¹Jehovha ndiye chiedza changu noMuponesi wangu; ndingagotya aniko? Jehovha ndiye simba roupenyu hwangu; ndingagovhunduswa naniko?

¹By David. Jehovah [is] my light and my salvation, Whom do I fear? Jehovah [is] the strength of my life, Of whom am I afraid?

²Vaiti vezvakaipa vakati vachiuya kwandiri kuzodya nyama yangu, Ivo vadzivisi vangu navavengi vangu, vakagumburwa vakawa.

²When evil doers come near to me to eat my flesh, My adversaries and mine enemies to me, They have stumbled and fallen.

³Kunyange hondo ikandikomba, moyo wangu haungatyi; Kunyange ndikavingwa nokurwa, Nenguva iyo ndichavimba naJehovha.

³Though a host doth encamp against me, My heart doth not fear, Though war riseth up against me, In this I [am] confident.

⁴Chinhu chimwechete ndakakumbira kuna Jehovha, ndicho chandichatsvaka; Kuti ndigare mumba maJehovha misi yose youpenyu hwangu, Kuti ndione kunaka kwaJehovha, nokurangarira mutemberi yake.

⁴One [thing] I asked of Jehovah — it I seek. My dwelling in the house of Jehovah, All the days of my life, To look on the pleasantness of Jehovah, And to inquire in His temple.

⁵nekuti nomusi wenjodzi anondiviga mudumba rake, Uchandivanza pakavanda patende rake; Uchandikwiridza padombo.

⁵For He hideth me in a tabernacle in the day of evil, He hideth me in a secret place of His tent, On a rock he raiseth me up.

⁶Zvino musoro wangu uchasimudzirwa kumusoro kwavavengi vangu vanondikomba; Ndichamubayira zvibayiro zvomufaro patende rake. Ndichaimba, zvirokwazvo ndichaimbira Jehovha nziyo dzokumurumbidza.

⁶And now, lifted up is my head, Above my enemies — my surrounders, And I sacrifice in His tent sacrifices of shouting, I sing, yea, I sing praise to Jehovah.

⁷Inzwai Jehovha, kana ndichidana nenzwi rangu; Ndinzwirei tsitsi, mundipindure.

⁷Hear, O Jehovah, my voice — I call, And favour me, and answer me.

⁸Panguva yamakati: Tsvakai chiso changu; moyo wangu wakati kwamuri: Chiso chenyu, Jehovha, ndichachitsvaka.

⁸To Thee said my heart `They sought my face, Thy face, O Jehovah, I seek.`

⁹Regai kundivanzira chiso chenyu; Musadzinga muranda wenyu pakutsamwa kwenyu; Makanga muri mubatsiri wangu; Regai kundirasha, kana kundisiya, imwi Mwari muponesi wangu.

⁹Hide not Thy face from me, Turn not aside in anger Thy servant, My help Thou hast been. Leave me not, nor forsake me, O God of my salvation.

¹⁰nekuti baba vangu namai vangu vakandirasha, Asi Jehovha achandigamuchira.

¹⁰When my father and my mother Have forsaken me, then doth Jehovah gather me.

¹¹Ndidzidzisei nzira yenyu Jehovha; Mundifambise panzira yakati chechetere, Nokuda kwavanondivandira.

¹¹Shew me, O Jehovah, Thy way, And lead me in a path of uprightness, For the sake of my beholders.

¹²Musandisundira pakuda kwavadzivisi vangu, nekuti zvapupu zvenhema zvakandimukira, navanofemereka hasha.

¹²Give me not to the will of my adversaries, For risen against me have false witnesses, And they breathe out violence to me.

¹³Ndingadai ndakaparara hangu, kana ndisina kutenda kuti ndichaona kunaka kwaJehovha panyika yavapenyu.

¹³I had not believed to look on the goodness of Jehovah In the land of the living!

¹⁴Rindira Jehovha; Iva nesimba, nomoyo wako utsunge; Ndinoti, rindira Jehovha.

¹⁴Look unto Jehovah — be strong, And He doth strengthen thy heart, Yea, look unto Jehovah!