主何竟发怒，使乌云遮蔽锡安的女子！祂将以色列的华美，从天扔在地上，在祂发怒的日子，并不记念自己的脚凳。
How the Lord in His anger / Has covered the daughter of Zion with a cloud! / He has cast from heaven to earth / The glory of Israel, / And has not remembered His footstool / In the day of His anger.

主吞灭雅各一切的住处，并不顾惜；祂在盛怒中拆毁了犹大女子的保障，使这保障坍倒在地；祂辱没这国和其首领。
The Lord has swallowed up all the habitations of Jacob; / He has not spared; / He has torn down in His overflowing wrath / The strongholds of the daughter of Judah. / He has brought them down to the ground; / He has profaned the kingdom and its princes.

祂在烈怒中，把以色列的角全然砍断。祂在仇敌面前收回右手。祂像火焰四围吞灭，在雅各中间焚烧。
He has cut off in fierce anger / All the horn of Israel. / He has withdrawn His right hand / From before the enemy. / He has burned among Jacob like a flame of fire; / It consumes all around.

祂张弓，好像仇敌；祂站着举起右手，如同敌人，将悦人眼目的尽行杀戮。在锡安女子的帐棚上，倒出祂的忿怒像火一样。
He has bent His bow like an enemy; / He has set His right hand like an adversary / And has slain all that was pleasant to the eye. / In the tent of the daughter of Zion / He has poured out His wrath like fire.

主如仇敌吞灭以色列，吞灭她的一切宫殿；主毁坏她的保障，在犹大女子中，加增悲伤哀号。
The Lord has become like an enemy; / He has swallowed up Israel; / He has swallowed up all her palaces; / He has destroyed her strongholds / And multiplied in the daughter of Judah / Mourning and lamentation.

祂强力拆毁自己的帷幕，好像拆毁园子；祂毁坏自己的聚会之处；耶和华使所定的节期和安息日，在锡安都被忘记；祂在怒气的愤恨中，藐视君王和祭司。
And He has violently taken away His pavilion like a garden; / He has destroyed the place of His assembly; / Jehovah has caused the appointed feast and the Sabbath / To be forgotten in Zion; / He has despised, in the indignation of His anger, / The king and the priest.

主丢弃了祂的祭坛，憎恶祂的圣所，将宫殿的墙垣交在仇敌手中。他们在耶和华的殿中喧嚷，像在所定节期之日一样。
The Lord has cast off His altar; / He has abhorred His sanctuary; / He has delivered up into the hand of the enemy / The walls of her palaces. / They have made a noise in the house of Jehovah / As though it were the day of an appointed feast.

耶和华想要拆毁锡安女子的城墙；祂拉了准绳，不将手收回，定要毁灭；祂使外郭和城墙都悲哀，一同衰败。
Jehovah has thought to destroy / The walls of the daughter of Zion; / He has stretched out the line / And has not withdrawn His hand from destroying; / And He has made the rampart and the wall to mourn; / They languish together.

锡安的门陷入地内；耶和华将她的门闩毁坏、折断；她的君王和首领落在没有律法的列国中；她的申言者也不得见耶和华的异象。
Her gates have sunk into the ground; / He has destroyed and broken her bars; / Her king and her princes are among nations / Where there is no law; / Her prophets also do not find / A vision from Jehovah.

锡安女子的长老坐在地上，默默无声；他们把尘土撒在头上，腰束麻布；耶路撒冷的处女，垂头至地。
The elders of the daughter of Zion / Sit on the ground; they are silent. / They have cast dust upon their head; / They have girded themselves with sackcloth. / The virgins of Jerusalem / Hang down their head to the ground.

我的眼流泪，以致失明；我的心肠翻腾，肝胆涂地，都因我的民遭毁灭，又因孩童和吃奶的在城内街上发昏。
My eyes are consumed with tears; / My bowels are in ferment; / My liver is poured out on the earth, / Because of the brokenness of the daughter of my people, / Because the little ones and the nursing children / Faint in the streets of the city.

那时他们在城内街上发昏，好像受伤的，在母亲的怀里将要丧命，对母亲说，谷和酒在哪里呢？
They say to their mothers, / Where is the grain and the wine? / When they faint like one wounded / In the streets of the city, / When they pour out their soul / Into their mothers' bosom.

耶路撒冷的女子啊，我可用什么向你证明呢？我可把你比作什么呢？锡安的处女啊，我可拿什么和你比较，好安慰你呢？因为你的裂口大如海，谁能医治你呢？
What shall I testify to you? What shall I liken you to, / O daughter of Jerusalem? / What shall I compare you to, that I may comfort you, / O virgin daughter of Zion? / For your breach is great like a sea. / Who will heal you?

你的申言者为你看见虚幻和愚妄的异象，并没有揭露你的罪孽，使你被掳的归回；却为你看见虚假的默示，和使你被赶逐的缘故。
Your prophets have seen for you / Vanity and folly, / And they have not uncovered your iniquity / To turn again your captivity; / But they have seen for you burdens / Of vanity and of causes of banishment.

凡过路的，都向你拍掌；他们向耶路撒冷的女子嗤笑摇头，说，难道这城就是人所称为全美的，称为全地所喜悦的么？
All those who pass on the way / Clap their hands at you; / They hiss and wag their head / At the daughter of Jerusalem, saying, / Is this the city which they called, / The perfection of beauty, / The joy of the whole earth?

你的仇敌都张口攻击你；他们嗤笑切齿，说，我们把她吞灭了。这真是我们所盼望的日子；我们得着了，我们看见了。
All your enemies / Have opened their mouth against you; / They hiss and gnash the teeth; / They say, We have swallowed her up. / This is certainly the day that we have looked for; / We have found it; we have seen it.

耶和华成就了祂所定意的，应验了祂从古时所吩咐的话；祂倾覆了，并不顾惜，使你的仇敌因胜过你而喜乐；祂使你敌人的角被高举。
Jehovah has done what He purposed; / He has fulfilled His word, / Which He commanded from the days of old; / He has torn down and has not spared, / And He has caused the enemy to rejoice over you; / He has exalted the horn of your adversaries.

锡安民的心哀求主：锡安女子的城墙啊，愿你昼夜流泪如河，不得歇息；愿你眼中的瞳人，泪流不止。
Their heart cried out to the Lord: / O wall of the daughter of Zion, / Let tears run down like a stream / Day and night; / Give yourself no respite; / Let not the pupil of your eye cease.

夜间每逢交更的时候，你要起来呼喊，在主面前倾心如水；你的孩童在各街头挨饿发昏，你要为他们的性命向主举手祷告。
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 little ones, / Who faint because of famine / At the head of every street.

耶和华啊，求你观看，见你向谁这样行？妇人岂可吃自己所生育，就是自己所抚弄的婴孩么？祭司和申言者，岂可在主的圣所中被杀戮么？
See, O Jehovah, and look, / With whom You have dealt thus? / Shall the women eat their fruit, / The little ones nursed by them? / Shall the priest and the prophet be slain / In the sanctuary of the Lord?

少年人和老年人，都在街上躺卧；我的处女和壮丁，都倒在刀下；你在发怒的日子，杀死他们；你杀戮了，并不顾惜。
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 slain them in the day of Your anger; / You have slaughtered; You have not spared.

你呼召四围惊吓我的人，像在所定节期的日子呼召人一样；耶和华发怒的日子，无人逃脱，无人存留；我所抚弄所养育的，仇敌都杀净了。
You have called for, as though in the day of an appointed feast, / My terrors on every side, / And in the day of Jehovah's anger / There was none who escaped or remained; / Those whom I have nursed and brought up / My enemy has consumed.