2:1 主何竟发怒，使黑云遮蔽锡安城。他将以色列的华美从天扔在地上。在他发怒的日子并不记念自己的脚凳。
How hath the LORD covered the daughter of Zion with a cloud in his anger, and cast down from heaven unto the earth the beauty of Israel, and remembered not his footstool in the day of his anger!
2:2 主吞灭雅各一切的住处，并不顾惜。他发怒倾覆犹大民的保障，使这保障坍倒在地。他辱没这国和其中的首领。
The LORD hath swallowed up all the habitations of Jacob, and hath not pitied: he hath thrown down in his wrath the strong holds of the daughter of Judah; he hath brought them down to the ground: he hath polluted the kingdom and the princes thereof.
2:3 他发烈怒，把以色列的角全然砍断，在仇敌面前收回右手。他像火焰四围吞灭，将雅各烧毁。
He hath cut off in his fierce anger all the horn of Israel: he hath drawn back his right hand from before the enemy, and he burned against Jacob like a flaming fire, which devoureth round about.
2:4 他张弓好像仇敌。他站着举起右手，如同敌人将悦人眼目的，尽行杀戮。在锡安百姓的帐棚上倒出他的忿怒，像火一样。
He hath bent his bow like an enemy: he stood with his right hand as an adversary, and slew all that were pleasant to the eye in the tabernacle of the daughter of Zion: he poured out his fury like fire.
2:5 主如仇敌吞灭以色列和锡安的一切宫殿，拆毁百姓的保障。在犹大民中加增悲伤哭号。
The LORD was as an enemy: he hath swallowed up Israel, he hath swallowed up all her palaces: he hath destroyed his strong holds, and hath increased in the daughter of Judah mourning and lamentation.
2:6 他强取自己的帐幕，好像是园中的窝棚，毁坏他的聚会之处。耶和华使圣节和安息日在锡安都被忘记，又在怒气的愤恨中藐视君王和祭司。
And he hath violently taken away his tabernacle, as if it were of a garden: he hath destroyed his places of the assembly: the LORD hath caused the solemn feasts and sabbaths to be forgotten in Zion, and hath despised in the indignation of his anger the king and the priest.
2:7 耶和华丢弃自己的祭坛，憎恶自己的圣所，将宫殿的墙垣交付仇敌。他们在耶和华的殿中喧囔，像在圣会之日一样。
The LORD hath cast off his altar, he hath abhorred his sanctuary, he hath given up into the hand of the enemy the walls of her palaces; they have made a noise in the house of the LORD, as in the day of a solemn feast.
2:8 耶和华定意拆毁锡安的城墙。他拉了准绳，不将手收回，定要毁灭。他使外郭和城墙都悲哀，一同衰败。
The LORD hath purposed to destroy the wall of the daughter of Zion: he hath stretched out a line, he hath not withdrawn his hand from destroying: therefore he made the rampart and the wall to lament; they languished together.
2:9 锡安的门都陷入地内。主将她的门闩毁坏，折断。她的君王和首领落在没有律法的列国中。她的先知不得见耶和华的异象。
Her gates are sunk into the ground; he hath destroyed and broken her bars: her king and her princes are among the Gentiles: the law is no more; her prophets also find no vision from the LORD.
2:10 锡安城的长老坐在地上默默无声。他们扬起尘土落在头上，腰束麻布。耶路撒冷的处女垂头至地。
The elders of the daughter of Zion sit upon the ground, and keep silence: they have cast up dust upon their heads; they have girded themselves with sackcloth: the virgins of Jerusalem hang down their heads to the ground.
2:11 我眼中流泪，以致失明，我的心肠扰乱，肝胆涂地，都因我众民遭毁灭，又因孩童和吃奶的在城内街上发昏。
Mine eyes do fail with tears, my bowels are troubled, my liver is poured upon the earth, for the destruction of the daughter of my people; because the children and the sucklings swoon in the streets of the city.
2:12 那时，他们在城内街上发昏，好像受伤的，在母亲的怀里，将要丧命。对母亲说，谷酒在哪里呢。
They say to their mothers, Where is corn and wine? when they swooned as the wounded in the streets of the city, when their soul was poured out into their mothers’ bosom.
2:13 耶路撒冷的民哪，我可用什么向你证明呢。我可用什么与你相比呢。锡安的民哪，我可拿什么和你比较，好安慰你呢。因为你的裂口大如海，谁能医治你呢。
What thing shall I take to witness for thee? what thing shall I liken to thee, O daughter of Jerusalem? what shall I equal to thee, that I may comfort thee, O virgin daughter of Zion? for thy breach is great like the sea: who can heal thee?
2:14 你的先知为你见虚假和愚昧的异象，并没有显露你的罪孽，使你被掳的归回。却为你见虚假的默示和使你被赶出本境的缘故。
Thy prophets have seen vain and foolish things for thee: and they have not discovered thine iniquity, to turn away thy captivity; but have seen for thee false burdens and causes of banishment.
2:15 凡过路的都向你拍掌。他们向耶路撒冷城嗤笑，摇头，说，难道人所称为全美的，称为全地所喜悦的，就是这城吗。
All that pass by clap their hands at thee; they hiss and wag their head at the daughter of Jerusalem, saying, Is this the city that men call The perfection of beauty, The joy of the whole earth?
2:16 你的仇敌都向你大大张口。他们嗤笑，又切齿说，我们吞灭她。这真是我们所盼望的日子临到了。我们亲眼看见了。
All thine enemies have opened their mouth against thee: they hiss and gnash the teeth: they say, We have swallowed her up: certainly this is the day that we looked for; we have found, we have seen it.
2:17 耶和华成就了他所定的，应验了他古时所命定的。他倾覆了，并不顾惜，使你的仇敌向你夸耀。使你敌人的角也被高举。
The LORD hath done that which he had devised; he hath fulfilled his word that he had commanded in the days of old: he hath thrown down, and hath not pitied: and he hath caused thine enemy to rejoice over thee, he hath set up the horn of thine adversaries.
2:18 锡安民的心哀求主。锡安的城墙阿，愿你流泪如河，昼夜不息。愿你眼中的瞳人泪流不止。
Their heart cried unto the LORD, O wall of the daughter of Zion, let tears run down like a river day and night: give thyself no rest; let not the apple of thine eye cease.
2:19 夜间，每逢交更的时候要起来呼喊，在主面前倾心如水。你的孩童在各市口上受饿发昏。你要为他们的性命向主举手祷告。
Arise, cry out in the night: in the beginning of the watches pour out thine heart like water before the face of the LORD: lift up thy hands toward him for the life of thy young children, that faint for hunger in the top of every street.
2:20 耶和华阿，求你观看。见你向谁这样行。妇人岂可吃自己所生育手里所摇弄的婴孩吗。祭司和先知岂可在主的圣所中被杀戮吗。
Behold, O LORD, and consider to whom thou hast done this. Shall the women eat their fruit, and children of a span long? shall the priest and the prophet be slain in the sanctuary of the Lord?
2:21 少年人和老年人都在街上躺卧。我的处女和壮丁都倒在刀下。你发怒的日子杀死他们。你杀了，并不顾惜。
The young and the old lie on the ground in the streets: my virgins and my young men are fallen by the sword; thou hast slain them in the day of thine anger; thou hast killed, and not pitied.
2:22 你招聚四围惊吓我的，像在大会的日子招聚人一样。耶和华发怒的日子，无人逃脱，无人存留。我所摇弄所养育的婴孩，仇敌都杀净了。
Thou hast called as in a solemn day my terrors round about, so that in the day of the LORD’s anger none escaped nor remained: those that I have swaddled and brought up hath mine enemy consumed.
耶利米哀歌2参考
“帐幕”──“聚会之处”──是指神的圣殿吧？神为甚么要毁了它？
2:6 坐落在耶路撒冷的所罗门王圣殿（这里叫作神的“帐幕”和“聚会之处”）代表了神的同在（参王上8:1-11）。这圣殿是敬拜的中心，它的毁灭象徵著神弃绝这些人民，不在他们中间了。
“在神的殿中喧嚷”，我们的教会有没有这现象？
2:7 对神而言，人们敬拜的地方并不比敬拜的方式重要。一所教堂尽管设计和建筑都堂皇壮丽，而里面的人却不忠诚地跟随神，这教堂也会从内部朽坏。犹大人虽有美丽的圣殿，但在日常生活里却不遵守敬拜礼节中所认信的，这样他们的敬拜就变成了假冒的谎言。你在敬拜时，是否说了些不真诚的话呢？你是否祷告求主帮助，却不真的相信他会帮助呢？你是否说爱神却无爱他的心呢？让我们都先热切地寻求主，体会主的爱和关心，然后再全心全意地去敬拜他。
失业、疾病、婚变……我的心好不踏实──我的安全感建立在甚么基础上？
2:9 四个有力的象徵和保障的来源已经失去了，这就是城门的保护、君王与首领的领导、法律的准则以及先知的预言。因为有这四个因素的存在，人民被虚假的安全感欺哄，活在罪恶中且感到舒舒服服。之后，四个因素逐一被除去，人民不得不作出抉择：悔改归到神身边，或者继续受苦。不要使虚浮的外在表徵取代了实实在在的个人与神的关系。
哀伤流泪是不是软弱无力的表现？那要看……
2:11 耶利米的眼泪是真诚且充满怜悯的。悲哀不代表我们缺乏信心和力量，哭泣也没有甚么不对，因耶稣难过时也掉泪（参约11:35）。面对令人落泪的社会和道德的沦陷我们会有甚么反应呢？也许这不会像敌人进攻那么明显，但可以肯定社会会受到破坏。我们对周围的道德被腐蚀应该有所警惕。
假先知过去有，现在呢？
2:14 在耶利米时代，假先知比比皆是，他们常宣布一些假的神谕（神给人民的信息）。当耶利米警告犹大的灭亡和人民长期的被掳将至时，假先知却说一切平安无事，用不著惧怕。事实上，耶利米是神派遣的先知，他的预言才是真的（参耶14:14-16）。
“凡过路的都向你拍掌”意味著……
2:15 拍掌、嗤笑和摇头，都是表达轻蔑和嘲笑的方式，是含有鄙视的姿势。
犯罪牵连无辜是谁的错？是神扩大了惩罚还是人罪有应得？
2:19 第一章描述耶路撒冷的凄凉和请求神报复敌人。第二章包括呼吁人民要全心全意地听主的召唤。他们必须唾弃他们的罪，真诚地为做了违背主的事悲哀（3:40-42）。他们因为固执而背叛神，以致人人受苦且牵连无辜。这些灾难是神的错吗？不是，这是任性的人民的过错。犯罪的人会自食恶果，但可悲的是，不管是好人、坏人，犯罪带来的后果对他们都会有影响。
我知道自己又犯罪了──我对此求主赦免了吗？
2:19 苦难和罪恶已将人民带到主面前，而且悲痛地求主原谅。只有罪伤透我们的心时，神才能解救我们。仅是为自己的罪感到难过，并不能得到赦免，但是如果我们大声呼求请主原谅，他就会赦免我们。
我犯罪会不会连累家人？我有没有想到他们？
2:21-22 如此可怕的景象原是可避免的，因为耶利米已警告人民多年。目睹毁灭真的来临，耶利米如万箭穿心。当我们听到无辜的人发生不幸的事时，我们总是吃惊不已。无辜的局外人，常常成为国家受审判时的受害者。因此，罪恶不但能造成悲哀，也常造成极大的伤害。