Amahubo 8

1 Nkosi, Nkosi yethu, lilenkazimulo kangakanani ibizo lakho emhlabeni wonke! Omise ubukhosi bakho ngaphezu kwamazulu.

O LORD, our Lord, how excellent is your name in all the earth! who have set your glory above the heavens.

2 Emlonyeni wezingane lowabamunyayo umisile amandla ngenxa yezitha zakho, ukuze uthulise isitha lomphindiseli.

Out of the mouth of babes and sucklings have you ordained strength because of your enemies, that you might still the enemy and the avenger.

3 Lapho ngikhangela amazulu akho, umsebenzi weminwe yakho, inyanga lenkanyezi owazimisayo,

When I consider your heavens, the work of your fingers, the moon and the stars, which you have ordained;

4 uyini umuntu ukuthi umkhumbule, lendodana yomuntu ukuthi uyihambele?

What is man, that you are mindful of him? and the son of man, that you visit him?

5 Kanti wamenza waba ngaphansi kancinyane kulengilosi, wamethwesa umqhele wobukhosi lodumo.

For you have made him a little lower than the angels, and have crowned him with glory and honor.

6 Wamenza wabusa phezu kwemisebenzi yezandla zakho, konke wakubeka ngaphansi kwenyawo zakhe,

You made him to have dominion over the works of your hands; you have put all things under his feet:

7 izimvu lenkabi zonke, kanye lezinyamazana zeganga,

All sheep and oxen, yes, and the beasts of the field;

8 inyoni zamazulu, lezinhlanzi zolwandle, okudlula ezindleleni zenlwandle.

The fowl of the air, and the fish of the sea, and whatever passes through the paths of the seas.

9 Nkosi, Nkosi yethu, lilenkazimulo kangakani ibizo lakho emhlabeni wonke!

O LORD our Lord, how excellent is your name in all the earth!