The Beginning – Day 19

Itekisi yeBhayibhile

₇Dumani kuNdikhoyo nalapha emhlabeni!

Nditsho kuni, bominenga, nani nonke, manzi anzongonzongo,

₈wena mlilo, nawe sichotho, khephundini, nani mafu,

nawe saqhwithi sofezekisa ilizwi lakhe.

₉Dumani, zintaba, nani zinduli,

mithi yeziqhamo, nani nonke misedare!

₁₀Mbongeni, nina marhamncwa, nani nonke zinkomo,

nina zinto zirhubuluzayo, nani zintaka ziphaphayo!

₁₁Khahlelani, zikumkani zehlabathi, nani nonke zizwe,

matshawe, nani nonke zinxiba-mxhaka zehlabathi!

₁₂Dumisani xa ninonke, mlisela kwanani mthinjana;

yenzani njalo, maxhego kwanani bantwana!

₁₃Ewe, mabalibonge igama likaNdikhoyo;

kaloku yena ngugama-khulu.

Ke bona ubungangamsha bakhe

bulivelele ihlabathi ndawonye namazulu.

We begin the year declaring the truth that God created the heavens and earth and proclaiming that the earth is the Lord’s and everything in it.