Gesami Hea:su 137

1 Ba: bilone hano bega: ninia da fi dialu. Amogawi, ninia da Saione Moilai Bai Bagade dawa: beba: le, fofagini dinanu.

By the rivers of Babylon, there, we sat down, yea we wept—when we remembered Zion:

2 Ninia da ‘yodima’ ifa damana, ninia sani baidama gosagisi.

Upon the willows—in the midst thereof, hanged we our lyres:

3 Dunu amo da nini gagulaligi, ilia da ninima amane sia: i, “Ninia hahawane nabima: ne, Saione ea hou olelema: ne, gesami hea: ma.”

For, there, our captors asked of us words of song, and our plunderers—gladness, —Sing us of the songs of Zion!

4 Be ninia da habodane ga fi soge ganodini, Hina Godema nodone gesami hea: ma: bela: ?

How shall we sing the song of Yahweh, on a foreign soil?

5 Yelusaleme! Na da di gogolesea, na da sani baidama bu hamedafa dumu da defea.

If I forget thee, O Jerusalem, Let my right-hand forget:

6 Na da di gogolesea, amola di da na baligili hahawane hou bai diala amo hame dawa: sea, na da bu gesami hea: mu logo hamedafa ba: mu da defea.

Let my tongue cleave to the roof of my mouth, if I do not remember thee! if I do not lift up Jerusalem above the head of mine own gladness.

7 Hina Gode! Idome dunu ilia da Yelusaleme doagala: le, hasalasi dagoi, Dia amo hou bu dawa: ma. Ilia amane sia: i, “Yelusaleme dafawanedafa muguluma.” Dia amo hou bu dawa: ma.

Remember, O Yahweh, against the sons of Edom, the day of Jerusalem, —how they continued to say—Overthrow! Overthrow! unto the foundation within it.

8 Ba: bilone moilai bai bagade! Di da gugunufinisi dagoi ba: mu. Di da ninima wadela: i hou bagade hamobeba: le, nowa da dima se dabe iasea, da hahawane bagade ba: mu.

O ruined daughter of Babylon, —how happy the man who shall repay thee thy dealing, wherewith thou didst deal with us!

9 E da dia mano dudubu amo sasamogene, gele da: iya gisalu gagala: mu da defea.

How happy the man who shall snatch away and dash thy children against the crag.