Psalms 74

¹ Why you con abandon us like this, O God? Shey you go dey vex with your people forever?

² Remember your people, wey you chose for yourself long time ago, wey you commot from slavery to be your own tribe. Remember Mount Zion, where you don live before.

³ Waka over everything wey don spoil; our enemy don destroy everything wey dey your Temple.

⁴ Your enemy don shout victory for your Temple; dem don put their flag as sign say dem don get victory.

⁵ Dem be like woodmen wey dey cut down tree with axe.

⁶ Dem scatter all the wood panel with axe and hammer.

⁷ Dem spoil your Temple and dem burn am; dem disrespect the place wey we dey worship you.

⁸ Dem wan destroy us completely; dem burn down every holy place wey dey the land.

⁹ All our holy symbol don go; no prophet remain, and nobody know how long this go last.

¹⁰ O God, how long our enemy go laugh at you? Shey dem go insult your name forever?

¹¹ Why you con refuse to help us? Why you dey keep your hand for back?

¹² Na you don be our king from beginning, O God; you don save us plenty times.

¹³ You been divide the sea with your mighty hand and scatter the head of sea monster;

¹⁴ You scatter the head of monster Leviathan and you use the body feed animal wey dey desert.

¹⁵ You make spring and fountain to dey flow; you dry up large rivers.

¹⁶ Na you create day and night; you put the sun and moon for their place;

¹⁷ Na you set limit for the earth; and you make summer and winter.

¹⁸ But remember, O LORD, say your enemy dey laugh you, say dem dey godless and dem hate you.

¹⁹ No abandon your helpless people to their wicked enemy; no forget your people wey dey for trouble.

²⁰ Remember the covenant wey you make with us. Violence dey for every dark corner of this land.

²¹ No let shame catch; let those wey dey poor and those wey dey in need praise you.

²² God, rise by yourself and defend your ground; remember say godless people dey laugh at you all day long.

²³ No forget as your enemy dey shout, no forget the noise wey your enemy dey make.