< Amahubo 129 >

1 Ingoma yemiqanso. Sebengihluphe kakhulu kusukela ebutsheni bami katsho njalo u-Israyeli,
A Song of Ascents. Many times they have afflicted me from my youth up. Let Israel now say:
2 sebengihluphe kakhulu kusukela ebutsheni bami, kodwa kabangehlulanga.
many times they have afflicted me from my youth up, yet they have not prevailed against me.
3 Abalimi bawulimile umhlane wami benza imifolo emide.
The plowers plowed on my back. They made their furrows long.
4 Kodwa uThixo ulungile; ungikhulule ezintanjeni zababi.
The LORD is righteous. He has cut apart the cords of the wicked.
5 Akuthi bonke abayizondayo iZiyoni babuyiselwe emuva beyangekile.
Let them be disappointed and turned backward, all those who hate Zion.
6 Sengathi bangaba njengotshani obukhula ephahleni obubuna bungakakhuli;
Let them be as the grass on the housetops, which withers before it grows up,
7 umvuni angeke agcwalisa isandla sakhe ngabo, loba lowo obuthayo agcwalise izingalo zakhe.
with which the reaper doesn’t fill his hand, nor he who binds sheaves, his bosom.
8 Sengathi labo abadlulayo bangabokuthi, “Izibusiso zikaThixo mazibe kuwe; siyakubusisa ngegama likaThixo.”
Neither do those who go by say, “The blessing of the LORD be on you. We bless you in the LORD’s name.”

< Amahubo 129 >