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.”
To the chief Musician, Al-taschith, Michtam of David.
1 Do ye indeed speak righteousness, O congregation? do ye judge uprightly, O ye sons of men?
2 Yea, in heart ye work wickedness; ye weigh the violence of your hands in the earth.
3 The wicked are estranged from the womb: they go astray as soon as they be born, speaking lies.
4 Their poison is like the poison of a serpent: they are like the deaf adder that stoppeth her ear;
5 Which will not hearken to the voice of charmers, charming never so wisely.
6 Break their teeth, O God, in their mouth: break out the great teeth of the young lions, O LORD.
7 Let them melt away as waters which run continually: when he bendeth his bow to shoot his arrows, let them be as cut in pieces.
8 As a snail which melteth, let every one of them pass away: like the untimely birth of a woman, that they may not see the sun.
9 Before your pots can feel the thorns, he shall take them away as with a whirlwind, both living, and in his wrath.
10 The righteous shall rejoice when he seeth the vengeance: he shall wash his feet in the blood of the wicked.
11 So that a man shall say, Verily there is a reward for the righteous: verily he is a God that judgeth in the earth.