¹Oh that my head were waters, and mine eyes a fountain of tears, that I might weep day and night for the slain of the daughter of my people!

¹Haiwa, dai musoro wangu waiva nemvura zhinji, nameso angu riri tsime remisodzi, ndingadai ndaichema masikati novusiku nokuda kwavakaurawa vomukunda wavanhu vangu!

²Oh that I had in the wilderness a lodging place of wayfaring men; that I might leave my people, and go from them! for they be all adulterers, an assembly of treacherous men.

²Haiwa, dai ndaiva nedumba rinosigarwa navafambi murenje, ndingadai ndaisiya vanhu vangu, ndikabva kwavari! nekuti vose imhombwe, iungano yavanhu vanonyengera.

³And they bend their tongues like their bow for lies: but they are not valiant for the truth upon the earth; for they proceed from evil to evil, and they know not me, saith the LORD.

³Vanokunga marimi avo, sezvavanoita huta hwavo, kuzoreva nhema; vasimba panyika, asi havaiti nezvokwadi; nekuti vanoramba vachingoita zvakaipa, havandizivi, ndizvo zvinotaura Jehovha.

⁴Take ye heed every one of his neighbour, and trust ye not in any brother: for every brother will utterly supplant, and every neighbour will walk with slanders.

⁴Mumwe nomumwe ngaachenjerere wokwake, murege kutenda hama ipi neipi; nekuti hama imwe neimwe ichanyengera, nowokwake mumwe nomumwe uchapota-pota ana makuhwa.

⁵And they will deceive every one his neighbour, and will not speak the truth: they have taught their tongue to speak lies, and weary themselves to commit iniquity.

⁵Mumwe nomumwe uchanyengera wokwake, haangarevi zvokwadi; vakadzidzisa marimi avo kureva nhema, vanozvinetsa nokuita zvakaipa.

⁶Thine habitation is in the midst of deceit; through deceit they refuse to know me, saith the LORD.

⁶Hugaro bwenyu huri pakati pokunyengera; vanoramba kundiziva nokunyengera kwavo, ndizvo zvinotaura Jehovha.

⁷Therefore thus saith the LORD of hosts, Behold, I will melt them, and try them; for how shall I do for the daughter of my people?

⁷Naizvozvo zvanzi naJehovha wehondo, Tarirai, ndichanyausa nokuvaidza; nekuti ndingaita seiko pamusoro pomukunda wavanhu vangu?

⁸Their tongue is as an arrow shot out; it speaketh deceit: one speaketh peaceably to his neighbour with his mouth, but in heart he layeth his wait.

⁸Marimi avo miseve inouraya, anoreva zvinonyengera; munhu unoreva zvorugare kuno wokwake nomuromo wake, asi mumoyo make unovandira.

⁹Shall I not visit them for these things? saith the LORD: shall not my soul be avenged on such a nation as this?

⁹Ko handingavarovi pamusoro pezvinhu izvi here? Ndizvo zvinotaura Jehovha. Ko mweya wangu haungatsihwi parudzi rwakadai here?

¹⁰For the mountains will I take up a weeping and wailing, and for the habitations of the wilderness a lamentation, because they are burned up, so that none can pass through them; neither can men hear the voice of the cattle; both the fowl of the heavens and the beast are fled; they are gone.

¹⁰Ndichachema nokuwungudza pamusoro pamakomo, ndichachema pamusoro pamafuro amarenje, nekuti zvatsva, hakuna unopfuura napo; vanhu havagoni kunzwa inzwi rezvipfuwo; shiri dzokudenga nemhuka dzose zvatiza, zvaenda hazvo.

¹¹And I will make Jerusalem heaps, and a den of dragons; and I will make the cities of Judah desolate, without an inhabitant.

¹¹Ndichaita Jerusaremu mirwi yamabwe, panogara makava; namaguta aJudha ndichaaita matongo, asina unogaramo.

¹²Who is the wise man, that may understand this? and who is he to whom the mouth of the LORD hath spoken, that he may declare it, for what the land perisheth and is burned up like a wilderness, that none passeth through?

¹²Munhu wakachenjera, unonzwisisa izvozvi, ndianiko? Muromo waJehovha wakataura naniko, kuti aparidze izvozvi? Nyika yakapedzwa nokupiswa serenje neiko, pasina unopfuura napo?

¹³And the LORD saith, Because they have forsaken my law which I set before them, and have not obeyed my voice, neither walked therein;

¹³Jehovha wakati, Zvavakarasha murayiro wangu wandakaisa pamberi pavo, vakasateerera inzwi rangu, nokufamba nazvo,

¹⁴But have walked after the imagination of their own heart, and after Baalim, which their fathers taught them:

¹⁴asi vakatevera hukukutu bwemoyo yavo navaBhaari, izvo zvavakadzidziswa namadzibaba avo;

¹⁵Therefore thus saith the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel; Behold, I will feed them, even this people, with wormwood, and give them water of gall to drink.

¹⁵naizvozvo zvanzi naJehovha wehondo, Mwari waIsiraeri, Tarirai, ndichadyisa vanhu ava gavakava, nokuvamwisa mvura yenduru.

¹⁶I will scatter them also among the heathen, whom neither they nor their fathers have known: and I will send a sword after them, till I have consumed them.

¹⁶Ndichavaparadzirawo pakati pamarudzi, avakanga vasingazivi ivo kunyange namadzibaba avo; ndichatuma munondo uvatevere, kusvikira ndavapedza.

¹⁷Thus saith the LORD of hosts, Consider ye, and call for the mourning women, that they may come; and send for cunning women, that they may come:

¹⁷Zvanzi naJehovha wehondo, Rangarirai imi, mudane vakadzi vangachema, vauye; tumai mudane vakadzi mhizha, vauye;

¹⁸And let them make haste, and take up a wailing for us, that our eyes may run down with tears, and our eyelids gush out with waters.

¹⁸ngavakurumidze vacheme pamusoro pedu, kuti meso edu ayerere misodzi, namafungiro edu adurure mvura.

¹⁹For a voice of wailing is heard out of Zion, How are we spoiled! we are greatly confounded, because we have forsaken the land, because our dwellings have cast us out.

¹⁹nekuti inzwi rokuchema rinonzwika richibva Ziyoni, richiti, Haiwa, takaparadzwa seiko! Takanyadziswa kwazvo, nekuti tabva panyika yedu nekuti vakakoromora dzimba dzedu dzataigara.

²⁰Yet hear the word of the LORD, O ye women, and let your ear receive the word of his mouth, and teach your daughters wailing, and every one her neighbour lamentation.

²⁰Asi inzwai shoko raJehovha, Imi vakadzi nzeve dzenyu ngadzinzwe shoko romuromo wake; dzidzisai vakunda venyu kuchema, mumwe nomumwe adzidzise wokwake kuwungudza.

²¹For death is come up into our windows, and is entered into our palaces, to cut off the children from without, and the young men from the streets.

²¹nekuti rufu rwakakwira pamahwindo edu, rwakapinda mudzimba dzamadzimambo edu, kuti rupedze vana vari kunze, namajaya ari panzira dzomuguta.

²²Speak, Thus saith the LORD, Even the carcases of men shall fall as dung upon the open field, and as the handful after the harvestman, and none shall gather them.

²²Taura, uti, Zvanzi naJehovha, Zvitunha zvavanhu zvichawira pasi somupfudze kubundo, setsama yehura dzinosiiwa nomucheki, dzisina unodziunganidza.

²³Thus saith the LORD, Let not the wise man glory in his wisdom, neither let the mighty man glory in his might, let not the rich man glory in his riches:

²³Zvanzi naJehovha, Munhu wakachenjera ngaarege kuzvirumbidza pamusoro pohuchenjeri hwake, nomunhu wesimba ngaarege kuzvirumbidza pamusoro pesimba rake, nomunhu wakafuma ngaarege kuzvirumbidza pamusoro pefuma yake;

²⁴But let him that glorieth glory in this, that he understandeth and knoweth me, that I am the LORD which exercise lovingkindness, judgment, and righteousness, in the earth: for in these things I delight, saith the LORD.

²⁴asi unozvirumbidza, ngaazvirumbidze pamusoro pechinhu ichi, kuti unondinzwisisa nokundiziva ini, kuti ndini Jehovha, unoita hunyoro nokururamisira, nokururama panyika; nekuti ndinofarira zvinhu izvi ndizvo zvinotaura Jehovha.

²⁵Behold, the days come, saith the LORD, that I will punish all them which are circumcised with the uncircumcised;

²⁵Tarirai, ndizvo zvinotaura Jehovha mazuva anouya, andicharova vose vakadzingiswa pakati pokusadzingiswa kwavo;

²⁶Egypt, and Judah, and Edom, and the children of Ammon, and Moab, and all that are in the utmost corners, that dwell in the wilderness: for all these nations are uncircumcised, and all the house of Israel are uncircumcised in the heart.

²⁶vanoti, Egipita, naJudha, naEdhomu, navana vaAmoni, naMoabhu, navose vakakandwa mukona kurenje; nekuti marudzi ose haana kudzingiswa, uye vose veimba yaIsiraeri havana kudzingiswa pamoyo yavo.