Zaburi 129

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

A Song of Ascents. Many times they have afflicted me from my youth up. Let Israel now say:

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

many times they have afflicted me from my youth up, yet they have not prevailed against 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.”

The LORD is righteous. He has cut apart the cords of the wicked.

5 Wote waaibishwe na kurudishwa nyuma, wale wachukiao Sayuni.

Let them be disappointed and turned backward, all those who hate Zion.

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

Let them be as the grass on the housetops, which withers before it grows up,

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

with which the reaper doesn’t fill his hand, nor he who binds sheaves, his bosom.

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

Neither do those who go by say, “The blessing of the LORD be on you. We bless you in the LORD’s name.”