¹Wakakomborerwa ane hanya navarombo Jehovha achamurwira nomusi wezvakaipa.

¹Blessed is he who considers the poor. Yahweh will deliver him in the day of evil.

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

²Yahweh will preserve him, and keep him alive. He shall be blessed on the earth, and he will not surrender him to the will of his enemies.

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

³Yahweh will sustain him on his sickbed, and restore him from his bed of illness.

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

⁴I said, “Yahweh, have mercy on me! Heal me, for I have sinned against you.”

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

⁵My enemies speak evil against me: “When will he die, and his name perish?”

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

⁶If he comes to see me, he speaks falsehood. His heart gathers iniquity to itself. When he goes abroad, he tells it.

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

⁷All who hate me whisper together against me. They imagine the worst for me.

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

⁸“An evil disease,” they say, “has afflicted him. Now that he lies he shall rise up no more.”

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

⁹Yes, my own familiar friend, in whom I trusted, who ate bread with me, has lifted up his heel against me.

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

¹⁰But you, Yahweh, have mercy on me, and raise me up, that I may repay them.

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

¹¹By this I know that you delight in me, because my enemy doesn’t triumph over me.

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

¹²As for me, you uphold me in my integrity, and set me in your presence forever.

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

¹³Blessed be Yahweh, the God of Israel, from everlasting and to everlasting! Amen and amen. BOOK II