< Zaburi 137 >
1 Kando ya mito ya Babeli tuliketi, tukaomboleza tulipokumbuka Sayuni.
By the rivers of Babylon, there, we sat down, yea we wept—when we remembered Zion:
2 Kwenye miti ya huko tulitundika vinubi vyetu,
Upon the willows—in the midst thereof, hanged we our lyres:
3 kwa maana huko hao waliotuteka walitaka tuwaimbie nyimbo, watesi wetu walidai nyimbo za furaha; walisema, “Tuimbieni wimbo mmoja kati ya nyimbo za Sayuni!”
For, there, our captors asked of us words of song, and our plunderers—gladness, —Sing us of the songs of Zion!
4 Tutaimbaje nyimbo za Bwana, tukiwa nchi ya kigeni?
How shall we sing the song of Yahweh, on a foreign soil?
5 Nikikusahau wewe, ee Yerusalemu, basi mkono wangu wa kuume na usahau ujuzi wake.
If I forget thee, O Jerusalem, Let my right-hand forget:
6 Ulimi wangu ushikamane na kaakaa la kinywa changu kama sitakukumbuka wewe, kama nisipokufikiri Yerusalemu kuwa furaha yangu kubwa.
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 Kumbuka, Ee Bwana, walichokifanya Waedomu, siku ile Yerusalemu ilipoanguka. Walisema, “Bomoa, Bomoa mpaka kwenye misingi yake!”
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 Ee binti Babeli, uliyehukumiwa kuangamizwa, heri yeye atakayekulipiza wewe kwa yale uliyotutenda sisi:
O ruined daughter of Babylon, —how happy the man who shall repay thee thy dealing, wherewith thou didst deal with us!
9 yeye ambaye atawakamata watoto wako wachanga na kuwaponda juu ya miamba.
How happy the man who shall snatch away and dash thy children against the crag.