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 the Chief Musician. "Do not Destroy." A precious Psalm, of David. Are ye, indeed, silent [when] righteousness, ye should speak? When, with equity, ye should judge, O ye sons of men?
2 Nedda, mutegeka ebitali bya bwenkanya mu mitima gyammwe; era bye mukola bireeta obwegugungo mu nsi.
Aye! ye all do work, perversity, —Throughout the land, your hands, weigh out, violence!
3 Abakola ebibi bakyama nga baakazaalibwa, bava mu lubuto nga balina ekibi, era bakula boogera bya bulimba.
Lawless men have been estranged from birth, They have gone astray from their nativity, speaking falsehood;
4 Balina obusagwa ng’obw’omusota; bali ng’enswera etawulira ezibikira amatu gaayo;
Their poison, is like unto the poison of a serpent, Like the deaf adder, that stoppeth his ear;
5 n’etawulira na luyimba lwa mukugu agisendasenda okugikwata.
That will not hearken to the voice of whisperers, Though the wise one try to bind him with spells.
6 Ayi Katonda, menya amannyo gaabwe; owangulemu amannyo g’empologoma zino, Ayi Mukama.
O God! break away their teeth in their mouth, The biters of the young lions, knock thou out, O Yahweh!
7 Leka babule ng’amazzi agakulukuta ne gagenda. Bwe banaanuula omutego, leka obusaale bwabwe bwe balasa bufufuggale.
Let such men flow away like waters that disperse themselves: He prepareth his arrow, Like [grass] let them be cut down:
8 Babe ng’ekkovu erisaanuukira mu lugendo lwalyo. Babe ng’omwana azaaliddwa ng’afudde, ataliraba ku njuba!
Like a snail, which melteth away as it goeth, An untimely birth of a woman, which hath not seen the sun:
9 Nga n’entamu tennabuguma, alibayerawo n’obusungu obungi nga kibuyaga ow’amaanyi ennyo.
Before your kettles can perceive the [kindled] bramble, Be he green or be he withered, he shall be swept away.
10 Omutuukirivu alisanyuka ng’alabye bamuwalanidde eggwanga, olwo n’ebigere bye ne bisaabaana omusaayi ogw’abakola ebibi.
The righteous man will rejoice when he hath seen an avenging, His feet, will he bathe in the blood of the lawless one: —
11 Awo abantu bonna balyogera nti, “Ddala, abatuukirivu balwanirirwa. Ddala waliwo Katonda alamula mu bwenkanya ku nsi.”
So that a son of earth may say—Surely there is fruit for the righteous man! Surely there are gods who judge in the earth!
