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예레미야애가 4
Korean Living Bible
예레미야애가 4
Korean Living Bible
함락 후의 예루살렘
4 아, 슬프다! 금이 광택을 잃고 순금이 변했으며 성전의 돌들이 거리에 흩어 졌구나!
2 시온의 젊은이들이 순금처럼 소중하더니 이제는 흔한 질그릇처럼 되고 말았네.
3 여우도 제 새끼에게 젖을 먹이는데 내 백성은 잔인하여 사막의 타조 같구나.
4 젖먹이가 목이 말라 그 혀가 입천장에 붙고 아이들이 먹을 것을 구걸하나 주는 자가 없구나.
5 맛있는 것만 먹던 자가 이제는 거리에서 처량한 신세가 되었고 좋은 옷만 입고 자라던 자가 이제는 잿더미에 누웠네.
6 전에 소돔성이 사람의 손을 대지 않고도 순식간에 무너지더니 이제 내 백성의 죄가 그 소돔 사람들의 죄보다 크구나.
7 전에는 귀족들의 몸이 눈보다 더 깨끗하고 우유보다 더 희며 그 혈색이 산호보다 붉고 그 외모가 청옥 같았다.
8 그러나 지금은 그 얼굴이 숯보다 검고 그 가죽이 뼈에 붙어 막대기같이 되었으니 아무도 그들을 길거리에서 알아볼 수 없게 되었네.
9 칼날에 죽는 자가 굶어서 죽는 자보다 나은 것은 농산물이 부족하여 먹을 것이 없으므로 그들이 점점 시들어 죽어 가기 때문이다.
10 내 백성이 멸망할 때 인자한 어머니가 자기 손으로 자식을 삶아 먹었다.
11 여호와께서 몹시 화가 나셔서 그의 무서운 분노를 쏟아 시온에 불을 지르고 그 터전까지 태워 버리셨네.
12 침략군이 예루살렘 성문으로 들어가리라고는 세상의 그 누구도 믿지 않았다.
13 이런 일이 일어나게 된 것은 예언자들의 죄와 제사장들의 죄 때문이니 그들이 죄 없는 자들의 피를 흘렸음이라.
14 그들이 맹인처럼 거리를 방황하며 그 옷이 피로 더럽혀졌으니 아무도 만질 수 없게 되었구나.
15 사람들이 그들에게 “저리 가거라. 부정하다! 가거라! 가거라! 만지지 말아라!” 하고 외치는구나. 그들이 먼 땅으로 도망하여 이리저리 방황할 때에 그들을 반겨 주는 자가 아무도 없었다.
16 여호와께서 그들을 흩어 버리고 다시는 돌보지 않으시니 이방인들이 제사장들을 존경하지 않고 장로들을 대우하지 않는구나.
17 우리가 쓸데없는 도움을 바라다가 우리 눈이 쇠약해졌으니 우리를 구원하지 못할 나라에 도움을 기대하였음이라.
18 사람들이 우리를 일일이 살피고 있으므로 우리가 거리에 걸어다닐 수 없구나. 우리의 날이 다하고 우리의 종말이 이르렀다.
19 우리를 추격하는 자들이 공중의 독수리보다 빨라서 우리가 산으로 도망하여도 그들이 우리를 추격하고 우리가 광야에 숨어도 그들이 거기서 잠복하여 우리를 기다리는구나.
20 여호와께서 택하신 자, 곧 우리의 생명과 같은 왕이 그들의 함정에 빠지고 말았네. 그는 우리가 세상의 모든 침략자들로부터 우리를 보호해 줄 것으로 믿었던 자인데 … … .
21 우스 땅에 사는 에돔 사람들아, 기뻐하고 즐거워하라. 진노의 잔이 너희에게도 지나갈 것이니 너희가 취하여 벌거벗은 자가 되리라.
22 처녀 시온아, 네 죄의 형벌이 끝났다. 주께서 다시는 네가 사로잡혀가지 않게 하시리라. 그러나 에돔아, 주께서 너를 벌하시고 네 죄를 드러내실 것이다.
Lamentations 4
New International Version
Lamentations 4
New International Version
4 [a]How the gold has lost its luster,
the fine gold become dull!
The sacred gems are scattered
at every street corner.(A)
2 How the precious children of Zion,(B)
once worth their weight in gold,
are now considered as pots of clay,
the work of a potter’s hands!
3 Even jackals offer their breasts
to nurse their young,
but my people have become heartless
like ostriches in the desert.(C)
4 Because of thirst(D) the infant’s tongue
sticks to the roof of its mouth;(E)
the children beg for bread,
but no one gives it to them.(F)
5 Those who once ate delicacies
are destitute in the streets.
Those brought up in royal purple(G)
now lie on ash heaps.(H)
6 The punishment of my people
is greater than that of Sodom,(I)
which was overthrown in a moment
without a hand turned to help her.
7 Their princes were brighter than snow
and whiter than milk,
their bodies more ruddy than rubies,
their appearance like lapis lazuli.
8 But now they are blacker(J) than soot;
they are not recognized in the streets.
Their skin has shriveled on their bones;(K)
it has become as dry as a stick.
9 Those killed by the sword are better off
than those who die of famine;(L)
racked with hunger, they waste away
for lack of food from the field.(M)
10 With their own hands compassionate women
have cooked their own children,(N)
who became their food
when my people were destroyed.
11 The Lord has given full vent to his wrath;(O)
he has poured out(P) his fierce anger.(Q)
He kindled a fire(R) in Zion
that consumed her foundations.(S)
12 The kings of the earth did not believe,
nor did any of the peoples of the world,
that enemies and foes could enter
the gates of Jerusalem.(T)
13 But it happened because of the sins of her prophets
and the iniquities of her priests,(U)
who shed within her
the blood(V) of the righteous.
14 Now they grope through the streets
as if they were blind.(W)
They are so defiled with blood(X)
that no one dares to touch their garments.
15 “Go away! You are unclean!” people cry to them.
“Away! Away! Don’t touch us!”
When they flee and wander(Y) about,
people among the nations say,
“They can stay here no longer.”(Z)
16 The Lord himself has scattered them;
he no longer watches over them.(AA)
The priests are shown no honor,
the elders(AB) no favor.(AC)
17 Moreover, our eyes failed,
looking in vain(AD) for help;(AE)
from our towers we watched
for a nation(AF) that could not save us.
18 People stalked us at every step,
so we could not walk in our streets.
Our end was near, our days were numbered,
for our end had come.(AG)
19 Our pursuers were swifter
than eagles(AH) in the sky;
they chased us(AI) over the mountains
and lay in wait for us in the desert.(AJ)
20 The Lord’s anointed,(AK) our very life breath,
was caught in their traps.(AL)
We thought that under his shadow(AM)
we would live among the nations.
Footnotes
- Lamentations 4:1 This chapter is an acrostic poem, the verses of which begin with the successive letters of the Hebrew alphabet.
Lamentations 4
King James Version
Lamentations 4
King James Version
4 How is the gold become dim! how is the most fine gold changed! the stones of the sanctuary are poured out in the top of every street.
2 The precious sons of Zion, comparable to fine gold, how are they esteemed as earthen pitchers, the work of the hands of the potter!
3 Even the sea monsters draw out the breast, they give suck to their young ones: the daughter of my people is become cruel, like the ostriches in the wilderness.
4 The tongue of the sucking child cleaveth to the roof of his mouth for thirst: the young children ask bread, and no man breaketh it unto them.
5 They that did feed delicately are desolate in the streets: they that were brought up in scarlet embrace dunghills.
6 For the punishment of the iniquity of the daughter of my people is greater than the punishment of the sin of Sodom, that was overthrown as in a moment, and no hands stayed on her.
7 Her Nazarites were purer than snow, they were whiter than milk, they were more ruddy in body than rubies, their polishing was of sapphire:
8 Their visage is blacker than a coal; they are not known in the streets: their skin cleaveth to their bones; it is withered, it is become like a stick.
9 They that be slain with the sword are better than they that be slain with hunger: for these pine away, stricken through for want of the fruits of the field.
10 The hands of the pitiful women have sodden their own children: they were their meat in the destruction of the daughter of my people.
11 The Lord hath accomplished his fury; he hath poured out his fierce anger, and hath kindled a fire in Zion, and it hath devoured the foundations thereof.
12 The kings of the earth, and all the inhabitants of the world, would not have believed that the adversary and the enemy should have entered into the gates of Jerusalem.
13 For the sins of her prophets, and the iniquities of her priests, that have shed the blood of the just in the midst of her,
14 They have wandered as blind men in the streets, they have polluted themselves with blood, so that men could not touch their garments.
15 They cried unto them, Depart ye; it is unclean; depart, depart, touch not: when they fled away and wandered, they said among the heathen, They shall no more sojourn there.
16 The anger of the Lord hath divided them; he will no more regard them: they respected not the persons of the priests, they favoured not the elders.
17 As for us, our eyes as yet failed for our vain help: in our watching we have watched for a nation that could not save us.
18 They hunt our steps, that we cannot go in our streets: our end is near, our days are fulfilled; for our end is come.
19 Our persecutors are swifter than the eagles of the heaven: they pursued us upon the mountains, they laid wait for us in the wilderness.
20 The breath of our nostrils, the anointed of the Lord, was taken in their pits, of whom we said, Under his shadow we shall live among the heathen.
21 Rejoice and be glad, O daughter of Edom, that dwellest in the land of Uz; the cup also shall pass through unto thee: thou shalt be drunken, and shalt make thyself naked.
22 The punishment of thine iniquity is accomplished, O daughter of Zion; he will no more carry thee away into captivity: he will visit thine iniquity, O daughter of Edom; he will discover thy sins.
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