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, and we also wept when we remembered Zion.

2 A can a kan rassan itatuwa muka rataye garayunmu,

Upon the willows in her midst had we hung up our harps.

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 our captors demanded of us the words of song; and those that mocked us, joy, [saying, ] Sing for us one of the songs of Zion.

4 Yaya za mu rera waƙoƙin Ubangiji a baƙuwar ƙasa?

How should we sing the song of the Lord on the soil of the stranger?

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

If I forget thee, O Jerusalem, may my right hand forget—.

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

May my tongue cleave to my palate if I do not remember thee: if I recall not Jerusalem at the head of my 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, unto the children of Edom the day of Jerusalem; who said, Raze it, raze it, even to her very foundation.

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 wasted: happy he, that repayeth thee thy recompense for what thou hast done to us.

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

Happy he, that seizeth and dasheth thy babes against the rock.