Mapisarema 1

1 Akaropafadzwa munhu asingafambi panorangana vakaipa, asingamiri panzira yavatadzi, asingagari pachigaro chavadadi.

How blessed! [is] the person who - not he walks in [the] counsel of wicked [people] and in [the] way of sinners not he stands and in [the] seat of mockers not he sits.

2 Asi anofarira murayiro waJehovha, uye anofungisisa murayiro wake masikati nousiku.

That except [is] in [the] law of Yahweh delight his and in law his he meditates by day and night.

3 Akafanana nomuti wakasimwa pahova dzemvura, unobereka michero yawo nenguva yawo, uye mashizha awo haasvavi. Chinhu chipi nechipi chaanoita chinoendeka.

And he is like a tree planted at streams of water which fruit its - it gives at appropriate time its and leafage its not it withers and all that he does it succeeds.

4 Vakaipa havana kudaro! Vakafanana nehundi inopepereswa nemhepo.

Not [are] so the wicked [people] that except [they are] like the chaff which it drives about it wind.

5 Naizvozvo vakaipa havangamiri pakutongwa, kana vatadzi paungano yavakarurama.

There-fore - not they will stand wicked [people] in the judgment and sinners in [the] congregation of righteous [people].

6 Nokuti Jehovha anotarira nzira yavakarurama, asi nzira yavakaipa ichaparadzwa.

For [is] knowing Yahweh [the] way of righteous [people] and [the] way of wicked [people] it will perish.