A Prayer for the Nation's Deliverance
1 O God, the heathen have invaded your land.
They have desecrated your holy Temple
and left Jerusalem in ruins.
2 They left the bodies of your people for the vultures,
the bodies of your servants for wild animals to eat.
3 They shed your people's blood like water;
blood flowed like water all through Jerusalem,
and no one was left to bury the dead.
4 The surrounding nations insult us;
they laugh at us and mock us.
5 Lord, will you be angry with us forever?
Will your anger continue to burn like fire?
6 Turn your anger on the nations that do not worship you,
on the people who do not pray to you.
7 For they have killed your people;
they have ruined your country.
8 Do not punish us for the sins of our ancestors.
Have mercy on us now;
we have lost all hope.
9 Help us, O God, and save us;
rescue us and forgive our sins
for the sake of your own honor.
10 Why should the nations ask us,
“Where is your God?”
Let us see you punish the nations
for shedding the blood of your servants.
11 Listen to the groans of the prisoners,
and by your great power free those who are condemned to die.
12 Lord, pay the other nations back seven times
for all the insults they have hurled at you.
13 Then we, your people, the sheep of your flock,
will thank you forever
and praise you for all time to come.
Ongumbiro yonguturiro yotjiwaṋa
Epsalme ra Asaf.
1 Ndjambi, ovanavisenginina va taurira mehi roye,
ave yamburura ondjuwo yoye ondjapuke,
nu ave tjiti Jerusalem okurira otjitambatundu.
2 Va yandja oturova twovakarere
voye okuriwa i ozonḓera zeyuru,
notutu twovaingona voye okuriwa i
ovipuka vyokuti.
3 Va tirahi ombinḓu yotjiwaṋa tjoye tjimuna
omeva kominda avihe vya Jerusalem,
nu kapa ri omundu okupaka ovaṱi.
4 Oviwaṋa mbye tu kondoroka kominda avihe,
vi tu yamburura;
ovyo vi tu yora nu vi tu nyekerera.
5 Nga ruṋe, Muhona?
Mo tu pindikire nga aruhe are?
Omazenge woye maye
yaka otja omuriro nga ruṋe?
6 Tirira omazenge woye koviwaṋa
mbi he rikotamene kove,
na komauhona nge ha kumbu kove.
7 Orondu owo va zepa otjiwaṋa tjoye,
nu va hahaura omaturiro watjo.
8 O tu verere omauvi wootate mukururume;
hakahana okututjariparera,
tjinga atwa ningisa ondjenda.
9 Tu vatera, Ndjambi, nu tu yama;
tu kutura nu tu isira ourunde wetu,
kondjozikiro yena roye.
10 Imba mbe he ri Ovajuda mave
tu purire tjike nai:
“Ndjambi weṋu u ri pi?”
Ngatu mune ove tji mo vere oviwaṋa,
mena rokutja vya tirahi ombinḓu
yovakarere voye.
11 Puratena komatjemeno wovahuurwa,
nu momasa woye omanene kutura
imba mba pangurwa kokuṱa.
12 Sutisa potuhambombari oviwaṋa
mbya tura meṋe yetu,
mena romayambururiro ngu vya tjita kove.
13 Nu eṱe mbu tu ri otjiwaṋa tjoye,
nozonḓu zouṱuta woye,
matu ku tanga nga aruhe,
nu matu serekarere ohiviro yoye
okuza kozondekurona nga kozondekurona.
