Lamentations 1
1 how? to dwell isolation [the] city many people to be like/as widow many in/on/with nation princess in/on/with province to be to/for taskworker
How desolate sits the city of Jerusalem, once filled with people! She has become like a widow, she who was once great among the nations. The queen of all the world has become a slave-laborer.
2 to weep to weep in/on/with night and tears her upon jaw her nothing to/for her to be sorry: comfort from all to love: lover her all neighbor her to act treacherously in/on/with her to be to/for her to/for enemy
She cries bitterly through the night, tears rolling down her cheeks. Despite all her many lovers, no one comes to comfort her. Betrayed by all her friends, they are now her enemies.
3 to reveal: remove Judah from affliction and from abundance service he/she/it to dwell in/on/with nation not to find resting all to pursue her to overtake her between: among [the] terror
Judah has been dragged off into captivity, suffering miserably under brutal slavery; she lives among the nations but has no place of her own where she can rest. Those chasing her have brought her down and she cannot escape.
4 way: road Zion mourning from without to come (in): come meeting: festival all gate her be desolate: destroyed priest her to sigh virgin her to suffer and he/she/it bitter to/for her
Even the roads to Zion are in mourning because no one travels on them to go to the religious festivals. All her gates are empty. Her priests groan in sadness. Her girls are suffering. She herself is in bitter distress.
5 to be enemy her to/for head: leader enemy her to prosper for LORD to suffer her upon abundance transgression her infant her to go: went captivity to/for face: before enemy
Those who hated her now control her; her enemies enjoy life, because the Lord has made her suffer due to all her sins of rebellion. Her children have been taken away as prisoners of the enemy.
6 and to come out: come (from from daughter *QK) Zion all glory her to be ruler her like/as deer not to find pasture and to go: went in/on/with not strength to/for face: before to pursue
All the glory has left the Daughter of Zion. Her leaders are like deer that can't find any grass to eat. They don't even have the strength to run away when the hunter comes after them!
7 to remember Jerusalem day affliction her and wandering her all desirable her which to be from day front: old in/on/with to fall: fall people her in/on/with hand: power enemy and nothing to help to/for her to see: see her enemy to laugh upon annihilation her
As she wanders around in her misery, Jerusalem thinks back to all the wonderful things she once had in the old days. When her enemies conquered her people, she didn't receive any help. Her enemies gloated over her, and laughed at her downfall.
8 sin to sin Jerusalem upon so to/for filth to be all to honor: honour her to lavish/despise her for to see: see nakedness her also he/she/it to sigh and to return: repent back
Jerusalem sinned terribly which is why she is now treated as someone unclean. Everyone who used to honor her now despise her, because they've seen her naked and ashamed. She herself groans as she turns away.
9 uncleanness her in/on/with hem her not to remember end her and to go down wonder nothing to be sorry: comfort to/for her to see: see LORD [obj] affliction my for to magnify enemy
Her uncleanness contaminates her skirts. She didn't think about what would happen. Her fall was a shock, and no one was there to comfort her. “Please, Lord, see how much I'm suffering, because the enemy has won!” she says.
10 hand his to spread enemy upon all desire her for to see: see nation to come (in): come sanctuary her which to command not to come (in): come in/on/with assembly to/for you
The invader has stolen all her treasures. She even had to watch as heathen nations went into her sanctuary, people you had forbidden to enter.
11 all people her to sigh to seek food: bread to give: give (desire their *QK) in/on/with food to/for to return: rescue soul: life to see: see LORD and to look [emph?] for to be be vile
All her people groan, looking for bread. They have spent what they value the most to buy food so they can stay alive. “Please, Lord, look and see what's happening to me,” she says. “It's as if I'm worthless!
12 not to(wards) you all to pass way: journey to look and to see: see if there pain like/as pain my which to abuse to/for me which to suffer LORD in/on/with day burning anger face: anger his
Don't you care anything about it, all you people passing by? Take a look and see! Is there any suffering as bad as mine, punished by the Lord when he became angry?
13 from height to send: depart fire in/on/with bone my and to rule her to spread net to/for foot my to return: return me back to give: make me devastated all [the] day sick
He sent down fire from heaven that destroyed my bones. He spread out a net to catch my feet, tripping me over. He abandoned me, leaving me sick all day long.
14 to bind yoke transgression my in/on/with hand his to intertwine to ascend: establish upon neck my to stumble strength my to give: give me Lord in/on/with hand: power not be able to arise: establish
He took my rebellious sins and twisted them together into a yoke that he tied to my neck. He took away all my strength, and handed me over defenseless to my enemies.
15 to reject all mighty: strong my Lord in/on/with entrails: among my to call: call to upon me meeting to/for to break youth my wine press to tread Lord to/for virgin daughter Judah
The Lord brushed aside all my strong soldiers defending me. He called up an army to attack me, to crush my young men. The Lord has trampled down the virgin Daughter of Judah like grapes in a winepress.
16 upon these I to weep eye my eye my to go down water for to remove from me to be sorry: comfort to return: rescue soul my to be son: child my be desolate: destroyed for to prevail enemy
This is why I'm weeping, tears flowing from my eyes, because there's is no one here to comfort me, no one to make me feel better. There's nothing left for my children because the enemy has conquered us.”
17 to spread Zion in/on/with hand her nothing to be sorry: comfort to/for her to command LORD to/for Jacob around: neighours him enemy his to be Jerusalem to/for impurity between them
Zion holds out her hands in distress, but there's no one to comfort her. The Lord issued orders against Jacob, and his neighbors became his enemies. Jerusalem is to them something disgusting.
18 righteous he/she/it LORD for lip: word his to rebel to hear: hear please all ([the] people *QK) and to see: see pain my virgin my and youth my to go: went in/on/with captivity
“The Lord has done what's right, because I rebelled against his instructions. Listen, everyone everywhere; look at what I'm suffering. My young women and young men have been taken off into captivity.
19 to call: call to to/for to love: lover me they(masc.) to deceive me priest my and old: elder my in/on/with city to die for to seek food to/for them and to return: rescue [obj] soul: life their
I called out for help to my lovers, but they betrayed me. My priests and elders starved to death in the city as they tried to find food to keep themselves alive.
20 to see: see LORD for distress to/for me belly my to aggitate to overturn heart my in/on/with entrails: among my for to rebel to rebel from outside be bereaved sword in/on/with house: home like/as death
Can't you see, Lord, how upset I am? inside I am in turmoil; my heart is breaking because I've been so rebellious. Outside, the sword kills those I love; inside, it's like I'm living in the house of death.
21 to hear: hear for to sigh I nothing to be sorry: comfort to/for me all enemy my to hear: hear distress: harm my to rejoice for you(m. s.) to make: do to come (in): bring day to call: call out and to be like me
People hear me groaning, but no one comes to comfort me. All my enemies have heard about the bad things that have happened to me, and they're delighted that it was you who did it. Please bring about the day of judgment that you promised so they can end up like me.
22 to come (in): come all distress: evil their to/for face: before your and to abuse to/for them like/as as which to abuse to/for me upon all transgression my for many sighing my and heart my faint
May you see all the evil things they've done! Treat them the same way as you've treated me as a result of all my rebellious sins, for I'm groaning all the time, and I'm sick at heart.”
