¹Behold, the LORD's hand is not shortened, that it cannot save; neither his ear heavy, that it cannot hear:

¹Tarirai, ruoko rwaJehovha haruna kupfupiswa, kuti rukoniwe kuponesa, nzeve yake haina kuremerwa, kuti ikoniwe kunzwa;

²But your iniquities have separated between you and your God, and your sins have hid his face from you, that he will not hear.

²asi zvakaipa zvenyu zvakakuparadzanisai naMwari wenyu, zvivi zvenyu zvakakuvanzirai chiso chake, kuti arege kunzwa.

³For your hands are defiled with blood, and your fingers with iniquity; your lips have spoken lies, your tongue hath muttered perverseness.

³nekuti maoko enyu akasvibiswa neropa, nemimwe yenyu nezvakaipa; miromo yenyu yakareva nhema, rurimi rwenyu runogunin'ina zvakashata.

⁴None calleth for justice, nor any pleadeth for truth: they trust in vanity, and speak lies; they conceive mischief, and bring forth iniquity.

⁴Hakuna munhu anokwirira mumwe nokururama, hakuna anoreverera mumwe nezvokwadi; vanovimba nezvisina maturo, vachireva nhema; vanotora pamuviri pezvakashata, ndokubereka zvakaipa.

⁵They hatch cockatrice' eggs, and weave the spider's web: he that eateth of their eggs dieth, and that which is crushed breaketh out into a viper.

⁵Vanochochonya mazai emvumbi, vanoruka dandira rebuve; anodya mazai avo achafa, kana richipwanyika rinobudisa nyoka.

⁶Their webs shall not become garments, neither shall they cover themselves with their works: their works are works of iniquity, and the act of violence is in their hands.

⁶Matandira avo haangaiti nguvo, havangafuki zvavakaita; mabasa avo mabasa ezvakaipa, kuita nesimba ndizvo zviri pamaoko avo.

⁷Their feet run to evil, and they make haste to shed innocent blood: their thoughts are thoughts of iniquity; wasting and destruction are in their paths.

⁷Tsoka dzavo dzinomhanyira zvakaipa, vanokurumidza kuteura ropa risina mhaka; ndangariro dzavo indangariro dzezvakaipa; kuparadza nokuputsanya zviri panzira dzavo.

⁸The way of peace they know not; and there is no judgment in their goings: they have made them crooked paths: whosoever goeth therein shall not know peace.

⁸Nzira yorugare havaizivi; hakuna kururama pakufamba kwavo; vakazviitira nzira dzakaminama, ani naani anofamba nadzo haazivi rugare.

⁹Therefore is judgment far from us, neither doth justice overtake us: we wait for light, but behold obscurity; for brightness, but we walk in darkness.

⁹Naizvozvo kururamisirwa kuri kure nesu, nokururama hakusvikiri kwatiri; tinotsvaka chiedza, asi, tarirai, rima chete; tinotsvaka kubwinya, asi tinofamba pakasviba.

¹⁰We grope for the wall like the blind, and we grope as if we had no eyes: we stumble at noon day as in the night; we are in desolate places as dead men.

¹⁰Tinotsvangadzira pamadziro samapofu; zvirokwazvo tinotsvangadzira savasina meso; tinogumburwa masikati sezvatinoita kana kosviba; pakati pavapenyu takafanana navakafa.

¹¹We roar all like bears, and mourn sore like doves: we look for judgment, but there is none; for salvation, but it is far off from us.

¹¹Tinoomba tose samapere, tinochema zvikuru senjiva; tinotsvaka kururamisirwa; asi hakuna; tinotsvaka ruponeso, asi ruri kure nesu.

¹²For our transgressions are multiplied before thee, and our sins testify against us: for our transgressions are with us; and as for our iniquities, we know them;

¹²nekuti kudarika kwedu kwakawanda pamberi penyu, zvivi zvedu zvinotipupurira; nekuti kudarika kwedu kunesu, kana zviri zvakaipa zvedu tinozviziva, zvinoti:

¹³In transgressing and lying against the LORD, and departing away from our God, speaking oppression and revolt, conceiving and uttering from the heart words of falsehood.

¹³Kudarikira Jehovha nokumuramba, nokutsauka tisingateveri Mwari wedu, kutaura mashoko okumanikidza nokumukira, kufunga nokutaura mashoko enhema anobva pamoyo.

¹⁴And judgment is turned away backward, and justice standeth afar off: for truth is fallen in the street, and equity cannot enter.

¹⁴Kururamisa kwakadzoswa shure, kururama kumire kure; nekuti chokwadi chakawira pasi panzira yomumusha, kutendeka hakugoni kupinda.

¹⁵Yea, truth faileth; and he that departeth from evil maketh himself a prey: and the LORD saw it, and it displeased him that there was no judgment.

¹⁵Zvirokwazvo, chokwadi chinoshaikwa; anotiza zvakaipa anopambwa; Jehovha akazviona, zvikasamufadza kuti kwakanga kusina kururamisa.

¹⁶And he saw that there was no man, and wondered that there was no intercessor: therefore his arm brought salvation unto him; and his righteousness, it sustained him.

¹⁶Akaona kuti hakuna munhu, akashamiswa nekuti kwakanga kusina murevereri, naizvozvo ruoko rwake rwakamuvigira ruponeso, kururama kwake kwakamutsigira.

¹⁷For he put on righteousness as a breastplate, and an helmet of salvation upon his head; and he put on the garments of vengeance for clothing, and was clad with zeal as a cloak.

¹⁷Akashonga kururama senguvo yendarira, nenguwani yoruponeso pamusoro wake, akafuka nguvo dzokutsiva zvikava zvokufuka zvake, akapfekedzwa nokushingaira sejasi.

¹⁸According to their deeds, accordingly he will repay, fury to his adversaries, recompence to his enemies; to the islands he will repay recompence.

¹⁸Sezvavakaita, achavaripira saizvozvo, kutsamwa kuvadzivisi vake, nokutsiva kuvavengi vake; zvivi uchazviripira mubayiro wokutsiva.

¹⁹So shall they fear the name of the LORD from the west, and his glory from the rising of the sun. When the enemy shall come in like a flood, the Spirit of the LORD shall lift up a standard against him.

¹⁹Naizvozvo vachatya zita raJehovha kubva kumavirazuva, noumambo hwake kubva kumabvazuva; nekuti achauya sorwizi runodira, runotinhwa nomweya waJehovha.

²⁰And the Redeemer shall come to Zion, and unto them that turn from transgression in Jacob, saith the LORD.

²⁰Zvino Mudzikunuri achasvika paZiyoni, nokuna vanodzoka pakudarika pakati paJakove, ndizvo zvinotaura Jehovha.

²¹As for me, this is my covenant with them, saith the LORD; My spirit that is upon thee, and my words which I have put in thy mouth, shall not depart out of thy mouth, nor out of the mouth of thy seed, nor out of the mouth of thy seed's seed, saith the LORD, from henceforth and for ever.

²¹Zvino kana ndirini, iyi ndiyo sungano yangu navo ndizvo zvinotaura Jehovha, Mweya wangu, uri pamusoro pako, namashoko angu andakaisa mumuromo mako, hazvingabvi mumuromo mako, kana mumiromo yavana vako, kana mumiromo yavana vavana vako, kubva zvino kusvikira nokusingaperi ndizvo zvinotaura Jehovha.