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

¹TUHAN bertindak dalam kemarahan, Sion diliputi-Nya dengan kegelapan. Keagungan Israel yang setinggi langit, telah dicampakkan-Nya ke bumi. Pada saat TUHAN murka, rumah-Nya di Sion pun tak dihiraukan-Nya.

²The Lord hath swallowed up all the habitations of Jacob, and hath not pitied: 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.

²Setiap padang rumput di negeri Yehuda, dihancurkan-Nya tanpa rasa iba. Dalam kemarahan-Nya Ia mendobrak sampai runtuh benteng-benteng yang melindungi negeri itu. Kerajaan itu bersama para pemimpinnya dijatuhkan-Nya sehingga menjadi hina.

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

³Dalam kemarahan-Nya yang menyala-nyala, kekuatan Israel dipatahkan-Nya. Ketika kita diserang lawan, Ia enggan memberi pertolongan. Seperti api mengamuk membinasakan segala-galanya, demikianlah TUHAN marah kepada kita semua.

⁴He hath bent his bow like an enemy, he hath stood with his right hand as an adversary, And hath slain all that were pleasant to the eye: In the tent of the daughter of Zion he hath poured out his wrath like fire.

⁴Seperti musuh, Ia membentangkan busur-Nya dan mengarahkan anak panah-Nya kepada kita. Semua orang yang menyenangkan hati kita, habis dibunuh oleh-Nya. Ia menyemburkan kemarahan-Nya seperti api ke dalam kota Yerusalem ini.

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 he hath multiplied in the daughter of Judah mourning and lamentation.

⁵TUHAN menjadi seperti musuh; Ia memukul Israel sampai runtuh. Ia menghancurkan benteng-benteng serta istana, dan memperbanyak duka nestapa kepada penduduk Yehuda.

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

⁶Ia menghancurkan rumah-Nya tempat umat-Nya berkumpul untuk menyembah Dia. Ia membuat orang lupa akan Sabat dan hari-hari raya. Karena TUHAN sangat murka, imam dan raja telah ditolak-Nya.

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 Jehovah, as in the day of a solemn assembly.

⁷TUHAN menolak mezbah-Nya yang suci, dan meninggalkan Rumah-Nya sendiri; dibiarkan-Nya musuh merobohkan tembok-temboknya. Di tempat kita dahulu beribadah dan berpesta, musuh bersorak karena berjaya.

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 wall to lament; they languish together.

⁸TUHAN telah memutuskan bahwa tembok-tembok Sion harus diruntuhkan. Tembok-tembok itu telah diukur-Nya, supaya semua dapat dihancurkan-Nya. Tembok-tembok dan menara-menara, kini telah menjadi puing semua.

⁹Her gates are sunk into the ground; he hath destroyed and broken her bars: Her king and her princes are among the nations where the law is not; Yea, her prophets find no vision from Jehovah.

⁹Gerbang-gerbangnya tertimbun tanah, semua palang-palangnya patah; raja dan pejabat pemerintah berada di pembuangan. Hukum TUHAN tidak lagi diajarkan; nabi tidak lagi menerima wahyu dari TUHAN.

¹⁰The elders of the daughter of Zion sit upon the ground, they 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.

¹⁰Para tua-tua kota duduk membisu di tanah; mereka menaburkan debu di atas kepala, dan memakai kain karung tanda duka. Gadis-gadis pun menundukkan kepala sampai ke tanah.

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

¹¹Mataku bengkak karena menangis tanpa henti, jiwaku merana tak terperi. Hatiku hancur melihat keruntuhan bangsa; melihat anak-anak serta bayi pingsan di jalan-jalan kota.

¹²They say to 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.

¹²Dengan letih mereka menangis minta makan dan minum kepada ibunya. Seperti orang terluka, mereka rebah di jalan-jalan lalu meninggal di pangkuan ibunda.

¹³What shall I testify unto thee? what shall I liken to thee, O daughter of Jerusalem? What shall I compare to thee, that I may comfort thee, O virgin daughter of Zion? For thy breach is great like the sea: who can heal thee?

¹³O Yerusalem, Kota Sion yang tercinta, reruntuhanmu sebesar samudra. Apakah yang dapat kukatakan untuk memberikan penghiburan? Sebab, tak pernah ada yang menderita seperti engkau. Sungguh tak ada yang dapat memulihkan keadaanmu.

¹⁴Thy prophets have seen for thee false and foolish visions; And they have not uncovered thine iniquity, to bring back thy captivity, But have seen for thee false oracles and causes of banishment.

¹⁴Yang disampaikan nabi-nabi kepadamu, hanyalah tipuan dan dusta melulu. Mereka tak pernah menyingkapkan dosamu, sehingga karena itu engkau tidak bertobat. Sebaliknya mereka hanya menyampaikan kepadamu perkataan-perkataan dusta yang memikat.

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 called The perfection of beauty, The joy of the whole earth?

¹⁵Semua orang yang lewat, mencemooh engkau, karena kau sudah hancur seluruhnya. Mereka menggeleng-gelengkan kepala dan berkata, "Itukah kota yang paling indah, kota kebanggaan dunia?"

¹⁶All thine enemies have opened their mouth wide 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.

¹⁶Semua musuhmu memandang mukamu dengan benci, mereka menertawakan engkau dan menyeringai. Mereka berkata, "Kota itu sudah kami musnahkan! Akhirnya tiba juga saatnya yang sudah lama kami nanti-nantikan!"

¹⁷Jehovah hath done that which he purposed; he hath fulfilled his word that he commanded in the days of old; He hath thrown down, and hath not pitied: And he hath caused the enemy to rejoice over thee; he hath exalted the horn of thine adversaries.

¹⁷TUHAN telah melaksanakan ancaman-Nya yang dahulu direncanakan dan diperingatkan-Nya kepada kita. Kita dihancurkan-Nya tanpa belas kasihan, musuh diberi-Nya kemenangan. Ia membuat mereka gembira melihat kejatuhan kita.

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 respite; let not the apple of thine eye cease.

¹⁸Hai tembok-tembok Yerusalem, berserulah kepada TUHAN! Cucurkan air mata seperti sungai mengalir siang malam. Teruslah menangis, jangan berhenti sampai badanmu menjadi letih!

¹⁹Arise, cry out in the night, at 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, that faint for hunger at the head of every street.

¹⁹Bangunlah berulang-ulang sepanjang malam untuk berteriak mencurahkan isi hatimu kepada TUHAN. Mintalah supaya Ia berbelaskasihan kepada anak-anakmu yang kelaparan dan pingsan di setiap tikungan jalan.

²⁰See, O Jehovah, and behold to whom thou hast done thus! Shall the women eat their fruit, the children that are dandled in the hands? Shall the priest and the prophet be slain in the sanctuary of the Lord?

²⁰TUHAN, lihatlah dan perhatikanlah mereka yang Kausiksa itu! Apakah ada yang pernah Kau perlakukan begitu? Ibu memakan anak kandungnya yang tercinta, imam dan nabi dibunuh di dalam Rumah-Mu yang suci.

²¹The youth 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 slaughtered, [and] not pitied.

²¹Tua muda mati terkapar di jalan, pemuda-pemudi tewas oleh pedang. Pada hari Engkau murka, Kausembelih mereka tanpa rasa iba.

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

²²Kau mengundang musuh-musuh yang kami takuti untuk mengadakan pesta kekejaman di sekeliling kami. Mereka membunuh semua yang kami asuh dan sayangi. Pada hari kemarahan-Mu, tak seorang pun dapat melarikan diri.