¹Mwari, makatirasha, makatiparadza; Makanga makatsamwa; Haiwa, tidzorei.

¹To the Overseer. — `Concerning the Lily of Testimony,` a secret treasure of David, to teach, in his striving with Aram-Naharaim, and with Aram-Zobah, and Joab turneth back and smiteth Edom in the valley of Salt — twelve thousand. O God, Thou hadst cast us off, Thou hadst broken us — hadst been angry! — Thou dost turn back to us.

²Makabvundisa nyika; makaitsemura; Gadzirai mitswe yayo; nekuti inozununguka.

²Thou hast caused the land to tremble, Thou hast broken it, Heal its breaches, for it hath moved.

³Makaratidza vanhu venyu zvinhu zvinorema; Makatimwisa waini inobata.

³Thou hast shewn Thy people a hard thing, Thou hast caused us to drink wine of trembling.

⁴Makapa vanokutyai mureza, Kuti uratidzwe nokuda kwechokwadi.

⁴Thou hast given to those fearing thee an ensign. To be lifted up as an ensign Because of truth. Selah.

⁵Kuti vadikamwi venyu varwirwe, Tiponesei noruoko rwenyu rworudyi, mutipindure.

⁵That Thy beloved ones may be drawn out, Save [with] Thy right hand, and answer us.

⁶Mwari akataura pautsvene hwake, achiti, Ndichafara kwazvo; Ndichaganhura Shekemu, ndichayera mupata weSukoti.

⁶God hath spoken in His holiness: I exult — I apportion Shechem, And the valley of Succoth I measure,

⁷Giriyadhi ndeyangu Manase ndeyangu; Efuremuwo inhawiro yomusoro wangu; Judha ndiyo tsvimbo yangu youshe.

⁷Mine [is] Gilead, and mine [is] Manasseh, And Ephraim [is] the strength of my head, Judah [is] my lawgiver,

⁸Moabhu ndiwo mudziyo wangu wokushambidzira; Pamusoro peEdhomu ndipo pandichakandira shangu yangu; Iwe Firisitia, pururudza nokukunda nokuda kwangu.

⁸Moab [is] my pot for washing, over Edom I cast my shoe, Shout, concerning me, O Philistia.

⁹Ndianiko achandiisa muguta rakasimba? Ndianiko achandiperekedza ndiende Edhomu?

⁹Who doth bring me [to] a city of bulwarks? Who hath led me unto Edom?

¹⁰Hamuna kutirasha here, Mwari? Hamubudi Mwari, nehondo dzedu.

¹⁰Is it not Thou, O God? hast Thou cast us off? And dost Thou not go forth, O God, with our hosts!

¹¹Tibatsirei pamudzivisi wedu; nekuti kubatsira kwavanhu hakuna maturo.

¹¹Give to us help from adversity, And vain [is] the deliverance of man.

¹²Muna Mwari tichaita noumhare, nekuti ndiye achatsikira vadzivisi vedu pasi.

¹²In God we do mightily, And He treadeth down our adversaries!