Ratapan 5
1 Ingatlah, ya TUHAN, apa yang terjadi atas kami, pandanglah dan lihatlah akan kehinaan kami.
Remember, O Lord, what has befallen us. Consider and look kindly upon our disgrace.
2 Milik pusaka kami beralih kepada orang lain, rumah-rumah kami kepada orang asing.
Our inheritance has been turned over to foreigners; our houses to outsiders.
3 Kami menjadi anak yatim, tak punya bapa, dan ibu kami seperti janda.
We have become orphans without a father; our mothers are like widows.
4 Air kami kami minum dengan membayar, kami mendapat kayu dengan bayaran.
We paid for our drinking water. We acquired our wood for a price.
5 Kami dikejar dekat-dekat, kami lelah, bagi kami tak ada istirahat.
We were dragged by our necks. Being weary, no rest was given to us.
6 Kami mengulurkan tangan kepada Mesir, dan kepada Asyur untuk menjadi kenyang dengan roti.
We have given our hand to Egypt and to the Assyrians, so that we may be satisfied with bread.
7 Bapak-bapak kami berbuat dosa, mereka tak ada lagi, dan kami yang menanggung kedurjanaan mereka.
Our fathers have sinned, and are not. And we have carried their iniquities.
8 Pelayan-pelayan memerintah atas kami; yang melepaskan kami dari tangan mereka tak ada.
Servants have become rulers over us. There was no one to redeem us from their hand.
9 Dengan bahaya maut karena serangan pedang di padang gurun, kami harus mengambil makanan kami.
We obtained our bread at the risk of our lives, before the face of the sword, in the wilderness.
10 Kulit kami membara laksana perapian, karena nyerinya kelaparan.
Our skin was burned, as if by an oven, before the face of the tempest of the famine.
11 Mereka memperkosa wanita-wanita di Sion dan gadis-gadis di kota-kota Yehuda.
They humiliated the women in Zion and the virgins in the cities of Judah.
12 Pemimpin-pemimpin digantung oleh tangan mereka, para tua-tua tidak dihormati.
The leaders were suspended by their hand. They were not ashamed before the faces of the elders.
13 Pemuda-pemuda harus memikul batu kilangan, anak-anak terjatuh karena beratnya pikulan kayu.
They have sexually abused the adolescents, and the children were corrupted in the wood.
14 Para tua-tua tidak berkumpul lagi di pintu gerbang, para teruna berhenti main kecapi.
The elders have ceased from the gates, the youths from the choir of the psalms.
15 Lenyaplah kegirangan hati kami, tari-tarian kami berubah menjadi perkabungan.
The gladness of our heart has failed, our singing has been turned into mourning.
16 Mahkota telah jatuh dari kepala kami. Wahai kami, karena kami telah berbuat dosa!
The crown has fallen from our head. Woe to us, for we have sinned.
17 Karena inilah hati kami sakit, karena inilah mata kami jadi kabur:
Because of this, our heart became gloomy; for this reason, our eyes have been darkened:
18 karena bukit Sion yang tandus, di mana anjing-anjing hutan berkeliaran.
because of mount Zion, because it was ruined. Foxes have wandered upon it.
19 Engkau, ya TUHAN, bertakhta selama-lamanya, takhta-Mu tetap dari masa ke masa!
But you, O Lord, shall remain for eternity, your throne from generation to generation.
20 Mengapa Engkau melupakan kami selama-lamanya, meninggalkan kami demikian lama?
Why would you forget us forever? Why would you forsake us for a long time?
21 Bawalah kami kembali kepada-Mu, ya TUHAN, maka kami akan kembali, baharuilah hari-hari kami seperti dahulu kala!
Convert us, O Lord, to you, and we shall be converted. Renew our days, as from the beginning.
22 Atau, apa Engkau sudah membuang kami sama sekali? Sangat murkakah Engkau terhadap kami?
But you have utterly rejected us; you are vehemently angry against us.
