Amahubo 135
1 Dumisani iNkosi! Dumisani ibizo leNkosi, dumisani lina zinceku zeNkosi,
Praise Yahweh! You who (do work for/serve) Yahweh, praise him!
2 elimi endlini yeNkosi, emagumeni endlu kaNkulunkulu wethu.
You who stand in the temple of Yahweh our God and in the surrounding courtyard, praise him [MTY]!
3 Dumisani iNkosi, ngoba iNkosi ilungile; hlabelelani indumiso ebizweni layo, ngoba kumnandi.
Praise Yahweh, because he does good things [for us]; sing to him [MTY], because he is kind [to us].
4 Ngoba iNkosi izikhethele uJakobe, uIsrayeli abe ngokuligugu kwakhe okukhethekileyo.
He has chosen [us, the descendants of] Jacob; he has chosen [us] Israelis to belong to him [DOU].
5 Ngoba mina ngiyazi ukuthi iNkosi inkulu, ukuthi iNkosi yethu iphezu kwabo bonke onkulunkulu.
I know that Yahweh is great; he is greater than all the gods.
6 Konke iNkosi ekuthandayo iyakwenza, emazulwini lemhlabeni, ezinlwandle lenzikini zonke.
Yahweh does whatever he desires to do, in heaven and on the earth and in the seas/oceans, [down] to the bottom of the seas.
7 Yenza izinkungu zenyuke emikhawulweni yomhlaba, yenzela izulu imibane, ikhupha umoya eziphaleni zayo.
He is the one who causes clouds to appear from very distant places on the earth; he sends lightning with the rain, and he brings the winds from the places where he stores them.
8 Eyatshaya izibulo leGibhithe, kusukela emuntwini kuze kube senyamazaneni.
He is the one who killed [all] the firstborn [males] in Egypt, the firstborn of people and of animals.
9 Yathumela izibonakaliso lezimangaliso phakathi kwakho, Gibhithe, phezu kukaFaro laphezu kwenceku zakhe zonke.
There he performed many kinds of miracles [DOU] to punish the king and all his officials.
10 Eyatshaya izizwe ezinengi, yabulala amakhosi alamandla,
He destroyed many nations and the powerful kings [who ruled them]:
11 uSihoni inkosi yamaAmori, loOgi inkosi yeBashani, layo yonke imibuso yeKhanani,
Sihon, the king of the Amor people-group, and Og, the king of Bashan [region], and all the other kings in Canaan [land].
12 yanikela ilizwe labo laba yilifa, ilifa likaIsrayeli, isizwe sayo.
Then he gave their land to [us] Israeli people to belong to us [forever].
13 Nkosi, ibizo lakho limi kuze kube phakade, ukukhunjulwa kwakho, Nkosi, kusizukulwana ngesizukulwana.
Yahweh your name will endure forever, and people who are not yet born will remember the great things [that you have done].
14 Ngoba iNkosi izakwehlulela abantu bayo, izazisola mayelana lezinceku zayo.
Yahweh, [you] declare that we your people (are innocent/have not done things that are wrong), and you are merciful to us.
15 Izithombe zezizwe ziyisiliva legolide, umsebenzi wezandla zomuntu.
But the idols that the [other] people-groups [worship] are only [statues made of] silver and gold, things that humans have made.
16 Zilemilomo, kodwa kazikhulumi; zilamehlo, kodwa kaziboni;
Their idols have mouths, but they cannot say [anything]; they have eyes, but they cannot see [anything].
17 zilendlebe, kodwa kazizwa; lomoya kawukho emlonyeni wazo.
They have ears, but they cannot hear [anything], and they are not [even able to] breathe.
18 Abazenzayo bafanana lazo, laye wonke othembela kuzo.
The people who make those idols are as [powerless as] those idols, and those who trust in those idols [can accomplish no more than] their idols can!
19 Wena ndlu kaIsrayeli, bongani iNkosi; wena ndlu kaAroni, bongani iNkosi;
[My fellow] Israelis, praise Yahweh! You [priests] who are descended from Aaron, praise Yahweh!
20 wena ndlu kaLevi, bongani iNkosi. Lina eliyesabayo iNkosi, bongani iNkosi.
You [men] who are descended from Levi, [you who assist the priests], praise Yahweh! [All] you who revere Yahweh, praise him!
21 Kayibongwe iNkosi iseZiyoni, ehlala eJerusalema. Dumisani iNkosi!
Praise Yahweh in [the temple on] Zion [Hill] in Jerusalem, where he lives! Praise Yahweh!
