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.
Eindilo okwaamenwa kowii
Epsalome laDavid.
1 Omwene, ohandi kuu onghuwo kwoove, i tondoka!
Uda ondaka yange, eshi handi ku ifana.
2 Eindilo lange nali talwe kwoove,
olo etwimino, neyelulo lomaoko ange,
olo eyambo longuloshi.
3 Omwene, kokanya kange paka ko omukeleli,
nomunangeli koshivelo shomilungu dange!
4 Anda ko omutima wange, uha ame kowii,
ame ndiha longe oilonga youmbudi
pamwe naava ve i hole;
inandi hala nokuli okumakela kounyenye wavo.
5 Omuyuki na denge nge, osho ohole,
ye na pukulule nge,
osho omuvaeko womomutwe,
omutwe wange, eshi itau shi anye nande,
osheshi natango eindilo lange tali kondjifa oumbudi wavo.
6 Ovatokoli vomuvo,
ngeenge va undwilwa momakololo omamanya,
opo otaku udika eendjovo dange, nokutya odiwa.
7 Ngaashi umwe ta limi edu ndele te li hende,
osho omakipa etu taa nyanekwa mokanya koshovafi.
8 Osheshi Omwene, Kalunga kange,
kwoove omesho ange oko a yukilila,
kwoove oko handi ka ningina;
omwenyo wange ino u tilashi.
9 Shiye nge komwiyo, ou va tela nge,
nokomalulo ovaninginai.
10 Ovadinikalunga nave likwate nomalulo avo vene,
fimbo ame handi piti po.
