Macakaya 5
1 Wee Jehova-rĩ, ririkana maũndũ marĩa matũkorete; ta rora wone gũconoka gwitũ.
Remember, O LORD, what is come on us: consider, and behold our reproach.
2 Igai riitũ nĩrĩneanĩtwo kũrĩ ageni, nayo mĩciĩ iitũ ĩgakĩneanwo kũrĩ andũ a kũngĩ.
Our inheritance is turned to strangers, our houses to aliens.
3 Nĩtũtuĩkĩte ciana cia ngoriai na ciana itarĩ na maithe, nao manyina maitũ magatuĩka ta atumia a ndigwa.
We are orphans and fatherless, our mothers are as widows.
4 Maaĩ marĩa tũnyuuaga no tũgũrire; o na ngũ nĩkũgũra tũragũra.
We have drunken our water for money; our wood is sold to us.
5 Arĩa matũingatithagia marĩ o magũrũ-inĩ maitũ; nĩtũnogete, na tũkaaga ũhurũko.
Our necks are under persecution: we labor, and have no rest.
6 Twĩneanĩte kũrĩ andũ a Misiri na a Ashuri nĩgeetha tuone irio cia gũtũigana.
We have given the hand to the Egyptians, and to the Assyrians, to be satisfied with bread.
7 Maithe maitũ nĩmehirie na rĩu matirĩ ho, na ithuĩ nĩ ithuĩ tũraherithio handũ hao.
Our fathers have sinned, and are not; and we have borne their iniquities.
8 Ngombo nĩcio itwathaga, na gũtirĩ mũndũ wa gũtũteithũra kuuma moko-inĩ ma cio.
Servants have ruled over us: there is none that does deliver us out of their hand.
9 Tuonaga irio na ũndũ wa gũtwarĩrĩria mĩoyo iitũ ũgwati-inĩ, nĩ ũndũ wa rũhiũ rwa njora rũrĩa rũrĩ werũ-inĩ.
We got our bread with the peril of our lives because of the sword of the wilderness.
10 Gĩkonde giitũ kĩhiũhĩte o ta riiko rĩa kũruga mĩgate, tũkainaina nĩ ũndũ wa kũhũũta.
Our skin was black like an oven because of the terrible famine.
11 Andũ-a-nja nĩmanyiitĩtwo na hinya gũkũ Zayuni, nao airĩtu gathirange makanyiitwo na hinya matũũra-inĩ ma Juda.
They ravished the women in Zion, and the maids in the cities of Judah.
12 Anene akuo nĩ macuurĩtio na moko mao; athuuri nao matiheagwo gĩtĩĩo.
Princes are hanged up by their hand: the faces of elders were not honored.
13 Aanake marutithagio wĩra wa hinya ithĩi-inĩ; tũmwana natuo tũtũgũũgaga nĩgũkuuithio mĩrigo ya ngũ.
They took the young men to grind, and the children fell under the wood.
14 Athuuri nĩmatigĩte gũikara kĩhingo-inĩ gĩa itũũra inene; aanake nao nĩmatigĩte kũina nyĩmbo ciao.
The elders have ceased from the gate, the young men from their music.
15 Ngoro ciitũ nĩithirĩte gĩkeno; ndũrũhĩ ciitũ igarũrũkĩte igatuĩka macakaya.
The joy of our heart is ceased; our dance is turned into mourning.
16 Thũmbĩ ya ũnene nĩĩgwĩte, ĩgatuuma mũtwe, kaĩ tũrĩ na haaro-ĩ, nĩgũkorwo nĩtwĩhĩtie!
The crown is fallen from our head: woe to us, that we have sinned!
17 Tondũ ũcio ngoro ciitũ nĩiringĩkĩte; na tondũ wa maũndũ macio maitho maitũ makaira,
For this our heart is faint; for these things our eyes are dim.
18 tondũ wa Kĩrĩma gĩa Zayuni, kĩrĩa gĩkirĩte ihooru, nacio mbwe rĩu nĩkuo iceeraga.
Because of the mountain of Zion, which is desolate, the foxes walk on it.
19 Wee Jehova-rĩ, wathanaga nginya tene; gĩtĩ gĩaku kĩa ũnene gĩtũũraga kuuma njiarwa nginya njiarwa.
You, O LORD, remain for ever; your throne from generation to generation.
20 Ũriganagĩrwo nĩ ithuĩ hĩndĩ ciothe nĩkĩ? Ũtũtiganĩirie hĩndĩ ndaaya ũguo nĩkĩ?
Why do you forget us for ever, and forsake us so long time?
21 Wee Jehova-rĩ, tũcookererie harĩwe, nĩguo tũhote gũgũcookerera; erũhia matukũ maitũ macooke o ta ũrĩa matariĩ tene,
Turn you us to you, O LORD, and we shall be turned; renew our days as of old.
22 tiga ũkorirwo nĩũtũregeete biũ, ũgagĩtũrakarĩra o mũno makĩria.
But you have utterly rejected us; you are very wroth against us.
