Mapisarema 53

¹Benzi rakati mumoyo maro, Mwari hakuna . Vakaora, vakaita zvakaipa zvinonyangadza; Hakuna anoita zvakanaka.The fool hath said in his heart, There is no God. Corrupt are they, and have done abominable iniquity: there is none that doeth good.

²Mwari, ari kudenga, wakatarira pasi kuvana vavanhu, Kuti aone kana akachenjera aripo, Anotsvaka Mwari.God looked down from heaven upon the children of men, to see if there were any that did understand, that did seek God.

³Mumwe nomumwe wavo akadzokera shure; vakasvibiswa pamwechete; Hakuna anoita zvakanaka, kunyange nomumwe.Every one of them is gone back: they are altogether become filthy; there is none that doeth good, no, not one.

⁴Ko vaiti vezvakaipa havana zivo here? Ivo vanodya vanhu vangu sechingwa, Vasingadani kuna Mwari.Have the workers of iniquity no knowledge? who eat up my people as they eat bread: they have not called upon God.

⁵Vaitya kwazvo ipapo, pakanga pasina chinotyisa; Nokuti Mwari akaparadza mapfupa aiye akanga akakukomba; Iwe wakavanyadzisa, nokuti Mwari akavarasha.There were they in great fear, where no fear was: for God hath scattered the bones of him that encampeth against thee: thou hast put them to shame, because God hath despised them.

⁶Dai kuponeswa kwaIsiraeri kwaibva paZiyoni! Kana Mwari achidzosa vanhu vake pakutapwa, Ipapo Jakobho achafara kwazvo naIsiraeri achafara.Oh that the salvation of Israel were come out of Zion! When God bringeth back the captivity of his people, Jacob shall rejoice, and Israel shall be glad.