Maombolezo 2
1 Bwana amemfunika binti wa Sayuni chini ya wingu la hasira yake. Ametupa utukufu wa Israeli chini kutoka mbinguni hadi duniani. Hajakumba stuli yake ya miguu siku ya hasira yake.
How the Lord has covered the Daughter of Zion with the cloud of His anger! He has cast the glory of Israel from heaven to earth. He has abandoned His footstool in the day of His anger.
2 Bwana amemeza na hajawa na huruma kwa miji yote ya Yakobo. Siku za hasira zake ameangusha miji imara ya binti wa Yuda; kwa aibu ameshusha chini ufalme na watala wake.
Without pity the Lord has swallowed up all the dwellings of Jacob. In His wrath He has demolished the fortified cities of the Daughter of Judah. He brought to the ground and defiled her kingdom and its princes.
3 Kwa hasira kali amekata kila pembe ya Israeli. Ameurudisha mkono wake kutoka kwa adui. Amechoma Yakobo kama moto mkali unao teketeza kila kitu karibu yake.
In fierce anger He has cut off every horn of Israel and withdrawn His right hand at the approach of the enemy. He has burned in Jacob like a flaming fire that consumes everything around it.
4 Kama adui amepindisha upinde wake kuelekea kwetu, na wakulia wake yupo tayari kushambulia. Amewachinja wote walio kuwa wanampendeza katika hema la binti wa Sayuni; Amemwaga gadhabu yake kama moto
He has bent His bow like an enemy; His right hand is positioned. Like a foe He has killed all who were pleasing to the eye; He has poured out His wrath like fire on the tent of the Daughter of Zion.
5 Bwana amekuwa kama adui. Amemeza Israeli. Amemeza majumba yake yote. Ameharibu ngome zake. Ameongeza kilio na maombolezo kati ya mabinti wa Yuda.
The Lord is like an enemy; He has swallowed up Israel. He has swallowed up all her palaces and destroyed her strongholds. He has multiplied mourning and lamentation for the Daughter of Judah.
6 Ameshambulia hema lake la kukutania kama kajumba cha bustani. Ameharibu sehemu ya kukusanyikia. Yahweh amesababisha kukusanyika na Sabato kusahaulika Sayuni, kwa kuwa amemdharau mfalme na kuhani katika ukali wa hasira yake.
He has laid waste His tabernacle like a garden booth; He has destroyed His place of meeting. The LORD has made Zion forget her appointed feasts and Sabbaths. In His fierce anger He has despised both king and priest.
7 Bwana amekataa madhabahu yake na kukana sehemu yake takatifu. Ametoa kuta za majumba mikononi mwa adui. Wamepaza sauti nyumbani mwa Yahweh, kama siku ya sherehe.
The Lord has rejected His altar; He has abandoned His sanctuary; He has delivered the walls of her palaces into the hand of the enemy. They have raised a shout in the house of the LORD as on the day of an appointed feast.
8 Yahweh aliamua kuharibu ukuta wa mji wa binti wa Sayuni. Amenyoosha kamba ya kipimo na hajauzuia mkono wake kutoharibu ukuta. Amefanya minara na ukuta kuomboleza; pamoja vilipotea.
The LORD determined to destroy the wall of the Daughter of Zion. He stretched out a measuring line and did not withdraw His hand from destroying. He made the ramparts and walls lament; together they waste away.
9 Malango yake yameanguka chini, ameharibu na kuvunja chuma za ukuta. Mfalme wake na watoto wa mfalme wapo miongoni mwa mataifa, sheria haipo tena na manabii wake hawapati maono kutoka kwa Yahweh.
Her gates have sunk into the ground; He has destroyed and shattered their bars. Her king and her princes are exiled among the nations, the law is no more, and even her prophets find no vision from the LORD.
10 Wazee wa binti wa Sayuni wameketi chini na ukimya. Wamerusha vumbi kichwani mwao na kuvaa magunia. Mabikra wa Yerusalemu wameinamisha vichwa vyao chini.
The elders of the Daughter of Zion sit on the ground in silence. They have thrown dust on their heads and put on sackcloth. The young women of Jerusalem have bowed their heads to the ground.
11 Macho yangu yamekaukiwa machozi yake; tumbo langu la nguruma; sehemu zangu za ndani zimemwagika chini kwasababu ya uharibifu wa binti wa watu wangu, watoto na wachanga wamezimia mitaani mwa mji.
My eyes fail from weeping; I am churning within. My heart is poured out in grief over the destruction of the daughter of my people, because children and infants faint in the streets of the city.
12 Wanasema kwa mama zao, “Mbegu ziko wapi na mvinyo?” kama wanavyo zimia kama mtu aliye jeruhiwa mitaani mwa mji, maisha yao yamemwaga kwenye kifua cha mama zao.
They cry out to their mothers: “Where is the grain and wine?” as they faint like the wounded in the streets of the city, as their lives fade away in the arms of their mothers.
13 Nini naeza kusema kwako, binti wa Yerusalemu? Naweza kufananisha na nini, ili ni kufariji, binti bikra wa Sayuni? Jera lako ni kubwa kama bahari. Nani anaweza kukuponya?
What can I say for you? To what can I compare you, O Daughter of Jerusalem? To what can I liken you, that I may console you, O Virgin Daughter of Zion? For your wound is as deep as the sea. Who can ever heal you?
14 Manabii wako wameona uongo na maono batili kwa ajili yako. Hawaja weka wazi dhambi zako kurejesha mali zako, lakini kwako wametoa matamko ya uongo na ya kupotosha.
The visions of your prophets were empty and deceptive; they did not expose your guilt to ward off your captivity. The burdens they envisioned for you were empty and misleading.
15 Wote wanao pita pembeni mwa barabara wana piga makofi kwako. Wanaguna na kutikisa vichwa vyao dhidi ya binti wa Yerusalemu na kusema, “Huu ndio mji walio uita 'Ukamilifu wa uzuri,' 'Furaha ya Dunia Yote'?”
All who pass by clap their hands at you in scorn. They hiss and shake their heads at the Daughter of Jerusalem: “Is this the city that was called the perfection of beauty, the joy of all the earth?”
16 Maadui zako wote walifungua vinywa vyao na kukudhihaki. Walizomea na kusaga meno na kusema, “Tumemmeza yeye! Hii ni siku tulio subiri! Tumeishi kuweza kuiona!”
All your enemies open their mouths against you. They hiss and gnash their teeth, saying, “We have swallowed her up. This is the day for which we have waited. We have lived to see it!”
17 Yahweh amefanya alivyo panga kufanya. Ametimiza neno lake. Amekupindua bila huruma, kwa kuwa amemruhusu adui kukusherehekea; amenyanyua pembe za maadui zako.
The LORD has done what He planned; He has accomplished His decree, which He ordained in days of old; He has overthrown you without pity. He has let the enemy gloat over you and exalted the horn of your foes.
18 Mioyo yao ikamlilia Bwana, kuta za binti wa Sayuni! Fanya machozi yako kutiririka chini kama mto usiku na mchana. Usijipatie hauweni, macho yako bila hauweni.
The hearts of the people cry out to the Lord. O wall of the Daughter of Zion, let your tears run down like a river day and night. Give yourself no relief, and your eyes no rest.
19 Nyanyuka, lia usiku, mwanzo usiku wa manane! Mwaga moyo wako kama maji mbele za uso wa Bwana. Nyoosha juu mikono yako kwa ajili ya uzima wa watoto wako wanao zimia kwa njaa kwenye njia ya kila mtaa.
Arise, cry out in the night from the first watch of the night. Pour out your heart like water in the presence of the Lord. Lift up your hands to Him for the lives of your children who are fainting from hunger on the corner of every street.
20 Ona, Yahweh, na ukumbuke hao ulio watende haya. Wanawake wale tunda la uzazi wao, watoto walio wajali? Makuhani na manabii wa chinjwe sehemu takatifu ya Bwana?
Look, O LORD, and consider: Whom have You ever treated like this? Should women eat their offspring, the infants they have nurtured? Should priests and prophets be killed in the sanctuary of the Lord?
21 Wote wadogo kwa wakubwa wana keti kwenye udongo wa mitaa. Wanawake wangu wadogo na wanaume wangu wadogo wameanguaka kwa upanga; umewachinja pasipo kuwa hurumia.
Both young and old lie together in the dust of the streets. My young men and maidens have fallen by the sword. You have slain them in the day of Your anger; You have slaughtered them without compassion.
22 Umeitisha, kama ungewaita watu katika siku ya maakuli, hofu yangu kila sehemu, katika siku ya hasira ya Yahweh hakuna aliye toroka; hao niliyo wajali na kuwakuza, adui wangu amewaharibu.
You summoned my attackers on every side, as for the day of an appointed feast. In the day of the LORD’s anger no one escaped or survived; my enemy has destroyed those I nurtured and reared.
