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Kando ya mito ya Babeli ndiko tulikoketi, Tukalia tulipoikumbuka Sayuni.
By the rivers of Babylon we sat and wept when we remembered Zion.
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Katika miti iliyo katikati yake Tulivitundika vinubi vyetu.
There on the willows we hung our harps,
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Maana huko waliotuchukua mateka Walitaka tuwaimbie; Na waliotuonea walitaka furaha; Tuimbieni baadhi ya nyimbo za Sayuni.
for there our captors requested a song; our tormentors demanded songs of joy: “Sing us a song of Zion.”
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Tuuimbeje wimbo wa Bwana Katika nchi ya ugeni?
How can we sing a song of the LORD in a foreign land?
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Ee Yerusalemu, nikikusahau wewe, Mkono wangu wa kuume na usahau.
If I forget you, O Jerusalem, may my right hand cease to function.
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Ulimi wangu na ugandamane Na kaakaa la kinywa changu, nisipokukumbuka. Nisipoikuza Yerusalemu Zaidi ya furaha yangu iliyo kuu.
May my tongue cling to the roof of my mouth if I do not remember you, if I do not exalt Jerusalem as my greatest joy!
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Ee Bwana, uwakumbuke wana wa Edomu, Siku ya Yerusalemu. Waliosema, Bomoeni! Bomoeni hata misingini!
Remember, O LORD, the sons of Edom on the day Jerusalem fell: “Destroy it,” they said, “tear it down to its foundations!”
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Ee binti Babeli, uliye karibu na kuangamia, Heri atakayekupatiliza, ulivyotupatiliza sisi.
O Daughter of Babylon, doomed to destruction, blessed is he who repays you as you have done to us.
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Heri yeye atakayewakamata wadogo wako, Na kuwaseta wao juu ya mwamba.
Blessed is he who seizes your infants and dashes them against the rocks.
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