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.
Okugalikanena emanguluko
1 Omuwa sho a galulile kegumbo
oonkwatwa dhaSion,
otwa li twa fa oonakuyaguma.
2 Otwa yolo e tatu ligola pombanda.
Ihe iigwana yilwe oye tu popi ya ti:
“Omuwa okwe ya ningile iinima iinene.”
3 Eeno, Omuwa okwe tu ningile iinima iinene,
otse notwe shi nyanyukilwa.
4 Omuwa, tu galulila kegumbo,
tu hepuluke twa fa esilu ekukutu mombuga tali lokwa.
5 Oomboka taa kunu nokulila omahodhi,
otaa ka teya nokunyanyukwa.
6 Otaa ende taa lili, sho taa humbata oombuto;
otaa galuka ko nokuligola, sho taa humbata oondudhi.
