مَرَاثِي إِرْمِيَا 1

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

How does the city sit solitary, that was full of people! how is she become as a widow! she that was great among the nations, and princess among the provinces, how is she 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 sore in the night, and 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 are become her enemies.

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

Judah is gone into captivity because of affliction, and because of great servitude: she dwells among the heathen, she finds no rest: all her persecutors overtook 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 do mourn, because none come to the solemn feasts: all her gates are desolate: her priests sigh, her virgins are afflicted, and she is in bitterness.

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

Her adversaries are the chief, her enemies prosper; for the LORD has afflicted her for the multitude of her transgressions: her children are gone into captivity before the enemy.

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

And from the daughter of Zion all her beauty is departed: her princes are become like harts that find no pasture, and they are gone without strength before the 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 remembered in the days of her affliction and of her miseries all her pleasant things that she had in the days of old, when her people fell into the hand of the enemy, and none did help her: the adversaries saw her, and did mock at her sabbaths.

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

Jerusalem has grievously sinned; therefore she is removed: all that honoured her despise her, because they have seen her nakedness: yea, she sighs, 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 filthiness is in her skirts; she remembers not her last end; therefore she came down wonderfully: she had no comforter. O LORD, behold my affliction: for the enemy has magnified himself.

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

The adversary has spread out his hand upon all her pleasant things: for she has seen that the heathen entered into her sanctuary, whom you did command that they should not enter into your congregation.

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

All her people sigh, they seek bread; they have given their pleasant things for food to relieve the soul: see, O LORD, and consider; for I am become vile.

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 that pass by? behold, and see if there be any sorrow like unto my sorrow, which is done unto me, wherewith the LORD has afflicted me in the day of his fierce anger.

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

From above has he sent fire into my bones, and it prevails against them: he has spread a net for my feet, he has turned me back: he has made me desolate and faint all the day.

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

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

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

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

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

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

Zion spreads forth her hands, and there is none to comfort her: the LORD has commanded concerning Jacob, that his adversaries should be round about him: Jerusalem is as a menstruous woman among them.

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

The LORD is righteous; for I have rebelled against his commandment: hear, I pray you, all people, and behold my sorrow: my virgins and my young men are 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, but they deceived me: my priests and mine elders gave up the spirit in the city, while they sought their food to relieve their souls.

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.

Behold, O LORD; for I am in distress: my bowels are troubled; mine heart is turned within me; for I have grievously rebelled: abroad the sword bereaves, at home there 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 sigh: there is none to comfort me: all mine enemies have heard of my trouble; they are glad that you have done it: you will bring the day that you have called, and they shall be like unto me.

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

Let all their wickedness come before you; and do unto them, as you have done unto me for all my transgressions: for my sighs are many, and my heart is faint.