1 神懲罰耶路撒冷主在烈怒中，怎麼竟然使黑雲遮蓋錫安的居民（“居民”原文作“女子”）！他把以色列的榮美，從天上拋到地上；他在發怒的日子，竟不記念自己的腳凳。
1How has the Lord covered the daughter of Zion with a cloud in his anger! He has cast down from heaven to the earth the beauty of Israel, And hasn’t remembered his footstool in the day of his anger.
2主吞滅了雅各所有住處，毫不顧惜；他在忿怒中，把猶大居民的堅固城拆毀；他使國家和國中眾領袖都倒在地上，受盡羞辱。
2The Lord has swallowed up all the habitations of Jacob, and has not pitied: He has thrown down in his wrath the strongholds of the daughter of Judah; He has brought them down to the ground; he has profaned the kingdom and its princes.
3他在烈怒中砍斷以色列所有的角；他從仇敵面前，收回自己的右手。他像吞滅四周物件的火燄，在雅各中間焚燒。
3He has cut off in fierce anger all the horn of Israel; He has drawn back his right hand from before the enemy: He has burned up Jacob like a flaming fire, which devours all around.
4他像仇敵拉弓，他的右手已經預備好。他像敵人把一切悅人眼目的都殺滅了；他如火的忿怒倒在錫安居民（“居民”原文作“女子”）的帳棚上。
4He has bent his bow like an enemy, he has stood with his right hand as an adversary, Has killed all that were pleasant to the eye: In the tent of the daughter of Zion he has poured out his wrath like fire.
5主好像成了仇敵；他吞滅了以色列和她所有的宮殿，毀壞了她的堅固城。他在猶大居民的中間，增添了悲哀和哭號。
5The Lord has become as an enemy, he has swallowed up Israel; He has swallowed up all her palaces, he has destroyed his strongholds; He has multiplied in the daughter of Judah mourning and lamentation.
6他把自己的住所破壞，好像園子一樣；他毀壞了屬他的聚會之處。耶和華使節期和安息日都在錫安被忘記；他在他的盛怒中棄絕了君王和祭司。
6He has violently taken away his tabernacle, as if it were of a garden; he has destroyed his place of assembly: Yahweh has caused solemn assembly and Sabbath to be forgotten in Zion, Has despised in the indignation of his anger the king and the priest.
7主丟棄了自己的祭壇，厭棄了自己的聖所。他把宮殿的圍牆，交付在仇敵的手裡；他們在耶和華的殿中喧嚷，好像慶祝節日一樣。
7The Lord has cast off his altar, he has abhorred his sanctuary; He has given up into the hand of the enemy the walls of her palaces: They have made a noise in the house of Yahweh, as in the day of a solemn assembly.
8耶和華定意要拆毀錫安居民（“居民”原文作“女子”）的城牆；他拉了準繩，決不停手，務要把它吞滅。他使堡壘和城牆都悲哀，一同受痛苦。
8Yahweh has purposed to destroy the wall of the daughter of Zion; He has stretched out the line, he has not withdrawn his hand from destroying; He has made the rampart and wall to lament; they languish together.
9錫安的眾城門已經陷入地裡；耶和華把錫安的門閂都毀壞折斷了。錫安的君王和領袖都身在列國中；錫安再沒有律法了；它的眾先知也得不到從耶和華而來的異象。
9Her gates are sunk into the ground; he has destroyed and broken her bars: Her king and her princes are among the nations where the law is not; Yes, her prophets find no vision from Yahweh.
10錫安居民（“居民”原文作“女子”）的長老都坐在地上，默默無聲；他們把塵灰撒在頭上，腰束麻布。耶路撒冷的處女都垂頭至地。
10The elders of the daughter of Zion sit on the ground, they keep silence; They have cast up dust on their heads; they have clothed themselves with sackcloth: The virgins of Jerusalem hang down their heads to the ground.
11我的眼睛因流淚而失明，我的心腸激動，我的肝膽傾倒在地，都因我的子民（“我的子民”原文作“我子民的女子”）遭毀滅，孩童和嬰兒在城裡的街上昏倒。
11My eyes do fail with tears, my heart is troubled; My liver is poured on the earth, because of the destruction of the daughter of my people, Because the young children and the infants swoon in the streets of the city.
12他們像被刺傷的人昏倒在城裡街上的時候，他們在母親的懷裡快要喪命的時候，他們就問母親：“五穀和酒在哪裡呢？”
12They tell their mothers, Where is grain and wine? When they swoon as the wounded in the streets of the city, When their soul is poured out into their mothers’ bosom.
13耶路撒冷的居民哪，我怎樣向你說明呢？用甚麼與你比較呢？錫安的居民哪，我們用甚麼跟你相比，好安慰你呢？你的裂口像海那樣大，誰能醫治你呢？
13What shall I testify to you? what shall I liken to you, daughter of Jerusalem? What shall I compare to you, that I may comfort you, virgin daughter of Zion? For your breach is great like the sea: who can heal you?
14你的假先知為了你所見的異象，盡是虛謊和愚昧；他們沒有顯露你的罪孽，使你的命運得以挽回；他們為你所得的默示，全是虛謊，是引人走錯路的。
14Your prophets have seen for you false and foolish visions; They have not uncovered your iniquity, to bring back your captivity, but have seen for you false oracles and causes of banishment.
15所有過路的人，都拍掌嘲笑你；他們嗤笑耶路撒冷的居民，並搖頭說：“被人稱為最完美，為全地所喜悅的，就是這城嗎？”
15All that pass by clap their hands at you. They hiss and wag their head at the daughter of Jerusalem, saying, Is this the city that men called The perfection of beauty, The joy of the whole earth?
16你所有的仇敵都張開口攻擊你，他們嗤笑你，又咬牙切齒，說：“我們吞滅它了！這真是我們期待的日子！我們等到了！親眼看見了！”
16All your enemies have opened their mouth wide against you; They hiss and gnash the teeth; they say, We have swallowed her up; Certainly this is the day that we looked for; we have found, we have seen it.
17耶和華作成了他定意去作的，成就了他的話，就是他昔日所宣告的，他把你拆毀，並不憐惜，他使仇敵因勝過你而高興，他高舉你敵人的角。
17Yahweh has done that which he purposed; he has fulfilled his word that he commanded in the days of old; He has thrown down, and has not pitied: He has caused the enemy to rejoice over you; he has exalted the horn of your adversaries.
18錫安居民（“居民”原文作“女子”）的城牆啊，你要一心向主哀求；願你的眼淚像江河般湧流，晝夜不息；願你得不著歇息，願你眼中的瞳人不能休息。
18Their heart cried to the Lord: wall of the daughter of Zion, let tears run down like a river day and night; Give yourself no respite; don’t let the apple of your eye cease.
19夜裡每到交更的時分，你要起來呼喊；在主面前你要傾心如水！你的孩童在各街頭上因飢餓而昏倒，你要為他們的性命向主舉手禱告。
19Arise, cry out in the night, at the beginning of the watches; Pour out your heart like water before the face of the Lord: Lift up your hands toward him for the life of your young children, that faint for hunger at the head of every street.
20“耶和華啊，求你觀看！求你鑒察！你曾這樣對待過誰呢？難道婦人應該吃掉自己所生的，就是自己所撫養的嬰孩嗎？難道祭司和先知應該在主的聖所裡被殺害嗎？”
20Look, Yahweh, and see to whom you have done thus! Shall the women eat their fruit, the children that are dandled in the hands? Shall the priest and the prophet be killed in the sanctuary of the Lord?
21少年人和老年人都在街上倒臥在地死了；我的年輕男女都倒斃於刀下；在你忿怒的日子，你殺了他們，你屠殺了他們，毫不憐惜。
21The youth and the old man lie on the ground in the streets; My virgins and my young men are fallen by the sword: You have killed them in the day of your anger; you have slaughtered, and not pitied.
22耶路撒冷的哀禱你從四圍招聚驚嚇我的，好像招聚人過節的日子一樣。在耶和華忿怒的日子，沒有人可以逃脫，可以生存。我所撫育、所養大的，我的仇敵都滅盡了。
22You have called, as in the day of a solemn assembly, my terrors on every side; There was none that escaped or remained in the day of Yahweh’s anger: Those that I have dandled and brought up has my enemy consumed.