BOOK FOUR
(Psalms 90–106)
Of God and Human Beings
1 O Lord, you have always been our home.
2 Before you created the hills
or brought the world into being,
you were eternally God,
and will be God forever.
3 You tell us to return to what we were;
you change us back to dust.
4 A thousand years to you are like one day;
they are like yesterday, already gone,
like a short hour in the night.
5 You carry us away like a flood;
we last no longer than a dream.
We are like weeds that sprout in the morning,
6 that grow and burst into bloom,
then dry up and die in the evening.
7 We are destroyed by your anger;
we are terrified by your fury.
8 You place our sins before you,
our secret sins where you can see them.
9 Our life is cut short by your anger;
it fades away like a whisper.
10 Seventy years is all we have—
eighty years, if we are strong;
yet all they bring us is trouble and sorrow;
life is soon over, and we are gone.
11 Who has felt the full power of your anger?
Who knows what fear your fury can bring?
12 Teach us how short our life is,
so that we may become wise.
13 How much longer will your anger last?
Have pity, O Lord, on your servants!
14 Fill us each morning with your constant love,
so that we may sing and be glad all our life.
15 Give us now as much happiness as the sadness you gave us
during all our years of misery.
16 Let us, your servants, see your mighty deeds;
let our descendants see your glorious might.
17 Lord our God, may your blessings be with us.
Give us success in all we do!
Talaadaa 4
Alla mu badaa-badaa Alla le ti, bari hadamadiŋo naasita le
Alla la moo Musa la Jabuuroo.
1 Maariyo, ntolu tankadulaa be ite le fee,
jamaanoolu bee la.
2 Janniŋ i ka konkoolu fintindi,
waraŋ ka bankoo daa,
aniŋ ka duniyaa sotondi,
ite mu Alla le ti kabiriŋ,
aduŋ i be ke la Alla le ti fo abadaa.
3 I la yaamaroo kaŋ
hadamadiŋolu ka muru le ka ke bankumunkoo ti.
I ka ì yelemandi wo le ti, ì bota meŋ bala.
4 Sanji wuli kiliŋ ka munta ite fee le ko tili kiliŋ,
a ka munta suutoo waati sutuŋ.
5 I ka hadamadiŋolu koora le,
i ye ì tambindi komeŋ siiboo.
Ì ka munta le ñaamoo meŋ falinta soomandaa,
6 a ye faliŋ soomandaa ka firoolu bondi,
bituŋ wulaaroo a ye noro, ka jaa.
7 I la kamfaa niŋ i la jusukandoo ǹ kamma,
wo le ka ǹ kijabo, a ye ǹ kasaara.
8 I ye ǹ na junube kuwolu landi i ñaatiliŋo la le,
ǹ na kullookono junuboolu be i ye kenebaa to le.
9 I la kamfaa le ka ǹ na baluu luŋolu baŋ,
aduŋ ǹ siyo ka baŋ ne komeŋ ŋuntaŋo.
10 Ǹ siyo daŋo mu sanji taŋ woorowula le ti,
waraŋ niŋ m̀ bambanta, sanji taŋ seyi,
hani wo, ì bee mu bataa niŋ mantooroo le ti.
Kataba kiliŋ ì si baŋ, ŋà yeemaŋ.
11 Jumaa le ye i la kamfaa la waroo daŋo loŋ?
I la kamfaa warata baake le,
jumaa le si a loŋ noo?
I ñaasilaŋo ñanta wara la ǹ kaŋ wo le ñaama.
12 Wo to ǹ karandi ka ǹ na baluwo la sutiyaa loŋ,
fo i la ñaameŋo si tara ǹ sondomoo kono.
13 Hee Yaawe*, i la kamfaa be baŋ na muŋ tuma le?
I kooma fele, i ye balafaa ǹ ye, ntolu mu i la dookuulaalu le ti.
14 I la kanu bambaloo yitandi ǹ na fanoo la ke tumoo la,
fo ǹ si seewoo ka suukuwo laa ǹ na baluu tiloolu bee la.
15 Ǹ na seewoo warandi
komeŋ i ye ǹ na niikuyaa warandi ñaameŋ,
sanji jamaa, biriŋ m̀ be mantooroo kono.
16 I la kaawakuwolu yitandi ntolu la, i la dookuulaalu,
aduŋ i si i la kallankeeyaa* yitandi ǹ koomalankoolu fanaa la.
17 M̀ Maarii Alla,
Allamaa i la hiinoo ye tara m̀ fee,
aduŋ i si ǹ na bulu la dookuwo bee ke ǹ ye ñaatotaa ti.
Dukaree, ǹ na kata kuwolu bee ke ǹ ye ñaatotaa ti.
