¹In that day shall this song be sung in the land of Judah: We have a strong city; salvation doth he appoint for walls and bulwarks.

¹Nezuva iro rwiyo urwu ruchaimbwa panyika yavaJudha: Tine guta rakasimba; iye achaisapo masvingo nenhare ruve ruponeso.

²Open ye the gates, and the righteous nation which keepeth faithfulness shall enter in.

²Zarurai masuwo, kuti rudzi rwakarurama, runochengeta chokwadi, rupinde.

³Thou wilt keep in perfect peace the mind stayed [on thee], for he confideth in thee.

³Anae moyo wakasimba muchamuchengeta murugare rukuru, nekuti anovimba nemi.

⁴Confide ye in Jehovah for ever; for in Jah, Jehovah, is the rock of ages.

⁴Vimbai naJehovha nokusingaperi, iye Jehovha ndiye dombo nokusingaperi.

⁵For he bringeth down them that dwell on high; the lofty city, he layeth it low, he layeth it low to the ground, he bringeth it even to the dust.

⁵nekuti akaderedza vagere pakakwirira, iro guta riri kumusoro, anorideredza, anorideredza kusvikira pavhu; anoriputsira pasi muguruva.

⁶The foot shall tread it down, -- the feet of the afflicted, the steps of the poor.

⁶Richatsikwa netsoka, idzo tsoka dzavarombo, nokutsika kwavanoshaiwa.

⁷The way of the just is uprightness: thou, the Upright, dost make the path of the just even.

⁷Nzira yavakarurama yakarurama; imwi munoruramisa nzira yavakarurama.

⁸Yea, in the way of thy judgments, O Jehovah, have we waited for thee; the desire of [our] soul is to thy name, and to thy memorial.

⁸Zvirokwazvo, takakumirirai Jehovha, panzira yokutonga kwenyu; mweya yedu inoshuva zita renyu nechirangaridzo chenyu.

⁹With my soul have I desired thee in the night; yea, with my spirit within me I seek thee early: for when thy judgments are in the earth, the inhabitants of the world learn righteousness.

⁹Ndakakushuvai nomweya wangu usiku; zvirokwazvo, ndichakutsvakai zvikuru nomweya wangu uri mukati mangu; nekuti kana kutonga kwenyu kuri panyika, vanhu vagere munyika vanodzidza zvakarurama.

¹⁰If favour be shewn to the wicked, he doth not learn righteousness: in the land of uprightness he dealeth unjustly, and beholdeth not the majesty of Jehovah.

¹⁰Akaipa kunyange achinzwirwa tsitsi, haangadzidzi zvakarurama; achaita hake zvisakarurama panyika yakarurama, haangaoni umambo hwaJehovha.

¹¹Jehovah, thy hand is lifted up, but they do not see: [yet] they shall see [thy] jealousy [for] the people, and be ashamed; yea, the fire which is for thine adversaries shall devour them.

¹¹Jehovha, ruoko rwenyu rwakasimudzwa, asi ivo havaoni; asi vachaona kushingaira kwenyu pamusoro pavanhu, vakanyadziswa; zvirokwazvo moto uchapedza vavengi venyu.

¹²Jehovah, thou wilt ordain peace for us; for thou also hast wrought all our works for us.

¹²Jehovha, imwi muchatigadzirira rugare; nekuti makatibatirawo mabasa edu ose.

¹³Jehovah our God, other lords than thee have had dominion over us; by thee only will we make mention of thy name.

¹³Jehovha Mwari wedu, mamwe madzishe kunze kwenyu akanga akatibata; asi ticharumbidza zita renyu tichibatsirwa nemwi moga.

¹⁴[They are] dead, they shall not live; deceased, they shall not rise: for thou hast visited and destroyed them, and made all memory of them to perish.

¹⁴Vakafa havangararamizve, vaparara, havazomukizve; saka makasvika kwavari, mukavaparadza, nokugumisa kurangarirwa kwavo kose.

¹⁵Thou hast increased the nation, Jehovah, thou hast increased the nation: thou art glorified. Thou hadst removed [it] far [unto] all the ends of the earth.

¹⁵Mawanza rudzi, Jehovha, mawanza rudzi; makurumbira, makurisa miganho yose yenyika.

¹⁶Jehovah, in trouble they sought thee; they poured out [their] whispered prayer when thy chastening was upon them.

¹⁶Jehovha, vakakutsvakai panguva yokutambudzika; vakadurura munyengetero muchivaranga.

¹⁷As a woman with child, that draweth near her delivery, is in travail, [and] crieth out in her pangs; so have we been before thee, Jehovah.

¹⁷Mukadzi ane pamuviri, asvika pedo pakusununguka, sezvaanorwadziwa achichema pakurwadziwa kwake, ndizvo zvatakanga takaita pamberi penyu, Jehovha.

¹⁸We have been with child, we have been in travail, we have as it were brought forth wind; we have not wrought the deliverance of the land, neither have the inhabitants of the world fallen.

¹⁸Isu takanga tava nepamuviri, takanga tiri pakurwadziwa, takabereka zvinenge mhepo chete; hatina kuvigira nyika sununguro, uye vangagara panyika havana kuzvarwa.

¹⁹Thy dead shall live, my dead bodies shall arise. Awake and sing in triumph, ye that dwell in dust; for thy dew is the dew of the morning, and the earth shall cast forth the dead.

¹⁹Vakafa venyu vachararama, zvitunha zvavo zvichamuka. Mukai, muimbe, imwi mugere muguruva; nekuti dova renyu rakaita sedova rechiedza; nyika ichabudisa vakafa.

²⁰Come, my people, enter into thy chambers, and shut thy doors about thee; hide thyself just for a little moment, until the indignation be past.

²⁰Fambai vanhu vangu mupinde muimba yenyu yomukati, mupfige mikova yenyu shure kwenyu; muvande nguva duku, kusvikira kutsamwa kwapfuura.

²¹For behold, Jehovah cometh out of his place to visit the iniquity of the inhabitants of the earth upon them; and the earth shall disclose her blood, and shall no more cover her slain.

²¹nekuti tarira Jehovha anobuda panzvimbo yake kurova vagere panyika nokuda kwezvivi zvavo; nyikawo ichafukura ropa rayo, ikasazofukidzazve vakaurawa vayo.