Amahubo 58
1 Isibili likhuluma okulungileyo yini, babusi? Lehlulela ngokuqonda yini, madodana abantu?
Unto the end, destroy not, for David, for an inscription of a title. If in very deed you speak justice: judge right things, ye sons of men.
2 Yebo, enhliziyweni lenza okubi, lilinganisa udlakela lwezandla zenu emhlabeni.
For in your heart you work iniquity: your hands forge injustice in the earth.
3 Ababi baba ngabemzini kusukela esiswini, bayaduha kusukela esizalweni, beqamba amanga.
The wicked are alienated from the womb; they have gone astray from the womb: they have spoken false things.
4 Ubuhlungu babo bunjengobuhlungu benyoka, banjengebululu elingezwayo, elivimba indlebe yalo,
Their madness is according to the likeness of a serpent: like the deaf asp that stoppeth her ears:
5 ukuze lingezwa ilizwi labalumbi abalumba amalumbo ngokuhlakanipha.
Which will not hear the voice of the charmers; nor of the wizard that charmeth wisely.
6 Nkulunkulu, yephula amazinyo abo emlonyeni wabo, uphohloze amazinyo emihlathi yamabhongo ezilwane, Nkosi.
God shall break in pieces their teeth in their mouth: the Lord shall break the grinders of the lions.
7 Kabancibilike njengamanzi agelezayo; nxa egobisa idandili lakhe ukutshoka umtshoko wakhe, babe njengabaqunywe iziqa.
They shall come to nothing, like water running down; he hath bent his bow till they be weakened.
8 Kahambe njengomnenke oncibilikayo; njengomphunzo owesifazana, kabangaliboni ilanga.
Like wax that melteth they shall be taken away: fire hath fallen on them, and they shall not see the sun.
9 Imbiza zenu zingakaluzwa ukhuni lwameva, uzabaphephula esiphephweni njengabaphilayo njengentukuthelweni.
Before your thorns could know the brier; he swalloweth them up, as alive, in his wrath.
10 Olungileyo uzathokoza lapho ebona impindiselo, uzageza inyawo zakhe egazini lomubi.
The just shall rejoice when he shall see the revenge: he shall wash his hands in the blood of the sinner.
11 Ukuze umuntu athi: Impela ukhona umvuzo wolungileyo; impela ukhona uNkulunkulu owahlulela emhlabeni.
And man shall say: If indeed there be fruit to the just: there is indeed a God that judgeth them on the earth.
