Psalms 121

1 [When we travel toward Jerusalem], I look up toward the hills [and I ask myself], “Who will help me?”

Ngizaphakamisela amehlo ami ezintabeni, lapho usizo lwami oluzavela khona.

2 [And my answer is] that Yahweh is the one who helps me; he is the one who made heaven and the earth.

Usizo lwami luvela eNkosini, eyenza amazulu lomhlaba.

3 He will not allow us to fall/stumble; God, who protects us, will not fall asleep.

Kayiyikuvuma ukuthi unyawo lwakho lutshelele; umlondolozi wakho kayikuwozela.

4 The one who protects us Israeli people never gets sleepy, nor does he sleep [LIT].

Khangela, umlondolozi kaIsrayeli kayikuwozela njalo kayikulala.

5 Yahweh watches over us; he is like the shade [MET] [that protects us from the sun].

INkosi ingumlondolozi wakho; iNkosi ingumthunzi wakho esandleni sakho sokunene.

6 [He will not allow] the sun to harm us during the day, and [he will not allow] the moon to harm us during the night.

Ilanga kaliyikukutshaya emini, lenyanga ebusuku.

7 Yahweh will protect us from being harmed in any manner; he will keep us safe.

INkosi izakulondoloza kukho konke okubi; izalondoloza umphefumulo wakho.

8 He will protect us from the time that we leave [our houses in the morning] until we return [in the evening]; he will protect us now, and he will protect us forever.

INkosi izalondoloza ukuphuma kwakho lokungena kwakho, kusukela khathesi kuze kube phakade.