Psalms 135
1 Praise Yahweh! You who (do work for/serve) Yahweh, praise him!
Tamandani Yehova. Tamandani dzina la Yehova; mutamandeni, inu atumiki a Yehova,
2 You who stand in the temple of Yahweh our God and in the surrounding courtyard, praise him [MTY]!
amene mumatumikira mʼnyumba ya Yehova, mʼmabwalo a nyumba ya Mulungu wathu.
3 Praise Yahweh, because he does good things [for us]; sing to him [MTY], because he is kind [to us].
Tamandani Yehova, pakuti Yehova ndi wabwino; imbani nyimbo zotamanda dzina lake, pakuti nʼkokoma kutero,
4 He has chosen [us, the descendants of] Jacob; he has chosen [us] Israelis to belong to him [DOU].
Pakuti Yehova wasankha Yakobo kuti akhale wake, Israeli kuti akhale chuma chake chapamtima.
5 I know that Yahweh is great; he is greater than all the gods.
Ndikudziwa kuti Yehova ndi wamkulu, kuti Ambuye athu ndi wamkulu kuposa milungu yonse.
6 Yahweh does whatever he desires to do, in heaven and on the earth and in the seas/oceans, [down] to the bottom of the seas.
Yehova amachita chilichonse chimene chimamukomera, kumwamba ndi dziko lapansi, ku nyanja zazikulu ndi ku malo ake onse akuya.
7 He is the one who causes clouds to appear from very distant places on the earth; he sends lightning with the rain, and he brings the winds from the places where he stores them.
Iye amatulutsa mitambo kuchokera ku malekezero a dziko lapansi, amatumiza zingʼaningʼani pamodzi ndi mvula ndipo amatulutsa mphepo ku malo ake osungiramo.
8 He is the one who killed [all] the firstborn [males] in Egypt, the firstborn of people and of animals.
Anakantha ana oyamba kubadwa a Igupto, ana oyamba kubadwa a anthu ndi nyama.
9 There he performed many kinds of miracles [DOU] to punish the king and all his officials.
Iye anatumiza zizindikiro zozizwitsa ndi zodabwitsa pakati pako, iwe Igupto, kutsutsana ndi Farao pamodzi ndi atumiki ake onse.
10 He destroyed many nations and the powerful kings [who ruled them]:
Iye anakantha mitundu yambiri ya anthu ndi kupha mafumu amphamvu:
11 Sihon, the king of the Amor people-group, and Og, the king of Bashan [region], and all the other kings in Canaan [land].
Sihoni mfumu ya Aamori, Ogi mfumu ya Basani, ndi maufumu onse a ku Kanaani;
12 Then he gave their land to [us] Israeli people to belong to us [forever].
ndipo anapereka dziko lawo ngati cholowa, cholowa cha anthu ake Aisraeli.
13 Yahweh your name will endure forever, and people who are not yet born will remember the great things [that you have done].
Dzina lanu, Inu Yehova, ndi losatha mpaka muyaya, mbiri yanu, Inu Yehova, idziwika mibado yonse.
14 Yahweh, [you] declare that we your people (are innocent/have not done things that are wrong), and you are merciful to us.
Pakuti Yehova adzaonetsa kuti anthu ake ngosalakwa, ndipo adzachitira chifundo atumiki ake.
15 But the idols that the [other] people-groups [worship] are only [statues made of] silver and gold, things that humans have made.
Mafano a mitundu ya anthu ndi siliva ndi golide, opangidwa ndi manja a anthu.
16 Their idols have mouths, but they cannot say [anything]; they have eyes, but they cannot see [anything].
Pakamwa ali napo koma sayankhula maso ali nawo, koma sapenya;
17 They have ears, but they cannot hear [anything], and they are not [even able to] breathe.
makutu ali nawo, koma sakumva ndipo mʼkamwa mwawo mulibe mpweya uliwonse.
18 The people who make those idols are as [powerless as] those idols, and those who trust in those idols [can accomplish no more than] their idols can!
Iwo amene amapanga mafanowo adzakhala ngati mafanowo, chimodzimodzinso iwo amene amadalira mafanowo.
19 [My fellow] Israelis, praise Yahweh! You [priests] who are descended from Aaron, praise Yahweh!
Inu nyumba ya Israeli, tamandani Yehova; inu nyumba ya Aaroni, tamandani Yehova;
20 You [men] who are descended from Levi, [you who assist the priests], praise Yahweh! [All] you who revere Yahweh, praise him!
Inu nyumba ya Levi, tamandani Yehova; Inu amene mumaopa Iye, tamandani Yehova.
21 Praise Yahweh in [the temple on] Zion [Hill] in Jerusalem, where he lives! Praise Yahweh!
Wodalitsika ndi Yehova kuchokera mʼZiyoni, amene amakhala mu Yerusalemu. Tamandani Yehova.
