Unauthorized Versions: The Lord is my QorghwI…

The Lord is my QorghwI…

One of the gentlest and best-loved passages from the Old Testament is now available to the most bloodthirsty beings in our neck of the Galaxy – the Klingons. This version of Psalm 23, brought to you courtesy of the Klingon Language Institute, has a helpful interlinear translation for earthlings whose knowledge of the language is a little rusty…

DavID SoQ:
David['s] speech:

QorghwI'wI' ghaH joH'a''e'
caretaker-my he[-is] great-lord

jIHvaD Dach pagh
for-me [it-]lacks nothing

tI yotlhmeyDaq muQotmoH
vegetation fields-at [he-]makes[-me]-lie

vIHbe'bogh bIQDaq muDev
move-not-which water-at [he-]leads[-me]

qa'wI' chegh
my-spirit [he-]returns[-it]

pongDajmo' Hemey ruvDaq mulengmoH
name-his-because justice['s] courses [he-]makes[-me]-travel

Hegh QIb ngechDaq jIlengtaHvIS je
death['s] shadow['s] valley-at [I-]travel-while also

mIghwI' vIHajbe'
that-which-is-evil [I-]dread-not[-it]

qatlhejmo'.
[you-]accompany[-me]-because.

mutungHa' naQlIj'e' (...?).
[it/they-]encourage[-me] staff-your-(topic)

SaHtaHvIS jaghpu'wI' jIHvaD SopDaq Dacher
[they-]are-present-while enemies-my I-for eat-place [you]establish[-it]

nachwIjDaq pIvmoHbogh taS DangoH
head-my-at healthy-make-which solution [you-]smear[-it]

ngaSqu' HIvje'wIj.
[it-]contains-emphatic glass-my.

mutlha'bej QaQwI' pung je
[they-]follow[-me]-definitely that-which-is-good mercy and

qaStaHvIS yInwIj jaj Hoch,
[they-]occur-while life-mine day[s] all,

'ej joH'a' juHDaq jIyIn qaStaHvIS jaj law'.
and great-lord['s] home-at [I-]live [they-]occur-while day[s] many.

Psalm 23, translated by Mark Shoulson into tlhIngan Hol, Copyright © Klingon Language Institute 1994. The website gives further information about the Klingon Bible Translation Project, which is translating all the books of the Old and New Testaments into this fictitious language.

Reading 1: The Almighty said: 'Lighten up!'
Reading 2: You're gunna catch men instead of fish!
Reading 4: Take the bulletproof vest of faith!

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