Psalms 135
1 Ẹ yin Olúwa. Ẹ yin orúkọ Olúwa; ẹ yìn ín, ẹ̀yin ìránṣẹ́ Olúwa.
Praise Yahweh! You who (do work for/serve) Yahweh, praise him!
2 Ẹ̀yin tí ń dúró ní ilé Olúwa, nínú àgbàlá ilé Ọlọ́run wa.
You who stand in the temple of Yahweh our God and in the surrounding courtyard, praise him [MTY]!
3 Ẹ yin Olúwa: nítorí tí Olúwa ṣeun; ẹ kọrin ìyìn sí orúkọ rẹ̀; nítorí tí ó dùn.
Praise Yahweh, because he does good things [for us]; sing to him [MTY], because he is kind [to us].
4 Nítorí tí Olúwa ti yan Jakọbu fún ara rẹ̀; àní Israẹli fún ìṣúra ààyò rẹ̀.
He has chosen [us, the descendants of] Jacob; he has chosen [us] Israelis to belong to him [DOU].
5 Nítorí tí èmi mọ̀ pé Olúwa tóbi, àti pé Olúwa jù gbogbo òrìṣà lọ.
I know that Yahweh is great; he is greater than all the gods.
6 Olúwa ṣe ohunkóhun tí ó wù ú, ní ọ̀run àti ní ayé, ní Òkun àti ní ọ̀gbun gbogbo.
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 Ó mú ìkùùkuu gòkè láti òpin ilẹ̀ wá: ó dá mọ̀nàmọ́ná fún òjò: ó ń mú afẹ́fẹ́ ti inú ilẹ̀ ìṣúra rẹ̀ wá.
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 Ẹni tí ó kọlu àwọn àkọ́bí Ejibiti, àti ti ènìyàn àti ti ẹranko.
He is the one who killed [all] the firstborn [males] in Egypt, the firstborn of people and of animals.
9 Ẹni tí ó rán iṣẹ́ àmì àti iṣẹ́ ìyanu sí àárín rẹ̀, ìwọ Ejibiti, sí ara Farao àti sí ara àwọn ìránṣẹ́ rẹ̀ gbogbo.
There he performed many kinds of miracles [DOU] to punish the king and all his officials.
10 Ẹni tí ó kọlu àwọn orílẹ̀-èdè púpọ̀, tí ó sì pa àwọn alágbára ọba.
He destroyed many nations and the powerful kings [who ruled them]:
11 Sihoni, ọba àwọn ará Amori, àti Ogu, ọba Baṣani, àti gbogbo ìjọba Kenaani:
Sihon, the king of the Amor people-group, and Og, the king of Bashan [region], and all the other kings in Canaan [land].
12 Ó sì fi ilẹ̀ wọn fún ni ní ìní, ìní fún Israẹli, ènìyàn rẹ̀.
Then he gave their land to [us] Israeli people to belong to us [forever].
13 Olúwa orúkọ rẹ dúró láéláé; ìrántí rẹ Olúwa, láti ìrandíran.
Yahweh your name will endure forever, and people who are not yet born will remember the great things [that you have done].
14 Nítorí tí Olúwa yóò ṣe ìdájọ́ àwọn ènìyàn rẹ̀, yóò sì ṣe ìyọ́nú sí àwọn ọmọ ọ̀dọ̀ rẹ̀.
Yahweh, [you] declare that we your people (are innocent/have not done things that are wrong), and you are merciful to us.
15 Fàdákà òun wúrà ni èrè àwọn aláìkọlà, iṣẹ́ ọwọ́ ènìyàn ni.
But the idols that the [other] people-groups [worship] are only [statues made of] silver and gold, things that humans have made.
16 Wọ́n ní ẹnu, ṣùgbọ́n wọn kò le sọ̀rọ̀; wọ́n ní ojú, ṣùgbọ́n wọn kò fi ríran.
Their idols have mouths, but they cannot say [anything]; they have eyes, but they cannot see [anything].
17 Wọ́n ní etí, ṣùgbọ́n wọn kò fi gbọ́rọ̀; bẹ́ẹ̀ ni kò si èémí kan ní ẹnu wọn.
They have ears, but they cannot hear [anything], and they are not [even able to] breathe.
18 Àwọn tí ń ṣe wọ́n dàbí wọn: gẹ́gẹ́ bẹ́ẹ̀ ni olúkúlùkù ẹni tí ó gbẹ́kẹ̀ rẹ̀ lé wọn.
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 Ẹ̀yin ara ilé Israẹli, ẹ fi ìbùkún fún Olúwa, ẹ̀yin ará ilé Aaroni, fi ìbùkún fún Olúwa.
[My fellow] Israelis, praise Yahweh! You [priests] who are descended from Aaron, praise Yahweh!
20 Ẹ̀yin ará ilé Lefi, fi ìbùkún fún Olúwa; ẹ̀yin tí ó bẹ̀rù Olúwa, fi ìbùkún fún Olúwa.
You [men] who are descended from Levi, [you who assist the priests], praise Yahweh! [All] you who revere Yahweh, praise him!
21 Olùbùkún ni Olúwa, láti Sioni wá, tí ń gbé Jerusalẹmu. Ẹ fi ìyìn fún Olúwa.
Praise Yahweh in [the temple on] Zion [Hill] in Jerusalem, where he lives! Praise Yahweh!
