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 Chief Musician; [set to] Al-tashheth. [A Psalm] of David: Michtam. Do ye indeed in silence speak righteousness? do ye judge uprightly, O ye sons of men?

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

Yea, in heart ye work wickedness; ye weigh out the violence of your hands in the earth.

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

The wicked are estranged from the womb: they go astray as soon as they be born, speaking lies.

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

Their poison is like the poison of a serpent: [they are] like the deaf adder that stoppeth her ear;

5 isingateereri maimbiro enʼanga kunyange zvazvo achiimba nouchenjeri hukuru.

Which hearkeneth not to the voice of charmers, charming never so wisely.

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

Break their teeth, O God, in their mouth: break out the great teeth of the young lions, O LORD.

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

Let them melt away as water that runneth apace: when he aimeth his arrows, let them be as though they were cut off.

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

[Let them be] as a snail which melteth and passeth away: [like] the untimely birth of a woman, that hath not seen the sun.

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

Before your pots can feel the thorns, he shall take them away with a whirlwind, the green and the burning alike.

10 Vakarurama vachafara pavachatsivirwa, pavachashambidza tsoka dzavo muropa ravakaipa.

The righteous shall rejoice when he seeth the vengeance: he shall wash his feet in the blood of the wicked.

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

So that men shall say, Verily there is a reward for the righteous: verily there is a God that judgeth in the earth.