Verse 1: Ungazigabisi ngolwakusasa, ngokuba awukwazi okungavela ngosuku.
Verse 2: Makakudumise omunye, kungabi ngumlomo wakho, kube ngumfokazi, kungabi yizindebe zakho.
Verse 3: Itshe liyasinda nesihlabathi sinzima, kepha ukukhathaza kwesiwula kuyasinda kunakho kokubili.
Verse 4: Ulaka lulunya nentukuthelo iyisikhukhula, kepha ngubani ongema phambi komhawu na?
Verse 5: Ukusola okusobala kungcono kunothando olufihliweyo.
Verse 6: Amanxeba othandayo athembekile, kepha ukwanga kwesitha kuyachichima.
Verse 7: Umphefumulo osuthiyo uyanengwa yizinyosi, kepha emphefumulweni olambileyo konke okubabayo kumnandi.
Verse 8: Njengenyoni esuka ibaleka esidlekeni sayo, unjalo umuntu obalekele indawo yakhe.
Verse 9: Amafutha nempepho kuyathokozisa inhliziyo; bunjalo ubumnandi bomuntu ngokululeka ngenhliziyo.
Verse 10: Ungashiyi umngane wakho nomngane kayihlo, ungangeni endlini yomfowenu ngosuku lwengozi yakho; ungcono umakhelwane oseduze kunomfowenu okude.
Verse 11: Ndodana yami, hlakanipha, uthokozise inhliziyo yami ukuba ngiphendule ongisolayo.
Verse 12: Oqondileyo uyabona ububi, acashe, kepha abangenalwazi badlula nje, bahlupheke ngakho.
Verse 13: Thatha ingubo yoyisibambiso somfokazi, umbambe abe yisibambiso omela abezizwe.
Verse 14: Obusisa umngane wakhe ngezwi elikhulu, evuka ekuseni, kuyakubalelwa kuye ukuthi kuyisiqalekiso.
Verse 15: Ukuconsa okunganqamukiyo ngosuku lwemvula nowesifazane oxabanayo kuyafana.
Verse 16: Omvimbela yena uvimbela umoya; isandla sakhe sokunene sihlangana namafutha nje.
Verse 17: Insimbi ilola insimbi, nomuntu ubuso bomunye.
Verse 18: Olonda umkhiwane uyakudla izithelo zawo, nolinda inkosi yakhe uyakudunyiswa.
Verse 19: Njengasemanzini ubuso bubhekana nobuso, injalo inhliziyo yomuntu kumuntu.
Verse 20: Indawo yabafileyo nokubhubha akusuthi, namehlo omuntu awasuthi.
Verse 21: Ukhamba lokuncibilikisela lungolwesiliva, nesithando ngesegolide, nomuntu unjengodumo lwakhe.
Verse 22: Noma ugqula isiwula ngembokodwe etsheni lokusila phakathi komqhazulo, ubuwula baso abuyikusuka kuso.
Verse 23: Yazi nokwazi ukuma kwezimvu zakho, ubeke inhliziyo yakho emihlambini yakho.
Verse 24: Ngokuba ingcebo ayiyikuhlala kuze kube phakade; umqhele uyahlala izizukulwane ngezizukulwane na?
Verse 25: Lapho utshani bumuka, nohlaza lubonakala, nemifino yezintaba ibuthwa,
Verse 26: kukhona izimvu zokuba wembathe, nezimpongo ukuba zibe yintengo yomhlaba.
Verse 27: Kuyakuba khona ubisi lwezimbuzi olwanele ukudla kwakho nokudla kwendlu yakho, nokuphila kwamantombazana akho.