Lamentations 3
1 I am the man that has seen affliction by the rod of his wrath.
在上主盛怒的鞭責下，我成了受盡痛苦的人；
2 He has led me and caused me to walk in darkness, and not in light.
他引我走入黑暗，不見光明；
3 Surely against me he turns his hand again and again all the day.
且終日再三再四，伸手與我為敵；
4 My flesh and my skin he has made old; he has broken my bones.
他使我肌膚枯瘦，折斷我的骨頭；
5 He has built against me, and surrounded me with bitterness and hardship.
他在我四周築起圍牆，用毒草和痛苦環繞我，
6 He has made me to dwell in dark places, like those that have been long dead.
讓我居住在黑暗之中，好像久已死去的人。
7 He has walled me in, so I can't escape; he has made my chains heavy.
他用垣牆圍困我，不能逃脫；並且加重我的桎梏；
8 Yes, when I cry, and call for help, he shuts out my prayer.
我呼籲求救時，他卻掩耳不聽我的祈禱。
9 He has walled up my ways with cut stone; he has made my paths crooked.
他用方石堵住了我的去路，阻塞了我的行徑。
10 He is to me as a bear lying in wait, as a lion in hiding.
上主之於我，像是一隻潛伏的狗熊，是一頭藏匿的獅子，
11 He has obstructed my path, and torn me in pieces; he has made me desolate.
他把我拖到路旁，撲捉撕裂，加以摧殘；
12 He has bent his bow, and set me as a mark for the arrow.
又拉開他的弓，瞄準我，把我當作眾矢之的。
13 He has caused the arrows of his quiver to pierce my inward parts.
他用箭囊的箭，射殺了我的雙腰；
14 I have become a laughingstock to all peoples, and their song all the day.
使我成了萬民的笑柄，終日受他們的嘲笑；
15 He has filled me with bitterness, he has given me in full measure wormwood.
他使我飽食苦菜，醉飲苦酒。
16 He has also broken my teeth with gravel; he has pressed me down in the dust.
他用砂礫破碎我的牙齒，用灰塵給我充饑。
17 You have removed my soul far away from peace; I have forgotten what prosperity is.
他除去了我心中的平安，我已經忘記了一切幸福；
18 And I said, "My strength and my hope has perished from YHWH."
於是我說：「我的光榮已經消逝，對上主的希望也已經幻滅。」
19 Remember my affliction and my misery, the wormwood and the gall.
我回憶著我的困厄和痛苦，盡是茹苦含辛!
20 My soul considers them, and is depressed.
我的心越回想，越覺沮喪。
21 But this I call to my mind; therefore I have hope:
但是我必要追念這事，以求獲得希望：
22 YHWH's faithful love does not cease; his compassion does not fail.
上主的慈愛，永無止境；他的仁慈，無窮無盡。
23 They are new every morning; great is your faithfulness.
你的仁慈，朝朝常新；你的忠信，浩大無垠!
24 "YHWH is my portion," says my soul, "therefore I will hope in him."
我心中知道：上主是我的福分；因此，我必信賴他。
25 YHWH is good to those who wait for him, to the soul that seeks him.
上主對信賴他和尋求他的人，是慈善的。
26 It is good that a man should hope and quietly wait for the salvation of YHWH.
最好是靜待上主的救援，
27 It is good for a man that he bear the yoke while he is young.
最好是自幼背負上主的重軛，
28 Let him sit alone and keep silence when he is disciplining him.
默然獨坐，因為是上主加於他的軛；
29 Let him put his mouth to the dust, there may yet be hope.
他該把自己的口貼近塵埃，這樣或者還有希望；
30 Let him give his cheek to him who strikes him; let him be filled with insults.
向打他的人，送上面頰，飽受凌辱。
31 For YHWH will not reject forever.
因為上主決不會永遠把人遺棄；
32 For though he may cause grief, yet he will have compassion according to the abundance of his loving kindness.
縱使懲罰，他必按照自己豐厚的慈愛，而加以憐憫。
33 For he is not predisposed to bring affliction or suffering to human beings.
因為他苛待和懲罰世人，原不是出於他的心願。
34 To crush under foot all the prisoners of the earth;
將世上所有的俘虜，都踐踏在腳下，
35 to deprive a man of justice before the face of the Most High,
在至上者前剝奪人的權利,
36 to subvert a man in his cause, YHWH does not approve.
與人爭訟時，欺壓他人：難道上主看不見﹖
37 Who can speak a thing and have it come to pass, unless YHWH has commanded it?
若非上主有命，誰能言出即成呢﹖
38 Doesn't both calamity and good come out of the mouth of the Most High?
吉凶禍福，難道不是出自至上者之口﹖
39 Why does a living man complain, a man for the punishment of his sins?
人生在世，為自己的罪受罰，為什麼還叫苦﹖
40 Let us examine and search our ways, and return to YHWH.
我們應檢討考察我們的行為，回頭歸向上主!
41 Let us lift up our heart with our hands to God in the heavens.
應向天上的大主，雙手奉上我們的心!
42 We have transgressed and have rebelled, and you have not forgiven.
正因為我們犯罪背命，你纔沒有寬恕。
43 You have covered yourself with anger and pursued us; you killed without sparing.
你藏在盛怒之中，追擊我們，殺死我們，毫不留情。
44 You have covered yourself with a cloud, so that no prayer can pass through.
你隱在濃雲深處，哀禱不能上達。
45 You have made us rubbish and refuse in the midst of the peoples.
你使我們在萬民中，成了塵垢和廢物。
46 All our enemies have opened their mouth wide against us.
我們所有的仇人，都向我們大張其口。
47 Fear and the pit have come on us, devastation and destruction.
為我們只有恐怖和陷阱，破壞和滅亡。
48 Streams of tears run down from my eyes because of the destruction of the daughter of my people.
為了我女兒──人民的滅亡，我的眼淚湧流如江河。
49 My tears flow and do not cease, without respite,
我的眼淚湧流不止，始終不停，
50 until YHWH looks down and sees from heaven.
直到上主從天垂顧憐視，
51 My eyes bring my soul grief, because of all the daughters of my city.
因我城中的一切女兒，使我觸目傷心。
52 They have chased me relentlessly like a bird, those who are my enemies without cause.
我的仇人無故追捕我，像獵取飛鳥一樣；
53 They have cut off my life in a pit, and have cast a stone on me.
他們將我投入坑穴之中，把石塊擲在我身上；
54 Waters flowed over my head; I said, 'I am finished.'
水淹沒了我的頭頂，我想：「我要死了! 」
55 I called on your name, YHWH, out of the depths of the pit.
上主，我從坑穴深處，呼號你的聖名；
56 You heard my voice; do not hide your ear at my sighs, to my cry.
你曾俯聽過我的呼聲，對我的哀禱，不要掩耳不聞。
57 You drew near in the day that I called on you; you said, "Do not be afraid."
在我呼號你的那一天，願你走近而對我說：「不要害怕! 」
58 YHWH, you have taken up the case for my soul; you have redeemed my life.
上主，你辯護了我的案件，贖回我的性命。
59 You have seen, YHWH, the wrong done to me; judge my case.
上主，你見我遭受冤屈，你替我伸了冤，
60 You have seen all their vengeance and all their plots against me.
你看見了他們對我的種種仇恨和陰謀。
61 You have heard their insults, YHWH, and all their plots against me.
上主，你聽見了他們加於我的種種侮辱和陰謀，
62 The lips of those that rose up against me, and their plots against me all day long.
你也聽見了反對我者的誹謗，和他們終日對我的企圖。
63 Look their sitting down, and their rising up; I am their mocking song.
你看! 他們或坐或立，我始終是他們嘲笑的對象。
64 You will render to them what they deserve, YHWH, according to the work of their hands.
上主，求你按照他們雙手的作為，報復他們；
65 You will give them hardness of heart as your curse to them.
求你使他們的心思頑固，並詛咒他們。
66 You will pursue them in anger, and destroy them from under the heavens of YHWH.
上主，求你憤怒地追擊他們，將他們由普天之下除掉。
