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.
How hath the LORD covered the daughter of Zion with a cloud in his anger, [and] cast down from heaven to the earth the beauty of Israel, and remembered not his footstool in the day of his anger!
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.
The LORD hath swallowed up all the habitations of Jacob, and hath not pitied: he hath thrown down in his wrath the strong holds of the daughter of Judah; he hath brought [them] down to the ground: he hath polluted the kingdom and its princes.
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.
He hath cut off in [his] fierce anger all the horn of Israel: he hath drawn back his right hand from before the enemy, and he burned against Jacob like a flaming fire, [which] devoureth on every side.
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.
He hath bent his bow like an enemy: he stood with his right hand as an adversary, and slew all [that were] pleasant to the eye in the tabernacle of the daughter of Zion: he poured out his fury 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.
The LORD was as an enemy: he hath swallowed up Israel, he hath swallowed up all her palaces: he hath destroyed his strong holds, and hath increased in the daughter of Judah mourning and lamentation.
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.
And he hath violently taken away his tabernacle, as [if it were of] a garden: he hath destroyed his places of the assembly: the LORD hath caused the solemn feasts and sabbaths to be forgotten in Zion, and in the indignation of his anger hath despised the king and the priest.
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.
The LORD hath cast off his altar, he hath abhorred his sanctuary, he hath given up into the hand of the enemy the walls of her palaces; they have made a noise in the house of the LORD, as in the day of a solemn feast.
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.
The LORD hath purposed to destroy the wall of the daughter of Zion: he hath stretched out a line, he hath not withdrawn his hand from destroying: therefore he made the rampart and the wall to lament; they languished together.
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.
Her gates are sunk into the ground; he hath destroyed and broken her bars: her king and her princes [are] among the Gentiles: the law [is] no [more]: her prophets also find 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.
The elders of the daughter of Zion sit upon the ground, [and] keep silence: they have cast up dust upon their heads; they have girded themselves with sackcloth: the virgins of Jerusalem hang down their heads 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.
My eyes do fail with tears, my bowels are troubled, my liver is poured upon the earth, for the destruction of the daughter of my people; because the children and the sucklings swoon in the streets of the city.
12 Wanawaambia mama zao, “Wapi mkate na divai?” wazimiapo kama watu waliojeruhiwa katika barabara za mji, maisha yao yadhoofikavyo mikononi mwa mama zao.
They say to their mothers, Where [is] corn and wine? when they swooned as the wounded in the streets of the city, when their soul was poured out into their mothers' bosom.
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?
What thing shall I take to witness for thee? what thing shall I liken to thee, O daughter of Jerusalem? What shall I equal to thee, that I may comfort thee, O virgin daughter of Zion? for thy breach [is] great like the sea: who can heal thee?
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.
Thy prophets have seen vain and foolish things for thee: and they have not revealed thy iniquity, to turn away thy captivity; but have seen for thee false burdens and causes of banishment.
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?”
All that pass by, clap [their] hands at thee; they hiss and wag their head at the daughter of Jerusalem, [saying], [Is] this the city that [men] call the Perfection of beauty, the Joy of the whole 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.”
All thy enemies have opened their mouth against thee: they hiss and gnash the teeth: they say, We have swallowed [her] up: certainly this [is] the day that we looked for; we have found, 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.
The LORD hath done [that] which he had devised; he hath fulfilled his word that he had commanded in the days of old: he hath thrown down, and hath not pitied: and he hath caused [thy] enemy to rejoice over thee, he hath set up the horn of thy 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.
Their heart cried to the LORD, O wall of the daughter of Zion, let tears run down like a river day and night: give thyself no rest; let not the apple of thy eye 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.
Arise, cry out in the night: in the beginning of the watches pour out thy heart like water before the face of the LORD: lift up thy hands towards him for the life of thy young children, that faint for hunger at the head of every street.
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?
Behold, O LORD, and consider to whom thou hast done this. Shall the women eat their fruit, children of a span long? shall the priest and the prophet be slain 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.
The young and the old lie on the ground in the streets: my virgins and my young men have fallen by the sword; thou hast slain [them] in the day of thy anger; thou hast killed, [and] not pitied.
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.”
Thou hast called as in a solemn day my terrors around, so that in the day of the LORD'S anger none escaped nor remained: those that I have swaddled and brought up, hath my enemy consumed.
