Mapisarema 1

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

Happy is the man who does not go in the company of sinners, or take his place in the way of evil-doers, or in the seat of those who do not give honour to the Lord.

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

But whose delight is in the law of the Lord, and whose mind is on his law day and night.

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

He will be like a tree planted by the rivers of water, which gives its fruit at the right time, whose leaves will ever be green; and he will do well in all his undertakings.

4 Vakaipa havana kudaro! Vakafanana nehundi inopepereswa nemhepo.

The evil-doers are not so; but are like the dust from the grain, which the wind takes away.

5 Naizvozvo vakaipa havangamiri pakutongwa, kana vatadzi paungano yavakarurama.

For this cause there will be no mercy for sinners when they are judged, and the evil-doers will have no place among the upright,

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

Because the Lord sees the way of the upright, but the end of the sinner is destruction.