Once you were not his people, but now you are the people of God,* a people chosen by God for his own to proclaim the triumphs of him who called you out of darkness into his marvellous light.
[9] Kambe loko mi ri n'wina, mi rixaka leri hlawuriweke, mi vaprista va Hosi, mi tiko lero kwetsima, tiko leri xaviweke, leswaku mi twarisa matimba ya la mi vitaneke ku huma emunyameni, mi ya nghena eku vonakaleni ka yena loku hlamarisaka;[10] n'wina lava khale a mi nga ri tiko, kambe sweswi, mi tiko ra Xikwembu; n'wina lava nga tsetseleriwangiki, kambe sweswi, mi tsetseleriwile.