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

2 The Lord hath swallowed up all the dwellings of Jacob, and hath not spared; 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.

3 He hath cut off in fierce anger all the horn of Israel: he hath withdrawn his right hand from before the enemy; and he burned up Jacob like a flaming fire, devouring round about.

4 He hath bent his bow like an enemy; he stood with his right hand as an adversary, and hath slain all that was pleasant to the eye: in the tent of the daughter of Zion, he hath poured out his fury like fire.

5 The Lord is become as an enemy: he hath swallowed up Israel; he hath swallowed up all her palaces; he hath destroyed his strongholds, and hath multiplied in the daughter of Judah mourning and lamentation.

6 And he hath violently cast down his enclosure as a garden; he hath destroyed his place of assembly: Jehovah hath caused set feast and sabbath to be forgotten in Zion, and hath despised in the indignation of his anger king and priest.

7 The Lord hath cast off his altar, he hath rejected 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 on the day of a set feast.

8 Jehovah hath purposed to destroy the wall of the daughter of Zion: he hath stretched out the line, he hath not withdrawn his hand from destroying; and he hath made the rampart and the wall to lament: they languish together.

9 Her gates are sunk into the ground; he hath destroyed and broken her bars. Her king and her princes are among the nations: the law is no {more}; her prophets also find no vision from Jehovah.

10 The elders of the daughter of Zion sit upon the ground, they keep silence; they have cast dust upon their heads, they have girded themselves with sackcloth: the virgins of Jerusalem hang down their head to the ground.

11 Mine eyes are consumed with tears, my bowels are troubled; my liver is poured upon the earth, because of the ruin of the daughter of my people; because infant and suckling swoon in the streets of the city.

12 They say to their mothers, Where is corn and wine? when they swoon as the wounded in the streets of the city; when they pour out their soul into their mothers' bosom.

13 What shall I take to witness for thee? what shall I liken unto thee, daughter of Jerusalem? What shall I equal to thee, that I may comfort thee, virgin daughter of Zion? For thy ruin is great as the sea: who will heal thee?

14 Thy prophets have seen vanity and folly for thee; and they have not revealed thine iniquity, to turn away thy captivity; but have seen for thee burdens of falsehood and causes of expulsion.

15 All that pass by clap {their} hands at thee; they hiss and shake their head at the daughter of Jerusalem: Is this the city which they called, The perfection of beauty, The joy of the whole earth?

16 All thine enemies open their mouth against thee, they hiss and gnash the teeth: they say, We have swallowed {her} up; this is forsooth the day that we looked for: we have found, we have seen {it}.

17 Jehovah hath done what he had devised; he hath fulfilled his word which he had commanded from the days of old: he hath thrown down, and hath not spared, and he hath caused the enemy to rejoice over thee; he hath set up the horn of thine adversaries.

18 Their heart cried unto the Lord. O wall of the daughter of Zion, let tears run down like a torrent day and night: give thyself no respite; let not the apple of thine eye rest.

19 Arise, cry out in the night, in 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, who faint from hunger at the top of all the streets.

20 See, Jehovah, and consider to whom thou hast done this! Shall the women eat their fruit, the infants that they nursed? Shall priest and prophet be slain in the sanctuary of the Lord?

21 The child 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 killed, thou hast not spared.

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

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。