| 哀歌 |
Lamentations |
| 1上主，求你眷念我們的遭遇，垂顧憐視我們受的恥辱。 |
1Remember, O LORD, what has befallen us, look, and see our disgrace: |
| 2我們的產業，轉入外人手中；我們的房舍，歸屬了異邦人。 |
2Our inherited lands have been turned over to strangers, our homes to foreigners. |
| 3我們自己變成了無父的孤兒，我們的母親好像寡婦一樣。 |
3We have become orphans, fatherless; widowed are our mothers. |
| 4我們自己的水，必須用錢買來喝；我們自己的木柴，需要用款換來。 |
4The water we drink we must buy, for our own wood we must pay. |
| 5重軛加在我們的頸項上，受人折磨迫害；我們困憊疲乏，不得安息。 |
5On our necks is the yoke of those who drive us; we are worn out, but allowed no rest. |
| 6我們向埃及伸手，向亞述乞食充饑。 |
6 To Egypt we submitted, and to Assyria, to fill our need of bread. |
| 7我們的祖先犯了罪，已不存在；我們卻要承擔他們的罪債； |
7 Our fathers, who sinned, are no more; but we bear their guilt. |
| 8原是奴隸的人，竟然統治我們，但沒有人解救我們，脫離他們的手。 |
8 Slaves rule over us; there is no one to rescue us from their hands. |
| 9我們面臨曠野刀劍的威脅，該冒性命的危險，纔能得到食糧。 |
9At the peril of our lives we bring in our sustenance, in the face of the desert heat; |
| 10我們的皮膚因飢餓而發炎，發熱有如火爐。 |
10Our skin is shriveled up, as though by a furnace, with the searing blasts of famine. |
| 11婦女們在熙雍被人強姦，處女們在猶大遭人奸污。 |
11The wives in Zion were ravished by the enemy, the maidens in the cities of Judah; |
| 12王臣被人縛手吊起，長老的儀容受人凌辱， |
12Princes were gibbeted by them, elders shown no respect. |
| 13青年人應該服役推磨，幼童倒在柴捆之下。 |
13The youths carry the millstones, boys stagger under their loads of wood; |
| 14長老們不再安坐城門口，青年們不再奏樂高歌。 |
14 The old men have abandoned the gate, the young men their music. |
| 15我們心中已毫無樂趣，我們的歌舞反而變成悲愁。 |
15The joy of our hearts has ceased, our dance has turned into mourning; |
| 16我們頭上的花冠已經墮地。我們犯罪的人，確是有禍的！ |
16The garlands have fallen from our heads: woe to us, for we have sinned! |
| 17我們的心神所以徬徨，我們的眼睛所以模糊： |
17Over this our hearts are sick, at this our eyes grow dim: |
| 18因為熙雍山已經荒蕪，狐狸成群出沒其間。 |
18That Mount Zion should be desolate, with jackals roaming there! |
| 19上主，至於你，你永遠常存，你的寶座萬世不替。 |
19You, O LORD, are enthroned forever; your throne stands from age to age. |
| 20為甚麼你常忘記我們？為甚麼你常拋棄我們？ |
20Why, then, should you forget us, abandon us so long a time? |
| 21上主，求你叫我們歸向你，我們必定回心轉意；求你重整我們的時代，如同往昔一樣。 |
21Lead us back to you, O LORD, that we may be restored: give us anew such days as we had of old. |
| 22你豈能完全擯棄我們，豈能向我們憤怒到底？ |
22For now you have indeed rejected us, and in full measure turned your wrath against us. |
