¹كيف غطى السيد بغضبه ابنة صهيون بالظلام. ألقى من السماء الى الارض فخر اسرائيل ولم يذكر موطئ قدميه في يوم غضبه.

¹How doth the Lord cloud in His anger the daughter of Zion, He hath cast from heaven [to] earth the beauty of Israel, And hath not remembered His footstool in the day of His anger.

²ابتلع السيد ولم يشفق كل مساكن يعقوب. نقض بسخطه حصون بنت يهوذا. اوصلها الى الارض نجس المملكة ورؤساءها.

²Swallowed up hath the Lord, He hath not pitied any of the pleasant places of Jacob, He hath broken down in His wrath The fortresses of the daughter of Judah, He hath caused to come to the earth, He polluted the kingdom and its princes.

³عضب بحمو غضبه كل قرن لاسرائيل. رد الى الوراء يمينه امام العدو واشتعل في يعقوب مثل نار ملتهبة تأكل ما حواليها.

³He hath cut off in the heat of anger every horn of Israel, He hath turned backward His right hand From the face of the enemy, And He burneth against Jacob as a flaming fire, It hath devoured round about.

⁴مدّ قوسه كعدو. نصب يمينه كمبغض وقتل كل مشتهيات العين في خباء بنت صهيون. سكب كنار غيظه.

⁴He hath trodden His bow as an enemy, Stood hath His right hand as an adversary, And He slayeth all the desirable ones of the eye, In the tent of the daughter of Zion, He hath poured out as fire His fury.

⁵صار السيد كعدو. ابتلع اسرائيل. ابتلع كل قصوره اهلك حصونه واكثر في بنت يهوذا النوح والحزن.

⁵The Lord hath been as an enemy, He hath swallowed up Israel, He hath swallowed up all her palaces, He hath destroyed His fortresses, And He multiplieth in the daughter of Judah Mourning and moaning.

⁶ونزع كما من جنة مظلته. اهلك مجتمعه. أنسى الرب في صهيون الموسم والسبت ورذل بسخط غضبه الملك والكاهن.

⁶And He shaketh as a garden His tabernacle, He hath destroyed His appointed place, Jehovah hath forgotten in Zion the appointed time and sabbath, And despiseth, in the indignation of His anger, king and priest.

⁷كره السيد مذبحه. رذل مقدسه. حصر في يد العدو اسوار قصورها. اطلقوا الصوت في بيت الرب كما في يوم الموسم.

⁷The Lord hath cast off His altar, He hath rejected His sanctuary, He hath shut up into the hand of the enemy The walls of her palaces, A noise they have made in the house of Jehovah Like a day of appointment.

⁸قصد الرب ان يهلك سور بنت صهيون. مدّ المطمار. لم يردد يده عن الاهلاك وجعل المترسة والسور ينوحان. قد حزنا معا.

⁸Devised hath Jehovah to destroy the wall of the daughter of Zion, He hath stretched out a line, He hath not turned His hand from destroying, And He causeth bulwark and wall to mourn, Together — they have been weak.

⁹تاخت في الارض ابوابها. اهلك وحطم عوارضها. ملكها ورؤساؤها بين الامم. لا شريعة. انبياؤها ايضا لا يجدون رؤيا من قبل الرب.

⁹Sunk into the earth have her gates, He hath destroyed and broken her bars, Her king and her princes [are] among the nations, There is no law, also her prophets Have not found vision from Jehovah.

¹⁰شيوخ بنت صهيون يجلسون على الارض ساكتين. يرفعون التراب على رؤوسهم يتنطقون بالمسوح. تحني عذارى اورشليم رؤوسهنّ الى الارض.

¹⁰Sit on the earth — keep silent do the elders of the daughter of Zion, They have caused dust to go up on their head, They have girded on sackcloth, Put down to the earth their head have the virgins of Jerusalem.

¹¹كلّت من الدموع عيناي. غلت احشائي. انسكبت على الارض كبدي على سحق بنت شعبي لاجل غشيان الاطفال والرضّع في ساحات القرية.

¹¹Consumed by tears have been my eyes, Troubled have been my bowels, Poured out to the earth hath been my liver, For the breach of the daughter of my people; In infant and suckling being feeble, In the broad places of the city,

¹²يقولون لامهاتهم اين الحنطة والخمر اذ يغشى عليهم كجريح في ساحات المدينة اذ تسكب نفسهم في احضان امهاتهم.

¹²To their mothers they say, `Where [are] corn and wine?` In their becoming feeble as a pierced one In the broad places of the city, In their soul pouring itself out into the bosom of their mothers.

¹³بماذا انذرك بماذا احذرك. بماذا اشبهك يا ابنة اورشليم. بماذا اقايسك فاعزيك ايتها العذراء بنت صهيون. لان سحقك عظيم كالبحر. من يشفيك.

¹³What do I testify [to] thee, what do I liken to thee, O daughter of Jerusalem? What do I equal to thee, and I comfort thee, O virgin daughter of Zion? For great as a sea [is] thy breach, Who doth give healing to thee?

¹⁴انبياؤك رأوا لك كذبا وباطلا ولم يعلنوا اثمك ليردوا سبيك بل رأوا لك وحيا كاذبا وطوائح.

¹⁴Thy prophets have seen for thee a false and insipid thing, And have not revealed concerning thine iniquity, To turn back thy captivity, And they see for thee false burdens and causes of expulsion.

¹⁵يصفق عليك بالايادي كل عابري الطريق. يصفرون وينغضون رؤوسهم على بنت اورشليم قائلين أهذه هي المدينة التي يقولون انها كمال الجمال بهجة كل الارض.

¹⁵Clapped hands at thee have all passing by the way, They have hissed — and they shake the head At the daughter of Jerusalem: `Is this the city of which they said: The perfection of beauty, a joy to all the land?`

¹⁶يفتح عليك افواههم كل اعدائك. يصفرون ويحرقون الاسنان. يقولون قد اهلكناها. حقا ان هذا اليوم الذي رجوناه. قد وجدناه قد رايناه.

¹⁶Opened against thee their mouth have all thine enemies, They have hissed, yea, they gnash the teeth, They have said: `We have swallowed [her] up, Surely this [is] the day that we looked for, We have found — we have seen.`

¹⁷فعل الرب ما قصد. تمم قوله الذي اوعد به منذ ايام القدم. قد هدم ولم يشفق واشمت بك العدو. نصب قرن اعدائك.

¹⁷Jehovah hath done that which He devised, He hath fulfilled His saying That He commanded from the days of old, He hath broken down and hath not pitied, And causeth an enemy to rejoice over thee, He lifted up the horn of thine adversaries.

¹⁸صرخ قلبهم الى السيد. يا سور بنت صهيون اسكبي الدمع كنهر نهارا وليلا. لا تعطي ذاتك راحة. لا تكف حدقة عينك.

¹⁸Cried hath their heart unto the Lord; O wall of the daughter of Zion, Cause to go down as a stream tears daily and nightly, Give not rest to thyself, Let not the daughter of thine eye stand still.

¹⁹قومي اهتفي في الليل في اول الهزع. اسكبي كمياه قلبك قبالة وجه السيد. ارفعي اليه يديك لاجل نفس اطفالك المغشي عليهم من الجوع في راس كل شارع

¹⁹Arise, cry aloud in the night, At the beginning of the watches. Pour out as water thy heart, Over against the face of the Lord, Lift up unto Him thy hands, for the soul of thine infants, Who are feeble with hunger at the head of all out-places.

²⁰انظر يا رب وتطلع بمن فعلت هكذا. أتأكل النساء ثمرهنّ اطفال الحضانة. أيقتل في مقدس السيد الكاهن والنبي.

²⁰See, O Jehovah, and look attentively, To whom Thou hast acted thus, Do women eat their fruit, infants of a handbreadth? Slain in the sanctuary of the Lord are priest and prophet?

²¹اضطجعت على الارض في الشوارع الصبيان والشيوخ. عذاراي وشباني سقطوا بالسيف قد قتلت في يوم غضبك ذبحت ولم تشفق.

²¹Lain on the earth [in] out-places have young and old, My virgins and my young men have fallen by the sword, Thou hast slain in a day of Thine anger, Thou hast slaughtered — Thou hast not pitied.

²²قد دعوت كما في يوم موسم مخاوفي حوالي فلم يكن في يوم غضب الرب ناج ولا باق. الذين حضنتهم وربيتهم افناهم عدوي

²²Thou dost call as [at] a day of appointment, My fears from round about, And there hath not been in the day of the anger of Jehovah, An escaped and remaining one, They whom I stretched out and nourished, My enemy hath consumed!