¹The burden of Babylon, which Isaiah the son of Amoz saw.

¹,Chirevo chaMwari pamusoro peBhabhironi, chakaonekwa naIsaya, mwanakomana waAmozi.

²Lift up a banner upon a bare mountain, raise the voice unto them, shake the hand, that they may enter the gates of the nobles.

²Simudzai mureza pagomo risina miti; danidzirai kwavari, ninirai noruoko, kuti vapinde pamasuwo avakuru.

³I have commanded my hallowed ones, I have also called my mighty men for mine anger, them that rejoice in my highness.

³Ndakaraira vatsvene vangu, ndakadana mhare dzangu nokuda kokutsamwa kwangu, ivo varume vangu vanofara vachizvikudza.

⁴The noise of a multitude on the mountains, as of a great people; a tumultuous noise of the kingdoms of nations assembled together: Jehovah of hosts mustereth the host of the battle.

⁴Inzwai kutinhira pamakomo, kwakaita sokwavanhu vazhinji Kutinhira kweungano dzoushe kwamarudzi akaungana pamwechete! Jehovha wehondo wogadzira hondo kundorwa.

⁵They come from a far country, from the end of the heavens -- Jehovah, and the weapons of his indignation -- to destroy the whole land.

⁵Vanobva kunyika iri kure, kumugumo wedenga, iye Jehovha nenhumbi dzake dzokurwa dzeshungu dzake, kuti aparadze nyika yose.

⁶Howl, for the day of Jehovah is at hand; it cometh as destruction from the Almighty.

⁶Chemai, nekuti zuva raJehovha riri pedo; rinosvika sokuparadza kunobva kuna waMasimbaose.

⁷Therefore shall all hands be feeble, and every heart of man shall melt,

⁷Saka maoko ose achashayiwa simba, nomoyo mumwe nomumwe wavanhu uchanyauka;

⁸and they shall be terrified: pangs and sorrows shall take hold of them, they shall writhe as a woman that travaileth; they shall be amazed one at another, their faces shall be as flames.

⁸vachavhunduka; vachabatwa nokurwadziwa namatambudziko; vacharwadziwa somukadzi anosununguka; vachatarisana vachashamiswa; zviso zvavo zvichafanana nezviso zvomoto.

⁹Behold, the day of Jehovah cometh, cruel both with wrath and fierce anger, to lay the earth desolate; and he will destroy the sinners thereof out of it.

⁹Tarirai, zuva raJehovha rinouya, rinotyisa, rine hasha nokutsamwa kukuru, kuti ashandure nyika iite dongo, nokuparadza vatadzi vayo vabvemo.

¹⁰For the stars of the heavens and the constellations thereof shall not give their light; the sun shall be darkened in his going forth, and the moon shall not cause her light to shine.

¹⁰nekuti nyeredzi dzokudenga, namapoka adzo, hadzingaratidzi chiedza chadzo; zuva richasvibiswa pakubuda kwaro, uye mwedzi haungavhenekeri nechiedza chawo.

¹¹And I will punish the world for evil, and the wicked for their iniquity; and I will make the arrogance of the proud to cease, and will bring low the haughtiness of the violent.

¹¹Ndicharova nyika nokuda kokushata kwayo, navakaipa nokuda kwezvakaipa zvavo; ndichagumisa manyawi avanozvikudza, nokuwisira pasi kudada kwavanotyisa.

¹²I will make a man more precious than fine gold, even man than the gold of Ophir.

¹²Vanhu ndichavaita vashoma kupfuura ndarama yakaisvonaka, iye munhu kupfuura ndarama tsvene yeOfiri.

¹³Therefore I will make the heavens to shake, and the earth shall be removed out of her place, at the wrath of Jehovah of hosts, and in the day of his fierce anger.

¹³Saka ndichadederesa denga, nyika ichazununguswa ibve panzvimbo yayo, nehasha dzaJehovha wehondo, napazuva rokutsamwa kwake kukuru.

¹⁴And it shall be as with a chased roe, and as with a flock that no man gathereth together; every one shall turn to his own people, and every one flee into his own land.

¹⁴Zvino semhara inovhimwa, uye sezvipfuwo zvisina unozviunganidza, saizvozvo munhu mumwe nomumwe achadzokera kurudzi rwake, mumwe nomumwe achatizira kunyika yake.

¹⁵All that are found shall be thrust through; and every one that is in league [with them] shall fall by the sword.

¹⁵Mumwe nomumwe anowanikwa, achabayiwa; mumwe nomumwe anobatwa, achaurawa nomunondo.

¹⁶And their infants shall be dashed in pieces before their eyes, their houses shall be rifled, and their women ravished.

¹⁶Vacheche vavo vacharoverwa pasi pamberi pavo, dzimba dzavo dzichapambwa, vakadzi vavo vachachinyiwa. ,

¹⁷Behold, I will stir up the Medes against them, who do not regard silver, and as for gold, they have no delight in it.

¹⁷Tarirai, ndichavamutsira vaMedhia, vasingarangariri sirivha, kunyange ndarama havaifariri.

¹⁸And [their] bows shall dash the young men to pieces, and they shall have no pity on the fruit of the womb: their eye shall not spare children.

¹⁸Uta hwavo huchawisira pasi majaya avo, havangavi netsitsi nezvibereko zvechizvaro; ziso ravo haringadariki vana.

¹⁹And Babylon, the glory of kingdoms, the beauty of the Chaldeans' pride, shall be as when God overthrew Sodom and Gomorrah.

¹⁹Zvino Bhabhironi, rine mbiri paushe hwose, raizvikudza vaKaradhea pamusoro pokunaka kwaro, richaita sapanguva yakaparadza Mwari Sodhoma neGomora.

²⁰It shall never be inhabited, neither shall it be dwelt in, even to generation and generation; nor shall Arabian pitch tent there, nor shepherds make fold there.

²⁰Haringatongogarwi navanhu, hakuna vangatongogaramo kusvikira kumarudzi namarudzi; kunyange nomuArabhia haangadziki tende rakemo, navafudzi havangavatisi mapoka avopo.

²¹But beasts of the desert shall lie there, and their houses shall be full of owls; and ostriches shall dwell there, and wild goats shall dance there.

²¹Asi zvikara zvomusango zvichavatamo; dzimba dzavo dzichazara nezvinorira; mhou dzichagaramo, nemweya yakaipa ichatambapo.

²²And jackals shall cry to one another in their palaces, and wild dogs in the pleasant castles. And her time is near to come, and her days shall not be prolonged.

²²Mapere acharira munhare dzavo, namakava mudzimba dzamadzimambo dzaifadza; nguva yaro yaswedera pedo, mazuva aro haangawedzerwi.