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| 1. | Ulungile, wena Nkosi, loba ngisola kuwe; kanti ngizabeka ukusola kwami phambi kwakho. Kungani indlela yababi iphumelela? Kungani bephumelela bonke ababi? |
| 2. | Uyabahlanyela wena, bamile, bakhule, bathele izithelo, bathanda ukukhuluma ngawe, kanti inhliziyo zabo zikhatshana lawe. |
| 3. | Kodwa, wena Nkosi, uyangazi, uyangibona, uyahlola inhliziyo yami ukuthi injani kuwe. Bakhuphe njengezimvu zokuhlatshwa, ubalungisele usuku lokuhlatshwa. |
| 4. | Koze kube nini ilizwe likhala, lotshani bonke beganga bubuna? Ngenxa yobubi balabo abakhileyo khona inyamazana lenyoni ziyabhubha, ngoba abantu bathi: Kayiyikubona esikwenzayo. |
| 5. | Uba ugijimile labahamba ngenyawo, bakudinisa, uzancintanisana njani lamabhiza? Uba ungaqinanga elizweni elilokuthula, uzakwenza njani emahlathini eJordani? |
| 6. | Ngoba abafowenu kanye lendlu kayihlo labo bakukhohlisile, bakuzingela; ungabathembi, loba bekhuluma amazwi amnandi kuwe. |
| 7. | Ngiyitshiyile indlu yami, ngibalahlile abantu bami; nginikele othandekayo wami ezandleni zezitha zakhe. |
| 8. | Abantu bami kimi sebenjengesilwane ehlathini, bayangibhongela, ngakho ngiyabazonda. |
| 9. | Ilizwe lami linjengenyoni elamabalabala yini? Inyoni ezilesihluku ziyayihlasela inhlangothi zonke yini? Wozani, lina zilo, wozani, lonke ukuze lidle. |
| 10. | Abelusi abanengi basichithile isivini sami, basinyathezela phansi isabelo sami, isabelo sami esihle basenza saba yinkangala engelalutho. |
| 11. | Basenzile saba yinkangala, sichithekile, siyakhala kimi; ilizwe lonke lichithekile, kodwa kakulamuntu ozihlupha ngakho. |
| 12. | Abaphangi bafikile phezu kwawo wonke amadundulu angelalutho asenkangala, ngoba inkemba ye Nkosi iyadla kusukela komunye umngcele welizwe kusiya komunye, kayikho inyama elokuthula. |
| 13. | Bahlanyele ingqoloyi, bavuna ameva, bazidinise ngokusebenza, kodwa kabazuzanga lutho. Bazakuba lenhloni ngezivuno zabo, ngenxa yolaka oluvuthayo lwe Nkosi. |
| 14. | I Nkosi ithi mayelana labo bonke omakhelwane ababi abalihlaselayo ilizwe engilinike isizwe sami uIsrayeli ukuthi libe yilizwe labo: Khangela, ngizabasiphuna elizweni labo, ngiyisiphune indlu yakoJuda, ngiyisuse phakathi kwabo. |
| 15. | Emva kokubasiphuna kwami, ngizabuya ngibe lesihawu kubo, ngibabuyise futhi kube ngulowo lalowo endaweni yakhe lelizweni lakibo. |
| 16. | Kuzakuthi uba bezazifunda kuhle indlela zabantu bami, bafunge ngebizo lami bathi: Kuphila kukaJehova; njengalokho bafundisa abantu bami ukufunga ngoBhali, bazakwakha phakathi kwabantu bami. |
| 17. | Kodwa lesosizwe esingalaleliyo ngizasisiphuna isibili, ngisibhubhise, kutsho i Nkosi. |
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