Ağıtlar 4

¹Altın nasıl da kararacak, iyi gümüş nasıl da başkalaşacak! Kutsal taşlar döküldü tüm çıkış yollarının başlangıcında.

²Siyon'un değerli oğulları, altınla yükseltilmiş olanlar, nasıl da çömlekçinin el işleri olan topraktan kaplar gibi sayıldılar!

³Canavarlar bile memelerini açıp yavrularını emzirdi; ama halkımın kızları, çölde bir serçe gibi amansız bir duruma geldi.

⁴Susuzluktan emzikteki çocuğun dili boğazına yapışıyor; küçük çocuklar ekmek istedi, ama onlara bölen kimse yok.

⁵Nefis yemekler yiyenler çıkış yollarında yok oldular; kırmızı boyalı kumaşlar üzerinde büyütülenler gübrelikleri kucaklıyorlardı.

⁶Halkımın kızının yasasızlığı, aceleyle altüst edilen ve içinde ellerin emek vermediği Sodom'un yasasızlığından daha büyük oldu.

⁷Onun adanmışları kardan daha temizdi, sütten daha ak parıldarlardı; onların görünüşü safir taşından daha çok parlamaktaydı.

⁸Görünüşleri kurumdan daha çok karardı, çıkış yollarında tanınmaz hale geldiler; derileri kemiklerinin üzerine yapıştı, kuruyup odun gibi oldular.

⁹Kılıçla yaralananlar, açlıkla yaralananlardan daha iyiydi; çünkü onlar tarlanın ürünlerinin yokluğundan delinmiş olarak göçüp gittiler.

¹⁰Merhametli kadınların elleri kendi çocuklarını haşladı; halkımın kızının kırılışında bu çocuklar onlara yiyecek oldu.

¹¹Rab öfkesini tamamladı, gazabının öfkesini boşalttı; Siyon'da bir ateş yakıp onun temellerini yiyip bitirdi.

¹²Yeryüzünün kralları ve dünyada yaşayanların hiçbiri inanmazdı, bir düşmanın ve baskı kuranın Yeruşalim'in kapılarından gireceğine.

¹³Bu, onun peygamberlerinin günahları ve onun ortasında adil olanın kanını döken kâhinlerinin haksızlıkları yüzünden oldu.

¹⁴Bekçileri çıkış yollarında sarsıldılar, kanla lekelendiler; güç yetiremediklerinden giysilerine dokundular.

¹⁵"Uzaklaşın murdarlardan!" diye seslendiler onlara, "Uzaklaşın, uzaklaşın, dokunmayın!" Çünkü tutuştular ve sarsıldılar; uluslar arasında şöyle dendi: "Artık burada yabancı olarak yaşamaya devam etmeyecekler."

¹⁶Rabbin yüzü onların payıdır, artık onlara bakmayacak; kâhinlerin yüzünü saymadılar, yaşlılara merhamet etmediler.

¹⁷Biz henüz var iken, boş yere yardım beklemekten gözlerimiz tükendi; bizi kurtaramayacak bir ulusu dikkatle gözleyip durduk.

¹⁸Sokaklarımızda yürümesinler diye küçüklerimizi avladık;

¹⁹zamanımız yaklaştı, günlerimiz doldu, zamanımız geldi. Bizi kovalayanlar göğün kartallarından daha hızlıydı; dağların üzerinde uçup gittiler, çölde bize pusu kurdular.

²⁰Yüzümüzün soluğu, Rabbin mesihi, onların tuzaklarında yakalandı; oysa onun hakkında, "Onun gölgesinde uluslar arasında yaşayacağız" demiştik.

²¹Sevin ve coş, ey İdumeya kızı, o ülkede yaşayan! Rabbin kâsesi senin üzerine de geçecek; sarhoş olacak ve kusacaksın.

²²Yasasızlığın son buldu, ey Siyon kızı, O seni bir daha sürgüne göndermeyecek; ama senin yasasızlıklarını cezalandırdı, ey Edom kızı, senin tanrısızlıklarını açığa çıkardı.

¹ΠΩΣ ἀμαυρωθήσεται χρυσίον, ἀλλοιωθήσεται τὸ ἀργύριον τὸ ἀγαθόν; ἐξεχύθησαν λίθοι ἅγιοι ἀπ’ ἀρχῆς πασῶν ἐξόδων.

²Υἱοὶ Σιὼν οἱ τίμιοι, οἱ ἐπῃρμένοι ἐν χρυσίῳ, πῶς ἐλογίσθησαν εἰς ἀγγεῖα ὀστράκινα, ἔργα χειρῶν κεραμέως;

³Καί γε δράκοντες ἐξέδυσαν μαστούς, ἐθήλασαν σκύμνοι αὐτῶν· θυγατέρες λαοῦ μου εἰς ἀνίατον ὡς στρουθίον ἐν ἐρήμῳ.

⁴᾿Εκολλήθη ἡ γλῶσσα θηλάζοντος πρὸς τὸν φάρυγγα αὐτοῦ ἐν δίψει· νήπια ᾔτησαν ἄρτον, ὁ διακλῶν οὐκ ἔστιν αὐτοῖς.

⁵Οἱ ἔσθοντες τὰς τρυφὰς ἠφανίσθησαν ἐν ταῖς ἐξόδοις, οἱ τιθηνούμενοι ἐπὶ κόκκων περιεβάλλοντο κοπρίας.

⁶Καὶ ἐμεγαλύνθη ἀνομία θυγατρὸς λαοῦ μου ὑπὲρ ἀνομίας Σοδόμων τῆς κατεστραμμένης ὥσπερ σπουδῇ, καὶ οὐκ ἐπόνεσαν ἐν αὐτῇ χεῖρας.

⁷᾿Εκαθαριώθησαν Ναζιραῖοι αὐτῆς ὑπὲρ χιόνα, ἔλαμψαν ὑπὲρ γάλα, ἐπυρώθησαν ὑπὲρ λίθους σαπφείρου τὸ ἀπόσπασμα αὐτῶν.

⁸᾿Εσκότασεν ὑπὲρ ἀσβόλην τὸ εἶδος αὐτῶν, οὐκ ἐπεγνώσθησαν ἐν ταῖς ἐξόδοις· ἐπάγη δέρμα αὐτῶν ἐπὶ τὰ ὀστέα αὐτῶν, ἐξηράνθησαν, ἐγενήθησαν ὥσπερ ξύλον.

⁹Καλοὶ ἦσαν οἱ τραυματίαι ῥομφαίας ἢ οἱ τραυματίαι λιμοῦ· ἐπορεύθησαν ἐκκεκεντημένοι ἀπὸ γεννημάτων ἀγρῶν.

¹⁰Χεῖρες γυναικῶν οἰκτιρμόνων ἥψησαν τὰ παιδία αὐτῶν, ἐγενήθησαν εἰς βρῶσιν αὐταῖς ἐν τῷ συντρίμματι τῆς θυγατρὸς τοῦ λαοῦ μου.

¹¹Συνετέλεσε Κύριος θυμὸν αὐτοῦ, ἐξέχεε θυμὸν ὀργῆς αὐτοῦ καὶ ἀνῆψε πῦρ ἐν Σιών, καὶ κατέφαγε τὰ θεμέλια αὐτῆς.

¹²Οὐκ ἐπίστευσαν βασιλεῖς γῆς, πάντες οἱ κατοικοῦντες τὴν οἰκουμένην, ὅτι εἰσελεύσεται ἐχθρὸς καὶ ἐκθλίβων διὰ τῶν πυλῶν ῾Ιερουσαλήμ.

¹³᾿Εξ ἁμαρτιῶν προφητῶν αὐτῆς, ἀδικιῶν ἱερέων αὐτῆς τῶν ἐκχεόντων αἷμα δίκαιον ἐν μέσῳ αὐτῆς.

¹⁴᾿Εσαλεύθησαν ἐγρήγοροι αὐτῆς ἐν ταῖς ἐξόδοις, ἐμολύνθησαν ἐν αἵματι· ἐν τῷ μὴ δύνασθαι αὐτοὺς ἥψαντο ἐνδυμάτων αὐτῶν.

¹⁵᾿Απόστητε ἀκαθάρτων -καλέσατε αὐτούς- ἀπόστητε, ἀπόστητε, μὴ ἅπτεσθε, ὅτι ἀνήφθησαν καί γε ἐσαλεύθησαν· εἴπατε ἐν τοῖς ἔθνεσιν· οὐ μὴ προσθῶσι τοῦ παροικεῖν.

¹⁶Πρόσωπον Κυρίου μερὶς αὐτῶν, οὐ προσθήσει ἐπιβλέπψαι αὐτοῖς· πρόσωπον ἱερέων οὐκ ἔλαβον, πρεσβύτας οὐκ ἠλέησαν.

¹⁷῎Ετι ὄντων ἡμῶν ἐξέλιπον οἱ ὀφθαλμοὶ ἡμῶν εἰς τὴν βοήθειαν ἡμῶν μάταια· ἀποσκοπευόντων ἡμῶν ἀπεσκοπεύσαμεν εἰς ἔθνος οὐ σῷζον.

¹⁸᾿Εθηρεύσαμεν μικροὺς ἡμῶν τοῦ μὴ προεύεσθαι ἐν ταῖς πλατείαις ἡμῶν·19 ἤγγικεν ὁ καιρὸς ἡμῶν, ἐκπληρώθησαν αἱ ἡμέραι ἡμῶν, πάρεστιν ὁ καιρὸς ἡμῶν. Κοῦφοι ἐγένοντο οἱ διώκοντες ἡμᾶς ὑπὲρ ἀετοὺς οὐρανοῦ, ἐπὶ τῶν ὀρέων ἐξέπτησαν, ἐν ἐρήμῳ ἐνήδρευσαν ἡμᾶς.

²⁰Πνεῦμα προσώπου ἡμῶν χριστὸς Κυρίου συνελήφθη ἐν ταῖς διαφθοραῖς αὐτῶν, οὗ εἴπαμεν· ἐν τῇ σκιᾷ αὐτοῦ ζησόμεθα ἐν τοῖς ἔθνεσι.

²¹Χαῖρε καὶ εὐφραίνου, θύγατερ ᾿Ιδουμαίας ἡ κατοικοῦσα ἐπὶ γῆς· καί γε ἐπὶ σὲ διελεύσεται τὸ ποτήριον Κυρίου καὶ μεθυσθήσῃ καὶ ἀποχεεῖς.

²²᾿Εξέλιπεν ἡ ἀνομία σου, θύγατερ Σιών, οὐ προσθήσει τοῦ ἀποικίσαι σε. ἐπεσκέψατο ἀνομίας σου, θύγατερ ᾿Εδώμ· ἀπεκάλυψεν ἐπὶ τὰ ἀσεβήματά σου.

¹ALEPH. How will the gold be tarnished, [and] the fine silver changed! the sacred stones have been poured forth at the top of all the streets.

²BETH. The precious sons of Zion, who were equaled in value with gold, how are they counted as earthen vessels, the works of the hands of the potter!

³GIMEL. Nay, serpents have drawn out the breasts, they give suck to their young, the daughters of my people are incurably cruel, as an ostrich in a desert.

⁴DALETH. The tongue of the sucking child cleaves to the roof of its mouth for thirst: the little children ask for bread, [and] there is none to break [it] to them.

⁵HE. They that feed on dainties are desolate in the streets: they that used to be nursed in scarlet have clothed themselves with dung.

⁶VAU. And the iniquity of the daughter of my people has been increased beyond the iniquities of Sodoma, [the city] that was overthrown very suddenly, and none laboured against her [with their] hands.

⁷ZAIN. Her Nazarites were made purer than snow, they were whiter than milk, they were purified [as] with fire, their polishing was superior to sapphire stone.

⁸HETH. Their countenance is become blacker than smoke; they are not known in the streets: their skin has cleaved to their bones; they are withered, they are become as a stick.

⁹TETH. The slain with the sword were better than they that were slain with hunger: they have departed, pierced through from [want of] the fruits of the field.

¹⁰JOD. The hands of tender-hearted women have sodden their own children: they became meat for them in the destruction of the daughter of my people.

¹¹CHAPH. The Lord has accomplished his wrath; he has poured out fierce anger, and has kindled a fire in Sion, and it has devoured her foundations.

¹²LAMED. The kings of the earth, [even] all that dwell in the world, believed not that an enemy and oppressor would enter through the gates of Jerusalem.

¹³MEM. For the sins of her prophets, [and] iniquities of her priests, who shed righteous blood in the midst of her,

¹⁴NUN. her watchmen staggered in the streets, they were defiled with blood in their weakness, they touched their raiment [with it].

¹⁵SAMECH. Depart ye from the unclean ones: call ye them: depart, depart, touch [them] not: for they are on fire, yea, they stagger: say ye among the nations, They shall no more sojourn [there].

¹⁶AIN. The presence of the Lord [was] their portion; [but] he will not again look upon them: they regarded not the person of the priests, they pitied not the prophets.

¹⁷PHE. While we yet lived our eyes failed, while we looked in vain for our help. TSADE. We looked to a nation that could not save.

¹⁸We have hunted [for] our little ones, that they should not walk in our streets. KOPH. Our time has drawn nigh, our days are fulfilled, our time is come.

¹⁹Our pursuers were swifter than the eagles of the sky, they flew on the mountains, in the wilderness they laid wait for us.

²⁰RECHS. The breath of our nostrils, [our] anointed Lord, was taken in their destructive snares, of whom we said, In his shadow we shall live among the Gentiles.

²¹CHSEN. Rejoice and be glad, O daughter of Idumea, that dwellest in the land: yet the cup of the Lord shall pass through to thee: thou shalt be drunken, and pour forth.

²²THAU. O daughter of Sion, thine iniquity has come to an end; he shall no more carry thee captive: he has visited thine iniquities, O daughter of Edom; he has discovered thy sins.