The Lord Can Be Trusted
1 Praise the Lord
and pray in his name!
Tell everyone
what he has done.
2 Sing praises to the Lord!
Tell about his miracles.
3 Celebrate and worship
his holy name
with all your heart.
4 Trust the Lord
and his mighty power.
5 Remember his miracles
and all his wonders
and his fair decisions.
6 You belong to the family
of Abraham, his servant;
you are his chosen ones,
the descendants of Jacob.
7 The Lord is our God,
bringing justice
everywhere on earth.
8 He will never forget
his agreement or his promises,
not in thousands of years.
* 9 God made an eternal promise
10 to Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob,
11 when he said, “I'll give you
the land of Canaan.”
12 At the time there were
only a few of us,
and we were homeless.
13 We wandered from nation
to nation, from one country
to another.
14 God did not let anyone
mistreat our people.
Instead he protected us
by punishing rulers
15 and telling them,
“Don't touch my chosen leaders
or harm my prophets!”
16 God kept crops from growing
until food was scarce
everywhere in the land.
17 But he had already sent Joseph,
sold as a slave into Egypt,
18 with chains of iron
around his legs and neck.
19 Joseph remained a slave
until his own words
had come true,
and the Lord had finished
testing him.
20 Then the king of Egypt
set Joseph free
21 and put him in charge
of everything he owned.
22 Joseph was in command
of the officials,
and he taught the leaders
how to use wisdom.
23 Jacob and his family
came and settled in Egypt
as foreigners.
24 They were the Lord's people,
so he let them grow stronger
than their enemies.
25 They served the Lord,
and he made the Egyptians plan
hateful things against them.
26 God sent his servant Moses.
He also chose and sent Aaron
27 to his people in Egypt,
and they worked miracles
and wonders there.
28 Moses and Aaron obeyed God,
and he sent darkness
to cover Egypt.
29 God turned their rivers
into streams of blood,
and the fish all died.
30 Frogs were everywhere,
even in the royal palace.
31 When God gave the command,
flies and gnats
swarmed all around.
32 In place of rain,
God sent hailstones
and flashes of lightning.
33 He destroyed their grapevines
and their fig trees,
and he made splinters
of all the other trees.
34 God gave the command,
and more grasshoppers came
than could be counted.
35 They ate every green plant
and all the crops that grew
in the land of Egypt.
36 Then God took the life
of every first-born son.
37 When God led Israel from Egypt,
they took silver and gold,
and no one was left behind.
38 The Egyptians were afraid
and gladly let them go.
39 God hid them under a cloud
and guided them by fire
during the night.
40 When they asked for food,
he sent more birds
than they could eat.
41 God even split open a rock,
and streams of water
gushed into the desert.
42 God never forgot
his sacred promise
to his servant Abraham.
43 When the Lord rescued
his chosen people from Egypt,
they celebrated with songs.
44 The Lord gave them the land
and everything else
the nations had worked for.
45 He did this so that his people
would obey all his laws.
Shout praises to the Lord!
Oinenelonga yexupifo laKalunga muIsrael
1 Hambeleleni Omwene,
ifaneni edina laye!
Hepaululeni oinenelonga yaye
mokati koiwana yoilongo.
2 Mu imbileni, mu shikileni,
udifeni oikumwifalonga yaye aishe.
3 Tumbalekeni edina laye liyapuki.
Ava tava kongo Omwene,
omutima wavo nau kale wa hafa.
4 Lipuleni nOmwene neenghono daye,
efimbo alishe kongeni oshipala shaye.
5 Dimbulukweni oikumwifa oyo e i longa,
nomadidilikokumwifa aye
nomatokolo okanya kaye,
6 oludalo nye laAbraham, omupiya waye,
ovana vaJakob, ovahoololwa vaye.
7 Omwene Oye Kalunga ketu;
omatokolo aye otaa udika mounyuni aushe.
8 Diladileni alushe ehangano laye,
neendjovo daye edi
a dikila omaludalo omayovi,
9 ehangano olo e li udafanene naAbraham,
neano olo e li anenene Isak,
10 olo e li a pamekelele Jakob,
li kale omhangela yaye
nehangano laye naIsrael fiyo alushe,
11 eshi a tile: “Edu laKaanan, ohandi li ku pe,
lo li kale oshitukulwafyuululwa sheni.”
12 Vo eshi va li okangudu kanini,
ke vahapu nande,
ndele va li mo ovanailongo;
13 ovatembavaukili koshiwana noshiwana,
koshilongo noshilongo.
14 Ndelenee Ye ina efa nande umwe e va fininike,
nokwa li a handukila eehamba omolwavo,
15 ndele ta ti: “Inamu kuma nande ovavaekwa vange,
nye inamu hepeka ovaxunganeki vange.”
16 Opo nee eshi kwa li a undulila oilongo ondjala,
nokwa kufa mo oshishipo keshe sheendja,
17 okwe va tetekelifila nale omulumenhu,
Josef, ou a li a landwa po, a ninga omupika.
18 Eemhadi daye okwa li ve di tula meti,
ve mu twalele ko nomalyenge
19 fiyo okefiku eli, exunganeko laye la shakenifwa,
nondaka yOmwene ye mu tokolela.
20 Opo nee ohamba oya tumine, a ka mangululwe,
omupangeli woiwana okwe mu efa,
21 ndele te mu lenge, a ninge elenga lakula leumbo laye,
nomuyukifi woinima yaye aishe,
22 a pangele omalenga aye pahalo laye mwene,
ye a longe ovakulunhu vaye eendunge.
23 Osho tuu ngaha Israel okwa ile muEgipiti,
ndele Jakob a kala omunailongo medu laHam.
24 Opo Kalunga okwa hovela okuhapupalifa ovanhu vaye,
ndele te va pameke ve dule ovafininiki vavo eenghono.
25 Eemwenyo daavenya okwe di lundulula,
va tonde ovanhu vaye,
nova ninge ovapiya vaye ekonda.
26 Opo nee Ye a tuma Moses, omupiya waye,
naAron, ou a hoolola;
27 omadidiliko aye a longa mokati kavo,
noikumwifa medu laHam.
28 Okwa umbila mo omulaulu, wa laula fokofoko;
ndelenee eendjovo daye inave di anya.
29 Omeva avo okwe a shitukifa ohonde,
eeshi adishe di file mo.
30 Oshilongo shavo osha yada omayula,
a shituka nomeendjuwo deehamba davo.
31 Okwa tonga, ndele oihomo yeemwe ye uya,
noyomawashe medu lavo alishe;
32 e va lokifila eemhawe ponhele yodula,
nomitemo domundilo moshilongo shavo.
33 Omiviinyu nomikwiyu davo okwe di tetaula po,
nomiti domoshilongo shavo okwe di teyaula mo.
34 Okwa tonga, opo oshipaxu she uya
nokanakalombo, kehe shii kuvalwa.
35 Yo oya mana po oimeno aishe moshilongo,
noilya yomomapya ya lika po sheke.
36 Opo vali okwa dipaifa oiveli aishe moshilongo,
oiveli yeenghono davo aishe,
37 ndele ta tembukifa mo Ovaisraeli
ve noisiliveli noingoldo,
nomokati komapata avo
kamwa li nande oshingudu.
38 Ovaegipiti okwa li va fudifwa ketembu lavo,
osheshi ova li va kwatwa koumbada molwavo.
39 Ye okwe va uvikila noshilemo ngaashi onhanga,
nomundilo wokuminikila oufiku;
40 vo ova indila, opo Ye okwe va undulila oimote,
ndele te va palula nomungome tau di keulu;
41 okwa taula emanya, ndele tali di omeva
taa kungulukile poshi,
ndele taa tondokele momatunda ngaashi omulonga;
42 osheshi ye a dilakana ondjovo yaye iyapuki,
okwa dimbulukwa Abraham, omupiya waye.
43 Osho ngaha a pitifa mo ovanhu vaye nehafo,
novahoololwa vaye neenghalu;
44 opo nee e va pa oilongo yovapaani,
nolukongo loiwana yoilongo,
eli ye likongelele, vo ve li kwata,
45 opo vo va anyene moipango yaye,
nova shakenife eenghedi daye.
Halleluya!
