Abụ Akwa 5
1 Onyenwe anyị, biko, cheta ihe niile dakwasịrị anyị; leekwa anya ka ị hụrụ ọnọdụ ihere anyị.
Remember, O Lord, what is come upon us: consider and behold our reproach.
2 E werela ihe nketa anyị nyefee ndị ọbịa nʼaka, werekwa ebe obibi anyị nyefee nʼaka ndị mba ọzọ.
Our inheritance is turned to aliens: our houses to strangers.
3 Anyị aghọọla ụmụ mgbei, na ndị na-enweghị nna. Nne anyị ha dị ka ndị inyom di ha nwụrụ.
We are become orphans without a father: our mothers are as widows.
4 Anyị na-akwụ ụgwọ nʼihi mmiri anyị na-aṅụ. Ọ bụkwa ego ka anyị ji azụ nkụ.
We have drunk our water for money: we have bought our wood.
5 Agbanyeghị na anyị nya yoku nʼolu, anyị bụ ndị a na-adọgbu nʼọrụ, ike agwụla anyị, enyeghị anyị izuike.
We were dragged by the necks, we were weary and no rest was given us.
6 Anyị weere onwe anyị nyefee ndị Ijipt na ndị Asịrịa nʼaka nʼihi inweta nri ga-ezuru anyị.
We have given our hand to Egypt, and to the Assyrians, that we might be satisfied with bread.
7 Nna anyị ha mehiere, ma ha anwụọla. Ma ọ bụ anyị na-anata ntaramahụhụ kwesiri ịbụ nke ha.
Our fathers have sinned, and are not: and we have borne their iniquities.
8 Ndị bụ ohu na-achị anyị. Ọ dịghị onye anyị nwere nke ga-anapụta anyị site nʼaka ha.
Servants have ruled over us: there was none to redeem us out of their hand.
9 Anyị ji ndụ anyị nʼaka mgbe anyị na-achọ inweta ihe anyị ga-eri, nʼihi mma agha nke dị nʼọzara.
We fetched our bread at the peril of our lives, because of the sword in the desert.
10 Anụ ahụ anyị dị ọkụ dịka ite ọkụ, na-amakwa jijiji nʼihi agụụ.
Our skin was burnt as an oven, by reason of the violence of the famine.
11 Emerụọla ndị inyom dị na Zayọn, ha na ụmụ agbọghọ na-amaghị nwoke niile dị nʼobodo dị iche iche nke Juda.
They oppressed the women in Sion, and the virgins in the cities of Juda.
12 Akwụgbuola ụmụ eze site nʼikegide aka ha nʼelu; a dịghị enyekwa ndị okenye nsọpụrụ.
The princes were hanged up by their hand: they did not respect the persons of the ancient.
13 Ụmụ okorobịa na-adọgbu onwe ha nʼọrụ na nkume ịkwọ nri, ụmụntakịrị ndị nwoke na-asụkwa ngọngọ nʼokpuru ọtụtụ nkụ.
They abused the young men indecently: and the children fell under the wood.
14 Ndị okenye adịghịkwa anọ nʼọnụ ụzọ ama, ụmụ okorobịa akwụsịkwala ịkpọ ụbọ akwara ha.
The ancients have ceased from the gates: the young men from the choir of the singers.
15 Ọṅụ adịghịkwa nʼobi anyị; ite egwu anyị aghọọlara anyị ịnọ ọnọdụ iru ụjụ.
The joy of our heart is ceased, our dancing is turned into mourning.
16 Okpueze esitela nʼisi anyị dapụ. Ahụhụ dịrị anyị nʼihi na anyị emehiela.
The crown is fallen from our head woe to us, because we have sinned.
17 Nʼihi nke a, obi anyị na-ada mba, nʼihi ihe ndị a ka anya anyị na-agba ọchịchịrị.
Therefore is our heart sorrowful, therefore are our eyes become dim,
18 Nʼihi ugwu Zayọn nke tọgbọrọ nʼefu, nke ghọrọ ebe nkịta ọhịa na-akpagharị.
For mount Sion, because it is destroyed, foxes have walked upon it.
19 Gị, Onyenwe anyị, na-abụ eze ruo mgbe ebighị ebi. Ocheeze gị na-adịgide site nʼọgbọ ruo nʼọgbọ.
But thou, O Lord, shalt remain for ever, thy throne from generation to generation.
20 Gịnị mere i ji na-echezọ anyị kpamkpam? Gịnị mere i ji gbakụta anyị azụ ogologo ụbọchị ndị a niile?
Why wilt thou forget us for ever? why wilt thou forsake us for a long time?
21 Mee ka anyị lọghachikwute gị, Onyenwe anyị, ka anyị si otu a lọtakwa; gbanwee ụbọchị anyị ka ọ dị ọhụrụ dịka na mgbe ochie,
Convert us, O Lord, to thee, and we shall be converted: renew our days, as from the beginning.
22 ma ọ bụghị na ị jụla anyị kpamkpam na-eweso anyị iwe nke ukwu.
But thou hast utterly rejected us, thou art exceedingly angry against us.
