¹Woe to the crown of pride, to the drunkards of Ephraim, whose glorious beauty is a fading flower, which are on the head of the fat valleys of them that are overcome with wine!

¹Korona, inozvikudza, yavakabatwa vokwaEfuremu, ine nhamo, uye ruva, rinooma, rokunaka kwake kukuru, riri pamusoro womupata wakaworera wavakakundwa newaini.

²Behold, the Lord hath a mighty and strong one, which as a tempest of hail and a destroying storm, as a flood of mighty waters overflowing, shall cast down to the earth with the hand.

²Tarirai, Ishe anomumwe anesimba anokurira; achawisira pasi noruoko rwake sedutu guru rine chimvuramabwe, sedutu rinoparadza, sokunaya kwemvura zhinji inokukura kose.

³The crown of pride, the drunkards of Ephraim, shall be trodden under feet:

³Korona inozvikudza yavakabatwa vokwaEfuremu ichatsikwa pasi netsoka;

⁴And the glorious beauty, which is on the head of the fat valley, shall be a fading flower, and as the hasty fruit before the summer; which when he that looketh upon it seeth, while it is yet in his hand he eateth it up.

⁴ruva, rinooma, rokunaka kwake kukuru, riri pamusoro womupata wakaworera richava sewonde rinotanga kuibva zhizha richigere kusvika; rinoti richatarirwa nowariona, ndokuridya richiri muruoko rwake.

⁵In that day shall the LORD of hosts be for a crown of glory, and for a diadem of beauty, unto the residue of his people,

⁵Nezuva iro Jehovha wehondo achava korona inobwinya noukomba hwakaisvonaka kuna vakasara vavanhu vake;

⁶And for a spirit of judgment to him that sitteth in judgment, and for strength to them that turn the battle to the gate.

⁶nomweya wokururamisa kunowagere pakutonga, nesimba kuna vanodzosera vanorwa pasuwo.

⁷But they also have erred through wine, and through strong drink are out of the way; the priest and the prophet have erred through strong drink, they are swallowed up of wine, they are out of the way through strong drink; they err in vision, they stumble in judgment.

⁷Asi naivo vanodzungunyika newaini, vanodzedzereka nezvinobata; mupristi nomuporofita vanodzungunyika nezvinobata, vakamedzwa newaini, vanodzedzereka nezvinobata; vanokanganiswa pakuona, vanogumburwa pakutonga.

⁸For all tables are full of vomit and filthiness, so that there is no place clean.

⁸nekuti matafura avo azere namarutsi anosemesa, hapana pakanaka.

⁹Whom shall he teach knowledge? and whom shall he make to understand doctrine? them that are weaned from the milk, and drawn from the breasts.

⁹Ndianiko waachadzidzisa ruzivo? Ndianiko waachadzidzisa kunzwisisa shoko? Ivo vakarumurwa pamukaka, vakabviswa pazamu here?

¹⁰For precept must be upon precept, precept upon precept; line upon line, line upon line; here a little, and there a little:

¹⁰nekuti zvinongoti chirevo pamusoro pechirevo, chirevo pamusoro pechirevo, murayiro pamusoro pomurayiro, murayiro pamusoro pomurayiro, apa zvishoma, napapo zvishoma.

¹¹For with stammering lips and another tongue will he speak to this people.

¹¹Zvirokwazvo achataura norudzi urwu navanhu vane miromo yorumwe rudzi, norurimi rwokumwe;

¹²To whom he said, This is the rest wherewith ye may cause the weary to rest; and this is the refreshing: yet they would not hear.

¹²akati kwavari, Zororo riri pano, zorodzai vakaneta; pano ndipo panokutonhorera; asi vakaramba kuteerera.

¹³But the word of the LORD was unto them precept upon precept, precept upon precept; line upon line, line upon line; here a little, and there a little; that they might go, and fall backward, and be broken, and snared, and taken.

¹³Saka shoko raJehovha richava kwavari, chirevo pamusoro pechirevo, chirevo pamusoro pechirevo, murayiro pamusoro pomurayiro, murayiro pamusoro pomurayiro, apa napapo zvishoma; kuti vaende, vawe nenhendashure, vavhunike, vabatwe nomusungo, vatapwe.

¹⁴Wherefore hear the word of the LORD, ye scornful men, that rule this people which is in Jerusalem.

¹⁴Naizvozvo inzwai shoko raJehovha, imwi vadadi, vanobata noushe vanhu ava vari paJerusaremu,

¹⁵Because ye have said, We have made a covenant with death, and with hell are we at agreement; when the overflowing scourge shall pass through, it shall not come unto us: for we have made lies our refuge, and under falsehood have we hid ourselves:

¹⁵imwi zvamakati, Takaita sungano norufu, takatenderana neSheori, kana shamhu, inokukura, ichipfuura, haingasviki kwatiri, nekuti nhema takadziita utiziro bwedu, takandovanda pasi pokunyengetera;

¹⁶Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD, Behold, I lay in Zion for a foundation a stone, a tried stone, a precious corner stone, a sure foundation: he that believeth shall not make haste.

¹⁶naizvozvo Ishe Jehovha anoti, Tarirai, ndinoisa paZiyoni ibwe rive nheyo, riri ibwe rakaedzwa, rinokosha rekona kuita nheyo yakasimba; anotenda haakurumidzi.

¹⁷Judgment also will I lay to the line, and righteousness to the plummet: and the hail shall sweep away the refuge of lies, and the waters shall overflow the hiding place.

¹⁷Kururamisira ndichakuita rwonzi, nokururama ndichakuita chokururamisa nacho; chimvuramabwe chichakukura utiziro bwenhema, mvura ichafukidza nzvimbo yokuvanda.

¹⁸And your covenant with death shall be disannulled, and your agreement with hell shall not stand; when the overflowing scourge shall pass through, then ye shall be trodden down by it.

¹⁸Sungano yenyu yamakaita norufu ichadzimwa, nokutenderana kwenyu neSheori hakungamiri; kana shamhu, inokukura, ichipfuura, muchatsikwa pasi nayo.

¹⁹From the time that it goeth forth it shall take you: for morning by morning shall it pass over, by day and by night: and it shall be a vexation only to understand the report.

¹⁹Nguva imwe neimwe kana ichipfuura, ichakutorai; nekuti masikati nousiku, mangwanani namangwanani, ichapfuura, kuchangonotyisachetekunzwisisa mharidzo yakadaro.

²⁰For the bed is shorter than that a man can stretch himself on it: and the covering narrower than that he can wrap himself in it.

²⁰nekuti mubhedha uchava mupfupi, munhu haangagoni kutandavara pamusoro pawo, nejira richava duku, munhu haangagoni kuzvifukidza naro.

²¹For the LORD shall rise up as in mount Perazim, he shall be wroth as in the valley of Gibeon, that he may do his work, his strange work; and bring to pass his act, his strange act.

²¹nekuti Jehovha achasimuka sezvaakaita pagomo rePerazimi, achatsamwa sezvaakaita pamupata weGibhiyoni; kuti abate basa rake, iro basa rake rinoshamisa, nokuita izvo zvaanoita, zvinoshamisa.

²²Now therefore be ye not mockers, lest your bands be made strong: for I have heard from the Lord GOD of hosts a consumption, even determined upon the whole earth.

²²Naizvozvo regai kuva vadadi, kuti zvisungo zvenyu zvirege kusimbiswa; nekuti ndakanzwa kuna Ishe Jehovha wehondo kuti nyika yose yakatemerwa kuparadzwa.

²³Give ye ear, and hear my voice; hearken, and hear my speech.

²³Rerekai nzeve dzenyu, munzwe inzwi rangu; teererai, munzwe kutaura kwangu.

²⁴Doth the plowman plow all day to sow? doth he open and break the clods of his ground?

²⁴Ko murimi, anoda kudzvara, unoswera achirima here? Anoswera achiparura munda nokuputsa mavhinga here?

²⁵When he hath made plain the face thereof, doth he not cast abroad the fitches, and scatter the cummin, and cast in the principal wheat and the appointed barley and the rie in their place?

²⁵Kana achinge aenzanisa ivhu rawo, haakushi kumini nhema here, nokudzvara kumini, nokuisa gorosi mumisara, nebhari pandima dzakatarwa, nesipereti kunhivi dzawo here?

²⁶For his God doth instruct him to discretion, and doth teach him.

²⁶nekuti Mwari wake anomuzivisa zvakanaka nokumudzidzisa.

²⁷For the fitches are not threshed with a threshing instrument, neither is a cart wheel turned about upon the cummin; but the fitches are beaten out with a staff, and the cummin with a rod.

²⁷nekuti kumini nhema haipurwi nomupuro unopinza, negumbo rengoro harikunguruswi pamusoro pekumini; asi kumini nhema inopurwa netsvimbo, nekumini neshamhu.

²⁸Bread corn is bruised; because he will not ever be threshing it, nor break it with the wheel of his cart, nor bruise it with his horsemen.

²⁸Zviyo zvechingwa zvinokuyiwa, haangarambi achizvipura; kunyange gumbo rengoro yake namabhiza ake zvichizviparadzira, haangazvikuyi.

²⁹This also cometh forth from the LORD of hosts, which is wonderful in counsel, and excellent in working.

²⁹Naizvozvi zvinobva kuna Jehovha wehondo, anoshamisa nezvaanofunga, mukuru kwazvo pakubata kwake.