Masalimo 58
1 Kwa mtsogoleri wa mayimbidwe. Potsata mayimbidwe a “Musawononge.” Ndakatulo ya Davide. Kodi inu olamulira mumayankhuladi molungama? Kodi mumaweruza mwachilungamo pakati pa anthu?
Unto the end, destroy not, for David, for an inscription of a title. If in very deed you speak justice: judge right things, ye sons of men.
2 Ayi, mʼmitima mwanu mumakonzekera zosalungama, ndipo manja anu amatulutsa zachiwawa pa dziko lapansi.
For in your heart you work iniquity: your hands forge injustice in the earth.
3 Ngakhale kuchokera tsiku lawo lobadwa oyipa amasochera; kuchokera mʼmimba ya amayi awo, iwo ndi otayika ndipo amayankhula mabodza.
The wicked are alienated from the womb; they have gone astray from the womb: they have spoken false things.
4 Ululu wawo uli ngati ululu wa njoka, ngati uja wa mphiri imene yatseka mʼmakutu mwake.
Their madness is according to the likeness of a serpent: like the deaf asp that stoppeth her ears:
5 Imene simva liwu la munthu wamatsenga, ngakhale akhale wa luso lotani munthu wamatsengayo.
Which will not hear the voice of the charmers; nor of the wizard that charmeth wisely.
6 Gululani mano mʼkamwa mwawo, Inu Mulungu, Yehova khadzulani mano a mikango!
God shall break in pieces their teeth in their mouth: the Lord shall break the grinders of the lions.
7 Mulole kuti asowe ngati madzi oyenda pamene iwo akoka uta mulole kuti mivi yawo ikhale yosathwa.
They shall come to nothing, like water running down; he hath bent his bow till they be weakened.
8 Akhale ngati nkhono imene imasungunuka pamene ikuyenda; ngati mwana wakufa asanabadwe, iwo asaone dzuwa.
Like wax that melteth they shall be taken away: fire hath fallen on them, and they shall not see the sun.
9 Miphika yanu isanagwire moto waminga ya mkandankhuku, kaya iyo ndi yobiriwira kapena yowuma, oyipa adzachotsedwa.
Before your thorns could know the brier; he swalloweth them up, as alive, in his wrath.
10 Olungama adzasangalala poona kubwezera chilango, pamene adzasambitsa mapazi awo mʼmagazi a anthu oyipa.
The just shall rejoice when he shall see the revenge: he shall wash his hands in the blood of the sinner.
11 Ndipo anthu adzanena kuti, “Zoonadi, olungama amalandirabe mphotho; zoonadi kuli Mulungu amene amaweruza dziko lapansi.”
And man shall say: If indeed there be fruit to the just: there is indeed a God that judgeth them on the earth.
