Livre des Lamentations 1

JERUSALEM	CATHOLIC PUBLIC DOMAIN
1 Quoi! elle est assise à l'écart, la Ville populeuse! Elle est devenue comme une veuve, la grande parmi les nations. Princesse parmi les provinces, elle est réduite à la corvée.	1 ALEPH. O how a city once filled with people now sits alone! The Governess of the Gentiles has become like a widow. The Prince of the provinces has been placed under tribute.
2 Elle passe des nuits à pleurer et les larmes couvrent ses joues. Pas un qui la console parmi tous ses amants. Tous ses amis l'ont trahie, devenus ses ennemis!	2 BETH. Weeping, she has wept through the night, and her tears are on her cheeks. There is no one to be a comfort to her and to all her beloved. All her friends have spurned her, and they have become her enemies.
3 Juda est exilée, soumise à l'oppression. A une dure servitude. Elle demeure chez les nations sans trouver de répit. Tous ses poursuivants l'atteignent en des lieux sans issue.	3 GHIMEL. Judah has migrated because of affliction and great servitude. She has lived among the nations and not found rest. All of her persecutors have apprehended her, amid torments.
4 Les chemins de Sion sont en deuil. Nul ne vient plus à ses fêtes. Toutes ses portes sont désertes, ses prêtres gémissent, ses vierges se désolent. Elle est dans l'amertume!	4 DALETH. The pathways of Zion mourn, because there are none who approach for the solemnity. All her gates are destroyed. Her priests groan. Her virgins are filthy. And she is overwhelmed with bitterness.
5 Ses oppresseurs ont le dessus, ses ennemis sont heureux, car Yahvé l'a affligée pour ses nombreux crimes; ses petits enfants sont partis captifs devant l'oppresseur.	5 HE. Her enemies have been made her leaders; her adversaries have been enriched. For the Lord has spoken against her, because of the multitude of her iniquities. Her little ones have been led into captivity before the face of the tribulator.
6 De la fille de Sion s'est retirée toute sa splendeur. Ses princes étaient comme des cerfs qui ne trouvent point de pâture; ils cheminaient sans force devant qui les chassait.	6 VAU. And all her elegance has departed, from the daughter of Zion. Her leaders have become like rams that cannot find pasture, and they have gone away without strength before the face of the pursuer.
7 Jérusalem se souvient de ses jours de misère et de détresse, quand son peuple succombait aux coups de l'adversaire sans que nul la secourût. Ses adversaires la voyaient, ils riaient de sa ruine.	7 ZAIN. Jerusalem has remembered the days of her affliction and the betrayal of all her desirable ones, whom she held from the days of antiquity, when her people fell into the hand of the enemy, and there was no one to be a helper. The enemies have looked upon her and mocked her Sabbaths.
8 Jérusalem a péché gravement, aussi est-elle devenue chose impure. Tous ceux qui l'honoraient la méprisent: ils ont vu sa nudité. Elle, elle gémit et se détourne.	8 HETH. Jerusalem has sinned a grievous sin. Because of this, she has become unstable. All who glorified her have spurned her, because they have looked upon her disgrace. Then she groaned and turned away again.
9 Sa souillure colle aux pans de sa robe. Elle ne songeait pas à cette fin; elle est tombée si bas! Personne pour la consoler. "Vois, Yahvé, ma misère: l'ennemi triomphe."	9 TETH. Her filth is on her feet, and her end has not been remembered. She has been vehemently put down, having no consolation. O Lord, look upon my affliction, for the adversary has been lifted up.
10 L'adversaire a étendu la main sur tous ses trésors: elle a vu les païens pénétrer dans son sanctuaire, auxquels tu avais interdit l'entrée de son assemblée.	10 JOD. The enemy has sent his hand against all her desirable ones. For she has watched the Gentiles enter her sanctuary, even though you instructed that they should not enter into your church.
11 Son peuple tout entier gémit. En quête de pain; on donne ses bijoux pour de la nourriture, pour retrouver la vie. "Vois, Yahvé, et regarde combien je suis méprisée.	11 CAPH. All her people are groaning and seeking bread. They have given up whatever was precious in exchange for food, so as to remain alive. See, O Lord, and consider, for I have become vile.
12 Vous tous qui passez par le chemin, regardez et voyez s'il est une douleur pareille à la douleur qui me tourmente, dont Yahvé m'a affligée au jour de sa brûlante colère.	12 LAMED. O all you who pass by the way, attend, and see if there is any sorrow like my sorrow. For he has made me a vintage, just as the Lord has spoken in the day of his furious anger.
13 D'en haut il a envoyé un feu qu'il a fait descendre dans mes os. Il a tendu un filet sous mes pas, il m'a renversée, il m'a rendue désolée, malade tout le jour.	13 MEM. From on high, he has sent fire into my bones, and he has educated me. He has spread a net for my feet; he has turned me back. He has placed me in desolation, consumed by grief, all day long.
14 Il a guetté mes crimes: de sa main il m'enlace, son joug est sur mon cou, il fait fléchir ma force. Le Seigneur m'a mise à leur merci, je ne puis plus tenir!	14 NUN. Vigilant is the yoke of my iniquities. They have been folded together in his hand and imposed on my neck. My virtue has been weakened. The Lord has given me into a hand, out of which I am not able to rise.
15 Tous mes braves, le Seigneur les a rejetés du milieu de moi. Il a convoqué contre moi une assemblée pour anéantir mon élite. Le Seigneur a foulé au pressoir la vierge, fille de Juda.	15 SAMECH. The Lord has taken away all of my great ones from my midst. He has called forth time against me, so as to crush my elect ones. The Lord has trampled the winepress, which was for the virgin daughter of Judah.
16 C'est pour cela que je pleure; mes yeux fondent en larmes, car il est loin de moi, le consolateur qui me rendrait la vie. Mes fils sont bouleversés, car l'ennemi est trop fort."	16 AIN. For this I weep, and my eyes bring forth water. For the consoler has been far away from me, changing my soul. My sons have become lost, because the enemy has prevailed.
17 Sion tend les mains, pas un qui la console. Yahvé a mandé contre Jacob ses oppresseurs de toutes parts; Jérusalem est devenue chose impure parmi eux.	17 PHE. Zion has reached out her hands; there is no one to console her. The Lord has given orders against Jacob; his enemies are all around him. Jerusalem among them is like a woman made unclean by menstruation.
18 "Yahvé, lui, est juste, car à ses ordres je fus rebelle. Ecoutez donc, tous les peuples, et voyez ma douleur. Mes vierges et mes jeunes gens sont partis en captivité.	18 SADE. The Lord is just, for it is I who has provoked his mouth to wrath. I beg all people to listen and to see my sorrow. My virgins and my youths have gone into captivity.
19 J'ai fait appel à mes amants: ils m'ont trahie. Mes prêtres et mes anciens expiaient dans la ville, cherchant une nourriture qui leur rendît la vie.	19 COPH. I called for my friends, but they deceived me. My priests and my elders have been consumed in the city. For they were seeking their food, so as to revive their life.
20 Vois, Yahvé, quelle est mon angoisse! Mes entrailles frémissent; mon coeur en moi se retourne: Ah! je n'ai fait qu'être rebelle! Au-dehors l'épée me prive d'enfants, au-dedans, c'est comme la mort.	20 RES. See, O Lord, that I am in tribulation. My bowels have been disturbed, my heart has been subverted within me, for I am filled with bitterness. Outside, the sword puts to death, and at home there is a similar death.
21 Entends-moi qui gémis: pas un qui me console! Tous mes ennemis ont appris mon mal, ils se réjouissent de ce que tu as fait. Fais venir le Jour que tu avais proclamé, pour qu'ils soient comme moi!	21 SIN. They have heard that I groan and that there is no one to console me. All my enemies have heard of my misfortune; they have rejoiced that you caused it. You have brought in a day of consolation, and so they shall become like me.
22 Que toute leur méchanceté te soit présente et traite-les comme tu m'as traitée pour tous mes crimes! Car nombreux sont mes gémissements, et mon coeur est malade."	22 THAU. Let all their evil enter before you. And make vintage of them, just as you made vintage of me, because of all my iniquities. For my sighs are many, and my heart is grieving.