Mapisarema 90

¹Ishe, makanga muri ugaro hwedu Pamarudzi namarudzi.LORD, thou hast been our dwelling place in all generations.

²Makomo asati azvarwa, Musati matongosika nyika nevhu, Kubva pakusingaperi kusvikira pakusingaperi imi muri Mwari.Before the mountains were brought forth, or ever thou hadst formed the earth and the world, even from everlasting to everlasting, thou art God.

³Munodzosera munhu kuguruva; Muchiti, Dzokai vana vavanhu.Thou turnest man to destruction; and sayest, Return, ye children of men.

⁴Nokuti kwamuri makore ane chiuru Akangofanana nezuva razuro kana rapfuura, Senguva yokurinda yousiku.For a thousand years in thy sight are but as yesterday when it is past, and as a watch in the night.

⁵Munovakukura semvura zhinji; vava sehope; Mangwanani vakaita souswa hunomera.Thou carriest them away as with a flood; they are as a sleep: in the morning they are like grass which groweth up.

⁶Mangwanani hunotumbuka, hunomera; Madekwana hunodzurwa, ndokusvava.In the morning it flourisheth, and groweth up; in the evening it is cut down, and withereth.

⁷Nokuti tinopedzwa nokutsamwa kwenyu, Tinotambudzika nehasha dzenyu.For we are consumed by thine anger, and by thy wrath are we troubled.

⁸Makaisa zvakaipa zvedu pamberi penyu, Zvivi zvedu zvakavanzika pachiedza chechiso chenyu.Thou hast set our iniquities before thee, our secret sins in the light of thy countenance.

⁹Nokuti mazuva edu ose anopfuura makatsamwa; Makore edu anopera sorungano.For all our days are passed away in thy wrath: we spend our years as a tale that is told.

¹⁰Mazuva amakore edu anosvika makore makumi manomwe, Kana tine simba makore makumi masere; Asi kunyange achikudzwa ndiko kutambudzika nenhamo bedzi. Nokuti gare-gare aenda, nesu tabhururuka taenda.The days of our years are threescore years and ten; and if by reason of strength they be fourscore years, yet is their strength labour and sorrow; for it is soon cut off, and we fly away.

¹¹Ndianiko anoziva simba rokutsamwa kwenyu, Nehasha dzenyu, kuti mutyiwe zvakafanira here?Who knoweth the power of thine anger? even according to thy fear, so is thy wrath.

¹²Tidzidzisei kunatsoverenga mazuva edu, Kuti tizviwanire moyo wakachenjera.So teach us to number our days, that we may apply our hearts unto wisdom.

¹³Dzokai Jehovha; kusvikira rinhiko? Muzvidembe pamusoro pavaranda venyu.Return, O LORD, how long? and let it repent thee concerning thy servants.

¹⁴Tigutsei mangwanani nengoni dzenyu; Kuti tifarise, tive nomufaro mazuva edu ose.O satisfy us early with thy mercy; that we may rejoice and be glad all our days.

¹⁵Tifadzei zvinoenzana namazuva amakatitambudza, Namakore atakaona zvakaipa.Make us glad according to the days wherein thou hast afflicted us, and the years wherein we have seen evil.

¹⁶Zvamakaita ngazvionekwe navaranda venyu, Nokubwinya kwenyu pamusoro pavana vavo.Let thy work appear unto thy servants, and thy glory unto their children.

¹⁷Kunaka kwaJehovha Mwari wedu ngakuve pamusoro pedu; Mutisimbisire basa ramaoko edu; Zvirokwazvo, basa ramaoko edu murisimbise.And let the beauty of the LORD our God be upon us: and establish thou the work of our hands upon us; yea, the work of our hands establish thou it.