Amahubo 90
1 Umkhuleko kaMosi umuntu kaNkulunkulu. Thixo, wena ulikhaya lethu kuzozonke izizukulwane.
A PRAYER OF MOSES, THE MAN OF GOD. Lord, You have been a habitation, To us—in generation and generation,
2 Izintaba zingakabikhona lalapho ungakawuvezi umhlaba kanye lelizwe, kusukela phakade kuze kube phakade unguNkulunkulu.
Before mountains were brought forth, And You form the earth and the world, Even from age to age You [are] God.
3 Ubuyisela abantu ethulini, usithi, “Buyelani othulini, lina madodana abantu.”
You turn man to a bruised thing, And say, Return, you sons of men.
4 Ngoba iminyaka eyinkulungwane ekuboneni kwakho injengosuku olusanda kudlula, kumbe njengomlindo webusuku.
For one thousand years in Your eyes [are] as yesterday, For it passes on, indeed, [as] a watch by night.
5 Uyabakhucula abantu ebuthongweni bokufa; banjengotshani obutsha obekuseni
You have inundated them, they are asleep, In the morning he changes as grass.
6 lokuba ekuseni buhluma bubutsha, kuthi ntambama sebomile sebubunile.
In the morning it flourishes, and has changed, At evening it is cut down, and has withered.
7 Ulaka lwakho luyasitshabalalisa sithuthumeliswe yikucaphuka kwakho.
For we were consumed in Your anger, And we have been troubled in Your fury.
8 Usubuchayile ububi bethu phambi kwakho, izono zethu zensitha wazichaya ekukhanyeni kobukhona bakho.
You have set our iniquities before You, Our hidden things at the light of Your face,
9 Zonke insuku zethu ziyedlula ngaphansi kolaka lwakho; leminyaka yethu siyiphetha ngokububula.
For all our days pined away in Your wrath, We consumed our years as a (meditation)
10 Ubude bezinsuku zethu buyiminyaka engamatshumi ayisikhombisa loba amatshumi ayisificaminwembili, nxa silamandla; kanti lelobanga layo liluhlupho losizi, ngoba iphanga yedlule, lathi siphaphe nje sedlule.
The days of our years, in them [are] seventy years, And if, by reason of might, eighty years, Yet their enlargement [is] labor and vanity, For it has been cut off quickly, and we fly away.
11 Ngubani owaziyo amandla olaka lwakho na? Ngoba intukuthelo yakho inkulu njengokwesatshwa okukufaneleyo.
Who knows the power of Your anger? And according to Your fear—Your wrath?
12 Sifundise ukubala kuhle insuku zethu, ukuze sizuze inhliziyo yenhlakanipho.
Let [us] know to number our days correctly, And we bring the heart to wisdom.
13 Phola, Oh Thixo! Koze kube nini kulokhu kunjalo na? Woba lesihawu ezincekwini zakho.
Turn back, O YHWH, until when? And regret concerning Your servants.
14 Sisuthise ekuseni ngothando lwakho olungaphuthiyo, ukuze sihlabelele ngentokozo sijabule zonke insuku zethu.
Satisfy us at morning [with] Your kindness, And we sing and rejoice all our days.
15 Senze sijabule okwensuku ezilingana ukusihlupha kwakho, okwensuku ezilingana lalezo esesabona ngazo ukudubeka.
Cause us to rejoice according to the days Wherein You have afflicted us, The years we have seen evil.
16 Sengathi imisebenzi yakho ingatshengiswa ezincekwini zakho, inkazimulo yakho ebantwaneni babo.
Let Your work appear to Your servants, And Your honor on their sons.
17 Sengathi umusa weNkosi uNkulunkulu wethu ungehlela kithi; uqinise umsebenzi wezandla zethu yebo, qinisa umsebenzi wezandla zethu.
And let the pleasantness of our God YHWH be on us, And establish on us the work of our hands, Indeed, establish the work of our hands!
