哀歌 4
1 ああ黄金は光をうしなひ純金は色を變じ 聖所の石はもろもろの街衢の口に投すてられたり
How is the gold become dim! how is the most fine gold changed! The hallowed stones are cast forth at the head of every street.
2 ああ精金にも比ぶべきシオンの愛子等は陶噐師の手の作なる土の器のごとくに見做る
The noble sons of Zion, comparable to fine gold, How are they esteemed as earthen pitchers, the work of the hands of the potter!
3 山犬さへも乳房をたれてその子に乳を哺す 然るにわが民の女は殘忍荒野の鴕鳥のごとくなれり
The very jackals reach forth the breast; they suckle their young; But the daughter of my people is become cruel, like the ostriches of the desert.
4 乳哺兒の舌は渇きて上顎にひたと貼き 幼兒はパンをもとむるも擘てあたふる者なし
The tongue of the sucking child cleaveth to the roof of his mouth for thirst; Young children ask for bread, and no man breaketh it for them.
5 肥甘物をくらひ居りし者はおちぶれて街衢にあり 紅の衣服にて育てられし者も今は塵堆を抱く
Those that fed on dainties are desolate in the streets; Those that have been brought up in scarlet embrace the dunghill.
6 今我民の女のうくる愆の罰はソドムの罪の罰よりもおほいなり ソドムは古昔人に手を加へらるることなくして瞬く間にほろぼされしなり
The punishment of the daughter of my people is greater than the punishment of Sodom, Which was overthrown in a moment, though no hands came against her.
7 わが民の中なる貴き人は從前には雪よりも咬潔に乳よりも白く 珊瑚よりも躰紅色にしてその形貌のうるはしきこと藍玉のごとくなりしが
Her princes were purer than snow, whiter than milk; More ruddy than coral was their body; Their visage was of sapphire.
8 いまはその面くろきが上に黒く 街衢にあるとも人にしられず その皮は骨にひたと貼き 乾きて枯木のごとくなれり
Now darker than a coal is their countenance; they are not known in the streets. Their skin cleaveth to their bones; it is become dry, like wood.
9 劍にて死る者は饑て死る者よりもさいはひなり そは斯る者は田圃の産物の罄るによりて漸々におとろへゆき刺れし者のごとくに成ばなり
More fortunate are the slain by the sword than the slain by famine; For these pine away, stricken through for want of the fruits of the field.
10 わが民の女のほろぶる時には情愛ふかき婦人等さへも手づから己の子等を煮て食となせり
The hands of tender-hearted women cooked their own children; They were their food, in the destruction of the daughter of my people.
11 ヱホバその憤恨をことごとく洩し 烈しき怒をそそぎ給ひ シオンに火をもやしてその基礎までも焼しめ給へり
Jehovah hath spent upon them his fury; he hath poured out his fierce anger; He hath kindled a fire in Zion, which hath devoured its foundations.
12 地の諸王も世のもろもろの民もすべてヱルサレムの門に仇や敵の打いらんとは信ぜざりき
The kings of the earth believed not, nor all the inhabitants of the world, That the adversary would enter, and the enemy, within the gates of Jerusalem.
13 斯なりしはその預言者の罪によりその祭司の愆によれり かれらは即はち正しき者の血をその邑の中にながしたりき
It was on account of the sins of her prophets, and the iniquities of her priests, Who shed in the midst of her the blood of the righteous.
14 今かれらは盲人のごとく街衢にさまよひ 身は血にて汚れをれば人その衣服にふるるあたはず
They stumbled like blind men through the streets, polluted with blood, So that men could not touch their garments.
15 人かれらに向ひて呼はり言ふ 去れよ穢らはし 去れ去れ觸るなかれと 彼らはしり去りて流離ば異邦人の中間にても人々また言ふ 彼らは此に寓るべからずと
“Depart! unclean!” men cried to them. “Depart, depart, touch not!” As they fled, they stumbled; men said among the nations, “They shall dwell there no more.”
16 ヱホバ怒れる面をもてこれを散し給へり 再びこれを顧みたまはじ 人々祭司の面をも尊ばず長老をもあはれまざりき
The anger of Jehovah hath scattered them; he will no more care for them; They paid no regard to the priests, they had no compassion for the elders.
17 われらは頼まれぬ救援を望みて目つかれおとろふ 我らは俟ゐたりしが救拯をなすこと能はざる國人を待をりぬ
Still did our eyes fail, looking for help in vain; On our watch-tower did we watch for a nation that could not save us.
18 敵われらの脚をうかがへば我らはおのれの街衢をも歩くことあたはず 我らの終ちかづけり 我らの日つきたり 即ち我らの終きたりぬ
They laid snares for our steps, so that we could not go in our streets; Our end is near; our days are accomplished, yea, our end is come!
19 我らを追ふものは天空ゆく鷲よりも迅し 山にて我らを追ひ 野に伏てわれらを伺ふ
Swifter were our pursuers than the eagles of heaven; They chased us upon the mountains; they laid wait for us in the wilderness.
20 かの我らが鼻の氣息たる者ヱホバに膏そそがれたるものは陷阱にて執へられにき 是はわれらが異邦にありてもこの蔭に住んとおもひたりし者なり
The breath of our nostrils, the anointed of Jehovah, was taken in their pits, Under whose shadow we said that we should live among the nations.
21 ウズの地に住むエドムの女よ悦び樂しめ 汝にもまたつひに杯めぐりゆかん なんぢも醉て裸になるべし
Rejoice and be glad, O daughter of Edom, that dwellest in the land of Uz! Yet to thee also shall the cup come! thou shalt be drunken, and shalt expose thy nakedness.
22 シオンの女よ なんぢが愆の罰はをはれり 重ねてなんぢを擄へゆきたまはじ エドムの女よ なんぢの愆を罰したまはん 汝の罪を露はしたまはん
Thy punishment is at an end, O daughter of Zion! no more will he carry thee into captivity; But thine iniquity will he punish, O daughter of Edom! he will uncover thy sins.
