5:8 奴僕轄制我們，無人救我們脫離他們的手。
5:9 因為曠野的刀劍，我們冒著險才得糧食。
5:10 因飢餓燥熱，我們的皮膚就黑如爐。
5:11 敵人在錫安玷污婦人，在猶大的城邑玷污處女。
5:12 他們吊起首領的手，也不尊敬老人的面。
5:13 少年人扛磨石，孩童背木柴，都絆跌了。
5:14 老年人在城門口斷絕；少年人不再作樂。
5:15 我們心中的快樂止息，跳舞變為悲哀。
5:16 冠冕從我們的頭上落下；我們犯罪了，我們有禍了！
5:17 這些事我們心裡發昏，我們的眼睛昏花。
5:18 錫安山荒涼，野狗（或譯：狐狸）行在其上。
8 Slaves rule over us;
there is none to deliver us from their
hand.
9 We get our bread at the peril of our
lives,
because of the sword in the wilderness.
10 Our skin is hot as an oven
with the burning heat of famine.
11 Women are raped in Zion,
young women in the towns of Judah.
12 Princes are hung up by their hands;
no
respect is shown to the elders.
13 Young men are compelled to grind at the
mill,
and boys stagger under loads of wood.
14 The old men have left the city gate,
the young men their music.
15 The joy of our hearts has ceased;
our
dancing has been turned to mourning.
16 The crown has fallen from our head;
woe to us, for we have sinned!
17 For this our heart has become sick,
for these things our eyes have grown dim,
18 for Mount Zion which lies desolate;
jackals prowl over it.
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在此看見哀歌的文學性極高，將錫安的荒涼描寫得十分生動和詳細，讓人感受到如同泉源般，讓人的心受到感觸到那一份失去上帝同在的情境！
在此也看見聖靈的能力，人離了上帝，就沒有生趣，但是有上帝的同在，就能有泉源自腹中出來，永不乾涸！
願主讓我們都有這樣的能力，為主傳揚信息，成為上帝信息的出口，成為多人的幫助！
