Umejengwa juu Yerusalemu

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Umejengwa juu Yerusalemu

Author: Johannes Matthaeus Meyfart
Published in 1 hymnal

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1 Umejengwa juu Yerusalemu,
ninakutamani.
Moyo wangu ukikutamani,
wataka kupita
milima a mabonde,
kuruka kama tai
uache uliwengu
uingie kwako.

2 Siku nzuri!
Ninaingojea, ifike upesi.
Niiache dunia, niende
mbinguni kwa shangwe.
Nimrudishie roho
Mwokozi Bwanangu,
aipokee vema,
aipe uzima.

3 Mara moja roho itakwenda
kufika mbinguni,
ikiacha uzima wa hapa
kwa nguvu ya Mungu.
Yapelekwa na gari
kama Eliya mkuu,
malaika waibeba
vizuri kwa shangwe.

4 Nikifika kule Paradiso,
mwisho huu ni mwema.
Roho yangu yajaa furaha
kinywa husifu tu.
Wateule huimba
nyimbo nzuri nyingi,
hawaachi kumsifu
Mungu Mwenye enzi.

Source: Mwimbieni Bwana: msifuni Mungu, mfalme wa mbingu na nchi! #155

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Author: Johannes Matthaeus Meyfart

Meyfart, Johann Matthäus, was born Nov. 9, 1590 at Jena, during a visit which his mother (wife of Pastor Meyfart of Wablwinkel, near Waltershausen, Gotha) was paying to her father. He studied at the Universities of Jena (M.A. 1611; D.D. 1624) and Wittenberg, and was thereafter for some time adjunct of the philosophical faculty at Jena. In 1616, he was appointed professor in the Gymnasium at Coburg and in 1623 director; and during his residence at Coburg was a great moral power. When his colleagues in the Gymnasium made a complaint to the government regarding a dissertation (De disciplina ecclesiastica) which he published in 1633, he accepted the offer of the professorship of theology in the revived University of Erfurt. He entered on his w… Go to person page >

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First Line:	Umejengwa juu Yerusalemu
German Title:	Jerusalem, du hochegebaute Stadt
Author:	Johannes Matthaeus Meyfart
Language:	Swahili
Notes:	Sauti: Jerusalem, du hochgebaute Stadt by M. Frank, Erfurt, 1663, Posaunen Buch #24