Mapisarema 58

1 Kumutungamiri wokuimba namaimbiro okuti, “Musaparadza.” Pisarema raDhavhidhi. Rwiyo rweMikitami. Ko, imi vatongi munotaura mukururama here? Munotonga pakati pavanhu nokururamisira here?

For the end. Destroy not: by David, for a memorial. If you do indeed speak righteousness, [then] do you judge rightly, you sons of men.

2 Kwete, munofunga kusaruramisira mumwoyo menyu, uye maoko enyu anomanikidza panyika.

For you work iniquities in [your] hearts in the earth: your hands plot unrighteousness.

3 Kunyange kubvira pakuberekwa, vakaipa vanofamba mukutsauka; kubva mudumbu ramai, vakaipa uye vanoreva nhema.

Sinners have gone astray from the womb: they go astray from the belly: they speak lies.

4 Uturu hwavo hwakaita souturu hwenyoka, vakafanana nemhakure yadzivira nzeve dzayo,

Their venom is like [that] of a serpent; as [that] of a deaf asp, and that stops her ears;

5 isingateereri maimbiro enʼanga kunyange zvazvo achiimba nouchenjeri hukuru.

which will not hear the voice of charmers, nor [heed] the charm prepared skilfully by the wise.

6 Vhunai mazino mumiromo yavo, imi Mwari; bvisai, imi Jehovha, mazino marefu eshumba!

God has crushed their teeth in their mouth: God has broken the cheek-teeth of the lions.

7 Ngavatsakatike semvura yapera kuerera; pavanowembura uta, miseve yavo ngaigomare.

They shall utterly pass away like water running through: he shall bend his bow till they shall fail.

8 Vafanane nehozhwa inonyakatika painofamba, kufanana negavamwedzi, ngavarege kuona zuva.

They shall be destroyed as melted wax: the fire has fallen and they have not seen the sun.

9 Hari dzenyu dzisati dzanzwa kupisa kweminzwa pamoto, ingava minyoro kana yakaoma, vakaipa vachakukurwa.

Before your thorns feel the white thorn, he shall swallow you up as living, as in his wrath.

10 Vakarurama vachafara pavachatsivirwa, pavachashambidza tsoka dzavo muropa ravakaipa.

The righteous shall rejoice when he sees the vengeance of the ungodly: he shall wash his hands in the blood of the sinner.

11 Ipapo vanhu vachati, “Zvirokwazvo vakarurama vachiri kungowana mubayiro; zvirokwazvo Mwari ariko anotonga nyika.”

And a man shall say, Verily then there is a reward for the righteous: verily there is a God that judges them in the earth.