(A song and a psalm by Asaph.)
God Rules All the Earth
1 Our God, don't just sit there,
silently doing nothing!
2 Your hateful enemies
are turning against you
and rebelling.
3 They are sly, and they plot
against those you treasure.
4 They say, “Let's wipe out
the nation of Israel
and make sure that no one
remembers its name!”
5 All of them fully agree
in their plans against you,
and among them are
6 Edom and the Ishmaelites;
Moab and the Hagrites;
7 Gebal, Ammon, and Amalek;
Philistia and Phoenicia.
8 Even Assyria has joined forces
with Moab and Ammon.
9 Our Lord, punish all of them
as you punished Midian.
Destroy them, as you destroyed
Sisera and Jabin
at Kishon Creek 10 near Endor,
and let their bodies rot.
11 Treat their leaders as you did
Oreb and Zeeb,
Zebah and Zalmunna.
12 All of them said, “We'll take
God's valuable land!”
13 Our God, scatter them around
like dust in a whirlwind.
14 Just as flames destroy forests
on the mountains,
15 pursue and terrify them
with storms of your own.
16 Make them blush with shame,
until they turn and worship
you, our Lord.
17 Let them be forever ashamed
and confused.
Let them die in disgrace.
18 Make them realize that you
are the Lord Most High,
the only ruler of earth!
Ntembezelo we kukundiwa kwe zwita zwe Iziraela
1 Imwi Ndzimu, musinyalale koga,
musidzikame koga makati hwuu, imwi Ndzimu!
2 Bonani sekwa zwita zwenyu zwamumukila,
ibabo bakamubenga bamilidza misholo yabo.
3 Banolukila bathu benyu gwanga,
banolangana kuti bagwise ibabo bamunobakilila.
4 Banoti, “Izhani, ngati balobeseni bose,
zina le Iziraela lisitongotjafa lakumbugwa ndodwa.”
5 Banolangana bakadumana,
bethama tjidumano nge kwenyu,
6 mishasha ye Edomu ne Baishimaela, Moabu ne Bahagiri,
7 Gebhala na Amoni na Amaleke,
Filisitiya ne bagali be Tire,
8 Asiriya na iye wazwibhatshanya nabo,
ndibo babhayani bakasima be bana ba Lote.
9 Bathamileni tjamakathama ne Midiya,
ne Sisera ne Jabhini ku gwizi gwe Kishoni,
10 bakakolomogwa ku Endo,
bakabe dokonobe linodigwa mu mavu.
11 Thamilani banokudziwa tjamakathama
ne Orebhe ne Zeebhi,
hadzasha dzabo Zebha na Zalimuna,
12 ibo bakati, “Ngatizwitolegweni shango ye Ndzimu ibe yedu.”
13 Ndzimu wangu, mubathame bange
hwuluba ye tjampupudze,
bange bunye gunotogwa nge phepo.
14 Se moto upisa ishaka,
kene se nthuto upisa matombo.
15 Mubatutudze nge dutu lenyu,
mubuye mubatjise nge dutu gulu.
16 Njiso dzabo mudziambadze nge shoni,
kuti ndizo bashake zina lenyu, imwi Yahwe.
17 Ngababhatisiwe shoni
kakale bahwumanyiwe nge kusingapele,
ngabalobe bakalengudzika.
18 Ngabazibe kuti mumoga,
imwi be zina linoyi Yahwe,
muli pezhugwi zhugwi kwe shango yose.