耶利米哀歌 3
Revised Chinese Union Version (Simplified Script) Shen Edition
惩罚、悔改、盼望
3 因耶和华愤怒的杖，
我是遭遇困苦的人。
2 他驱赶我走入黑暗，
没有光明。
3 他反手攻击我，
终日不停。
4 他使我皮肉枯干，
折断我的骨头。
5 他筑垒攻击我，
以苦楚和艰难围困我；
6 使我住在幽暗之处，
像死了许久的人一样。
7 他围住我，使我无法脱身；
他使我的铜链沉重。
8 尽管我哀号求救，
他仍拦阻我的祷告。
9 他用凿过的石头挡住我的道路，
使我的路径弯曲。
10 他向我如埋伏的熊，
如在隐密处的狮子。
11 他使我转离正路，
把我撕碎[a]，使我凄凉。
12 他拉弓，命我站立，
当作箭靶；
13 把箭袋中的箭
射入我的肺腑。
14 我成了全体百姓的笑柄，
成了他们终日的歌曲。
15 他使我受尽苦楚，
饱食茵陈；
16 用沙石磨断我的牙，
以灰尘覆盖我。
17 你使我远离平安，
我忘了何为福乐。
18 于是我说：“我的力量衰败，
在耶和华那里我毫无指望！”
19 求你记得我的困苦和流离，
它如茵陈和苦胆一般；
20 我心想念这些，
就在我里面忧闷[b]。
21 但我的心回转过来，
因此就有指望；
22 因耶和华的慈爱，我们不致灭绝[c]，
因他的怜悯永不断绝，
23 每早晨，这都是新的；
你的信实极其广大！
24 我心里说：“耶和华是我的福分，
因此，我要仰望他。”
25 凡等候耶和华，心里寻求他的，
耶和华必施恩给他。
26 人仰望耶和华，
安静等候他的救恩，
这是好的。
27 人在年轻时负轭，
这是好的。
28 他当安静独坐，
因为这是耶和华加在他身上的。
29 让他脸伏于地[d]吧！
或者还会有指望。
30 让人打他耳光，
使他饱受凌辱吧！
31 主必不永远撇弃，
32 他虽使人忧愁，
还要照他丰盛的慈爱施怜悯；
33 他并不存心要人受苦，
令世人忧愁。
34 把世上所有的囚犯
踹在脚下，
35 在至高者面前
扭曲人的公正，
36 在人的诉讼上
颠倒是非，
这都是主看不中的。
37 若非主发命令，
谁能说了就成呢？
38 是祸，是福，
不都出于至高者的口吗？
39 人都有自己的罪，
活人有什么好发怨言的呢？
40 让我们省察，检讨自己的行为，
归向耶和华吧！
41 让我们献上我们的心，
向天上的 神举手！
42 我们犯罪悖逆，
你并未赦免。
43 你浑身是怒气，追赶我们；
你施行杀戮，并不顾惜。
44 你以密云围着自己，
祷告不能穿透。
45 你使我们在万民中
成为污物和垃圾。
46 我们所有的仇敌
张口来攻击我们；
47 惊吓和陷阱临到我们，
残害和毁灭也临到我们。
48 因我百姓[e]遭毁灭，
我的眼睛泪流成河。
49 我的眼睛流泪不停，
流泪不止，
50 直等到耶和华垂顾，
从天上观看。
51 为我城中的百姓[f]，
我眼所见的使我心痛。
52 无故与我为敌的追逼我，
像追捕雀鸟一样。
53 他们要在坑中了结我的性命，
丢石头在我身上。
54 众水淹没我的头，
我说：“我没命了！”
55 耶和华啊，
在极深的地府里，我求告你的名。
56 我的声音你听见了，
求你不要掩耳不听
我的呼声，我的求救。
57 我求告你的时候，
你临近我，说：“不要惧怕！”
58 主啊，你为我伸冤，
你救赎了我的命。
59 耶和华啊，你已看见我的委屈，
求你为我主持正义。
60 他们要报复，谋害我，
你都看见了。
61 耶和华啊，你听见他们的辱骂，
他们害我的一切计谋，
62 那些起来攻击我的人嘴唇所说的话
和他们终日攻击我的计谋。
63 求你留意！
他们无论坐下或起来，
我都是他们的笑柄。
64 耶和华啊，求你照他们手所做的
向他们施行报应。
65 求你使他们心里刚硬，
使你的诅咒临到他们。
66 求你发怒追赶他们，
从耶和华的地上[g]除灭他们。
Lamentations 3
Good News Translation
Punishment, Repentance, and Hope
3 I am one who knows what it is to be punished by God.
2 He drove me deeper and deeper into darkness
3 And beat me again and again with merciless blows.
4 He has left my flesh open and raw, and has broken my bones.
5 He has shut me in a prison of misery and anguish.
6 He has forced me to live in the stagnant darkness of death.
7 He has bound me in chains; I am a prisoner with no hope of escape.
8 I cry aloud for help, but God refuses to listen;
9 I stagger as I walk; stone walls block me wherever I turn.
10 He waited for me like a bear; he pounced on me like a lion.
11 He chased me off the road, tore me to pieces, and left me.
12 He drew his bow and made me the target for his arrows.
13 He shot his arrows deep into my body.
14 People laugh at me all day long; I am a joke to them all.
15 Bitter suffering is all he has given me for food and drink.
16 He rubbed my face in the ground and broke my teeth on rocks.
17 I have forgotten what health and peace and happiness are.
18 I do not have much longer to live; my hope in the Lord is gone.
19 The thought of my pain, my homelessness, is bitter poison.
20 I think of it constantly, and my spirit is depressed.
21 Yet hope returns when I remember this one thing:
22 The Lord's unfailing love and mercy still continue,
23 Fresh as the morning, as sure as the sunrise.
24 The Lord is all I have, and so in him I put my hope.
25 The Lord is good to everyone who trusts in him,
26 So it is best for us to wait in patience—to wait for him to save us—
27 And it is best to learn this patience in our youth.
28 When we suffer, we should sit alone in silent patience;
29 We should bow in submission, for there may still be hope.
30 Though beaten and insulted, we should accept it all.
31 The Lord is merciful and will not reject us forever.
32 He may bring us sorrow, but his love for us is sure and strong.
33 He takes no pleasure in causing us grief or pain.
34 The Lord knows when our spirits are crushed in prison;
35 He knows when we are denied the rights he gave us;
36 When justice is perverted in court, he knows.
37 The will of the Lord alone is always carried out.[a]
38 Good and evil alike take place at his command.
39 Why should we ever complain when we are punished for our sin?[b]
40 Let us examine our ways and turn back to the Lord.
41 Let us open our hearts to God in heaven and pray,
42 “We have sinned and rebelled, and you, O Lord, have not forgiven us.
43 “You pursued us and killed us; your mercy was hidden by your anger,
44 By a cloud of fury too thick for our prayers to get through.
45 You have made us the garbage dump of the world.
46 “We are insulted and mocked by all our enemies.
47 We have been through disaster and ruin; we live in danger and fear.
48 My eyes flow with rivers of tears at the destruction of my people.
49 “My tears will pour out in a ceaseless stream
50 Until the Lord looks down from heaven and sees us.
51 My heart is grieved when I see what has happened to the women of the city.
52 “I was trapped like a bird by enemies who had no cause to hate me.
53 They threw me alive into a pit and closed the opening with a stone.
54 Water began to close over me, and I thought death was near.
55 “From the bottom of the pit, O Lord, I cried out to you,
56 And when I begged you to listen to my cry, you heard.
57 You answered me and told me not to be afraid.
58 “You came to my rescue, Lord, and saved my life.
59 Judge in my favor; you know the wrongs done against me.
60 You know how my enemies hate me and how they plot against me.
61 “You have heard them insult me, O Lord; you know all their plots.
62 All day long they talk about me and make their plans.
63 From morning till night they make fun of me.
64 “Punish them for what they have done, O Lord;
65 Curse them and fill them with despair!
66 Hunt them down and wipe them off the earth!”
Footnotes
- Lamentations 3:37 The will … out; or No one can make anything happen unless the Lord is willing.
- Lamentations 3:39 Why should … sin?; or Why should we complain about being punished for sin, as long as we are still alive?
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