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.
Ekemo mefimbo lomaudjuu manene
Epsalome laAsaf.
1 Akutu Kalunga, ovapaani ova pumina moinima yoye,
va nyateka otembeli yoye iyapuki,
Jerusalem ove shi ninga eputu loikulukuma.
2 Oimhu yovapiya voye ove i yandja
keedila dokeulu, di i lye po,
nomalutu ovakoshoki voye okoilyani yedu.
3 Ohonde yavo ove i tilashi ngaashi omeva
mominghulo adishe daJerusalem,
kapa li ou te va pake.
4 Otwa ninga oiyolifa yovashiinda vetu,
otwa ninga ovashekwa, hatu tukaelwa koilongo,
ei ya shaama nafye.
5 Omwene, fiyo onaini hano to kala wa handuka?
Nonya yoye fiyo onaini
tai kala ya xwama ngaashi omundilo?
6 Ehandu loye li tilila kombada yovapaani
ava inave ku shiiva,
nokombada yoilongo ei tai dini okwiifana edina loye.
7 Osheshi ova mana po Jakob,
ndele va hanauna po etungilo laye.
8 Ino tu kwatela onghone molwowii wootatekulu,
endelela u tu shakeneke nefilonghenda loye,
osheshi fye twa tyololoka shili.
9 Kalunga kexupifo letu,
tu kwafa, molwefimano ledina loye,
tu xupifa, Ove tu dimina po omatimba etu
molwedina loye!
10 Ongahelipi mbela ovapaani va pewe va tye:
“Kalunga kavo paife oku li nee peni?”
Koipala yetu natu talifwe ehandukilo lovapaani
molwohonde yovapiya voye, ei va tilashi.
11 Okunyemata kweenghwate naku udike kwoove,
nokwooko kwoye kweenghono
xupifa eemwenyo daava va tokolelwa okufya.
12 Ovashiinda vetu, esheko lavo,
eli ve ku sheka nalo Omwene,
li va shunifila meenhulo davo luheyali.
13 Ndelenee fye, ovanhu voye needi doufita woye,
otwa hala tu ku hambelele fiyo alushe;
nomapupi okomesho ohatu a udifile efimano loye.
