¹Wakakomborerwa ane hanya navarombo Jehovha achamurwira nomusi wezvakaipa.

¹For the Chief Musician. A Psalm of David. Blessed is he that considereth the poor: Jehovah will deliver him in the day of evil.

²Jehovha achamuchengeta nokumuraramisa, achakomborerwa panyika; Hamungamuisi pakuda kwavavengi vake,

²Jehovah will preserve him, and keep him alive, And he shall be blessed upon the earth; And deliver not thou him unto the will of his enemies.

³Jehovha achapindura nhovo yourwere; Munoshandura nhovo dzake dzose pakurwara kwake.

³Jehovah will support him upon the couch of languishing: Thou makest all his bed in his sickness.

⁴Ini ndakati, Jehovha, ndinzwirei tsitsi; Poresai mweya wangu; nekuti ndakakutadzirai.

⁴I said, O Jehovah, have mercy upon me: Heal my soul; for I have sinned against thee.

⁵Vavengi vangu vanotaura zvakaipa pamusoro pangu, vachiti, Uchagofa rinhiko, zita rake rirove?

⁵Mine enemies speak evil against me, [saying], When will he die, and his name perish?

⁶Kana mumwe achiuya kuzondiona, anotaura zvisina maturo; moyo wake unozviunganidzira zvakaipa; Kana obuda kumwe, anozviparidza.

⁶And if he come to see [me], he speaketh falsehood; His heart gathereth iniquity to itself: When he goeth abroad, he telleth it.

⁷Vose, vanondivenga, vanoita zeve-zeve pamwechete pamusoro pangu; Vanorangana kundikuvadza,

⁷All that hate me whisper together against me; Against me do they devise my hurt.

⁸Chinhu chakaipa chakamunamatira ndizvo zvavanotaura; Zvino zvaavata pasi, haachazomukizve.

⁸An evil disease, [say they], cleaveth fast unto him; And now that he lieth he shall rise up no more.

⁹Haiwa, kunyange murume youshamwari hwangu, wandaivimba naye, aidya zvokudya zvangu, Naiye andisimudzira chichitsinho chake.

⁹Yea, mine own familiar friend, in whom I trusted, Who did eat of my bread, Hath lifted up his heel against me.

¹⁰Asi imwi Jehovha, ndinzwirei tsitsi, mundisimudzei, Kuti ndivatsive.

¹⁰But thou, O Jehovah, have mercy upon me, and raise me up, That I may requite them.

¹¹Ndinoziviswa nechinhu ichi kuti munofadzwa neni, nekuti muvengi wangu haandikundi.

¹¹By this I know that thou delightest in me, Because mine enemy doth not triumph over me.

¹²Kana ndirini munonditsigira pakururama kwangu, Munondiisa pamberi penyu nokusingaperi.

¹²And as for me, thou upholdest me in mine integrity, And settest me before thy face for ever.

¹³Jehovha, Mwari waIsiraeri, ngaavongwe, Kubva pakusingaperi kusvikira pakusingaperi Ameni, zvirokwazvo Ameni.

¹³Blessed be Jehovah, the God of Israel, From everlasting and to everlasting. Amen, and Amen. I