1 How has the Lord covered the daughter of Zion with a cloud in his anger!
He has cast the beauty of Israel down from heaven to the earth,
and hasn’t remembered his footstool in the day of his anger.
2 The Lord has swallowed up all the dwellings of Jacob
without pity.
He has thrown down in his wrath the strongholds of the daughter of Judah.
He has brought them down to the ground.
He has profaned the kingdom and its princes.
3 He has cut off all the horn of Israel in fierce anger.
He has drawn back his right hand from before the enemy.
He has burned up Jacob like a flaming fire,
which devours all around.
4 He has bent his bow like an enemy.
He has stood with his right hand as an adversary.
He has killed all that were pleasant to the eye.
In the tent of the daughter of Zion, he has poured out his wrath like fire.
5 The Lord has become as an enemy.
He has swallowed up Israel.
He has swallowed up all her palaces.
He has destroyed his strongholds.
He has multiplied mourning and lamentation in the daughter of Judah.
6 He has violently taken away his tabernacle,
as if it were a garden.
He has destroyed his place of assembly.
Yahweh has caused solemn assembly and Sabbath to be forgotten in Zion.
In the indignation of his anger, he has despised the king and the priest.
7 The Lord has cast off his altar.
He has abhorred his sanctuary.
He has given the walls of her palaces into the hand of the enemy.
They have made a noise in Yahweh’s house,
as in the day of a solemn assembly.
8 Yahweh has purposed to destroy the wall of the daughter of Zion.
He has stretched out the line.
He has not withdrawn his hand from destroying;
He has made the rampart and wall lament.
They languish together.
9 Her gates have sunk into the ground.
He has destroyed and broken her bars.
Her king and her princes are among the nations where the law is not.
Yes, her prophets find no vision from Yahweh.
10 The elders of the daughter of Zion sit on the ground.
They keep silence.
They have cast up dust on their heads.
They have clothed themselves with sackcloth.
The virgins of Jerusalem hang down their heads to the ground.
11 My eyes fail with tears.
My heart is troubled.
My bile is poured on the earth,
because of the destruction of the daughter of my people,
because the young children and the infants swoon in the streets of the city.
12 They ask 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.
13 What shall I testify to you?
What shall I liken to you, daughter of Jerusalem?
What shall I compare to you,
that I may comfort you, virgin daughter of Zion?
For your breach is as big as the sea.
Who can heal you?
14 Your prophets have seen false and foolish visions for you.
They have not uncovered your iniquity,
to reverse your captivity,
but have seen for you false revelations and causes of banishment.
15 All that pass by clap their hands at you.
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’?"
16 All your enemies have opened their mouth wide against you.
They hiss and gnash their teeth.
They say, "We have swallowed her up.
Certainly this is the day that we looked for.
We have found it.
We have seen it."
17 Yahweh has done that which he planned.
He has fulfilled his word that he commanded in the days of old.
He has thrown down,
and has not pitied.
He has caused the enemy to rejoice over you.
He has exalted the horn of your adversaries.
18 Their heart cried to the Lord.
O wall of the daughter of Zion,
let tears run down like a river day and night.
Give yourself no relief.
Don’t let your eyes rest.
19 Arise, cry out in the night,
at the beginning of the watches!
Pour out your heart like water before the face of the Lord.
Lift up your hands toward him for the life of your young children,
who faint for hunger at the head of every street.
20 "Look, Yahweh, and see to whom you have done thus!
Should the women eat their offspring,
the children that they held and bounced on their knees?
Should the priest and the prophet be killed in the sanctuary of the Lord?
21 "The youth and the old man lie on the ground in the streets.
My virgins and my young men have fallen by the sword.
You have killed them in the day of your anger.
You have slaughtered, and not pitied.
22 "You have called, as in the day of a solemn assembly, my terrors on every side.
There was no one that escaped or remained in the day of Yahweh’s anger.
My enemy has consumed those whom I have cared for and brought up.
1 主在烈怒中， 怎么竟然使黑云遮盖锡安的居民（"居民"原文作"女子"）！ 他把以色列的荣美， 从天上拋到地上； 他在发怒的日子， 竟不记念自己的脚凳。
2 主吞灭了雅各所有住处， 毫不顾惜； 他在忿怒中， 把犹大居民的坚固城拆毁； 他使国家和国中众领袖都倒在地上， 受尽羞辱。
3 他在烈怒中砍断以色列所有的角； 他从仇敌面前， 收回自己的右手。他像吞灭四周物件的火焰， 在雅各中间焚烧。
4 他像仇敌拉弓， 他的右手已经预备好。他像敌人把一切悦人眼目的都杀灭了； 他如火的忿怒倒在锡安居民（"居民"原文作"女子"）的帐棚上。
5 主好像成了仇敌； 他吞灭了以色列和她所有的宫殿， 毁坏了她的坚固城。他在犹大居民的中间， 增添了悲哀和哭号。
6 他把自己的住所破坏， 好像园子一样； 他毁坏了属他的聚会之处。耶和华使节期和安息日都在锡安被忘记； 他在他的盛怒中弃绝了君王和祭司。
7 主丢弃了自己的祭坛， 厌弃了自己的圣所。他把宫殿的围墙， 交付在仇敌的手里； 他们在耶和华的殿中喧嚷， 好像庆祝节日一样。
8 耶和华定意要拆毁锡安居民（"居民"原文作"女子"）的城墙； 他拉了准绳， 决不停手， 务要把它吞灭。他使堡垒和城墙都悲哀， 一同受痛苦。
9 锡安的众城门已经陷入地里； 耶和华把锡安的门闩都毁坏折断了。锡安的君王和领袖都身在列国中； 锡安再没有律法了； 它的众先知也得不到从耶和华而来的异象。
10 锡安居民（"居民"原文作"女子"）的长老都坐在地上， 默默无声； 他们把尘灰撒在头上， 腰束麻布。耶路撒冷的处女都垂头至地。
11 我的眼睛因流泪而失明， 我的心肠激动， 我的肝胆倾倒在地， 都因我的子民（"我的子民"原文作"我子民的女子"）遭毁灭， 孩童和婴儿在城里的街上昏倒。
12 他们像被刺伤的人昏倒在城里街上的时候， 他们在母亲的怀里快要丧命的时候， 他们就问母亲： "五谷和酒在哪里呢？"
13 耶路撒冷的居民哪， 我怎样向你说明呢？用什么与你比较呢？锡安的居民哪， 我们用什么跟你相比， 好安慰你呢？你的裂口像海那样大， 谁能医治你呢？
14 你的假先知为了你所见的异象， 尽是虚谎和愚昧； 他们没有显露你的罪孽， 使你的命运得以挽回； 他们为你所得的默示， 全是虚谎， 是引人走错路的。
15 所有过路的人， 都拍掌嘲笑你； 他们嗤笑耶路撒冷的居民， 并摇头说： "被人称为最完美， 为全地所喜悦的， 就是这城吗？"
16 你所有的仇敌都张开口攻击你， 他们嗤笑你， 又咬牙切齿， 说： "我们吞灭它了！ 这真是我们期待的日子！ 我们等到了！ 亲眼看见了！ "
17 耶和华作成了他定意去作的， 成就了他的话， 就是他昔日所宣告的， 他把你拆毁， 并不怜惜， 他使仇敌因胜过你而高兴， 他高举你敌人的角。
18 锡安居民（"居民"原文作"女子"）的城墙啊， 你要一心向主哀求； 愿你的眼泪像江河般涌流， 昼夜不息； 愿你得不着歇息， 愿你眼中的瞳人不能休息。
19 夜里每到交更的时分， 你要起来呼喊； 在主面前你要倾心如水！ 你的孩童在各街头上因饥饿而昏倒， 你要为他们的性命向主举手祷告。
20 "耶和华啊， 求你观看！ 求你鉴察！ 你曾这样对待过谁呢？难道妇人应该吃掉自己所生的， 就是自己所抚养的婴孩吗？难道祭司和先知应该在主的圣所里被杀害吗？"
21 少年人和老年人都在街上倒卧在地死了； 我的年轻男女都倒毙于刀下； 在你忿怒的日子， 你杀了他们， 你屠杀了他们， 毫不怜惜。
22 你从四围招聚惊吓我的， 好像招聚人过节的日子一样。在耶和华忿怒的日子， 没有人可以逃脱， 可以生存。我所抚育、所养大的， 我的仇敌都灭尽了。