Psalms 129

1 A Song of degrees. Many a time have they afflicted me from my youth, may Israel now say:

Wimbo wa kwenda juu. Wamenionea mno tangu ujana wangu; Israeli na aseme sasa:

2 Many a time have they afflicted me from my youth: yet they have not prevailed against me.

wamenionea mno tangu ujana wangu, lakini bado hawajanishinda.

3 The plowers plowed upon my back: they made long their furrows.

Wakulima wamelima mgongo wangu, na kufanya mifereji yao mirefu.

4 The LORD [is] righteous: he hath cut asunder the cords of the wicked.

Lakini Bwana ni mwenye haki; amenifungua toka kamba za waovu.

5 Let them all be confounded and turned back that hate Zion.

Wale wote waichukiao Sayuni na warudishwe nyuma kwa aibu.

6 Let them be as the grass [upon] the house-tops, which withereth before it groweth up:

Wawe kama majani juu ya paa, ambayo hunyauka kabla hayajakua;

7 With which the mower filleth not his hand; nor he that bindeth sheaves, his bosom.

kwa hayo mvunaji hawezi kujaza vitanga vyake, wala akusanyaye kujaza mikono yake.

8 Neither do they who go by, say, The blessing of the LORD [be] upon you: we bless you in the name of the LORD.

Wale wapitao karibu na wasiseme, “Baraka ya Bwana iwe juu yako; tunakubariki katika jina la Bwana.”