Zabura 129

1 Waƙar haurawa. Sun yi mini danniya ƙwarai tun ina ƙarami, bari Isra’ila yă ce,

A song for pilgrims going up to Jerusalem. Many enemies have attacked from the time I was young. Let everyone in Israel say:

2 sun yi mini danniya ƙwarai tun ina ƙarami, amma ba su yi nasara a kaina ba.

Many enemies have attacked from the time I was young, but they never defeated me.

3 Manoma sun nome bayana suka yi kunyoyinsu da tsayi.

They beat me on my back, leaving long furrows as if it had been ploughed by a farmer.

4 Amma Ubangiji mai adalci ne; ya’yantar da ni daga igiyoyin mugaye.

But the Lord does what is right: he has cut me free from the ropes of the wicked.

5 Bari dukan waɗanda suke ƙin Sihiyona a juye da su baya da kunya.

May everyone who hates Zion be driven back in humiliating defeat.

6 Bari su zama kamar ciyawa a kan rufi, wadda takan bushe kafin tă yi girma;

May they be like grass that grows on a roof that withers before it can be harvested,

7 da ita mai girbi ba ya iya cika hannuwansa, balle wanda yake tarawa yă cika hannuwansa.

There's not enough even for a reaper to hold, not enough even for the binder to bind.

8 Kada masu wuce su ce, “Albarkar Ubangiji ta kasance a kanku; muna sa muku albarka a cikin sunan Ubangiji.”

May passers-by not say to them, “The blessing of the Lord be on you; we bless you in the name of the Lord.”