Amahubo 121

1 Ingoma yemiqanso. Ngiphakamisela amehlo ami ezintabeni usizo lwami luvela ngaphi na?

“A song for the degrees.” I lift up my eyes unto the mountains: whence shall come my help?

2 Usizo lwami luvela kuThixo, uMenzi wezulu lomhlaba.

My help is from the Lord, the maker of heaven and earth.

3 Kayikuyekela unyawo lwakho lutshelela yena okulindayo kayikuwozela;

He will not suffer thy foot to slip: thy keeper doth not slumber.

4 ngempela yena olinda u-Israyeli akayikuwozela, akayikulala.

Behold, he slumbereth not, and he sleepeth not—the keeper of Israel.

5 UThixo uyakulinda uThixo ungumthunzi wakho esandleni sakho sokunene;

The Lord is thy keeper: the Lord is thy shade, he is on thy right hand.

6 ilanga kaliyikukutshisa emini noma loba inyanga ebusuku.

By day the sun shall not strike thee, nor the moon by night.

7 UThixo uzakuvikela kuzozonke izingozi uzalinda impilo yakho;

The Lord will guard thee against all evil: he will guard thy soul.

8 uThixo uzalondoloza ukufika kwakho lokusuka kwakho manje kuze kube phakade.

The Lord will guard thy going out and thy coming in from this time forth and for evermore.