1
Ifungue milango yako, Ee Lebanoni, Ili moto uiteketeze mierezi yako.
Open your doors, O Lebanon, that the fire may consume your cedars!
2
Piga yowe, msunobari, maana mwerezi umeanguka, Kwa sababu miti iliyo mizuri imeharibika; Pigeni yowe, enyi mialoni ya Bashani, Kwa maana msitu wenye nguvu umeangamia.
Wail, O cypress, for the cedar has fallen; the majestic trees are ruined! Wail, O oaks of Bashan, for the dense forest has been cut down!
3
Sauti ya wachungaji, ya uchungu mwingi! Kwa maana utukufu wao umeharibika; Sauti ya ngurumo ya wana-simba! Kwa maana kiburi cha Yordani kimeharibika.
Listen to the wailing of the shepherds, for their glory is in ruins. Listen to the roaring of the young lions, for the thickets of the Jordan are destroyed.
4
Bwana, Mungu wangu, alisema hivi, Lilishe kundi la machinjo,
This is what the LORD my God says: “Pasture the flock marked for slaughter,
5
ambalo wenye kundi hilo huwachinja, kisha hujiona kuwa hawana hatia; na hao wawauzao husema, Na ahimidiwe Bwana, kwa maana mimi ni tajiri; na wachungaji wao wenyewe hawawahurumii.
whose buyers slaughter them without remorse. Those who sell them say, ‘Blessed be the LORD, for I am rich!’ Even their own shepherds have no compassion on them.
6
Maana mimi sitawahurumia tena wenyeji wa nchi hii, asema Bwana; bali, tazama, nitawatia, kila mmoja wao, mikononi mwa mwenzake, na mikononi mwa mfalme; nao wataipiga hiyo nchi, wala mimi sitawaokoa mikononi mwao.
For I will no longer have compassion on the people of the land, declares the LORD, but behold, I will cause each man to fall into the hands of his neighbor and his king, who will devastate the land, and I will not deliver it from their hands.”
7
Basi nikalilisha kundi la machinjo, kweli kondoo waliokuwa wanyonge kabisa.
So I pastured the flock marked for slaughter, especially the afflicted of the flock. Then I took for myself two staffs, calling one Favor and the other Union, and I pastured the flock.
8
Nami nikawakatilia mbali wachungaji watatu katika mwezi mmoja; maana nafsi yangu ilikuwa imechoka kwa ajili yao, na nafsi zao pia walinichukia.
And in one month I dismissed three shepherds. My soul grew impatient with the flock, and their souls also detested me.
9
Ndipo nikasema, Sitawalisheni; afaye na afe; atakayekatiliwa mbali na akatiliwe mbali; nao waliosalia, kila mmoja na ale nyama ya mwili wa mwenziwe.
Then I said, “I will no longer shepherd you. Let the dying die, and the perishing perish; and let those who remain devour one another’s flesh.”
10
Nikaitwaa hiyo fimbo yangu, iitwayo Neema, nikaikata vipande viwili, ili nipate kulivunja agano langu nililolifanya na watu wa kabila zote.
Next I took my staff called Favor and cut it in two, revoking the covenant I had made with all the nations.
11
Nayo ikavunjwa siku ile; na hivyo wale kondoo wanyonge walionisikiliza wakajua ya kuwa neno hili ndilo neno la Bwana.
It was revoked on that day, and so the afflicted of the flock who were watching me knew that it was the word of the LORD.
12
Nikawaambia, Mkiona vema, nipeni ujira wangu; kama sivyo, msinipe. Basi wakanipimia vipande thelathini vya fedha, kuwa ndio ujira wangu.
Then I told them, “If it seems right to you, give me my wages; but if not, keep them.” So they weighed out my wages, thirty pieces of silver.
13
Kisha Bwana akaniambia, Mtupie mfinyanzi kima kizuri, hicho nilichotiwa kima na watu hao. Basi nikavitwaa vile vipande thelathini vya fedha, nikamtupia huyo mfinyanzi ndani ya nyumba ya Bwana.
And the LORD said to me, “Throw it to the potter”—this magnificent price at which they valued me. So I took the thirty pieces of silver and threw them to the potter in the house of the LORD.
14
Ndipo nikaikata vipande viwili fimbo yangu ya pili, iitwayo Vifungo, ili nipate kuuvunja udugu uliokuwa kati ya Yuda na Israeli.
Then I cut in two my second staff called Union, breaking the brotherhood between Judah and Israel.
15
Bwana akaniambia, Jitwalie tena vyombo vya mchungaji mpumbavu.
And the LORD said to me: “Take up once more the equipment of a foolish shepherd.
16
Kwa maana, tazama, mimi nitainua katika nchi hii mchungaji, ambaye hatawaangalia waliopotea, wala hatawatafuta waliotawanyika, wala hatamganga aliyevunjika, wala hatamlisha aliye mzima; bali atakula nyama ya wanono, na kuzirarua-rarua kwato zao.
For behold, I will raise up a shepherd in the land who will neither care for the lost, nor seek the young, nor heal the broken, nor sustain the healthy, but he will devour the flesh of the choice sheep and tear off their hooves.
17
Ole wake mchungaji asiyefaa, aliachaye kundi! Upanga utakuwa juu ya mkono wake, na juu ya jicho lake la kuume; mkono wake utakuwa umekauka kabisa, na jicho lake la kuume litakuwa limepofuka.
Woe to the worthless shepherd, who deserts the flock! May a sword strike his arm and his right eye! May his arm be completely withered and his right eye utterly blinded!”