耶利米哀歌 2
Revised Chinese Union Version (Simplified Script) Shen Edition
耶路撒冷的痛苦
2 唉！主竟发怒，使黑云遮蔽锡安[a]！
他将以色列的华美从天扔在地上，
在他发怒的日子并不顾念自己的脚凳。
2 主吞灭雅各一切的住处，并不顾惜。
他发怒倾覆犹大[b]的堡垒，
将它们夷为平地，
凌辱这国与她的领袖。
3 他发烈怒，砍断以色列一切的角，
在仇敌面前收回右手。
他将雅各烧毁，如火焰四围吞灭。
4 他张弓好像仇敌，
他站立举起右手，
如同敌人杀戮我们眼目所喜爱的。
他在锡安的帐棚
倾倒愤怒，如火一般。
5 主如仇敌吞灭以色列，
吞灭它一切的宫殿，
毁坏境内的堡垒；
在犹大加添悲伤和哭号。
6 他摧毁自己的帐幕如摧毁园子，
毁坏自己的会幕。
耶和华使节庆和安息日在锡安尽被遗忘，
又在极其愤怒中厌弃君王与祭司。
7 耶和华撇弃自己的祭坛，
憎恶自己的圣所，
把宫殿的墙交给仇敌。
他们在耶和华的殿中喧嚷，
如在节庆之日一样。
8 耶和华定意拆毁锡安的城墙；
他拉了准绳，
不将手收回，定要毁灭。
他使城郭和城墙都悲哀，
一同衰败。
9 锡安的门陷入地里，
主毁坏，折断她的门闩。
她的君王和官长都置身列国中，没有律法；
她的先知也不再从耶和华领受异象。
10 锡安的长老坐在地上，默默无声；
他们扬起尘土落在头上，腰束麻布；
耶路撒冷的少女垂头至地。
11 我的眼睛流泪，以致失明；
我的心肠烦乱，肝胆落地，
都因我的百姓[c]遭毁灭，
又因孩童和吃奶的在城内的广场上昏厥。
12 他们如受伤的人在城内广场上昏厥，
在母亲的怀里将要丧命时，
就对母亲说：“饼和酒在哪里呢？”
14 你的先知为你看见虚假和粉饰的异象，
并未揭露你的罪孽，
使你被掳的归回；
却传给你虚假与误导人的默示。
15 凡过路的都向你拍掌。
他们向耶路撒冷嗤笑，摇头：
“这就是人称为全美的、
称为全地所喜悦的城吗？”
16 你所有的仇敌
张口来攻击你；
他们嗤笑，切齿，说：
“我们把她吞灭了，
这是我们所盼望的日子！
我们终于等到了，亲眼看见了！”
17 耶和华成就了他所定的，
应验了他古时所命定的。
他倾覆，并不顾惜，
他使仇敌向你夸耀，
使你敌人的角高举。
18 他们的心哀求主。
锡安的城墙啊，
愿你日夜泪流如河，不让自己休息，
你眼中的瞳人也不歇息。
19 夜间每逢时辰开始，要起来呼喊，
在主面前倾心吐意如水。
你的孩童在街头上挨饿昏厥，
你要为他们的性命向主举手。
20 耶和华啊，求你观看，
留意你向谁这样行。
妇人岂可吃自己所生、所抚育的婴孩吗？
祭司和先知岂可在主的圣所中被杀吗？
21 年轻人和老年人躺卧在街上，
我的少女和壮丁都倒在刀下。
你在发怒的日子杀了他们，
你杀戮，并不顾惜。
22 你从四围招聚使我惊吓的人，
像在节庆的日子一样。
耶和华发怒的日子，
无人逃脱，无人生还。
我所抚育养大的，
仇敌都杀尽了。
Lamentations 2
Holman Christian Standard Bible
Judgment on Jerusalem
א Alef
2 How the Lord has overshadowed
Daughter Zion with His anger!
He has thrown down Israel’s glory
from heaven to earth.
He has abandoned His footstool[a](A)
in the day of His anger.(B)
ב Bet
2 Without compassion(C) the Lord has swallowed up
all the dwellings of Jacob.
In His wrath He has demolished
the fortified cities(D) of Daughter Judah.
He brought them to the ground
and defiled the kingdom and its leaders.(E)
ג Gimel
3 He has cut off every horn(F) of Israel
in His burning anger
and withdrawn His right hand(G)
in the presence of the enemy.
He has blazed against Jacob like a flaming fire
that consumes everything.(H)
ד Dalet
4 He has bent His bow like an enemy;(I)
His right hand is positioned like an adversary.
He has killed everyone who was loved,[b]
pouring out His wrath like fire
on the tent of Daughter Zion.
ה He
5 The Lord is like an enemy;
He has swallowed up Israel.
He swallowed up all its palaces
and destroyed its fortified cities.
He has multiplied mourning and lamentation
within Daughter Judah.(J)
ו Vav
6 He has done violence to His temple[c]
as if it were a garden booth,
destroying His place of meeting.(K)
The Lord has abolished
appointed festivals and Sabbaths in Zion.
He has despised king and priest
in His fierce anger.
ז Zayin
7 The Lord has rejected His altar,
repudiated His sanctuary;(L)
He has handed the walls of her palaces
over to the enemy.
They have raised a shout in the house of the Lord
as on the day of an appointed festival.
ח Khet
8 The Lord determined to destroy
the wall of Daughter Zion.
He stretched out a measuring line(M)
and did not restrain Himself from destroying.
He made the ramparts and walls grieve;
together they waste away.
ט Tet
9 Zion’s gates have fallen to the ground;(N)
He has destroyed and shattered the bars on her gates.
Her king and her leaders live among the nations,
instruction[d] is no more,
and even her prophets receive
no vision from the Lord.(O)
י Yod
10 The elders of Daughter Zion
sit on the ground in silence.
They have thrown dust on their heads(P)
and put on sackcloth.
The young women of Jerusalem
have bowed their heads to the ground.(Q)
כ Kaf
11 My eyes are worn out from weeping;(R)
I am churning within.
My heart is poured out in grief[e](S)
because of the destruction of my dear people,(T)
because children and infants faint
in the streets of the city.(U)
ל Lamed
12 They cry out to their mothers:
Where is the grain and wine?(V)
as they faint like the wounded
in the streets of the city,
as their lives fade away
in the arms of their mothers.
מ Mem
13 What can I say on your behalf?
What can I compare you to, Daughter Jerusalem?
What can I liken you to,
so that I may console you, Virgin Daughter Zion?
For your ruin is as vast as the sea.
Who can heal you?(W)
נ Nun
14 Your prophets saw visions for you
that were empty and deceptive;(X)
they did not reveal your guilt
and so restore your fortunes.(Y)
They saw oracles for you
that were empty and misleading.
ס Samek
15 All who pass by
scornfully clap their hands(Z) at you.
They mock[f](AA) and shake their heads(AB)
at Daughter Jerusalem:
Is this the city that was called
the perfection of beauty,(AC)
the joy of the whole earth?(AD)
פ Pe
16 All your enemies
open their mouths against you.(AE)
They hiss and gnash their teeth,(AF)
saying, “We have swallowed her up.(AG)
This is the day we have waited for!
We have lived to see it.”
ע Ayin
17 The Lord has done what He planned;
He has accomplished His decree,
which He ordained in days of old.
He has demolished without compassion,(AH)
letting the enemy gloat over you
and exalting the horn of your adversaries.
צ Tsade
18 The hearts of the people cry out to the Lord.
Wall of Daughter Zion,(AI)
let your tears run down like a river
day and night.(AJ)
Give yourself no relief
and your[g] eyes no rest.
ק Qof
19 Arise, cry out in the night
from the first watch of the night.
Pour out your heart like water
before the Lord’s presence.(AK)
Lift up your hands to Him
for the lives of your children
who are fainting from hunger
on the corner of every street.(AL)
ר Resh
20 Lord, look and consider
who You have done this to.
Should women eat their own children,(AM)
the infants they have nurtured?[h]
Should priests and prophets
be killed in the Lord’s sanctuary?
שׁ Shin
21 Both young and old
are lying on the ground in the streets.
My young men and women
have fallen by the sword.
You have killed them in the day of Your anger,
slaughtering without compassion.(AN)
ת Tav
22 You summoned my attackers[i] on every side,(AO)
as if for an appointed festival day;
on the day of the Lord’s anger
no one escaped or survived.
My enemy has destroyed
those I nurtured[j] and reared.
Footnotes
- Lamentations 2:1 Either the ark of the covenant or the temple
- Lamentations 2:4 Lit killed all the delights of the eye; Ezk 24:16
- Lamentations 2:6 Lit booth
- Lamentations 2:9 Or the law
- Lamentations 2:11 Lit My liver is poured out on the ground
- Lamentations 2:15 Lit hiss
- Lamentations 2:18 Lit and the daughter of your
- Lamentations 2:20 Or infants in a healthy condition; Hb obscure
- Lamentations 2:22 Or terrors
- Lamentations 2:22 Or I bore healthy; Hb obscure
Lamentations 2
New King James Version
God’s Anger with Jerusalem
2 How the Lord has covered the daughter of Zion
With a (A)cloud in His anger!
(B)He cast down from heaven to the earth
(C)The beauty of Israel,
And did not remember (D)His footstool
In the day of His anger.
2 The Lord has swallowed up and has (E)not pitied
All the dwelling places of Jacob.
He has thrown down in His wrath
The strongholds of the daughter of Judah;
He has brought them down to the ground;
(F)He has profaned the kingdom and its princes.
3 He has cut off in fierce anger
Every [a]horn of Israel;
(G)He has drawn back His right hand
From before the enemy.
(H)He has blazed against Jacob like a flaming fire
Devouring all around.
4 (I)Standing like an enemy, He has bent His bow;
With His right hand, like an adversary,
He has slain (J)all who were pleasing to His eye;
On the tent of the daughter of Zion,
He has poured out His fury like fire.
5 (K)The Lord was like an enemy.
He has swallowed up Israel,
He has swallowed up all her palaces;
(L)He has destroyed her strongholds,
And has increased mourning and lamentation
In the daughter of Judah.
6 He has done violence (M)to His [b]tabernacle,
(N)As if it were a garden;
He has destroyed His place of assembly;
The Lord has caused
The appointed feasts and Sabbaths to be forgotten in Zion.
In His burning indignation He has (O)spurned the king and the priest.
7 The Lord has spurned His altar,
He has (P)abandoned His sanctuary;
He has [c]given up the walls of her palaces
Into the hand of the enemy.
(Q)They have made a noise in the house of the Lord
As on the day of a set feast.
8 The Lord has [d]purposed to destroy
The (R)wall of the daughter of Zion.
(S)He has stretched out a line;
He has not withdrawn His hand from destroying;
Therefore He has caused the rampart and wall to lament;
They languished together.
9 Her gates have sunk into the ground;
He has destroyed and (T)broken her bars.
(U)Her king and her princes are among the [e]nations;
(V)The Law is no more,
And her (W)prophets find no [f]vision from the Lord.
10 The elders of the daughter of Zion
(X)Sit on the ground and keep silence;
[g]They (Y)throw dust on their heads
And (Z)gird themselves with sackcloth.
The virgins of Jerusalem
Bow their heads to the ground.
11 (AA)My eyes fail with tears,
My [h]heart is troubled;
(AB)My [i]bile is poured on the ground
Because of the destruction of the daughter of my people,
Because (AC)the children and the infants
Faint in the streets of the city.
12 They say to their mothers,
“Where is grain and wine?”
As they swoon like the wounded
In the streets of the city,
As their life is poured out
In their mothers’ bosom.
13 How shall I (AD)console[j] you?
To what shall I liken you,
O daughter of Jerusalem?
What shall I compare with you, that I may comfort you,
O virgin daughter of Zion?
For your ruin is spread wide as the sea;
Who can heal you?
14 Your (AE)prophets have seen for you
False and deceptive visions;
They have not (AF)uncovered your iniquity,
To bring back your captives,
But have envisioned for you false (AG)prophecies and delusions.
15 All who [k]pass by (AH)clap their hands at you;
They hiss (AI)and shake their heads
At the daughter of Jerusalem:
“Is this the city that is called
(AJ)‘The perfection of beauty,
The joy of the whole earth’?”
16 (AK)All your enemies have opened their mouth against you;
They hiss and gnash their teeth.
They say, (AL)“We have swallowed her up!
Surely this is the (AM)day we have waited for;
We have found it, (AN)we have seen it!”
17 The Lord has done what He (AO)purposed;
He has fulfilled His word
Which He commanded in days of old.
He has thrown down and has not pitied,
And He has caused an enemy to (AP)rejoice over you;
He has exalted the [l]horn of your adversaries.
18 Their heart cried out to the Lord,
“O wall of the daughter of Zion,
(AQ)Let tears run down like a river day and night;
Give yourself no relief;
Give [m]your eyes no rest.
19 “Arise, (AR)cry out in the night,
At the beginning of the watches;
(AS)Pour out your heart like water before the face of the Lord.
Lift your hands toward Him
For the life of your young children,
Who faint from hunger (AT)at the head of every street.”
20 “See, O Lord, and consider!
To whom have You done this?
(AU)Should the women eat their offspring,
The children [n]they have cuddled?
Should the priest and prophet be slain
In the sanctuary of the Lord?
21 “Young(AV) and old lie
On the ground in the streets;
My virgins and my young men
Have fallen by the (AW)sword;
You have slain them in the day of Your anger,
You have slaughtered and not pitied.
22 “You have invited as to a feast day
(AX)The terrors that surround me.
In the day of the Lord’s anger
There was no refugee or survivor.
(AY)Those whom I have borne and brought up
My enemies have (AZ)destroyed.”
Footnotes
- Lamentations 2:3 Strength
- Lamentations 2:6 Lit. booth
- Lamentations 2:7 delivered
- Lamentations 2:8 determined
- Lamentations 2:9 Gentiles
- Lamentations 2:9 Prophetic revelation
- Lamentations 2:10 A sign of mourning
- Lamentations 2:11 Lit. inward parts
- Lamentations 2:11 Lit. liver
- Lamentations 2:13 Or bear witness to
- Lamentations 2:15 Lit. pass by this way
- Lamentations 2:17 Strength
- Lamentations 2:18 Lit. the daughter of your eye
- Lamentations 2:20 Vg. a span long
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