1 By the rivers of Babylon, there we sat down, yea, we wept, when we remembered Zion.
2 We hanged our harps upon the willows in the midst thereof.
3 For there they that carried us away captive required of us a song; and they that wasted us required of us mirth, saying , Sing us one of the songs of Zion.
4 How shall we sing the LORD’s song in a strange land?
5 If I forget thee, O Jerusalem, let my right hand forget her cunning .
6 If I do not remember thee, let my tongue cleave to the roof of my mouth; if I prefer not Jerusalem above my chief joy.
7 Remember, O LORD, the children of Edom in the day of Jerusalem; who said, Rase it , rase it, even to the foundation thereof.
8 O daughter of Babylon, who art to be destroyed; happy shall he be , that rewardeth thee as thou hast served us.
9 Happy shall he be , that taketh and dasheth thy little ones against the stones.
Okulila kwAaisraeli muupongekwa
1 Otwa kuutumba pomilonga dhaBabilon e tatu lili,
sho twa dhimbulukwa Sion.
2 Uuhumba wetu otwe u tsilike komiti dhopomulonga.
3 Oshoka aahepeki yetu oye tu pula,
tu ya nyanyudhe, ya ti:
“Tu imbileni omaimbilo taga popi Sion.”
4 Otatu vulu ngiini okwiimbila Omuwa
tu li mevi lyuundjendi?
5 Jerusalem, ngele otandi ku dhimbwa,
nena oshikaha shandje shokolulyo nashi lemane.
6 Elaka lyandje nali kakatele kondaathelo,
ngele otandi ku dhimbwa, Jerusalem,
ngoye ngo ho nyanyudha ndje unene!
7 Omuwa, ino dhimbwa, Aaedomi sho ya ningi,
uuna Jerusalem sha teka po.
Oyi igidha ya ti:
“Shi kumunii po, shi teyii po sigo
okomakankameno gasho!”
8 Yaye, shilando Babilon!
Oto ka hanagulwa po.
Omunelago oye ngoka te ku galulile shoka we tu ningile.
9 Omunelago oye ngoka ta kutha uuhanona woye
e te wu ndandele komamanya.
