(For the music leader. To the tune “Lily of the Promise.” A special psalm by David for teaching. He wrote it during his wars with the Arameans of northern Syria, when Joab came back and killed twelve thousand Edomites in Salt Valley.)
You Can Depend on God
1 You, God, are angry with us!
We are rejected and crushed.
Make us strong again!
2 You made the earth shake
and split wide open;
now heal its wounds
and stop its trembling.
3 You brought hard times
on your people,
and you gave us wine
that made us stagger.
4 You gave a signal to those
who worship you,
so they could escape
from enemy arrows.
5 Answer our prayers, God!
Use your powerful arm
and give us victory.
Then the people you love
will be safe.
6 Our God, you solemnly promised,
“I would gladly divide up
the city of Shechem
and give away Succoth Valley
piece by piece.
7 The lands of Gilead
and Manasseh are mine.
Ephraim is my war helmet,
and Judah is the symbol
of my royal power.
8 Moab is merely my washbasin.
Edom belongs to me,
and I shout in triumph
over the Philistines.”
9 Our God, who will bring me
to the fortress,
or lead me to Edom?
10 Have you rejected us
and deserted our armies?
11 Help us defeat our enemies!
No one else can rescue us.
12 You will give us victory
and crush our enemies.
Ongumbiro yonguturiro
Komuimburise otja kombosiro Susan Edut. Epsalme ra David rokuhonga ovandu, eye tja rwisa Ovaaramei va Mesopotamie nova Soba, na Joab tja kotoka na zepa Ovaedom 12,000 mOtjana tjOmongwa.
1 Ndjambi, ove we tu nakaura,
nu we tu havera; wa pindika na eṱe,
nungwari nambano vingurukira ku eṱe.
2 Ove wa zezerisa ehi, nu wa pamburura ro.
Nambano verukisa omiṱa vyaro,
orondu oro mari teratera.
3 Ove wa munisa otjiwaṋa tjoye ouzeu;
we tu hira omavinu nge tu purukisa.
4 Nungwari ku imba mbe nondira kove,
ove we ve raisira erapi
rotjihako ku mave taurire
kutja ave ha yahwa i outa noviku.
5 Tu vatera momasa woye;
zuvira ongumbiro yetu,
kokutja otjiwaṋa tji wa suvera tji yamwe.
6 Ndjambi wa hungirira motjouyapuke tje, a tja:
“Ami me yoroka; me haṋa Sikem,
nu me sanekere otjiwaṋa
tjandje otjana tja Sukot.
7 Gilead orandje, Manasse owandje wina,
nu Efraim eye omasa wandje omanene;
Juda eye okati kandje kouhona.
8 Moab eye otjiyaha tjandje tjomerikohero;
nu me yumbu orukaku rwandje ku Edom
otja otjiraisiro tjokutja eye owandje omuini.
Ami me yorokere Filisti otja ngu mbi ri omutoṋe.”
9 Ndjambi, owaṋi ngu me ndji
hongorere motjihuro otjizeu?
Owaṋi ngu me ndji ṱike kOedom?
10 Kaove, Ndjambi, are, ngu we tu nakaurire?
Kaove are, ngu mo kayenda puna
ovimbumba vyetu vyovita?
11 Tu vatera komunavita,
orondu ombatero yovandu oyo omungandjo.
12 Ndjambi tje ri puna eṱe, matu toṋa;
eye omuini ongu ma
tombo omunavita na eṱe.
