Amahubo 8

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

For the chief musician; set to the gittith style. A psalm of David. Yahweh our Lord, how magnificent is your name in all the earth, you who reveal your glory in the heavens above.

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

Out of the mouth of babies and infants you have established praise because of your enemies, so that you might silence both the enemy and the avenger.

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

When I look up at your heavens, which your fingers have made, the moon and the stars, which you have set in place,

4 uyini umuntu ukuthi umkhumbule, lendodana yomuntu ukuthi uyihambele?

Of what importance is the human race that you notice them, or mankind that you pay attention to them?

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

Yet you have made them only a little lower than the heavenly beings and have crowned them with glory and honor.

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

You make him to rule 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, and even the animals of the field,

8 inyoni zamazulu, lezinhlanzi zolwandle, okudlula ezindleleni zenlwandle.

the birds of the heavens, and the fish of the sea, everything that passes through the currents of the seas.

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

Yahweh our Lord, how magnificent is your name in all the earth!