مَراثِي إرْمِي 5

١ 1 اذْكُرْ يَارَبُّ مَا أَصَابَنَا. انْظُرْ وَعَايِنْ عَارَنَا.

Remember, O LORD, what is come upon us: consider, and behold our reproach.

٢ 2 قَدْ تَحَوَّلَ مِيرَاثُنَا إِلَى الْغُرَبَاءِ وَبُيُوتُنَا إِلَى الأَجَانِبِ.

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

٣ 3 أَصْبَحْنَا أَيْتَاماً لاَ أَبَ لَنَا، وَأُمَّهَاتُنَا كَالأَرَامِلِ.

We are orphans and fatherless, our mothers [are] as widows.

٤ 4 بِالْفِضَّةِ شَرِبْنَا مَاءَنَا. وَبِثَمَنٍ ابْتَعْنَا حَطَبَنَا.

We have drunken our water for money; our wood is sold unto us.

٥ 5 دَاسَ مُضْطَهِدُونَا أَعْنَاقَنَا، أَعْيَيْنَا وَلَمْ نَجِدْ رَاحَةً.

Our necks [are] under persecution: we labour, [and] have no rest.

٦ 6 خَضَعْنَا بَاسِطِينَ أَيْدِينَا إِلَى أَشُّورَ وَمِصْرَ لِنَشْبَعَ خُبْزاً.

We have given the hand [to] the Egyptians, [and to] the Assyrians, to be satisfied with bread.

٧ 7 قَدْ أَخْطَأَ آبَاؤُنَا، وَتَوَارَوْا عَنِ الْوُجُودِ، وَنَحْنُ نَتَحَمَّلُ عِقَابَ آثَامِهِمْ.

Our fathers have sinned, [and are] not; and we have borne their iniquities.

٨ 8 تَسَلَّطَ عَلَيْنَا عَبِيدٌ، وَلَيْسَ مَنْ يُنْقِذُنَا مِنْ أَيْدِيهِمْ.

Servants have ruled over us: [there is] none that doth deliver [us] out of their hand.

٩ 9 بِأَنْفُسِنَا نَأْتِي بِخُبْزِنَا مُجَازِفِينَ بِحَيَاتِنَا مِنْ جَرَّاءِ السَّيْفِ الْكَامِنِ لَنَا فِي الصَّحْرَاءِ.

We gat our bread with [the peril of] our lives because of the sword of the wilderness.

١٠ 10 جِلْدُنَا مُلْتَهِبٌ كَتَنُّورٍ مِنْ نِيرَانِ الْجُوعِ الْمُحْرِقَةِ.

Our skin was black like an oven because of the terrible famine.

١١ 11 اغْتَصَبُوا النِّسَاءَ فِي صِهْيَوْنَ وَالْعَذَارَى فِي مُدُنِ يَهُوذَا.

They ravished the women in Zion, [and] the maids in the cities of Judah.

١٢ 12 عُلِّقَ النُّبَلاَءُ بِأَيْدِيهِمْ وَلَمْ يُوَقِّرُوا الشُّيُوخَ.

Princes are hanged up by their hand: the faces of elders were not honoured.

١٣ 13 سَخَّرُوا الشُّبَّانَ لِلطَّحْنِ، وَهَوَى الصِّبْيَانُ تَحْتَ الْحَطَبِ.

They took the young men to grind, and the children fell under the wood.

١٤ 14 هَجَرَ الشُّيُوخُ بَوَّابَةَ الْمَدِينَةِ، وَكَفَّ الشُّبَّانُ عَنْ غِنَائِهِمْ.

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

١٥ 15 انْقَطَعَ فَرَحُ قَلْبِنَا وَتَحَوَّلَ رَقْصُنَا إِلَى نَوْحٍ.

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

١٦ 16 تَهَاوَى إِكْلِيلُ رَأْسِنَا، فَوَيْلٌ لَنَا لأَنَّنَا قَدْ أَخْطَأْنَا.

The crown is fallen [from] our head: woe unto us, that we have sinned!

١٧ 17 لِهَذَا غُشِيَ عَلَى قُلُوبِنَا، وَأَظْلَمَتْ عُيُونُنَا.

For this our heart is faint; for these [things] our eyes are dim.

١٨ 18 لأَنَّ جَبَلَ صِهْيَوْنَ أَضْحَى أَطْلاَلاً تَرْتَعُ فِيهِ الثَّعَالِبُ.

Because of the mountain of Zion, which is desolate, the foxes walk upon it.

١٩ 19 أَمَّا أَنْتَ يَارَبُّ، فَتَمْلِكُ إِلَى الأَبَدِ، وَعَرْشُكَ ثَابِتٌ مِنْ جِيلٍ إِلَى جِيلٍ.

Thou, O LORD, remainest for ever; thy throne from generation to generation.

٢٠ 20 لِمَاذَا تَنْسَانَا إِلَى الأَبَدِ وَتَتْرُكُنَا طُولَ الأَيَّامِ؟

Wherefore dost thou forget us for ever, [and] forsake us so long time?

٢١ 21 رُدَّنَا يَارَبُّ إِلَيْكَ فَنَرْجِعَ. جِدِّدْ أَيَّامَنَا كَمَا فِي الْعُهُودِ السَّالِفَةِ.

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

٢٢ 22 إِلاَ إِنْ كُنْتَ قَدْ رَفَضْتَنَا كُلَّ الرَّفْضِ وَغَضِبْتَ عَلَيْنَا أَشَدَّ الْغَضَبِ.

But thou hast utterly rejected us; thou art very wroth against us.