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.
Eindilo molwehapupalo lowii
Epsalme laDavid, la pewa enyakwa lolwiimbo, mondaka yombaafa.
1 Omwene, kwafa, osheshi ovayuki va xula po,
novadiinini va pwa mo movana vovanhu.
2 Otava popyafana oipupulu namukwao,
nomokupopya omilungu davo
odi nomufenhu,
nomitima davo di li pavali.
3 Omwene, ngeno na tete po omilungu adishe
di nomufenhu
nakeshe tuu elaka tali litangele ounangane,
4 ava hava ti: “Elaka letu olo eenghono detu;
omilungu detu tadi tu popile.
Olyelye omwene wetu?”
5 Omwene Ye ta ti:
“Molwokufininikwa kwomapongo,
nomolwokunyemata kweehepele
nda hala okufikama paife,
exupifo ohandi li etele
ou te li djuulukwa nokuhefahekumuna.”
6 Eendjovo dOmwene odo eendjovo da yela,
da fa oshisiliveli tashi kungulukile poshi
shi yela tashi vilima,
sha yelifwa luheyali.
7 Omwene, Oove to ke va diinina,
oto ke va amena kepupi eli fiyo alushe,
8 nande ovalunde nava shishimane shi fike peni,
molwaashi oulunde
tau hovele okutana mokati kovanhu.
