BOOK I
The Way to Happiness
1 God blesses those people
who refuse evil advice
and won't follow sinners
or join in sneering at God.
2 Instead, they find happiness
in the Teaching of the Lord,
and they think about it
day and night.
3 They are like trees
growing beside a stream,
trees that produce
fruit in season
and always have leaves.
Those people succeed
in everything they do.
4 That isn't true of those
who are evil—
they are like straw
blown by the wind.
5 Sinners won't have an excuse
on the day of judgment,
and they won't have a place
with the people of God.
6 The Lord protects everyone
who follows him,
but the wicked follow a road
that leads to ruin.
EMBO LOTETE
Eendjila mbali
1 Omulumenhu omunelao ou, iha ende
pamhangela yovahenakalunga,
ndele iha lyata mondjila yovalunde,
ndele iha kala omutumba mongudu yovasheki;
2 ndelenee ha hokwa omhango yOmwene
noku i diladila omutenya noufiku.
3 Ndele ye ota ka kala ngaashi omuti,
ou wa twikwa pomatondokelo omeva
ndele tau imifa oiimati yao pefimbo lao,
nomafo ao ihaa lembe.
Naashishe eshi ta ningi, osha fewa.
4 Ava vehe na Kalunga hasho ve li ngaho,
ndelenee vo va fa oshipepwalungu, tashi i omhepo.
5 Onghee ovahenakalunga metokolo itava ka kanghama mo,
novalunde itava kala mo meongalo lovayuki.
6 Osheshi ondjila yovayuki Omwene oku i shii;
ndelenee ondjila yovahenakalunga otai hanauka.
