Mapisarema 124

1 Rwiyo rworwendo rwaDhavhidhi. Israeri ngaati dai Jehovha akanga asiri kurutivi kwedu,

You Israeli [people], [answer this question]: What [would have happened to us] if Yahweh had not been (helping/fighting for) us?

2 dai Jehovha akanga asiri kurutivi kwedu patakarwiswa navanhu,

When [our enemies] attacked us, if Yahweh had not been fighting for us,

3 apo kutsamwa kwavo kwakatimukira, vangadai vakatimedza tiri vapenyu;

we would have all been killed [IDM] because they were very angry with us!

4 mafashamu angadai akatifukidza, mvura zhinji ingadai yakatikukura,

[They would have been like] [MET] a flood that swept/carried us away; [it would have been as though] the water would have covered us,

5 mvura zhinji ine hasha ingadai yakatirasira kure.

and we would [all] have drowned in the flood that was (raging/flowing very fast).

6 Jehovha ngaarumbidzwe, asina kutendera kuti tibvamburwe nameno avo.

[But] praise Yahweh, because he has not allowed our [enemies to destroy us] [like wild animals] [MET] tear apart [the creatures that they capture].

7 Tapunyuka seshiri yabva parugombe rwomuteyi; rugombe rwadamburwa uye tapunyuka.

We have escaped [from our enemies] like a bird escapes from the trap that hunters have set; [it is as though] the trap [that our enemies set for us] was broken and we have escaped from it!

8 Kubatsirwa kwedu kuri muzita raJehovha, Muiti wedenga nenyika.

Yahweh is the one who helps us [MTY]; he is the one who made heaven and the earth.