A Prayer for Help
1 Help us, Lord!
There is not a good person left;
honest people can no longer be found.
2 All of them lie to one another;
they deceive each other with flattery.
3 Silence those flattering tongues, O Lord!
Close those boastful mouths that say,
4 “With our words we get what we want.
We will say what we wish,
and no one can stop us.”
5 “But now I will come,” says the Lord,
“because the needy are oppressed
and the persecuted groan in pain.
I will give them the security they long for.”
6 The promises of the Lord can be trusted;
they are as genuine as silver
refined seven times in the furnace.
7-8 The wicked are everywhere,
and everyone praises what is evil.
Keep us always safe, O Lord,
and preserve us from such people.
Ongumbiro yOmbatero
Komuimburise otja ku Seminit. Epsalme ra David.
1 Tu vatera, Muhona!
Ovanatjari kave tji po;
ovaṱakame kave tji mo mokati kovandu.
2 Ovandu avehe ve korerasana ovizeze;
ve wovisasana nomambo wotjavivi.
3 Muhona mwinisa omaraka wotjavivi,
nu pata ovinyo, mbi rihiva amavi tja:
4 “Momaraka wetu omutu muna mbi matu vanga,
matu hungire mbi matu vanga;
nu kape na ngu ma sora okututjaera.”
5 Nungwari Muhona ma tja nai:
“Nambano ami meya,
orondu ovingundi vi tatumisiwa,
novasyona ve tjema momihihamo vyawo.
Me yandja ombwiro nondjeverero
ku imba mbe nonḓero na vyo.”
6 Omakwizikiro wa Muhona owo omaṱakame;
ye ri otja osilveri ndja zuzurwa mezuko,
nu ndja kohororwa potuhambombari.
7-8 Ovanauvi ve ri koṋa akuhe,
nu auhe u tanga oviṋa vyouvi.
Tu yama aruhe, Muhona,
nu tu tjevera kovandu otja imbo.
