Jerusalem remembers in the days of her affliction and of her miseries all her pleasant things that were from the days of old; when her people fell into the hand of the adversary, and no one helped her. The adversaries saw her. They mocked at her desolations.

耶路撒冷在困苦窘迫之时，就追想古时一切的乐境。她百姓落在敌人手中，无人救济；敌人看见，就因她的荒凉嗤笑。

耶路撒冷在困苦窘迫之时，就追想古时一切的荣华。她的百姓落在敌人手中，无人帮助；敌人看见，就因她的毁灭嗤笑。

耶路撒冷在困苦窘迫之时，就追想古时一切的荣华。她的百姓落在敌人手中，无人帮助；敌人看见，就因她的毁灭嗤笑。

在困苦流离中，耶路撒冷想起昔日的荣华。如今，她的人民落在敌人手中，无人援救。仇敌看见她，都嘲笑她的灭亡。

耶路撒冷在困苦飘流的日子，就追念她昔日的一切珍宝。她的人民落在敌人手里的时候，没有人帮助她。敌人看见她，就讥笑她的灭亡。

耶路撒冷在困苦窘迫之時，就追想古時一切的樂境。她百姓落在敵人手中，無人救濟；敵人看見，就因她的荒涼嗤笑。

耶路撒冷在困苦窘迫之時，就追想古時一切的榮華。她的百姓落在敵人手中，無人幫助；敵人看見，就因她的毀滅嗤笑。

耶路撒冷在困苦窘迫之時，就追想古時一切的榮華。她的百姓落在敵人手中，無人幫助；敵人看見，就因她的毀滅嗤笑。

在困苦流離中，耶路撒冷想起昔日的榮華。如今，她的人民落在敵人手中，無人援救。仇敵看見她，都嘲笑她的滅亡。

耶路撒冷在困苦飄流的日子，就追念她昔日的一切珍寶。她的人民落在敵人手裡的時候，沒有人幫助她。敵人看見她，就譏笑她的滅亡。

耶路撒冷追想着她苦難和流浪的日子，回想起古時之日一切可愛的寶物。她人民落在敵人手中，無人救助；她的息滅、敵人看了就譏笑。

耶路撒冷遘難受迫時、追念疇昔之樂境兮、彼之居民陷於敵手、援助無人兮、厥敵見之、笑其荒寂兮、

耶路撒冷民既罹災害、爰念疇曩之安樂兮、今為敵虜、援手無人兮、遇斯患難、為敵姍笑兮。

耶路撒冷遭患難窘迫之時、追念疇昔一切樂境、今其居民、陷於敵手、援救無人、敵見其喪敗、無不姍笑、

In the days of her affliction and wandering Jerusalem remembers all the treasures that were hers in days of old. When her people fell into enemy hands, there was no one to help her. Her enemies looked at her and laughed at her destruction.

Jerusalem’s people are suffering and wandering. They remember all the treasures they used to have. But they fell into the hands of their enemies. And no one was there to help them. Their enemies looked at them. They laughed because Jerusalem had been destroyed.

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.

In the midst of her sadness and wandering, Jerusalem remembers her ancient splendor. But now she has fallen to her enemy, and there is no one to help her. Her enemy struck her down and laughed as she fell.

During the days of her affliction and homelessness Jerusalem remembers all her precious belongings that were hers in days of old. When her people fell into the adversary’s hand, she had no one to help. The adversaries looked at her, laughing over her downfall.

In the days of her affliction and homelessness Jerusalem remembers all her treasures That were hers since the days of old, When her people fell into the hand of the adversary And no one helped her. The adversaries saw her, They laughed at her ruin.

In the days of her affliction and roaming, Jerusalem remembers all her pleasant things That she had in the days of old. When her people fell into the hand of the enemy, With no one to help her, The adversaries saw her And mocked at her downfall.

Jerusalem remembereth in the days of her affliction and of her miseries all her pleasant things that were from the days of old: When her people fell into the hand of the adversary, and none did help her, The adversaries saw her, they did mock at her desolations.

During the days of her affliction and homelessness Jerusalem remembers all her precious belongings that were hers in days of old. When her people fell into the adversary’s hand, she had no one to help. The adversaries looked at her, laughing over her downfall.

Jerusalem remembered in the days of her affliction and of her miseries all her pleasant things that she had in the days of old, when her people fell into the hand of the enemy, and none did help her: the adversaries saw her,[ and] did mock at her sabbaths.

Jerusalem remembers, when she became a poor homeless person, all her treasures that she owned in days of old. When her people fell into an enemy’s grip, none of her allies came to her rescue. Her enemies gloated over her; they sneered at her downfall.ח( Khet)

We have become a reproach to our neighbors, a scoffing and derision to those who are around us.

These things I remember, and pour out my soul within me, how I used to go with the crowd, and led them to God’s house, with the voice of joy and praise, a multitude keeping a holy day.

I have considered the days of old, the years of ancient times.I remember my song in the night. I consider in my own heart; my spirit diligently inquires:“ Will the Lord reject us forever? Will he be favorable no more?Has his loving kindness vanished forever? Does his promise fail for generations?Has God forgotten to be gracious? Has he, in anger, withheld his compassion?” Selah.

Let me sing for my well beloved a song of my beloved about his vineyard. My beloved had a vineyard on a very fruitful hill.He dug it up, gathered out its stones, planted it with the choicest vine, built a tower in the middle of it, and also cut out a wine press in it. He looked for it to yield grapes, but it yielded wild grapes.“ Now, inhabitants of Jerusalem and men of Judah, please judge between me and my vineyard.What could have been done more to my vineyard, that I have not done in it? Why, when I looked for it to yield grapes, did it yield wild grapes?

I remember God, and I groan. I complain, and my spirit is overwhelmed. Selah.

Now many nations have assembled against you, that say,“ Let her be defiled, and let our eye gloat over Zion.”

For what great nation is there that has a god so near to them as Yahweh our God is whenever we call on him?What great nation is there that has statutes and ordinances so righteous as all this law which I set before you today?

She will follow after her lovers, but she won’t overtake them; and she will seek them, but won’t find them. Then she will say,‘ I will go and return to my first husband; for then was it better with me than now.’

For Yahweh your God brings you into a good land, a land of brooks of water, of springs, and underground water flowing into valleys and hills;a land of wheat, barley, vines, fig trees, and pomegranates; a land of olive trees and honey;a land in which you shall eat bread without scarcity, you shall not lack anything in it; a land whose stones are iron, and out of whose hills you may dig copper.

He shows his word to Jacob, his statutes and his ordinances to Israel.He has not done this for just any nation. They don’t know his ordinances. Praise Yah!

“ Yahweh, the God of Israel, says,‘ You shall tell the king of Judah, who sent you to me to inquire of me:“ Behold, Pharaoh’s army, which has come out to help you, will return to Egypt into their own land.

“ But Abraham said,‘ Son, remember that you, in your lifetime, received your good things, and Lazarus, in the same way, bad things. But here he is now comforted, and you are in anguish.

For there, those who led us captive asked us for songs. Those who tormented us demanded songs of joy:“ Sing us one of the songs of Zion!”How can we sing Yahweh’s song in a foreign land?

Our eyes still fail, looking in vain for our help. In our watching we have watched for a nation that could not save.

Or has God tried to go and take a nation for himself from among another nation, by trials, by signs, by wonders, by war, by a mighty hand, by an outstretched arm, and by great terrors, according to all that Yahweh your God did for you in Egypt before your eyes?It was shown to you so that you might know that Yahweh is God. There is no one else besides him.Out of heaven he made you to hear his voice, that he might instruct you. On earth he made you to see his great fire; and you heard his words out of the middle of the fire.Because he loved your fathers, therefore he chose their offspring after them, and brought you out with his presence, with his great power, out of Egypt;

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’?”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.”

“ Oh that I were as in the months of old, as in the days when God watched over me;when his lamp shone on my head, and by his light I walked through darkness,as I was in my prime, when the friendship of God was in my tent,when the Almighty was yet with me, and my children were around me,when my steps were washed with butter, and the rock poured out streams of oil for me,when I went out to the city gate, when I prepared my seat in the street.The young men saw me and hid themselves. The aged rose up and stood.The princes refrained from talking, and laid their hand on their mouth.The voice of the nobles was hushed, and their tongue stuck to the roof of their mouth.For when the ear heard me, then it blessed me; and when the eye saw me, it commended me:Because I delivered the poor who cried, and the fatherless also, who had no one to help him,the blessing of him who was ready to perish came on me, and I caused the widow’s heart to sing for joy.I put on righteousness, and it clothed me. My justice was as a robe and a diadem.I was eyes to the blind, and feet to the lame.I was a father to the needy. I researched the cause of him who I didn’t know.I broke the jaws of the unrighteous and plucked the prey out of his teeth.Then I said,‘ I will die in my own house, I will count my days as the sand.My root is spread out to the waters. The dew lies all night on my branch.My glory is fresh in me. My bow is renewed in my hand.’“ Men listened to me, waited, and kept silence for my counsel.After my words they didn’t speak again. My speech fell on them.They waited for me as for the rain. Their mouths drank as with the spring rain.I smiled on them when they had no confidence. They didn’t reject the light of my face.I chose out their way, and sat as chief. I lived as a king in the army, as one who comforts the mourners.“ But now those who are younger than I have me in derision, whose fathers I considered unworthy to put with my sheep dogs.

But when he came to himself he said,‘ How many hired servants of my father’s have bread enough to spare, and I’m dying with hunger!