مَرَاثِي إِرْمِيَا 5

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

Remember, O Yahweh, what hath befallen us, Look around, and see our reproach:

٢ 2 قَدْ صَارَ مِيرَاثُنَا لِلْغُرَبَاءِ. بُيُوتُنَا لِلْأَجَانِبِ.

Our inheritance, turned over to foreigners, our houses, to aliens.

٣ 3 صِرْنَا أَيْتَامًا بِلَا أَبٍ. أُمَّهَاتُنَا كَأَرَامِلَ.

Orphans, have we become, and fatherless, our mothers, are widows indeed.

٤ 4 شَرِبْنَا مَاءَنَا بِٱلْفِضَّةِ. حَطَبُنَا بِٱلثَّمَنِ يَأْتِي.

Our water—for silver, have we drunk, our wood—for a price, cometh in.

٥ 5 عَلَى أَعْنَاقِنَا نُضْطَهَدُ. نَتْعَبُ وَلَا رَاحَةَ لَنَا.

Upon our necks, are our pursuers, We labour, and there is allowed us no rest.

٦ 6 أَعْطَيْنَا ٱلْيَدَ لِلْمِصْرِيِّينَ وَٱلْأَشُّورِيِّينَ لِنَشْبَعَ خُبْزًا.

To Egypt, have we stretched out our hand, to Assyria, to be satisfied with bread.

٧ 7 آبَاؤُنَا أَخْطَأُوا وَلَيْسُوا بِمَوْجُودِينَ، وَنَحْنُ نَحْمِلُ آثَامَهُمْ.

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

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

Slaves, have ruled over us, There is none to set free from their hand.

٩ 9 بِأَنْفُسِنَا نَأْتِي بِخُبْزِنَا مِنْ جَرَى سَيْفِ ٱلْبَرِّيَّةِ.

At the risk of our life, do we bring in our bread, because of the sword of the desert.

١٠ 10 جُلُودُنَا ٱسْوَدَّتْ كَتَنُّورٍ مِنْ جَرَى نِيرَانِ ٱلْجُوعِ.

Our skin, as with a furnace, is scorched, because of the hot winds of famine.

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

Women—in Zion, were ravished, virgins, in the cities of Judah!

١٢ 12 ٱلرُّؤَسَاءُ بِأَيْدِيهِمْ يُعَلَّقُونَ، وَلَمْ تُعْتَبَرْ وُجُوهُ ٱلشُّيُوخِ.

Princes, by their hand, have been hanged, The faces of elders, not honoured.

١٣ 13 أَخَذُوا ٱلشُّبَّانَ لِلطَّحْنِ، وَٱلصِّبْيَانَ عَثَرُوا تَحْتَ ٱلْحَطَبِ.

Young men, a millstone, have lifted, and, youths, under wood, have staggered.

١٤ 14 كَفَّتِ ٱلشُّيُوخُ عَنِ ٱلْبَابِ، وَٱلشُّبَّانُ عَنْ غِنَائِهِمْ.

Elders, from the gates, have ceased. Young men, from their music.

١٥ 15 مَضَى فَرَحُ قَلْبِنَا. صَارَ رَقْصُنَا نَوْحًا.

Ceased hath the joy of our hearts, Changed to mourning, our dance.

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

Fallen is the crown of our head. Surely woe to us, for we have sinned.

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

For this cause, faint is our heart, For these things, dimmed are our eyes:

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

Because of Mount Zion, which is desolate, jackals, have gone prowling therein.

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

Thou, O Yahweh, unto times age-abiding, dost remain, Thy throne, from generation to generation:

٢٠ 20 لِمَاذَا تَنْسَانَا إِلَى ٱلْأَبَدِ وَتَتْرُكُنَا طُولَ ٱلْأَيَّامِ؟

Wherefore shouldst thou perpetually forget us? forsake us, to length of days?

٢١ 21 اُرْدُدْنَا يَارَبُّ إِلَيْكَ فَنَرْتَدَّ. جَدِّدْ أَيَّامَنَا كَٱلْقَدِيمِ.

Bring us back, O Yahweh, unto thyself, and we will come back! Renew our days, as of old;

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

For though thou hast not, utterly rejected, us, thou art wroth with us—exceedingly!