¹The word that came to Jeremiah from the LORD, saying,

¹Shoko rakauya kuna Jeremiya richibva kuna Jehovha, richiti,

²Stand in the gate of the LORD's house, and proclaim there this word, and say, Hear the word of the LORD, all ye of Judah, that enter in at these gates to worship the LORD.

²Mira pasuwo reimba yaJehovha, uparidzirepo shoko iri, uti, Inzwai shoko raJehovha, imwi vaJudha mose munopinda napamusuwo awa kuzonamata Jehovha.

³Thus saith the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel, Amend your ways and your doings, and I will cause you to dwell in this place.

³Zvanzi naJehovha wehondo, Mwari waIsiraeri, Ruramisai nzira dzenyu nezvamunoita, ndigokugarisai panzvimbo ino.

⁴Trust ye not in lying words, saying, The temple of the LORD, The temple of the LORD, The temple of the LORD, are these.

⁴Musavimba namashoko enhema, Izvezvi itemberi yaJehovha, temberi yaJehovha, temberi yaJehovha.

⁵For if ye throughly amend your ways and your doings; if ye throughly execute judgment between a man and his neighbour;

⁵nekuti kana mukaruramisa kwazvo nzira dzenyu nezvamunoita, kana muchiita zvakarurama munhu mumwe nomumwe kunowokwake.

⁶If ye oppress not the stranger, the fatherless, and the widow, and shed not innocent blood in this place, neither walk after other gods to your hurt:

⁶Kana musingamanikidzi mutorwa, nenherera, nechirikadzi, mukasateura ropa risina mhosva panzvimbo ino, nokusatevera vamwe vamwari, vanokuisai panjodzi;

⁷Then will I cause you to dwell in this place, in the land that I gave to your fathers, for ever and ever.

⁷ipapo ndichakugarisai panzvimbo ino, panyika yandakapa madzibaba enyu, kubvira panguva yakare kusvikira nokusingaperi.

⁸Behold, ye trust in lying words, that cannot profit.

⁸Tarirai, munovimba namashoko enhema, asingagoni kubatsira.

⁹Will ye steal, murder, and commit adultery, and swear falsely, and burn incense unto Baal, and walk after other gods whom ye know not;

⁹Mungaba, nokuuraya, nokuita hupombwe, nokupika nhema, nokupisira Bhaari zvinonhuhwira, nokutevera vamwe vapirwa vamakanga musingazivi,

¹⁰And come and stand before me in this house, which is called by my name, and say, We are delivered to do all these abominations?

¹⁰ndokuzouya momira pamberi pangu muimba ino, panodamwa zita rangu, muchiti, Tasunungurwa; kuti mugoita izvi zvose zvinonyangadza here?

¹¹Is this house, which is called by my name, become a den of robbers in your eyes? Behold, even I have seen it, saith the LORD.

¹¹Ko imba ino panodamwa zita rangu rava bako ramakororo pamberi penyu here? Tarirai, ini, ini ndimene ndaona izvozvo ndizvo zvinotaura Jehovha.

¹²But go ye now unto my place which was in Shiloh, where I set my name at the first, and see what I did to it for the wickedness of my people Israel.

¹²Asi zvino endai kunzvimbo yangu yaiva paShiro, pandakagarisa zita rangu pakutanga, muone zvandakaiitira nokuda kwezvakaipa zvavanhu vangu Isiraeri.

¹³And now, because ye have done all these works, saith the LORD, and I spake unto you, rising up early and speaking, but ye heard not; and I called you, but ye answered not;

¹³Zvino, zvamakaita mabasa awa ose ndizvo zvinotaura Jehovha ini ndikataura nemi, ndichifumira mangwanani ndichitaura, imwi mukasanzwa, ndikakudanai, mukasapindura.

¹⁴Therefore will I do unto this house, which is called by my name, wherein ye trust, and unto the place which I gave to you and to your fathers, as I have done to Shiloh.

¹⁴Naizvozvo ndichaitira imba panodamwa zita rangu, yamunovimba nayo, nenzvimbo yandakakupai imwi namadzibaba enyu, sezvandakaitira Shiro.

¹⁵And I will cast you out of my sight, as I have cast out all your brethren, even the whole seed of Ephraim.

¹⁵Ndichakurashirai kure neni, sezvandakarasha hama dzenyu dzose, irwo rudzi rwose rwaEfuremu.

¹⁶Therefore pray not thou for this people, neither lift up cry nor prayer for them, neither make intercession to me: for I will not hear thee.

¹⁶Naizvozvo iwe chirega kunyengeterera vanhu ava, usadanidzira nokunyengetera nokuda kwavo, kana kuvakumbira kwandiri; nekuti handingakunzwi.

¹⁷Seest thou not what they do in the cities of Judah and in the streets of Jerusalem?

¹⁷Hauoni here zvavanoita mumaguta aJudha nomunzira dzomuJerusaremu here?

¹⁸The children gather wood, and the fathers kindle the fire, and the women knead their dough, to make cakes to the queen of heaven, and to pour out drink offerings unto other gods, that they may provoke me to anger.

¹⁸Vana vanounganidza huni, madzibaba ndokubatidza moto, vakadzi vanokanya hupfu kuti vabikire vahosi vokudenga zvingwa, uye kuti vadirire vamwe vamwari zvipiriso zvinodururwa, kuti vanditsamwise.

¹⁹Do they provoke me to anger? saith the LORD: do they not provoke themselves to the confusion of their own faces?

¹⁹Vanonditsamwisa here? Ndizvo zvinotaura Jehovha; havazinozvinetsa havo, vachingozvinyadzisa havo?

²⁰Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold, mine anger and my fury shall be poured out upon this place, upon man, and upon beast, and upon the trees of the field, and upon the fruit of the ground; and it shall burn, and shall not be quenched.

²⁰Saka zvanzi naJehovha Mwari, Tarirai, kutsamwa kwangu nehasha dzangu zvichadururirwa panzvimbo ino, pamusoro pavanhu, napamusoro pezvipfuwo, napamusoro pemiti yokubundo, napamusoro pezvibereko zvenyika; zvichapfuta, zvisingadzimwi.

²¹Thus saith the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel; Put your burnt offerings unto your sacrifices, and eat flesh.

²¹Zvanzi naJehovha wehondo, Mwari waIsiraeri, Wedzerai zvipiriso zvenyu zvinopiswa pazvibayiro zvenyu, mudye nyama yazvo.

²²For I spake not unto your fathers, nor commanded them in the day that I brought them out of the land of Egypt, concerning burnt offerings or sacrifices:

²²nekuti handina kutaura namadzibaba enyu, kana kuvaraira panguva yandakavabudisa panyika yeEgipita pamusoro pezvipiriso zvinopiswa kana zvibayiro;

²³But this thing commanded I them, saying, Obey my voice, and I will be your God, and ye shall be my people: and walk ye in all the ways that I have commanded you, that it may be well unto you.

²³asi ndakavaraira chinhu ichi, ndichiti, teererai inzwi rangu, ndigova Mwari wenyu, nemwi muchaba vanhu vangu; mufambe nenzira yose yandichakurairai, mugova nomufaro.

²⁴But they hearkened not, nor inclined their ear, but walked in the counsels and in the imagination of their evil heart, and went backward, and not forward.

²⁴Asi havana kuteerera, kana kurerekera nzeve dzavo, asi vakafamba nokurangarira kwavo nohukukutu bwemoyo yavo vakadzokera sure havana kupfuura mberi.

²⁵Since the day that your fathers came forth out of the land of Egypt unto this day I have even sent unto you all my servants the prophets, daily rising up early and sending them:

²⁵Kubvira pazuva rokubuda kwamadzibaba enyu munyika yeEgipita, kusvikira pazuva ranhasi, ndakakutumirai varanda vangu vose vaporofita, ndichifumira mangwanani zuva rimwe nerimwe ndichivatuma;

²⁶Yet they hearkened not unto me, nor inclined their ear, but hardened their neck: they did worse than their fathers.

²⁶kunyange zvakadaro, havana kunditeerera, kana kurerekera nzeve dzavo, asi vakaomesa mitsipa yavo; vakaita zvakaipa kukunda madzibaba avo.

²⁷Therefore thou shalt speak all these words unto them; but they will not hearken to thee: thou shalt also call unto them; but they will not answer thee.

²⁷Zvino iwe unofanira kuvataurira mashoko awa ose; asi havangakuteereri; unofanira kudanawo kwavari, asi havangakupinduri.

²⁸But thou shalt say unto them, This is a nation that obeyeth not the voice of the LORD their God, nor receiveth correction: truth is perished, and is cut off from their mouth.

²⁸Zvino iwe uti kwavari, Urwu ndirwo rudzi rusinganzwi shoko raJehovha Mwari wavo, kana kutenda kurangwa; kutendeka kwapera, kwabva chose pamiromo yavo.

²⁹Cut off thine hair, O Jerusalem, and cast it away, and take up a lamentation on high places; for the LORD hath rejected and forsaken the generation of his wrath.

²⁹Vevura hukomba hwako, iwe Jerusaremu, uhurashire kure; undochema pazvikomo zvisina miti, nekuti Jehovha wakarasha nokusiya rudzi rwaakatsamwira.

³⁰For the children of Judah have done evil in my sight, saith the LORD: they have set their abominations in the house which is called by my name, to pollute it.

³⁰nekuti vana vaJudha vakaita zvakaipa pamberi pangu, vakaisa zvinonyangadza zvavo muimba pakadamwa zita rangu, kuti vaisvibise ndizvo zvinotaura Jehovha.

³¹And they have built the high places of Tophet, which is in the valley of the son of Hinnom, to burn their sons and their daughters in the fire; which I commanded them not, neither came it into my heart.

³¹Vakavaka nzvimbo dzakakwirira dzeTofeti, dziri mumupata womwanakomana waHinomi, kuti vapise vanakomana navanasikana vavo mumoto, zviri zvinhu zvandisina kuvaraira, kana kufunga mumoyo mangu.

³²Therefore, behold, the days come, saith the LORD, that it shall no more be called Tophet, nor the valley of the son of Hinnom, but the valley of slaughter: for they shall bury in Tophet, till there be no place.

³²Naizvozvo zvanzi naJehovha, Tarirai, mazuva anouya, avasingazopaidzi Tofeti, kana mupata womwanakomana waHinomi, asi Mupata wokuuraya; nekuti vachaviga vakafa paTofeti, nekuti kuchashaikwa imwe nzvimbo.

³³And the carcases of this people shall be meat for the fowls of the heaven, and for the beasts of the earth; and none shall fray them away.

³³Mitumbu yavanhu ava zvichava zvokudya zveshiri dzokudenga nezvezvikara zvenyika; hakuna uchazvidzinga.

³⁴Then will I cause to cease from the cities of Judah, and from the streets of Jerusalem, the voice of mirth, and the voice of gladness, the voice of the bridegroom, and the voice of the bride: for the land shall be desolate.

³⁴Ipapo ndichagumisa pamaguta aJudha napanzira dzomuJerusaremu inzwi rokuseka, nenzwi romufaro, nenzwi rechikomba nenzwi romufaro, nenzwi rechikomba nenzwi romwenga; nekuti nyika ichava dongo.