Amahubo 58
1 Isibili likhuluma okulungileyo yini, babusi? Lehlulela ngokuqonda yini, madodana abantu?
For the end. Destroy not: by David, for a memorial. If you do indeed speak righteousness, [then] do you judge rightly, you sons of men.
2 Yebo, enhliziyweni lenza okubi, lilinganisa udlakela lwezandla zenu emhlabeni.
For you work iniquities in [your] hearts in the earth: your hands plot unrighteousness.
3 Ababi baba ngabemzini kusukela esiswini, bayaduha kusukela esizalweni, beqamba amanga.
Sinners have gone astray from the womb: they go astray from the belly: they speak lies.
4 Ubuhlungu babo bunjengobuhlungu benyoka, banjengebululu elingezwayo, elivimba indlebe yalo,
Their venom is like [that] of a serpent; as [that] of a deaf asp, and that stops her ears;
5 ukuze lingezwa ilizwi labalumbi abalumba amalumbo ngokuhlakanipha.
which will not hear the voice of charmers, nor [heed] the charm prepared skillfully by the wise.
6 Nkulunkulu, yephula amazinyo abo emlonyeni wabo, uphohloze amazinyo emihlathi yamabhongo ezilwane, Nkosi.
God has crushed their teeth in their mouth: God has broken the cheek-teeth of the lions.
7 Kabancibilike njengamanzi agelezayo; nxa egobisa idandili lakhe ukutshoka umtshoko wakhe, babe njengabaqunywe iziqa.
They shall utterly pass away like water running through: he shall bend his bow till they shall fail.
8 Kahambe njengomnenke oncibilikayo; njengomphunzo owesifazana, kabangaliboni ilanga.
They shall be destroyed as melted wax: the fire has fallen and they have not seen the sun.
9 Imbiza zenu zingakaluzwa ukhuni lwameva, uzabaphephula esiphephweni njengabaphilayo njengentukuthelweni.
Before your thorns feel the white thorn, he shall swallow you up as living, as in his wrath.
10 Olungileyo uzathokoza lapho ebona impindiselo, uzageza inyawo zakhe egazini lomubi.
The righteous shall rejoice when he sees the vengeance of the ungodly: 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 a man shall say, Verily then there is a reward for the righteous: verily there is a God that judges them in the earth.
