איכה 2
| איכה יעיב באפו אדני את בת ציון--השליך משמים ארץ תפארת ישראל ולא זכר הדם רגליו ביום אפו | 1 |
How has the Lord covered the daughter of Zion with a cloud in his anger! He has cast the beauty of Israel down from heaven to the earth, and hasn’t remembered his footstool in the day of his anger.
| בלע אדני לא (ולא) חמל את כל נאות יעקב--הרס בעברתו מבצרי בת יהודה הגיע לארץ חלל ממלכה ושריה | 2 |
The Lord has swallowed up all the dwellings of Jacob without pity. He has thrown down in his wrath the strongholds of the daughter of Judah. He has brought them down to the ground. He has profaned the kingdom and its princes.
| גדע בחרי אף כל קרן ישראל--השיב אחור ימינו מפני אויב ויבער ביעקב כאש להבה אכלה סביב | 3 |
He has cut off all the horn of Israel in fierce anger. He has drawn back his right hand from before the enemy. He has burned up Jacob like a flaming fire, which devours all around.
| דרך קשתו כאויב נצב ימינו כצר ויהרג כל מחמדי עין באהל בת ציון שפך כאש חמתו | 4 |
He has bent his bow like an enemy. He has stood with his right hand as an adversary. He has killed all that were pleasant to the eye. In the tent of the daughter of Zion, he has poured out his wrath like fire.
| היה אדני כאויב בלע ישראל--בלע כל ארמנותיה שחת מבצריו וירב בבת יהודה תאניה ואניה | 5 |
The Lord has become as an enemy. He has swallowed up Israel. He has swallowed up all her palaces. He has destroyed his strongholds. He has multiplied mourning and lamentation in the daughter of Judah.
| ויחמס כגן שכו שחת מעדו שכח יהוה בציון מועד ושבת וינאץ בזעם אפו מלך וכהן | 6 |
He has violently taken away his tabernacle, as if it were a garden. He has destroyed his place of assembly. Yahweh has caused solemn assembly and Sabbath to be forgotten in Zion. In the indignation of his anger, he has despised the king and the priest.
| זנח אדני מזבחו נאר מקדשו--הסגיר ביד אויב חומת ארמנותיה קול נתנו בבית יהוה כיום מועד | 7 |
The Lord has cast off his altar. He has abhorred his sanctuary. He has given the walls of her palaces into the hand of the enemy. They have made a noise in Yahweh’s house, as in the day of a solemn assembly.
| חשב יהוה להשחית חומת בת ציון--נטה קו לא השיב ידו מבלע ויאבל חל וחומה יחדו אמללו | 8 |
Yahweh has purposed 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 He has not withdrawn his hand from destroying; He has made the rampart and wall lament. They languish together.
| טבעו בארץ שעריה אבד ושבר בריחיה מלכה ושריה בגוים אין תורה--גם נביאיה לא מצאו חזון מיהוה | 9 |
Her gates have sunk into the ground. He has destroyed and broken her bars. Her king and her princes are among the nations where the law is not. Yes, her prophets find no vision from Yahweh.
| ישבו לארץ ידמו זקני בת ציון--העלו עפר על ראשם חגרו שקים הורידו לארץ ראשן בתולת ירושלם | 10 |
The elders of the daughter of Zion sit on the ground. They keep 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.
| כלו בדמעות עיני חמרמרו מעי--נשפך לארץ כבדי על שבר בת עמי בעטף עולל ויונק ברחבות קריה | 11 |
My eyes fail with tears. My heart is troubled. My bile is poured on the earth, because of the destruction of the daughter of my people, because the young children and the infants swoon in the streets of the city.
| לאמתם יאמרו איה דגן ויין בהתעטפם כחלל ברחבות עיר--בהשתפך נפשם אל חיק אמתם | 12 |
They ask their mothers, “Where is grain and wine?” when they swoon as the wounded in the streets of the city, when their soul is poured out into their mothers’ bosom.
| מה אעידך מה אדמה לך הבת ירושלם--מה אשוה לך ואנחמך בתולת בת ציון כי גדול כים שברך מי ירפא לך | 13 |
What shall I testify to 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 breach is as big as the sea. Who can heal you?
| נביאיך חזו לך שוא ותפל ולא גלו על עונך להשיב שביתך (שבותך) ויחזו לך משאות שוא ומדוחים | 14 |
Your prophets have seen false and foolish visions for you. They have not uncovered your iniquity, to reverse your captivity, but have seen for you false revelations and causes of banishment.
| ספקו עליך כפים כל עברי דרך--שרקו וינעו ראשם על בת ירושלם הזאת העיר שיאמרו כלילת יפי--משוש לכל הארץ | 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’?”
| פצו עליך פיהם כל איביך--שרקו ויחרקו שן אמרו בלענו אך זה היום שקוינהו מצאנו ראינו | 16 |
All your enemies have opened their mouth wide against you. They hiss and gnash their teeth. They say, “We have swallowed her up. Certainly this is the day that we looked for. We have found it. We have seen it.”
| עשה יהוה אשר זמם בצע אמרתו אשר צוה מימי קדם--הרס ולא חמל וישמח עליך אויב הרים קרן צריך | 17 |
Yahweh has done that which he planned. 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 rejoice over you. He has exalted the horn of your adversaries.
| צעק לבם אל אדני חומת בת ציון הורידי כנחל דמעה יומם ולילה--אל תתני פוגת לך אל תדם בת עינך | 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 relief. Don’t let your eyes rest.
| קומי רני בליל (בלילה) לראש אשמרות--שפכי כמים לבך נכח פני אדני שאי אליו כפיך על נפש עולליך--העטופים ברעב בראש כל חוצות | 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, who faint for hunger at the head of every street.
| ראה יהוה והביטה למי עוללת כה אם תאכלנה נשים פרים עללי טפחים אם יהרג במקדש אדני כהן ונביא | 20 |
“Look, Yahweh, and see to whom you have done thus! Should the women eat their offspring, the children that they held and bounced on their knees? Should the priest and the prophet be killed in the sanctuary of the Lord?
| שכבו לארץ חוצות נער וזקן בתולתי ובחורי נפלו בחרב הרגת ביום אפך טבחת לא חמלת | 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, and not pitied.
| תקרא כיום מועד מגורי מסביב ולא היה ביום אף יהוה פליט ושריד אשר טפחתי ורביתי איבי כלם | 22 |
“You have called, as in the day of a solemn assembly, my terrors on every side. There was no one that escaped or remained in the day of Yahweh’s anger. My enemy has consumed those whom I have cared for and brought up.
