Zaburi 129

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

Many times they have afflicted me from my youth up. Let Israel [God prevails] 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.”

Adonai 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 [Mountain ridge, Marking].

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 does not 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 Adonai be on you. We bless you in Adonai’s name.”