Lamentations 2

1 How the Lord has covered the Daughter of Zion with the cloud of His anger! He has cast the glory of Israel from heaven to earth. He has abandoned His footstool in the day of His anger.

1 主的怒气像乌云一样遮盖少女锡安， 祂将以色列的荣美从天上扔到地上。 祂发怒的时候并不顾念自己的脚凳。

2 Without pity the Lord has swallowed up all the dwellings of Jacob. In His wrath He has demolished the fortified cities of the Daughter of Judah. He brought to the ground and defiled her kingdom and its princes.

2 主毫不留情地毁灭雅各一切的住处， 祂在烈怒中夷平犹大的堡垒， 让以色列及其首领蒙羞。

3 In fierce anger He has cut off every horn of Israel and withdrawn His right hand at the approach of the enemy. He has burned in Jacob like a flaming fire that consumes everything around it.

3 祂发烈怒毁灭以色列全军。 敌人袭来时，祂收回援手。 祂像烈焰一样吞噬雅各。

4 He has bent His bow like an enemy; His right hand is positioned. Like a foe He has killed all who were pleasing to the eye; He has poured out His wrath like fire on the tent of the Daughter of Zion.

4 祂张弓搭箭，宛若仇敌， 祂的右手蓄势待发， 祂杀了一切悦人眼目的人， 将祂的怒火撒向少女锡安的帐篷。

5 The Lord is like an enemy; He has swallowed up Israel. He has swallowed up all her palaces and destroyed her strongholds. He has multiplied mourning and lamentation for the Daughter of Judah.

5 主像敌人一样毁灭以色列， 吞噬她的宫殿，夷平她的堡垒， 使犹大人悲伤哀哭。

6 He has laid waste His tabernacle like a garden booth; He has destroyed His place of meeting. The LORD has made Zion forget her appointed feasts and Sabbaths. In His fierce anger He has despised both king and priest.

6 祂摧毁自己的居所， 如同摧毁花园； 祂摧毁祂所定的聚会之处， 使锡安的人民忘记安息日和节期。 祂在烈怒中弃绝所有的君王和祭司。

7 The Lord has rejected His altar; He has abandoned His sanctuary; He has delivered the walls of her palaces into the hand of the enemy. They have raised a shout in the house of the LORD as on the day of an appointed feast.

7 主撇弃自己的祭坛， 憎恶自己的圣所， 把耶路撒冷的殿墙交给敌人。 他们像过节一样， 在耶和华的殿中喧嚷吵闹。

8 The LORD determined to destroy the wall of the Daughter of Zion. He stretched out a measuring line and did not withdraw His hand from destroying. He made the ramparts and walls lament; together they waste away.

8 耶和华决意拆毁少女锡安的城墙， 祂拉了准线， 定意毁灭，绝不收手。 祂使城墙和壁垒一同悲哀哭泣。

9 Her gates have sunk into the ground; He has destroyed and shattered their bars. Her king and her princes are exiled among the nations, the law is no more, and even her prophets find no vision from the LORD.

9 锡安的城门陷入地中， 主已摧毁、砍断她的门闩。 她的君王和首领流落异邦， 律法不复存在， 她的先知得不到从耶和华而来的异象。

10 The elders of the Daughter of Zion sit on the ground in silence. They have thrown dust on their heads and put on sackcloth. The young women of Jerusalem have bowed their heads to the ground.

10 少女锡安的长老腰束麻布， 头蒙灰尘，坐在地上， 默然不语； 耶路撒冷的少女垂头至地。

11 My eyes fail from weeping; I am churning within. My heart is poured out in grief over the destruction of the daughter of my people, because children and infants faint in the streets of the city.

11 我哭得眼睛失明， 愁肠百结，肝胆欲碎， 因为人民惨遭毁灭， 儿童和婴孩昏倒在城中的街头。

12 They cry out to their mothers: “Where is the grain and wine?” as they faint like the wounded in the streets of the city, as their lives fade away in the arms of their mothers.

12 孩子们问母亲： “哪里有饼和酒呢？” 他们像受伤的勇士， 昏倒在城中的街头， 在母亲怀中奄奄一息。

13 What can I say for you? To what can I compare you, O Daughter of Jerusalem? To what can I liken you, that I may console you, O Virgin Daughter of Zion? For your wound is as deep as the sea. Who can ever heal you?

13 少女耶路撒冷啊，我该说什么呢？ 我把你比作什么呢？ 处女锡安啊，我用什么比作你，好安慰你呢？ 你的伤口深如海洋， 谁能医治你呢？

14 The visions of your prophets were empty and deceptive; they did not expose your guilt to ward off your captivity. The burdens they envisioned for you were empty and misleading.

14 你的先知所见的异象虚假无用。 他们没有揭露你的罪恶， 以致你被掳。 他们给你的预言虚假谬误。

15 All who pass by clap their hands at you in scorn. They hiss and shake their heads at the Daughter of Jerusalem: “Is this the city that was called the perfection of beauty, the joy of all the earth?”

15 路人都拍掌嘲笑你。 他们向少女耶路撒冷摇头， 嗤笑道： “这就是那被誉为完美无瑕、 普世喜悦的城吗？”

16 All your enemies open their mouths against you. They hiss and gnash their teeth, saying, “We have swallowed her up. This is the day for which we have waited. We have lived to see it!”

16 敌人都幸灾乐祸地讥讽你， 他们咬牙切齿地嗤笑说： “我们吞灭了她！ 这是我们期待已久的日子！ 我们终于见到这一天了！”

17 The LORD has done what He planned; He has accomplished His decree, which He ordained in days of old; He has overthrown you without pity. He has let the enemy gloat over you and exalted the horn of your foes.

17 耶和华实现了祂的计划， 成就了祂很久以前的应许。 祂毫不留情地毁灭了你， 使你的仇敌幸灾乐祸， 使你的敌人耀武扬威。

18 The hearts of the people cry out to the Lord. O wall of the Daughter of Zion, let your tears run down like a river day and night. Give yourself no relief, and your eyes no rest.

18 少女锡安的城墙啊， 你要从心里向主呼求！ 你的眼泪要像江河一样昼夜涌流， 你要不歇不眠。

19 Arise, cry out in the night from the first watch of the night. Pour out your heart like water in the presence of the Lord. Lift up your hands to Him for the lives of your children who are fainting from hunger on the corner of every street.

19 你要在夜间打更时起来呼求， 在主面前倾心吐意，如水倒出。 你要为饿昏街头的孩童向主举手祷告。

20 Look, O LORD, and consider: Whom have You ever treated like this? Should women eat their offspring, the infants they have nurtured? Should priests and prophets be killed in the sanctuary of the Lord?

20 “耶和华啊，求你看看， 你曾这样对付过谁呢？ 母亲岂能吃自己生养的孩子？ 祭司和先知岂能在主的圣所中被杀？

21 Both young and old lie together in the dust of the streets. My young men and maidens have fallen by the sword. You have slain them in the day of Your anger; You have slaughtered them without compassion.

21 “老人和少年陈尸街头， 少男少女都丧身刀下。 你在发怒的日子杀了他们， 毫不留情。

22 You summoned my terrors on every side, as for the day of an appointed feast. In the day of the LORD’s anger no one escaped or survived; my enemy has destroyed those I nurtured and reared.

22 “你从四面八方召仇敌攻击我， 如同召集人过节。 耶和华发怒的日子， 无人能逃脱，无人能幸免。 敌人杀光了我养育的孩子。”