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

¹How hath the Lord in his anger covered the daughter of Zion with a cloud! He hath cast down from the heavens unto the earth the beauty of Israel, and remembered not 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.

²The Lord hath swallowed up all the dwellings of Jacob, and hath not spared; he hath thrown down in his wrath the strongholds of the daughter of Judah: he hath brought [them] down to the ground; he hath profaned the kingdom and the princes thereof.

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³He hath cut off in fierce anger all the horn of Israel: he hath withdrawn his right hand from before the enemy; and he burned up Jacob like a flaming fire, devouring round about.

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

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

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

⁵The Lord is become as an enemy: he hath swallowed up Israel; he hath swallowed up all her palaces; he hath destroyed his strongholds, and hath multiplied in the daughter of Judah mourning and lamentation.

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

⁶And he hath violently cast down his enclosure as a garden; he hath destroyed his place of assembly: Jehovah hath caused set feast and sabbath to be forgotten in Zion, and hath despised 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 given up into the hand of the enemy the walls of her palaces: they have made a noise in the house of Jehovah, as on the day of a set feast.

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

⁸Jehovah hath purposed to destroy the wall of the daughter of Zion: he hath stretched out the line, he hath not withdrawn his hand from destroying; and he hath made the rampart and the wall to lament: they languish together.

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

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

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

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

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

¹¹Mine eyes are consumed with tears, my bowels are troubled; my liver is poured upon the earth, because of the ruin of the daughter of my people; because infant and suckling swoon in the streets of the city.

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

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

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

¹³What shall I take to witness for thee? what shall I liken unto thee, daughter of Jerusalem? What shall I equal to thee, that I may comfort thee, virgin daughter of Zion? For thy ruin is great as the sea: who will heal thee?

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

¹⁴Thy prophets have seen vanity and folly for thee; and they have not revealed thine iniquity, to turn away thy captivity; but have seen for thee burdens of falsehood 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.

¹⁵All that pass by clap [their] hands at thee; they hiss and shake their head at the daughter of Jerusalem: Is this the city which they called, The perfection of beauty, The joy of the whole earth?

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

¹⁶All thine enemies open their mouth against thee, they hiss and gnash the teeth: they say, We have swallowed [her] up; this is forsooth the day that we looked for: we have found, we have seen [it].

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 what he had devised; he hath fulfilled his word which he had commanded from the days of old: he hath thrown down, and hath not spared, and he hath caused the enemy to rejoice over thee; he hath set 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.

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

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 out in the night, in the beginning of the watches; pour out thy heart like water before the face of the Lord: lift up thy hands toward him for the life of thy young children, who faint from hunger at the top of all the streets.

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

²⁰See, Jehovah, and consider to whom thou hast done this! Shall the women eat their fruit, the infants that they nursed? Shall priest and prophet be slain in the sanctuary of the Lord?

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

²¹The child and the old man 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, thou hast not spared.

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

²²Thou hast called up, as on the day of a set feast, my terrors on every side; and in the day of Jehovah's anger there was none that escaped or remained: those that I have nursed and brought up hath mine enemy consumed.