Ratapan 1
1 Ah, betapa terpencilnya kota itu, yang dahulu ramai! Laksana seorang jandalah ia, yang dahulu agung di antara bangsa-bangsa. Yang dahulu ratu di antara kota-kota, sekarang menjadi jajahan.
How the city sits solitary, that was full of people! She has become as a widow, who was great among the nations! She who was a princess among the provinces has become a slave!
2 Pada malam hari tersedu-sedu ia menangis, air matanya bercucuran di pipi; dari semua kekasihnya, tak ada seorangpun yang menghibur dia. Semua temannya mengkhianatinya, mereka menjadi seterunya.
She weeps bitterly in the night. Her tears are on her cheeks. Among all her lovers she has no one to comfort her. All her friends have dealt treacherously with her. They have become her enemies.
3 Yehuda telah ditinggalkan penduduknya karena sengsara dan karena perbudakan yang berat; ia tinggal di tengah-tengah bangsa-bangsa, namun tidak mendapat ketenteraman; siapa saja yang menyerang dapat memasukinya pada saat ia terdesak.
Judah has gone into captivity because of affliction and because of great servitude. She dwells among the nations. She finds no rest. All her persecutors overtook her in her distress.
4 Jalan-jalan ke Sion diliputi dukacita, karena pengunjung-pengunjung perayaan tiada; sunyi senyaplah segala pintu gerbangnya, berkeluh kesahlah imam-imamnya; bersedih pedih dara-daranya; dan dia sendiri pilu hatinya.
The roads to Zion mourn, because no one comes to the solemn assembly. All her gates are desolate. Her priests sigh. Her virgins are afflicted, and she herself is in bitterness.
5 Lawan-lawan menguasainya, seteru-seterunya berbahagia. Sungguh, TUHAN membuatnya merana, karena banyak pelanggarannya; kanak-kanaknya berjalan di depan lawan sebagai tawanan.
Her adversaries have become the head. Her enemies prosper; for the LORD has afflicted her for the multitude of her transgressions. Her young children have gone into captivity before the adversary.
6 Lenyaplah dari puteri Sion segala kemuliaannya; pemimpin-pemimpinnya bagaikan rusa yang tidak menemukan padang rumput; mereka berjalan tanpa daya di depan yang mengejarnya.
All majesty has departed from the daughter of Zion. Her princes have become like deer that find no pasture. They have gone without strength before the pursuer.
7 Terkenanglah Yerusalem, pada hari-hari sengsara dan penderitaannya, akan segala harta benda yang dimilikinya dahulu kala; tatkala penduduknya jatuh ke tangan lawan, dan tak ada penolong baginya, para lawan memandangnya, dan tertawa karena keruntuhannya.
Jerusalem remembers in the days of her affliction and of her miseries all her pleasant things that were from the days of old; when her people fell into the hand of the adversary, and no one helped her. The adversaries saw her. They mocked at her desolations.
8 Yerusalem sangat berdosa, sehingga najis adanya; semua yang dahulu menghormatinya, sekarang menghinanya, karena melihat telanjangnya; dan dia sendiri berkeluh kesah, dan memalingkan mukanya.
Jerusalem has grievously sinned. Therefore she has become unclean. All who honored her despise her, because they have seen her nakedness. Yes, she sighs and turns backward.
9 Kenajisannya melekat pada ujung kainnya; ia tak berpikir akan akhirnya, sangatlah dalam ia jatuh, tiada orang yang menghiburnya. "Ya, TUHAN, lihatlah sengsaraku, karena si seteru membesarkan dirinya!"
Her filthiness was in her skirts. She did not remember her latter end. Therefore she has come down astoundingly. She has no comforter. “See, LORD, my affliction; for the enemy has magnified himself.”
10 Si lawan mengulurkan tangannya kepada segala harta bendanya; bahkan harus dilihatnya bagaimana bangsa-bangsa masuk ke dalam tempat kudusnya, padahal Engkau, ya TUHAN, telah melarang mereka untuk masuk jemaah-Mu.
The adversary has spread out his hand on all her pleasant things; for she has seen that the nations have entered into her sanctuary, concerning whom you commanded that they should not enter into your assembly.
11 Berkeluh kesah seluruh penduduknya, sedang mereka mencari roti; harta benda mereka berikan ganti makanan, untuk menyambung hidupnya. "Lihatlah, ya TUHAN, pandanglah, betapa hina aku ini!
All her people sigh. They seek bread. They have given their pleasant things for food to refresh their soul. “Look, LORD, and see, for I have become despised.”
12 Acuh tak acuhkah kamu sekalian yang berlalu? Pandanglah dan lihatlah, apakah ada kesedihan seperti kesedihan yang ditimpakan TUHAN kepadaku, untuk membuat aku merana tatkala murka-Nya menyala-nyala!
“Is it nothing to you, all you who pass by? Look, and see if there is any sorrow like my sorrow, which is brought on me, with which the LORD has afflicted me in the day of his fierce anger.
13 Dari atas dikirim-Nya api masuk ke dalam tulang-tulangku; dihamparkan-Nya jaring di muka kakiku, didesak-Nya aku mundur; aku dibuat-Nya terkejut, kesakitan sepanjang hari.
“From on high has he sent fire into my bones, and it prevails against them. He has spread a net for my feet. He has turned me back. He has made me desolate and I faint all day long.
14 Segala pelanggaranku adalah kuk yang berat, suatu jalinan yang dibuat tangan Tuhan, yang ditaruh di atas tengkukku, sehingga melumpuhkan kekuatanku; Tuhan telah menyerahkan aku ke tangan orang-orang, yang tidak dapat kutentangi.
“The yoke of my transgressions is bound by his hand. They are knit together. They have come up on my neck. He made my strength fail. The Lord has delivered me into their hands, against whom I am not able to stand.
15 Tuhan membuang semua pahlawanku yang ada dalam lingkunganku; Ia menyelenggarakan pesta menentang aku untuk membinasakan teruna-terunaku; Tuhan telah menginjak-injak puteri Yehuda, dara itu, seperti orang mengirik memeras anggur.
“The Lord has set at nothing all my mighty men within me. He has called a solemn assembly against me to crush my young men. The Lord has trodden the virgin daughter of Judah as in a wine press.
16 Karena inilah aku menangis, mataku mencucurkan air; karena jauh dari padaku penghibur yang dapat menyegarkan jiwaku; bingunglah anak-anakku, karena terlampau kuat si seteru."
“For these things I weep. My eye, my eye runs down with water, because the comforter who should refresh my soul is far from me. My children are desolate, because the enemy has prevailed.”
17 Sion mengulurkan tangannya, tetapi tak ada orang yang menghiburnya; terhadap Yakub dikerahkan TUHAN tetangga-tetangganya sebagai lawan. Yerusalem telah menjadi najis di tengah-tengah mereka.
Zion spreads out her hands. There is no one to comfort her. The LORD has commanded concerning Jacob, that those who are around him should be his adversaries. Jerusalem is among them as an unclean thing.
18 "Tuhanlah yang benar, karena aku telah memberontak terhadap firman-Nya; dengarlah hai segala bangsa, dan lihatlah kesedihanku; dara-daraku dan teruna-terunaku pergi sebagai tawanan.
“The LORD is righteous, for I have rebelled against his commandment. Please hear all you peoples, and see my sorrow. My virgins and my young men have gone into captivity.
19 Aku memanggil kekasih-kekasihku, tetapi mereka memperdayakan aku; imam-imamku dan para tua-tuaku telah mati semuanya di kota, tatkala mencari makan bagi dirinya untuk menyambung hidupnya.
“I called for my lovers, but they deceived me. My priests and my elders gave up the spirit in the city, while they sought food for themselves to refresh their souls.
20 Ya, TUHAN, lihatlah, betapa besar ketakutanku, betapa gelisah jiwaku; hatiku terbolak-balik di dalam dadaku, karena sudah melampaui batas aku memberontak; di luar keturunanku dibinasakan oleh pedang, di dalam rumah oleh penyakit sampar.
“Look, LORD; for I am in distress. My heart is troubled. My heart turns over within me, for I have grievously rebelled. Abroad, the sword bereaves. At home, it is like death.
21 Dengarlah bagaimana keluh kesahku, sedang tiada penghibur bagiku; seteru-seteruku mendengar tentang kecelakaanku, mereka gembira karena Engkau yang mendatangkannya! Datanglah kiranya hari yang telah Engkau umumkan itu, dan biarlah mereka menjadi seperti aku!
“They have heard that I sigh. There is no one to comfort me. All my enemies have heard of my trouble. They are glad that you have done it. You will bring the day that you have proclaimed, and they will be like me.
22 Biarlah segala kejahatan mereka datang ke hadapan-Mu, dan perbuatlah kepada mereka, seperti Engkau telah perbuat kepadaku oleh karena segala pelanggaranku; karena banyaklah keluh kesahku, dan pedih hatiku."
“Let all their wickedness come before you. Do to them as you have done to me for all my transgressions. For my sighs are many, and my heart is faint.
