Lamentations 1
1 how? to dwell isolation [the] city many people to be like/as widow (many *L(abh)*) in/on/with nation princess in/on/with province to be to/for taskworker
“Aleke du si yɔ fũu kple amewo tsã la ɖi gbɔlo ale! Du si nye du gã le duwo dome la le azɔ abe ahosi ene! Duwo ƒe Fianyɔnu zu kluvi egbe.
2 to weep to weep in/on/with night and tears her upon jaw her nothing to/for her to be sorry: comfort from all to love: lover her all neighbor her to act treacherously in/on/with her to be to/for her to/for enemy
“Ele avi fam hehehe le zã me eye aɖatsi tsi alɔgo dzi nɛ. Eƒe ahiãvi gbogboawo dometɔ aɖeke meli afa akɔ nɛ o. Xɔlɔ̃ lɔlɔ̃wo katã trɔ le eyome hezu eƒe futɔwo.
3 to reveal: remove Judah from affliction and from abundance service he/she/it to dwell in/on/with nation not to find resting all to pursue her to overtake her between: among [the] terror
“Le teteɖeanyi kple dzizizidɔ sesẽwo megbe la, Yuda yi ɖe aboyo me. Ele dukɔwo dome gake mekpɔ gbɔɖemeƒe o. Ame siwo katã le eyome tim la ke ɖe eŋu le xaxa me.
4 way: road Zion mourning from without to come (in): come meeting: festival all gate her be desolate: destroyed priest her to sigh virgin her to suffer and he/she/it to provoke to/for her
“Zion mɔwo le konyi fam elabena ame aɖeke megazɔa wo dzi yina ɖe eƒe azãwo ɖuƒe o. Eƒe agbowo gbã, eye eƒe nunɔlawo le hũu ɖem. Eƒe ɖetugbiwo le konyi fam eye eya ŋutɔ le veve helĩhelĩ me.
5 to be enemy her to/for head: leader enemy her to prosper for LORD to suffer her upon abundance transgression her infant her to go: went captivity to/for face: before enemy
“Eƒe futɔwo zu edziɖulawo eye eƒe ketɔwo ɖe dzi ɖi. Yehowa do hiã nɛ le eƒe nu vɔ̃ gbogboawo ta. Viawo yi ɖe aboyo me, eye wozu aʋaléleawo le futɔwo ŋgɔ.
6 and to come out: come (from from daughter *Q(K)*) Zion all glory her to be ruler her like/as deer not to find pasture and to go: went in/on/with not strength to/for face: before to pursue
“Zion vinyɔnu ƒe atsyɔ̃wo katã dzo le eŋu. Eƒe dumegãwo le abe zi siwo mekpɔ gbeɖuƒe aɖeke o, eye le gbɔdzɔgbɔdzɔ me wosi le wo yometilawo ŋgɔ ene.
7 to remember Jerusalem day affliction her and wandering her all desirable her which to be from day front: old in/on/with to fall: fall people her in/on/with hand: power enemy and nothing to help to/for her to see: see her enemy to laugh upon annihilation her
“Yerusalem ɖo ŋku eƒe kesinɔnu siwo nɔ esi le blemaŋkekewo me la dzi, le eƒe xaxa kple tsaglalãtsatsa ƒe ŋkekewo me. Esi eƒe amewo dze futɔwo ƒe asi me la, ame aɖeke meli akpe ɖe eŋu o. Eƒe futɔwo nye kɔ kpɔe eye wokoe le eƒe aƒedozuzu ta.
8 sin to sin Jerusalem upon so to/for filth to be all to honor: honour her to lavish/despise her for to see: see nakedness her also he/she/it to sigh and to return: repent back
“Yerusalem ƒe nu vɔ̃wo lolo eya ta wòzu ame makɔmakɔ. Ame siwo dea bubu eŋu tsã la le vlo domi, elabena wokpɔ eƒe amame, eya ŋutɔ ɖe hũu hetrɔ dzo.
9 uncleanness her in/on/with hem her not to remember end her and to go down wonder nothing to be sorry: comfort to/for her to see: see LORD [obj] affliction my for to magnify enemy
“Eƒe ɖiƒoƒo lé ɖe eƒe avɔto, elabena mebu etsɔ me kpɔ o. Eƒe anyidzedze wɔ nuku eye ame aɖeke meli si afa akɔ nɛ o. “O, Yehowa, nye kɔ, kpɔ nye vevesese ɖa elabena ketɔ la ɖu dzi.”
10 hand his to spread enemy upon all desire her for to see: see nation to come (in): come sanctuary her which to command not to come (in): come in/on/with assembly to/for you
Futɔ la do asi ɖe eƒe kesinɔnuwo katã gbɔ; ekpɔ trɔ̃subɔdukɔwo, ame siwo mèɖe mɔ be woage ɖe wò asaɖa me o la ge ɖe wò kɔkɔeƒe la.
11 all people her to sigh to seek food: bread to give: give (desire their *Q(K)*) in/on/with food to/for to return: rescue soul: life to see: see LORD and to look [emph?] for to be be vile
Eƒe amewo katã le tsatsam le abolo dim kple ŋeŋe, wotsɔa woƒe kesinɔnu veviwo ɖɔa li nuɖuɖu be woanɔ agbe. “O, Yehowa, kpɔ ale si wodo vlom la ɖa.”
12 not to(wards) you all to pass way: journey to look and to see: see if there pain like/as pain my which to abuse to/for me which to suffer LORD in/on/with day burning anger face: anger his
“Mi ame siwo katã to afi ma yi, ɖe mewɔ naneke na mi oa? Mitsa ŋku miakpɔe ɖa! Ɖe fukpekpe aɖe le abe esi wohe va dzinye, esi Yehowa he va dzinye le eƒe dziku helĩhelĩ ƒe ŋkekewo me la enea?
13 from height to send: depart fire in/on/with bone my and to rule her to spread net to/for foot my to return: return me back to give: make me devastated all [the] day sick
“Eɖo dzo ɖa tso dziƒo, ena wòɖiɖi ɖe nye ƒuwo me. Eɖo ɖɔ na nye afɔwo eye wògbugbɔm ɖe megbe. Ewɔm mezu gbegbe heku ƒenyi ŋkeke blibo la katã.
14 to bind yoke transgression my in/on/with hand his to intertwine to ascend: establish upon neck my to stumble strength my to give: give me Lord in/on/with hand: power not be able to arise: establish
“Ebla nye nu vɔ̃wo abe kɔkuti ene, etsɔ eƒe asiwo lɔ̃e wode nu wo nɔewo me. Woɖiɖi ɖe nye kɔʋume eye Aƒetɔ la ɖe nye ŋusẽ ɖa. Etsɔm de asi na ame siwo nu nyemate ŋu anɔ te ɖo o.
15 to reject all mighty: strong my Lord in/on/with entrails: among my to call: call to upon me meeting to/for to break youth my wine press to tread Lord to/for virgin daughter Judah
“Aƒetɔ la gbe nu le kalẽtɔ siwo katã le donyeme la gbɔ, eɖo aʋakɔ ɖa be woato nye ɖekakpuiwo nyanyanya. Le eƒe wainfiaƒe, Aƒetɔ la fanya Yuda Vinyɔnuwo.
16 upon these I to weep eye my eye my to go down water for to remove from me to be sorry: comfort to return: rescue soul my to be son: child my be desolate: destroyed for to prevail enemy
“Esia ta mefa avi eye nye ŋkuwo fa aɖatsi blobloblo. Ame aɖeke metsɔ ɖe gbɔnye afa akɔ nam o eye ame aɖeke meli si agbɔ agbe nye luʋɔ o. Vinyewo zu hiãtɔwo elabena futɔ ƒe alɔ yi dzi.”
17 to spread Zion in/on/with hand her nothing to be sorry: comfort to/for her to command LORD to/for Jacob around: neighours him enemy his to be Jerusalem to/for impurity between them
Zion ke eƒe abɔwo me gake ame aɖeke meli si afa akɔ nɛ o. Yehowa gblɔ nya ɖi ɖe Yakob ŋu be eƒe aƒelikawo nanye eƒe futɔwo eye Yerusalem va zu ŋunyɔnu le wo dome.
18 righteous he/she/it LORD for lip: word his to rebel to hear: hear please all ([the] people *Q(K)*) and to see: see pain my virgin my and youth my to go: went in/on/with captivity
“Yehowa le dzɔdzɔe, gake metsi tsitre ɖe eƒe se la ŋu. Miɖo to, mi amewo katã, mikpɔ nye fukpekpewo ɖa. Nye ɖekakpuiwo kple ɖetugbiwo katã yi aboyo me.
19 to call: call to to/for to love: lover me they(masc.) to deceive me priest my and old: elder my in/on/with city to die for to seek food to/for them and to return: rescue [obj] soul: life their
“Meyɔ xɔ̃nyewo gake woflum. Nye nunɔlawo kple dumegãwo siaa tsrɔ̃ le dua me esime wonɔ tsatsam le nuɖuɖu dim be woaɖu atsi agbe.
20 to see: see LORD for distress to/for me belly my to aggitate to overturn heart my in/on/with entrails: among my for to rebel to rebel from outside be bereaved sword in/on/with house: home like/as death
“O Yehowa, kpɔ ale si metsi dzodzodzoe ɖa! Nye ameti blibo la metɔtɔ eye nye dzi hã le fu ɖem nam elabena medze aglã vevie. Yi le nu gblẽm le gota; eye le eme la, ku koe li.
21 to hear: hear for to sigh I nothing to be sorry: comfort to/for me all enemy my to hear: hear distress: harm my to rejoice for you(m. s.) to make: do to come (in): bring day to call: call out and to be like me
“Amewo se nye ŋeŋe gake ame aɖeke meli afa akɔ nam o. Nye futɔwo katã se nye dzɔgbevɔ̃eŋkɔ eye wodzɔ dzi le nu si nèwɔ ta. Na be ŋkeke si ƒe gbeƒã nèɖe la nava be woawo hã nanɔ abe nye ene.
22 to come (in): come all distress: evil their to/for face: before your and to abuse to/for them like/as as which to abuse to/for me upon all transgression my for many sighing my and heart my faint
“Na be woƒe nu vɔ̃ɖi wɔwɔwo katã nava ŋkuwò me; wɔ na wo abe ale si nèwɔm le nye nu vɔ̃wo katã ta la ene. Nye hũuɖeɖe sɔ gbɔ eye nu te nye dzi ŋuti.”
