¹Wakakomborerwa ane hanya navarombo Jehovha achamurwira nomusi wezvakaipa.

¹To the Overseer. — A Psalm of David. O the happiness of him Who is acting wisely unto the poor, In a day of evil doth Jehovah deliver him.

²Jehovha achamuchengeta nokumuraramisa, achakomborerwa panyika; Hamungamuisi pakuda kwavavengi vake,

²Jehovah doth preserve him and revive him, He is happy in the land, And Thou givest him not into the will of his enemies.

³Jehovha achapindura nhovo yourwere; Munoshandura nhovo dzake dzose pakurwara kwake.

³Jehovah supporteth on a couch of sickness, All his bed Thou hast turned in his weakness.

⁴Ini ndakati, Jehovha, ndinzwirei tsitsi; Poresai mweya wangu; nekuti ndakakutadzirai.

⁴I — I said, `O Jehovah, favour me, Heal my soul, for I did sin against Thee,`

⁵Vavengi vangu vanotaura zvakaipa pamusoro pangu, vachiti, Uchagofa rinhiko, zita rake rirove?

⁵Mine enemies say evil of me: When he dieth — his name hath perished!

⁶Kana mumwe achiuya kuzondiona, anotaura zvisina maturo; moyo wake unozviunganidzira zvakaipa; Kana obuda kumwe, anozviparidza.

⁶And if he came to see — vanity he speaketh, His heart gathereth iniquity to itself, He goeth out — at the street he speaketh.

⁷Vose, vanondivenga, vanoita zeve-zeve pamwechete pamusoro pangu; Vanorangana kundikuvadza,

⁷All hating me whisper together against me, Against me they devise evil to me:

⁸Chinhu chakaipa chakamunamatira ndizvo zvavanotaura; Zvino zvaavata pasi, haachazomukizve.

⁸A thing of Belial is poured out on him, And because he lay down he riseth not again.

⁹Haiwa, kunyange murume youshamwari hwangu, wandaivimba naye, aidya zvokudya zvangu, Naiye andisimudzira chichitsinho chake.

⁹Even mine ally, in whom I trusted, One eating my bread, made great the heel against me,

¹⁰Asi imwi Jehovha, ndinzwirei tsitsi, mundisimudzei, Kuti ndivatsive.

¹⁰And Thou, Jehovah, favour me, And cause me to rise, And I give recompence to them.

¹¹Ndinoziviswa nechinhu ichi kuti munofadzwa neni, nekuti muvengi wangu haandikundi.

¹¹By this I have known, That Thou hast delighted in me, Because my enemy shouteth not over me.

¹²Kana ndirini munonditsigira pakururama kwangu, Munondiisa pamberi penyu nokusingaperi.

¹²As to me, in mine integrity, Thou hast taken hold upon me, And causest me to stand before Thee to the age.

¹³Jehovha, Mwari waIsiraeri, ngaavongwe, Kubva pakusingaperi kusvikira pakusingaperi Ameni, zvirokwazvo Ameni.

¹³Blessed [is] Jehovah, God of Israel, From the age — and unto the age. Amen and Amen.