¹Comfort ye, comfort ye my people, saith your God.

¹Nyaradzai, nyaradzai vanhu vangu, ndizvo zvinoreva Mwari wenyu.

²Speak ye comfortably to Jerusalem, and cry unto her, that her warfare is accomplished, that her iniquity is pardoned: for she hath received of the LORD's hand double for all her sins.

²Taurirai zvingavaraidza Jerusaremu, danidzirai kwavari kuti kurwa kwavo kwapera, kuti zvakaipa zvavo zvakangamwirwa, kuti vapiwa noruoko rwaJehovha kurohwa kwakaringana pamusoro pezvivi zvavo.

³The voice of him that crieth in the wilderness, Prepare ye the way of the LORD, make straight in the desert a highway for our God.

³Inzwi rounodanidzira, achiti, Gadzirai murenje nzira yaJehovha, ruramisirai Mwari wedu mugwagwa musango.

⁴Every valley shall be exalted, and every mountain and hill shall be made low: and the crooked shall be made straight, and the rough places plain:

⁴Mipata yose ichazadzwa, makomo ose nezvikomo zvose zvichaderedzwa; pana makoronga pachaenzaniswa; Pasakaenzana pachaitwa bani;

⁵And the glory of the LORD shall be revealed, and all flesh shall see it together: for the mouth of the LORD hath spoken it.

⁵kubwinya kwaJehovha kucharatidzwa, vanhu vose vachazviona pamwechete nekuti muromo waJehovha wakataura izvozvo.

⁶The voice said, Cry. And he said, What shall I cry? All flesh is grass, and all the goodliness thereof is as the flower of the field:

⁶Inzwi roanoti, Danidzirai! Mumwe akati, Ndichadanidzireiko? Vanhu vose uswa, kunaka kwazvo kose kwakaita seruva rokusango.

⁷The grass withereth, the flower fadeth: because the spirit of the LORD bloweth upon it: surely the people is grass.

⁷Uswa hunowoma, ruva rinosvava, nekuti mweya waJehovha unofuridza pamusoro pazvo; zvirokwazvo vanhu uswa.

⁸The grass withereth, the flower fadeth: but the word of our God shall stand for ever.

⁸Huswa hunooma, ruva rinosvava; asi shoko raMwari wedu richagara nokusingaperi.

⁹O Zion, that bringest good tidings, get thee up into the high mountain; O Jerusalem, that bringest good tidings, lift up thy voice with strength; lift it up, be not afraid; say unto the cities of Judah, Behold your God!

⁹Nhai, iwe, unoparidzira Ziyoni mashoko akanaka, kwira pagomo refu; nhai, iwe, unoparidzira Jerusaremu mashoko akanaka, danidzira nesimba, danidzira, usatya; uti kumaguta aJudha, Tarirai, Mwari wenyu!

¹⁰Behold, the Lord GOD will come with strong hand, and his arm shall rule for him: behold, his reward is with him, and his work before him.

¹⁰Tarirai, Ishe Jehovha achauya somunhu ane simba, ruoko rwake ruchamubatira ushe; tarirai, mubayiro wake anawo, zvaanoripirwa zviri pamberi pake.

¹¹He shall feed his flock like a shepherd: he shall gather the lambs with his arm, and carry them in his bosom, and shall gently lead those that are with young.

¹¹Achafudza boka rake somufudzi, achaunganidza makwayana ake mumaoko ake, nokuatakura pachipfuva chake, achanyatso kutungamirira nhunzvi dzinomwisa.

¹²Who hath measured the waters in the hollow of his hand, and meted out heaven with the span, and comprehended the dust of the earth in a measure, and weighed the mountains in scales, and the hills in a balance?

¹²Ndianiko akayera mvura zhinji muchanza choruoko rwake, nokuyera denga napanosvika mimwe, nokuenzanisa guruva rapasi nechiyero, nokuyera kurema kwamakomo nechiedzo, nezvikomo nechiyero?

¹³Who hath directed the Spirit of the LORD, or being his counsellor hath taught him?

¹³Ndianiko wakayera Mweya waJehovha, kana akamudzidzisa achimurayira namano?

¹⁴With whom took he counsel, and who instructed him, and taught him in the path of judgment, and taught him knowledge, and shewed to him the way of understanding?

¹⁴Akarangana nani, ndiyani akamurayira nokumudzidzisa nzira yokururamisira, nokumudzidzisa zivo, nokumuratidza nzira yenjere here?

¹⁵Behold, the nations are as a drop of a bucket, and are counted as the small dust of the balance: behold, he taketh up the isles as a very little thing.

¹⁵Tarirai, marudzi avanhu akaita sedomwe remvura muchirongo, anenge guruva shomanene pachiyero; tarirai, anosimudza zvivi sechinhu chiduku-duku.

¹⁶And Lebanon is not sufficient to burn, nor the beasts thereof sufficient for a burnt offering.

¹⁶Rebhanoni harine huni dzingaringana kuvesera, kunyange mhuka dzaro hadziringani kuitwa zvipiriso zvingapiswa.

¹⁷All nations before him are as nothing; and they are counted to him less than nothing, and vanity.

¹⁷Marudzi ose anoverengwa pamberi pake sezmashoma kupfuura pasina seasina maturo.

¹⁸To whom then will ye liken God? or what likeness will ye compare unto him?

¹⁸Zvino mungafananidza Mwari naniko? Kana mungamuenzanisa nomufananidzo upiko?

¹⁹The workman melteth a graven image, and the goldsmith spreadeth it over with gold, and casteth silver chains.

¹⁹Kana uri mufananidzo, muumbi wakaumba, mupfuri wendarama anounamira nendarama, ndokuupfurira ngetani dzesirivha.

²⁰He that is so impoverished that he hath no oblation chooseth a tree that will not rot; he seeketh unto him a cunning workman to prepare a graven image, that shall not be moved.

²⁰Murombo anoshaiwa chipo chakadaro, anosanangura muti asingawori; anozvitsvakira mhizha yakachenjera ingamuvezera mufananidzo usingazununguki.

²¹Have ye not known? have ye not heard? hath it not been told you from the beginning? have ye not understood from the foundations of the earth?

²¹Hamuna kuziva here? Hamuna kunzwa here? Hamuna kuzviudzwa kubva pakutanga here? Hamuna kunzwisisa kubva pakuteyiwa kwenyika here?

²²It is he that sitteth upon the circle of the earth, and the inhabitants thereof are as grasshoppers; that stretcheth out the heavens as a curtain, and spreadeth them out as a tent to dwell in:

²²Ndiye agere kumusoro kwenyika yakaurungana, vanhu vagerepo vakaita semhashu; ndiye anotatamura denga somucheka, nokuriwaridza setende kuti agaremo;

²³That bringeth the princes to nothing; he maketh the judges of the earth as vanity.

²³ndiye anoderedza machinda kusvikira oita saasipo, vatongi venyika anovaita sechinhu chisina maturo.

²⁴Yea, they shall not be planted; yea, they shall not be sown: yea, their stock shall not take root in the earth: and he shall also blow upon them, and they shall wither, and the whirlwind shall take them away as stubble.

²⁴Zvirokwazvo, havana kusimwa, zvirokwazvo, havana kudzvarwa, zvirokwazvo, hunde yavo haina kubata pasi; zvino wofuridza pamusoro pavo, vooma, nechamupupuri chinovabvisa sehundi.

²⁵To whom then will ye liken me, or shall I be equal? saith the Holy One.

²⁵Ko zvino mungandifananidza nani, kuti ndienzane naye? Ndizvo zvinotaura Mutsvene.

²⁶Lift up your eyes on high, and behold who hath created these things, that bringeth out their host by number: he calleth them all by names by the greatness of his might, for that he is strong in power; not one faileth.

²⁶Tarirai kumusoro nameso enyu, muone kuti ndiani akasika izvozvi, anobudisa hondo yazvo yakawanda; iye anozvidana zvose namazita azvo; nokuda koukuru bwesimba rake, uye zvaari mukuru pakusimba kwake, hakune chimwe chinoshaikwa.

²⁷Why sayest thou, O Jacob, and speakest, O Israel, My way is hid from the LORD, and my judgment is passed over from my God?

²⁷Unorevereiko, iwe Jakove, unotaurireiko iwe Isiraeri, uchiti, Nzira yangu haizikamwi naJehovha, Mwari wangu anondidarika asingandiruramisiri?

²⁸Hast thou not known? hast thou not heard, that the everlasting God, the LORD, the Creator of the ends of the earth, fainteth not, neither is weary? there is no searching of his understanding.

²⁸Hauna kuziva here? Hauna kunzwa here? Mwari asingaperi, Jehovha, Musiki wamativi ose enyika, haaziyi, haaneti; njere dzake hadzingazikamwi.

²⁹He giveth power to the faint; and to them that have no might he increaseth strength.

²⁹Vanoziya anovapa simba; anoshaiwa simba anomuwedzera simba rake.

³⁰Even the youths shall faint and be weary, and the young men shall utterly fall:

³⁰Kunyange navakomana vachaziya nokuneta, namajaya achawira pasi chose;

³¹But they that wait upon the LORD shall renew their strength; they shall mount up with wings as eagles; they shall run, and not be weary; and they shall walk, and not faint.

³¹asi vanomirira Jehovha vachawana simba idzva; vachabhururuka namapapiro samakondo, vachamhanya vasinganeti, vachafamba vasingaziyi.