¹Kako samotno je ostalo mesto, ki je bilo polno ljudstva! Vdovi je podobno – prej oblastno med narodi, kneginja med pokrajinami, sedaj plačuje davek!

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!

²Joka in joka po noči in solze ji teko po licih; nihče je ne tolaži izmed vseh ljubiteljev njenih; vsi prijatelji njeni so se ji izneverili, postali so ji sovražniki.

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.

³Juda je šel v pregnanstvo zaradi stiske in velike sužnosti: prebiva med pogani, pokoja ni našel; vsi preganjalci njegovi so ga dohiteli v tesnobi.

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.

⁴Pota na Sion žalujejo, ker nihče ne pride na praznovanje; vsa vrata njena so zapuščena, duhovniki njeni zdihujejo; device njene so žalostne in sama je v bridkosti.

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.

⁵Zatiralci njeni so ji postali glava, sovražniki njeni živé mirno; kajti GOSPOD jo je užalil zavoljo obilosti pregreh njenih; otročiči njeni gredo v sužnost vpričo zatiralca.

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.

⁶In hčer sionsko je minila vsa krasota njena; njeni knezi so kakor jeleni, ki ne najdejo paše, in onemogli so odšli preganjalcu pred očmi.

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.

⁷V dneh stiske svoje in tavanja svojega se spominja Jeruzalem vseh svojih dragotin, ki jih je imel od starih dni, ker je ljudstvo njegovo padlo po roki zatiralčevi in mu nihče ni prišel na pomoč. Zatiralci ga vidijo, posmehujejo se njegovi pogubi.

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.

⁸Hudo je grešila Jeruzalem, zato je kakor zavoljo nesnage ločena; vsi, ki so jo častili, jo zaničujejo, ker so videli nagoto njeno; tudi sama zdihuje in se ozira za seboj.

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.

⁹Nesnaga njena je na robu obleke njene; ni se spominjala konca svojega, zato je čudovito prišla na nič; nihče je ne tolaži. Ozri se, GOSPOD, v ponižanje moje, zakaj poveličal se je sovražnik!

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.

¹⁰Roko svojo je iztegnil zatiralec po vseh dragotinah njenih; kajti videla je, kako so šli v svetišče njeno pogani, o katerih si zapovedal, da ne smejo stopiti v zbor tvoj!

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.

¹¹Vse ljudstvo njeno zdihuje in išče kruha; svoje dragotine dajó za jed, da se požive. Ozri se, GOSPOD, in glej, kako me zaničujejo!

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.

¹²Nič vam mari, vi vsi, ki greste mimo po poti? Glejte in vidite, je li bolečina enaka bolečini moji, ki so jo storili meni, ki me je GOSPOD napolnil z bridkostjo v dan goreče jeze svoje!

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.

¹³Z višave je poslal ogenj v kosti moje in jih je premagal; mrežo je razpel nogam mojim, pognal me je nazaj; naredil me je opustošeno in hirajočo ves dan.

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.

¹⁴Steknila je jarem pregreh mojih roka njegova: spletene so, spenjajo se čez vrat moj – uničena je moč moja. Gospod me je dal v pesti, iz katerih se ne morem iztrgati.

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.

¹⁵Poteptal je Gospod vse junake moje sredi mene; zoper mene je sklical prazničen shod, da potare mladeniče moje. Gospod je teptal kakor v tlačilnici devico, hčer Judovo.

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.

¹⁶Zato jokam, iz oči mojih teče voda navzdol, ker je daleč od mene tolažnik, ki bi mi poživil dušo; otroci moji so izgubljeni, ker je prevladal sovražnik.

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.

¹⁷Roke svoje izteza hči sionska: nikogar ni, ki bi jo tolažil. Zapovedal je GOSPOD o Jakobu, naj ga obstopijo zatiralci njegovi; kakor ženska, zavoljo nesnage ločena, je Jeruzalem med njimi.

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.

¹⁸Pravičen je GOSPOD, zato ker sem bila nepokorna ustom njegovim. Poslušajte, prosim, vsa ljudstva, in poglejte bolečino mojo! Device moje in mladeniči moji so šli v sužnost.

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.

¹⁹Klicala sem ljubitelje svoje, a oni so me obnorili; duhovniki in starejšine moji so izdehnili dušo v mestu, ko so si iskali jedi, da bi se poživili ž njo.

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.

²⁰Poglej, o GOSPOD, kajti v stiski sem, v osrčju mojem kipi bridkost, premetava se srce moje v meni, ker sem se grozno uprla. Zunaj mi mori otroke meč, doma je kakor smrt.

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.

²¹Slišali so, da zdihujem: nihče me ne tolaži; vsi sovražniki moji so slišali za nesrečo mojo, veselili so se, da si to storil. Ko pripelješ dan, ki si ga napovedal, tedaj mi bodo enaki.Pred obličje tvoje pridi vsa njih hudobnost in stóri jim, kakor si storil meni zavoljo vseh prestopkov mojih; kajti preobili so zdihljaji moji in srce moje hira silno.

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.

²²Pred obličje tvoje pridi vsa njih hudobnost in stóri jim, kakor si storil meni zavoljo vseh prestopkov mojih; kajti preobili so zdihljaji moji in srce moje hira silno.

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.