¹The burden of Damascus. Behold, Damascus is taken away from [being] a city, and it shall be a ruinous heap.

¹Chirevo pamusoro peDhamasiko. Tarirai, Dhamasiko robviswa, rirege kuzova guta, richava dongo rakakoromoka.

²The cities of Aroer are forsaken: they shall be for flocks; and they shall lie down and there shall be none to make them afraid.

²Maguta eAroeri asiiwa; achava mafuro ezvipfuwo, zvichavatapo pasi, zvisina anozvivhundusa.

³The fortress also shall cease from Ephraim, and the kingdom from Damascus, and the remnant of Syria: they shall be as the glory of the children of Israel, saith Jehovah of hosts.

³Nhare ichabviswa panaEfuremu, noushe paDhamasiko; vakasara veSiria vachava sembiri yavana vaIsiraeri, ndizvo zvinotaura Jehovha wehondo.

⁴And in that day it shall come to pass, that the glory of Jacob shall be made thin, and the fatness of his flesh shall become lean.

⁴Zvino nezuva iro ukuru hwaJakove huchaitwa hutete, uye kukora kwenyama yake kuchaonda.

⁵And it shall be as when the reaper gathereth the corn, and reapeth the ears with his arm; yea, it shall be as he that gathereth ears in the valley of Rephaim.

⁵Zvichafanana nenguva kana mucheki achiunganidza zviyo mumunda, achicheka hura noruoko rwake; zvirokwazvo zvichafanana nokuunganidza hura pamupata weRefaimi.

⁶And a gleaning shall be left in it, as at the shaking of an olive-tree: two, three berries above, in the tree-top; four, five in its fruitful boughs, saith Jehovah, the God of Israel.

⁶Kunyange zvakadaro mimwe michero ichasariramo, sezvinoitika kana muorivhi uchizuzwa, zvibereko zviviri kana zvitatu kumuromo wedavi rokumusoro-soro, zvina kana zvishanu pamatavi okunze omuti unobereka kwazvo, ndizvo zvinotaura Jehovha, Mwari waIsiraeri.

⁷In that day shall man look to his Maker, and his eyes shall have regard to the Holy One of Israel.

⁷Nezuva iro vanhu vachatarira Musiki wavo, meso avo achaona Mutsvene waIsiraeri.

⁸And he will not look to the altars, the work of his hands, nor have regard to what his fingers have made, neither the Asherahs nor the sun-images.

⁸Havangatariri aritari, iro basa ramaoko avo; zvakaitwa nemimwe yavo havangavi nehanya nazvo, kana iri miti yakatsaurwa kana mifananidzo yezuva.

⁹In that day shall his strong cities be as the forsaken tract in the woodland, and the mountain-top which they forsook before the children of Israel; and there shall be desolation.

⁹Nezuva iro maguta avo akasimba achaita samatongo kumatondo napamisoro yamakomo, akasiiwa nokuda kwavana vaIsraeri; achava matongo.

¹⁰For thou hast forgotten the God of thy salvation, and hast not been mindful of the rock of thy strength; therefore shalt thou plant pleasant plantations, and shalt set them with foreign slips:

¹⁰nekuti wakangamwa Mwari Muponesi wako, hauna kurangarira dombo routiziro hwako. Saka unozvisimira miti inofadza, unoisamo mizambiringa yakabva kumwe.

¹¹in the day of thy planting wilt thou make [them] to grow, and on the morrow wilt thou make thy seed to flourish; [but] the harvest will flee in the day of taking possession, and the sorrow will be incurable.

¹¹Nomusi wokusima kwako, unouvakira ruzhowa, fume mangwana unotumbusa mbeu dzako; asi kukohwa kunotiza nezuva rokutambudzika nerokuchema kukuru.

¹²Ha! a tumult of many peoples! they make a noise as the noise of the seas; -- and the rushing of nations! they rush as the rushing of mighty waters.

¹²Haiwa, kutinhira kwavanhu vazhinji, vanotinhira sokutinhira kwegungwa, nokuririma kwamarudzi avanhu anoririma sokuririma kwemvura zhinji!

¹³The nations rush as the rushing of many waters; but he will rebuke them, and they shall flee far away, and shall be chased as the chaff of the mountains before the wind, and like a whirling [of dust] before the whirlwind:

¹³Marudzi acharirima sokuririma kwemvura zhinji; asi uchavatuka, vachatizira kure, vachadzingirirwa sehundi yamakomo pamberi pemhepo, seguruva rinopfungaira pamberi pedutu remhepo.

¹⁴behold, at eventide, trouble; before the morning they are not. This is the portion of them that spoil us, and the lot of them that rob us.

¹⁴Nenguva yamadekwana, tarirai, kuchava nokutyisa; mangwanani kusati kwaedza, havachipo. Ndiwo mugove wavanotipambara, nomubayiro wavanotibira.