Psalms 135
1 Praise Yahweh! You who (do work for/serve) Yahweh, praise him!
Mutendereze Mukama. Mutendereze erinnya lya Mukama. Mumutendereze mmwe abaddu ba Mukama;
2 You who stand in the temple of Yahweh our God and in the surrounding courtyard, praise him [MTY]!
mmwe abaweereza mu nnyumba ya Mukama, mu mpya z’ennyumba ya Katonda waffe.
3 Praise Yahweh, because he does good things [for us]; sing to him [MTY], because he is kind [to us].
Mutendereze Mukama, kubanga Mukama mulungi; mutendereze erinnya lye kubanga ekyo kisanyusa.
4 He has chosen [us, the descendants of] Jacob; he has chosen [us] Israelis to belong to him [DOU].
Kubanga Mukama yeerondera Yakobo okuba owuwe; ye Isirayiri gwe yeeroboza okuba eky’omuwendo.
5 I know that Yahweh is great; he is greater than all the gods.
Mmanyi nga Mukama mukulu wa kitiibwa, era nga Mukama oyo y’asinga bakatonda bonna.
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.
Mukama kyonna ky’asiima ky’akola, mu ggulu ne ku nsi; mu nnyanja ne mu buziba bwayo.
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.
Alagira ebire ne byekuluumulula okuva ku nkomerero y’ensi; atonnyesa enkuba erimu okumyansa, n’asumulula empewo okuva mu mawanika ge.
8 He is the one who killed [all] the firstborn [males] in Egypt, the firstborn of people and of animals.
Ye yakuba ababereberye ab’e Misiri; ababereberye b’abantu n’ebibereberye by’ebisolo.
9 There he performed many kinds of miracles [DOU] to punish the king and all his officials.
Ye yaweereza obubonero n’ebyewuunyo wakati wo, ggwe Misiri, eri Falaawo n’abaweereza be bonna.
10 He destroyed many nations and the powerful kings [who ruled them]:
Ye yakuba amawanga amangi, n’atta bakabaka ab’amaanyi era be bano,
11 Sihon, the king of the Amor people-group, and Og, the king of Bashan [region], and all the other kings in Canaan [land].
Sikoni kabaka w’Abamoli, ne Ogi kabaka w’e Basani ne bakabaka bonna ab’e Kanani.
12 Then he gave their land to [us] Israeli people to belong to us [forever].
Ensi yaabwe n’agiwaayo ng’obusika, okuba obusika bw’abantu be Isirayiri.
13 Yahweh your name will endure forever, and people who are not yet born will remember the great things [that you have done].
Ayi Mukama, erinnya lyo lya lubeerera, era n’obukulu bwo bumanyibwa emirembe gyonna.
14 Yahweh, [you] declare that we your people (are innocent/have not done things that are wrong), and you are merciful to us.
Kubanga Katonda aliggyako abantu be omusango, era alisaasira abaweereza be.
15 But the idols that the [other] people-groups [worship] are only [statues made of] silver and gold, things that humans have made.
Abamawanga ebifaananyi byonna ebyole bye basinza, ebyakolebwa n’emikono gy’abantu mu ffeeza ne zaabu,
16 Their idols have mouths, but they cannot say [anything]; they have eyes, but they cannot see [anything].
birina emimwa, naye tebyogera; birina amaaso, naye tebiraba;
17 They have ears, but they cannot hear [anything], and they are not [even able to] breathe.
birina amatu naye tebiwulira; so ne mu kamwa kaabyo temuyitamu mukka.
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!
Ababikola balibifaanana; na buli abyesiga alibifaanana.
19 [My fellow] Israelis, praise Yahweh! You [priests] who are descended from Aaron, praise Yahweh!
Ayi ennyumba ya Isirayiri mutendereze Mukama; mmwe ennyumba ya Alooni mutendereze Mukama.
20 You [men] who are descended from Levi, [you who assist the priests], praise Yahweh! [All] you who revere Yahweh, praise him!
Mmwe ennyumba ya Leevi mutendereze Mukama; mmwe abatya Mukama mutendereze Mukama.
21 Praise Yahweh in [the temple on] Zion [Hill] in Jerusalem, where he lives! Praise Yahweh!
Mukama ali mu Sayuuni yeebazibwe; yeebazibwe oyo abeera mu Yerusaalemi. Mutendereze Mukama.
