Psalms 87

1 A Canticle Psalm to the sons of Korah. Its foundations are in the holy mountains:

Zaburi ya wana wa Kora. Wimbo. Ameuweka msingi wake katika mlima mtakatifu;

2 the Lord loves the gates of Zion above all the tabernacles of Jacob.

Bwana anayapenda malango ya Sayuni kuliko makao yote ya Yakobo.

3 Glorious things are being said of you, O City of God.

Mambo matukufu yanasemwa juu yako, ee mji wa Mungu:

4 I will be mindful of Rahab and of Babylon knowing me. Behold, the foreigners, and Tyre, and the people of the Ethiopians: these have been there.

“Nitaweka kumbukumbu ya Rahabu na Babeli miongoni mwa wale wanaonikubali mimi: Ufilisti pia na Tiro, pamoja na Kushi, nami nitasema, ‘Huyu alizaliwa Sayuni.’”

5 Will not Zion say that this man and that man were born in her? And the Most High himself has founded her.

Kuhusu Sayuni itasemwa hivi, “Huyu na yule walizaliwa humo, naye Aliye Juu Sana mwenyewe atamwimarisha.”

6 The Lord will explain, in the writings of peoples and of leaders, about those who have been in her.

Bwana ataandika katika orodha ya mataifa: “Huyu alizaliwa Sayuni.”

7 For so the dwelling place within you is with all rejoicing.

Watakapokuwa wanapiga vinanda wataimba, “Chemchemi zangu zote ziko kwako.”