¹Ishe, makanga muri ugaro bwedu Pamarudzi namarudzi.

¹A Prayer of Moses, the man of God. Lord, a habitation Thou — Thou hast been, To us — in generation and generation,

²Makomo asati azvarwa, Musati matongosika nyika nevhu, Kubva pakusingaperi kusvikira pakusingaperi imwi muri Mwari.

²Before mountains were brought forth, And Thou dost form the earth and the world, Even from age unto age Thou [art] God.

³Munodzosera munhu kuguruva; Muchiti, Dzokai vana vavanhu.

³Thou turnest man unto a bruised thing, And sayest, Turn back, ye sons of men.

⁴nekuti kwamuri makore ane chiuru Akangofanana nezuva razuro kana rapfuura, Senguva yokurinda yousiku.

⁴For a thousand years in Thine eyes [are] as yesterday, For it passeth on, yea, a watch by night.

⁵Munovakukura semvura zhinji; vava sehope; Mangwanani vakaita souswa hunotunga.

⁵Thou hast inundated them, they are asleep, In the morning as grass he changeth.

⁶Mangwanani hunotumbuka, hunomera; Madekwana hunodzurwa, ndokusvava.

⁶In the morning it flourisheth, and hath changed, At evening it is cut down, and hath withered.

⁷nekuti tinopedzwa nokutsamwa kwenyu, Tinotambudzika nehasha dzenyu.

⁷For we were consumed in Thine anger, And in Thy fury we have been troubled.

⁸Makaisa zvakaipa zvedu pamberi penyu, Zvivi zvedu zvakavanzika pachiedza chechiso chenyu.

⁸Thou hast set our iniquities before Thee, Our hidden things at the light of Thy face,

⁹Nekuti mazuva edu ose anopfuura makatsamwa; Makore edu anopera sebefu.

⁹For all our days pined away in Thy wrath, We consumed our years as a meditation.

¹⁰Mazuva amakore edu anosvika makore makumi manomwe, Kana tine simba makore makumi masere; Asi kunyange achikudzwa ndiko kutambudzika nenhamo chete. nekuti gare-gare aenda, nesu tabhururuka taenda.

¹⁰Days of our years, in them [are] seventy years, And if, by reason of might, eighty years, Yet [is] their enlargement labour and vanity, For it hath been cut off hastily, and we fly away.

¹¹Ndianiko anoziva simba rokutsamwa kwenyu, Nehasha dzenyu, kuti mutyiwe zvakafanira here?

¹¹Who knoweth the power of Thine anger? And according to Thy fear — Thy wrath?

¹²Tidzidzisei kunatsoverenga mazuva edu, Kuti tizviwanire moyo wakachenjera.

¹²To number our days aright let [us] know, And we bring the heart to wisdom.

¹³Dzokai Jehovha; kusvikira rinhiko? nzwirai tsitsi varanda venyu.

¹³Turn back, O Jehovah, till when? And repent concerning Thy servants.

¹⁴Tigutsei mangwanani netsitsi dzenyu; Kuti tifarise, tive nomufaro mazuva edu ose.

¹⁴Satisfy us at morn [with] Thy kindness, And we sing and rejoice all our days.

¹⁵Tifadzei zvinoenzana namazuva amakatitambudza, Namakore atakaona zvakaipa.

¹⁵Cause us to rejoice according to the days Wherein Thou hast afflicted us, The years we have seen evil.

¹⁶Zvamakaita ngazvionekwe navaranda venyu, Nokubwinya kwenyu pamusoro pavana vavo.

¹⁶Let Thy work appear unto Thy servants, And Thine honour on their sons.

¹⁷Kunaka kwaJehovha Mwari wedu ngakuve pamusoro pedu; Mutisimbisire basa ramaoko edu; Zvirokwazvo, basa ramaoko edu murisimbise.

¹⁷And let the pleasantness of Jehovah our God be upon us, And the work of our hands establish on us, Yea, the work of our hands establish it!