¹Nditongerei Mwari, mundireverere pamhosva yangu parudzi rusina tsitsi; Ndirwirei pamunhu anonyengera asina kururama.

¹Judge me, O God, And plead my cause against a nation not pious, From a man of deceit and perverseness Thou dost deliver me,

²nekuti ndimi Mwari simba rangu; mandirasireiko? Ndinofambireiko ndichichema nokuda kokumanikidza komuvengi?

²For thou [art] the God of my strength. Why hast Thou cast me off? Why mourning do I go up and down, In the oppression of an enemy?

³Tumai chiedza chenyu nechokwadi chenyu; zvinditungamirire; Zvindisvitse kugomo renyu dzvene, Nokutabhenakeri dzenyu.

³Send forth Thy light and Thy truth, They — they lead me, they bring me in, Unto Thy holy hill, and unto Thy tabernacles.

⁴Ipapo ndichasvika kuaritari yaMwari, Kuna Mwari, iye mufaro wangu mukuru; Ndichakurumbidzai nembira, imwi Mwari, Mwari wangu.

⁴And I go in unto the altar of God, Unto God, the joy of my rejoicing. And I thank Thee with a harp, O God, my God.

⁵Unosuwireiko, mweya wangu? Unoshaiwa rugare neiko mukati mangu? Tarira kuna Mwari; nekuti ndichazomurumbidza hangu, Iye muponesi wechiso changu, naMwari wangu.

⁵What! bowest thou thyself, O my soul? And what! art thou troubled within me? Wait for God, for still I confess Him, The salvation of my countenance, and my God!