ عَيْنَايَ مِنَ الْبُكَاءِ، جَاشَتْ أَحْشَائِي وَأُرِيقَتْ كَبِدِي عَلَى الأَرْضِ حُزْناً لِدَمَارِ ابْنَةِ شَعْبِي، لأَنَّ الأَطْفَالَ وَالرُّضَّعَ غُشِيَ عَلَيْهِمْ فِي شَوَارِعِ الْمَدِينَةِ.

12 They tell their mothers, "Where is grain and wine?" When they faint as the wounded in the streets of the city, as their lives fade away in their mothers' bosom.

١٢ يَقُولُونَ لأُمَّهَاتِهِمْ بَاكِينَ: «أَيْنَ الْخُبْزُ وَالْخَمْرُ؟» ثُمَّ يُغْشَى عَلَيْهِمْ كَالْجَرْحَى فِي شَوَارِعِ الْمَدِينَةِ، حِينَ تُهْرَقُ حَيَاتُهُمْ فِي أَحْضَانِ أُمَّهَاتِهِمْ.

13 What shall I testify of you? What shall I liken to you, daughter of Jerusalem? What shall I compare to you, that I may comfort you, virgin daughter of Zion? For your ruin is great like the sea. Who can heal you?

١٣ بِمَاذَا أُنْذِرُكِ وَبِأَيِّ شَيْءٍ أُشَبِّهُكِ يَا ابْنَةَ أُورُشَلِيمَ؟ بِمَاذَا أُقَارِنُكِ فَأُعَزِّيَكِ أَيَّتُهَا الْعَذْرَاءُ ابْنَةُ صِهْيَوْنَ؟ إِنَّ خَرَابَكِ عَظِيمٌ كَالْبَحْرِ، فَمَنْ ذَا يُبْرِئُكِ؟

14 Your prophets have seen for you false and deceptive visions. They have not uncovered your iniquity, to bring back your captivity, but have seen for you false and misleading oracles.

١٤ رَأَى لَكِ أَنْبِيَاؤُكِ رُؤىً بَاطِلَةً خَادِعَةً. لَمْ يَفْضَحُوا إِثْمَكِ لِيَرُدُّوا سَبْيَكِ. إِنَّمَا رَأَوْا لَكِ وَحْياً كَاذِباً مُضِلاً.

15 All that pass by clap their hands at you, they hiss and wag their head at the daughter of Jerusalem, saying, "Is this the city that men called 'The perfection of beauty,' 'The joy of the whole earth'?"

١٥ كُلُّ عَابِرِي السَّبِيلِ صَفَّقُوا عَلَيْكِ بِالأَيَادِي فَرَحاً. صَفَرُوا وَهَزُّوا رُؤُوسَهُمْ عَلَى ابْنَةِ أُورُشَلِيمَ وَتَسَاءَلُوا: أَهَذِهِ هِيَ الْمَدِينَةُ الَّتِي تُدْعَى كَامِلَةَ الْجَمَالِ وَبَهْجَةَ الأَرْضِ بِأَسْرِهَا؟

16 All your enemies have opened wide their mouth against you. They hiss and gnash the teeth; they say, "We have swallowed her up. Certainly this is the day that we looked for; we have found, we have seen it."

١٦ قَدْ فَتَحَ جَمِيعُ أَعْدَائِكِ أَفْوَاهَهُمْ. يُصَفِّرُونَ وَيُحَرِّقُونَ الأَسْنَانَ. يَهْتِفُونَ: قَدِ ابْتَلَعْنَاهَا. هَذَا هُوَ الْيَوْمُ الَّذِي طَالَ انْتِظَارُنَا لَهُ. قَدْ عِشْنَا وَشَهِدْنَاهُ!

17 The LORD has done that which he purposed, he has fulfilled his word that he commanded in the days of old. He has thrown down, and has not pitied. He has caused the enemy to gloat over you and exalted the horn of your adversaries.

١٧ نَفَّذَ الرَّبُّ قَضَاءَهُ، وَحَقَّقَ وَعِيدَهُ الَّذِي حَكَمَ بِهِ مُنْذُ الْحِقَبِ السَّالِفَةِ. هَدَمَ وَلَمْ يَرْأَفْ، فَأَشْمَتَ بِكِ الْخَصْمَ، وَعَظَّمَ قُوَّةَ عَدُوِّكِ.

18 Their heart cried to the LORD. O wall of the daughter of Zion, let tears run down like a river day and night. Give yourself no respite; do not let your tears cease.

١٨ اسْتَغَاثَتْ قُلُوبُهُمْ بِالرَّبِّ. لِتَجْرِ الدُّمُوعُ، يَا أَسْوَارَ ابْنَةِ صِهْيَوْنَ، كَالنَّهْرِ لَيْلاً وَنَهَاراً. لَا تَسْتَكِينِي وَلا تَكُفَّ عَيْنَاكِ عَنِ الْبُكَاءِ.

19 Arise, cry out in the night, at the beginning of the watches. Pour out your heart like water before the face of the LORD. Lift up your hands toward him for the life of your young children, that faint for hunger at the head of every street.

١٩ قُومِي وَانْتَحِبِي فِي الرُّبْعِ الأَوَّلِ مِنَ اللَّيْلِ. اسْكُبِي كَالْمَاءِ قَلْبَكِ فِي مَحْضَرِ الرَّبِّ. ارْفَعِي إِلَيْهِ يَدَيْكِ مِنْ أَجْلِ نُفُوسِ أَطْفَالِكِ الْمَغْشِيِّ عَلَيْهِمْ مِنَ الْجُوعِ عِنْدَ نَاصِيَةِ كُلِّ شَارِعٍ.

20 Look, LORD, and see to whom you have done like this. Shall the women eat their fruit, the children that are dandled in the hands? Shall the priest and the prophet be killed in the sanctuary of the LORD?

٢٠ انْظُرْ يَا رَبُّ وَتَأَمَّلْ! بِمَنْ صَنَعْتَ هَذَا؟ أَعَلَى النِّسَاءِ أَنْ يَأْكُلْنَ ثَمَرَةَ بُطُونِهِنَّ، وَأَطْفَالَ حَضَانَتِهِنَّ؟ أَيَتَحَتَّمُ عَلَى الْكَاهِنِ وَالنَّبِيِّ أَنْ يُقْتَلا فِي مَقْدِسِ الرَّبِّ؟

21 The youth and the old man lie on the ground in the streets; my virgins and my young men have fallen by the sword. You have killed them in the day of your anger; you have slaughtered, without pity.

٢١ قَدِ انْطَرَحَ الصَّبِيُّ وَالشُّيُوخُ فِي غُبَارِ الطُّرُقَاتِ. سَقَطَ عَذَارَايَ وَشُبَّانِي بِالسَّيْفِ. قَدْ قَتَلْتَهُمْ فِي يَوْمِ غَضَبِكَ، وَنَحَرْتَهُمْ مِنْ غَيْرِ رَحْمَةٍ.

22 You have called, as in the day of a solemn assembly, my terrors on every side. There was none that escaped or remained in the day of the LORD's anger. Those that I have borne and brought up has my enemy destroyed.

٢٢ أَنْتَ دَعَوْتَ، كَمَا فِي يَوْمِ عِيدٍ، مُرَوِّعِيَّ الْمُحِيطِينَ بِي. فَلَمْ يُفْلِتْ وَلَمْ يَنْجُ أَحَدٌ فِي يَوْمِ سُخْطِكَ يَا رَبُّ. قَدْ أَفْنَى عَدُوِّي الَّذِينَ حَضَنْتُهُمْ وَرَبَّيْتُهُمْ.