مَرَاثِي إِرْمِيَا 5

١ 1 اُذْكُرْ يَارَبُّ مَاذَا صَارَ لَنَا. أَشْرِفْ وَٱنْظُرْ إِلَى عَارِنَا.

Remember, O Lord, what has happened to us: behold, and look on our reproach.

٢ 2 قَدْ صَارَ مِيرَاثُنَا لِلْغُرَبَاءِ. بُيُوتُنَا لِلْأَجَانِبِ.

Our inheritance has been turned away to aliens, our houses to strangers:

٣ 3 صِرْنَا أَيْتَامًا بِلَا أَبٍ. أُمَّهَاتُنَا كَأَرَامِلَ.

we are become orphans, we have no father, our mothers are as widows.

٤ 4 شَرِبْنَا مَاءَنَا بِٱلْفِضَّةِ. حَطَبُنَا بِٱلثَّمَنِ يَأْتِي.

We have drunk our water for money; our wood is sold to us [for a burden] on our neck:

٥ 5 عَلَى أَعْنَاقِنَا نُضْطَهَدُ. نَتْعَبُ وَلَا رَاحَةَ لَنَا.

we have been persecuted, we have laboured, we have had no rest.

٦ 6 أَعْطَيْنَا ٱلْيَدَ لِلْمِصْرِيِّينَ وَٱلْأَشُّورِيِّينَ لِنَشْبَعَ خُبْزًا.

Egypt gave the hand [to us], Assur to their own satisfaction.

٧ 7 آبَاؤُنَا أَخْطَأُوا وَلَيْسُوا بِمَوْجُودِينَ، وَنَحْنُ نَحْمِلُ آثَامَهُمْ.

Our fathers sinned, [and] are not: we have borne their iniquities.

٨ 8 عَبِيدٌ حَكَمُوا عَلَيْنَا. لَيْسَ مَنْ يُخَلِّصُ مِنْ أَيْدِيهِمْ.

Servants have ruled over us: there is none to ransom [us] out of their hand.

٩ 9 بِأَنْفُسِنَا نَأْتِي بِخُبْزِنَا مِنْ جَرَى سَيْفِ ٱلْبَرِّيَّةِ.

We shall bring in our bread with [danger of] our lives, because of the sword of the wilderness.

١٠ 10 جُلُودُنَا ٱسْوَدَّتْ كَتَنُّورٍ مِنْ جَرَى نِيرَانِ ٱلْجُوعِ.

Our skin is blackened like an oven; they are convulsed, because of the storms of famine.

١١ 11 أَذَلُّوا ٱلنِّسَاءَ فِي صِهْيَوْنَ، ٱلْعَذَارَى فِي مُدُنِ يَهُوذَا.

They humbled the women in Sion, the virgins in the cities of Juda.

١٢ 12 ٱلرُّؤَسَاءُ بِأَيْدِيهِمْ يُعَلَّقُونَ، وَلَمْ تُعْتَبَرْ وُجُوهُ ٱلشُّيُوخِ.

Princes were hanged up by their hands: the elders were not honoured.

١٣ 13 أَخَذُوا ٱلشُّبَّانَ لِلطَّحْنِ، وَٱلصِّبْيَانَ عَثَرُوا تَحْتَ ٱلْحَطَبِ.

The chosen men lifted up [the voice in] weeping, and the youths fainted under the wood.

١٤ 14 كَفَّتِ ٱلشُّيُوخُ عَنِ ٱلْبَابِ، وَٱلشُّبَّانُ عَنْ غِنَائِهِمْ.

And the elders ceased from the gate, the chosen men ceased from their music.

١٥ 15 مَضَى فَرَحُ قَلْبِنَا. صَارَ رَقْصُنَا نَوْحًا.

The joy of our heart has ceased; our dance is turned into mourning.

١٦ 16 سَقَطَ إِكْلِيلُ رَأْسِنَا. وَيْلٌ لَنَا لِأَنَّنَا قَدْ أَخْطَأْنَا.

The crown has fallen [from] our head: yea, woe to us! for we have sinned.

١٧ 17 مِنْ أَجْلِ هَذَا حَزِنَ قَلْبُنَا. مِنْ أَجْلِ هَذِهِ أَظْلَمَتْ عُيُونُنَا.

For this has grief come; our heart is sorrowful: for this our eyes are darkened.

١٨ 18 مِنْ أَجْلِ جَبَلِ صِهْيَوْنَ ٱلْخَرِبِ. ٱلثَّعَالِبُ مَاشِيَةٌ فِيهِ.

Over the mountain of Sion, because it is made desolate, foxes have walked therein.

١٩ 19 أَنْتَ يَارَبُّ إِلَى ٱلْأَبَدِ تَجْلِسُ. كُرْسِيُّكَ إِلَى دَوْرٍ فَدَوْرٍ.

But thou, O Lord, shalt dwell for ever; thy throne [shall endure] to generation and generation.

٢٠ 20 لِمَاذَا تَنْسَانَا إِلَى ٱلْأَبَدِ وَتَتْرُكُنَا طُولَ ٱلْأَيَّامِ؟

Wherefore wilt thou utterly forget us, and abandon us a long time?

٢١ 21 اُرْدُدْنَا يَارَبُّ إِلَيْكَ فَنَرْتَدَّ. جَدِّدْ أَيَّامَنَا كَٱلْقَدِيمِ.

Turn us, O Lord, to thee, and we shall be turned; and renew our days as before.

٢٢ 22 هَلْ كُلَّ ٱلرَّفْضِ رَفَضْتَنَا؟ هَلْ غَضِبْتَ عَلَيْنَا جِدًّا؟

For thou hast indeed rejected us; thou hast been very wroth against us.