Zaburi 109
1 Zaburi ya Daudi. Mungu ninaye msifu, usinyamaze kimya.
To the chief Musician, A Psalm of David. Hold not thy peace, O God of my praise;
2 Kwa maana waovu na wadanganyifu wananishambulia; wanazungumza uongo dhidi yangu.
For the mouth of the wicked and the mouth of the deceitful are opened against me: they have spoken against me with a lying tongue.
3 Wananizunguka na kusema mambo ya chuki, na wananishambulia bila sababu.
They surrounded me also with words of hatred; and fought against me without a cause.
4 Wananilipa kashfa badala ya upendo, lakini mimi ninawaombea.
For my love they are my adversaries: but I give myself to prayer.
5 Wananilipa uovu badala ya mema, na wanachukia upendo wangu.
And they have rewarded me evil for good, and hatred for my love.
6 Teua mtu mwovu aliye adui zaidi kama watu hawa; teua mshitaki asimame mkono wake wa kuume.
Set thou a wicked man over him: and let Satan stand at his right hand.
7 Na atakapohukumiwa, aonekane na hatia; maombi yake yachukuliwe kuwa ni dhambi.
When he shall be judged, let him be condemned: and let his prayer become sin.
8 Siku zake na ziwe chahe; mamlaka yake na yachukuliwe na mtu mwingine.
Let his days be few; and let another take his office.
9 Watoto wake wawe yatima, na mke wake awe mjane.
Let his children be fatherless, and his wife a widow.
10 Watoto wake wenye kutanga tanga na kuombaomba, wakiondoka katika nyumba zao zilizo haribika na kuomba chakula au pesa kwa wapita njia.
Let his children be continually vagabonds, and beg: let them seek their bread also out of their desolate places.
11 Mdai na achukue vitu vyake vyote amilikivyo; wageni wateke mapato ya kazi yake.
Let the extortioner catch all that he hath; and let strangers spoil his labour.
12 Asiwepo mtu yeyote wa kumfanyia wema; mtu yeyote asiwahurumie yatima wake.
Let there be none to extend mercy to him: neither let there be any to favour his fatherless children.
13 Watoto wake waangamizwe; majina yao na yafutwe katika kizazi kijacho.
Let his posterity be cut off; and in the generation following let their name be blotted out.
14 Uovu wa baba zake utajwe kwa Yahwe; na dhambi ya mama yake isisahaulike.
Let the iniquity of his fathers be remembered with the LORD; and let not the sin of his mother be blotted out.
15 Hatia zao na ziwe mbele ya Yahwe siku zote; Yahwe na aiondoe kumbukumbu yao duniani.
Let them be before the LORD continually, that he may cut off the memory of them from the earth.
16 Yahwe na afanye hivi kwa sababu mtu huyu kamwe hakusumbuka kuonesha uaminifu wa agano wowote, lakini badala yake aliwasumbua wanyonge, wahitaji, na kuwaua walio vunjika moyo.
Because that he remembered not to show mercy, but persecuted the poor and needy man, that he might even slay the broken in heart.
17 Alipenda kulaani; na imrudie juu yake. Alichukia kubariki; baraka zozote na zisije kwake.
As he loved cursing, so let it come to him: as he delighted not in blessing, so let it be far from him.
18 Alijivika kulaani kana kwamba ni vazi lake, na laana yake iliingia ndani yake kama maji, na kama mafuta mifupani mwake.
As he clothed himself with cursing like as with his garment, so let it come into his bowels like water, and like oil into his bones.
19 Laana zake na ziwe kwake kama vazi avaalo kujifunika mwenyewe, na kama mkanda avaao kila siku.
Let it be to him as the garment which covereth him, and for a belt with which he is girded continually.
20 Na haya yawe malipo ya mshitaki wangu kutoka kwa Yahwe, ya wale wasemao mambo maovu juu yangu.
Let this be the reward of my adversaries from the LORD, and of them that speak evil against my soul.
21 Yahwe Bwana wangu, unishughulikie kwa wema kwa ajili ya jina lako. Kwa sababu uaminifu wa agano lako ni mwema, uniokoe.
But do thou for me, O GOD the Lord, for thy name’s sake: because thy mercy is good, deliver thou me.
22 Kwa maana ni mnyonge na muhitaji, na moyo wangu umejeruhiwa ndani yangu.
For I am poor and needy, and my heart is wounded within me.
23 Ninatoweka kama kivuli cha jioni; ninapeperushwa kama nzige.
I am gone like the shadow when it declineth: I am tossed up and down as the locust.
24 Magoti yangu ni dhaifu kutokana na kufunga; ninakuwa mwembamba na mifupa.
My knees are weak through fasting; and my flesh faileth of fatness.
25 Nimedharauliwa na washitaki wangu; wanionapo; hutikisa vichwa vyao.
I became also a reproach to them: when they looked upon me they shook their heads.
26 Nisaidie, Yahwe Mungu wangu; uniokoe kwa uaminifu wa agano lako.
Help me, O LORD my God: O save me according to thy mercy:
27 Nao wajue kuwa wewe umefanya haya, kwamba wewe, Yahwe, umetenda haya.
That they may know that this is thy hand; that thou, LORD, hast done it.
28 Ingawa wananilaani, tafadhali unibariki; wanishambuliapo, waaibishwe, lakini mtumishi wako afurahi.
Let them curse, but bless thou: when they arise, let them be ashamed; but let thy servant rejoice.
29 Washitaki wangu na wavishwe kwa aibu; wavae aibu yao kama vazi.
Let my adversaries be clothed with shame, and let them cover themselves with their own confusion, as with a mantle.
30 Kwa kinywa changu ninatoa shukrani kuu kwa Yahwe; nitamsifu yeye katikati ya kusanyiko.
I will greatly praise the LORD with my mouth; yea, I will praise him among the multitude.
31 Maana nitasimama mkono wa kuume wa mhitaji, ili nimuokoe dhidi ya wale wanao muhukumu.
For he shall stand at the right hand of the poor, to save him from those that condemn his soul.
