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,

Upon the willows—in the midst thereof, hanged we our lyres:

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 asked of us words of song, and our plunderers—gladness, —Sing us of the songs of Zion!

4 Yaya za mu rera waƙoƙin Ubangiji a baƙuwar ƙasa?

How shall we sing the song of Yahweh, on a foreign soil?

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:

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

Let my tongue cleave to the roof of my mouth, if I do not remember thee! if I do not lift up Jerusalem above the head of mine own gladness.

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 Yahweh, against the sons of Edom, the day of Jerusalem, —how they continued to say—Overthrow! Overthrow! unto the foundation within it.

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

O ruined daughter of Babylon, —how happy the man who shall repay thee thy dealing, wherewith thou didst deal with us!

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

How happy the man who shall snatch away and dash thy children against the crag.