¹Oh, that thou wouldest rend the heavens, that thou wouldest come down, -- that the mountains might flow down at thy presence,

¹Haiwa, dai maibvarura denga, mukaburuka, makomo akadedera pamberi penyu,

²-- as fire kindleth brushwood, as the fire causeth water to boil, to make thy name known to thine adversaries, that the nations might tremble at thy presence!

²sezvinoita moto kana uchipisa utsotso, nomoto kana uchivirisa mvura, kuti muzivise vadzivisi venyu zita renyu, kuti marudzi adedere pamberi penyu!

³When thou didst terrible things [which] we looked not for, thou camest down, and the mountains flowed down at thy presence.

³Panguva yamakaita zvinhu zvinotyisa, zvatakanga tisina kutarira, mukaburuka, makomo akadedera pamberi penyu.

⁴Never have [men] heard, nor perceived by the ear, nor hath eye seen a God beside thee, who acteth for him that waiteth for him.

⁴nekuti kubva panguva yakare vanhu havana kunzwa, kana kunzwisisa nenzeve, kunyange neziso harina kuona Mwari kunze kwenyu, iye anobatira vanomumirira.

⁵Thou meetest him that rejoiceth to do righteousness, those that remember thee in thy ways: (behold, thou wast wroth, and we have sinned:) in those is perpetuity, and we shall be saved.

⁵Munosangana nowanofarira kuita zvakarurama, ivo vanokurangarirai panzira dzenyu; tarirai, makanga makatsamwa, nesu takatadza; takanga takadaro nguva refu, zvino tingaponeswa here?

⁶And we are all become as an unclean [thing], and all our righteousnesses are as filthy rags; and we all fade as a leaf, and our iniquities, like the wind, have carried us away;

⁶nekuti isu tose tava soune tsvina, kururama kwedu kose kwafanana nenguvo ine tsvina; isu tose tinooma seshizha, zvakaipa zvedu zvinotibvisa semhepo.

⁷and there is none that calleth upon thy name, that stirreth up himself to take hold of thee; for thou hast hidden thy face from us, and hast caused us to melt away through our iniquities.

⁷Hakuna anodana zita renyu, anozvimutsa kuti akunamatireyi; nekuti makativanzira chiso chenyu, mukatinyungurusa nezvakaipa zvedu.

⁸And now, Jehovah, thou art our Father; we are the clay, and thou our potter; and we all are the work of thy hand.

⁸Asi zvino Jehovha, muri baba vedu; isu tiri ivhu, imwi muri muumbi wedu, isu tose tiri basa roruoko rwenyu.

⁹Be not wroth very sore, O Jehovah, neither remember iniquity for ever. Behold, see, we beseech thee, we are all thy people.

⁹Regai kutsamwa zvikuru, Jehovha, uye regai kurangarira zvakaipa zvedu nokusingaperi; tarirai, doonai, tiri vanhu venyu.

¹⁰Thy holy cities are become a wilderness, Zion is a wilderness, Jerusalem a desolation.

¹⁰Maguta enyu matsvene ashanduka renje, Ziyoni rava renje, Jerusaremu idongo.

¹¹Our holy and our beautiful house, where our fathers praised thee, is burnt up with fire, and all our precious things are laid waste.

¹¹Imba yedu tsvene, yakanakisa, pamakarumbidzwa namadzibaba edu, yatsva nomoto; nzvimbo dzedu dzose, dzataifarira, dzaparadzwa.

¹²Wilt thou restrain thyself in presence of these things, Jehovah? Wilt thou hold thy peace, and afflict us very sore?

¹²Jehovha, mungazvidzora nokuda kwezvinhu izvi here? Mucharamba munyerere, muchititambudza zvikuru here?