Amahubo 87

1 Elamadodana kaKhora. Ihubo. Ingoma. Usakhile isisekelo sakhe entabeni engcwele;

For the sons of Core, a psalm of a canticle. The foundations thereof are in the holy mountains:

2 uThixo uyawathanda amasango eZiyoni okudlula yonke imizi kaJakhobe.

The Lord loveth the gates of Sion above all the tabernacles of Jacob.

3 Izinto ezinhle okumangalisayo ziyatshiwo ngawe, we muzi kaNkulunkulu:

Glorious things are said of thee, O city of God.

4 “Ngizabalisa uRahabi leBhabhiloni phakathi kwalabo abathi bayangazi iFilistiya leThire, kanye leKhushi ngibe sengisithi, ‘Lo wazalelwa eZiyoni.’”

I will be mindful of Rahab and of Babylon knowing me. Behold the foreigners, and Tyre, and the people of the Ethiopians, these were there.

5 Ngempela kuzathiwa ngeZiyoni, “Lo laloyana bazalelwa khona, kuthi yena oPhezukonke uzaliqinisa.”

Shall not Sion say: This man and that man is born in her? and the Highest himself hath founded her.

6 UThixo uzaloba eluhlwini lwamabizo abantu: “Lo wazalelwa eZiyoni.”

The Lord shall tell in his writings of peoples and of princes, of them that have been in her.

7 Bazakuthi betshaya amachacho bahlabele bathi, “Yonke imithombo yami ikuwe.”

The dwelling in thee is as it were of all rejoicing.