< विलाप 5 >

1 हे परमप्रभु, हामीमाथि जे भएको छ, सो सम्झनुहोस् । हाम्रो अपमान हेर्नुहोस्, र विचार गर्नुहोस् ।
Remember, O YHWH, what has befallen us, Look attentively, and see our reproach.
2 हाम्रो उत्तराधिकार पराईहरू र हाम्रा घरहरू विदेशीहरूलाई दिइए ।
Our inheritance has been turned to strangers, Our houses to foreigners.
3 हामी अनाथ, पितृहीन भएका छौँ, र हाम्रा आमाहरू विधवाजस्ता छन् ।
Orphans we have been—without a father, our mothers [are] as widows.
4 हामीले पिउने पानीको लागि र हाम्रै दाउरा किन्‍न हामीले चाँदीको दाम तिर्नुपर्छ ।
We have drunk our water for money, Our wood comes for a price.
5 हामीलाई पछ्याउनेहरू हाम्रो छेउमा छन् । हामी थाकेका छौँ, र हामीलाई चैन छैन ।
For our neck we have been pursued, We have labored—there has been no rest for us.
6 पर्याप्‍त खानाको लागि हामीले आफैलाई मिश्र र अश्शूरमा सुम्पिदिएका छौँ ।
[To] Egypt we have given a hand, [To] Asshur, to be satisfied with bread.
7 हाम्रा पिता-पुर्खाहरूलेपाप गरे, र अब तिनीहरू छैनन्, र हामीले तिनीहरूका अधर्मको फल भोग्दछौँ ।
Our fathers have sinned—they are not, We have borne their iniquities.
8 कमाराहरूले हामीमाथि शासन गर्छन्, र हामीलाई तिनीहरूको हातबाट छुटकारा दिने कोही छैन ।
Servants have ruled over us, There is no deliverer from their hand.
9 उजाड-स्थानमा भएको तरवारको कारण हाम्रा जीवन जोखिममा पारेर मात्रै हामी रोटी पाउँछौँ ।
With our lives we bring in our bread, Because of the sword of the wilderness.
10 भोकको रापले गर्दा हाम्रो छाला चुलोझैँ तातिएको छ ।
Our skin as an oven has been burning, Because of the raging of the famine.
11 सियोनमा स्‍त्रीहरू र यहूदाका सहरहरूमा कन्याहरू बलत्कार गरिएका छन् ।
Wives in Zion they have humbled, Virgins—in cities of Judah.
12 राजकुमारहरू तिनीहरूका आफ्नै हातद्वारा झुण्ड्याइएका छन्, र धर्म-गुरुहरूलाई कुनै आदर देखाइएको छैन ।
Princes have been hanged by their hand, Elderly faces have not been honored.
13 युवाहरू जाँतोमा अन्‍न पिँध्‍न बाध्य पारिएका छन्, र ठिटाहरू दाउराको भारीले थिचिएर लडबडाउँदै हिँड्छन् ।
They have taken young men to grind, And youths have stumbled with wood.
14 धर्म-गुरुहरूले सहरको मूल ढोका छोडेका छन्, र युवाहरूले तिनीहरूको सङ्गीत छोडिदिएका छन् ।
Elderly have ceased from the gate, Young men from their song.
15 हाम्रो हृदयको आनन्द हटेको छ, र हाम्रो नाच शोकमा परिणत भएको छ ।
The joy of our heart has ceased, Our dancing has been turned to mourning.
16 मुकुट हाम्रो शिरबाट खसेको छ । हामीलाई धिक्‍कार छ! किनकि हामीले पाप गरेका छौँ ।
The crown has fallen [from] our head, Woe [is] now to us, for we have sinned.
17 हाम्रो यो हृदय दुर्बल भएको छ, र यिनै कुराको कारण हाम्रो आँखा धमिलिएका छन् ।
Our heart has been sick for this, Our eyes have been dim for these.
18 सियोन पर्वत उजाड छ, जहाँ स्यालहरू घुमिहिँड्छन् ।
For the Mount of Zion—that is desolate, Foxes have gone up on it.
19 तर हे परमप्रभु, तपाईंले सदासर्वदा शासन गर्नुहुन्छ, र तपाईं पुस्तादेखि पुस्तासम्म आफ्नो सिंहासनमा विराजमान हुनुहुने छ ।
You, O YHWH, remain for all time, Your throne to generation and generation.
20 तपाईंले हामीलाई किन सदाको निम्ति बिर्सनुहुन्छ? तपाईंले हामीलाई यति धेरै दिनसम्म किन त्याग्‍नुहुन्छ?
Why do You forget us forever? You forsake us for [the] length of [our] days!
21 हे परमप्रभु, हामीलाई पुनर्स्थापना गर्नुहोस्, र हामी पुनर्स्थापित हुने छौँ ।
Turn us back, O YHWH, to You, And we turn back, renew our days as of old.
22 तपाईंले हामीलाई बिलकुलै इन्कार गर्नुभएको छैन, र सम्झनै नसक्‍ने गरी तपाईं हामीसित रिसाउनुभएको छैन भने धेरै पहिले भएजस्तै हाम्रा दिन नवीकरण गरिदिनुहोस् ।
For have You utterly rejected us? You have been angry against us—exceedingly?

< विलाप 5 >