1 GLT اُذْكُرْ يَا رَبُّ مَاذَا صَارَ لَنَا. أَشْرِفْ وَٱنْظُرْ إِلَى عَارِنَا. BSB BSB: Remember, O LORD, what has happened to us. Look and see our disgrace!
2 GLT قَدْ صَارَ مِيرَاثُنَا لِلْغُرَبَاءِ. بُيُوتُنَا لِلْأَجَانِبِ. BSB BSB: Our inheritance has been turned over to strangers, our houses to foreigners.
3 GLT صِرْنَا أَيْتَامًا بِلَا أَبٍ. أُمَّهَاتُنَا كَأَرَامِلَ. BSB BSB: We have become fatherless orphans; our mothers are widows.
4 GLT شَرِبْنَا مَاءَنَا بِٱلْفِضَّةِ. حَطَبُنَا بِٱلثَّمَنِ يَأْتِي. BSB BSB: We must buy the water we drink; our wood comes at a price.
5 GLT عَلَى أَعْنَاقِنَا نُضْطَهَدُ. نَتْعَبُ وَلَا رَاحَةَ لَنَا. BSB BSB: We are closely pursued; we are weary and find no rest.
6 GLT أَعْطَيْنَا ٱلْيَدَ لِلْمِصْرِيِّينَ وَٱلْأَشُّورِيِّينَ لِنَشْبَعَ خُبْزًا. BSB BSB: We submitted to Egypt and Assyria to get enough bread.
7 GLT آبَاؤُنَا أَخْطَأُوا وَلَيْسُوا بِمَوْجُودِينَ، وَنَحْنُ نَحْمِلُ آثَامَهُمْ. BSB BSB: Our fathers sinned and are no more, but we bear their punishment.
8 GLT عَبِيدٌ حَكَمُوا عَلَيْنَا. لَيْسَ مَنْ يُخَلِّصُ مِنْ أَيْدِيهِمْ. BSB BSB: Slaves rule over us; there is no one to deliver us from their hands.
9 GLT بِأَنْفُسِنَا نَأْتِي بِخُبْزِنَا مِنْ جَرَى سَيْفِ ٱلْبَرِّيَّةِ. BSB BSB: We get our bread at the risk of our lives because of the sword in the wilderness.
10 GLT جُلُودُنَا ٱسْوَدَّتْ كَتَنُّورٍ مِنْ جَرَى نِيرَانِ ٱلْجُوعِ. BSB BSB: Our skin is as hot as an oven with fever from our hunger.
11 GLT أَذَلُّوا ٱلنِّسَاءَ فِي صِهْيَوْنَ، ٱلْعَذَارَى فِي مُدُنِ يَهُوذَا. BSB BSB: Women have been ravished in Zion, virgins in the cities of Judah.
12 GLT ٱلرُّؤَسَاءُ بِأَيْدِيهِمْ يُعَلَّقُونَ، وَلَمْ تُعْتَبَرْ وُجُوهُ ٱلشُّيُوخِ. BSB BSB: Princes have been hung up by their hands; elders receive no respect.
13 GLT أَخَذُوا ٱلشُّبَّانَ لِلطَّحْنِ، وَٱلصِّبْيَانَ عَثَرُوا تَحْتَ ٱلْحَطَبِ. BSB BSB: Young men toil at millstones; boys stagger under loads of wood.
14 GLT كَفَّتِ ٱلشُّيُوخُ عَنِ ٱلْبَابِ، وَٱلشُّبَّانُ عَنْ غِنَائِهِمْ. BSB BSB: The elders have left the city gate; the young men have stopped their music.
15 GLT مَضَى فَرَحُ قَلْبِنَا. صَارَ رَقْصُنَا نَوْحًا. BSB BSB: Joy has left our hearts; our dancing has turned to mourning.
16 GLT سَقَطَ إِكْلِيلُ رَأْسِنَا. وَيْلٌ لَنَا لِأَنَّنَا قَدْ أَخْطَأْنَا. BSB BSB: The crown has fallen from our head. Woe to us, for we have sinned!
17 GLT مِنْ أَجْلِ هَذَا حَزِنَ قَلْبُنَا. مِنْ أَجْلِ هَذِهِ أَظْلَمَتْ عُيُونُنَا. BSB BSB: Because of this, our hearts are faint; because of these, our eyes grow dim—
18 GLT مِنْ أَجْلِ جَبَلِ صِهْيَوْنَ ٱلْخَرِبِ. ٱلثَّعَالِبُ مَاشِيَةٌ فِيهِ. BSB BSB: because of Mount Zion, which lies desolate, patrolled by foxes.
19 GLT أَنْتَ يَا رَبُّ إِلَى ٱلْأَبَدِ تَجْلِسُ. كُرْسِيُّكَ إِلَى دَوْرٍ فَدَوْرٍ. BSB BSB: You, O LORD, reign forever; Your throne endures from generation to generation.
20 GLT لِمَاذَا تَنْسَانَا إِلَى ٱلْأَبَدِ وَتَتْرُكُنَا طُولَ ٱلْأَيَّامِ؟ BSB BSB: Why have You forgotten us forever? Why have You forsaken us for so long?
21 GLT اُرْدُدْنَا يَا رَبُّ إِلَيْكَ فَنَرْتَدَّ. جَدِّدْ أَيَّامَنَا كَٱلْقَدِيمِ. BSB BSB: Restore us to Yourself, O LORD, so we may return; renew our days as of old,
22 GLT هَلْ كُلَّ ٱلرَّفْضِ رَفَضْتَنَا؟ هَلْ غَضِبْتَ عَلَيْنَا جِدًّا؟ BSB BSB: unless You have utterly rejected us and remain angry with us beyond measure.
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