Zaburi 12

1 Kuom jatend wer. Kaluwore gi sheminith. Zaburi mar Daudi. Kony ji yaye Jehova Nyasaye, nikech joma oluoro Nyasaye koro onge; joma jo-adiera oserumo e dier ji.

For the chief musician; set to the Sheminith. A psalm of David. Help, Yahweh, for the godly have disappeared; the faithful have vanished.

2 Ngʼato ka ngʼato riambo ne nyawadgi; dhogi mohero jaro ji wuoyo gi wuond.

Everyone says empty words to his neighbor; everyone speaks with flattering lips and a double heart.

3 Mad Jehova Nyasaye ongʼad oko lep duto ma jaro ji kod lep duto masungore;

Yahweh, cut off all flattering lips, every tongue declaring great things.

4 mawacho niya, “Wabiro wuoyo kaka wahero; kendo onge ngʼama biro tamowa. Koso en ngʼa ma ruodhwa manyalo tamowa timo kamano?”

These are those who have said, “With our tongues will we prevail. When our lips speak, who can be master over us?”

5 “Nikech dich modigo joma ok nyal kod chur ma joma ochando churgo, koro abiro aa malo,” Jehova Nyasaye owacho. “Abiro ritogi e lwet joma sandogi.”

“Because of violence against the poor, because of the groans of the needy, I will arise,” says Yahweh. “I will provide the safety for which they long.”

6 Weche Jehova Nyasaye liw, giliw ka fedha moleny e lowo mowangʼ maliet ha, mopwodhi ndalo abiriyo.

The words of Yahweh are pure words, like silver purified in a furnace on the earth, refined seven times.

7 Yaye Jehova Nyasaye, yie iritwa maber kik gimoro ohinywa kendo reswa e lwet joma kamago nyaka chiengʼ.

You are Yahweh! You keep them. You preserve the godly people from this wicked generation and forever.

8 Joma timbegi richo wuotho koni gi koni kendo gima rach ema ji puoyo.

The wicked walk on every side when evil is exalted among the children of mankind.