¹Wakakomborerwa ane hanya navarombo Jehovha achamurwira nomusi wezvakaipa.

¹{To the chief Musician. A Psalm of David.} Blessed is he that understandeth 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; he shall be made happy in the land; and thou wilt not deliver him to the will of his enemies.

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

³Jehovah will sustain him upon the bed of languishing: thou turnest all his bed in his sickness.

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

⁴As for me, I said, Jehovah, be gracious unto me: heal my soul; for I have sinned against thee.

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

⁵Mine enemies wish me evil: 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 one come to see [me], he speaketh falsehood; his heart gathereth wickedness to itself: 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.

⁸A thing of Belial cleaveth fast unto him; and now that he is laid down, he will 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 confided, who did eat of my bread, hath lifted up [his] heel against me.

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

¹⁰But thou, Jehovah, be gracious unto 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.

¹²But 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 eternity to eternity! Amen, and Amen.