¹teererai nenzeve, Mufudzi waIsiraeri, Iyemi munotungamirira Josefa seboka rezvipfuwo; imwi mugere pakati pamakerubhi, penyai!

¹For the Chief Musician, set to Shoshanim Eduth.. A Psalm of Asaph. Give ear, O Shepherd of Israel, Thou that leadest Joseph like a flock; Thou that sittest [above] the cherubim, shine forth.

²Mutsai simba renyu pamberi paEfuremu naBhenjamini naManase, Muuye kuzotirwira.

²Before Ephraim and Benjamin and Manasseh, stir up thy might, And come to save us.

³Tidzosereizve, Mwari; Penyesai chiso chenyu, isu tiponeswe.

³Turn us again, O God; And cause thy face to shine, and we shall be saved.

⁴Jehovha, Mwari wehondo, Muchatsamwira munyengetero wavanhu venyu kusvikira rinhiko?

⁴O Jehovah God of hosts, How long wilt thou be angry against the prayer of thy people?

⁵Makavadyisa zvokudya zvemisodzi, Nokuvamwisa misodzi yakawanda kwazvo.

⁵Thou hast fed them with the bread of tears, And given them tears to drink in large measure.

⁶Makatiita chinhu chinoitirwa nharo navatigere navo; Vavengi vedu vanotiseka pakati pavo.

⁶Thou makest us a strife unto our neighbors; And our enemies laugh among themselves.

⁷Tidzosereizve, Mwari wehondo; Penyesai chiso chenyu, isu tiponeswe.

⁷Turn us again, O God of hosts; And cause thy face to shine, and we shall be saved.

⁸Makandotora muzambiringa paEgipita; Makadzinga vahedheni, mukausima.

⁸Thou broughtest a vine out of Egypt: Thou didst drive out the nations, and plantedst it.

⁹Makaugadzirira, Ukabata kwazvo, ukazadza nyika.

⁹Thou preparedst [room] before it, And it took deep root, and filled the land.

¹⁰Makomo akafukidzwa nomumvuri wawo, Nemisidhari yaMwari namatavi awo.

¹⁰The mountains were covered with the shadow of it, And the boughs thereof were [like] cedars of God.

¹¹Wakatandisa matavi awo kusvikira pagungwa, Namashizha awo kusvikira kuRwizi.

¹¹It sent out its branches unto the sea, And its shoots unto the River.

¹²Makaputsireiko mhanda dzawo, Kuti vose vanopfuura nenzira vautanhe?

¹²Why hast thou broken down its walls, So that all they that pass by the way do pluck it?

¹³Nguruve yomudondo inouparadza, Mhuka dzesango dzinoudya.

¹³The boar out of the wood doth ravage it, And the wild beasts of the field feed on it.

¹⁴Dodzokai henyu, Mwari wehondo, Tarirai muri kudenga, muone, muve nehanya nomuzambiringa uyu.

¹⁴Turn again, we beseech thee, O God of hosts: Look down from heaven, and behold, and visit this vine,

¹⁵Muchengete chakasimwa noruoko rwenyu rworudyi, Nomwanakomana, wamakazvirerera.

¹⁵And the stock which thy right hand planted, And the branch that thou madest strong for thyself.

¹⁶Wapiswa nomoto, watemwa; vanopera nokutuka kwechiso chenyu.

¹⁶It is burned with fire, it is cut down: They perish at the rebuke of thy countenance.

¹⁷Ruoko rwenyu ngaruve pamusoro pomunhu woruoko rwenyu rworudyi, Pamusoro poMwanakomana womunhu, wamakazvirerera.

¹⁷Let thy hand be upon the man of thy right hand, Upon the son of man whom thou madest strong for thyself.

¹⁸Ipapo hatingazobvi kwamuri; Tiraramisei isu, tigodana zita renyu.

¹⁸So shall we not go back from thee: Quicken thou us, and we will call upon thy name.

¹⁹Tidzosereizve, Jehovha Mwari wehondo; Penyesai chiso chenyu, isu tiponeswe.

¹⁹Turn us again, O Jehovah God of hosts; Cause thy face to shine, and we shall be saved.