(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.
Eindilo mefimbo loita
Eimbilo laDavid, la pewa enyakwa lolwiimbo, mongovela yEpsalome: ‘Onhemo yomado oundobwedi’, li longwe; tali popi efimbo olo a shingile oita nOvaaramea vomuSoba, ndele Joab a aluka ko, a denga Ovaedom mEfilu lOmongwa; ava va dipawa omayovi omulongo naavali.
1 Akutu Kalunga, Ove we tu ekelashi,
we tu halakanifa, wa handuka.
Tu alulila po natango!
2 Edu owe li kakamifa, owe li taula omifya.
Ove fitika omifya dalo,
osheshi oli li po tali tengauka.
3 Oshiwana shoye owa efa, shi monifwe oudjuu,
we tu nwefa oshikolwifa.
4 Ovatili voye, owe va pa epandela
opo va ongale meameno lalo komauta. Sela
5 Tu kwafa nolulyo loye, ovaholike voye fye,
opo tu xupifwe; tu uda.
6 Mouyapuki waye Kalunga okwa tonga ta ti:
“Nomokunyakukwa ohandi taula Sekem
nohandi yeleke efilu laSukkot.
7 Gilead oshange, naManasse oshange,
naEfraim oshange oshikelelifombale shokomutwe wange,
naJuda odibo yepangelo lange.
8 Moab oshiyaxa shange shokulikoshela,
kombada yaEdom ohandi ekele ko eenghaku dange;
nohandi nyakukilwa Filistia.”
9 Olyelye ta twala nge mbela koshilando sha pama?
Olyelye wokufindikila nge kuEdom?
10 Haave, ou we tu ekelashi,
Kalunga, haave ito ende vali
pamwe neengudu dovakwaita detu?
11 Tu xupifa kovatondi vetu;
osheshi ekwafo lomunhu olongaho.
12 Pamwe naKalunga ohatu ka ninga oilonganghono,
nOye mwene ota ka lyataula ovatondi vetu.
