Nipa Ife Olugbala

Representative Text

1 Nipa ife Olugbala
Ki y’o si nkan;
Ojurere Re ki pada
Ki y’o si nkan.
Owon l’eje t’o wo wa san
Pipe l’edidi or’-ofe
Agbara l’owo t’o gba ni,
Ko le si nkan.

2 Bi a wa ninu iponju
Ki y’o si nkan:
Igbala kikun ni ti wa,
Ki y’o si nkan;
Igbekele Olorun dun,
Gbigbe ininu Kristi l’ere,
Emi si nso wa di mimo,
Ko le si nkan

3 Ojo ola yio dara
Ki y’o si nkan.
’Gbagbo le korin n’ iponji,
Ki y’o si nkan.
A gbekele ’fe Baba wa;
Jesu nfun wa l’ohun gbogbo
Ni yiye tabi ni kiku
Ko le si nkan.

Source: The Cyber Hymnal #15894

Author: Mary Peters

Peters, Mary, née Bowly, daughter of Richard Bowly, of Cirencester, was born in 1813, and subsequently married to the Rev. John McWilliam Peters, sometime Rector of Quennington, Gloucestershire, and died at Clifton, July 29, 1856. Her prose work, The World’s History from the Creation to the Accession of Queen Victoria, was published in seven volumes. Several of her hymns were contributed to the Plymouth Brethren's Psalms, Hymns, and Spiritual Songs, London, D. Walther, 1842. These with others, 58 in all, were published by Nisbet & Co., London, 1847, as Hymns intended to help the Communion of Saints. Dr. Walker introduced several from these collections into his Cheltenham Psalms & Hymns, 1855. Many of these have been repeated in Snepp's… Go to person page >

Translator: Anonymous

In some hymnals, the editors noted that a hymn's author is unknown to them, and so this artificial "person" entry is used to reflect that fact. Obviously, the hymns attributed to "Author Unknown" "Unknown" or "Anonymous" could have been written by many people over a span of many centuries. Go to person page >

Text Information

First Line: Nipa ife Olugbala
Title: Nipa Ife Olugbala
English Title: Through the love of God our Savior
Author: Mary Peters
Translator: Anonymous
Meter: 8.4.8.4.8.8.8.4
Language: Yoruba
Copyright: Public Domain

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