A Prayer for Deliverance
1 When the Lord brought us back to Jerusalem,
it was like a dream!
2 How we laughed, how we sang for joy!
Then the other nations said about us,
“The Lord did great things for them.”
3 Indeed he did great things for us;
how happy we were!
4 Lord, make us prosperous again,
just as the rain brings water back to dry riverbeds.
5 Let those who wept as they planted their crops,
gather the harvest with joy!
6 Those who wept as they went out carrying the seed
will come back singing for joy,
as they bring in the harvest.
Apa tapa kunwa nomahodi, otapa teywa nenyakuko
Eimbilo lomolweendo lokuya kouyapuki.
1 Omwene eshi kwa li a pikulula Sion moukwatwa washo,
opo fye otwa li twa fa hatu tu ondjodi.
2 Omakanya etu okwa li e yadi oindjola,
nomalaka etu e neenghuwilili;
nomokati kovapaani kwa li taku popiwa taku ti:
“Omwene okwe va longela oilonga inene.”
3 Heeno, Omwene okwa li e tu ningila oinima inene.
Otwa kala twa hafa.
4 Omwene, shitukifa oshitukulilwa shetu,
ngaashi ho alula omatondokelo omeva odula
medu lokoumbuwanhu.
5 Ava hava kunu nomahodi,
ohava teya va nyakukwa.
6 Heeno, moku ka kuna ombuto,
otava ende nokulila;
ndele mokwaaluka otava kuwilile,
notava humbata oilya yavo.
