| 哀歌 |
Lamentations |
| 1在上主盛怒的鞭責下，我成了受盡痛苦的人； |
1 I am a man who knows affliction from the rod of his anger, |
| 2他引我走入黑暗，不見光明； |
2One whom he has led and forced to walk in darkness, not in the light; |
| 3且終日再三再四，伸手與我為敵； |
3Against me alone he brings back his hand again and again all the day. |
| 4他使我肌膚枯瘦，折斷我的骨頭； |
4He has worn away my flesh and my skin, he has broken my bones; |
| 5他在我四周築起圍墻，用毒草和痛苦環繞我， |
5He has beset me round about with poverty and weariness; |
| 6讓我居住在黑暗之中，好像久已死去的人。 |
6He has left me to dwell in the dark like those long dead. |
| 7他用垣墻圍困我，不能逃脫；並且加重我的桎梏； |
7He has hemmed me in with no escape and weighed me down with chains; |
| 8我呼籲求救時，他卻掩耳不聽我的祈禱。 |
8Even when I cry out for help, he stops my prayer; |
| 9他用方石堵住了我的去路，阻塞了我的行徑。 |
9He has blocked my ways with fitted stones, and turned my paths aside. |
| 10上主之於我，像是一隻潛伏的狗熊，是一頭藏匿的獅子， |
10A lurking bear he has been to me, a lion in ambush! |
| 11他把我拖到路旁，撲捉撕裂，加以摧殘； |
11He deranged my ways, set me astray, left me desolate. |
| 12又拉開他的弓，瞄準我，把我當作眾矢之的。 |
12He bent his bow, and set me up as the target for his arrow. |
| 13他用箭囊的箭，射穿了我的雙腰； |
13He pierces my sides with shafts from his quiver. |
| 14使我成了萬民的笑柄，終日受他們的嘲笑； |
14I have become a laughingstock for all nations, their taunt all the day long; |
| 15他使我飽食苦菜，醉飲苦酒。 |
15He has sated me with bitter food, made me drink my fill of wormwood. |
| 16他用砂礫破碎我的牙齒，用灰塵給我充饑。 |
16He has broken my teeth with gravel, pressed my face in the dust; |
| 17他除去了我心中的平安，我已經忘記了一切幸福； |
17My soul is deprived of peace, I have forgotten what happiness is; |
| 18於是我說：「我的光榮已經消逝，對上主的希望也已經幻滅。」 |
18I tell myself my future is lost, all that I hoped for from the LORD. |
| 19我回憶着我的困厄和痛苦，盡是茹苦含辛！ |
19The thought of my homeless poverty is wormwood and gall; |
| 20我的心越回想，越覺沮喪。 |
20Remembering it over and over leaves my soul downcast within me. |
| 21但是我必要追念這事，以求獲得希望： |
21But I will call this to mind, as my reason to have hope: |
| 22上主的慈愛，永無止境；他的仁慈，無窮無盡。 |
22The favors of the LORD are not exhausted, his mercies are not spent; |
| 23你的仁慈，朝朝常新；你的忠信，浩大無垠！ |
23They are renewed each morning, so great is his faithfulness. |
| 24我心中知道：上主是我的福分；因此，我必信賴他。 |
24My portion is the LORD, says my soul; therefore will I hope in him. |
| 25上主對信賴他和尋求他的人，是慈善的。 |
25Good is the LORD to one who waits for him, to the soul that seeks him; |
| 26最好是靜待上主的救援， |
26It is good to hope in silence for the saving help of the LORD. |
| 27人最好是自幼背負上主的重軛， |
27 It is good for a man to bear the yoke from his youth. |
| 28默然獨坐，因為是上主加於他的軛； |
28Let him sit alone and in silence, when it is laid upon him. |
| 29他該把自己的口貼近塵埃，這樣或者還有希望； |
29 Let him put his mouth to the dust; there may yet be hope. |
| 30向打他的人，送上面頰，飽受凌辱。 |
30Let him offer his cheek to be struck, let him be filled with disgrace. |
| 31因為上主決不會永遠把人遺棄； |
31For the Lord's rejection does not last forever; |
| 32縱使懲罰，他必按照自己豊厚的慈愛，而加以憐憫。 |
32Though he punishes, he takes pity, in the abundance of his mercies; |
| 33因為他苛待和懲罰世人，原不是出於他的心願。 |
33He has no joy in afflicting or grieving the sons of men. |
| 34將世上所有的俘虜，都踐踏在腳下， |
34When anyone tramples underfoot all the prisoners in the land, |
| 35在至上者前剝奪人的權利， |
35When he distorts men's rights in the very sight of the Most High, |
| 36與人爭訟時，欺壓他人：難道上主看不見？ |
36When he presses a crooked claim, the Lord does not look on unconcerned. |
| 37若非上主有命，誰能言出即成呢？ |
37Who commands so that it comes to pass, except the Lord ordains it; |
| 38吉凶禍福，難道不是出自至上者之口？ |
38Except it proceeds from the mouth of the Most High, whether the thing be good or bad! |
| 39人生在世，為自己的罪受罰，為甚麼還叫苦？ |
39Why should any living man complain, any mortal, in the face of his sins? |
| 40我們應檢討考察我們的行為，回頭歸向上主！ |
40Let us search and examine our ways that we may return to the LORD! |
| 41應向天上的大主，雙手奉上我們的心！ |
41Let us reach out our hearts toward God in heaven! |
| 42正因為我們犯罪背命，你纔沒有寬恕。 |
42We have sinned and rebelled; you have not forgiven us. |
| 43你藏在盛怒之中，追擊我們，殺死我們，毫不留情。 |
43You veiled yourself in wrath and pursued us, you slew us and took no pity; |
| 44你隱在濃雲深處，哀禱不能上達。 |
44You wrapped yourself in a cloud which prayer could not pierce. |
| 45你使我們在萬民中，成了塵垢和廢物。 |
45You have made us offscourings and refuse among the nations. |
| 46我們所有的仇人，都向我們大張其口。 |
46All our enemies have opened their mouths against us; |
| 47為我們只有恐怖和陷阱，破壞和滅亡。 |
47Terror and the pit have been our lot, desolation and destruction; |
| 48為了我女兒──人民的滅亡，我的眼淚湧流如江河。 |
48My eyes run with streams of water over the downfall of the daughter of my people. |
| 49我的眼淚湧流不止，始終不停， |
49My eyes flow without ceasing, there is no respite, |
| 50直到上主從天垂顧憐視， |
50Till the LORD from heaven looks down and sees. |
| 51因我城中的一切女兒，使我觸目傷心。 |
51My eyes torment my soul at the sight of all the daughters of my city. |
| 52我的仇人無故追捕我，像獵取飛鳥一樣； |
52Those who were my enemies without cause hunted me down like a bird; |
| 53他們將我投入坑穴之中，把石塊擲在我身上； |
53They struck me down alive in the pit, and sealed me in with a stone. |
| 54水淹沒了我的頭頂，我想：「我要死了！」 |
54The waters flowed over my head, and I said, "I am lost!" |
| 55上主，我從坑穴深處，呼號你的聖名； |
55I called upon your name, O LORD, from the bottom of the pit; |
| 56你曾俯聽過我的呼聲，對我的哀禱，不要掩耳不聞。 |
56You heard me call, "Let not your ear be deaf to my cry for help!" |
| 57在我呼號你的那一天，願你走近而對我說：「不要害怕！」 |
57You came to my aid when I called to you; you said, "Have no fear!" |
| 58上主，你辯護了我的案件，贖回我的性命。 |
58You defended me in mortal danger, you redeemed my life. |
| 59上主，你見我遭受冤屈，你替我伸了冤， |
59You see, O LORD, how I am wronged; do me justice! |
| 60你看見了他們對我的種種仇恨和陰謀。 |
60You see all their vindictiveness, all their plots against me. |
| 61上主，你聽見了他們加於我的種種侮辱和陰謀， |
61You hear their insults, O LORD, (all their plots against me), |
| 62你也聽見了反對我者的誹謗，和他們終日對我的企圖。 |
62The whispered murmurings of my foes, against me all the day; |
| 63你看！他們或坐或立，我始終是他們嘲笑的對象。 |
63Whether they sit or stand, see, I am their taunt song. |
| 64上主，求你按照他們雙手的作為，報復他們； |
64Requite them as they deserve, O LORD, according to their deeds; |
| 65求你使他們的心思頑固，並詛咒他們。 |
65Give them hardness of heart, as your curse upon them; |
| 66上主，求你憤怒地追擊他們，將他們由普天之下除掉。 |
66Pursue them in wrath and destroy them from under your heavens! |
