¹Jehovha, ndimi Mwari wangu! Ndicharumbidza zita renyu; no kuti makaita zvinoshamisa, izvo zvamakafunga kare nokutendeka nezvokwadi.

¹O Jehovah, my God [art] Thou, I exalt Thee, I confess Thy name, For Thou hast done a wonderful thing, Counsels of old, stedfastness, O stedfast One.

²nekuti guta makariita dutu ramabwe, guta rakakombwa norusvingo makariita dongo, imba huru yavatorwa rirege kuva guta; haringatongovakwi.

²For Thou didst make of a city a heap, Of a fenced city a ruin, A high place of strangers from [being] a city, To the age it is not built.

³Naizvozvo rudzi rukuru ruchakukudzai; guta ramarudzi avanhu vanotyisa richakutyai.

³Therefore honour Thee do a strong people, A city of the terrible nations feareth Thee.

⁴nekuti imwi maiva nhare yavarombo, nhare younoshaiwa pakutambudzika kwake, utiziro panguva yemvura zhinji, mumvuri pakupisa kwezuva, kana mhepo yavanotyisa ichiita semvura zhinji.

⁴For Thou hast been a stronghold for the poor, A stronghold for the needy in his distress, A refuge from storm, a shadow from heat, When the spirit of the terrible [is] as a storm — a wall.

⁵Muchaderedza bope ravatorwa, sezvinoita kupisa kwezuva panzvimbo yakaoma, rwiyo rwavanotyisa ruchaderedzwa, sezvinoitwa kupisa nomumvuri wegore.

⁵As heat in a dry place, The noise of strangers Thou humblest, Heat with the shadow of a thick cloud, The singing of the terrible is humbled.

⁶Pagomo iri Jehovha wehondo achagadzirira marudzi ose avanhu mutambo wezvakakora, mutambo wewaini yakagara pamasese, wezvakakora zvizere nomwongo, wewaini yakagara pamasese yakasvimwa zvakanaka.

⁶And made hath Jehovah of Hosts, For all the peoples in this mount, A banquet of fat things, a banquet of preserved things, Fat things full of marrow, preserved things refined.

⁷Pagomo iri uchaparadza chifukidziro chinofukidzira vanhu vose, nechidzitiro chakatasanurwa pamusoro pamarudzi ose.

⁷And swallowed up hath He in this mountain The face of the wrapping that is wrapped over all the peoples, And of the covering that is spread over all the nations.

⁸Akaparadza rufu nokusingaperi, Ishe Jehovha achapisika misodzi pazviso zvose; achabvisa kuzvidzwa kwavanhu vake panyika yose; nekuti Jehovha akataura izvozvo.

⁸He hath swallowed up death in victory, And wiped hath the Lord Jehovah, The tear from off all faces, And the reproach of His people He turneth aside from off all the earth, For Jehovah hath spoken.

⁹Nezuva iro vachati, Tarirai, uyu ndiye Mwari wedu; takanga takamumirira, iye achatiponesa; uye ndiye Jehovha, takanga takamumirira, tichafara, nokufarira ruponeso rwake.

⁹And [one] hath said in that day, `Lo, this [is] our God, We waited for Him, and He saveth us, This [is] Jehovah, we have waited for Him, We joy and rejoice in His salvation.`

¹⁰nekuti ruoko rwaJehovha ruchagara pagomo iri; Moabhi vachatsikwa pasi panzvimbo yavo, sezvinotsikwa mashanga mumvura iri mugomba romupfudze.

¹⁰For rest doth the hand of Jehovah on this mountain, And trodden down is Moab under Him, As trodden down is straw on a dunghill.

¹¹Achatambanudza maoko ake imomo, somunhu anotambanudza maoko ake kana achishambira; asi Jehovha achaderedza kuzvikudza kwake pamwechete nenjere dzamaoko ake.

¹¹And he spread out his hands in its midst, As spread out doth the swimmer to swim; And He hath humbled his excellency With the machinations of his hands.

¹²Nhare yakakwirira yamasvingo enyu, wakaiwisira pasi, wakaideredza, wakaiputsira muvhu, imo muguruva.

¹²And the fortress of the high place of thy walls He hath bowed down — He hath made low, He hath caused [it] to come to the earth, — unto dust.