1Yahweh, I have called on you. Come to me quickly! Listen to my voice when I call to you.
1Jehovha, ndakadana kwamuri; kurumidzai kuuya kwandiri; Teererai inzwi rangu kana ndichidana kwamuri.
2Let my prayer be set before you like incense; the lifting up of my hands like the evening sacrifice.
2Munyengetero wangu ngauve pamberi penyu sezvinonhuhwira; Nokusimudzwa kwamaoko angu sechipiriso chamadekwana.
3Set a watch, Yahweh, before my mouth. Keep the door of my lips.
3Jehovha, isai murindi pamberi pomuromo wangu; Chengetai mukova wemiromo yangu.
4Don’t incline my heart to any evil thing, to practice deeds of wickedness with men who work iniquity. Don’t let me eat of their delicacies.
4Regai kurerekesa moyo wangu kuchinhu chakaipa, Kuti ndiite zvakaipa Pamwechete navanhu vanoita zvisina kururama.
5Let the righteous strike me, it is kindness; let him reprove me, it is like oil on the head; don’t let my head refuse it; Yet my prayer is always against evil deeds.
5Akarurama ngaandirove netsitsi; andituke; ave mafuta pamusoro wangu, musoro wangu haungaarambi; nekuti ndicharamba ndichinyengetera pamusoro pokuipa kwavo.
6Their judges are thrown down by the sides of the rock. They will hear my words, for they are well spoken.
6Vatongi vavo vakawisirwa kumawere edombo; Vachanzwa kuti mashoko angu akanaka.
7“As when one plows and breaks up the earth, our bones are scattered at the mouth of Sheol Sheol is the place of the dead. .”
7Sezvakaita pasi kana parimwa nokuparurwa, Saizvozvo mafupa edu akaparadzirwa pamuromo weSheori.
8For my eyes are on you, Yahweh, the Lord. In you, I take refuge. Don’t leave my soul destitute.
8nekuti meso angu anotarira kwamuri, Jehovha Ishe; Ndinovimba nemi; regai kudurura upenyu hwangu.
9Keep me from the snare which they have laid for me, from the traps of the workers of iniquity.
9Ndichengetei pamusungo wavakanditeyera, Naparugombe rwavanoita zvisina kururama.
10Let the wicked fall together into their own nets, while I pass by.
10Vakaipa ngavabatwe nemimbure yavo vamene, Asi ini ndidarike hangu.