Lamentations 5
1 Remember, LORD, what has come on us. Look, and see our disgrace.
| اذْكُرْ يَا رَبُّ مَا أَصَابَنَا. انْظُرْ وَعَايِنْ عَارَنَا. | ١ |
2 Our inheritance is turned over to strangers, our houses to foreigners.
| قَدْ تَحَوَّلَ مِيرَاثُنَا إِلَى الْغُرَبَاءِ وَبُيُوتُنَا إِلَى الأَجَانِبِ. | ٢ |
3 We are orphans and fatherless. Our mothers are like widows.
| أَصْبَحْنَا أَيْتَاماً لَا أَبَ لَنَا، وَأُمَّهَاتُنَا كَالأَرَامِلِ. | ٣ |
4 We have to pay for a drink of water; our wood is sold to us.
| بِالْفِضَّةِ شَرِبْنَا مَاءَنَا. وَبِثَمَنٍ ابْتَعْنَا حَطَبَنَا. | ٤ |
5 Our pursuers are on our necks; we are weary, and have no rest.
| دَاسَ مُضْطَهِدُونَا أَعْنَاقَنَا، أَعْيَيْنَا وَلَمْ نَجِدْ رَاحَةً. | ٥ |
6 We have submitted to the Egyptians and to the Assyrians, to get enough bread.
| خَضَعْنَا بَاسِطِينَ أَيْدِينَا إِلَى أَشُّورَ وَمِصْرَ لِنَشْبَعَ خُبْزاً. | ٦ |
7 Our fathers sinned, and are no more; but we have borne their iniquities.
| قَدْ أَخْطَأَ آبَاؤُنَا، وَتَوَارَوْا عَنِ الْوُجُودِ، وَنَحْنُ نَتَحَمَّلُ عِقَابَ آثَامِهِمْ. | ٧ |
8 Servants rule over us: There is none to deliver us out of their hand.
| تَسَلَّطَ عَلَيْنَا عَبِيدٌ، وَلَيْسَ مَنْ يُنْقِذُنَا مِنْ أَيْدِيهِمْ. | ٨ |
9 We get our bread at the peril of our lives, because of the sword in the wilderness.
| بِأَنْفُسِنَا نَأْتِي بِخُبْزِنَا مُجَازِفِينَ بِحَيَاتِنَا مِنْ جَرَّاءِ السَّيْفِ الْكَامِنِ لَنَا فِي الصَّحْرَاءِ. | ٩ |
10 Our skin is hot like an oven, because of the burning heat of famine.
| جِلْدُنَا مُلْتَهِبٌ كَتَنُّورٍ مِنْ نِيرَانِ الْجُوعِ الْمُحْرِقَةِ. | ١٠ |
11 They raped the women in Zion, the virgins in the cities of Judah.
| اغْتَصَبُوا النِّسَاءَ فِي صِهْيَوْنَ وَالْعَذَارَى فِي مُدُنِ يَهُوذَا. | ١١ |
12 Princes were hung by their hands; elders were shown no respect.
| عُلِّقَ النُّبَلاءُ بِأَيْدِيهِمْ وَلَمْ يُوَقِّرُوا الشُّيُوخَ. | ١٢ |
13 The young men grind at the mill; the boys stagger under loads of wood.
| سَخَّرُوا الشُّبَّانَ لِلطَّحْنِ، وَهَوَى الصِّبْيَانُ تَحْتَ الْحَطَبِ. | ١٣ |
14 The elders have gone from the gate, the young men from their music.
| هَجَرَ الشُّيُوخُ بَوَّابَةَ الْمَدِينَةِ، وَكَفَّ الشُّبَّانُ عَنْ غِنَائِهِمْ. | ١٤ |
15 The joy of our heart has ceased; our dancing is turned into mourning.
| انْقَطَعَ فَرَحُ قَلْبِنَا وَتَحَوَّلَ رَقْصُنَا إِلَى نَوْحٍ. | ١٥ |
16 The crown is fallen from our head; woe to us, for we have sinned.
| تَهَاوَى إِكْلِيلُ رَأْسِنَا، فَوَيْلٌ لَنَا لأَنَّنَا قَدْ أَخْطَأْنَا. | ١٦ |
17 For this our heart is faint; for these things our eyes grow dim.
| لِهَذَا غُشِيَ عَلَى قُلُوبِنَا، وَأَظْلَمَتْ عُيُونُنَا. | ١٧ |
18 For the mountain of Zion, which is desolate; the foxes walk on it.
| لأَنَّ جَبَلَ صِهْيَوْنَ أَضْحَى أَطْلالاً تَرْتَعُ فِيهِ الثَّعَالِبُ. | ١٨ |
19 But you, LORD, abide forever; your throne is from generation to generation.
| أَمَّا أَنْتَ يَا رَبُّ، فَتَمْلِكُ إِلَى الأَبَدِ، وَعَرْشُكَ ثَابِتٌ مِنْ جِيلٍ إِلَى جِيلٍ. | ١٩ |
20 Why do you keep on forgetting us? Why do you forsake us so long?
| لِمَاذَا تَنْسَانَا إِلَى الأَبَدِ وَتَتْرُكُنَا طُولَ الأَيَّامِ؟ | ٢٠ |
21 Restore us to you, LORD, and we shall be restored; renew our days as in former times,
| رُدَّنَا يَا رَبُّ إِلَيْكَ فَنَرْجِعَ. جِدِّدْ أَيَّامَنَا كَمَا فِي الْعُهُودِ السَّالِفَةِ. | ٢١ |
22 unless you have completely rejected us and are angry with us beyond measure.
| إِلا إِنْ كُنْتَ قَدْ رَفَضْتَنَا كُلَّ الرَّفْضِ وَغَضِبْتَ عَلَيْنَا أَشَدَّ الْغَضَبِ. | ٢٢ |
