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Ya Mukulu wa Bayimbi. Zabbuli ya Dawudi.

12 (A)Tuyambe, Ayi Mukama, kubanga tewakyali n’omu amanyi Katonda;
    abantu abeesigwa bonna baweddewo.
(B)Buli muntu alimba munne;
    akamwa kaabwe akawaana koogera bya bulimba.

(C)Mukama, osirise akamwa k’abo bonna abeewaanawaana,
    na buli lulimi olwenyumiriza;
nga boogera nti, “Tujja kuwangula n’olulimi lwaffe, era tufune byonna bye twetaaga n’akamwa kaffe,
    kubanga ani alitukuba ku mukono.”

(D)Mukama ayogera nti, “Olw’okujoogebwa kw’abanafu,
    n’olw’okusinda kw’abali mu bwetaavu,
nnaasituka kaakano
    ne nnwanirira abo abalumbibwa.”
(E)Ebigambo bya Mukama bya bwesigwa era bya mazima.
    Bigeraageranyizibwa n’effeeza
    erongoosebbwa obulungi emirundi musanvu mu kyoto eky’ebbumba.

(F)Ayi Mukama, tukwesiga ng’onootukuumanga,
    n’otuwonya abantu abali ng’abo emirembe gyonna.
(G)Ababi beeyisaayisa
    nga bagulumiza ebitaliimu nsa.

Psalm 12[a]

For the director of music. According to sheminith.[b] A psalm of David.

Help, Lord, for no one is faithful anymore;(A)
    those who are loyal have vanished from the human race.
Everyone lies(B) to their neighbor;
    they flatter with their lips
    but harbor deception in their hearts.(C)

May the Lord silence all flattering lips(D)
    and every boastful tongue—(E)
those who say,
    “By our tongues we will prevail;(F)
    our own lips will defend us—who is lord over us?”

“Because the poor are plundered(G) and the needy groan,(H)
    I will now arise,(I)” says the Lord.
    “I will protect them(J) from those who malign them.”
And the words of the Lord are flawless,(K)
    like silver purified(L) in a crucible,(M)
    like gold[c] refined seven times.

You, Lord, will keep the needy safe(N)
    and will protect us forever from the wicked,(O)
who freely strut(P) about
    when what is vile is honored by the human race.

Footnotes

  1. Psalm 12:1 In Hebrew texts 12:1-8 is numbered 12:2-9.
  2. Psalm 12:1 Title: Probably a musical term
  3. Psalm 12:6 Probable reading of the original Hebrew text; Masoretic Text earth

Man’s Treachery and God’s Constancy

To the Chief Musician. (A)On [a]an eight-stringed harp. A Psalm of David.

12 Help,[b] Lord, for the godly man (B)ceases!
For the faithful disappear from among the sons of men.
(C)They speak idly everyone with his neighbor;
With flattering lips and [c]a double heart they speak.

May the Lord [d]cut off all flattering lips,
And the tongue that speaks [e]proud things,
Who have said,
“With our tongue we will prevail;
Our lips are our own;
Who is lord over us?”

“For the oppression of the poor, for the sighing of the needy,
Now I will arise,” says the Lord;
“I will set him in the safety for which he yearns.”

The words of the Lord are (D)pure words,
Like silver tried in a furnace of earth,
Purified seven times.
You shall keep them, O Lord,
You shall preserve them from this generation forever.

The wicked prowl on every side,
When vileness is exalted among the sons of men.

Footnotes

  1. Psalm 12:1 Heb. sheminith
  2. Psalm 12:1 Save
  3. Psalm 12:2 An inconsistent mind
  4. Psalm 12:3 destroy
  5. Psalm 12:3 great