Lamentations 5
1 Remember, O Jehovah, what is come upon us! Look down and behold 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 fallen 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; we are without a father; 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 we drink for money; Our wood is sold to us.
我們出錢才得水喝； 我們的柴是人賣給我們的。
5 With the yoke upon our necks, we are driven; We are wearied, and 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 the Egyptians, And to the Assyrians, 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 sinned; they are no more, 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 Servants rule over us; There is none that delivereth out of their hand.
奴僕轄制我們， 無人救我們脫離他們的手。
9 With the peril of our lives we get our bread, 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 is parched like an oven Because of the burnings of hunger.
因飢餓燥熱， 我們的皮膚就黑如爐。
11 Matrons in Zion have they ravished, And maidens 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 the elders were not honored.
他們吊起首領的手， 也不尊敬老人的面。
13 Young men carried millstones, And boys fell under burdens of wood.
少年人扛磨石， 孩童背木柴，都絆跌了。
14 The elders sit no more at the gate; The young men have ceased 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 is at an end; Our dancing 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, that 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 is our heart faint, For these things our eyes are dim;
這些事我們心裏發昏， 我們的眼睛昏花。
18 On account of mount Zion, which is desolate; Foxes roam over it.
錫安山荒涼， 野狗行在其上。
19 But thou, O Jehovah, sittest as king forever; Thy throne endureth 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 wholly forget us, And abandon us, for so long a time?
你為何永遠忘記我們？ 為何許久離棄我們？
21 Turn us again to thee, O Jehovah, that we may be restored! 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 For shouldst thou utterly reject us? Shouldst thou be so exceedingly wroth against us?
你竟全然棄絕我們， 向我們大發烈怒？
