Zabbuli 113

1 Mutendereze Mukama! Mumutendereze, mmwe abaweereza be, mutendereze erinnya lya Mukama.

Praise Yahweh! You people who serve Yahweh, praise him! Praise (him/his name)!

2 Erinnya lya Mukama litenderezebwe okuva leero n’okutuusa emirembe gyonna.

Yahweh should be praised now and forever!

3 Enjuba weeviirayo okutuusa bw’egwa, erinnya lya Mukama litenderezebwenga.

People who live in the east and people who live in the west, everyone, should praise Yahweh [MTY]!

4 Mukama agulumizibwa okusinga amawanga gonna, era n’ekitiibwa kye kisinga eggulu.

Yahweh rules [MTY] over all the nations, and high in the heavens he shows that his glory is very great.

5 Ani afaanana nga Mukama Katonda waffe, atuula ku ntebe ye ey’obwakabaka eri waggulu ennyo,

There is no one [RHQ] who is like Yahweh, our God, who lives/sits/rules in the highest heaven,

6 ne yeetoowaza okutunuulira eggulu n’ensi?

and looks far down through the heavens and sees the [people on] the earth.

7 Abaavu abayimusa n’abaggya mu nfuufu; n’abali mu kwetaaga n’abasitula ng’abaggya mu vvu,

[Sometimes] he lifts poor people up [so that they no longer sit in] the dirt; he helps needy [people so that they no longer sit on] heaps of ashes

8 n’abatuuza wamu n’abalangira, awamu n’abalangira abo abafuga abantu be.

and causes them to [be honored] by sitting next to princes, the sons of the kings [who rule] their people.

9 Omukazi omugumba amuwa abaana, n’abeera mu maka ge n’ezzadde lye ng’ajjudde essanyu. Mutendereze Mukama!

He also enables women who have no children to have a family; he causes them to be happy mothers. Praise Yahweh!