Lamentations 3

1 I am the man who has seen affliction under the rod of God’s wrath.

1 我是因耶和華忿怒的杖， 遭遇困苦的人。

2 He has driven me away and made me walk in darkness instead of light.

2 他引導我，使我行在黑暗中， 不行在光明裏。

3 Indeed, He keeps turning His hand against me all day long.

3 他真是終日再三反手攻擊我。

4 He has worn away my flesh and skin; He has shattered my bones.

4 他使我的皮肉枯乾； 他折斷 我的骨頭。

5 He has besieged me and surrounded me with bitterness and hardship.

5 他築壘攻擊我， 用苦楚 和艱難圍困我。

6 He has made me dwell in darkness like those dead for ages.

6 他使我住在幽暗之處， 像死了許久的人一樣。

7 He has walled me in so I cannot escape; He has weighed me down with chains.

7 他用籬笆圍住我，使我不能出去； 他使我的銅鍊沉重。

8 Even when I cry out and plead for help, He shuts out my prayer.

8 我哀號求救； 他使我的禱告不得上達。

9 He has barred my ways with cut stones; He has made my paths crooked.

9 他用鑿過的石頭擋住我的道； 他使我的路彎曲。

10 He is a bear lying in wait, a lion hiding in ambush.

10 他向我如熊埋伏， 如獅子在隱密處。

11 He forced me off my path and tore me to pieces; He left me without help.

11 他使我轉離正路， 將我撕碎，使我淒涼。

12 He bent His bow and set me as the target for His arrow.

12 他張弓將我當作箭靶子。

13 He pierced my kidneys with His arrows.

13 他把箭袋中的箭射入我的肺腑。

14 I am a laughingstock to all my people; they mock me in song all day long.

14 我成了眾民的笑話； 他們終日以我為歌曲。

15 He has filled me with bitterness; He has intoxicated me with wormwood.

15 他用苦楚充滿我，使我飽用茵蔯。

16 He has ground my teeth with gravel and trampled me in the dust.

16 他又用沙石磣斷我的牙， 用灰塵將我蒙蔽。

17 My soul has been deprived of peace; I have forgotten what prosperity is.

17 你使我遠離平安， 我忘記好處。

18 So I say, “My strength has perished, along with my hope from the LORD.”

18 我就說：我的力量衰敗； 我在耶和華那裏毫無指望！

19 Remember my affliction and wandering, the wormwood and the gall.

19 耶和華啊，求你記念我 如茵蔯和苦膽的困苦窘迫。

20 Surely my soul remembers and is humbled within me.

20 我心想念這些， 就在裏面憂悶。

21 Yet I call this to mind, and therefore I have hope:

21 我想起這事， 心裏就有指望。

22 Because of the loving devotion of the LORD we are not consumed, for His mercies never fail.

22 我們不致消滅， 是出於耶和華諸般的慈愛； 是因他的憐憫不致斷絕。

23 They are new every morning; great is Your faithfulness!

23 每早晨，這都是新的； 你的誠實極其廣大！

24 “The LORD is my portion,” says my soul, “therefore I will hope in Him.”

24 我心裏說：耶和華是我的分， 因此，我要仰望他。

25 The LORD is good to those who wait for Him, to the soul who seeks Him.

25 凡等候耶和華，心裏尋求他的， 耶和華必施恩給他。

26 It is good to wait quietly for the salvation of the LORD.

26 人仰望耶和華， 靜默等候他的救恩， 這原是好的。

27 It is good for a man to bear the yoke while he is still young.

27 人在幼年負軛， 這原是好的。

28 Let him sit alone in silence, for the LORD has laid it upon him.

28 他當獨坐無言， 因為這是耶和華加在他身上的。

29 Let him bury his face in the dust—perhaps there is still hope.

29 他當口貼塵埃， 或者有指望。

30 Let him offer his cheek to the one who would strike him; let him be filled with reproach.

30 他當由人打他的腮頰， 要滿受凌辱。

31 For the Lord will not cast us off forever.

31 因為主必不永遠丟棄人。

32 Even if He causes grief, He will show compassion according to His abundant loving devotion.

32 主雖使人憂愁， 還要照他諸般的慈愛發憐憫。

33 For He does not willingly afflict or grieve the sons of men.

33 因他並不甘心使人受苦， 使人憂愁。

34 To crush underfoot all the prisoners of the land,

34 人將世上被囚的踹 在腳下，

35 to deny a man justice before the Most High,

35 或在至高者面前屈枉人，

36 to subvert a man in his lawsuit—of these the Lord does not approve.

36 或在人的訟事上顛倒是非， 這都是主看不上的。

37 Who has spoken and it came to pass, unless the Lord has ordained it?

37 除非主命定， 誰能說成就成呢？

38 Do not both adversity and good come from the mouth of the Most High?

38 禍福不都出於至高者的口嗎？

39 Why should any mortal man complain, in view of his sins?

39 活人因自己的罪受罰， 為何發怨言呢？

40 Let us examine and test our ways, and turn back to the LORD.

40 我們當深深考察自己的行為， 再歸向耶和華。

41 Let us lift up our hearts and hands to God in heaven:

41 我們當誠心向天上的上帝舉手禱告。

42 “We have sinned and rebelled; You have not forgiven.”

42 我們犯罪背逆， 你並不赦免。

43 You have covered Yourself in anger and pursued us; You have killed without pity.

43 你自被怒氣遮蔽，追趕我們； 你施行殺戮，並不顧惜。

44 You have covered Yourself with a cloud that no prayer can pass through.

44 你以黑雲遮蔽自己， 以致禱告不得透入。

45 You have made us scum and refuse among the nations.

45 你使我們在萬民中成為污穢和渣滓。

46 All our enemies open their mouths against us.

46 我們的仇敵都向我們大大張口。

47 Panic and pitfall have come upon us—devastation and destruction.

47 恐懼和陷坑，殘害和毀滅， 都臨近我們。

48 Streams of tears flow from my eyes over the destruction of the daughter of my people.

48 因我眾民遭的毀滅， 我就眼淚下流如河。

49 My eyes overflow unceasingly, without relief,

49 我的眼多多流淚， 總不止息，

50 until the LORD looks down from heaven and sees.

50 直等耶和華垂顧， 從天觀看。

51 My eyes bring grief to my soul because of all the daughters of my city.

51 因我本城的眾民， 我的眼，使我的心傷痛。

52 Without cause my enemies hunted me like a bird.

52 無故與我為仇的追逼我， 像追雀鳥一樣。

53 They dropped me alive into a pit and cast stones upon me.

53 他們使我的命在牢獄中斷絕， 並將一塊石頭拋在我身上。

54 The waters flowed over my head, and I thought I was going to die.

54 眾水流過我頭， 我說：我命斷絕了！

55 I called on Your name, O LORD, out of the depths of the Pit.

55 耶和華啊， 我從深牢中求告你的名。

56 You heard my plea: “Do not ignore my cry for relief.”

56 你曾聽見我的聲音； 我求你解救， 你不要掩耳不聽。

57 You drew near when I called on You; You said, “Do not be afraid.”

57 我求告你的日子，你臨近我， 說：不要懼怕！

58 You defend my cause, O Lord; You redeem my life.

58 主啊，你伸明了我的冤； 你救贖了我的命。

59 You have seen, O LORD, the wrong done to me; vindicate my cause!

59 耶和華啊，你見了我受的委屈； 求你為我伸冤。

60 You have seen all their malice, all their plots against me.

60 他們仇恨我，謀害我， 你都看見了。

61 O LORD, You have heard their insults, all their plots against me—

61 耶和華啊，你聽見他們辱罵我的話， 知道他們向我所設的計，

62 the slander and murmuring of my assailants against me all day long.

62 並那些起來攻擊我的人口中所說的話， 以及終日向我所設的計謀。

63 When they sit and when they rise, see how they mock me in song.

63 求你觀看， 他們坐下，起來，都以我為歌曲。

64 You will pay them back what they deserve, O LORD, according to the work of their hands.

64 耶和華啊，你要按着他們手所做的 向他們施行報應。

65 Put a veil of anguish over their hearts; may Your curse be upon them!

65 你要使他們心裏剛硬， 使你的咒詛臨到他們。

66 You will pursue them in anger and exterminate them from under Your heavens, O LORD.

66 你要發怒追趕他們， 從耶和華的天下除滅他們。