Neema Gospel Choir + Bella Kombo + Evelyn Wanjiru - Mungu ni Mmoja Lyrics

“Mungu ni Mmoja,” which means “God is one,” is a Swahili and English worship song by Neema Gospel Choir, Bella Kombo, and Evelyn Wanjiru that gathers around the declaration of God’s presence. The English refrain, “The king of glory is here,” alternates with Swahili lines asking what one will say on seeing Him, and answering with lines about bowing down and prostrating, with the confession that God is one.

The middle section turns to praise. “Pokea sifa za mioyo yetu” asks God to receive the praises of the singers’ hearts, and the line that there is only one God repeats for emphasis. The closing section names Ashera, Dagoni, and Baali, “miungu ya kigeni” (foreign gods), and says they have fallen and been broken, because God is one.

Those names come from the Hebrew Scriptures, where the idols of the nations fall before the Lord, as with Dagon in 1 Samuel 5. The song also echoes the Shema in Deuteronomy 6:4 and the cry of Psalm 24:7-10 about the King of glory. The song’s focus is the oneness of God and the worship due to Him alone.