Omuxupifi wOvaisraeli na hambelelwe!
Eimbilo lomolweendo lokuya kouyapuki, laDavid.
1 Omwene ngeno okwa li ina ama kufye,
Israel osho na tye;
2 Omwene ngeno ka amene kufye,
ovanhu eshi kwa li ve tu shivila olwoodi,
3 ngeno vo ove tu pona po hamudilu tu nomwenyo,
eshi ehandu lavo kwa li le tu xwamenena;
4 opo ngeno nomeva eyelu e tu yelula,
nomulonga ngeno we tu kungulukila;
5 neemwenyo detu da uvikilwa ngeno
komakufikufi omeva madjuu.
6 Omwene na hambelelwe,
eshi ine tu yandja tu nyanyaulwe komayoo avo.
7 Eemwenyo detu oda xutuluka ngaashi okadila,
ke likufa melulo lomuteli womwiyo, elulo ola tokoka,
ndele fye otwa yululuka mo.
8 Ekwafo letu oli li medina lOmwene,
ou omushiti weulu nedu.
God the Protector of His People
1 What if the Lord had not been on our side?
Answer, O Israel!
2 “If the Lord had not been on our side
when our enemies attacked us,
3 then they would have swallowed us alive
in their furious anger against us;
4 then the flood would have carried us away,
the water would have covered us,
5 the raging torrent would have drowned us.”
6 Let us thank the Lord,
who has not let our enemies destroy us.
7 We have escaped like a bird from a hunter's trap;
the trap is broken, and we are free!
8 Our help comes from the Lord,
who made heaven and earth.
