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耶利米哀歌 4
Chinese New Version (Simplified)
耶利米哀歌 4
Chinese New Version (Simplified)
抚今追昔自叹苦难难当
4 黄金怎么竟然失去光泽，纯金怎么竟然变色？
圣殿的石头都被拋弃在各街头上。
2 锡安尊贵的众民，本来和精金一样贵重；
现在怎么竟被看为瓦器，好象陶匠手中所作的呢？
3 野狗尚且用乳房哺养牠们的幼儿；
但我的众民变得多么残忍，像旷野的鸵鸟一样。
4 婴儿的舌头因干渴而紧贴上膛；
孩童求饼，却没有人分给他们。
5 那些从前吃美食的，现今都在街上孤单凄凉；
那些从前在豪奢生活中长大的，现今却在垃圾堆中打滚。
6 我众民（“我众民”原文作“我子民的女子”）的罪孽比所多玛的罪恶更大；
所多玛在转眼之间倾覆了，尽管无人攻击它。
7 锡安的贵族素来比雪更明亮，比奶更洁白；
他们的身体比红宝石更红润，他们的样貌像蓝宝石一样美丽。
8 现在他们的面貌比煤炭还黑，在街上再没有人认得他们；
他们皮包骨头，枯瘦如柴。
9 那些死于刀下的比饿死的还好；
饿死的因缺乏田间的出产，就日渐消瘦而死亡。
10 慈心的妇人亲手烹煮自己所生的孩子；
在我众民（“我众民”原文作“我子民的女子”）遭毁灭的时候，孩子竟成了母亲的食物。
11 耶和华大发震怒，倾倒他的烈怒；
他在锡安放火，吞灭了锡安的根基。
12 地上的君王，以及世上所有的居民都不相信，
会有任何敌人和仇敌攻进耶路撒冷的城门。
惩罚不义的领袖
13 因为锡安先知的罪恶，和祭司的罪孽，
就是他们在城中流了义人的血，
14 所以，他们像瞎子在街上流荡，他们被血玷污，
没有人可以触摸他们的衣服。
15 有人向他们喊叫：“走开！你们不洁的人；走开！走开！不要触摸我。”
他们到处逃亡飘流的时候，列国的人就说：“他们再不能在这里寄居。”
16 耶和华亲临（“耶和华亲临”直译作“耶和华的面”）分散他们，不再看顾他们；
人不再尊重祭司，也不厚待长老。
17 我们徒然等待帮助，等到双目失去视力；
我们在瞭望台上期望一个不能拯救我们的国家来临。
18 敌人追踪我们，使我们不敢在自己的街道上行走。
我们的结局近了，我们的日子满了；
我们的结局已经到了。
19 追赶我们的比空中的鹰还快；
他们在山上追赶我们，在旷野埋伏攻击我们。
20 耶和华所膏立的，我们鼻孔的气息，在他们的陷坑中被捉住；
我们论到他曾说：“我们要在他的荫庇之下，在列国中存活。”
以东遭报
21 以东人哪，乌斯地的居民哪，欢喜快乐吧！
这杯也要传到你那里，你必喝醉以致赤身露体。
锡安得安慰
22 锡安的居民（“居民”原文作“女子”）哪！你的刑罚已经受够了，耶和华必不再使你流亡；
以东的居民哪！他必惩罚你的罪孽，揭露你的罪恶。
Lamentations 4
La Bible du Semeur
Lamentations 4
La Bible du Semeur
Quatrième élégie : la déchéance de Sion
Le peuple est brisé
4 Comment[a] ! L’or s’est terni !
L’or pur s’est altéré !
Les pierres saintes[b] ╵ont été dispersées
à tous les coins de rues !
2 Comment se fait-il donc ╵que les précieux fils de Sion
estimés comme de l’or fin
soient maintenant considérés ╵comme des pots d’argile,
ouvrages d’un potier[c] ?
3 Regardez les chacals : ╵voyez comment les mères
allaitent leurs petits ╵en tendant leur mamelle.
La communauté de mon peuple ╵est devenue aussi cruelle
que les autruches du désert[d].
4 La langue du bébé
s’attache à son palais, ╵tellement il a soif.
Les tout petits enfants ╵réclament quelque nourriture
et nul ne leur en donne.
5 Ceux qui, auparavant, ╵mangeaient des mets exquis,
expirent dans les rues,
et ceux qui ont été ╵élevés dans la pourpre
se couchent maintenant ╵sur un tas de fumier.
6 La communauté de mon peuple ╵a commis un péché
plus grand que celui de Sodome[e]
qui a été anéantie ╵en un instant,
et sans qu’un homme ╵porte la main contre elle[f].
7 Les princes de Sion, ╵ils étaient plus purs que la neige
et plus blancs que du lait,
leurs corps étaient vermeils ╵bien plus que le corail,
leurs veines de saphir.
8 Leur aspect est plus sombre, ╵à présent, que la suie,
nul ne les reconnaît ╵maintenant dans les rues.
La peau leur colle aux os,
elle est devenue sèche ╵comme du bois.
9 Les victimes du glaive ╵sont plus heureuses
que les victimes ╵de la famine :
celles-ci dépérissent, ╵tenaillées par la faim,
car les produits des champs ╵leur font défaut.
10 De tendres femmes, ╵de leurs mains ont fait cuire
la chair de leurs enfants
pour s’en nourrir,
à cause du désastre ╵qui a atteint ╵la communauté de mon peuple[g].
Le juste jugement de Dieu
11 L’Eternel a assouvi son courroux.
Oui, il a déversé ╵son ardente colère,
il a allumé un feu dans Sion
qui en a consumé les fondations.
12 Aucun roi de la terre
ni aucun habitant du monde ╵n’a cru que l’adversaire,
que l’ennemi, ╵pourrait franchir
les portes de Jérusalem.
13 Cela est arrivé ╵à cause des péchés ╵de ses prophètes
et des fautes des prêtres
qui répandaient au milieu d’elle
le sang des justes.
14 Mais maintenant, ╵ils errent dans les rues ╵tout comme des aveugles,
ils sont souillés de sang
si bien que l’on ne peut
toucher leurs vêtements.
15 « Allez-vous en, impurs, ╵voilà ce qu’on leur crie.
Hors d’ici, hors d’ici, ╵et ne nous touchez pas ! »
Et lorsqu’ils fuient ainsi ╵en errant çà et là, ╵les gens des autres peuples disent :
« Qu’ils ne restent pas en ce lieu[h] ! »
16 L’Eternel en personne ╵les a disséminés,
il ne veut plus les voir.
On n’a pas respecté les prêtres
ni eu d’égards ╵pour les responsables du peuple[i].
L’heure de l’abandon
17 Nos yeux se consument encore
dans l’attente d’une aide, ╵mais c’est en vain.
De nos postes de guet ╵nous attendions une nation
qui ne nous a pas secourus[j].
18 Nos ennemis épient ╵la trace de nos pas,
et nous ne pouvons plus ╵circuler dans nos rues,
notre fin est prochaine, ╵nos jours sont à leur terme.
Oui, notre fin arrive.
19 Ceux qui nous poursuivaient ╵ont été plus rapides
que l’aigle dans le ciel.
Ils nous ont pourchassés ╵avec acharnement ╵sur les montagnes,
ils se sont embusqués ╵contre nous au désert.
20 Le roi qui de la part de l’Eternel ╵avait reçu l’onction[k], ╵et dont dépendait notre vie,
a été capturé ╵grâce à leurs pièges,
alors que nous disions :
« Nous vivrons sous sa protection ╵au milieu des nations. »
21 Tu peux être ravie, ╵communauté d’Edom, ╵et exulter[l],
toi qui habites ╵au pays d’Outs[m] :
à toi aussi, ╵on passera la coupe,
tu seras enivrée ╵et tu te mettras toute nue.
22 Ton châtiment aura sa fin, ╵ô communauté de Sion,
Dieu ne te déportera plus.
Communauté d’Edom, ╵il te fera payer tes fautes,
et il fera paraître ╵tes péchés au grand jour.
Footnotes
- 4.1 Autre traduction : hélas !
- 4.1 Selon certains, des pierres précieuses qui avaient fait partie du trésor du Temple. Pour d’autres, un symbole du peuple de Dieu (voir v. 2).
- 4.2 Voir Jr 18 et 19.
- 4.3 Sur l’autruche cruelle, voir Jb 39.14-16.
- 4.6 Sur Sodome, voir Gn 19.24-25 et Jr 23.14 ; 49.18 ; 50.40.
- 4.6 Autre traduction : sans que quelqu’un se donne la peine de la secourir.
- 4.10 Voir 2 R 6.28-29.
- 4.15 Voir Lv 13.45.
- 4.16 Autre traduction : les vieillards.
- 4.17 Probablement l’Egypte (voir Jr 29.16 ; 37.5-10).
- 4.20 Il s’agit de Sédécias (2 R 25.1-6 ; Jr 39.4-7 ; 52.6-11).
- 4.21 Lorsque Jérusalem est tombée, les Edomites ont participé à son pillage (Ez 25.12-14).
- 4.21 Outs: pays à l’est du Jourdain, peut-être Edom, au sud-est de la mer Morte (Gn 36.28 ; voir Jb 1.1 et note).
Lamentations 4
Legacy Standard Bible
Lamentations 4
Legacy Standard Bible
Yahweh’s Wrath Spent
Aleph
4 How (A)dark the gold has become,
How the pure gold has changed!
The sacred stones are poured out
At the head of every street.
Beth
2 The precious sons of Zion,
Weighed against fine gold,
How they are regarded as (B)earthen jars,
The work of a potter’s hands!
Gimel
3 Even (C)jackals offer the breast;
They nurse their young;
But the daughter of my people has become (D)cruel
Like (E)ostriches in the wilderness.
Daleth
4 The (F)tongue of the nursing baby cleaves
To the roof of its mouth because of (G)thirst;
The infants (H)ask for bread,
But no one breaks it for them.
He
5 Those who ate (I)delicacies
Are desolate in the streets;
Those [a]reared in crimson
Embrace ash pits.
Vav
6 So the [b]iniquity of the daughter of my people
Is greater than the [c](J)sin of Sodom,
Which was (K)overthrown as in a moment,
And no hands [d]whirled toward her.
Zayin
7 Her [e]Nazirites were (L)purer than snow;
They were whiter than milk;
They were more ruddy in [f]body than corals,
Their polishing was like [g](M)lapis lazuli.
Heth
8 Their form is (N)blacker than soot;
They are not recognized in the streets;
Their (O)skin is shriveled on their bones;
It is withered, it has become like wood.
Teth
9 Better are those (P)pierced through with the sword
Than those pierced through with hunger;
For their life (Q)flows away, being stricken
For lack of the produce of [h]the field.
Yodh
10 The hands of compassionate women
(R)Boiled their own children;
They became (S)food for them
Because of the destruction of the daughter of my people.
Kaph
11 Yahweh has (T)spent His wrath;
He has poured out His burning anger;
And He has (U)kindled a fire in Zion
Which has devoured its foundations.
Lamedh
12 The kings of the earth did not believe,
Nor did any of (V)the inhabitants of the world,
That the adversary and the enemy
Could (W)enter the gates of Jerusalem.
Mem
13 Because of the sins of her (X)prophets
And the iniquities of her priests,
Who have shed in her midst
The (Y)blood of the righteous;
Nun
14 They wandered, (Z)blind, in the streets;
They were defiled with (AA)blood
So that no one could touch their (AB)garments.
Samekh
15 “Depart! (AC)Unclean!” [i]they cried of themselves.
“Depart, depart, do not touch!”
So they (AD)fled and wandered;
Men among the nations said,
“They shall not continue to sojourn with us.”
Pe
16 The presence of Yahweh has eradicated them;
He will not continue to look at them;
They did not [j](AE)honor the priests;
They did not favor the elders.
Ayin
17 Yet our eyes were spent,
Looking for [k]help was (AF)vanity;
In our watching we have watched
For a (AG)nation that could not save.
Tsadhe
18 They (AH)hunted our steps
So that we could not walk in our open squares;
Our (AI)end drew near,
Our days were [l]finished,
For our end had come.
Qoph
19 Our pursuers were (AJ)swifter
Than the eagles of the sky;
They hotly pursued us on the mountains;
They waited in ambush for us in the wilderness.
Resh
20 The (AK)breath of our nostrils, the (AL)anointed of Yahweh,
Was (AM)captured in their pits,
Of whom we had said, “Under his (AN)shadow
We shall live among the nations.”
Sin
21 Rejoice and be glad, O daughter of (AO)Edom,
Who inhabits the land of Uz;
But the (AP)cup will pass on to you as well;
You will become drunk and make yourself naked.
Tav
22 The punishment of your iniquity has come (AQ)to an end, O daughter of Zion;
He will exile you no longer.
But He (AR)will punish your iniquity, O daughter of Edom;
He will expose your sins!
Footnotes
- Lamentations 4:5 Lit established in crimson
- Lamentations 4:6 Or punishment for iniquity
- Lamentations 4:6 Or punishment for sin
- Lamentations 4:6 Or wrung over her
- Lamentations 4:7 Or dedicated ones
- Lamentations 4:7 Lit bones
- Lamentations 4:7 Heb sappir
- Lamentations 4:9 Lit my fields
- Lamentations 4:15 Or they (men) cried to them
- Lamentations 4:16 Lit lift up the faces of
- Lamentations 4:17 Lit our help
- Lamentations 4:18 Lit full
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.
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