¹God, don’t keep silent. Don’t keep silent, and don’t be still, God.

¹Haiwa Jehovha, regai kuramba munyerere; Regai kuramba musingatauri, musanyarara Mwari.

²For, behold, your enemies are stirred up. Those who hate you have lifted up their heads.

²nekuti tarirai, vavengi venyu vanoita bope; Vanokuvengai vakasimudza misoro yavo.

³They conspire with cunning against your people. They plot against your cherished ones.

³Vanofunga mano kuti vanyengere vanhu venyu, Vanorangana pamusoro pavakavanzwa nemi.

⁴“Come,” they say, “and let’s destroy them as a nation, that the name of Israel may be remembered no more.”

⁴Vakati, Uyai, tivaparadze, varege kuzova rudzi; Kuti zita raIsiraeri rirege kuzorangarirwa.

⁵For they have conspired together with one mind. They form an alliance against you.

⁵Nekuti vakarangana nomoyo mumwe; Vanoita sungano kuzorwa nemi.

⁶The tents of Edom and the Ishmaelites; Moab, and the Hagrites;

⁶Matende aEdhomu navaIshimaeri, Moabhu navaHagari;

⁷Gebal, Ammon, and Amalek; Philistia with the inhabitants of Tyre;

⁷Gebhari, naAmoni, naAmareki; Firisitia pamwechete navagere Tire;

⁸Assyria also is joined with them. They have helped the children of Lot. Selah.

⁸Asiriawo wakasangana navo; Vakabatsira vana vaRoti.

⁹Do to them as you did to Midian, as to Sisera, as to Jabin, at the river Kishon;

⁹Muvaitire sezvamakaitira Midhiani; NaSisera, naJabhini, paRwizi Kishoni;

¹⁰who perished at Endor, who became as dung for the earth.

¹⁰Ivo vakaparadzwa paEndori; Vakava mupfudze wapasi.

¹¹Make their nobles like Oreb and Zeeb; yes, all their princes like Zebah and Zalmunna;

¹¹Itai vakuru vavo saOrebhi naZeebhi; Zvirokwazvo machinda avo ose saZebha naZarimuna;

¹²Ivo vakati, Ngatizvitorere Ugaro hwaMwari huve bwedu.

¹³My God, make them like tumbleweed; like chaff before the wind.

¹³Mwari wangu, muvaite seguruva rinondeyeswa nemhepo; Samakoto anodzingwa nemhepo.

¹⁴As the fire that burns the forest, as the flame that sets the mountains on fire,

¹⁴Somoto unopisa dondo, Somurazvo womoto unopisa makomo;

¹⁵so pursue them with your tempest, and terrify them with your storm.

¹⁵Muvateverere saizvozvo nedutu renyu remhepo, Muvavhunduse nechamupupuri chenyu.

¹⁶Fill their faces with confusion, that they may seek your name, Yahweh.

¹⁶Fukidzai zviso zvavo nokunyadziswa; Kuti vatsvake zita renyu, Jehovha.

¹⁷Let them be disappointed and dismayed forever. Yes, let them be confounded and perish;

¹⁷Ngavanyadziswe, vavhunduswe nokusingaperi; Zvirokwazvo, ngavanyadziswe vafe;

¹⁸that they may know that you alone, whose name is Yahweh, are the Most High over all the earth.

¹⁸Vazive kuti imwi moga, imwi munezita rinonzi Jehovha, Ndimi Wekumusoro-soro kumusoro kwepasi pose.