Lamentations 5
1 Remember, YHWH, what has come on us. Look, and see our disgrace.
上主，求你眷念我們的遭遇，垂顧憐視我們受的恥辱。
2 Our inheritance is turned over to strangers, our houses to foreigners.
我們的產業，轉入外人手中；我們的房舍，歸屬了異邦人。
3 We are orphans and fatherless. Our mothers are like widows.
我們自己變成了無父的孤兒，我們的母親好像寡婦一樣。
4 We have to pay for a drink of water; our wood is sold to us.
我們自己的水，必須用錢買來喝；我們自己的木柴，需要用款換來。
5 Our pursuers are on our necks; we are weary, and have no rest.
重軛加在我們的頸項上，受人折磨迫害；我們困憊疲乏，不得安息。
6 We have submitted to the Egyptians and to the Assyrians, to get enough bread.
我們向埃及伸手，向亞述乞食充餓。
7 Our fathers sinned, and are no more; but we have borne their iniquities.
我們的祖先犯了罪，已不存在；我們卻要承擔他們的罪債；
8 Servants rule over us: There is none to deliver us out of their hand.
原是奴隸的人，竟然統治我們，但沒有人解救我們，脫離他們的手。
9 We get our bread at the peril of our lives, because of the sword in the wilderness.
我們面臨曠野刀劍的威脅，該冒性命的危險，纔能得到食糧。
10 Our skin is hot like an oven, because of the burning heat of famine.
我們的皮膚因飢餓而發炎，發熱有如火爐。
11 They raped the women in Zion, the virgins in the cities of Judah.
婦女們在熙雍被人強姦，處女們在猶大遭人奸污。
12 Princes were hung by their hands; elders were shown no respect.
王臣被人縛手吊起，長老的儀容受人凌辱，
13 The young men grind at the mill; the boys stagger under loads of wood.
青年人應該服役推磨，幼童倒在柴捆之下。
14 The elders have gone from the gate, the young men from their music.
長老們不再安坐城門口，青年們不再奏樂高歌。
15 The joy of our heart has ceased; our dancing is turned into mourning.
我們心中已毫無樂趣，我們的歌舞反而變成悲愁。
16 The crown is fallen from our head; woe to us, for we have sinned.
我們頭上的花冠已經墮地。我們犯罪的人，確是有禍的!
17 For this our heart is faint; for these things our eyes grow dim.
我們的心神所以徬徨，我們的眼睛所以模糊；
18 For the mountain of Zion, which is desolate; the foxes walk on it.
因為熙雍山已經荒蕪，狐狸成群出沒其間。
19 But you, YHWH, abide forever; your throne is from generation to generation.
上主，至於你，你永遠常存，你的寶座萬世不替。
20 Why do you keep on forgetting us? Why do you forsake us so long?
為什麼你常忘記我們﹖為什麼你常拋棄我們﹖
21 Restore us to you, YHWH, and we shall be restored; renew our days as in former times,
上主，求你叫我們歸向你，我們必定回心轉意；求你重整我們的時代，如同往昔一樣。
22 unless you have completely rejected us and are angry with us beyond measure.
你豈能完全擯棄我們，豈能向我們憤怒到底﹖
