Mapisarema 58

¹Munototaura zvakarurama here, imi vane simba, Munotongera vanakomana vavanhu zvakarurama here?Do ye indeed speak righteousness, O congregation? do ye judge uprightly, O ye sons of men?

²Zvirokwazvo, mumoyo menyu munoita zvakaipa; Munoyerera vanhu pasi pose kumanikidza kwamaoko enyu.Yea, in heart ye work wickedness; ye weigh the violence of your hands in the earth.

³Vakaipa vakava vatorwa kubva padumbu ramai; Vanotsauka vachangozvarwa, vachireva nhema.The wicked are estranged from the womb: they go astray as soon as they be born, speaking lies.

⁴Uturu hwavo hwakafanana nouturu hwenyoka; Vakafanana nechiva chisinganzwi, chinodzivira nzeve yacho;Their poison is like the poison of a serpent: they are like the deaf adder that stoppeth her ear;

⁵Chisingateereri inzwi ren’anga, Kunyange achiimba nouchenjeri hukuru.Which will not hearken to the voice of charmers, charming never so wisely.

⁶Mwari vhunai meno avo avo mumuromo mavo; Jehovha gurai meno makuru avana veshumba.Break their teeth, O God, in their mouth: break out the great teeth of the young lions, O LORD.

⁷Ngavapwe semvura inoyerera; Kana achishumba nemiseve yake, ngaive seyakagurika.Let them melt away as waters which run continually: when he bendeth his bow to shoot his arrows, let them be as cut in pieces.

⁸Ngavafanane nehozhwa inonyakatika ichipera; Segambamwedzi romukadzi risina kuona zuva.As a snail which melteth, let every one of them pass away: like the untimely birth of a woman, that they may not see the sun.

⁹Hari dzenyu dzisati dzanzwa moto neweminzwa, Iye achadzibvisa nechamupupuri nyama igere, nomoto pamwechete.Before your pots can feel the thorns, he shall take them away as with a whirlwind, both living, and in his wrath.

¹⁰Akarurama achafara kana achiona kutsiva; Achashambidza tsoka dzake muropa ravakaipa.The righteous shall rejoice when he seeth the vengeance: he shall wash his feet in the blood of the wicked.

¹¹Naizvozvo vanhu vachati, Zvirokwazvo mubayiro wowakarurama uripo; Zvirokwazvo Mwari aripo, anotonga pasi pose.So that a man shall say, Verily there is a reward for the righteous: verily he is a God that judgeth in the earth.