耶利米哀歌 2
Chinese Contemporary Bible (Traditional)
耶和華懲罰耶路撒冷
2 主的怒氣像烏雲一樣遮蓋錫安城[a]，
祂使以色列的榮美從天上墜下。
祂發怒的時候並不顧念自己的腳凳。
2 主毫不留情地毀滅雅各一切的住處，
祂在烈怒中夷平猶大的堡壘，
讓以色列及其首領蒙羞。
3 祂發烈怒毀滅以色列全軍。
敵人襲來時，祂收回大能的手。
祂像烈焰一樣吞噬雅各。
4 祂抬起右手張弓搭箭，
宛若仇敵，
殺戮一切悅人眼目的人，
將祂的怒火撒向錫安城的帳篷。
5 主像敵人一樣毀滅以色列，
吞噬她的宮殿，夷平她的堡壘，
使猶大人哀哭不止。
6 祂摧毀自己的居所，
如同摧毀花園；
祂摧毀自己規定的聚會之處，
使錫安的人民忘記安息日和節期。
祂在烈怒中棄絕所有的君王和祭司。
7 主撇棄自己的祭壇，
憎惡自己的聖所，
把耶路撒冷的殿牆交給敵人。
他們像過節一樣，
在耶和華的殿中喧嚷吵鬧。
8 耶和華決意拆毀錫安的城牆，
祂拉了準線，
定意毀滅，決不停止。
祂使城牆和壁壘一同悲哀哭泣。
9 錫安的城門陷入地中，
主摧毀、砍斷她的門閂。
她的君王和首領流落異鄉，
律法不復存在，
她的先知得不到從耶和華而來的異象。
10 錫安城的長老腰束麻布，
頭蒙灰塵，坐在地上，
默然不語；
耶路撒冷的少女垂頭至地。
11 我哭得眼睛失明，
心如刀割，肝膽欲碎，
因為人民慘遭毀滅，
兒童和嬰孩昏倒在街頭。
12 孩子們問母親：
「哪裡有餅和酒呢？」
他們像受傷的勇士，
昏倒在城中的街頭，
在母親懷中奄奄一息。
13 耶路撒冷啊，我該說什麼呢？
誰能與你的苦難相比呢？
錫安啊，我用什麼話語才能安慰你呢？
你的傷口深如海洋，
誰能醫治你呢？
14 你的先知所見的異象虛假無用。
他們沒有揭露你的罪惡，
以致你被擄。
他們給你的預言虛假謬誤。
15 路人都拍掌嘲笑你。
他們向耶路撒冷城搖頭，
嗤笑道：
「這就是那被譽為完美無瑕、
普世喜悅的城嗎？」
16 敵人都幸災樂禍地譏諷你，
他們咬牙切齒地說：
「我們吞滅了她！
這是我們期待已久的日子！
我們終於見到這一天了！」
17 耶和華實現了祂的計劃，
成就了祂很久以前的應許。
祂毫不留情地毀滅了你，
使你的仇敵幸災樂禍，
耀武揚威。
18 錫安的城牆啊，
你要從心裡向主呼求！
你的眼淚要像江河一樣晝夜湧流，
不歇不眠。
19 你要在夜間起來，
在主面前整夜呼求，
向祂傾心吐意；
你要為餓昏街頭的孩童向主舉手禱告。
20 「耶和華啊，求你看看，
你曾這樣對付過誰呢？
母親豈能吃自己的孩子？
祭司和先知豈能在主的聖所中被殺？
21 「老人和小孩陳屍街頭，
少男少女都喪身刀下。
你在發怒的日子殺了他們，
毫不留情。
22 「你從四面八方召人攻擊我，
如同召集人過節。
耶和華發怒的日子，
無人得以逃脫，無人得以倖免。
敵人殺光了我養育的孩子。」
Lamentations 2
Lexham English Bible
The Lord is Angry
2 How, in his anger,[a]
the Lord has covered the daughter of Zion in a cloud!
He has thrown down from heavens to earth
the splendor of Israel,
and he has not remembered his footstool
in the day of his anger.[b]
2 The Lord has devoured; he has not shown mercy
to all the dwellings of Jacob;
he has broken down in his wrath
the fortifications of the daughter of Judah;
he has leveled to the ground, he has dishonored
the kingdom and its commanders.[c]
3 He has cut down in fierce anger[d]
all the might of Israel;
he has withdrawn his right hand
from the faces of the enemy,
and he has burned in Jacob like a flaming fire,
it has consumed all around.
4 He has bent his bow like an enemy;
he has set his right hand
like a foe, and he has slain
all the treasures of the eye;[e]
in the tent of the daughter of Zion,
he has poured out his anger like fire.
5 The Lord has become like an enemy;
he has destroyed Israel;
he has destroyed all its citadel fortresses;[f]
he has ruined all its fortifications
and multiplied lamentation and mourning
in the daughter of Judah.
6 He has broken down his dwelling[g] place like the garden;
he has ruined his appointed feasts;
Yahweh has made them forget in Zion
festival[h] and Sabbath,
and he has despised in his anger
king and priest.
7 The Lord has rejected his altar;
he has rejected his sanctuary;
he has delivered into the hands of the enemy
the walls of its citadel fortresses.[i]
They have cried out in the house of Yahweh
like a day of an appointed feast.
8 Yahweh has planned to destroy
the wall of the daughter of Zion.
He measured with a line; he has not restrained
his hand from destroying;
he caused rampart and wall to mourn;
together they have languished away.
9 Her gates have sunk into the earth;
he has ruined and broken her bars,
her kings and its princes are among the nations;
there is no more law.[j]
Also, her prophets have not found
a revelation from Yahweh.
10 They sit on the ground,
the elders of the daughter of Zion are silent.
They cast dust on their head,
they have put on sackcloth;
the young women of Jerusalem
have bowed their head down to the ground.
11 My eyes have spent all their tears;[k]
my stomach[l] is in torment,
my heart[m] is poured out on the earth
because of the destruction of the daughter of my people,
because child and babe faint
in the public squares of a city.
12 To their mothers they say,
“Where is the bread and wine?”
as they faint like the wounded
in the public squares of a city,
as their life is being poured out
onto the bosom of their mothers.
13 What can I say for you? What can I compare to you,
O daughter of Jerusalem?
To what can I liken you so that I can comfort you,
O virgin daughter of Zion?
For your destruction is as vast as the sea;
who can heal you?
14 Your prophets had a vision for you,
false and worthless;
they have not exposed your sin,
to restore your fortune;
they have seen oracles for you,
false and misleading.
15 They clap hands over you,
all who pass along the way;
they hiss and they shake their head,
at the daughter of Jerusalem.
Is this the city of which it is said,
“A perfection of beauty, a joy for all the earth?”
16 They have opened their mouths against you,
all your enemies.
They hiss and gnash a tooth,
and they say, “We have destroyed her!
Surely this is the day we have hoped for;
we have found it, we have seen it!”
17 Yahweh has done what he has planned;
he has fulfilled his promise
that he ordained from the days of old;
he has demolished and not shown mercy;
he has made an enemy rejoice over you,
he has exalted the might[n] of your foes.
18 Their heart cried to the Lord,
“O wall of the daughter of Zion,
let tears stream down like a river;
day and night,
do not give yourself relief,
do not give your eyes rest.
19 “Arise, cry out in the night,
at the beginning of the night watches;
pour out your heart like water,
before the face of the Lord.
Lift to him your hands,
for the life of your children,
who faint in starvation,
at the head of all streets.”
20 See, Yahweh, and take note!
With whom have you dealt thus?
Should women eat their young
children of tender care?
Should priest and prophet be slain
in the sanctuary of the Lord?
21 They lie in the soil of the streets,
young and old;
my young women[o] and young men,
they have fallen by the sword;
you have slain on the day of your anger,[p]
you have slaughtered and not shown mercy.
22 You have summoned my horror from all around,
as if for a feast day;
no one on the day of Yahweh’s anger
is a fugitive and a survivor;
whoever I have cared for and reared,
my enemy has destroyed.
Footnotes
- Lamentations 2:1 Literally “in his nose”
- Lamentations 2:1 Literally “his nose”
- Lamentations 2:2 Or “her commanders”
- Lamentations 2:3 Literally “in a fierce nose”
- Lamentations 2:4 NRSV translates “all in whom we took pride”
- Lamentations 2:5 Or “her citadel fortresses”
- Lamentations 2:6 Literally “his booth”; or “his tabernacle”
- Lamentations 2:6 Literally “appointed time”
- Lamentations 2:7 Or “her citadel fortress”
- Lamentations 2:9 Hebrew torah
- Lamentations 2:11 Literally “finished with the weeping”
- Lamentations 2:11 Literally “my inward parts”
- Lamentations 2:11 Literally “my liver”
- Lamentations 2:17 Literally “horn”
- Lamentations 2:21 Or “my virgins”
- Lamentations 2:21 Literally “your nose”
耶利米哀歌 2
Chinese Union Version Modern Punctuation (Simplified)
耶利米哀叹耶路撒冷之苦
2 主何竟发怒，使黑云遮蔽锡安城！他将以色列的华美从天扔在地上，在他发怒的日子并不记念自己的脚凳。 2 主吞灭雅各一切的住处，并不顾惜。他发怒倾覆犹大民的保障，使这保障坍倒在地。他辱没这国和其中的首领。 3 他发烈怒把以色列的角全然砍断，在仇敌面前收回右手。他像火焰四围吞灭，将雅各烧毁。 4 他张弓好像仇敌，他站着举起右手如同敌人，将悦人眼目的尽行杀戮。在锡安百姓的帐篷上倒出他的愤怒，像火一样。 5 主如仇敌吞灭以色列和锡安的一切宫殿，拆毁百姓的保障，在犹大民中加增悲伤哭号。 6 他强取自己的帐幕好像是园中的窝棚，毁坏他的聚会之处。耶和华使圣节和安息日在锡安都被忘记，又在怒气的愤恨中藐视君王和祭司。 7 耶和华丢弃自己的祭坛，憎恶自己的圣所，将宫殿的墙垣交付仇敌。他们在耶和华的殿中喧嚷，像在圣会之日一样。 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。他使外郭和城墙都悲哀，一同衰败。 9 锡安的门都陷入地内，主将她的门闩毁坏、折断。她的君王和首领落在没有律法的列国中，她的先知不得见耶和华的异象。 10 锡安城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。耶路撒冷的处女垂头至地。
11 我眼中流泪，以致失明，我的心肠扰乱，肝胆涂地，都因我众民遭毁灭，又因孩童和吃奶的在城内街上发昏。 12 那时他们在城内街上发昏，好像受伤的，在母亲的怀里将要丧命，对母亲说：“谷、酒在哪里呢？” 13 耶路撒冷的民哪，我可用什么向你证明呢？我可用什么与你相比呢？锡安的民哪，我可拿什么和你比较，好安慰你呢？因为你的裂口大如海，谁能医治你呢？ 14 你的先知为你见虚假和愚昧的异象，并没有显露你的罪孽使你被掳的归回，却为你见虚假的默示和使你被赶出本境的缘故。 15 凡过路的都向你拍掌，他们向耶路撒冷城嗤笑摇头，说：“难道人所称为全美的，称为全地所喜悦的，就是这城吗？” 16 你的仇敌都向你大大张口，他们嗤笑又切齿，说：“我们吞灭她！这真是我们所盼望的日子临到了，我们亲眼看见了！” 17 耶和华成就了他所定的，应验了他古时所命定的。他倾覆了并不顾惜，使你的仇敌向你夸耀，使你敌人的角也被高举。 18 锡安民的心哀求主。锡安的城墙啊，愿你流泪如河，昼夜不息！愿你眼中的瞳人泪流不止！ 19 夜间每逢交更的时候要起来呼喊，在主面前倾心如水。你的孩童在各市口上受饿发昏，你要为他们的性命向主举手祷告。
叹耶和华降罚过重
20 “耶和华啊，求你观看，见你向谁这样行？妇人岂可吃自己所生育手里所摇弄的婴孩吗？祭司和先知岂可在主的圣所中被杀戮吗？ 21 少年人和老年人都在街上躺卧，我的处女和壮丁都倒在刀下。你发怒的日子杀死他们，你杀了并不顾惜。 22 你招聚四围惊吓我的，像在大会的日子招聚人一样。耶和华发怒的日子，无人逃脱，无人存留。我所摇弄所养育的婴孩，仇敌都杀净了。”
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