مَرَاثِي إِرْمِيَا 1

١ 1 كَيْفَ جَلَسَتْ وَحْدَهَا ٱلْمَدِينَةُ ٱلْكَثِيرَةُ ٱلشَّعْبِ! كَيْفَ صَارَتْ كَأَرْمَلَةٍ ٱلْعَظِيمَةُ فِي ٱلْأُمَمِ. ٱلسَّيِّدَةُ في ٱلْبُلْدَانِ صَارَتْ تَحْتَ ٱلْجِزْيَةِ!

[ALEPH-BET] How she has sat alone, The city abounding with people! She has been as a widow, The mighty among nations! Princes among provinces, She has become tributary!

٢ 2 تَبْكِي في ٱللَّيْلِ بُكَاءً، وَدُمُوعُهَا علَى خَدَّيْهَا. لَيْسَ لَهَا مُعَزٍّ مِنْ كُلِّ مُحِبِّيهَا. كُلُّ أَصْحَابِهَا غَدَرُوا بِهَا، صَارُوا لهَا أَعْدَاءً.

She weeps severely in the night, And her tear [is] on her cheeks, There is no comforter for her out of all her lovers, All her friends dealt treacherously by her, They have been to her for enemies.

٣ 3 قَد سُبِيَتْ يَهُوذَا مِنَ ٱلْمَذَلَّةِ وَمِنْ كَثْرَةِ ٱلْعُبُودِيَّةِ. هِيَ تَسْكُنُ بَيْنَ ٱلْأُمَمِ. لَا تَجِدُ رَاحَةً. قَدْ أَدْرَكَهَا كُلُّ طَارِدِيهَا بَيْنَ ٱلضِّيقَاتِ.

Removed has Judah because of affliction, And because of the abundance of her service; She has dwelt among nations, She has not found rest, All her pursuers have overtaken her between the straits.

٤ 4 طُرُقُ صِهْيَوْنَ نَائِحَةٌ لِعَدَمِ ٱلْآتِينَ إِلَى ٱلْعِيدِ. كُلُّ أَبْوَابِهَا خَرِبَةٌ. كَهَنَتُهَا يَتَنَهَّدُونَ. عَذَارَاهَا مُذَلَّلَةٌ وَهِيَ فِي مَرَارَةٍ.

The ways of Zion are mourning, Without any coming at the appointed time, All her gates are desolate, her priests sigh, Her virgins are afflicted—and she has bitterness.

٥ 5 صَارَ مُضَايِقُوهَا رَأْسًا. نَجَحَ أَعْدَاؤُهَا لِأَنَّ ٱلرَّبَّ قَدْ أَذَلَّهَا لِأَجْلِ كَثْرَةِ ذُنُوبِهَا. ذَهَبَ أَوْلَادُهَا إِلَى ٱلسَّبْيِ قُدَّامَ ٱلْعَدُوِّ.

Her adversaries have become chief, Her enemies have been at ease, For YHWH has afflicted her, For the abundance of her transgressions, Her infants have gone captive before the adversary.

٦ 6 وَقَدْ خَرَجَ مِنْ بِنْتِ صِهْيَوْنَ كُلُّ بَهَائِهَا. صَارَتْ رُؤَسَاؤُهَا كَأَيَائِلَ لَا تَجِدُ مَرْعًى، فَيَسِيرُونَ بِلَا قُوَّةٍ أَمَامَ ٱلطَّارِدِ.

And all her honor goes out from the daughter of Zion, Her princes have been as harts—They have not found pasture, And they go powerless before a pursuer.

٧ 7 قَدْ ذَكَرَتْ أُورُشَلِيمُ فِي أَيَّامِ مَذَلَّتِهَا وَتَطَوُّحِهَا كُلَّ مُشْتَهَيَاتِهَا ٱلَّتِي كَانَتْ فِي أَيَّامِ ٱلْقِدَمِ. عِنْدَ سُقُوطِ شَعْبِهَا بِيَدِ ٱلْعَدُوِّ وَلَيْسَ مَنْ يُسَاعِدُهَا. رَأَتْهَا ٱلْأَعْدَاءُ. ضَحِكُوا عَلَى هَلَاكِهَا.

Jerusalem has remembered [In] the days of her affliction and her mournings, all her desirable things that were from the days of old, In the falling of her people into the hand of an adversary, And she has no helper; Adversaries have seen her, They have laughed at her cessation.

٨ 8 قَدْ أَخْطَأَتْ أُورُشَلِيمُ خَطِيَّةً، مِنْ أَجْلِ ذَلِكَ صَارَتْ رَجِسَةً. كُلُّ مُكَرِّمِيهَا يَحْتَقِرُونَهَا لِأَنَّهُمْ رَأَوْا عَوْرَتَهَا، وَهِيَ أَيْضًا تَتَنَهَّدُ وَتَرْجِعُ إِلَى ٱلْوَرَاءِ.

A sin has Jerusalem sinned, Therefore she has become impure, All who honored her have esteemed her lightly, For they have seen her nakedness, Indeed, she herself has sighed and turns backward.

٩ 9 نَجَاسَتُهَا فِي أَذْيَالِهَا. لَمْ تَذْكُرْ آخِرَتَهَا وَقَدِ ٱنْحَطَّتِ ٱنْحِطَاطًا عَجِيبًا. لَيْسَ لَهَا مُعَزٍّ. «ٱنْظُرْ يَارَبُّ إِلَى مَذَلَّتِي لِأَنَّ ٱلْعَدُوَّ قَدْ تَعَظَّمَ».

Her uncleanness [is] in her skirts, She has not remembered her latter end, And she comes down wonderfully, There is no comforter for her. See, O YHWH, my affliction, For an enemy has exerted himself.

١٠ 10 بَسَطَ ٱلْعَدُوُّ يَدَهُ عَلَى كُلِّ مُشْتَهَيَاتِهَا، فَإِنَّهَا رَأَتِ ٱلْأُمَمَ دَخَلُوا مَقْدِسَهَا، ٱلَّذِينَ أَمَرْتَ أَنْ لَا يَدْخُلُوا فِي جَمَاعَتِكَ.

His hand has spread out an adversary On all her desirable things, For she has seen—Nations have entered her sanctuary, Concerning which You commanded, “They do not come into the assembly to you.”

١١ 11 كُلُّ شَعْبِهَا يَتَنَهَّدُونَ، يَطْلُبُونَ خُبْزًا. دَفَعُوا مُشْتَهَيَاتِهِمْ لِلْأَكْلِ لِأَجْلِ رَدِّ ٱلنَّفْسِ. «ٱنْظُرْ يَارَبُّ وَتَطَلَّعْ لِأَنِّي قَدْ صِرْتُ مُحْتَقَرَةً».

All her people are sighing—seeking bread, They have given their desirable things For food to refresh the body; See, O YHWH, and behold attentively, For I have been lightly esteemed.

١٢ 12 «أَمَا إِلَيْكُمْ يَا جَمِيعَ عَابِرِي ٱلطَّرِيقِ؟ تَطَلَّعُوا وَٱنْظُرُوا إِنْ كَانَ حُزْنٌ مِثْلُ حُزْنِي ٱلَّذِي صُنِعَ بِي، ٱلَّذِي أَذَلَّنِي بِهِ ٱلرَّبُّ يَوْمَ حُمُوِّ غَضَبِهِ؟

[Is it] nothing to you, all you passing by the way? Look attentively, and see, If there is any pain like my pain, That He is rolling to me? Whom YHWH has afflicted In the day of the fierceness of His anger.

١٣ 13 مِنَ ٱلْعَلَاءِ أَرْسَلَ نَارًا إِلَى عِظَامِي فَسَرَتْ فِيهَا. بَسَطَ شَبَكَةً لِرِجْلَيَّ. رَدَّنِي إِلَى ٱلْوَرَاءِ. جَعَلَنِي خَرِبَةً. ٱلْيَوْمَ كُلَّهُ مَغْمُومَةً.

From above He has sent fire into my bone, And it subdues it, He has spread a net for my feet, He has turned me backward, He has made me desolate—all the day sick.

١٤ 14 شَدَّ نِيرَ ذُنُوبِي بِيَدِهِ، ضُفِرَتْ، صَعِدَتْ عَلَى عُنُقِي. نَزَعَ قُوَّتِي. دَفَعَنِي ٱلسَّيِّدُ إِلَى أَيْدٍ لَا أَسْتَطِيعُ ٱلْقِيَامَ مِنْهَا.

Bound has been the yoke of my transgressions by His hand, They are wrapped together, They have gone up on my neck, He has caused my power to stumble, The Lord has given me into hands, I am not able to rise.

١٥ 15 رَذَلَ ٱلسَّيِّدُ كُلَّ مُقْتَدِرِيَّ فِي وَسَطِي. دَعَا عَلَيَّ جَمَاعَةً لِحَطْمِ شُبَّانِي. دَاسَ ٱلسَّيِّدُ ٱلْعَذْرَاءَ بِنْتَ يَهُوذَا مِعْصَرَةً.

The Lord has trodden down all my mighty ones in my midst, He proclaimed an appointed time against me, To destroy my young men, The Lord has trodden a winepress, To the virgin daughter of Judah.

١٦ 16 عَلَى هَذِهِ أَنَا بَاكِيَةٌ. عَيْنِي، عَيْنِي تَسْكُبُ مِيَاهًا لِأَنَّهُ قَدِ ٱبْتَعَدَ عَنِّي ٱلْمُعَزِّي، رَادُّ نَفْسِي. صَارَ بَنِيَّ هَالِكِينَ لِأَنَّهُ قَدْ تَجَبَّرَ ٱلْعَدُوُّ».

For these I am weeping, My eye, my eye, is running down with waters, For a comforter has been far from me, Refreshing my soul, My sons have been desolate, For mighty has been an enemy.

١٧ 17 بَسَطَتْ صِهْيَوْنُ يَدَيْهَا. لَا مُعَزِّيَ لَهَا. أَمَرَ ٱلرَّبُّ عَلَى يَعْقُوبَ أَنْ يَكُونَ مُضَايِقُوهُ حَوَالَيْهِ. صَارَتْ أُورُشَلِيمُ نَجِسَةً بَيْنَهُمْ.

Zion has spread forth her hands, There is no comforter for her, YHWH has charged concerning Jacob, His neighbors [are] his adversaries, Jerusalem has become impure among them.

١٨ 18 «بَارٌّ هُوَ ٱلرَّبُّ لِأَنِّي قَدْ عَصَيْتُ أَمْرَهُ. ٱسْمَعُوا يَا جَمِيعَ ٱلشُّعُوبِ وَٱنْظُرُوا إِلَى حُزْنِي. عَذَارَايَ وَشُبَّانِي ذَهَبُوا إِلَى ٱلسَّبْيِ.

YHWH is righteous, For I have provoked His mouth. Now hear, all you peoples, and see my pain, My virgins and my young men have gone into captivity.

١٩ 19 نَادَيْتُ مُحِبِّيَّ. هُمْ خَدَعُونِي. كَهَنَتِي وَشُيُوخِي فِي ٱلْمَدِينَةِ مَاتُوا، إِذْ طَلَبُوا لِذَوَاتِهِمْ طَعَامًا لِيَرُدُّوا أَنْفُسَهُمْ.

I called for my lovers, they have deceived me, My priests and my elderly have expired in the city; When they have sought food for themselves, Then they give back their soul.

٢٠ 20 ٱنْظُرْ يَارَبُّ، فَإِنِّي فِي ضِيقٍ! أَحْشَائِي غَلَتْ. ٱرْتَدَّ قَلْبِي فِي بَاطِنِي لِأَنِّي قَدْ عَصَيْتُ مُتَمَرِّدَةً. فِي ٱلْخَارِجِ يَثْكُلُ ٱلسَّيْفُ، وَفِي ٱلْبَيْتِ مِثْلُ ٱلْمَوْتِ.

See, O YHWH, for distress [is] to me, My bowels have been troubled, My heart has been turned in my midst, For I have greatly provoked, From outside the sword has bereaved, In the house [it is] as death.

٢١ 21 سَمِعُوا أَنِّي تَنَهَّدْتُ. لَا مُعَزِّيَ لِي. كُلُّ أَعْدَائِي سَمِعُوا بِبَلِيَّتِي. فَرِحُوا لِأَنَّكَ فَعَلْتَ. تَأْتِي بِٱلْيَوْمِ ٱلَّذِي نَادَيْتَ بِهِ فَيَصِيرُونَ مِثْلِي.

They have heard that I have sighed, There is no comforter for me, All my enemies have heard of my calamity, They have rejoiced that You have done [it], You have brought in the day You have called, And they are like to me.

٢٢ 22 لِيَأْتِ كُلُّ شَرِّهِمْ أَمَامَكَ. وَٱفْعَلْ بِهِمْ كَمَا فَعَلْتَ بِي مِنْ أَجْلِ كُلِّ ذُنُوبِي، لِأَنَّ تَنَهُّدَاتِي كَثِيرَةٌ وَقَلْبِي مَغْشِيٌّ عَلَيْهِ».

All their evil comes in before You, And one is doing to them as You have done to me, For all my transgressions, For many [are] my sighs, and my heart [is] sick!