Zaburi 129

1 “Mara nyingi tangu ujana wangu wamekuwa wakinishambulia,” Israeli na iseme.

A song of ascents. “Often since my youth they have attacked me,” let Israel say.

2 “Mara nyingi tangu ujana wangu wamekuwa wakinishambulia, lakini hawajanishinda.

“Often since my youth they have attacked me, yet they have not defeated me.

3 Wakulima wamekuwa wakilima mgonngoni kwangu; wametengeneza matuta yao marefu.

The plowers plowed on my back; they made their furrows long.

4 Yahwe ni mwenye haki; amezikata kamba za waovu.”

Yahweh is righteous; he has cut the ropes of the wicked.”

5 Wote waaibishwe na kurudishwa nyuma, wale wachukiao Sayuni.

May they all be put to shame and turned back, those who hate Zion.

6 Na wawe kama nyasi juu ya paa ambayo hunyauka kabla hayajakua,

May they be like the grass on the housetops that withers before it grows up,

7 ambayo hayawezi kujaza mkono wa mvunaji wala kifua cha mfunga miganda.

that cannot fill the reaper's hand or the chest of the one who binds bundles of grain together.

8 Wale wapitao karibu wasiseme, “Baraka za Mungu na ziwe juu yako; Tunakubariki katika jina la Yahwe.”

May those who pass by not say, “May the blessing of Yahweh be on you; we bless you in the name of Yahweh.”