Zaburi 71
1 Katika wewe, Yahwe, napatakimbilio salama; usiniache niaibishwe.
In you, O LORD, do I put my trust: let me never be put to confusion.
2 Uniokoe na kunifanya salama katika haki yako; geuzia sikio lako kwangu.
Deliver me in your righteousness, and cause me to escape: incline your ear to me, and save me.
3 Uwe kwagu mwamba kwa ajili ya kimbilio salama ambako naweza kwenda siku zote; wewe umeamuru kuniokoa, kwa kuwa wewe ni mwamba wangu na ngome yangu.
Be you my strong habitation, where I may continually resort: you have given commandment to save me; for you are my rock and my fortress.
4 Uniokoe mimi, Mungu wangu, kutoka katika mkono wa asiye haki na katili.
Deliver me, O my God, out of the hand of the wicked, out of the hand of the unrighteous and cruel man.
5 Maana wewe ni tumaini langu, Bwana Yahwe. Nimekuamini wewe siku zote tangu nilipokuwa mtoto.
For you are my hope, O Lord GOD: you are my trust from my youth.
6 Nimekuwa nikisaidiwa na wewe tangu tumboni; wewe ndiye yule uliyenitoa tumboni mwa mama yangu; sifa zangu zitakuhusu wewe siku zote.
By you have I been held up from the womb: you are he that took me out of my mother’s bowels: my praise shall be continually of you.
7 Mimi ni mfano bora kwa watu wangu; wewe ni kimbilio langu lenye nguvu.
I am as a wonder to many; but you are my strong refuge.
8 Mama yangu atajawa na sifa zako, siku zote akikuheshimu.
Let my mouth be filled with your praise and with your honor all the day.
9 Usinitupe katika siku za miaka ya uzee wangu; usiniache wakati nguvu zangu zitakapoisha.
Cast me not off in the time of old age; forsake me not when my strength fails.
10 Maana adui zangu wanazungumza kuhusu mimi; wale wanao fatilia uhai wangu wanapanga njama pamoja.
For my enemies speak against me; and they that lay wait for my soul take counsel together,
11 Wao husema, “Mungu amemuacha; mfuateni na mumchukue, maana hakuna yeyote awezaye kumuokoa yeye.”
Saying, God has forsaken him: persecute and take him; for there is none to deliver him.
12 Mungu, usiwe mbali nami; Mungu wangu, harakisha kunisaidia mimi.
O God, be not far from me: O my God, make haste for my help.
13 Waaibishwe na kuharibiwa, wale walio adui wa uhai wangu; wavishwe laumu na kudharauliwa, wale watafutao kuniumiza.
Let them be confounded and consumed that are adversaries to my soul; let them be covered with reproach and dishonor that seek my hurt.
14 Lakini nitakutumainia wewe siku zote na nitakusifu wewe zaidi na zaidi.
But I will hope continually, and will yet praise you more and more.
15 Kinywa changu kitaongea kuhusu haki yako na wokovu wako mchana kutwa, ingawa ziwezi kuzielewa maana ni nyingi mno.
My mouth shall show forth your righteousness and your salvation all the day; for I know not the numbers thereof.
16 Nitakuja na matendo yenye nguvu ya Bwana Yahwe; nitataja haki yako, yako pekee.
I will go in the strength of the Lord GOD: I will make mention of your righteousness, even of your only.
17 Mungu, tangu ujana wangu wewe umenifundisha; hata sasa ninatangaza matendo yako ya ajabu.
O God, you have taught me from my youth: and till now have I declared your wondrous works.
18 Hakika, hata niwapo mzee na mvi kichwani, Mungu, usiniache mimi, kama ambavyo nimekuwa nikitanga nguvu yako kwa vizazi vijavyo, na uweza wako kwa yeyote ajaye.
Now also when I am old and gray headed, O God, forsake me not; until I have showed your strength to this generation, and your power to every one that is to come.
19 Pia haki yako, Mungu, iko juu sana; wewe ambaye umefanya mambo makuu, Mungu, ni nani aliye kama wewe?
Your righteousness also, O God, is very high, who have done great things: O God, who is like to you!
20 Wewe ambaye umetuonesha sisi mateso mengi utatuhuisha tena na utatupandisha tena juu kutoka kwenye kina cha nchi.
You, which have showed me great and sore troubles, shall quicken me again, and shall bring me up again from the depths of the earth.
21 Uiongeze heshima yangu; rudi tena na unifariji.
You shall increase my greatness, and comfort me on every side.
22 Nami pia nitakushukuru kwa kinubi kwa ajili ya uaminifu wako, Mungu wangu; kwako nitaimba sifa kwa kinubi, Mtakatifu wa Israel.
I will also praise you with the psaltery, even your truth, O my God: to you will I sing with the harp, O you Holy One of Israel.
23 Midomo yangu itapiga kelele kwa sababu ya furaha wakati nikikuimbia sifa, hata kwa roho yangu, ambayo wewe umeikomboa.
My lips shall greatly rejoice when I sing to you; and my soul, which you have redeemed.
24 Ulimi wangu pia utaongea kuhusu haki yangu mchana kutwa; maana wameaibishwa na kuvurugwa, wale waliotafuta kuniumiza.
My tongue also shall talk of your righteousness all the day long: for they are confounded, for they are brought to shame, that seek my hurt.
