An Evening Prayer
1 I call to you, Lord; help me now!
Listen to me when I call to you.
2 Receive my prayer as incense,
my uplifted hands as an evening sacrifice.
3 Lord, place a guard at my mouth,
a sentry at the door of my lips.
4 Keep me from wanting to do wrong
and from joining evil people in their wickedness.
May I never take part in their feasts.
5 Good people may punish me and rebuke me in kindness,
but I will never accept honor from evil people,
because I am always praying against their evil deeds.
6 When their rulers are thrown down from rocky cliffs,
the people will admit that my words were true.
7 Like wood that is split and chopped into bits,
so their bones are scattered at the edge of the grave.
8 But I keep trusting in you, my Sovereign Lord.
I seek your protection;
don't let me die!
9 Protect me from the traps they have set for me,
from the snares of those evildoers.
10 May the wicked fall into their own traps
while I go by unharmed.
Ongumbiro yongurova
Epsalme ra David.
1 Ami me ku kove, Muhona;
hakahana okundjivatera!
Arikana, ndji zuvira, tji me ku kove.
2 Yakura ongumbiro yandje otja
ombunguhiro yomoro omuwa,
nomayerero womake wandje otja
ombunguhiro yongurova.
3 Muhona, twa po ondjeverero
potjinyo tjandje;
tjevera omambo aehe ngu me hungire.
4 Ndji tjaera komeripura wokuvanga
okutjita ouvi nokutja e ha kara
nehore novanauvi,
nokutja e ha ri ovikurya vyawo ovitjate.
5 Omundu omusemba ma sora
okundjitona nokundjivyura morusuvero,
nungwari ami himee yakura ondjiririsa yovanauvi,
orondu aruhe mbi kumba kutja
ouvi wawo au ha toṋa.
6 Ovanane vawo tji mave undurirwa
pehi okuza ketjo,
ovandu vawo otji mave yakura kutja
omambo wa Muhona ouatjiri.
7 Otja ehi romakunino punga ari ura
novitumbehi omutaure tja zu nokutaura ro,
omaṱupa wawo opunga amaye
rimbara potjinyo tjeyendo.
8 Nungwari ami me kara pokuriyameka kove,
Muhona, Ndjambi wandje.
Me paha omaundiro move;
o ndji esa kutja mbi koke!
9 Ndji tjevera kozombate nḓu ve
ndji twira po na kozongwehe
zaimba mbe tjita ouvi.
10 Ovanauvi ve esa ve wire
mozombate zawo oveni,
ami ngunda ame kapita nokuhinooma.
