¹Many times they have afflicted me from my youth up. Let Israel now say,

¹Vakanditambudza kazhinji kubva pauduku hwangu, Isiraeri ngaadaro zvino;

²many times they have afflicted me from my youth up, yet they have not prevailed against me.

²Vakanditambudza kazhinji kubva pauduku hwangu; Kunyange zvakadaro havana kundikunda.

³The plowers plowed on my back. They made their furrows long.

³Varimi vakarima pamusana wangu; Vakaita mihoronga yavo mirefu.

⁴Yahweh is righteous. He has cut apart the cords of the wicked.

⁴Jehovha akarurama; Akaguranya mabote avakaipa.

⁵Let them be disappointed and turned backward, all those who hate Zion.

⁵Ngavanyadziswe, vadzoserwe shure, Ivo vose vanovenga Ziyoni.

⁶Let them be as the grass on the housetops, which withers before it grows up;

⁶Ngavave souswa pamatenga eimba, Hunooma husati hwakura;

⁷with which the reaper doesn’t fill his hand, nor he who binds sheaves, his bosom.

⁷Mucheki haazadzi ruoko rwake nahwo, Uye anosunga zvisote, fungatwa rake.

⁸Neither do those who go by say, “The blessing of Yahweh be on you. We bless you in the name of Yahweh.”

⁸Navanopfuura havangati, Jehovha ngaakuropafadzei; Tinokuropafadzai nezita raJehovha.