Psalms 88
1 Yahweh God, you who rescues me, all during each day I call out [to you] to help me, and I cry out to you during each night also.
Yahwe, Mungu wa wokovu wangu, ninalia mchana na usiku mbele zako.
2 Listen [IDM] to my prayer [DOU], while I cry out to you [for help]!
Sikiliza maombi yangu; utazame kulia kwangu.
3 I have experienced many troubles/difficulties, and I am about to die [MTY] and go where dead people are. (Sheol h7585)
Maana nimejawa taabu, na uhai wangu umefika kuzimuni. (Sheol h7585)
4 Because I have no more strength, [other people also] consider that I will soon die.
Watu hunichukulia kama wale waendao chini shimoni; mimi ni mtu asiye na nguvu.
5 I am like a corpse that has been abandoned; I am like dead people who lie in their graves, people who have been completely forgotten, because you do not take care of them any more.
Nimetelekezwa miongoni mwa wafu; niko kama mfu alalaye katika kaburi, wao ambao wewe huwajari tena kwa sababu wametengwa mbali na nguvu zako.
6 [It is as though] you have thrown me into a deep, dark pit, into a place where they throw corpses.
Wewe umeniweka katika sehemu ya chini kabisa ya shimo, sehemu yenye giza na kilindini.
7 [It seems like] you are very angry with me, and [it is as though] you have crushed me like [ocean] waves [crash down on people] [MET].
Gadhabu yako yanielemea, na mawimbi yako yote yanatua juu yangu. (Selah)
8 You have caused my friends to (avoid/stay away from) me; I have become repulsive to them. [It is as though] I am in a prison and cannot escape.
Kwa sababu yako, wale wanijuao wote hunikwepa. Umenifanya wakutisha machoni pao. Nimefungwa na siwezi kutoroka.
9 My eyes cannot see well because I cry very much. Yahweh, every day I call out to you [to help me]; I lift up my hands to you [while I pray].
Macho yangu yamefifia kutokana na shida; kila siku nakuita wewe, Yahwe; ninakunyoshea wewe mikono yangu.
10 You certainly do not [RHQ] perform miracles for dead people! Their spirits do not [RHQ] arise to praise you!
Je! utafanya miujiza kwa ajili ya wafu? Wale waliokufa watafufuka na kukusifu wewe? (Selah)
11 Corpses in the grave certainly do not tell about your faithfully loving us [RHQ], and in the place where people are finally destroyed, no one tells about what you faithfully [do for us] [RHQ].
Uaminifu wa agano lako utatangazwa kaburini? au uaminifu wako mahali pa wafu?
12 No one in the deep dark pit ever sees the miracles that you perform [RHQ], and no one in the place where people have been completely forgotten tells about your being good to us.
Matendo yako ya ajabu yatajulikana gizani? au haki yako katika mahali pa usahaulifu?
13 But [as for me], Yahweh, I cry out to you [to help me]; each morning I pray to you.
Lakini ninakulilia wewe, Yahwe; wakati wa asubuhi maombi yangu huja kwako.
14 Yahweh, why do you reject me [RHQ]? Why do you turn away from me [RHQ]?
Yahwe, kwa nini unanikataa? Kwa nini unauficha uso wako mbali nami?
15 All the time since I was young, I have suffered and have often almost died; I am (in despair/very discouraged) because of enduring the terrible things that you have done to me.
Nimekuwa nikiteswa kila siku na hatihati ya kifo tangu ujana wangu. Nimeteseka dhidi ya hofu yako kuu; ninakata tamaa.
16 [I feel that] you have crushed me because of your being angry with me; the terrible things that you are doing to me are almost destroying me.
Matendo yako ya hasira yamepita juu yangu, na matendo yako ya kutisha yameniangamiza.
17 [I feel as though] they surround me like a flood [SIM]; they are (closing in on/crushing) me from all sides.
Siku zote yananizingira mimi kama maji; yote yamenizunguka mimi.
18 You have caused [even] my friends and others whom I love to avoid me, and [it is as though] the only friend that I have is darkness.
Wewe umemuondoa kwangu kila rafiki na anijuaye. Na sasa anijuaye pekee ni giza.
