¹Vakanditambudza kazhinji kubva pauduku hwangu, Isiraeri ngaadaro zvino;

¹A Song of Ascents. Many a time have they afflicted me from my youth up, Let Israel now say,

²Vakanditambudza kazhinji kubva pauduku hwangu; Kunyange zvakadaro havana kundikunda.

²Many a time have they afflicted me from my youth up: Yet they have not prevailed against me.

³Varimi vakarima pamusana wangu; Vakaita mihoronga yavo mirefu.

³The plowers plowed upon my back; They made long their furrows.

⁴Jehovha akarurama; Akaguranya mabote avakaipa.

⁴Jehovah is righteous: He hath cut asunder the cords of the wicked.

⁵Ngavanyadziswe, vadzoserwe shure, Ivo vose vanovenga Ziyoni.

⁵Let them be put to shame and turned backward, All they that hate Zion.

⁶Ngavave souswa pamatenga eimba, Hunooma husati hwakura;

⁶Let them be as the grass upon the housetops, Which withereth before it groweth up;

⁷Mucheki haazadzi ruoko rwake nahwo, Uye anosunga zvisote, fungatwa rake.

⁷Wherewith the reaper filleth not his hand, Nor he that bindeth sheaves his bosom.

⁸Navanopfuura havangati, Jehovha ngaakuropafadzei; Tinokuropafadzai nezita raJehovha.

⁸Neither do they that go by say, The blessing of Jehovah be upon you; We bless you in the name of Jehovah.