Ntembezelo we kubgwilizila babiibi
1 Apa imwi balauli motongoleba tje malebeswa kene?
Apa motongosumikilisa bathu kwakatambunuka kene?
2 Aa, moalakana zwisakalulwama mu mimoyo yenyu;
moshingisa maboko enyu kugwa mu shango.
3 Babi banopanduka batjazwagwa;
banotjinya kudwa mukuzwagwa kwabo,
beleba manyepkhwa.
4 Bana bushungu gunonga gwe nyoka
se thumbi isingahwe inozwizwina zebe,
5 kuti ndizo isihwe hwi le bazanisi be nyoka
na ibabo banolidzila nyoka nyele bedzizanisa kene bedzitshumwayidza,
6 Ndzimu, vunani meno abo;
simulani meno e shumbana idzedzi, Yahwe!
7 Ngabanyelele, se vula yawunga;
ngabatshambiwe se bushwa bawomelele.
8 Ngabange mannyongovi tjinonyelela mu dope;
bange mwana washayiwa, usabona ilo zhuba.
9 Tjinyolotjo hali dzenyu dzisathu dzikahwa moto we mihwa,
minyolo kene inothuta, dzene Ndzimu ungabatshwayila ukabalasha!
10 Balulwami banowoshatha abebona mbuzuludzo ithamwa;
banowongula makumbo abo mu malopa e babi.
11 Bathu banowoti,
“Nge malebeswa balulwami banowana mbayilo.
Nge malebeswa Ndzimu unosumikilisa mu shango.”
A Prayer for God to Punish the Wicked
1 Do you rulers ever give a just decision?
Do you judge everyone fairly?
2 No! You think only of the evil you can do,
and commit crimes of violence in the land.
3 Evildoers go wrong all their lives;
they tell lies from the day they are born.
4 They are full of poison like snakes;
they stop up their ears like a deaf cobra,
5 which does not hear the voice of the snake charmer,
or the chant of the clever magician.
6 Break the teeth of these fierce lions, O God.
7 May they disappear like water draining away;
may they be crushed like weeds on a path.
8 May they be like snails that dissolve into slime;
may they be like a baby born dead that never sees the light.
9 Before they know it, they are cut down like weeds;
in his fierce anger God will blow them away
while they are still living.
10 The righteous will be glad when they see sinners punished;
they will wade through the blood of the wicked.
11 People will say, “The righteous are indeed rewarded;
there is indeed a God who judges the world.”