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14 Mâna Lui a legat jugul(A) nelegiuirilor mele,
care stau împletite şi legate de gâtul meu. Mi-a frânt puterea.
Domnul m-a dat în mâinile acelora cărora nu pot să le stau împotrivă.
15 Domnul a trântit la pământ pe toţi vitejii din mijlocul meu;
a strâns o oştire împotriva mea, ca să-mi prăpădească tineretul;
ca în teasc a călcat(B) Domnul pe fecioara, fiica lui Iuda.
16 De aceea plâng, îmi varsă lacrimi(C) ochii,
căci s-a depărtat de la mine Cel ce trebuia să mă(D) mângâie, Cel ce trebuia să-mi învioreze viaţa;
fiii mei sunt zdrobiţi, căci vrăjmaşul a biruit. –

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14 “My sins have been bound into a yoke[a];(A)
    by his hands they were woven together.
They have been hung on my neck,
    and the Lord has sapped my strength.
He has given me into the hands(B)
    of those I cannot withstand.

15 “The Lord has rejected
    all the warriors in my midst;(C)
he has summoned an army(D) against me
    to[b] crush my young men.(E)
In his winepress(F) the Lord has trampled(G)
    Virgin Daughter(H) Judah.

16 “This is why I weep
    and my eyes overflow with tears.(I)
No one is near to comfort(J) me,
    no one to restore my spirit.
My children are destitute
    because the enemy has prevailed.”(K)

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Footnotes

  1. Lamentations 1:14 Most Hebrew manuscripts; many Hebrew manuscripts and Septuagint He kept watch over my sins
  2. Lamentations 1:15 Or has set a time for me / when he will

14 The yoke of my transgressions is bound by his hand: they are wreathed, and come up upon my neck: he hath made my strength to fall, the Lord hath delivered me into their hands, from whom I am not able to rise up.

15 The Lord hath trodden under foot all my mighty men in the midst of me: he hath called an assembly against me to crush my young men: the Lord hath trodden the virgin, the daughter of Judah, as in a winepress.

16 For these things I weep; mine eye, mine eye runneth down with water, because the comforter that should relieve my soul is far from me: my children are desolate, because the enemy prevailed.

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