To the chief Musician upon Shoshannim-eduth, A Psalm of Asaph.
1 Give ear, O Shepherd of Israel, thou that leadest Joseph like a flock; thou that dwellest between the cherubims, shine forth.
2 Before Ephraim and Benjamin and Manasseh stir up thy strength, and come and save us.
3 Turn us again, O God, and cause thy face to shine; and we shall be saved.
4 O LORD God of hosts, how long wilt thou be angry against the prayer of thy people?
5 Thou feedest them with the bread of tears; and givest them tears to drink in great measure.
6 Thou makest us a strife unto our neighbours: and our enemies laugh among themselves.
7 Turn us again, O God of hosts, and cause thy face to shine; and we shall be saved.
8 Thou hast brought a vine out of Egypt: thou hast cast out the heathen, and planted it.
9 Thou preparedst room before it, and didst cause it to take deep root, and it filled the land.
10 The hills were covered with the shadow of it, and the boughs thereof were like the goodly cedars.
11 She sent out her boughs unto the sea, and her branches unto the river.
12 Why hast thou then broken down her hedges, so that all they which pass by the way do pluck her?
13 The boar out of the wood doth waste it, and the wild beast of the field doth devour it.
14 Return, we beseech thee, O God of hosts: look down from heaven, and behold, and visit this vine;
15 And the vineyard which thy right hand hath planted, and the branch that thou madest strong for thyself.
16 It is burned with fire, it is cut down: they perish at the rebuke of thy countenance.
17 Let thy hand be upon the man of thy right hand, upon the son of man whom thou madest strong for thyself.
18 So will not we go back from thee: quicken us, and we will call upon thy name.
19 Turn us again, O LORD God of hosts, cause thy face to shine; and we shall be saved.
Ntembezelo we kubaka itjaba
1 Teedzani, imwi nlisi we Iziraela.
Imwi munotungamila Josefa se ngubi ye pkhwizi!
Imwi mugele mu tjigalo tje bushe
pakati kwe dzikherubhu, dwililani ngopenya,
2 mbeli kwa Ifureimi na Bhenjamini na Manase!
Lakidzani simba lenyu,
ngono muzhe kowotitjidza!
3 Mutibake imwi Ndzimu,
penyesani buso gwenyu, kuti ndizo titjidziwe.
4 Imwi Yahwe Ndzimu we mibunga,
mowogwadzilamoyo mitembezelo
ye bathu benyu kuswikila lini kene?
5 Makabajisa tjiwunga nge mishodzi,
mukabapa mishodzi kuti bang'we nge buzhalo.
6 Motithama tikabe madado e babakidzani naswi,
zwita zwedu zwikatiseka mahanya.
7 Mutibake imwi Ndzimu we mibunga,
mutipenyesele buso gwenyu, kuti titjidziwe.
8 Makazhisa nzhambi kudwa ku Egipiti,
makatata zwitjaba mu shango ngono mukaudzwala.
9 Makakulila nzhambi lubazhe,
midzi yawo ikangina pasi ngono ukazhala shango.
10 Matombo akafukidzwa nge ntutshi wawo,
miti ye misida ikafukidzwa nge thabi dzawo,
11 ikadusila thabi dzawo ku gungwa,
thadzwana dzinothinila dzikaswika ku gwizi.
12 Ini ngono makapkhwanya makuma awo,
bapindi nge zila kwabanopinda betjela zhambi dzawo?
13 Hwotji ye shango inoupulula,
na zose zwinoyenda mu shango zouja.
14 Tendebukilani ku tili, imwi Ndzimu we mibunga!
Lingani pasi muli kudzimu mubone,
ibeni nge hanya ngekwe nzhambi uwoyu.
15 Iwo nti wakadzwagwa nge luboko gwenyu gwe luji.
16 Nzhambi wenyu wakatemwa ukaligigwa pasi, wakapisiwa nge moto,
dzene bangalobesiwa nge kutjemela kwenyu makashweshwanya phazha.
17 Koga tjiazha tjenyu ngatjibe pezhugwi kwa ibabo baku luboko gwenyu gwe luji,
tjaba yamakazwisimisila.
18 Ndizo atingatjamufupatile kakale,
mutipe butjilo, ngono towodana zina lenyu.
19 Mutibake imwi Yahwe Ndzimu Masimbawose,
penyesani buso gwenyu, kuti titjidziwe.