Zabura 137

1 A bakin kogunan Babilon muka zauna muka yi kuka sa’ad da muka tuna da Sihiyona.

By the rivers of Babylon, there we sat down, yea, we wept, when we remembered Zion.

2 A can a kan rassan itatuwa muka rataye garayunmu,

We hanged our harps upon the willows in the midst thereof.

3 gama a can masu kamunmu suka sa mu yi waƙoƙi, masu ba mu azaba suka nema waƙoƙin farin ciki; suka ce, “Ku rera mana ɗaya daga cikin waƙoƙin Sihiyona!”

For there they that carried us away captive required of us a song; and they that wasted us [required of us] mirth, [saying], Sing us [one] of the songs of Zion.

4 Yaya za mu rera waƙoƙin Ubangiji a baƙuwar ƙasa?

How shall we sing the LORD’s song in a strange land?

5 In na manta da ke, ya Urushalima, bari hannuna na dama manta da iyawarsa.

If I forget thee, O Jerusalem, let my right hand forget [her cunning].

6 Bari harshena yă manne wa rufin bakina in ban tuna da ke ba, in ban so Urushalima farin cikin mafi girma ba.

If I do not remember thee, let my tongue cleave to the roof of my mouth; if I prefer not Jerusalem above my chief joy.

7 Ka tuna, ya Ubangiji, abin da mutanen Edom suka yi a ranar da Urushalima ta fāɗi. Suka yi ihu suka ce, “A ragargaza ta, A ragargaza ta har tushenta!”

Remember, O LORD, the children of Edom in the day of Jerusalem; who said, Rase [it], rase [it, even] to the foundation thereof.

8 Ya Diyar Babilon, an ƙaddara ke zuwa hallaka, mai farin ciki ne wanda ya sāka miki saboda abin da kika yi mana,

O daughter of Babylon, who art to be destroyed; happy [shall he be], that rewardeth thee as thou hast served us.

9 shi da ya ƙwace jariranki ya fyaɗa su a kan duwatsu.

Happy [shall he be], that taketh and dasheth thy little ones against the stones.