¹Munototaura zvakarurama here, imwi vane simba, Munotongera vanakomana vavanhu zvakarurama here?

¹To the Overseer. — `Destroy not.` — A secret treasure, by David. Is it true, O dumb one, righteously ye speak? Uprightly ye judge, O sons of men?

²Zvirokwazvo, mumoyo menyu munoita zvakaipa; Munoyerera vanhu pasi pose kumanikidza kwamaoko enyu.

²Even in heart ye work iniquities, In the land the violence of your hands ye ponder.

³Vakaipa vakava vatorwa kubva padumbu ramai; Vanotsauka vachangozvarwa, vachireva nhema.

³The wicked have been estranged from the womb, They have erred from the belly, speaking lies.

⁴Uturu hwavo hwakafanana nouturu bwenyoka; Vakafanana nechiva chisinganzwi, chinodzivira nzeve yacho;

⁴Their poison [is] as poison of a serpent, As a deaf asp shutting its ear,

⁵Chisingateereri inzwi ren'anga, Kunyange achiimba nouchenjeri hukuru.

⁵Which hearkeneth not to the voice of whisperers, A charmer of charms most skilful.

⁶Mwari vhunai meno avo avo mumuromo mavo; Jehovha gurai meno makuru avana veshumba.

⁶O God, break their teeth in their mouth, The jaw-teeth of young lions break down, O Jehovah.

⁷Ngavapwe semvura inoyerera; kana achishumba gangauta kufura museve wavo, ngavave sevakagurika.

⁷They are melted as waters, They go up and down for themselves, His arrow proceedeth as they cut themselves off.

⁸Ngavafanane nehozhwa inonyakatika ichipera; Segambamwedzi romukadzi risina kuona zuva.

⁸As a snail that melteth he goeth on, [As] an untimely birth of a woman, They have not seen the sun.

⁹Hari dzenyu dzisati dzanzwa moto newemhinzwa, Iye achadzibvisa nechamupupuri nyama igere, nomoto pamwechete.

⁹Before your pots discern the bramble, As well the raw as the heated He whirleth away.

¹⁰Akarurama achafara kana achiona kutsiva; Achashambidza tsoka dzake muropa ravakaipa.

¹⁰The righteous rejoiceth that he hath seen vengeance, His steps he washeth in the blood of the wicked.

¹¹Naizvozvo vanhu vachati, Zvirokwazvo mubayiro wowakarurama uripo; Zvirokwazvo Mwari aripo, anotonga pasi pose.

¹¹And man saith: `Surely fruit [is] for the righteous: Surely there is a God judging in the earth!`