Psalms 18
1 Nkunga Davidi, kisadi ki Yave, kuidi Pfumu minyimbidi. Wuyimbila nkunga wawu mu diambu di Yave mu thangu Yave kankula mu mioko mi bambeni bandi ayi mu mioko mi Sawuli. Yave, ndikuzolanga, ngeyo zingolo ziama.
[For the Chief Musician. By David the servant of the LORD, who spoke to the LORD the words of this song in the day that the LORD delivered him from the hand of all his enemies, and from the hand of Saul. He said, ] I love you, LORD, my strength.
2 A Yave, niandi ditadi diama, tinunu kiama ki ngolo, ayi ngeyo nkudi ama. Nzambi ama, niandi ditadi diama; mu niandi ndintombila suamunu, niandi nkaku ama, ayi phoka yi phulusu ama, ayi tinunu kiama ki zangama.
The LORD is my Rock, my fortress, and my deliverer; my God, my Rock, in whom I take refuge; my shield, and the horn of my salvation, my high tower.
3 Ndiela tela Yave, niandi fueni mu zitusu ayi ndiela vuka mu bambeni ziama.
I call on the LORD, who is worthy to be praised, and I am saved from my enemies.
4 Minsinga mi lufua mimfietikisa. Bosi khuka nlangu yimbunganga yimbuila mu kinzimbukila.
The waves of death surrounded me, and the currents of ungodliness overwhelmed me.
The cords of Sheol were around me. The snares of death came on me. (Sheol h7585)
6 Mu ziphasi ziama, nditela Yave Ndiyamikina kuidi Nzambi ama mu tomba lusadusu wuwa mbemboꞌama tona kuna nzoꞌandi, ayi yamikina kuama kutula va ntualꞌandi, mu matu mandi.
In my distress I called upon the LORD, and cried out to my God. He heard my voice out of his temple, and my cry before him came into his ears.
7 Buna ntoto wunikuka ayi wutita. Zifondasio zi miongo zinikunu ayi zinikuka, bila wuba wufuema ngolo.
Then the earth shook and trembled. The foundations also of the mountains quaked and were shaken, because he was angry.
8 Muisi wutotuka mu mayilu mandi, ayi mbazu yi nlalikisanga yitotuka mu munuꞌandi; muawu mu totukila makala ma mbazu.
Smoke went out of his nostrils. Consuming fire came out of his mouth. Coals were kindled by it.
9 Wukulula diyilu ayi wukuluka, ayi matuti ma ndombe maba ku tsi malu mandi.
He bowed the heavens also, and came down. Thick darkness was under his feet.
10 Wukuma va yilu kheluba ayi wudumuka. Wuvevumuka va yilu mavavi ma phemo.
He rode on a cherub, and flew. Yes, he soared on the wings of the wind.
11 Wukitula tombi buangu kiandi kisuamina; kapu andi yiba kunzungidila, tombi kinokisa mvula yi matuti ma diyilu.
He made darkness his hiding place, his canopy around him thick clouds dark with water.
12 Mu kiezila kiba va ntualꞌandi mutotukila matuti, mvula yi matadi ayi zitsiemo.
From the brightness before him his thick clouds passed on, with hailstones and coals of fire.
13 Yave wuduma tona mu Diyilu; mbembo yi Nzambi yizangama yiwakakana.
The LORD also thundered in the sky. The Most High uttered his voice.
14 Niandi wuloza madionga mandi ayi wusasikisa bambeni; zitsiemo zinneni ayi wuba zimbikisa nzila.
And he sent out arrows and scattered them, and he shot lightning bolts and routed them.
15 Tsi nlangu yi mbu yimonika, ayi zifondasio zi ntoto zimonika ngeyo Yave bu wutema mu phemo yitotukila mu mayilu maku.
And the depths of the sea appeared. The foundations of the world were laid bare at your rebuke, LORD, at the blast of the breath of your nostrils.
16 Wunonuna koko kuandi tona ku yilu ayi wutsimba, wuthotula mu minlangu minneni midi thipula.
He sent from on high. He took me. He drew me out of many waters.
17 Niandi wukhula mu mbeni ama yingolo, ayi mu batu bobo bandenda bila bawu bandutila ngolo.
He delivered me from my strong enemy, from those who hated me; for they were too mighty for me.
18 Bawu banduanisa mu lumbu ki ndiba mu mabienga, vayi Yave niandi wuba singumunu kiama.
They came on me in the day of my calamity, but the LORD was my support.
19 Niandi wuthotula ayi wuthula va buangu kikambulu tsisi; wukhula bila khini kaba monanga mu minu.
He brought me forth also into a large place. He delivered me, because he delighted in me.
20 Yave wuphangidi bobo boso buididi busonga buama; wupheni mfutu boso buididi vedila ku mioko miama
The LORD has rewarded me according to my righteousness. According to the cleanness of my hands has he recompensed me.
21 Bila ndikebidi zinzila zi Yave ayi ndisia tamba Nzambi ama mbusa ko mu diambu di vanga mambimbi.
For I have kept the ways of the LORD, and have not wickedly departed from my God.
22 Mina miandi mioso midi va ntualꞌama ayi ndisia vengama ko mu zithumunu ziandi.
For all his ordinances were before me. I did not put away his statutes from me.
23 Ndiba mutu wukambu tsembolo va ntualꞌandi Ndikikeba mu diambu di masumu.
I was also blameless with him. I kept myself from my iniquity.
24 Yave wupheni mfutu boso buididi busonga buama, boso buididi vedila ku mioko miama va ntuala meso mandi.
Therefore the LORD has rewarded me according to my righteousness, according to the cleanness of my hands in his eyesight.
25 Kuidi mutu widi wukuikama, ngeyo wukukimonisanga wukuikama. Kuidi mutu wukambulu tsembolo ngeyo wukukimonisanga mutu wukambulu tsembolo.
With the faithful you show yourself faithful. With the innocent you show yourself innocent.
26 Kuidi mutu wuvedila, wukukimonisanga wuvedila. Kuidi mutu wumbimbi, wukukimonisanga wumbimbi.
With the pure you show yourself pure. And with the crooked you show yourself tortuous.
27 Ngeyo wumvukisanga batu beti kukikula ayi wunkululanga meso madi luyanu.
For you will save a humble people, but the eyes of the proud you will bring low.
28 Ngeyo a Yave, keba muindꞌama wuba wulema A Nzambiꞌama, kitula tombi kiama; kikituka kiezila.
For you light my lamp. The LORD my God lights up my darkness.
29 Mu lusadusu luaku ndilenda nuanisa nkangu masodi, va kimosi ayi Nzambi ama, ndilenda dumuka baka kikunzama.
For by you, I advance through a troop. By my God, I leap over a wall.
30 Kuidi Nzambi, nzilꞌandi yidi yi fuana, mambu ma Yave madi ma kiedika. Niandi nkaku wu batu boso bobo bansuaminanga mu niandi.
As for God, his way is perfect. The word of the LORD is pure. He is a shield to all those who take refuge in him.
31 Bila nani Nzambi, enati ka Yave ko e? Ayi nani ditadi di ngolo, enati ka Nzambi eto ko e?
For who is God, except the LORD? Who is a rock, besides our God,
32 Nzambi, niandi wukuphananga ngolo ayi wunkitulanga nzilꞌama yi fuana.
the God who girds me with strength, and makes my way blameless?
33 Wunkitulanga malu mama banga malu ma tsesi, ayi wukuthelimisanga va bibuangu biama bizangama.
He makes my feet like deer's feet, and sets me on my high places.
34 Wunlongisanga mioko miama mu nuana mvita, mioko miama milenda leka mbasa wusengo.
He teaches my hands to war, so that my arms bend a bow of bronze.
35 Wuphana nkaku aku wu ndungunu, ayi koko kuaku ku lubakala kukhindisa ayi wukuluka mu diambu di kukhitula mutu wunneni.
You have also given me the shield of your salvation, and your right hand holds me up, and your help has made me great.
36 Ngeyo wukubikidi nsolo wuyalumuka ku tsi bitambi biama, muingi bikodi biama bibika visuka.
You have enlarged my steps under me, My feet have not slipped.
37 Ndikuka bambeni ziama ayi ndizibakidila. Ndisia vutuka manima ko enati ndisia mana kuzivonda.
I pursued my enemies and overtook them, and I did not turn back until they were destroyed.
38 Ndiba kosikisa ayi basia buela baka bu telimina ko; babua ku tsi malu mama.
I struck them through, so that they did not rise. They fell beneath my feet.
39 Ngeyo wuphana zingolo zi nuanina mvita; Ngeyo weti komvika batu beti kundenda ku tsi malu mama.
For you have equipped me with strength for the battle. You have subdued under me those who rose up against me.
40 Ngeyo wuntinisanga bambeni ziama va ntualꞌama ayi ndibunga bobo bakundendanga.
You have also made my enemies turn their backs to me, that I might cut off those who hate me.
41 Bayamikina mu tomba lusadusu, vayi kadi mutu mu kuba vukisa. Bayamikina kuidi Yave vayi kasia ku bavutudila mvutu ko.
They cried, but there was none to save; even to the LORD, but he did not answer them.
42 Ndiba kosikisa banga mbungi-mbungi yeti vevumunu kuidi phemo. Ndiba loza thama banga nyamba wu zinzila.
Then I ground them as fine as the dust on the surface of a path. Like the mud in the streets, I trampled them.
43 Wukhula mu minzonza mi batu, ayi wukhitula ntu wu makanda; batu bobo ndisia zaba ko, bawu ndiela yadila.
You have delivered me from the strivings of the people. You have made me the head of the nations. A people whom I have not known shall serve me;
44 Bu batumbu kungua bathumukina; banzenza zikikulula va ntualꞌama.
as soon as they hear of me they obey me. Foreigners come cringing to me;
45 Zinzenza zilembo vongi, balembo titi sumbu bantotuka mu bibuangu biawu bisuama ngolo.
they are not bound in chains.
46 Yave wulembo zingi Nzitusu wuba kuidi ditadi diama yayusu kuba kuidi Nzambi Mvulusi ama.
The LORD lives; and blessed be my rock. Exalted be the God of my salvation,
47 Niandi Nzambi wukuphutudilanga landi; ayi wutula makanda ku tsi luyalu luama.
even the God who executes vengeance for me, and subdues peoples under me.
48 Wuphukisa mi bambeni ziama, Ngeyo wundiayisa va yilu batu bobo bandenda. Ngeyo wukhula mu batu ba matsita.
He rescues me from my enemies. Yes, you lift me up above those who rise up against me. You deliver me from the violent man.
49 Diawu ngeyo Yave, ndiela ku zitisa va khatitsika makanda. Ndiela yimbila minzitusu mu diambu di dizina diaku.
Therefore I will praise you, LORD, among the nations, and will sing praises to your name.
50 Niandi wuvana ndungunu yinneni kuidi ntinu andi ayi wummonisanga mamboti mandi ma ngolo kuidi mutu andi kavinda mafuta, kuidi Davidi ayi nkuna andi mu zithangu zioso.
He gives great deliverance to his king, and shows loving kindness to his anointed, to David and to his descendants, until forever.
