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 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 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.
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 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.
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 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 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 amekuwa kama adui. Amemeza Israeli. Amemeza majumba yake yote. Ameharibu ngome zake. Ameongeza kilio na maombolezo kati ya mabinti wa 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 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.
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 kukana sehemu yake takatifu. Ametoa kuta za majumba mikononi mwa adui. Wamepaza sauti nyumbani mwa Yahweh, kama siku ya sherehe.
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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 do fail with tears, my heart is 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 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 say to their mothers, Where is grain 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 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 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 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.
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 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 that pass by clap their hands at thee; they hiss and shake 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 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 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 Yahweh amefanya alivyo panga kufanya. Ametimiza neno lake. Amekupindua bila huruma, kwa kuwa amemruhusu adui kukusherehekea; amenyanyua pembe za maadui zako.
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 yao ikamlilia Bwana, kuta za binti wa Sayuni! Fanya machozi yako kutiririka chini kama mto usiku na mchana. Usijipatie hauweni, macho yako bila hauweni.
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 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: in the beginning of the watches pour out thy heart like water before the face of the Lord: lift up thy hands toward him for the life of thy young children, that faint for hunger at the head 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?
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 Wote wadogo kwa wakubwa wana keti kwenye udongo wa mitaa. Wanawake wangu wadogo na wanaume wangu wadogo wameanguaka kwa upanga; umewachinja pasipo kuwa hurumia.
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 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.
Thou hast called as in a solemn day my terrors on every side, 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.
