¹The burden of the word of the LORD for Israel, saith the LORD, which stretcheth forth the heavens, and layeth the foundation of the earth, and formeth the spirit of man within him.

¹Chirevo cheshoko raJehovha pamusoro paIsiraeri. Zvanzi naJehovha, iye anotatamura denga rose, anoteya nheyo dzenyika, nokuumba mweya womunhu mukati make,

²Behold, I will make Jerusalem a cup of trembling unto all the people round about, when they shall be in the siege both against Judah and against Jerusalem.

²Tarirai, ndichaita Jerusaremu mukombe wokudzedzeresa ndudzi dzose dzavanhu vakapoteredza; uchavawo pamusoro paJudha pakukombwa kweJerusaremu.

³And in that day will I make Jerusalem a burdensome stone for all people: all that burden themselves with it shall be cut in pieces, though all the people of the earth be gathered together against it.

³Nezuva iro ndichaita Jerusaremu ibwe rinoremedza ndudzi dzose dzavanhu; vose vanozviremedza naro vachakuvadzwa kwazvo; ndudzi dzose dzenyika dzichariunganira kuzorwa naro.

⁴In that day, saith the LORD, I will smite every horse with astonishment, and his rider with madness: and I will open mine eyes upon the house of Judah, and will smite every horse of the people with blindness.

⁴Nezuva iro ndizvo zvinotaura Jehovha ndicharova bhiza rimwe nerimwe nokutya, nomutasvi waro nokupenga; ndichasvinudzira imba yaJudha meso angu, nokurova bhiza rimwe nerimwe rendudzi dzavanhu nokupofumara.

⁵And the governors of Judah shall say in their heart, The inhabitants of Jerusalem shall be my strength in the LORD of hosts their God.

⁵Ipapo madzishe aJudha achati mumwoyo mavo, Vagere Jerusaremu ndivo simba redu muna Jehovha wehondo, Mwari wavo.

⁶In that day will I make the governors of Judah like an hearth of fire among the wood, and like a torch of fire in a sheaf; and they shall devour all the people round about, on the right hand and on the left: and Jerusalem shall be inhabited again in her own place, even in Jerusalem.

⁶Nezuva iro ndichaita madzishe aJudha segango romoto pakati pehuni, uye sezhenje romoto pakati pezvisote; vachaparadza ndudzi dzose dzavanhu vakapoteredza, kuruoko rworudyi nokuruoko rworuboshwe; veJerusaremu vachagarazve panzvimbo yavo, ipo paJerusaremu.

⁷The LORD also shall save the tents of Judah first, that the glory of the house of David and the glory of the inhabitants of Jerusalem do not magnify themselves against Judah.

⁷Jehovha achatanga kuponesawo matende aJudha, kuti kukudzwa kweimba yaDhavhidhi nokukudzwa kwavagere Jerusaremu kurege kupfuura kukudzwa kwaJudha.

⁸In that day shall the LORD defend the inhabitants of Jerusalem; and he that is feeble among them at that day shall be as David; and the house of David shall be as God, as the angel of the LORD before them.

⁸Nezuva iro Jehovha achadzitira vagere Jerusaremu; anoshaiwa simba pakati pavo nezuva iro achava saDhavhidhi; imba yaDhavhidhi ichava saMwari, somutumwa waJehovha pamberi pavo.

⁹And it shall come to pass in that day, that I will seek to destroy all the nations that come against Jerusalem.

⁹Zvino nezuva iro ndichatsvaka kuparadza ndudzi dzose dzavanhu dzinomukira Jerusaremu.

¹⁰And I will pour upon the house of David, and upon the inhabitants of Jerusalem, the spirit of grace and of supplications: and they shall look upon me whom they have pierced, and they shall mourn for him, as one mourneth for his only son, and shall be in bitterness for him, as one that is in bitterness for his firstborn.

¹⁰Ndichadira mweya wenyasha nowokunyengetera pamusoro peimba yaDhavhidhi, napamusoro pavagere Jerusaremu; vachanditarira ini, wavakabvowora; vachamuchema iye, somunhu unochema mwanakomana wake mumwechete, vachava neshungu kwazvo pamusoro pake, somunhu ane shungu pamusoro pomwana wake wedangwe.

¹¹In that day shall there be a great mourning in Jerusalem, as the mourning of Hadadrimmon in the valley of Megiddon.

¹¹Nezuva iro paJerusaremu pachava nokuchema kukuru, sokuchema kweHadhadhihimoni mumupata waMegidhoni.

¹²And the land shall mourn, every family apart; the family of the house of David apart, and their wives apart; the family of the house of Nathan apart, and their wives apart;

¹²Nyika ichachema, veimba imwe neimwe vari voga; veimba yaDhavhidhi vari voga, navakadzi vavo vari voga, veimba yaNatani vari voga, navakadzi vavo vari voga;

¹³The family of the house of Levi apart, and their wives apart; the family of Shimei apart, and their wives apart;

¹³naveimba yaRevhi vari voga, navakadzi vavo vari voga; veimba yavaShimei vari voga, navakadzi vavo vari voga;

¹⁴All the families that remain, every family apart, and their wives apart.

¹⁴nedzimba dzose dzakasara, veimba imwe neimwe vari voga, navakadzi vavo vari voga.