Klagelieder 2
1 Ach, wie umwölkt der Herr in seinem Zorn die Tochter Zion! Vom Himmel warf er zur Erde die Herrlichkeit Israels und gedachte nicht an seiner Füße Schemel an seinem Zornestage.
ALEPH. O how the Lord has covered the daughter of Zion with gloom in his fury! O how he has thrown down from heaven to earth the famous one of Israel, and he has not remembered his footstool in the day of his fury.
2 Schonungslos vertilgte der Herr alle Auen Jakobs, riß nieder in seinem Grimm die Festen der Tochter Juda, warf zu Boden, entweihte das Reich und seine Fürsten,
BETH. The Lord has cast down, and he has not been lenient, with all the beauties of Jacob. In his fury, he has destroyed the fortifications of the virgin of Judah, and he has thrown them down to the ground. He has polluted the kingdom and its leaders.
3 hieb ab in Zornesglut jedes Horn Israels, zog seine Rechte zurück vor dem Feind und schürte in Jakob eine flammende Lohe, die ringsum verzehrte.
GHIMEL. In the anger of his fury, he has broken the entire horn of Israel. He has drawn back his right hand before the face of the enemy. And he has kindled within Jacob a flaming fire, devouring all around.
4 Er spannte seinen Bogen wie ein Feind, fest stand seine Rechte wie ein Dränger und tötet alle Augenweide im Zelte der Tochter Zion, goß aus wie Feuer seinen Grimm.
DALETH. He has bent his bow like an enemy. He has fixed his right hand like an adversary. And he has cut down all that was beautiful to behold in the tabernacle of the daughter of Zion. He has poured out his indignation like fire.
5 Der Herr erwies sich als Feind, vertilgte Israel, vertilgte alle seine Paläste, zerstörte seine Burgen, und häufte in der Tochter Juda Jammer über Jammer.
HE. The Lord has become like an enemy. He has thrown down Israel. He has thrown down all of his defenses. He has torn apart his fortifications. And he has filled the daughter of Judah with humbled men and humbled women.
6 Er hat seine Hütte zerwühlt wie einen Garten, seinen Festort zerstört. Vergessen machte Jahwe in Zion Fest und Sabbat und verwarf in seinem grimmigen Zorne König und Priester.
VAU. And he has torn apart her tent like a garden. He has demolished her tabernacle. In Zion, the Lord has delivered feast and Sabbath into oblivion, and king and priest into disgrace, and into the indignation of his fury.
7 Verschmäht hat der Herr seinen Altar, sein Heiligtum verworfen; in Feindes Gewalt hat er ausgeliefert die Mauern ihrer Paläste; Geschrei ließen sie ertönen im Tempel Jahwes, als wäre ein Festtag.
ZAIN. The Lord has pushed away his own altar. He has cursed his own sanctuary. He has delivered the walls of its towers into the hand of the enemy. They have made a noise in the house of the Lord, as if on the day of a solemnity.
8 Beschlossen hatte Jahwe, zu zerstören die Mauer der Tochter Zion. Er zog die Meßschnur, hinderte nicht seine Hand am Vernichten und versetzte in Trauer Wall und Mauer, miteinander härmten sie sich ab.
HETH. The Lord has decided to tear down the wall of the daughter of Zion. He has stretched out his measuring line, and he has not turned away his hand from perdition. And the rampart has mourned, and with the wall it has been torn apart.
9 Ihre Thore sind in die Erde gesunken; er vernichtete und zerbrach ihre Riegel. Ihr König und ihre Fürsten sind unter den Heiden, des Gesetzes beraubt; auch ihre Propheten erlangen nicht mehr Offenbarung von Jahwe.
TETH. Her gates have been buried in the ground. He has ruined and crushed its bars. Her king and her princes are with the Gentiles. There is no law, and her prophets have found no vision from the Lord.
10 Am Boden sitzen und schweigen die Vornehmen der Tochter Zion, haben Staub auf ihr Haupt gestreut, sich mit härenen Gewändern umgürtet; zur Erde senkten ihr Haupt Jerusalems Jungfraun.
JOD. The elders of the daughter of Zion have become idle; they sit on the ground. They have sprinkled their heads with ashes. They have been wrapped with haircloth. The virgins of Jerusalem have cast their heads down to the ground.
11 In Thränen schwinden meine Augen dahin, mein Inneres glüht, das Herz will mir zerspringen über den Untergang der Tochter meines Volks, da Kind und Säugling verschmachten auf den Straßen der Stadt.
CAPH. My eyes have exhausted their tears. My internal organs have become disturbed. My liver has been poured out on the earth, over the grief of the daughter of my people, when the little ones and the infants passed away in the streets of the town.
12 Ihren Müttern rufen sie zu: Wo ist Korn und Wein? verschmachtend wie Todeswunde auf den Straßen der Stadt, indem sie ihr Leben aushauchen an ihrer Mütter Busen.
LAMED. They said to their mothers, “Where is the wheat and the wine?” when they fell like the wounded in the streets of the city, when they breathed out their lives into the bosoms of their mothers.
13 Was soll ich als Beispiel für dich nennen, womit dich vergleichen, du Tochter Jerusalem? Was stell' ich dir gleich, um dich zu trösten, jungfräuliche Tochter Zion? Ja, groß wie das Meer ist deine Wunde; wer könnte dich heilen?
MEM. To what shall I compare you, or to what shall I liken you, O daughter of Jerusalem? To what shall I equate you, so as to console you, O virgin daughter of Zion? For your destruction is as great as the sea. Who will cure you?
14 Deine Propheten erschauten dir Trug und Ungesalzenes und deckten dir deine Schuld nicht auf, dein Geschick zu wenden, sondern erschauten dir Sprüche zu Trug und Verstoßung.
NUN. Your prophets have seen false and foolish things for you. And they have not laid open your iniquity, so as to provoke you to repentance. Yet they have seen for you false revelations and banishments.
15 Über dich schlugen die Hände zusammen alle, die des Wegs vorüberzogen, zischten und schüttelten das Haupt über die Tochter Jerusalem: “Ist das die Stadt, der Schönheit Krone, die Wonne der ganzen Erde?”
SAMECH. All those who passed by the way have clapped their hands over you. They have hissed and shook their heads over the daughter of Jerusalem, saying, “Is this the city of perfect dignity, the joy of all the earth?”
16 Über dich rissen auf ihren Mund alle deine Feinde, zischten und knirschten mit den Zähnen, sprachen: “Wir haben sie vernichtet! Ja, das ist der Tag, den wir erhofften; wir haben ihn erlebt, gesehn.”
PHE. All your enemies have opened their mouth over you. They have hissed and gnashed their teeth, and they said: “We will devour her. Yes, this is the day we waited for. We have found it, we have seen it.”
17 Jahwe hat ausgeführt, was er ersonnen, sein Wort vollendet, das er seit den Tagen der Vorzeit entboten, hat niedergerissen ohne Erbarmen und deinen Feind über dich fröhlich gemacht, ließ hoch erhoben sein das Horn deiner Bedränger!
AIN. The Lord has done what he decided to do. He has fulfilled his word, which he instructed since the days of antiquity. He has destroyed, and he has not been lenient, and he has caused the enemy to rejoice over you, and he has exalted the horn of your adversaries.
18 Schreie laut zum Herrn, du jungfräuliche Tochter Zion! Laß deine Thränen rinnen, wie einen Bach, bei Tage und bei Nacht: Gönne dir keine Ruhe, dein Augapfel raste nicht.
SADE. Their heart cried out to the Lord from the walls of the daughter of Zion. Let tears run down like a torrent throughout the day and the night. Do not give rest to yourself, and do not allow the pupil of your eye to cease.
19 Auf, jammere laut in der Nacht beim Beginne der Nachtwachen; schütte aus wie Wasser dein Herz vor dem Antlitz des Herrn, erhebe zu ihm deine Hände für das Leben deiner Kindlein, die vor Hunger verschmachten an allen Straßenecken.
COPH. Rise up. Give praise in the night, in the first of the watches. Pour out your heart like water before the sight of the Lord. Lift up your hands to him on behalf of the souls of your little ones, who have passed away from famine at the head of all the crossroads.
20 Sieh darein, o Jahwe, und schaue her, wem du solches angethan! Sollen Weiber ihre Leibesfrucht essen, die Kinder ihrer Pflege? Soll im Heiligtum des Herrn gemordet werden Priester und Prophet?
RES. O Lord, see and consider those whom you have made into such a vintage. So then, shall women eat their own fruit, little ones measured by the palm of the hand? Shall priest and prophet be killed in the sanctuary of the Lord?
21 Auf der Erde liegen in den Straßen Knabe und Greis. Meine Jungfraun und meine Jünglinge fielen durchs Schwert; du hast gemordet am Tage deines Zorns, geschlachtet ohne Erbarmen.
SIN. The boy and the old man lie down on the ground outside. My virgins and my youths have fallen by the sword. You have slain them in the day of your fury. You have struck down, and you have not shown pity.
22 Du beriefst wie an einem Feste Schrecken für mich ringsum. Da gab's am Tage des Zornes Jahwes keinen, der entrann und entkam: Die ich gepflegt und aufgezogen, die hat mein Feind vertilgt.
THAU. You have called, as if to a day of solemnity, those who would terrify me all around. And there was no one, in the day of the fury of the Lord, who escaped or was left behind. Those whom I educated and nourished, my enemy has consumed.
