Amahubo 8

1 Kumqondisi wokuhlabela. Ngendlela yegithithi. Ihubo likaDavida. Oh Thixo, Thixo wethu, ibizo lakho libabazeka kangaka emhlabeni wonke! Uyibekile inkazimulo yakho ngaphezulu emazulwini.

“For the leader of the music; to be accompanied with the gittith. A psalm of David.” O Jehovah, our Lord! How excellent is thy name in all the earth! Thou hast set thy glory above the heavens.

2 Ukumisile ukudunyiswa yizindebe zabantwana lensane ngenxa yezitha zakho, ukuze uthulise isitha lomphindiseli.

Out of the mouths of babes and sucklings hast thou ordained praise, To put thine adversaries to shame, And to silence the enemy and avenger.

3 Nxa nginakana ngamazulu akho, umsebenzi weminwe yakho, inyanga lezinkanyezi ozibeke endaweni yazo,

When I consider thy heavens, the work of thy fingers, The moon and the stars which thou hast ordained:

4 uyini umuntu osungaze uzihluphe ngaye na, indodana yomuntu ukuba uyinanze?

What is man, that thou art mindful of him, And the son of man, that thou carest for him?

5 Wamenza waba mncinyazana kulezingilosi, wamethesa umqhele wodumo lobukhosi.

Yet thou hast made him little lower than God; Thou hast crowned him with glory and honor.

6 Wamenza umbusi phezu kwemisebenzi yezandla zakho; wabeka zonke izinto ngaphansi kwezinyawo zakhe:

Thou hast given him dominion over the works of thy hands; Thou hast put all things under his feet, —

7 yonke imihlambi yezimvu leyenkomo lezinyamazana zeganga,

All sheep and oxen, Yea, and the beasts of the forest;

8 izinyoni zasemkhathini lenhlanzi zolwandle, konke okuntsheza emanzini olwandle.

The birds of the air, and the fishes of the sea, And whatever passeth through the paths of the deep.

9 Oh Thixo, Thixo wethu, ibizo lakho libabazeka kangaka emhlabeni wonke!

O Jehovah, our Lord, How excellent is thy name in all the earth!