A Prayer for God to Punish the Wicked
1 Do you rulers ever give a just decision?
Do you judge everyone fairly?
2 No! You think only of the evil you can do,
and commit crimes of violence in the land.
3 Evildoers go wrong all their lives;
they tell lies from the day they are born.
4 They are full of poison like snakes;
they stop up their ears like a deaf cobra,
5 which does not hear the voice of the snake charmer,
or the chant of the clever magician.
6 Break the teeth of these fierce lions, O God.
7 May they disappear like water draining away;
may they be crushed like weeds on a path.
8 May they be like snails that dissolve into slime;
may they be like a baby born dead that never sees the light.
9 Before they know it, they are cut down like weeds;
in his fierce anger God will blow them away
while they are still living.
10 The righteous will be glad when they see sinners punished;
they will wade through the blood of the wicked.
11 People will say, “The righteous are indeed rewarded;
there is indeed a God who judges the world.”
Ongumbiro yokutja Ndjambi ma vere omunauvi
Komuimburise otja kombosiro yOkuhina Okuṱukuṱura. Epsalme ra David.
1 Oweṋe vanane, mu hungira ousemba are?
Nu mu pangura ovandu osemba are?
2 Kako, momitima vyeṋu mu ripura ouvi porwe,
nu mu tjita ozondjito zoutwe mehi.
3 Ovanauvi va puka okuza kongwatero yawo,
novanavizeze va kwatwa novizeze
okuza momazumo wooina.
4 Owo ve ura nouzuwo tjimuna owozonyoka,
ve setika omatwi wawo tjimuna owesu eworo,
5 ndi ha zuu eraka romuworere wozonyoka,
na ingwi ngu tjiwa okupanguṋuna oviṋa vyoundjai.
6 Ndjambi, ṱukuṱura omayo wovandu
mba movinyo vyawo,
nu teya oviṱaṱunino vyozongeyama
ovindandi, Muhona!
7 Owo ngave zenge tjimuna omeva nga pwire;
nu ngave ṱukuṱurwe tjimuna ehozu mondjira.
8 Ngave kare otja ozongorongondji nḓe
handjuruka okurira enanga;
ngave kare otja okanatje ku ka kwatwa aka koka,
ku ke hi na maake munu ondjerera yeyuva.
9 Owo ngunda ave hiya tjiza,
tjandje va kondwa tjimuna ehozu;
meve isa po ngunda ave nomuinyo.
10 Ovasemba mave nyanda,
tji mave munu ovarunde amave verwa;
Owo mave koho ozombaze zawo
mombinḓu yovanauvi.
11 Ovandu mave tja nai:
“Ovasemba, tjiri, mave munu ondjambi yawo;
tjiri, pena Ndjambi ngu pangura ouye.”
