哀歌 5
1 ヱホバよ我らにありし所の事をおもひたまへ 我らの恥辱をかへりみ觀たまへ
Remember, LORD, what has come on us. Look, and see our disgrace.
2 われらの産業は外國人に歸し われらの家屋は他國人の有となれり
Our inheritance is turned over to strangers, our houses to foreigners.
3 われらは孤子となりて父あらず われらの母は寡婦にひとし
We are orphans and fatherless. Our mothers are like widows.
4 われらは金を出して自己の水を飮み おのれの薪を得るにも價をはらふ
We have to pay for a drink of water; our wood is sold to us.
5 われらを追ふ者われらの頸に迫る 我らは疲れて休むことを得ず
Our pursuers are on our necks; we are weary, and have no rest.
6 食物を得て饑を凌がんとてエジプト人およびアッスリヤ人に手を與へたり
We have submitted to the Egyptians and to the Assyrians, to get enough bread.
7 われらの父は罪ををかして已に世にあらず 我らその罪を負ふなり
Our fathers sinned, and are no more; but we have borne their iniquities.
8 奴僕等われらを制するに誰ありて我らを之が手よりすくひ出すものなし
Servants rule over us: There is none to deliver us out of their hand.
9 荒野の刀兵の故によりて我ら死を冒して食物を得
We get our bread at the peril of our lives, because of the sword in the wilderness.
10 饑饉の烈しき熱氣によりてわれらの皮膚は爐のごとく熱し
Our skin is hot like an oven, because of the burning heat of famine.
11 シオンにて婦人等をかされユダの邑々にて處女等けがさる
They raped the women in Zion, the virgins in the cities of Judah.
12 侯伯たる者も敵の手にて吊され 老たる者の面も尊とばれず
Princes were hung by their hands; elders were shown no respect.
13 少き者は石磨を擔はせられ 童子は薪を負ふてよろめき
The young men grind at the mill; the boys stagger under loads of wood.
14 長老は門にあつまることを止め 少き者はその音樂を廢せり
The elders have gone from the gate, the young men from their music.
15 我らが心の快樂はすでに罷み われらの跳舞はかはりて悲哀となり
The joy of our heart has ceased; our dancing is turned into mourning.
16 われらの冠冕は首より落たり われら罪ををかしたれば禍なるかな
The crown is fallen from our head; woe to us, for we have sinned.
17 これが爲に我らの心うれへ これらのために我らが目くらくなれり
For this our heart is faint; for these things our eyes grow dim.
18 シオンの山は荒はて 山犬はその上を歩くなり
For the mountain of Zion, which is desolate; the foxes walk on it.
19 ヱホバよなんぢは永遠に在す なんぢの御位は世々かぎりなし
But you, LORD, abide forever; your throne is from generation to generation.
20 何とて我らを永く忘れ われらを斯ひさしく棄おきたまふや
Why do you keep on forgetting us? Why do you forsake us so long?
21 ヱホバよねがはくは我らをして汝に歸らしめたまへ われら歸るべし 我らの日を新にして昔日の日のごとくならしめたまへ
Restore us to you, LORD, and we shall be restored; renew our days as in former times,
22 さりとも汝まつたく我らを棄たまひしや 痛くわれらを怒りゐたまふや
unless you have completely rejected us and are angry with us beyond measure.
