Ratapan 2

1 TUHAN bertindak dalam kemarahan, Sion diliputi-Nya dengan kegelapan. Keagungan Israel yang setinggi langit, telah dicampakkan-Nya ke bumi. Pada saat TUHAN murka, rumah-Nya di Sion pun tak dihiraukan-Nya.

How the LORD covered the daughter of Zion with a cloud in his anger. He has cast down from heaven to the earth the splendor of Israel, and hasn't remembered his footstool in the day of his anger.

2 Setiap padang rumput di negeri Yehuda, dihancurkan-Nya tanpa rasa iba. Dalam kemarahan-Nya Ia mendobrak sampai runtuh benteng-benteng yang melindungi negeri itu. Kerajaan itu bersama para pemimpinnya dijatuhkan-Nya sehingga menjadi hina.

The LORD has swallowed up all the habitations of Jacob, and has not pitied. He has thrown down in his wrath the strongholds of the daughter of Judah. He has brought them down to the ground; he has humiliated the kingdom and its rulers.

3 Dalam kemarahan-Nya yang menyala-nyala, kekuatan Israel dipatahkan-Nya. Ketika kita diserang lawan, Ia enggan memberi pertolongan. Seperti api mengamuk membinasakan segala-galanya, demikianlah TUHAN marah kepada kita semua.

He has cut off in fierce anger all the strength of Israel. He has drawn back his right hand before the enemy. He has blazed in Jacob like a flaming fire, which devours all around.

4 Seperti musuh, Ia membentangkan busur-Nya dan mengarahkan anak panah-Nya kepada kita. Semua orang yang menyenangkan hati kita, habis dibunuh oleh-Nya. Ia menyemburkan kemarahan-Nya seperti api ke dalam kota Yerusalem ini.

He has bent his bow like an enemy; his right hand he has positioned like an adversary. He killed all that were pleasant to the eye. In the tent of the daughter of Zion he has poured out his wrath like fire.

5 TUHAN menjadi seperti musuh; Ia memukul Israel sampai runtuh. Ia menghancurkan benteng-benteng serta istana, dan memperbanyak duka nestapa kepada penduduk Yehuda.

The LORD has become as an enemy; he has swallowed up Israel; he has swallowed up all her palaces and has destroyed its strongholds. He has multiplied in the daughter of Judah mourning and lamentation.

6 Ia menghancurkan rumah-Nya tempat umat-Nya berkumpul untuk menyembah Dia. Ia membuat orang lupa akan Sabat dan hari-hari raya. Karena TUHAN sangat murka, imam dan raja telah ditolak-Nya.

He has done violence to his temple, as if it were a vineyard; he has destroyed his place of assembly. The LORD has caused solemn assembly and Sabbath to be forgotten in Zion, and he has spurned in his fierce anger king and priest and prince.

7 TUHAN menolak mezbah-Nya yang suci, dan meninggalkan Rumah-Nya sendiri; dibiarkan-Nya musuh merobohkan tembok-temboknya. Di tempat kita dahulu beribadah dan berpesta, musuh bersorak karena berjaya.

The LORD has rejected his altar, he has disowned his sanctuary, and has given up into the hand of the enemy the walls of her palaces. They have made a shout in the house of the LORD, as in the day of a solemn assembly.

8 TUHAN telah memutuskan bahwa tembok-tembok Sion harus diruntuhkan. Tembok-tembok itu telah diukur-Nya, supaya semua dapat dihancurkan-Nya. Tembok-tembok dan menara-menara, kini telah menjadi puing semua.

The LORD has determined to destroy the wall of the daughter of Zion. He has stretched out the line, he has not withdrawn his hand from destroying. He has made the rampart and wall to lament; they languish together.

9 Gerbang-gerbangnya tertimbun tanah, semua palang-palangnya patah; raja dan pejabat pemerintah berada di pembuangan. Hukum TUHAN tidak lagi diajarkan; nabi tidak lagi menerima wahyu dari TUHAN.

Her gates are sunk into the ground; he has destroyed and broken her bars. Her king and her princes are among the nations where the law is no more, and her prophets find no vision from the LORD.

10 Para tua-tua kota duduk membisu di tanah; mereka menaburkan debu di atas kepala, dan memakai kain karung tanda duka. Gadis-gadis pun menundukkan kepala sampai ke tanah.

The elders of the daughter of Zion sit on the ground in silence. They have cast up dust on their heads; they have clothed themselves with sackcloth. The virgins of Jerusalem hang down their heads to the ground.

11 Mataku bengkak karena menangis tanpa henti, jiwaku merana tak terperi. Hatiku hancur melihat keruntuhan bangsa; melihat anak-anak serta bayi pingsan di jalan-jalan kota.

My eyes are worn out from weeping, my stomach is churning. My heart is poured on the earth, because of the destruction of the daughter of my people, because the young children and the infants faint in the streets of the city.

12 Dengan letih mereka menangis minta makan dan minum kepada ibunya. Seperti orang terluka, mereka rebah di jalan-jalan lalu meninggal di pangkuan ibunda.

They tell their mothers, "Where is grain and wine?" When they faint as the wounded in the streets of the city, as their lives fade away in their mothers' bosom.

13 O Yerusalem, Kota Sion yang tercinta, reruntuhanmu sebesar samudra. Apakah yang dapat kukatakan untuk memberikan penghiburan? Sebab, tak pernah ada yang menderita seperti engkau. Sungguh tak ada yang dapat memulihkan keadaanmu.

What shall I testify of you? What shall I liken to you, daughter of Jerusalem? What shall I compare to you, that I may comfort you, virgin daughter of Zion? For your ruin is great like the sea. Who can heal you?

14 Yang disampaikan nabi-nabi kepadamu, hanyalah tipuan dan dusta melulu. Mereka tak pernah menyingkapkan dosamu, sehingga karena itu engkau tidak bertobat. Sebaliknya mereka hanya menyampaikan kepadamu perkataan-perkataan dusta yang memikat.

Your prophets have seen for you false and deceptive visions. They have not uncovered your iniquity, to bring back your captivity, but have seen for you false and misleading oracles.

15 Semua orang yang lewat, mencemooh engkau, karena kau sudah hancur seluruhnya. Mereka menggeleng-gelengkan kepala dan berkata, "Itukah kota yang paling indah, kota kebanggaan dunia?"

All that pass by clap their hands at you, they hiss and wag their head at the daughter of Jerusalem, saying, "Is this the city that men called 'The perfection of beauty,' 'The joy of the whole earth'?"

16 Semua musuhmu memandang mukamu dengan benci, mereka menertawakan engkau dan menyeringai. Mereka berkata, "Kota itu sudah kami musnahkan! Akhirnya tiba juga saatnya yang sudah lama kami nanti-nantikan!"

All your enemies have opened wide their mouth against you. They hiss and gnash the teeth; they say, "We have swallowed her up. Certainly this is the day that we looked for; we have found, we have seen it."

17 TUHAN telah melaksanakan ancaman-Nya yang dahulu direncanakan dan diperingatkan-Nya kepada kita. Kita dihancurkan-Nya tanpa belas kasihan, musuh diberi-Nya kemenangan. Ia membuat mereka gembira melihat kejatuhan kita.

The LORD has done that which he purposed, he has fulfilled his word that he commanded in the days of old. He has thrown down, and has not pitied. He has caused the enemy to gloat over you and exalted the horn of your adversaries.

18 Hai tembok-tembok Yerusalem, berserulah kepada TUHAN! Cucurkan air mata seperti sungai mengalir siang malam. Teruslah menangis, jangan berhenti sampai badanmu menjadi letih!

Their heart cried to the LORD. O wall of the daughter of Zion, let tears run down like a river day and night. Give yourself no respite; do not let your tears cease.

19 Bangunlah berulang-ulang sepanjang malam untuk berteriak mencurahkan isi hatimu kepada TUHAN. Mintalah supaya Ia berbelaskasihan kepada anak-anakmu yang kelaparan dan pingsan di setiap tikungan jalan.

Arise, cry out in the night, at the beginning of the watches. Pour out your heart like water before the face of the LORD. Lift up your hands toward him for the life of your young children, that faint for hunger at the head of every street.

20 TUHAN, lihatlah dan perhatikanlah mereka yang Kausiksa itu! Apakah ada yang pernah Kau perlakukan begitu? Ibu memakan anak kandungnya yang tercinta, imam dan nabi dibunuh di dalam Rumah-Mu yang suci.

Look, LORD, and see to whom you have done like this. Shall the women eat their fruit, the children that are dandled in the hands? Shall the priest and the prophet be killed in the sanctuary of the LORD?

21 Tua muda mati terkapar di jalan, pemuda-pemudi tewas oleh pedang. Pada hari Engkau murka, Kausembelih mereka tanpa rasa iba.

The youth and the old man lie on the ground in the streets; my virgins and my young men have fallen by the sword. You have killed them in the day of your anger; you have slaughtered, without pity.

22 Kau mengundang musuh-musuh yang kami takuti untuk mengadakan pesta kekejaman di sekeliling kami. Mereka membunuh semua yang kami asuh dan sayangi. Pada hari kemarahan-Mu, tak seorang pun dapat melarikan diri.

You have called, as in the day of a solemn assembly, my terrors on every side. There was none that escaped or remained in the day of the LORD's anger. Those that I have borne and brought up has my enemy destroyed.