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Jinsi Bwana alivyomfunika binti Sayuni Kwa wingu katika hasira yake! Ameutupa toka mbinguni hata nchi Huo uzuri wa Israeli; Wala hakukikumbuka kiti cha miguu yake Katika siku ya hasira yake.
How the Lord has covered the Daughter of Zion with the cloud of His anger! He has cast the glory of Israel from heaven to earth. He has abandoned His footstool in the day of His anger.
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Bwana ameyameza makao yote ya Yakobo, Wala hakuona huruma; Ameziangusha ngome za binti Yuda Katika ghadhabu yake; Amezibomoa hata nchi Ameunajisi ufalme na wakuu wake.
Without pity the Lord has swallowed up all the dwellings of Jacob. In His wrath He has demolished the fortified cities of the Daughter of Judah. He brought to the ground and defiled her kingdom and its princes.
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Ameikata pembe yote ya Israeli Katika hasira yake kali; Ameurudisha nyuma mkono wake wa kuume Mbele ya hao adui, Naye amemteketeza Yakobo kama moto uwakao, Ulao pande zote.
In fierce anger He has cut off every horn of Israel and withdrawn His right hand at the approach of the enemy. He has burned in Jacob like a flaming fire that consumes everything around it.
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Ameupinda upinde wake kama adui, Amesimama na mkono wake wa kuume kama mtesi; Naye amewaua hao wote Waliopendeza macho; Katika hema ya binti Sayuni Amemimina kani yake kama moto.
He has bent His bow like an enemy; His right hand is positioned. Like a foe He has killed all who were pleasing to the eye; He has poured out His wrath like fire on the tent of the Daughter of Zion.
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Bwana amekuwa mfano wa adui, Amemmeza Israeli; Ameyameza majumba yake yote, Ameziharibu ngome zake; Tena amemzidishia binti Yuda Matanga na maombolezo.
The Lord is like an enemy; He has swallowed up Israel. He has swallowed up all her palaces and destroyed her strongholds. He has multiplied mourning and lamentation for the Daughter of Judah.
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Naye ameondoa maskani yake kwa nguvu, Kana kwamba ni ya bustani tu; Ameziharibu sikukuu zake; Bwana amezisahauzisha katika Sayuni Sikukuu za makini na sabato; Naye amewadharau mfalme na kuhani Katika uchungu wa hasira yake.
He has laid waste His tabernacle like a garden booth; He has destroyed His place of meeting. The LORD has made Zion forget her appointed feasts and Sabbaths. In His fierce anger He has despised both king and priest.
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Bwana ameitupilia mbali madhabahu yake, Amepachukia patakatifu pake; Amezitia katika mikono ya hao adui Kuta za majumba yake; Wamepiga kelele ndani ya nyumba ya Bwana Kama katika siku ya kusanyiko la makini.
The Lord has rejected His altar; He has abandoned His sanctuary; He has delivered the walls of her palaces into the hand of the enemy. They have raised a shout in the house of the LORD as on the day of an appointed feast.
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Bwana amekusudia kuuharibu Ukuta wa binti Sayuni; Ameinyosha hiyo kamba, Hakuuzuia mkono wake usiangamize; Bali amefanya boma na ukuta kuomboleza; Zote pamoja hudhoofika.
The LORD determined to destroy the wall of the Daughter of Zion. He stretched out a measuring line and did not withdraw His hand from destroying. He made the ramparts and walls lament; together they waste away.
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Malango yake yamezama katika nchi; Ameyaharibu makomeo yake na kuyavunja; Mfalme wake na wakuu wake wanakaa Kati ya mataifa wasio na sheria; Naam, manabii wake hawapati maono Yatokayo kwa Bwana.
Her gates have sunk into the ground; He has destroyed and shattered their bars. Her king and her princes are exiled among the nations, the law is no more, and even her prophets find no vision from the LORD.
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Wazee wa binti Sayuni huketi chini, Hunyamaza kimya; Wametupa mavumbi juu ya vichwa vyao, Wamejivika viunoni nguo za magunia; Wanawali wa Yerusalemu huinama vichwa vyao Kuielekea nchi.
The elders of the Daughter of Zion sit on the ground in silence. They have thrown dust on their heads and put on sackcloth. The young women of Jerusalem have bowed their heads to the ground.
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Macho yangu yamechoka kwa machozi, Mtima wangu umetaabika; Ini langu linamiminwa juu ya nchi Kwa uharibifu wa binti ya watu wangu; Kwa sababu watoto wachanga na wanyonyao, Huzimia katika mitaa ya mji.
My eyes fail from weeping; I am churning within. My heart is poured out in grief over the destruction of the daughter of my people, because children and infants faint in the streets of the city.
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Wao huwauliza mama zao, Zi wapi nafaka na divai? Hapo wazimiapo kama waliojeruhiwa Katika mitaa ya mji, Hapo walipomiminika nafsi zao Vifuani mwa mama zao.
They cry out to their mothers: “Where is the grain and wine?” as they faint like the wounded in the streets of the city, as their lives fade away in the arms of their mothers.
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Nikushuhudie nini? Nikufananishe na nini, Ee Binti Yerusalemu? Nikusawazishe na nini, nipate kukufariji, Ee bikira binti Sayuni? Kwa maana uvunjifu wako ni mkuu kama bahari, Ni nani awezaye kukuponya?
What can I say for you? To what can I compare you, O Daughter of Jerusalem? To what can I liken you, that I may console you, O Virgin Daughter of Zion? For your wound is as deep as the sea. Who can ever heal you?
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Manabii wako wameona maono kwa ajili yako Ya ubatili na upumbavu Wala hawakufunua uovu wako, Wapate kurudisha kufungwa kwako; Bali wameona mabashiri ya ubatili kwa ajili yako Na sababu za kuhamishwa.
The visions of your prophets were empty and deceptive; they did not expose your guilt to ward off your captivity. The burdens they envisioned for you were empty and misleading.
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Hao watu wote wapitao Hukupigia makofi; Humzomea binti Yerusalemu, Na kutikisa vichwa vyao; Je! Mji huu ndio ulioitwa, Ukamilifu wa uzuri, Furaha ya dunia yote?
All who pass by clap their hands at you in scorn. They hiss and shake their heads at the Daughter of Jerusalem: “Is this the city that was called the perfection of beauty, the joy of all the earth?”
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Juu yako adui zako wote Wamepanua vinywa vyao; Huzomea, husaga meno yao, Husema, Tumemmeza; Hakika siku hii ndiyo tuliyoitazamia; Tumeipata, tumeiona.
All your enemies open their mouths against you. They hiss and gnash their teeth, saying, “We have swallowed her up. This is the day for which we have waited. We have lived to see it!”
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Bwana ameyatenda aliyoyakusudia; amelitimiza neno lake, Aliloliamuru siku za kale; Ameangusha hata chini, Wala hakuona huruma; Naye amemfurahisha adui juu yako, Ameitukuza pembe ya watesi wako.
The LORD has done what He planned; He has accomplished His decree, which He ordained in days of old; He has overthrown you without pity. He has let the enemy gloat over you and exalted the horn of your foes.
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Mioyo yao ilimlilia Bwana; Ee ukuta wa binti Sayuni! Machozi na yachuruzike kama mto Mchana na usiku; Usijipatie kupumzika; Mboni ya jicho lako isikome.
The hearts of the people cry out to the Lord. O wall of the Daughter of Zion, let your tears run down like a river day and night. Give yourself no relief, and your eyes no rest.
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Inuka, ulalamike usiku, Mwanzo wa makesha yake; Mimina moyo wako kama maji usoni pa Bwana; Umwinulie mikono yako; Kwa uhai wa watoto wako wachanga wazimiao kwa njaa, Mwanzo wa kila njia kuu.
Arise, cry out in the night from the first watch of the night. Pour out your heart like water in the presence of the Lord. Lift up your hands to Him for the lives of your children who are fainting from hunger on the corner of every street.
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Tazama, Bwana, uangalie, Ni nani uliyemtenda hayo! Je! Wanawake wale mazao yao, Watoto waliowabeba? Je! Kuhani na nabii wauawe Katika patakatifu pa Bwana?
Look, O LORD, and consider: Whom have You ever treated like this? Should women eat their offspring, the infants they have nurtured? Should priests and prophets be killed in the sanctuary of the Lord?
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Kijana na mzee hulala chini Katika njia kuu; Wasichana wangu na wavulana wangu Wameanguka kwa upanga; Umewaua katika siku ya hasira yako; Umeua, wala hukuona huruma.
Both young and old lie together in the dust of the streets. My young men and maidens have fallen by the sword. You have slain them in the day of Your anger; You have slaughtered them without compassion.
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Umeziita kama katika siku ya mkutano wa makini; Hofu zangu zije pande zote; Wala hapana hata mmoja aliyepona wala kusalia Katika siku ya hasira ya Bwana; Hao niliowabeba na kuwalea Huyo adui yangu amewakomesha.
You summoned my terrors on every side, as for the day of an appointed feast. In the day of the LORD’s anger no one escaped or survived; my enemy has destroyed those I nurtured and reared.