¹Akakomborerwa munhu asingafambi panorangana vakaipa, Asingamiri panzira yavatadzi, Asingagari panogara vadadi.

¹Blessed is the man who doesn’t walk in the counsel of the wicked, nor stand in the way of sinners, nor sit in the seat of scoffers;

²Asi anofarira murayiro waJehovha; Anofungisisa murayiro wake masikati nousiku.

²but his delight is in Yahweh’s “Yahweh” is God’s proper Name, sometimes rendered “LORD” (all caps) in other translations. law. On his law he meditates day and night.

³Achafanana nomuti wakasimwa pahova dzemvura, Unobereka michero yawo nenguva yawo, Shizha rawo harisvavi; Chinhu chipi nechipi chaanoita chichaendika.

³He will be like a tree planted by the streams of water, that brings forth its fruit in its season, whose leaf also does not wither. Whatever he does shall prosper.

⁴Vakaipa havana kudaro; Asi vakafanana nehundi inopepereswa nemhepo.

⁴The wicked are not so, but are like the chaff which the wind drives away.

⁵Naizvozvo vakaipa havangamiri pakutongeswa, Navatadzi paungano yavakarurama.

⁵Therefore the wicked shall not stand in the judgment, nor sinners in the congregation of the righteous.

⁶nekuti Jehovha anoziva nzira yavakarurama; Asi nzira yavakaipa ichaparadzwa.

⁶For Yahweh knows the way of the righteous, but the way of the wicked shall perish.