Yoruba Hymn: Un o sunm’Ọ, Ọlọrun, Uno sunmọ Ọ – Nearer, my God, to thee, nearer to thee

Un o sunm’Ọ, Ọlọrun, Uno sunmo Ọ – Nearer, my God, to thee, nearer to thee
Hymn no.834 of the Christ Apostolic Church Yoruba Hymn Book
Bible Reference: …Lead me in the land of uprightness. Psalms 143:10b NKJV
Orin Dafidi 143:10b…fà mi lọ ni ilẹ ti o tẹju.
VERSE 1
Un o sunm’Ọ Ọlọrun
Uno sunmo Ọ
Bó tilẹ ṣe ‘pọnju
L’O mu mi wa,
Sibẹ orin mi jẹ
Un o sunm’Ọ Ọlọrun
Uno sunmọ Ọ
VERSE 2
Ni ọna ajo mi
B’ilẹ ba ṣú;
Bí òkúta sí jẹ
Irọri mi;
Sibẹ n’mu ala mi,
Un o sunm’Ọ Ọlọrun
Uno sunmọ Ọ
VERSE 3
Níbẹ, jẹki nr’ọna
to lọ s’ọrun;
gbogbo’ohun t’o fún mi
Nin’anu Rẹ,
Angẹl’ lati pe mi
sunm’Ọ, Ọlọrun mi,
Uno sunmọ Ọ.
VERSE 4
Njẹ ‘gbati mo ba ji
Em’ o yin Ọ;
Ùn o f’akete mi ṣe
Bẹtẹl fún Ọ
Bẹ, ninu òṣì mi,
Un o sunm’Ọ Ọlọrun
Uno sunmọ Ọ
VERSE 5
‘Gba mba fi ayọ lọ
S’oke ọrùn
To ga ju ọrùn lọ
S’oke gíga
Orin mi yio jẹ!
Un o sunm’Ọ Ọlọrun
Uno sunmọ Ọ.
Amin.
Nearer, my God, to thee, nearer to thee
1 Nearer, my God, to thee, nearer to thee!
E’en though it be a cross that raiseth me,
still all my song shall be,
nearer, my God, to thee;
nearer, my God, to thee, nearer to thee!
2 Though like the wanderer, the sun gone down,
darkness be over me, my rest a stone;
yet in my dreams I’d be
nearer, my God, to thee;
nearer, my God, to thee, nearer to thee!
3 There let the way appear, steps unto heaven;
all that thou sendest me, in mercy given;
angels to beckon me
nearer, my God, to thee;
nearer, my God, to thee, nearer to thee!
4 Then, with my waking thoughts bright with thy praise,
out of my stony griefs Bethel I’ll raise;
so by my woes to be
nearer, my God, to thee;
nearer, my God, to thee, nearer to thee!
5 Or if, on joyful wing cleaving the sky,
sun, moon, and stars forgot, upward I fly,
still all my song shall be,
nearer, my God, to thee;
nearer, my God, to thee, nearer to thee!
Author: Sarah Flower Adams