耶和华惩罚耶路撒冷
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“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“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“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。”
This chapter is an acrostic poem, the verses of which begin with the successive letters of the Hebrew alphabet. 1How the Lord has covered Daughter Zion
with the cloud of his anger2:1 Or How the Lord in his anger / has treated Daughter Zion with contempt!
He has hurled down the splendor of Israel
from heaven to earth;
he has not remembered his footstool
in the day of his anger.
2Without pity the Lord has swallowed up
all the dwellings of Jacob;
in his wrath he has torn down
the strongholds of Daughter Judah.
He has brought her kingdom and its princes
down to the ground in dishonor.
3In fierce anger he has cut off
every horn2:3 Or off / all the strength; or every king2:3 Horn here symbolizes strength. of Israel.
He has withdrawn his right hand
at the approach of the enemy.
He has burned in Jacob like a flaming fire
that consumes everything around it.
4Like an enemy he has strung his bow;
his right hand is ready.
Like a foe he has slain
all who were pleasing to the eye;
he has poured out his wrath like fire
on the tent of Daughter Zion.
5The 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 Daughter Judah.
6He has laid waste his dwelling like a garden;
he has destroyed his place of meeting.
The Lord has made Zion forget
her appointed festivals and her Sabbaths;
in his fierce anger he has spurned
both king and priest.
7The Lord has rejected his altar
and abandoned his sanctuary.
He has given the walls of her palaces
into the hands of the enemy;
they have raised a shout in the house of the Lord
as on the day of an appointed festival.
8The Lord determined to tear down
the wall around Daughter Zion.
He stretched out a measuring line
and did not withhold his hand from destroying.
He made ramparts and walls lament;
together they wasted away.
9Her gates have sunk into the ground;
their bars he has broken and destroyed.
Her king and her princes are exiled among the nations,
the law is no more,
and her prophets no longer find
visions from the Lord.
10The elders of Daughter Zion
sit on the ground in silence;
they have sprinkled dust on their heads
and put on sackcloth.
The young women of Jerusalem
have bowed their heads to the ground.
11My eyes fail from weeping,
I am in torment within;
my heart is poured out on the ground
because my people are destroyed,
because children and infants faint
in the streets of the city.
12They say to their mothers,
“Where is bread and wine?”
as they faint like the wounded
in the streets of the city,
as their lives ebb away
in their mothers’ arms.
13What can I say for you?
With what can I compare you,
Daughter Jerusalem?
To what can I liken you,
that I may comfort you,
Virgin Daughter Zion?
Your wound is as deep as the sea.
Who can heal you?
14The visions of your prophets
were false and worthless;
they did not expose your sin
to ward off your captivity.
The prophecies they gave you
were false and misleading.
15All who pass your way
clap their hands at you;
they scoff and shake their heads
at Daughter Jerusalem:
“Is this the city that was called
the perfection of beauty,
the joy of the whole earth?”
16All your enemies open their mouths
wide against you;
they scoff and gnash their teeth
and say, “We have swallowed her up.
This is the day we have waited for;
we have lived to see it.”
17The Lord has done what he planned;
he has fulfilled his word,
which he decreed long ago.
He has overthrown you without pity,
he has let the enemy gloat over you,
he has exalted the horn2:17 Horn here symbolizes strength. of your foes.
18The hearts of the people
cry out to the Lord.
You walls of Daughter Zion,
let your tears flow like a river
day and night;
give yourself no relief,
your eyes no rest.
19Arise, cry out in the night,
as the watches of the night begin;
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 faint from hunger
at every street corner.
20“Look, Lord, and consider:
Whom have you ever treated like this?
Should women eat their offspring,
the children they have cared for?
Should priest and prophet be killed
in the sanctuary of the Lord?
21“Young and old lie together
in the dust of the streets;
my young men and young women
have fallen by the sword.
You have slain them in the day of your anger;
you have slaughtered them without pity.
22“As you summon to a feast day,
so you summoned against me terrors on every side.
In the day of the Lord’s anger
no one escaped or survived;
those I cared for and reared
my enemy has destroyed.”
