Zabbuli 12

1 Ya Mukulu wa Bayimbi. Zabbuli ya Dawudi. Tuyambe, Ayi Mukama, kubanga tewakyali n’omu amanyi Katonda; abantu abeesigwa bonna baweddewo.

To the chief Musician. Upon Sheminith. A Psalm of David. Save, Jehovah, for the godly man is gone; for the faithful have failed from among the children of men.

2 Buli muntu alimba munne; akamwa kaabwe akawaana koogera bya bulimba.

They speak falsehood every one with his neighbour: [with] flattering lip, with a double heart, do they speak.

3 Mukama, osirise akamwa k’abo bonna abeewaanawaana, na buli lulimi olwenyumiriza;

Jehovah will cut off all flattering lips, the tongue that speaketh proud things,

4 nga boogera nti, “Tujja kuwangula n’olulimi lwaffe, era tufune byonna bye twetaaga n’akamwa kaffe, kubanga ani alitukuba ku mukono.”

Who have said, With our tongue will we prevail, our lips are our own: who [is] lord over us?

5 Mukama ayogera nti, “Olw’okujoogebwa kw’abanafu, n’olw’okusinda kw’abali mu bwetaavu, nnaasituka kaakano ne nnwanirira abo abalumbibwa.”

Because of the oppression of the afflicted, because of the sighing of the needy, now will I arise, saith Jehovah, I will set [him] in safety, at whom they puff.

6 Ebigambo bya Mukama bya bwesigwa era bya mazima. Bigeraageranyizibwa n’effeeza erongoosebbwa obulungi emirundi musanvu mu kyoto eky’ebbumba.

The words of Jehovah are pure words, silver tried in the furnace of earth, purified seven times.

7 Ayi Mukama, tukwesiga ng’onootukuumanga, n’otuwonya abantu abali ng’abo emirembe gyonna.

Thou, Jehovah, wilt keep them, thou wilt preserve them from this generation for ever.

8 Ababi beeyisaayisa nga bagulumiza ebitaliimu nsa.

The wicked walk about on every side, when vileness is exalted among the children of men.