Lamentations 2
1 How has 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!
Tazama jinsi Bwana alivyomfunika Binti Sayuni kwa wingu la hasira yake! Ameitupa chini fahari ya Israeli kutoka mbinguni mpaka duniani, hakukumbuka kiti chake cha kuwekea miguu katika siku ya hasira yake.
2 The LORD has swallowed up all the habitations of Jacob, and has not pitied: he has thrown down in his wrath the strong holds of the daughter of Judah; he has brought them down to the ground: he has polluted the kingdom and the princes thereof.
Bila huruma Bwana ameyameza makao yote ya Yakobo; katika ghadhabu yake amebomoa ngome za Binti Yuda. Ameuangusha ufalme wake na wakuu wake chini kwa aibu.
3 He has cut off in his fierce anger all the horn of Israel: he has drawn back his right hand from before the enemy, and he burned against Jacob like a flaming fire, which devours round about.
Katika hasira kali amevunja kila pembe ya Israeli. Ameuondoa mkono wake wa kuume alipokaribia adui. Amemteketeza Yakobo kama moto uwakao ule uteketezao kila kitu kinachouzunguka.
4 He has 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.
Ameupinda upinde wake kama adui, mkono wake wa kuume uko tayari. Kama vile adui amewachinja wote waliokuwa wanapendeza jicho, amemwaga ghadhabu yake kama moto juu ya hema la Binti Sayuni.
5 The LORD was as an enemy: he has swallowed up Israel, he has swallowed up all her palaces: he has destroyed his strong holds, and has increased in the daughter of Judah mourning and lamentation.
Bwana ni kama adui; amemmeza Israeli. Amemeza majumba yake yote ya kifalme na kuangamiza ngome zake. Ameongeza huzuni na maombolezo kwa ajili ya Binti Yuda.
6 And he has violently taken away his tabernacle, as if it were of a garden: he has destroyed his places of the assembly: the LORD has caused the solemn feasts and sabbaths to be forgotten in Zion, and has despised in the indignation of his anger the king and the priest.
Ameharibu maskani yake kama bustani, ameharibu mahali pake pa mkutano. Bwana amemfanya Sayuni kusahau sikukuu zake zilizoamriwa na Sabato zake; katika hasira yake kali amewadharau mfalme na kuhani.
7 The LORD has cast off his altar, he has abhorred his sanctuary, he has 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.
Bwana amekataa madhabahu yake na kuacha mahali patakatifu pake. Amemkabidhi adui kuta za majumba yake ya kifalme; wamepiga kelele katika nyumba ya Bwana kama katika siku ya sikukuu iliyoamriwa.
8 The LORD has purposed to destroy the wall of the daughter of Zion: he has stretched out a line, he has not withdrawn his hand from destroying: therefore he made the rampart and the wall to lament; they languished together.
Bwana alikusudia kuangusha ukuta uliomzunguka Binti Sayuni. Ameinyoosha kamba ya kupimia na hakuuzuia mkono wake usiangamize. Alifanya maboma na kuta ziomboleze, vyote vikaharibika pamoja.
9 Her gates are sunk into the ground; he has 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.
Malango yake yamezama ardhini, makomeo yake ameyavunja na kuyaharibu. Mfalme wake na wakuu wake wamepelekwa uhamishoni miongoni mwa mataifa, sheria haipo tena, na manabii wake hawapati tena maono kutoka kwa Bwana.
10 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.
Wazee wa Binti Sayuni wanaketi chini kimya, wamenyunyiza mavumbi kwenye vichwa vyao na kuvaa nguo za gunia. Wanawali wa Yerusalemu wamesujudu hadi ardhini.
11 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 infants swoon in the streets of the city.
Macho yangu yamedhoofika kwa kulia, nina maumivu makali ndani, moyo wangu umemiminwa ardhini kwa sababu watu wangu wameangamizwa, kwa sababu watoto na wanyonyao wanazimia kwenye barabara za mji.
12 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.
Wanawaambia mama zao, “Wapi mkate na divai?” wazimiapo kama watu waliojeruhiwa katika barabara za mji, maisha yao yadhoofikavyo mikononi mwa mama zao.
13 What thing shall I take to witness for you? what thing shall I liken to you, O daughter of Jerusalem? what shall I equal to you, that I may comfort you, O virgin daughter of Zion? for your breach is great like the sea: who can heal you?
Ninaweza kusema nini kwa ajili yako? Nikulinganishe na nini, ee Binti Yerusalemu? Nitakufananisha na nini, ili nipate kukufariji, ee Bikira Binti Sayuni? Jeraha lako lina kina kama bahari. Ni nani awezaye kukuponya?
14 Your prophets have seen vain and foolish things for you: and they have not discovered your iniquity, to turn away your captivity; but have seen for you false burdens and causes of banishment.
Maono ya manabii wako yalikuwa ya uongo na yasiyofaa kitu, hawakuifunua dhambi yako ili kukuzuilia kwenda utumwani. Maneno waliyokupa yalikuwa ya uongo na ya kupotosha.
15 All that pass by clap their hands at you; they hiss and shake 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?
Wote wapitiao njia yako wanakupigia makofi, wanakudhihaki na kutikisa vichwa vyao kwa Binti Yerusalemu: “Huu ndio ule mji ulioitwa mkamilifu wa uzuri, furaha ya dunia yote?”
16 all of your enemies have opened their mouth against you: 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.
Adui zako wote wanapanua vinywa vyao dhidi yako, wanadhihaki na kusaga meno yao na kusema, “Tumemmeza. Hii ndiyo siku tuliyoingojea, tumeishi na kuiona.”
17 The LORD has done that which he had devised; he has fulfilled his word that he had commanded in the days of old: he has thrown down, and has not pitied: and he has caused your enemy to rejoice over you, he has set up the horn of your adversaries.
Bwana amefanya lile alilolipanga; ametimiza neno lake aliloliamuru siku za kale. Amekuangusha bila huruma, amewaacha adui wakusimange, ametukuza pembe ya adui yako.
18 Their heart cried unto the LORD, O wall of the daughter of Zion, let tears run down like a river day and night: give yourself no rest; let not the apple of your eye cease.
Mioyo ya watu inamlilia Bwana. Ee ukuta wa Binti Sayuni, machozi yako na yatiririke kama mto usiku na mchana; usijipe nafuu, macho yako yasipumzike.
19 Arise, cry out in the night: in the beginning of the watches pour out your heart like water before the face of the LORD: lift up your hands toward him for the life of your young children, that faint for hunger in the top of every street.
Inuka, lia usiku, zamu za usiku zianzapo; mimina moyo wako kama maji mbele za Bwana. Mwinulie yeye mikono yako kwa ajili ya maisha ya watoto wako, ambao wanazimia kwa njaa kwenye kila mwanzo wa barabara.
20 Behold, O LORD, and consider to whom you have 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?
“Tazama, Ee Bwana, ufikirie: Ni nani ambaye umepata kumtendea namna hii? Je, wanawake wakule wazao wao, watoto waliowalea? Je, kuhani na nabii auawe mahali patakatifu pa Bwana?
21 The young and the old lie on the ground in the streets: my virgins and my young men are fallen by the sword; you have slain them in the day of your anger; you have killed, and not pitied.
“Vijana na wazee hujilaza pamoja katika mavumbi ya barabarani, wavulana wangu na wasichana wameanguka kwa upanga. Umewaua katika siku ya hasira yako, umewachinja bila huruma.
22 You have 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 has mine enemy consumed.
“Kama ulivyoita siku ya karamu, ndivyo ulivyoagiza hofu kuu dhidi yangu kila upande. Katika siku ya hasira ya Bwana hakuna yeyote aliyekwepa au kupona; wale niliowatunza na kuwalea, adui yangu amewaangamiza.”
