¹كيف جلست وحدها المدينة الكثيرة الشعب. كيف صارت كارملة العظيمة في الامم. السيدة في البلدان صارت تحت الجزية.

¹How the city sits solitary, that was full of people! She has become as a widow, who was great among the nations! She who was a princess among the provinces has become tributary!

²تبكي في الليل بكاء ودموعها على خديها. ليس لها معزّ من كل محبيها. كل اصحابها غدروا بها. صاروا لها اعداء.

²She weeps bitterly in the night, and her tears are on her cheeks; among all her lovers she has none to comfort her: All her friends have dealt treacherously with her; they are become her enemies.

³قد سبيت يهوذا من المذلة ومن كثرة العبودية. هي تسكن بين الامم. لا تجد راحة. قد ادركها كل طارديها بين الضيقات.

³Judah is gone into captivity because of affliction, and because of great servitude; she dwells among the nations, she finds no rest: all her persecutors overtook her within the straits.

⁴طرق صهيون نائحة لعدم الآتين الى العيد. كل ابوابها خربة كهنتها يتنهدون. عذاراها مذللة وهي في مرارة.

⁴The ways of Zion do mourn, because none come to the solemn assembly; all her gates are desolate, her priests do sigh: her virgins are afflicted, and she herself is in bitterness.

⁵صار مضايقوها راسا. نجح اعداؤها لان الرب قد اذلّها لاجل كثرة ذنوبها ذهب اولادها الى السبي قدام العدو.

⁵Her adversaries are become the head, her enemies prosper; for Yahweh “Yahweh” is God’s proper Name, sometimes rendered “LORD” (all caps) in other translations. has afflicted her for the multitude of her transgressions: her young children are gone into captivity before the adversary.

⁶وقد خرج من بنت صهيون كل بهائها. صارت رؤساؤها كأيائل لا تجد مرعى فيسيرون بلا قوة امام الطارد.

⁶From the daughter of Zion all her majesty is departed: her princes are become like harts that find no pasture, they are gone without strength before the pursuer.

⁷قد ذكرت اورشليم في ايام مذلتها وتطوّحها كل مشتهياتها التي كانت في ايام القدم. عند سقوط شعبها بيد العدو وليس من يساعدها. رأتها الاعداء ضحكوا على هلاكها.

⁷Jerusalem remembers in the days of her affliction and of her miseries all her pleasant things that were from the days of old: when her people fell into the hand of the adversary, and no one helped her, The adversaries saw her, they mocked at her desolations.

⁸قد اخطأت اورشليم خطية من اجل ذلك صارت رجسة. كل مكرميها يحتقرونها لانهم رأوا عورتها وهي ايضا تتنهد وترجع الى الوراء.

⁸Jerusalem has grievously sinned; therefore she has become as an unclean thing; all who honored her despise her, because they have seen her nakedness: yes, she sighs, and turns backward.

⁹نجاستها في اذيالها. لم تذكر آخرتها وقد انحطت انحطاطا عجيبا. ليس لها معزّ. انظر يا رب الى مذلتي لان العدو قد تعظم.

⁹Her filthiness was in her skirts; she didn’t remember her latter end; therefore is she come down wonderfully; she has no comforter: see, Yahweh, my affliction; for the enemy has magnified himself.

¹⁰بسط العدو يده على كل مشتهياتها فانها رأت الامم دخلوا مقدسها الذين امرت ان لا يدخلوا في جماعتك.

¹⁰The adversary has spread out his hand on all her pleasant things: for she has seen that the nations are entered into her sanctuary, concerning whom you commanded that they should not enter into your assembly.

¹¹كل شعبها يتنهدون يطلبون خبزا. دفعوا مشتهياتهم للأكل لاجل رد النفس. انظر يا رب وتطلع لاني قد صرت محتقرة

¹¹All her people sigh, they seek bread; they have given their pleasant things for food to refresh the soul: look, Yahweh, and see; for I am become abject.

¹²أما اليكم يا جميع عابري الطريق. تطلعوا وانظروا ان كان حزن مثل حزني الذي صنع بي الذي اذلني به الرب يوم حمو غضبه.

¹²Is it nothing to you, all you who pass by? Look, and see if there is any sorrow like my sorrow, which is brought on me, With which Yahweh has afflicted me in the day of his fierce anger.

¹³من العلاء ارسل نارا الى عظامي فسرت فيها. بسط شبكة لرجليّ. ردني الى الوراء. جعلني خربة اليوم كله مغمومة.

¹³From on high has he sent fire into my bones, and it prevails against them; He has spread a net for my feet, he has turned me back: He has made me desolate and faint all the day.

¹⁴شدّ نير ذنوبي بيده. ضفرت صعدت على عنقي. نزع قوتي دفعني السيد الى ايد لا استطيع القيام منها.

¹⁴The yoke of my transgressions is bound by his hand; They are knit together, they have come up on my neck; he has made my strength to fail: The Lord The word translated “Lord” is “Adonai.” has delivered me into their hands, against whom I am not able to stand.

¹⁵رذل السيد كل مقتدري في وسطي. دعا عليّ جماعة لحطم شباني. داس السيد العذراء بنت يهوذا معصرة.

¹⁵The Lord has set at nothing all my mighty men in the midst of me; He has called a solemn assembly against me to crush my young men: The Lord has trodden as in a winepress the virgin daughter of Judah.

¹⁶على هذه انا باكية. عيني عيني تسكب مياها لانه قد ابتعد عني المعزي رادّ نفسي. صار بنيّ هالكين لانه قد تجبر العدو

¹⁶For these things I weep; my eye, my eye runs down with water; Because the comforter who should refresh my soul is far from me: My children are desolate, because the enemy has prevailed.

¹⁷بسطت صهيون يديها. لا معزي لها. أمر الرب على يعقوب ان يكون مضايقوه حواليه. صارت اورشليم نجسة بينهم.

¹⁷Zion spreads forth her hands; there is none to comfort her; Yahweh has commanded concerning Jacob, that those who are around him should be his adversaries: Jerusalem is among them as an unclean thing.

¹⁸بار هو الرب لاني قد عصيت امره. اسمعوا يا جميع الشعوب وانظروا الى حزني. عذاراي وشباني ذهبوا الى السبي.

¹⁸Yahweh is righteous; for I have rebelled against his commandment: Please hear all you peoples, and see my sorrow: My virgins and my young men are gone into captivity.

¹⁹ناديت محبيّ. هم خدعوني. كهنتي وشيوخي في المدينة ماتوا اذ طلبوا لذواتهم طعاما ليردوا انفسهم.

¹⁹I called for my lovers, but they deceived me: My priests and my elders gave up the spirit in the city, While they sought them food to refresh their souls.

²⁰انظر يا رب فاني في ضيق. احشائي غلت. ارتد قلبي في باطني لاني قد عصيت متمردة. في الخارج يثكل السيف وفي البيت مثل الموت.

²⁰See, Yahweh; for I am in distress; my heart is troubled; My heart is turned within me; for I have grievously rebelled: Abroad the sword bereaves, at home there is as death.

²¹سمعوا اني تنهدت. لا معزي لي. كل اعدائي سمعوا ببليتي. فرحوا لانك فعلت. تأتي باليوم الذي ناديت به فيصيرون مثلي.

²¹They have heard that I sigh; there is none to comfort me; All my enemies have heard of my trouble; they are glad that you have done it: You will bring the day that you have proclaimed, and they shall be like me.

²²ليات كل شرهم امامك. وافعل بهم كما فعلت بي من اجل كل ذنوبي لان تنهداتي كثيرة وقلبي مغشيّ عليه

²²Let all their wickedness come before you; Do to them, as you have done to me for all my transgressions: For my sighs are many, and my heart is faint.