Zabbuli 12

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

For the Chief Musician; set to the Sheminith. A Psalm of David. Help, LORD; for the godly man ceaseth; for the faithful fail from among the children of men.

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

They speak vanity every one with his neighbour: with flattering lip, and with a double heart, do they speak.

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

The LORD shall cut off all flattering lips, the tongue that speaketh great 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.”

For the spoiling of the poor, for the sighing of the needy, now will I arise, saith the LORD; 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 the LORD are pure words; as silver tried in a furnace on the earth, purified seven times.

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

Thou shalt keep them, O LORD, thou shalt preserve them from this generation for ever.

8 Ababi beeyisaayisa nga bagulumiza ebitaliimu nsa.

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