Zabbuli 58
1 Ya Mukulu wa Bayimbi. Ku ddoboozi, “Tozikiriza.” Zabbuli ya Dawudi. Ddala mwogera eby’amazima oba musirika busirisi? Abaana b’abantu mubasalira emisango mu bwenkanya?
To him that excelleth. Destroy not. A Psalme of David on Michtam. Is it true? O Congregation, speake ye iustly? O sonnes of men, iudge ye vprightly?
2 Nedda, mutegeka ebitali bya bwenkanya mu mitima gyammwe; era bye mukola bireeta obwegugungo mu nsi.
Yea, rather ye imagine mischiefe in your heart: your hands execute crueltie vpon the earth.
3 Abakola ebibi bakyama nga baakazaalibwa, bava mu lubuto nga balina ekibi, era bakula boogera bya bulimba.
The wicked are strangers from ye wombe: euen from the belly haue they erred, and speake lyes.
4 Balina obusagwa ng’obw’omusota; bali ng’enswera etawulira ezibikira amatu gaayo;
Their poyson is euen like the poyson of a serpent: like ye deafe adder that stoppeth his eare.
5 n’etawulira na luyimba lwa mukugu agisendasenda okugikwata.
Which heareth not the voyce of the inchanter, though he be most expert in charming.
6 Ayi Katonda, menya amannyo gaabwe; owangulemu amannyo g’empologoma zino, Ayi Mukama.
Breake their teeth, O God, in their mouthes: breake the iawes of the yong lions, O Lord.
7 Leka babule ng’amazzi agakulukuta ne gagenda. Bwe banaanuula omutego, leka obusaale bwabwe bwe balasa bufufuggale.
Let them melt like the waters, let them passe away: when hee shooteth his arrowes, let them be as broken.
8 Babe ng’ekkovu erisaanuukira mu lugendo lwalyo. Babe ng’omwana azaaliddwa ng’afudde, ataliraba ku njuba!
Let them consume like a snayle that melteth, and like the vntimely fruite of a woman, that hath not seene the sunne.
9 Nga n’entamu tennabuguma, alibayerawo n’obusungu obungi nga kibuyaga ow’amaanyi ennyo.
As raw flesh before your pots feele the fire of thornes: so let him cary them away as with a whirlewinde in his wrath.
10 Omutuukirivu alisanyuka ng’alabye bamuwalanidde eggwanga, olwo n’ebigere bye ne bisaabaana omusaayi ogw’abakola ebibi.
The righteous shall reioyce when he seeeth the vengeance: he shall wash his feete in the blood of the wicked.
11 Awo abantu bonna balyogera nti, “Ddala, abatuukirivu balwanirirwa. Ddala waliwo Katonda alamula mu bwenkanya ku nsi.”
And men shall say, Verily there is fruite for the righteous: doutlesse there is a God that iudgeth in the earth.
