【耶肋米亚哀歌】第五章 << 上一章

5:1 上主，求你眷念我们的遭遇，垂顾怜视我们受的耻辱。
Remember, O LORD, what has befallen us, look, and see our disgrace:

5:2 我们的产业，转入外人手中；我们的房舍，归属了异邦人。
Our inherited lands have been turned over to strangers, our homes to foreigners.

5:3 我们自己变成了无父的孤儿，我们的母亲好象寡妇一样。
We have become orphans, fatherless; widowed are our mothers.

5:4 我们自己的水，必须用钱买来喝；我们自己的木柴，需要用款换来。
The water we drink we must buy, for our own wood we must pay.

5:5 重轭加在我们的颈项上，受人折磨迫害；我们困惫疲乏，不得安息。
On our necks is the yoke of those who drive us; we are worn out, but allowed no rest.

5:6 我们向埃及伸手，向亚述乞食充饿。
To Egypt we submitted, and to Assyria, to fill our need of bread.

5:7 我们的祖先犯了罪，已不存在；我们却要承担他们的罪债；
Our fathers, who sinned, are no more; but we bear their guilt.

5:8 原是奴隶的人，竟然统治我们，但没有人解救我们，脱离他们的手。
Slaves rule over us; there is no one to rescue us from their hands.

5:9 我们面临旷野刀剑的威胁，该冒性命的危险，才能得到食粮。
At the peril of our lives we bring in our sustenance, in the face of the desert heat;

5:10 我们的皮肤因饥饿而发炎，发热有如火炉。
Our skin is shriveled up, as though by a furnace, with the searing blasts of famine.

5:11 妇女们在熙雍被人强奸，处女们在犹大遭人奸污。
The wives in Zion were ravished by the enemy, the maidens in the cities of Judah;

5:12 王臣被人缚手吊起，长老的仪容受人凌辱，
Princes were gibbeted by them, elders shown no respect.

5:13 青年人应该服役推磨，幼童倒在柴捆之下。
The youths carry the millstones, boys stagger under their loads of wood;

5:14 长老们不再安坐城门口，青年们不再奏乐高歌。
The old men have abandoned the gate, the young men their music.

5:15 我们心中已毫无乐趣，我们的歌舞反而变成悲愁。
The joy of our hearts has ceased, our dance has turned into mourning;

5:16 我们头上的花冠已经堕地。我们犯罪的人，确是有祸的!
The garlands have fallen from our heads: woe to us, for we have sinned!

5:17 我们的心神所以彷徨，我们的眼睛所以模糊；
Over this our hearts are sick, at this our eyes grow dim:

5:18 因为熙雍山已经荒芜，狐狸成群出没其间。
That Mount Zion should be desolate, with jackals roaming there!

5:19 上主，至于你，你永远常存，你的宝座万世不替。
You, O LORD, are enthroned forever; your throne stands from age to age.

5:20 为什么你常忘记我们﹖为什么你常拋弃我们﹖
Why, then, should you forget us, abandon us so long a time?

5:21 上主，求你叫我们归向你，我们必定回心转意；求你重整我们的时代，如同往昔一样。
Lead us back to you, O LORD, that we may be restored: give us anew such days as we had of old.

5:22 你岂能完全摈弃我们，岂能向我们愤怒到底﹖
For now you have indeed rejected us, and in full measure turned your wrath against us.

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