哀歌 5

1 ヱホバよ我らにありし所の事をおもひたまへ 我らの恥辱をかへりみ觀たまへ

Remember, O Lord, what has befallen us. Consider and look kindly upon our disgrace.

2 われらの産業は外國人に歸し われらの家屋は他國人の有となれり

Our inheritance has been turned over to foreigners; our houses to outsiders.

3 われらは孤子となりて父あらず われらの母は寡婦にひとし

We have become orphans without a father; our mothers are like widows.

4 われらは金を出して自己の水を飮み おのれの薪を得るにも價をはらふ

We paid for our drinking water. We acquired our wood for a price.

5 われらを追ふ者われらの頸に迫る 我らは疲れて休むことを得ず

We were dragged by our necks. Being weary, no rest was given to us.

6 食物を得て饑を凌がんとてエジプト人およびアッスリヤ人に手を與へたり

We have given our hand to Egypt and to the Assyrians, so that we may be satisfied with bread.

7 われらの父は罪ををかして已に世にあらず 我らその罪を負ふなり

Our fathers have sinned, and are not. And we have carried their iniquities.

8 奴僕等われらを制するに誰ありて我らを之が手よりすくひ出すものなし

Servants have become rulers over us. There was no one to redeem us from their hand.

9 荒野の刀兵の故によりて我ら死を冒して食物を得

We obtained our bread at the risk of our lives, before the face of the sword, in the wilderness.

10 饑饉の烈しき熱氣によりてわれらの皮膚は爐のごとく熱し

Our skin was burned, as if by an oven, before the face of the tempest of the famine.

11 シオンにて婦人等をかされユダの邑々にて處女等けがさる

They humiliated the women in Zion and the virgins in the cities of Judah.

12 侯伯たる者も敵の手にて吊され 老たる者の面も尊とばれず

The leaders were suspended by their hand. They were not ashamed before the faces of the elders.

13 少き者は石磨を擔はせられ 童子は薪を負ふてよろめき

They have sexually abused the adolescents, and the children were corrupted in the wood.

14 長老は門にあつまることを止め 少き者はその音樂を廢せり

The elders have ceased from the gates, the youths from the choir of the psalms.

15 我らが心の快樂はすでに罷み われらの跳舞はかはりて悲哀となり

The gladness of our heart has failed, our singing has been turned into mourning.

16 われらの冠冕は首より落たり われら罪ををかしたれば禍なるかな

The crown has fallen from our head. Woe to us, for we have sinned.

17 これが爲に我らの心うれへ これらのために我らが目くらくなれり

Because of this, our heart became gloomy; for this reason, our eyes have been darkened:

18 シオンの山は荒はて 山犬はその上を歩くなり

because of mount Zion, because it was ruined. Foxes have wandered upon it.

19 ヱホバよなんぢは永遠に在す なんぢの御位は世々かぎりなし

But you, O Lord, shall remain for eternity, your throne from generation to generation.

20 何とて我らを永く忘れ われらを斯ひさしく棄おきたまふや

Why would you forget us forever? Why would you forsake us for a long time?

21 ヱホバよねがはくは我らをして汝に歸らしめたまへ われら歸るべし 我らの日を新にして昔日の日のごとくならしめたまへ

Convert us, O Lord, to you, and we shall be converted. Renew our days, as from the beginning.

22 さりとも汝まつたく我らを棄たまひしや 痛くわれらを怒りゐたまふや

But you have utterly rejected us; you are vehemently angry against us.