The Beginning – Day 17

Itekisi yeBhayibhile

₃Kusukela empuma kude kuye entshonalanga

uNdikhoyo makabe ngokhahlelwayo.

₄UNdikhoyo ungaphaya, uzivelele zonk' izizwe;

isihomo sakhe siwakrobel' amazulu.

₅Yaz'ba singamfanisa nabani n' uNdikhoyo uThixo wethu,

umahlal' emalandalahla kweliphezulu?

₆Ngumagob' umnqonqo alengetyeke,

eqwalasel' amazulu nehlabathi.

₇Amahlwempu uyawaphakamisa, awavuthulul' uthuli;

ewe, nabagqub' eluthuthwini uyabaphakamisa.

₈Batsho bangqendeve ndawonye namatshawe;

ewe, babe matwa namatshawe abantu bakhe.

₉Nomfazi ongaphathiyo umzimasa ngomzi,

atsho abe ngunobantwana onemincili.

Huntshu-u-u!

Bayethe, Mhlekazi!

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.