Lamentations 5

1 Remember, O Jehovah, what is come upon us; consider, and see our reproach.

耶和華啊，求你記念我們所遭遇的事， 觀看我們所受的凌辱。

2 Our inheritance is turned to strangers, our houses to aliens.

我們的產業歸與外邦人； 我們的房屋歸與外路人。

3 We are orphans and fatherless, our mothers are as widows.

我們是無父的孤兒； 我們的母親好像寡婦。

4 Our water have we to drink for money, our wood cometh unto us for a price.

我們出錢才得水喝； 我們的柴是人賣給我們的。

5 Our pursuers are on our necks: we are weary, we have no rest.

追趕我們的，到了我們的頸項上； 我們疲乏不得歇息。

6 We have given the hand to Egypt, [and] to Asshur, to be satisfied with bread.

我們投降埃及人和亞述人， 為要得糧吃飽。

7 Our fathers have sinned, [and] they are not; and we bear their iniquities.

我們列祖犯罪，而今不在了； 我們擔當他們的罪孽。

8 Bondmen rule over us: there is no deliverer out of their hand.

奴僕轄制我們， 無人救我們脫離他們的手。

9 We have to get our bread at the risk of our lives, because of the sword of the wilderness.

因為曠野的刀劍， 我們冒着險才得糧食。

10 Our skin gloweth like an oven, because of the burning heat of the famine.

因飢餓燥熱， 我們的皮膚就黑如爐。

11 They have ravished the women in Zion, the maids in the cities of Judah.

敵人在錫安玷污婦人， 在猶大的城邑玷污處女。

12 Princes were hanged up by their hand; the faces of elders were not honoured.

他們吊起首領的手， 也不尊敬老人的面。

13 The young men have borne the mill, and the youths have stumbled under the wood.

少年人扛磨石， 孩童背木柴，都絆跌了。

14 The elders have ceased from the gate, the young men from their music.

老年人在城門口斷絕； 少年人不再作樂。

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

我們心中的快樂止息， 跳舞變為悲哀。

16 The crown is fallen from our head: woe unto us, for we have sinned!

冠冕從我們的頭上落下； 我們犯罪了，我們有禍了！

17 For this our heart is faint; for these things our eyes have grown dim,

這些事我們心裏發昏， 我們的眼睛昏花。

18 Because of the mountain of Zion, which is desolate: foxes walk over it.

錫安山荒涼， 野狗行在其上。

19 Thou, Jehovah, dwellest for ever; thy throne is from generation to generation.

耶和華啊，你存到永遠； 你的寶座存到萬代。

20 Wherefore dost thou forget us for ever, dost thou forsake us so long time?

你為何永遠忘記我們？ 為何許久離棄我們？

21 Turn thou us unto thee, Jehovah, and we shall be turned; renew our days as of old.

耶和華啊，求你使我們向你回轉， 我們便得回轉。 求你復新我們的日子，像古時一樣。

22 Or is it that thou hast utterly rejected us? Wouldest thou be exceeding wroth against us?

你竟全然棄絕我們， 向我們大發烈怒？