¹How hath the LORD covered the daughter of Zion with a cloud in his anger, and cast down from heaven unto the earth the beauty of Israel, and remembered not his footstool in the day of his anger!

¹Kako je pokril Gospod z gostim oblakom hčer sionsko v jezi svoji! Iz nebes na zemljo je vrgel diko Izraelovo in ni se spomnil podnožja nog svojih v jeze svoje dan!

²The LORD hath swallowed up all the habitations of Jacob, and hath not pitied: he hath thrown down in his wrath the strong holds of the daughter of Judah; he hath brought them down to the ground: he hath polluted the kingdom and the princes thereof.

²Podrl je Gospod neusmiljeno vsa prebivališča Jakobova, v srdu svojem je porušil trdnjave hčere Judove; na tla je zvrnil, kakor oskrunjeno je zavrgel kraljestvo s knezi njegovimi.

³He hath cut off in his fierce anger all the horn of Israel: he hath drawn back his right hand from before the enemy, and he burned against Jacob like a flaming fire, which devoureth round about.

³V srditi jezi je zdrobil vsak rog Izraelov; umaknil je desnico svojo, ko je prišel sovražnik, in požgal je Jakoba kakor ogenj plameneč, ki vse požira.

⁴He hath bent his bow like an enemy: he stood with his right hand as an adversary, and slew all that were pleasant to the eye in the tabernacle of the daughter of Zion: he poured out his fury like fire.

⁴Lok svoj je napel kako sovražnik, postavil se je z desnico svojo kakor nasprotnik in pomoril je vse, kar je bilo očem drago; v šatoru hčere sionske je izlil kakor ogenj togoto svojo.

⁵The LORD was as an enemy: he hath swallowed up Israel, he hath swallowed up all her palaces: he hath destroyed his strong holds, and hath increased in the daughter of Judah mourning and lamentation.

⁵Ravnal je Gospod kakor sovražnik: pokončal je Izraela, pokončal vse gradove njegove, razdrl vse trdnjave njegove, in mnogo je prizadel hčeri Judovi žalosti in jadikovanja.

⁶And he hath violently taken away his tabernacle, as if it were of a garden: he hath destroyed his places of the assembly: the LORD hath caused the solemn feasts and sabbaths to be forgotten in Zion, and hath despised in the indignation of his anger the king and the priest.

⁶In s silo je podrl kočo svojo kakor plot na vrtu, porušil je kraj shoda svojega; GOSPOD je storil, da se je pozabilo praznično zborovanje in sobota na Sionu, in v nevolji jeze svoje je zavrgel kralja in duhovnika.

⁷The LORD hath cast off his altar, he hath abhorred his sanctuary, he hath given up into the hand of the enemy the walls of her palaces; they have made a noise in the house of the LORD, as in the day of a solemn feast.

⁷Gospod je zavrgel oltar svoj, zastudil je svetišče svoje, v roko sovražnikovo je dal zidove njenih palač: hrumeli so v hiši GOSPODOVI, kakor da je prazničnega shoda dan.

⁸The LORD hath purposed to destroy the wall of the daughter of Zion: he hath stretched out a line, he hath not withdrawn his hand from destroying: therefore he made the rampart and the wall to lament; they languished together.

⁸GOSPOD je sklenil razvaliti zidove hčere sionske: potegnil je mersko vrv, ni umaknil roke svoje, da bi ne pokončal; in žalovanje je pripravil nasipu in zidu, oboje žalostno leži skupaj.

⁹Her gates are sunk into the ground; he hath destroyed and broken her bars: her king and her princes are among the Gentiles: the law is no more; her prophets also find no vision from the LORD.

⁹V zemljo so se pogreznila vrata njena, polomil in zdrobil je zapahe njene; kralj njen in knezi njeni so med poganskimi narodi, kjer ni postave, tudi proroki njeni ne prejemajo več prikazni od GOSPODA.

¹⁰The elders of the daughter of Zion sit upon the ground, and keep silence: they have cast up dust upon their heads; they have girded themselves with sackcloth: the virgins of Jerusalem hang down their heads to the ground.

¹⁰Na tleh sede molče starejšine hčere sionske; s pepelom so si potresli glave, prepasali se z raševnikom; na tla povešajo glavo device jeruzalemske.

¹¹Mine eyes do fail with tears, my bowels are troubled, my liver is poured upon the earth, for the destruction of the daughter of my people; because the children and the sucklings swoon in the streets of the city.

¹¹Od solzá mi pešajo oči, v osrčju mi kipi bridkost, na zemljo se usipljejo jetra moja zavoljo potrtja hčere ljudstva mojega, ko otročiči in dojenci koprne po mestnih ulicah.

¹²They say to their mothers, Where is corn and wine? when they swooned as the wounded in the streets of the city, when their soul was poured out into their mothers' bosom.

¹²Materam svojim govore: Kje je žito in vino? ko omedlevajo kakor smrtno ranjeni po ulicah mestnih, ko se njih duša izliva materam v naročje.

¹³What thing shall I take to witness for thee? what thing shall I liken to thee, O daughter of Jerusalem? what shall I equal to thee, that I may comfort thee, O virgin daughter of Zion? for thy breach is great like the sea: who can heal thee?

¹³Kaj naj ti izpričam, kak zgled naj ti dam, o hči jeruzalemska? Kaj naj primerjam tebi, da te potolažim, o devica, hči sionska? Kajti veliko je kakor morje potrtje tvoje, kdo te more ozdraviti?

¹⁴Thy prophets have seen vain and foolish things for thee: and they have not discovered thine iniquity, to turn away thy captivity; but have seen for thee false burdens and causes of banishment.

¹⁴Proroki tvoji so ti videli prikazni prazne in neslane ter niso odkrivali krivičnosti tvoje, da bi bili odvrnili preselitev tvojo v sužnost; ali videli so zate praznih reči bremena [T. j. prorokovanja.] in takih, zaradi katerih si morala biti odgnana.

¹⁵All that pass by clap their hands at thee; they hiss and wag their head at the daughter of Jerusalem, saying, Is this the city that men call The perfection of beauty, The joy of the whole earth?

¹⁵Z rokami ploskajo nad teboj vsi, ki gredo mimo po potu, žvižgajo in majejo z glavami proti hčeri jeruzalemski, češ: Je li to tisto mesto, katero so imenovali Dovršenost lepote, Veselje vse zemlje?

¹⁶All thine enemies have opened their mouth against thee: 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.

¹⁶Zoper tebe širijo usta vsi sovražniki tvoji, žvižgajo in škripljejo z zobmi, pravijo: Požrli smo jo! res, to je tisti dan, ki smo ga pričakovali, zdaj ga imamo in vidimo!

¹⁷The LORD hath done that which he had devised; he hath fulfilled his word that he had commanded in the days of old: he hath thrown down, and hath not pitied: and he hath caused thine enemy to rejoice over thee, he hath set up the horn of thine adversaries.

¹⁷GOSPOD je storil, kar je sklenil, izpolnil je govor svoj, ki ga je sporočil od starodavnih dni. Rušil je brez milosti in sovražniku je dal veseliti se nad teboj, povzdignil je rog neprijateljev tvojih.

¹⁸Their heart cried unto the LORD, O wall of the daughter of Zion, let tears run down like a river day and night: give thyself no rest; let not the apple of thine eye cease.

¹⁸Srce jim vpije h Gospodu. O zid hčere sionske, stóri, da teko solze kakor reka po dnevi in po noči; ne dovoli si prestanka, ne počivaj punčica očesa tvojega!

¹⁹Arise, cry out in the night: in the beginning of the watches pour out thine heart like water before the face of the LORD: lift up thy hands toward him for the life of thy young children, that faint for hunger in the top of every street.

¹⁹Vstani, vpij po noči, ob začetku straž, izlivaj kakor vode srce svoje pred obličjem Gospodovim, povzdiguj k njemu roke svoje za dušo otročičev svojih, ki koprne od glada po vseh ulicah in voglih.

²⁰Behold, O LORD, and consider to whom thou hast done this. Shall the women eat their fruit, and children of a span long? shall the priest and the prophet be slain in the sanctuary of the Lord?

²⁰Ozri se, o GOSPOD, in glej, komu delaš tako! Ali bodo žene jedle sad svoj, otročiče, ki jih nosijo v naročju? V svetišču Gospodovem ali naj moré duhovnika in proroka?

²¹The young and the old lie on the ground in the streets: my virgins and my young men are fallen by the sword; thou hast slain them in the day of thine anger; thou hast killed, and not pitied.

²¹Na tleh leže po ulicah dečki in starčki; device moje in mladeniči moji so padli od meča, pomoril si jih v dan jeze svoje, poklal brez milosti.Sklical si kakor na dan prazničnega shoda strašila moja od vseh strani, in ni ga bilo, ki bi bil ubežal ali ostal živ v dan jeze GOSPODOVE; nje, ki sem jih nosila v naročju in vzredila, je pokončal sovražnik moj.

²²Thou hast called as in a solemn day my terrors round about, so that in the day of the LORD's anger none escaped nor remained: those that I have swaddled and brought up hath mine enemy consumed.

²²Sklical si kakor na dan prazničnega shoda strašila moja od vseh strani, in ni ga bilo, ki bi bil ubežal ali ostal živ v dan jeze GOSPODOVE; nje, ki sem jih nosila v naročju in vzredila, je pokončal sovražnik moj.