Lamentations 2
1 How has the Lord covered the daughter of Zion with a cloud in his anger! He has cast the beauty of Israel down from heaven to the earth, and hasn’t remembered his footstool in the day of his anger.
Bwana amemfunika binti wa Sayuni chini ya wingu la hasira yake. Ametupa utukufu wa Israeli chini kutoka mbinguni hadi duniani. Hajakumba stuli yake ya miguu siku ya hasira yake.
2 The Lord has swallowed up all the dwellings of Jacob without pity. He has thrown down in his wrath the strongholds of the daughter of Judah. He has brought them down to the ground. He has profaned the kingdom and its princes.
Bwana amemeza na hajawa na huruma kwa miji yote ya Yakobo. Siku za hasira zake ameangusha miji imara ya binti wa Yuda; kwa aibu ameshusha chini ufalme na watala wake.
3 He has cut off all the horn of Israel in fierce anger. He has drawn back his right hand from before the enemy. He has burned up Jacob like a flaming fire, which devours all around.
Kwa hasira kali amekata kila pembe ya Israeli. Ameurudisha mkono wake kutoka kwa adui. Amechoma Yakobo kama moto mkali unao teketeza kila kitu karibu yake.
4 He has bent his bow like an enemy. He has stood with his right hand as an adversary. He has killed all that were pleasant to the eye. In the tent of the daughter of Zion, he has poured out his wrath like fire.
Kama adui amepindisha upinde wake kuelekea kwetu, na wakulia wake yupo tayari kushambulia. Amewachinja wote walio kuwa wanampendeza katika hema la binti wa Sayuni; Amemwaga gadhabu yake kama moto
5 The Lord has become as an enemy. He has swallowed up Israel. He has swallowed up all her palaces. He has destroyed his strongholds. He has multiplied mourning and lamentation in the daughter of Judah.
Bwana amekuwa kama adui. Amemeza Israeli. Amemeza majumba yake yote. Ameharibu ngome zake. Ameongeza kilio na maombolezo kati ya mabinti wa Yuda.
6 He has violently taken away his tabernacle, as if it were a garden. He has destroyed his place of assembly. The LORD has caused solemn assembly and Sabbath to be forgotten in Zion. In the indignation of his anger, he has despised the king and the priest.
Ameshambulia hema lake la kukutania kama kajumba cha bustani. Ameharibu sehemu ya kukusanyikia. Yahweh amesababisha kukusanyika na Sabato kusahaulika Sayuni, kwa kuwa amemdharau mfalme na kuhani katika ukali wa hasira yake.
7 The Lord has cast off his altar. He has abhorred his sanctuary. He has given the walls of her palaces into the hand of the enemy. They have made a noise in the LORD’s house, as in the day of a solemn assembly.
Bwana amekataa madhabahu yake na kukana sehemu yake takatifu. Ametoa kuta za majumba mikononi mwa adui. Wamepaza sauti nyumbani mwa Yahweh, kama siku ya sherehe.
8 The LORD has purposed to destroy the wall of the daughter of Zion. He has stretched out the line. He has not withdrawn his hand from destroying; He has made the rampart and wall lament. They languish together.
Yahweh aliamua kuharibu ukuta wa mji wa binti wa Sayuni. Amenyoosha kamba ya kipimo na hajauzuia mkono wake kutoharibu ukuta. Amefanya minara na ukuta kuomboleza; pamoja vilipotea.
9 Her gates have sunk into the ground. He has destroyed and broken her bars. Her king and her princes are among the nations where the law is not. Yes, her prophets find no vision from the LORD.
Malango yake yameanguka chini, ameharibu na kuvunja chuma za ukuta. Mfalme wake na watoto wa mfalme wapo miongoni mwa mataifa, sheria haipo tena na manabii wake hawapati maono kutoka kwa Yahweh.
10 The elders of the daughter of Zion sit on the ground. They keep silence. They have cast up dust on their heads. They have clothed themselves with sackcloth. The virgins of Jerusalem hang down their heads to the ground.
Wazee wa binti wa Sayuni wameketi chini na ukimya. Wamerusha vumbi kichwani mwao na kuvaa magunia. Mabikra wa Yerusalemu wameinamisha vichwa vyao chini.
11 My eyes fail with tears. My heart is troubled. My bile is poured on the earth, because of the destruction of the daughter of my people, because the young children and the infants swoon in the streets of the city.
Macho yangu yamekaukiwa machozi yake; tumbo langu la nguruma; sehemu zangu za ndani zimemwagika chini kwasababu ya uharibifu wa binti wa watu wangu, watoto na wachanga wamezimia mitaani mwa mji.
12 They ask their mothers, “Where is grain and wine?” when they swoon as the wounded in the streets of the city, when their soul is poured out into their mothers’ bosom.
Wanasema kwa mama zao, “Mbegu ziko wapi na mvinyo?” kama wanavyo zimia kama mtu aliye jeruhiwa mitaani mwa mji, maisha yao yamemwaga kwenye kifua cha mama zao.
13 What shall I testify to you? What shall I liken to you, daughter of Jerusalem? What shall I compare to you, that I may comfort you, virgin daughter of Zion? For your breach is as big as the sea. Who can heal you?
Nini naeza kusema kwako, binti wa Yerusalemu? Naweza kufananisha na nini, ili ni kufariji, binti bikra wa Sayuni? Jera lako ni kubwa kama bahari. Nani anaweza kukuponya?
14 Your prophets have seen false and foolish visions for you. They have not uncovered your iniquity, to reverse your captivity, but have seen for you false revelations and causes of banishment.
Manabii wako wameona uongo na maono batili kwa ajili yako. Hawaja weka wazi dhambi zako kurejesha mali zako, lakini kwako wametoa matamko ya uongo na ya kupotosha.
15 All that pass by clap their hands at you. They hiss and wag their head at the daughter of Jerusalem, saying, “Is this the city that men called ‘The perfection of beauty, the joy of the whole earth’?”
Wote wanao pita pembeni mwa barabara wana piga makofi kwako. Wanaguna na kutikisa vichwa vyao dhidi ya binti wa Yerusalemu na kusema, “Huu ndio mji walio uita 'Ukamilifu wa uzuri,' 'Furaha ya Dunia Yote'?”
16 All your enemies have opened their mouth wide against you. They hiss and gnash their teeth. They say, “We have swallowed her up. Certainly this is the day that we looked for. We have found it. We have seen it.”
Maadui zako wote walifungua vinywa vyao na kukudhihaki. Walizomea na kusaga meno na kusema, “Tumemmeza yeye! Hii ni siku tulio subiri! Tumeishi kuweza kuiona!”
17 The LORD has done that which he planned. He has fulfilled his word that he commanded in the days of old. He has thrown down, and has not pitied. He has caused the enemy to rejoice over you. He has exalted the horn of your adversaries.
Yahweh amefanya alivyo panga kufanya. Ametimiza neno lake. Amekupindua bila huruma, kwa kuwa amemruhusu adui kukusherehekea; amenyanyua pembe za maadui zako.
18 Their heart cried to the Lord. O wall of the daughter of Zion, let tears run down like a river day and night. Give yourself no relief. Don’t let your eyes rest.
Mioyo yao ikamlilia Bwana, kuta za binti wa Sayuni! Fanya machozi yako kutiririka chini kama mto usiku na mchana. Usijipatie hauweni, macho yako bila hauweni.
19 Arise, cry out in the night, at 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, who faint for hunger at the head of every street.
Nyanyuka, lia usiku, mwanzo usiku wa manane! Mwaga moyo wako kama maji mbele za uso wa Bwana. Nyoosha juu mikono yako kwa ajili ya uzima wa watoto wako wanao zimia kwa njaa kwenye njia ya kila mtaa.
20 “Look, LORD, and see to whom you have done thus! Should the women eat their offspring, the children that they held and bounced on their knees? Should the priest and the prophet be killed in the sanctuary of the Lord?
Ona, Yahweh, na ukumbuke hao ulio watende haya. Wanawake wale tunda la uzazi wao, watoto walio wajali? Makuhani na manabii wa chinjwe sehemu takatifu ya Bwana?
21 “The youth and the old man lie on the ground in the streets. My virgins and my young men have fallen by the sword. You have killed them in the day of your anger. You have slaughtered, and not pitied.
Wote wadogo kwa wakubwa wana keti kwenye udongo wa mitaa. Wanawake wangu wadogo na wanaume wangu wadogo wameanguaka kwa upanga; umewachinja pasipo kuwa hurumia.
22 “You have called, as in the day of a solemn assembly, my terrors on every side. There was no one that escaped or remained in the day of the LORD’s anger. My enemy has consumed those whom I have cared for and brought up.
Umeitisha, kama ungewaita watu katika siku ya maakuli, hofu yangu kila sehemu, katika siku ya hasira ya Yahweh hakuna aliye toroka; hao niliyo wajali na kuwakuza, adui wangu amewaharibu.
