Maombolezo 2
1 Tazama jinsi Bwana alivyomfunika Binti Sayuni kwa wingu la hasira yake! Ameitupa chini fahari ya Israeli kutoka mbinguni mpaka duniani, hakukumbuka kiti chake cha kuwekea miguu katika siku ya hasira yake.
ALEPH. O how the Lord has covered the daughter of Zion with gloom in his fury! O how he has thrown down from heaven to earth the famous one of Israel, and he has not remembered his footstool in the day of his fury.
2 Bila huruma Bwana ameyameza makao yote ya Yakobo; katika ghadhabu yake amebomoa ngome za Binti Yuda. Ameuangusha ufalme wake na wakuu wake chini kwa aibu.
BETH. The Lord has cast down, and he has not been lenient, with all the beauties of Jacob. In his fury, he has destroyed the fortifications of the virgin of Judah, and he has thrown them down to the ground. He has polluted the kingdom and its leaders.
3 Katika hasira kali amevunja kila pembe ya Israeli. Ameuondoa mkono wake wa kuume alipokaribia adui. Amemteketeza Yakobo kama moto uwakao ule uteketezao kila kitu kinachouzunguka.
GHIMEL. In the anger of his fury, he has broken the entire horn of Israel. He has drawn back his right hand before the face of the enemy. And he has kindled within Jacob a flaming fire, devouring all around.
4 Ameupinda upinde wake kama adui, mkono wake wa kuume uko tayari. Kama vile adui amewachinja wote waliokuwa wanapendeza jicho, amemwaga ghadhabu yake kama moto juu ya hema la Binti Sayuni.
DALETH. He has bent his bow like an enemy. He has fixed his right hand like an adversary. And he has cut down all that was beautiful to behold in the tabernacle of the daughter of Zion. He has poured out his indignation like fire.
5 Bwana ni kama adui; amemmeza Israeli. Amemeza majumba yake yote ya kifalme na kuangamiza ngome zake. Ameongeza huzuni na maombolezo kwa ajili ya Binti Yuda.
HE. The Lord has become like an enemy. He has thrown down Israel. He has thrown down all of his defenses. He has torn apart his fortifications. And he has filled the daughter of Judah with humbled men and humbled women.
6 Ameharibu maskani yake kama bustani, ameharibu mahali pake pa mkutano. Bwana amemfanya Sayuni kusahau sikukuu zake zilizoamriwa na Sabato zake; katika hasira yake kali amewadharau mfalme na kuhani.
VAU. And he has torn apart her tent like a garden. He has demolished her tabernacle. In Zion, the Lord has delivered feast and Sabbath into oblivion, and king and priest into disgrace, and into the indignation of his fury.
7 Bwana amekataa madhabahu yake na kuacha mahali patakatifu pake. Amemkabidhi adui kuta za majumba yake ya kifalme; wamepiga kelele katika nyumba ya Bwana kama katika siku ya sikukuu iliyoamriwa.
ZAIN. The Lord has pushed away his own altar. He has cursed his own sanctuary. He has delivered the walls of its towers into the hand of the enemy. They have made a noise in the house of the Lord, as if on the day of a solemnity.
8 Bwana alikusudia kuangusha ukuta uliomzunguka Binti Sayuni. Ameinyoosha kamba ya kupimia na hakuuzuia mkono wake usiangamize. Alifanya maboma na kuta ziomboleze, vyote vikaharibika pamoja.
HETH. The Lord has decided to tear down the wall of the daughter of Zion. He has stretched out his measuring line, and he has not turned away his hand from perdition. And the rampart has mourned, and with the wall it has been torn apart.
9 Malango yake yamezama ardhini, makomeo yake ameyavunja na kuyaharibu. Mfalme wake na wakuu wake wamepelekwa uhamishoni miongoni mwa mataifa, sheria haipo tena, na manabii wake hawapati tena maono kutoka kwa Bwana.
TETH. Her gates have been buried in the ground. He has ruined and crushed its bars. Her king and her princes are with the Gentiles. There is no law, and her prophets have found no vision from the Lord.
10 Wazee wa Binti Sayuni wanaketi chini kimya, wamenyunyiza mavumbi kwenye vichwa vyao na kuvaa nguo za gunia. Wanawali wa Yerusalemu wamesujudu hadi ardhini.
JOD. The elders of the daughter of Zion have become idle; they sit on the ground. They have sprinkled their heads with ashes. They have been wrapped with haircloth. The virgins of Jerusalem have cast their heads down to the ground.
11 Macho yangu yamedhoofika kwa kulia, nina maumivu makali ndani, moyo wangu umemiminwa ardhini kwa sababu watu wangu wameangamizwa, kwa sababu watoto na wanyonyao wanazimia kwenye barabara za mji.
CAPH. My eyes have exhausted their tears. My internal organs have become disturbed. My liver has been poured out on the earth, over the grief of the daughter of my people, when the little ones and the infants passed away in the streets of the town.
12 Wanawaambia mama zao, “Wapi mkate na divai?” wazimiapo kama watu waliojeruhiwa katika barabara za mji, maisha yao yadhoofikavyo mikononi mwa mama zao.
LAMED. They said to their mothers, “Where is the wheat and the wine?” when they fell like the wounded in the streets of the city, when they breathed out their lives into the bosoms of their mothers.
13 Ninaweza kusema nini kwa ajili yako? Nikulinganishe na nini, ee Binti Yerusalemu? Nitakufananisha na nini, ili nipate kukufariji, ee Bikira Binti Sayuni? Jeraha lako lina kina kama bahari. Ni nani awezaye kukuponya?
MEM. To what shall I compare you, or to what shall I liken you, O daughter of Jerusalem? To what shall I equate you, so as to console you, O virgin daughter of Zion? For your destruction is as great as the sea. Who will cure you?
14 Maono ya manabii wako yalikuwa ya uongo na yasiyofaa kitu, hawakuifunua dhambi yako ili kukuzuilia kwenda utumwani. Maneno waliyokupa yalikuwa ya uongo na ya kupotosha.
NUN. Your prophets have seen false and foolish things for you. And they have not laid open your iniquity, so as to provoke you to repentance. Yet they have seen for you false revelations and banishments.
15 Wote wapitiao njia yako wanakupigia makofi, wanakudhihaki na kutikisa vichwa vyao kwa Binti Yerusalemu: “Huu ndio ule mji ulioitwa mkamilifu wa uzuri, furaha ya dunia yote?”
SAMECH. All those who passed by the way have clapped their hands over you. They have hissed and shook their heads over the daughter of Jerusalem, saying, “Is this the city of perfect dignity, the joy of all the earth?”
16 Adui zako wote wanapanua vinywa vyao dhidi yako, wanadhihaki na kusaga meno yao na kusema, “Tumemmeza. Hii ndiyo siku tuliyoingojea, tumeishi na kuiona.”
PHE. All your enemies have opened their mouth over you. They have hissed and gnashed their teeth, and they said: “We will devour her. Yes, this is the day we waited for. We have found it, we have seen it.”
17 Bwana amefanya lile alilolipanga; ametimiza neno lake aliloliamuru siku za kale. Amekuangusha bila huruma, amewaacha adui wakusimange, ametukuza pembe ya adui yako.
AIN. The Lord has done what he decided to do. He has fulfilled his word, which he instructed since the days of antiquity. He has destroyed, and he has not been lenient, and he has caused the enemy to rejoice over you, and he has exalted the horn of your adversaries.
18 Mioyo ya watu inamlilia Bwana. Ee ukuta wa Binti Sayuni, machozi yako na yatiririke kama mto usiku na mchana; usijipe nafuu, macho yako yasipumzike.
SADE. Their heart cried out to the Lord from the walls of the daughter of Zion. Let tears run down like a torrent throughout the day and the night. Do not give rest to yourself, and do not allow the pupil of your eye to cease.
19 Inuka, lia usiku, zamu za usiku zianzapo; mimina moyo wako kama maji mbele za Bwana. Mwinulie yeye mikono yako kwa ajili ya maisha ya watoto wako, ambao wanazimia kwa njaa kwenye kila mwanzo wa barabara.
COPH. Rise up. Give praise in the night, in the first of the watches. Pour out your heart like water before the sight of the Lord. Lift up your hands to him on behalf of the souls of your little ones, who have passed away from famine at the head of all the crossroads.
20 “Tazama, Ee Bwana, ufikirie: Ni nani ambaye umepata kumtendea namna hii? Je, wanawake wakule wazao wao, watoto waliowalea? Je, kuhani na nabii auawe mahali patakatifu pa Bwana?
RES. O Lord, see and consider those whom you have made into such a vintage. So then, shall women eat their own fruit, little ones measured by the palm of the hand? Shall priest and prophet be killed in the sanctuary of the Lord?
21 “Vijana na wazee hujilaza pamoja katika mavumbi ya barabarani, wavulana wangu na wasichana wameanguka kwa upanga. Umewaua katika siku ya hasira yako, umewachinja bila huruma.
SIN. The boy and the old man lie down on the ground outside. My virgins and my youths have fallen by the sword. You have slain them in the day of your fury. You have struck down, and you have not shown pity.
22 “Kama ulivyoita siku ya karamu, ndivyo ulivyoagiza hofu kuu dhidi yangu kila upande. Katika siku ya hasira ya Bwana hakuna yeyote aliyekwepa au kupona; wale niliowatunza na kuwalea, adui yangu amewaangamiza.”
THAU. You have called, as if to a day of solemnity, those who would terrify me all around. And there was no one, in the day of the fury of the Lord, who escaped or was left behind. Those whom I educated and nourished, my enemy has consumed.
