예레미야애가 4장 Contemporary English Version (2006)

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1	The Punishment of Jerusalem / The Prophet Speaks: The purest gold is ruined and has lost its shine; jewels from the temple lie scattered in the streets.	How is the gold become dim! how is the most fine gold changed! the stones of the sanctuary are poured out in the top of every street.
2	These are Zion's people, worth more than purest gold; yet they are counted worthless like dishes of clay.	The precious sons of Zion, comparable to fine gold, how are they esteemed as earthen pitchers, the work of the hands of the potter!
3	Even jackals nurse their young, but my people are like ostriches that abandon their own.	Even the sea monsters draw out the breast, they give suck to their young ones: the daughter of my people is become cruel, like the ostriches in the wilderness.
4	Babies are so thirsty that their tongues are stuck to the roof of the mouth. Children go begging for food, but no one gives them any.	The tongue of the sucking child cleaveth to the roof of his mouth for thirst: the young children ask bread, and no man breaketh it unto them.
5	All who ate expensive foods lie starving in the streets; those who grew up in luxury now sit on trash heaps.	They that did feed delicately are desolate in the streets: they that were brought up in scarlet embrace dunghills.
6	My nation was punished worse than the people of Sodom, whose city was destroyed in a flash without the help of human hands.	For the punishment of the iniquity of the daughter of my people is greater than the punishment of the sin of Sodom, that was overthrown as in a moment, and no hands stayed on her.
7	The leaders of Jerusalem were purer than snow and whiter than milk; their bodies were healthy and glowed like jewels.	Her Nazarites were purer than snow, they were whiter than milk, they were more ruddy in body than rubies, their polishing was of sapphire:
8	Now they are blacker than tar, and no one recognizes them; their skin clings to their bones and is drier than firewood.	Their visage is blacker than a coal; they are not known in the streets: their skin cleaveth to their bones; it is withered, it is become like a stick.
9	Being killed with a sword is better than slowly starving to death.	They that be slain with the sword are better than they that be slain with hunger: for these pine away, stricken through for want of the fruits of the field.
10	Life in the city is so bad that loving mothers have boiled and eaten their own children.	The hands of the pitiful women have sodden their own children: they were their meat in the destruction of the daughter of my people.
11	The Lord was so fiercely angry that he burned the city of Zion to the ground.	The Lord hath accomplished his fury; he hath poured out his fierce anger, and hath kindled a fire in Zion, and it hath devoured the foundations thereof.
12	Not a king on this earth or the people of any nation believed enemies could break through her gates.	The kings of the earth, and all the inhabitants of the world, would not have believed that the adversary and the enemy should have entered into the gates of Jerusalem.
13	Jerusalem was punished because her prophets and her priests had sinned and caused the death of innocent victims.	For the sins of her prophets, and the iniquities of her priests, that have shed the blood of the just in the midst of her,
14	Yes, her prophets and priests were covered with blood; no one would come near them, as they wandered from street to street.	They have wandered as blind men in the streets, they have polluted themselves with blood, so that men could not touch their garments.
15	Instead, everyone shouted, “Go away! Don't touch us! You're filthy and unfit to belong to God's people!” So they had to leave and become refugees. But foreign nations told them, “You can't stay here!”	They cried unto them, Depart ye; it is unclean; depart, depart, touch not: when they fled away and wandered, they said among the heathen, They shall no more sojourn there.
16	The Lord is the one who sent them scattering, and he has forgotten them. No respect or kindness will be shown to the priests or leaders.	The anger of the Lord hath divided them; he will no more regard them: they respected not the persons of the priests, they favoured not the elders.
17	Our eyes became weary, hopelessly looking for help from a nation that could not save us.	As for us, our eyes as yet failed for our vain help: in our watching we have watched for a nation that could not save us.
18	Enemies hunted us down on every public street. Our time was up; our doom was near.	They hunt our steps, that we cannot go in our streets: our end is near, our days are fulfilled; for our end is come.
19	They swooped down faster than eagles from the sky. They hunted for us in the hills and set traps to catch us out in the desert.	Our persecutors are swifter than the eagles of the heaven: they pursued us upon the mountains, they laid wait for us in the wilderness.
20	The Lord's chosen leader was our hope for survival! We thought he would keep us safe somewhere among the nations, but even he was caught in one of their traps.	The breath of our nostrils, the anointed of the Lord, was taken in their pits, of whom we said, Under his shadow we shall live among the heathen.
21	You people of Edom can celebrate now! But your time will come to suffer and stagger around naked.	Rejoice and be glad, O daughter of Edom, that dwellest in the land of Uz; the cup also shall pass through unto thee: thou shalt be drunken, and shalt make thyself naked.
22	The people of Zion have paid for their sins, and the Lord will soon let them return home. But, people of Edom, you will be punished, and your sins exposed.	The punishment of thine iniquity is accomplished, O daughter of Zion; he will no more carry thee away into captivity: he will visit thine iniquity, O daughter of Edom; he will discover thy sins.