135 lines
4.2 KiB
Markdown
135 lines
4.2 KiB
Markdown
# Chapter 1
|
|
1 How lonely sits the city
|
|
that was full of people!
|
|
How like a widow has she become,
|
|
she who was great among the nations!
|
|
She who was a princess among the provinces
|
|
has become a slave.
|
|
2 She weeps bitterly in the night,
|
|
with tears on her cheeks;
|
|
among all her lovers
|
|
she has none to comfort her;
|
|
all her friends have dealt treacherously with her;
|
|
they have become her enemies.
|
|
3 Judah has gone into exile because of affliction
|
|
and hard servitude;
|
|
she dwells now among the nations,
|
|
but finds no resting place;
|
|
her pursuers have all overtaken her
|
|
in the midst of her distress.
|
|
4 The roads to Zion mourn,
|
|
for none come to the festival;
|
|
all her gates are desolate;
|
|
her priests groan;
|
|
her virgins have been afflicted,
|
|
and she herself suffers bitterly.
|
|
5 Her foes have become the head;
|
|
her enemies prosper,
|
|
because the Lord has afflicted her
|
|
for the multitude of her transgressions;
|
|
her children have gone away,
|
|
captives before the foe.
|
|
6 From the daughter of Zion
|
|
all her majesty has departed.
|
|
Her princes have become like deer
|
|
that find no pasture;
|
|
they fled without strength
|
|
before the pursuer.
|
|
7 Jerusalem remembers
|
|
in the days of her affliction and wandering
|
|
all the precious things
|
|
that were hers from days of old.
|
|
When her people fell into the hand of the foe,
|
|
and there was none to help her,
|
|
her foes gloated over her;
|
|
they mocked at her downfall.
|
|
8 Jerusalem sinned grievously;
|
|
therefore she became filthy;
|
|
all who honored her despise her,
|
|
for they have seen her nakedness;
|
|
she herself groans
|
|
and turns her face away.
|
|
9 Her uncleanness was in her skirts;
|
|
she took no thought of her future;
|
|
therefore her fall is terrible;
|
|
she has no comforter.
|
|
“O Lord, behold my affliction,
|
|
for the enemy has triumphed!”
|
|
10 The enemy has stretched out his hands
|
|
over all her precious things;
|
|
for she has seen the nations
|
|
enter her sanctuary,
|
|
those whom you forbade
|
|
to enter your congregation.
|
|
11 All her people groan
|
|
as they search for bread;
|
|
they trade their treasures for food
|
|
to revive their strength.
|
|
“Look, O Lord, and see,
|
|
for I am despised.”
|
|
12 “Is it nothing to you, all you who pass by?
|
|
Look and see
|
|
if there is any sorrow like my sorrow,
|
|
which was brought upon me,
|
|
which the Lord inflicted
|
|
on the day of his fierce anger.
|
|
13 “From on high he sent fire;
|
|
into my bones he made it descend;
|
|
he spread a net for my feet;
|
|
he turned me back;
|
|
he has left me stunned,
|
|
faint all the day long.
|
|
14 “My transgressions were bound into a yoke;
|
|
by his hand they were fastened together;
|
|
they were set upon my neck;
|
|
he caused my strength to fail;
|
|
the Lord gave me into the hands
|
|
of those whom I cannot withstand.
|
|
15 “The Lord rejected
|
|
all my mighty men in my midst;
|
|
he summoned an assembly against me
|
|
to crush my young men;
|
|
the Lord has trodden as in a winepress
|
|
the virgin daughter of Judah.
|
|
16 “For these things I weep;
|
|
my eyes flow with tears;
|
|
for a comforter is far from me,
|
|
one to revive my spirit;
|
|
my children are desolate,
|
|
for the enemy has prevailed.”
|
|
17 Zion stretches out her hands,
|
|
but there is none to comfort her;
|
|
the Lord has commanded against Jacob
|
|
that his neighbors should be his foes;
|
|
Jerusalem has become
|
|
a filthy thing among them.
|
|
18 “The Lord is in the right,
|
|
for I have rebelled against his word;
|
|
but hear, all you peoples,
|
|
and see my suffering;
|
|
my young women and my young men
|
|
have gone into captivity.
|
|
19 “I called to my lovers,
|
|
but they deceived me;
|
|
my priests and elders
|
|
perished in the city,
|
|
while they sought food
|
|
to revive their strength.
|
|
20 “Look, O Lord, for I am in distress;
|
|
my stomach churns;
|
|
my heart is wrung within me,
|
|
because I have been very rebellious.
|
|
In the street the sword bereaves;
|
|
in the house it is like death.
|
|
21 “They heard my groaning,
|
|
yet there is no one to comfort me.
|
|
All my enemies have heard of my trouble;
|
|
they are glad that you have done it.
|
|
You have brought the day you announced;
|
|
now let them be as I am.
|
|
22 “Let all their evildoing come before you,
|
|
and deal with them
|
|
as you have dealt with me
|
|
because of all my transgressions;
|
|
for my groans are many,
|
|
and my heart is faint.” |