¹Hareruya! Rumbidzai, imwi varanda vaJehovha, Rumbidzai zita raJehovha.

¹Praise ye Jehovah. Praise, O ye servants of Jehovah, Praise the name of Jehovah.

²Zita raJehovha ngarikudzwe Kubva panguva ino kusvikira pakusingaperi.

²Blessed be the name of Jehovah From this time forth and for evermore.

³Kubva pakubuda kwezuva kusvikira pakuvira kwaro Zita raJehovha rinofanira kurumbidzwa.

³From the rising of the sun unto the going down of the same Jehovah's name is to be praised.

⁴Jehovha uri kumusoro kwavahedheni vose, Nokubwinya kwake kumusoro kokudenga-denga.

⁴Jehovah is high above all nations, And his glory above the heavens.

⁵Ndianiko akafanana naJehovha Mwari wedu, Iye anogara kumusoro,

⁵Who is like unto Jehovah our God, That hath his seat on high,

⁶Iye anozvidukupisa kuti aone Zviri kudenga napasi?

⁶That humbleth himself to behold [The things that are] in heaven and in the earth?

⁷Anosimudza murombo abve muguruva, anomumutsa abve padurunhuru;

⁷He raiseth up the poor out of the dust, And lifteth up the needy from the dunghill;

⁸Kuti amugarise pamwechete namachinda, Iwo machinda avanhu vake.

⁸That he may set him with princes, Even with the princes of his people.

⁹Anogarisa mukadzi asingabereki mumba,ave mai vanofara navana. Hareruya

⁹He maketh the barren woman to keep house, [And to be] a joyful mother of children. Praise ye Jehovah.