¹Inzwai munyengetero wangu, Jehovha; teererai kukumbira kwangu; Ndipindurei nokutendeka kwenyu nokururama kwenyu.

¹Hear my prayer, Yahweh. Listen to my petitions. In your faithfulness and righteousness, relieve me.

²Regai kutonga muranda wenyu; nekuti hapana munhu mumwe mupenyu angaruramiswa pamberi penyu.

²Don’t enter into judgment with your servant, for in your sight no man living is righteous.

³nekuti muvengi akatambudza mweya wangu; Akatsikirira upenyu hwangu pasi; Akandigarisa panzvimbo dzine rima, savanhu vakanguva vafa.

³For the enemy pursues my soul. He has struck my life down to the ground. He has made me live in dark places, as those who have been long dead.

⁴Saka mweya wangu wavhunduswa mukati mangu. moyo wangu wavhunduswa mukati mangu.

⁴Therefore my spirit is overwhelmed within me. My heart within me is desolate.

⁵Ndinorangarira mazuva akare; Ndinofungisisa zvose zvamakaita; Ndinofunga basa ramaoko enyu.

⁵I remember the days of old. I meditate on all your doings. I contemplate the work of your hands.

⁶Ndinotambanudzira maoko angu kwamuri; Mweya wangu unokushuvai senyika yakaomerwa.

⁶I spread forth my hands to you. My soul thirsts for you, like a parched land. Selah.

⁷Kurumidzai kupindura, Jehovha; mweya wangu waziya; Regai kundivanzira chiso chenyu; Ndigosava savanoburukira kugomba.

⁷Hurry to answer me, Yahweh. My spirit fails. Don’t hide your face from me, so that I don’t become like those who go down into the pit.

⁸Ndinzwisei unyoro bwenyu mangwanani; nekuti ndinovimba nemi; Ndizivisei nzira yandinofanira kufamba nayo; nekuti ndinosimudzira mweya wangu kwamuri.

⁸Cause me to hear your loving kindness in the morning, for I trust in you. Cause me to know the way in which I should walk, for I lift up my soul to you.

⁹Ndirwirei Jehovha, panavavengi vangu; Ndinovanda nemwi.

⁹Deliver me, Yahweh, from my enemies. I flee to you to hide me.

¹⁰Ndidzidzisei kuita kuda kwenyu; nekuti ndimwi Mwari wangu; Mweya wenyu, wakanaka ngaundifambise munyika yakati chechetere,

¹⁰Teach me to do your will, for you are my God. Your Spirit is good. Lead me in the land of uprightness.

¹¹Ndiponesei Jehovha, nokuda kwezita renyu; Budisai mweya wangu pakumanikidzwa nokururama kwenyu.

¹¹Revive me, Yahweh, for your name’s sake. In your righteousness, bring my soul out of trouble.

¹²Pedzai vavengi vangu nounyoro bwenyu, Muparadze vose vanomanikidza mweya wangu; nekuti ndiri muranda wenyu.

¹²In your loving kindness, cut off my enemies, and destroy all those who afflict my soul, For I am your servant.