Human Wickedness
(Psalm 14)1 Fools say to themselves,
“There is no God.”
They are all corrupt,
and they have done terrible things;
there is no one who does what is right.
2 God looks down from heaven at people
to see if there are any who are wise,
any who worship him.
3 But they have all turned away;
they are all equally bad.
Not one of them does what is right,
not a single one.
4 “Don't they know?” God asks.
“Are these evildoers ignorant?
They live by robbing my people,
and they never pray to me.”
5 But then they will become terrified,
as they have never been before,
for God will scatter the bones of the enemies of his people.
God has rejected them,
and so Israel will totally defeat them.
6 How I pray that victory
will come to Israel from Zion.
How happy the people of Israel will be
when God makes them prosperous again!
Ekemo molwenyonauko lounyuni
Ounongoimbilo waDavid; wa pewa enyakwa lolwiimbo, oku u imba mondaka yoluhodi.
1 Elai tali popi momutima walo, tali ti:
“Kape na Kalunga.”
Oilonga yalo oififahoni, ya nyonauka;
kape na nande umwe ou ta longo ouwa.
2 Kalunga meulu ota vandamene poshi,
ta tale oludalo lovanhu,
a mone, ngeenge pe na omunandunge,
ou ta kongo Kalunga.
3 Ndelenee aveshe ova kanduka mo,
aveshe va kaula onyanga; inapa monika vali ou,
ta longo sha yuka, nande oumwe.
4 Ovanawii vehe na eendunge nande mbela?
Ava tava li po oshiwana shange
ngaashi tava li oshifima,
vo itava ifana nande Kalunga.
5 Opo tuu opo va tilifwa va kakama,
nande kapa li oshitilifi;
osheshi Kalunga okwa li a halakanifa
omakipa ovakondekeli voye;
ove we va xutula, osheshi Kalunga okwa li e va ekelashi.
6 Akutu, exupifo laIsrael ngeno li holoke muSion!
Ngeenge Omwene ta alula oudjuu movanhu vaye,
opo Jakob ota hafe, naIsrael ota nyakukwa.
