No doubt some Bible societies will feel compelled to publish a new translation of the Holy Scriptures in the newly discovered language of Ebonics. Here's a head start for them:

Ebonics: Big Daddy's Rap 	
English: The Lord's Prayer

Ebonics: Yo, Big Daddy upstairs,  	
English: Our father, who art in heaven

Ebonics: You be chillin'   	
English: Hallowed be thy name

Ebonics: So be yo hood 	
English: Thy Kingdom come

Ebonics: You be sayin' it, I be doin' it  	
English: Thy will be done

Ebonics: In this here hood and yo's   	
English: On earth as it is in heaven

Ebonics: Gimme some eats          	
English: Give us this day our daily bread

Ebonics: And cut me some slack, Blood  	
English: And forgive us our trespasses

Ebonics: So's I be doin' it to dem dat diss me 	
English: As we forgive those who trespasses against us

Ebonics: Don't be pushing me into no jive 	
English: And lead us not into temptation

Ebonics: And keep dem Crips away  	 
English: But deliver us from evil

Ebonics: 'Cause you always be da Man   	          	
English: For thine is the Kingdom, the power and the glory

Ebonics: Aaa-men      	                                        
English: Amen