Mapisarema 113

1 Rumbidzai Jehovha. Rumbidzai, imi varanda vaJehovha, rumbidzai zita raJehovha.

Halleluyah ·praise Yah·! Praise, you servants of Adonai, praise Adonai’s name.

2 Zita raJehovha ngarirumbidzwe, kubva zvino kusvikira narini.

Blessed be Adonai’s name, from this time forward and forever more.

3 Kubva pakubuda kwezuva kusvikira pakuvira kwaro, zita raJehovha rinofanira kurumbidzwa.

From the rising of the sun to the going down of the same, Adonai’s name is to be praised.

4 Jehovha anosimudzirwa pamusoro pendudzi dzose; kubwinya kwake kuri pamusoro pamatenga.

Adonai is high above all nations, his kavod ·weighty glory· above the heavens.

5 Ndianiko akaita saJehovha Mwari wedu, iye anogara pachigaro choushe chokumusoro-soro,

Who is like Adonai, our God, who has his seat on high,

6 anokotamira pasi kuti aone zviri kudenga napanyika?

Who stoops down to see in heaven and in the earth?

7 Anosimudza murombo kubva muguruva, uye anosimudza vanoshayiwa kubva padurunhuru ramadota;

He raises up the poor out of the dust. Lifts up the needy from the ash heap;

8 anovagadza namachinda, namachinda avanhu vavo.

that he may set him with princes, even with the princes of his people.

9 Anogarisa mukadzi asingabereki mumba make, samai vavana vanofara. Rumbidzai Jehovha.

He settles the barren woman in her home, as a joyful mother of children. Halleluyah ·praise Yah·!