Bukana ea Lipesaleme

The ‘Book of Psalms’ is a collection of 39 psalm settings by Mohapeloa, in which he harmonized Afrikaans psalm melodies and adapted the texts to Sesotho texts, drawn from selected Old Testament Psalms and two other biblical sources. The settings, which are undated but were probably written about 1978, were composed for congregations of the African mission of Die Nederduitse Gereformeerde Kerk, the Dutch Reformed Church in South Africa. The texts he used are Psalms 1, 8, 23, 24, 25, 33, 38, 42, 46, 48, 65, 66, 74, 75, 81, 84, 89, 91, 93, 100a, 100[b] (in two versions), 104, 105, 107, 115, 116, 123, 130, 134, 136, 137a, 137b (two versions), 138, 146, 147, 149, and 150, the Gospel According to St. Luke ch. 15 v.18, and the first book of St John the Divine ch. 3 v.1-3.