Ndzimu banowoloba Itopiya
1 Yee mme wee, shango ye nsindo we mapapilo,
iseli kwe njizi dze Itopiya,
2 inotumila bamilili nge gungwa,
bali mu vula mu zwikepe zwakathamiwa nge shanga dze gwizi!
Yendani imwi batumwa bana majatu,
ku itjaba tjakakula tjina ganda buyanana,
yendani ku bathu banotjiwa pejo na kule,
itjaba tjakasima gunokunda,
guna shango yakathubukanyiwa nge njizi.
3 Imwi mose bagali be lubumbo,
imwi mugele mu shango,
ha tjilakidzo tjimilidziwa pezhugwi kwe matombo, mulinge!
Lunyanga ha gulidziwa muhwe!
4 Ngoti Yahwe bakati kundili,
“Ndowolinga ndilinyelele kudwa mu magalo angu
se kupisa kunodwa mu kupenya kwe zhuba,
kufanana ne gole le khawa kupisa mu nsi we kuvuna.”
5 Kowoti kusathu kukavungwa, maluba asinoshashamuka,
zhambi dzoyendila kubidwa dzishanyuka,
unowothubula thabi tshwa dzinokula nge mipanga inosunulila
ebe ekuthubulila pasi thabi dzinopasha.
6 Bose koga banowosiigwa
nyuni dze matombo dzinoja nyama
ne zwibandana zwe shango.
Nyuni dzinoja nyama dzowopitsha tjilimo nabo dzibaja,
zwibandana zose zwe shango zwikapitsha mbaba nabo.
7 Mu tjibaka itjetjo zwipo zowozhisiwa kuna Yahwe Masimbawose
zwizhisiwa nge bathu balefu be ganda buyanana,
bathu banotjiwa pejo na kule,
ludzi gwakasima gunokunda,
be shango yakathubugwanyiwa nge njizi.
Banowozha ku Dombo le Ziyoni
bugalo gwe zina la Yahwe Masimbawose.
God Will Punish Ethiopia
1 Beyond the rivers of Ethiopia there is a land where the sound of wings is heard. 2 From that land ambassadors come down the Nile in boats made of reeds. Go back home, swift messengers! Take a message back to your land divided by rivers, to your strong and powerful nation, to your tall and smooth-skinned people, who are feared all over the world.
3 Listen, everyone who lives on earth! Look for a signal flag to be raised on the mountaintops! Listen for the blowing of the bugle! 4 The Lord said to me, “I will look down from heaven as quietly as the dew forms in the warm nights of harvest time, as serenely as the sun shines in the heat of the day. 5 Before the grapes are gathered, when the blossoms have all fallen and the grapes are ripening, the enemy will destroy the Ethiopians as easily as a knife cuts branches from a vine. 6 The corpses of their soldiers will be left exposed to the birds and the wild animals. In summer the birds will feed on them, and in winter, the animals.”
7 A time is coming when the Lord Almighty will receive offerings from this land divided by rivers, this strong and powerful nation, this tall and smooth-skinned people, who are feared all over the world. They will come to Mount Zion, where the Lord Almighty is worshiped.