Lamentations 2

1 ALEPH. O how the Lord has covered the daughter of Zion with gloom in his fury! O how he has thrown down from heaven to earth the famous one of Israel, and he has not remembered his footstool in the day of his fury.

ああ、主は怒りを起し、黒雲をもってシオンの娘をおおわれた。主はイスラエルの栄光を天から地に投げ落し、その怒りの日に、おのれの足台を心にとめられなかった。

2 BETH. The Lord has cast down, and he has not been lenient, with all the beauties of Jacob. In his fury, he has destroyed the fortifications of the virgin of Judah, and he has thrown them down to the ground. He has polluted the kingdom and its leaders.

主はヤコブのすべてのすまいを滅ぼして、あわれまず、その怒りによって、ユダの娘のとりでをこわし、これを地に倒して、その国とそのつかさたちをはずかしめられた。

3 GHIMEL. In the anger of his fury, he has broken the entire horn of Israel. He has drawn back his right hand before the face of the enemy. And he has kindled within Jacob a flaming fire, devouring all around.

主は激しい怒りをもって、イスラエルのすべての力を断ち、敵の前で、おのれの右の手を引きもどし、周囲を焼きつくす燃える火のように、ヤコブを焼かれた。

4 DALETH. He has bent his bow like an enemy. He has fixed his right hand like an adversary. And he has cut down all that was beautiful to behold in the tabernacle of the daughter of Zion. He has poured out his indignation like fire.

主は敵のように弓を張り、あだのように右の手を伸べて立ち、シオンの娘の天幕におるわれわれの目に誇る者を、ことごとく殺し、火のようにその怒りを注がれた。

5 HE. The Lord has become like an enemy. He has thrown down Israel. He has thrown down all of his defenses. He has torn apart his fortifications. And he has filled the daughter of Judah with humbled men and humbled women.

主は敵のようになって、イスラエルを滅ぼし、そのすべての宮殿を滅ぼし、そのとりでをこわし、ユダの娘の上に憂いと悲しみとを増し加えられた。

6 VAU. And he has torn apart her tent like a garden. He has demolished her tabernacle. In Zion, the Lord has delivered feast and Sabbath into oblivion, and king and priest into disgrace, and into the indignation of his fury.

主は園の小屋のようにおのれの幕屋を倒し、その祭の場所をこわされた。主は祭と安息日とをシオンに忘れさせ、激しい怒りによって、王と祭司とを捨てられた。

7 ZAIN. The Lord has pushed away his own altar. He has cursed his own sanctuary. He has delivered the walls of its towers into the hand of the enemy. They have made a noise in the house of the Lord, as if on the day of a solemnity.

主はその祭壇を忌み、その聖所をきらって、もろもろの宮殿の石がきを敵の手に渡された。彼らは祭の日のように、主の宮で声をあげた。

8 HETH. The Lord has decided to tear down the wall of the daughter of Zion. He has stretched out his measuring line, and he has not turned away his hand from perdition. And the rampart has mourned, and with the wall it has been torn apart.

主はシオンの娘の城壁を破壊しようと思い定めて、なわを張り、打ちこわして、その手をひかず、城壁と石がきとを悲しませられた。これらは共に衰える。

9 TETH. Her gates have been buried in the ground. He has ruined and crushed its bars. Her king and her princes are with the Gentiles. There is no law, and her prophets have found no vision from the Lord.

その門は地にうずもれ、主はその貫の木をこわし砕かれた。その王と君たちはもろもろの国民の中におり、もはや律法はなく、またその預言者は主から幻を得ない。

10 JOD. The elders of the daughter of Zion have become idle; they sit on the ground. They have sprinkled their heads with ashes. They have been wrapped with haircloth. The virgins of Jerusalem have cast their heads down to the ground.

シオンの娘の長老たちは地に座して黙し、頭にちりをかぶり、身に荒布をまとった。エルサレムのおとめたちはこうべを地にたれた。

11 CAPH. My eyes have exhausted their tears. My internal organs have become disturbed. My liver has been poured out on the earth, over the grief of the daughter of my people, when the little ones and the infants passed away in the streets of the town.

わが目は涙のためにつぶれ、わがはらわたはわきかえり、わが肝はわが民の娘の滅びのために、地に注ぎ出される。幼な子や乳のみ子が町のちまたに息も絶えようとしているからである。

12 LAMED. They said to their mothers, “Where is the wheat and the wine?” when they fell like the wounded in the streets of the city, when they breathed out their lives into the bosoms of their mothers.

彼らが、傷ついた者のように町のちまたで息も絶えようとするとき、その母のふところにその命を注ぎ出そうとするとき、母にむかって、「パンとぶどう酒とはどこにありますか」と叫ぶ。

13 MEM. To what shall I compare you, or to what shall I liken you, O daughter of Jerusalem? To what shall I equate you, so as to console you, O virgin daughter of Zion? For your destruction is as great as the sea. Who will cure you?

エルサレムの娘よ、わたしは何をあなたに言い、何にあなたを比べることができようか。シオンの娘なるおとめよ、わたしは何をもってあなたになぞらえて、あなたを慰めることができようか。あなたの破れは海のように大きい、だれがあなたをいやすことができようか。

14 NUN. Your prophets have seen false and foolish things for you. And they have not laid open your iniquity, so as to provoke you to repentance. Yet they have seen for you false revelations and banishments.

あなたの預言者たちはあなたのために人を欺く偽りの幻を見た。彼らはあなたの不義をあらわして捕われを免れさせようとはせず、あなたのために人を迷わす偽りの託宣を見た。

15 SAMECH. All those who passed by the way have clapped their hands over you. They have hissed and shook their heads over the daughter of Jerusalem, saying, “Is this the city of perfect dignity, the joy of all the earth?”

すべて道行く人は、あなたにむかって手を打ち、エルサレムの娘にむかって、あざ笑い、かつ頭を振って言う、「麗しさのきわみ、全地の喜びととなえられた町はこれなのか」と。

16 PHE. All your enemies have opened their mouth over you. They have hissed and gnashed their teeth, and they said: “We will devour her. Yes, this is the day we waited for. We have found it, we have seen it.”

あなたのもろもろの敵は、あなたをののしり、あざ笑い、歯がみして言う、「われわれはこれを滅ぼした、ああ、これはわれわれが望んだ日だ、今われわれはこれにあい、これを見た」と。

17 AIN. The Lord has done what he decided to do. He has fulfilled his word, which he instructed since the days of antiquity. He has destroyed, and he has not been lenient, and he has caused the enemy to rejoice over you, and he has exalted the horn of your adversaries.

主はその計画されたことを行い、警告されたことをなし遂げ、いにしえから命じておかれたように、滅ぼして、あわれむことをせず、あなたについて敵を喜ばせ、あなたのあだの力を高められた。

18 SADE. Their heart cried out to the Lord from the walls of the daughter of Zion. Let tears run down like a torrent throughout the day and the night. Do not give rest to yourself, and do not allow the pupil of your eye to cease.

シオンの娘よ、声高らかに主に呼ばわれ、夜も昼も川のように涙を流せ。みずから安んじることをせず、あなたのひとみを休ませるな。

19 COPH. Rise up. Give praise in the night, in the first of the watches. Pour out your heart like water before the sight of the Lord. Lift up your hands to him on behalf of the souls of your little ones, who have passed away from famine at the head of all the crossroads.

夜、初更に起きて叫べ。主の前にあなたの心を水のように注ぎ出せ。町のかどで、飢えて息も絶えようとする幼な子の命のために、主にむかって両手をあげよ。

20 RES. O Lord, see and consider those whom you have made into such a vintage. So then, shall women eat their own fruit, little ones measured by the palm of the hand? Shall priest and prophet be killed in the sanctuary of the Lord?

主よ、みそなわして、顧みてください。あなたはだれにむかってこのように行われたのですか。女は自分の産んだ子、その大事に育てた幼な子を食べるでしょうか。祭司と預言者が主の聖所で殺されていいでしょうか。

21 SIN. The boy and the old man lie down on the ground outside. My virgins and my youths have fallen by the sword. You have slain them in the day of your fury. You have struck down, and you have not shown pity.

老いも若きも、ちまたのちりに伏し、わがおとめも、若人も、つるぎで倒されてしまった。あなたは、その怒りの日にこれを殺し、これをほふって、あわれむことをされなかった。

22 THAU. You have called, as if to a day of solemnity, those who would terrify me all around. And there was no one, in the day of the fury of the Lord, who escaped or was left behind. Those whom I educated and nourished, my enemy has consumed.

あなたは、わたしの恐れるものを、祭の日のように四方から呼び集められた。主の怒りの日には、のがれた者も残った者もなかった。わたしが、いだき育てた者をわたしの敵は滅ぼし尽した。