Psalms 74
1 O God, why have you cast us off for ever? why does your anger smoke against the sheep of your pasture?
Nkulunkulu, usilahleleni kokuphela? Ulaka lwakho luvuthelani ngakuzo izimvu zedlelo lakho?
2 Remember your congregation, which you have purchased of old; the rod of your inheritance, which you have redeemed; this mount Zion, wherein you have dwelt.
Khumbula ibandla lakho owalithenga endulo, intonga yelifa lakho owayihlengayo, le intaba yeZiyoni ohlala kuyo.
3 Lift up your feet unto the perpetual desolations; even all that the enemy has done wickedly in the sanctuary.
Phakamisa inyawo zakho ezincithakalweni eziqhubekayo, konke okubi izitha ezikwenzileyo endaweni engcwele.
4 your enemies roar in the midst of your congregations; they set up their ensigns for signs.
Izitha zakho zibhongile phakathi kwezindawo zakho zokubuthanela, zamisa impawu zazo zibe zimpawu.
5 A man was famous according as he had lifted up axes upon the thick trees.
Umuntu waziwa njengophakamisa amahloka eguswini lezihlahla.
6 But now they break down the carved work thereof at once with axes and hammers.
Kodwa khathesi zitshaye okubaziweyo kwayo ndawonye ngamahloka lezando.
7 They have cast fire into your sanctuary, they have defiled by casting down the dwelling place of your name to the ground.
Zinikele indlu yakho engcwele emlilweni, zangcolisa indawo yokuhlala yebizo lakho ngokuyiwisela emhlabathini.
8 They said in their hearts, Let us destroy them together: they have burned up all the synagogues of God in the land.
Zathi enhliziyweni yazo: Kasibachithe ndawonye. Zatshisa zonke indawo zokubuthanela zikaNkulunkulu elizweni.
9 We see not our signs: there is no more any prophet: neither is there among us any that knows how long.
Impawu zethu kasiziboni; kakusekho mprofethi; kakho kithi owaziyo ukuthi koze kube nini.
10 O God, how long shall the adversary reproach? shall the enemy blaspheme your name for ever?
Koze kube nini, Nkulunkulu, umcindezeli edelela? Isitha sizahlambaza ibizo lakho kokuphela yini?
11 Why withdraw you your hand, even your right hand? pluck it out of your bosom.
Usifinyezeleni isandla sakho, yebo isandla sakho sokunene? Sikhuphe phakathi kwesifuba sakho.
12 For God is my King of old, working salvation in the midst of the earth.
Kanti uNkulunkulu uyiNkosi yami kusukela endulo, eyenza insindiso phakathi komhlaba.
13 You did divide the sea by your strength: you brake the heads of the dragons in the waters.
Nguwe owehlukanisa ulwandle ngamandla akho; wafohloza amakhanda emigobho emanzini.
14 You brake the heads of leviathan (sea serpent) in pieces, and gave him to be food to the people inhabiting the wilderness.
Nguwe owachoboza amakhanda kaLeviyathani, wamnikela waba yikudla kwabantu enkangala.
15 You did cleave the fountain and the flood: you dried up mighty rivers.
Nguwe owaqhekeza umthombo lesifula, nguwe owomisa imifula egeleza njalo.
16 The day is yours, the night also is yours: you have prepared the light and the sun.
Usuku ngolwakho, lobusuku ngobakho; nguwe owamisa ukukhanya lelanga.
17 You have set all the borders of the earth: you have made summer and winter.
Nguwe owamisa yonke imikhawulo yomhlaba; nguwe owenza ihlobo lobusika.
18 Remember this, that the enemy has reproached, O LORD, and that the foolish people have blasphemed your name.
Khumbula lokhu, isitha siyangisile, Nkosi, labantu abayizithutha bahlambazile ibizo lakho.
19 O deliver not the soul of your turtledove unto the multitude of the wicked: forget not the congregation of your poor for ever.
Ungawunikeli umphefumulo wejuba lakho ezinyamazaneni zendle; ungakhohlwa ixuku lezihlupheki zakho phakade.
20 Have respect unto the covenant: for the dark places of the earth are full of the habitations of cruelty.
Nanzelela isivumelwano; ngoba indawo ezimnyama zomhlaba zigcwele indawo zokuhlala zesihluku.
21 O let not the oppressed return ashamed: let the poor and needy praise your name.
Kangabuyeli eyangekile ocindezelweyo; ohluphekayo loswelayo kabalidumise ibizo lakho.
22 Arise, O God, plead your own cause: remember how the foolish man reproaches you daily.
Vuka, Nkulunkulu! Ulumele udaba lwakho, ukhumbule ihlazo lakho ngoyisiwula usuku lonke.
23 Forget not the voice of your enemies: the tumult of those that rise up against you increases continually.
Ungakhohlwa ilizwi lezitha zakho, ukuxokozela kwabakuvukelayo kwenyuka njalonjalo.
