Psalms 28

1 BY DAVID. To You, O YHWH, I call, My rock, do not be silent to me! Lest You are silent to me, And I have been compared With those going down to the pit.

Ngiyakhala kuwe, Nkosi; dwala lami, ungangithuleli, hlezi nxa ungithulela, ngifanane labehlela emgodini.

2 Hear the voice of my supplications, In my crying to You, In my lifting up my hands toward your holy oracle.

Zwana ilizwi lokuncenga kwami lapho ngikhala kuwe, lapho ngiphakamisela izandla zami endaweni yakho yelizwi engcwele.

3 Do not draw me with the wicked, And with workers of iniquity, Speaking peace with their neighbors, And evil in their heart.

Ungangihuduli kanye lababi njalo kanye labenzi bobubi, abakhuluma ukuthula labomakhelwane babo, kodwa ububi busenhliziyweni yabo.

4 Give to them according to their acting, And according to the evil of their doings. Give to them according to the work of their hands. Return their deed to them.

Ubanike njengokwenza kwabo, lanjengobubi bezenzo zabo; ubanike njengokomsebenzi wezandla zabo, ubabuyisele isenzo sabo.

5 For they do not attend to the doing of YHWH, And to the work of His hands. He throws them down, And does not build them up.

Ngoba kabayinanzi imisebenzi yeNkosi lokwenza kwezandla zayo, izababhidliza ingabakhi.

6 Blessed [is] YHWH, For He has heard the voice of my supplications.

Kayibongwe iNkosi, ngoba ilizwile ilizwi lokuncenga kwami.

7 YHWH [is] my strength, and my shield, In Him my heart trusted, and I have been helped. And my heart exults, And I thank Him with my song.

INkosi ingamandla ami lesihlangu sami; inhliziyo yami ithembela kuyo, ngiyasizwa; ngakho inhliziyo yami iyathokoza, ngiyidumise ngengoma yami.

8 YHWH [is] strength to him, Indeed, the strength of the salvation of His anointed [is] He.

INkosi ingamandla abo, njalo iyinqaba yezinsindiso zogcotshiweyo wayo.

9 Save Your people, and bless Your inheritance, And feed them, and carry them for all time!

Sindisa abantu bakho, ubusise ilifa lakho, beluse, ubaphakamise kuze kube nininini.