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Tristezas de Sión

[a]¡Cómo yace solitaria
La ciudad(A) de tanta gente(B)!
¡Se ha vuelto como una viuda(C)
La grande entre las naciones!
¡La princesa entre las provincias(D)
Se ha convertido en tributaria(E)!
Llora amargamente en la noche,
Y le corren las lágrimas por sus mejillas.
No hay quien la consuele(F)
Entre todos sus amantes(G).
Todos sus amigos la han traicionado,
Se han convertido en sus enemigos(H).
Judá ha ido al destierro bajo aflicción
Y bajo dura servidumbre(I).
Ella habita entre las naciones,
Pero no halla descanso(J);
Todos sus perseguidores la han alcanzado
En medio de la angustia(K).
Los caminos de Sión están de luto,
Porque nadie viene a las fiestas solemnes(L).
Todas sus puertas están desoladas(M);
Gimen sus sacerdotes,
Sus vírgenes están afligidas(N),
Y ella misma está amargada(O).
Sus adversarios se han convertido en sus amos,
Sus enemigos prosperan,
Porque el Señor la ha afligido
Por la multitud de sus transgresiones(P);
Sus niños han ido cautivos
Delante del adversario.
De la hija de Sión se ha ido
Todo su esplendor.
Sus príncipes son como ciervos(Q)
Que no hallan pasto,
Y huyen(R) sin fuerzas
Delante del perseguidor.
Jerusalén recuerda en los días de su aflicción y de su vagar[b]
Todos sus tesoros
Que existían desde los tiempos antiguos(S),
Cuando su pueblo cayó en mano del adversario
Sin que nadie la ayudara(T).
Al verla sus adversarios,
Se burlaron de su ruina(U).
En gran manera ha pecado Jerusalén,
Por lo cual se ha vuelto cosa inmunda(V).
Todos los que la honraban la desprecian(W)
Porque han visto su desnudez,
Y ella gime(X) y se vuelve de espaldas.
Su inmundicia está en sus faldas(Y);
No consideró su futuro(Z),
Por tanto ha caído(AA) de manera sorprendente;
No hay quien la consuele(AB).
«Mira, oh Señor, mi aflicción(AC),
Porque se ha engrandecido el enemigo(AD)».
10 El adversario ha extendido su mano
A todos sus tesoros;
Ciertamente ella ha visto a las naciones entrar en su santuario(AE),
A las que Tú ordenaste
Que no entraran en Tu congregación(AF).
11 Todo su pueblo gime buscando pan(AG);
Han dado sus tesoros a cambio de comida
Para restaurar sus vidas(AH).
«Mira, oh Señor, y observa
Que me están despreciando(AI)».
12 «Ustedes, todos los que pasan(AJ) por el camino, ¿no les importa esto?
Observen y vean si hay dolor como mi dolor,
Con el que fui atormentada,
Con el que el Señor me afligió el día de Su ardiente ira(AK).
13 -»Desde lo alto Él envió fuego
Que penetró en mis huesos(AL).
Ha tendido una red(AM) a mis pies,
Me ha hecho volver atrás;
Me ha dejado desolada,
Desfallecida(AN) todo el día.
14 -»Atado ha sido el yugo de mis transgresiones(AO),
Por la mano del Señor han sido entrelazadas,
Han caído sobre mi cuello(AP).
Él ha hecho que me falten las fuerzas;
El Señor me ha entregado en manos
Contra las cuales no puedo resistir(AQ).
15 -»A todos mis valientes ha rechazado el Señor
De en medio de mí(AR);
Ha convocado contra mí un tiempo determinado(AS)
Para quebrantar a mis jóvenes(AT);
El Señor ha pisoteado, como en un lagar,
A la virgen hija de Judá.
16 -»Por estas cosas lloro yo;
Mis ojos derraman agua(AU),
Porque lejos de mí está el consolador(AV),
El que reanima mi alma.
Mis hijos están desolados
Porque ha prevalecido el enemigo».
17 Sión extiende sus manos;
No hay quien la consuele(AW).
El Señor ha ordenado contra Jacob
Que los que lo rodean sean sus adversarios(AX);
Jerusalén se ha vuelto cosa inmunda en medio de ellos(AY).
18 «El Señor es justo(AZ),
Pues me he rebelado contra Su mandamiento(BA).
Oigan ahora, pueblos todos,
Y vean mi dolor(BB):
Mis vírgenes y mis jóvenes
Han ido al cautiverio(BC).
19 -»Llamé a mis amantes, mas ellos me han engañado(BD).
Mis sacerdotes(BE) y mis ancianos han perecido en la ciudad,
Cuando buscaban alimento para sí a fin de restaurar sus fuerzas(BF).
20 -»Mira, oh Señor, que estoy angustiada;
Hierven mis entrañas,
Mi corazón se revuelve dentro de mí(BG),
Porque he sido muy rebelde(BH).
En la calle la espada me deja sin hijos,
En la casa es como la muerte.
21 -»Han oído que gimo,
Pero no hay quien me consuele.
Todos mis enemigos han oído de mi mal,
Se regocijan de que Tú lo hayas hecho(BI).
¡Oh, si Tú trajeras el día que has anunciado,
Para que sean ellos como yo(BJ)!
22 -»Venga toda su maldad delante de Ti,
Y trátalos como a mí me has tratado(BK)
Por todas mis transgresiones;
Porque son muchos mis gemidos y desfallece mi corazón».

Footnotes

  1. 1:1 Cada capítulo en Lamentaciones, excepto el quinto, es un acróstico en el texto Heb.
  2. 1:7 O sufrimiento.

Jerusalem in Affliction

How lonely sits the city
That was full of people!
(A)How like a widow is she,
Who was great among the nations!
The (B)princess among the provinces
Has become a [a]slave!

She (C)weeps bitterly in the (D)night,
Her tears are on her cheeks;
Among all her lovers
She has none to comfort her.
All her friends have dealt treacherously with her;
They have become her enemies.

(E)Judah has gone into captivity,
Under affliction and hard servitude;
(F)She dwells among the [b]nations,
She finds no (G)rest;
All her persecutors overtake her in dire straits.

The roads to Zion mourn
Because no one comes to the [c]set feasts.
All her gates are (H)desolate;
Her priests sigh,
Her virgins are afflicted,
And she is in bitterness.

Her adversaries (I)have become [d]the master,
Her enemies prosper;
For the Lord has afflicted her
(J)Because of the multitude of her transgressions.
Her (K)children have gone into captivity before the enemy.

And from the daughter of Zion
All her splendor has departed.
Her princes have become like deer
That find no pasture,
That [e]flee without strength
Before the pursuer.

In the days of her affliction and roaming,
Jerusalem (L)remembers all her pleasant things
That she had in the days of old.
When her people fell into the hand of the enemy,
With no one to help her,
The adversaries saw her
And mocked at her [f]downfall.

(M)Jerusalem has sinned gravely,
Therefore she has become [g]vile.
All who honored her despise her
Because (N)they have seen her nakedness;
Yes, she sighs and turns away.

Her uncleanness is in her skirts;
She (O)did not consider her destiny;
Therefore her collapse was awesome;
She had no comforter.
“O Lord, behold my affliction,
For the enemy is exalted!”

10 The adversary has spread his hand
Over all her [h]pleasant things;
For she has seen (P)the nations enter her [i]sanctuary,
Those whom You commanded
(Q)Not to enter Your assembly.

11 All her people sigh,
(R)They [j]seek bread;
They have given their [k]valuables for food to restore life.
“See, O Lord, and consider,
For I am scorned.”

12 Is it nothing to you, all you who [l]pass by?
Behold and see
(S)If there is any sorrow like my sorrow,
Which has been brought on me,
Which the Lord has inflicted
In the day of His fierce anger.

13 “From above He has sent fire into my bones,
And it overpowered them;
He has (T)spread a net for my feet
And turned me back;
He has made me desolate
And faint all the day.

14 “The(U) yoke of my transgressions was [m]bound;
They were woven together by His hands,
And thrust upon my neck.
He made my strength fail;
The Lord delivered me into the hands of those whom I am not able to withstand.

15 “The Lord has trampled underfoot all my mighty men in my midst;
He has called an assembly against me
To crush my young men;
(V)The Lord trampled as in a winepress
The virgin daughter of Judah.

16 “For these things I weep;
My eye, (W)my eye overflows with water;
Because the comforter, who should restore my life,
Is far from me.
My children are desolate
Because the enemy prevailed.”

17 (X)Zion [n]spreads out her hands,
But no one comforts her;
The Lord has commanded concerning Jacob
That those (Y)around him become his adversaries;
Jerusalem has become an unclean thing among them.

18 “The Lord is (Z)righteous,
For I (AA)rebelled against His [o]commandment.
Hear now, all peoples,
And behold my sorrow;
My virgins and my young men
Have gone into captivity.

19 “I called for my lovers,
But they deceived me;
My priests and my elders
Breathed their last in the city,
While they sought food
To restore their life.

20 “See, O Lord, that I am in distress;
My (AB)soul[p] is troubled;
My heart is overturned within me,
For I have been very rebellious.
(AC)Outside the sword bereaves,
At home it is like death.

21 “They have heard that I sigh,
But no one comforts me.
All my enemies have heard of my trouble;
They are (AD)glad that You have done it.
Bring on (AE)the day You have [q]announced,
That they may become like me.

22 “Let(AF) all their wickedness come before You,
And do to them as You have done to me
For all my transgressions;
For my sighs are many,
And my heart is faint.”

Footnotes

  1. Lamentations 1:1 Lit. forced laborer
  2. Lamentations 1:3 Gentiles
  3. Lamentations 1:4 appointed
  4. Lamentations 1:5 Lit. her head
  5. Lamentations 1:6 Lit. are gone
  6. Lamentations 1:7 Vg. Sabbaths
  7. Lamentations 1:8 LXX, Vg. moved or removed
  8. Lamentations 1:10 desirable
  9. Lamentations 1:10 holy place, the temple
  10. Lamentations 1:11 hunt food
  11. Lamentations 1:11 desirable things
  12. Lamentations 1:12 Lit. pass by this way
  13. Lamentations 1:14 So with MT, Tg.; LXX, Syr., Vg. watched over
  14. Lamentations 1:17 Prays
  15. Lamentations 1:18 Lit. mouth
  16. Lamentations 1:20 Lit. inward parts
  17. Lamentations 1:21 proclaimed

How Lonely Sits the City

(A)How lonely sits the city
    that was full of people!
How like (B)a widow has she become,
    she who was great among the nations!
She who was (C)a princess among the provinces
    has become (D)a slave.

(E)She weeps bitterly in the night,
    with tears on her cheeks;
(F)among all her lovers
    she has (G)none to comfort her;
(H)all her friends have dealt treacherously with her;
    they have become her enemies.

(I)Judah has gone into exile because of affliction[a]
    and hard servitude;
(J)she dwells now among the nations,
    (K)but finds no resting place;
her pursuers have all overtaken her
    in the midst of her distress.[b]

The roads to Zion mourn,
    for none come to (L)the festival;
(M)all her gates are desolate;
    her priests (N)groan;
her virgins have been afflicted,[c]
    and she herself suffers bitterly.

(O)Her foes have become the head;
    her (P)enemies prosper,
because (Q)the Lord has afflicted her
    (R)for the multitude of her transgressions;
(S)her children have gone away,
    captives before the foe.

From the daughter of Zion
    all her majesty has departed.
Her princes have become like deer
    (T)that find no pasture;
they fled without strength
    before the pursuer.

Jerusalem remembers
    in the days of her affliction and wandering
(U)all the precious things
    that were hers from (V)days of old.
When her people fell into the hand of the foe,
    and there was none to help her,
her foes gloated over her;
    they (W)mocked at her downfall.

(X)Jerusalem sinned grievously;
    therefore she became filthy;
all who honored her despise her,
    (Y)for they have seen her nakedness;
she herself (Z)groans
    and turns her face away.

Her uncleanness was (AA)in her skirts;
    (AB)she took no thought of her future;[d]
therefore her fall is terrible;
    (AC)she has no comforter.
“O Lord, behold my affliction,
    for the enemy has (AD)triumphed!”

10 The enemy has stretched out his hands
    over all her (AE)precious things;
for she has seen (AF)the nations
    enter her sanctuary,
those whom you (AG)forbade
    to enter your congregation.

11 All her people (AH)groan
    as (AI)they search for bread;
they trade their (AJ)treasures for (AK)food
    to revive their strength.
“Look, O Lord, and see,
    for I am despised.”

12 “Is it nothing to you, all (AL)you who pass by?
    (AM)Look and see
if there is any sorrow like my sorrow,
    which was brought upon me,
which (AN)the Lord inflicted
    on (AO)the day of his fierce anger.

13 “From on high he (AP)sent fire;
    into my bones[e] he made it descend;
(AQ)he spread a net for my feet;
    he turned me back;
(AR)he has left me stunned,
    faint all the day long.

14 “My transgressions were bound[f] into (AS)a yoke;
    by his hand they were fastened together;
they were set upon my neck;
    he caused my strength to fail;
the Lord gave me into the hands
    of those whom I cannot withstand.

15 “The Lord rejected
    all my mighty men in my midst;
he summoned an assembly against me
    to crush my young men;
(AT)the Lord has trodden as in a winepress
    the virgin daughter of Judah.

16 “For these things (AU)I weep;
    my eyes flow with tears;
for (AV)a comforter is far from me,
    one to (AW)revive my spirit;
my children are desolate,
    for the enemy has prevailed.”

17 (AX)Zion stretches out her hands,
    but (AY)there is none to comfort her;
the Lord has commanded against Jacob
    that his neighbors should be his foes;
Jerusalem has become
    a filthy thing among them.

18 (AZ)“The Lord is in the right,
    (BA)for I have rebelled against his word;
but hear, all you peoples,
    and see my suffering;
(BB)my young women and my young men
    have gone into captivity.

19 “I called to (BC)my lovers,
    but they deceived me;
my priests and elders
    perished in the city,
while (BD)they sought food
    to revive their strength.

20 “Look, O Lord, for I am in distress;
    (BE)my stomach churns;
my heart is wrung within me,
    because I have been very rebellious.
(BF)In the street the sword bereaves;
    in the house it is like death.

21 “They heard[g] (BG)my groaning,
    yet (BH)there is no one to comfort me.
All my enemies have heard of my trouble;
    (BI)they are glad that you have done it.
You have brought[h] the day you announced;
    (BJ)now let them be as I am.

22 (BK)“Let all their evildoing come before you,
    and deal with them
as (BL)you have dealt with me
    because of all my transgressions;
for (BM)my groans are many,
    and (BN)my heart is faint.”

Footnotes

  1. Lamentations 1:3 Or under affliction
  2. Lamentations 1:3 Or in the narrow passes
  3. Lamentations 1:4 Septuagint, Old Latin dragged away
  4. Lamentations 1:9 Or end
  5. Lamentations 1:13 Septuagint; Hebrew bones and
  6. Lamentations 1:14 The meaning of the Hebrew is uncertain
  7. Lamentations 1:21 Septuagint, Syriac Hear
  8. Lamentations 1:21 Syriac Bring

Första klagosången över Jerusalem[a]

Se, så övergiven hon sitter,
    den folkrika staden!
Som en änka har hon blivit,
    hon som var så stor bland folken.
Ländernas drottning
    har blivit en slavinna.

Hon gråter bittert i natten,
    hennes kinder blir våta av tårar.
Bland alla vänner som älskade henne
    finns nu ingen som tröstar henne.
Alla har svikit henne
    och blivit hennes fiender.

Juda har förts bort i landsflykt
    efter förnedring och hård slavtjänst.
Nu bor hon bland andra folk
    och finner ingen ro.
Alla hennes förföljare hann ifatt henne,
    och ingen flyktväg fanns.

Vägarna till Sion sörjer,
    för ingen kommer till högtiderna.
Alla hennes stadsportar är övergivna.
    Hennes präster suckar,
och hennes unga kvinnor jämrar sig,
    själv sörjer hon bittert.

Hennes ovänner har tagit makten,
    hennes fiender är trygga.
Herren har straffat henne
    för hennes många synder,
hennes barn har drivits bort i fångenskap,
    bortförda av fienden.

Sion har förlorat all sin prakt.
Hennes furstar är som hjortar
    som inte funnit bete,
kraftlösa tvingades de fly
    undan sina förföljare.

I sin misär och hemlöshet
    minns Jerusalem alla de skatter
som hon ägde
    i gångna tider.
När hennes folk föll i fiendens hand
    kom ingen till hennes hjälp.
Motståndarna såg på henne
    och skrattade åt hennes undergång.

Jerusalem har begått svåra synder
    och därför orenat sig.
Alla de som ärat henne
    föraktar henne nu
när de ser henne naken.
    Hon suckar och vänder sig bort.

Orenhet fläckar hennes kläder.
    Ett sådant slut hade hon aldrig tänkt sig.
Hon har sjunkit ofattbart djupt,
    och ingen finns som tröstar henne.
Herre, se mitt elände,
    fienden triumferar!”

10 Motståndaren har räckt ut sin hand
    efter alla hennes skatter.
Hon har sett främmande folk
    träda in i hennes helgedom,
de som du hade förbjudit
    att komma in i din församling.

11 Hela hennes folk suckar
    och letar efter bröd.
De byter sina skatter mot mat
    för att hålla sig vid liv.
”Se, Herre,
    se hur föraktad jag är!”

12 ”Betyder detta ingenting för er,[b]
    alla ni som passerar här längs vägen?
Se, och tänk efter, om ni någonsin sett en plåga
    som är lik den som kommit över mig,
den som Herren har låtit drabba mig
    på sin brinnande vredes dag.

13 Han har sänt en eld från höjden,
    skickat ner den ända in i mitt innersta.
Han har brett ut ett nät för mina fötter,
    vänt sig bort från mig
och lämnat mig övergiven,
    sjuk och svag dagen lång.

14 Till ett ok har mina synder vävts samman,
    hans hand knöt ihop dem
och lade dem över min nacke.
    Han har tagit all min kraft ifrån mig
och överlämnat mig åt dem
    som jag inte kan stå emot.

15 Herren har förkastat
    alla kämpar som förr fanns hos mig.
Han har kallat samman en armé mot mig
    för att krossa mina unga män.
Som i en vinpress har Herren trampat
    jungfrun, dottern Juda.

16 Därför gråter jag,
    tårarna strömmar från mina ögon.
Långt borta från mig är den som kunde trösta
    och ge mig ny livslust.
Mina barn är utblottade,
    för min fiende har tagit över.”

17 Sion sträcker ut sina händer,
    men ingen tröstar henne.
Herren har uppbådat
    alla Jakobs grannfolk som hans fiender.
Jerusalem har blivit
    som något orent bland dem.

18 Herren är rättfärdig,
    för jag var upprorisk mot hans bud.
Lyssna nu, alla folk,
    och se min plåga!
Mina unga kvinnor och män
    har förts bort i fångenskap.

19 Jag kallade på mina älskare,
    men de svek mig.
Mina präster och äldste
    gick under i staden
medan de letade efter något att äta
    för att hålla sig vid liv.

20 Herre, se, jag är i nöd!
    Mitt inre är i uppror,
mitt hjärta vänder sig inom mig,
    så upprorisk som jag varit.
Ute har svärdet gjort mig barnlös,
    och inomhus finns bara död.

21 Man hör hur jag suckar,
    men ingen finns som tröstar mig.
Alla mina fiender har hört om min olycka
    och gläds över att du har gjort så här.
Den dag som du förkunnat har du låtit komma,
    men för dem ska det gå som för mig.

22 Låt all deras ondska komma inför dig,
    och gör med dem
så som du har gjort med mig
    för alla mina synders skull.
Mina suckar är många
    och mitt hjärta är tungt.”

Footnotes

  1. 1:1 Kap. 1—4 består av sånger där varje vers börjar i turordning med en bokstav ur det hebreiska alfabetets 22 bokstäver, i kap. 3 tredubblat. Femte och sista sången avviker från mönstret och utgör en bön. Städer, i Klagovisorna Jerusalem, presenteras ofta i poetiska texter i femininform.
  2. 1:12 Grundtextens innebörd är osäker.