¹Come near, ye nations, to hear; and hearken, ye peoples: let the earth hear, and all its fulness; the world, and all that cometh forth of it.

¹Swederai, imwi marudzi avanhu, munzwe, teererai imwi vanhu, nyika ngainzwe, nezvose zvayo, pasi pose, nezvose zvinobudamo.

²For the wrath of Jehovah is against all the nations, and [his] fury against all their armies: he hath devoted them to destruction, he hath delivered them to the slaughter.

²nekuti Jehovha akatsamwira marudzi ose, ane hasha nehondo dzawo dzose; akavaparadza chose, akavaisa pakuurawa.

³And their slain shall be cast out, and their stink shall come up from their carcases, and the mountains shall be melted with their blood.

³Vakaurawa vavo vacharaswa kunze, kunhuwa kwezvitunha zvavo kuchakwira, makomo achanyauswa neropa ravo.

⁴And all the host of the heavens shall be dissolved, and the heavens shall be rolled together as a scroll; and all their host shall fade away, as a leaf fadeth from off the vine, and as the withered [fruit] from the fig-tree.

⁴Hondo dzose dzokudenga dzichanyakatika, denga rose richapetwa sorugwaro rwakapetwa; hondo dzaro dzose dzichaoma, sokuoma kwamashizha pamuzambiringa, uye seshizha rinooma pamuonde.

⁵For my sword is bathed in the heavens; behold, it shall come down upon Edom, and upon the people of my ban, to judgment.

⁵nekuti munondo wangu wamwa ukaguta kudenga; tarirai uchaburukira pamusoro paEdhomu, napamusoro pavanhu vakatukwa neni, kuti vatongwe.

⁶The sword of Jehovah is filled with blood, it is made fat with fatness, with the blood of lambs and goats, with the fat of the kidneys of rams; for Jehovah hath a sacrifice in Bozrah, and a great slaughter in the land of Edom.

⁶Munondo waJehovha uzere neropa, unobwinya namafuta, neropa ramakwayana nerembudzana, namafuta etsvo dzamakondobwe; nekuti Jehovha ane chibayiro chake paBhozira, nokubaya kukuru panyika yaEdhomu.

⁷And the buffaloes shall come down with them, and the bullocks with the bulls; and their land shall be soaked with blood, and their dust made fat with fatness.

⁷Nyati dzichawa pamwechete navo, nenzombe pamwechete nehandira; nyika yavo ichabatwa neropa, guruva ravo richazara namafuta.

⁸For it is the day of Jehovah's vengeance, the year of recompenses for the controversy of Zion.

⁸nekuti Jehovha ane zuva rokutsiva, negore rokutsiva zvakaitirwa Ziyoni.

⁹And the torrents thereof shall be turned into pitch, and its dust into brimstone; yea, the land thereof shall become burning pitch:

⁹Hova dzayo dzichashanduka namo, ,huruva rayo sariferi, nyika yavo ichaitwa namo inopfuta.

¹⁰it shall not be quenched night nor day; the smoke thereof shall go up for ever: from generation to generation it shall lie waste; none shall pass through it for ever and ever.

¹⁰Haingadzimwi usiku namasikati; utsi hwayo huchakwira nokusingaperi; richava dongo kusvikira kumarudzi namarudzi; hakuna munhu angapfuura noko nokusingaperi.

¹¹And the pelican and the bittern shall possess it, and the great owl and the raven shall dwell in it. And he shall stretch out upon it the line of waste, and the plummets of emptiness.

¹¹Asi zvichava zvehukurwizi nenungu; zizi negunguvo zvichagaramo; achatambanudzirapo rwonzi rwokuparadza nechokururamisa chezvisina chinhu.

¹²Of her nobles who should proclaim the kingdom, none are there; and all her princes shall be nought.

¹²Vakuru vayo vachadanirwa kuushe, asi havangavipo; machinda ayo ose achava pasina.

¹³And thorns shall come up in her palaces, nettles and brambles in her fortresses; and it shall be a dwelling-place of wild dogs, a court for ostriches.

¹³mhinzwa ichamera mudzimba dzamadzimambo ayo, hutumbambeva norukato munhare dzayo; huchava hugaro hwamakava, nenzvimbo yemhou.

¹⁴And there shall the beasts of the desert meet with the jackals, and the wild goat shall cry to his fellow; the lilith also shall settle there, and find for herself a place of rest.

¹⁴Zvikara zvomusango zvichasangana namapere, mweya wakaipa uchadana shamwari yawo; zvirokwazvo, chikara chousiku chichagarapo norugare, chichiwanapo nzvimbo yokuzorora.

¹⁵There shall the arrow-snake make her nest, and lay, and hatch, and gather under her shadow; there also shall the vultures be gathered one with another.

¹⁵Rovambira richaita dendere raropo, nokukandira, nokuchechenya mazai aro, nokuunganidza vana varo mumumvuri waro; zvirokwazvo, ndipo pachaunganira ruvangu, rumwe norumwe neshamwari yarwo.

¹⁶Search ye in the book of Jehovah and read: not one of these shall fail, one shall not have to seek for the other; for my mouth, it hath commanded, and his Spirit, it hath gathered them.

¹⁶Tsvakai pabhuku yaJehovha, murave; hapana chimwe chezvinhu izvi chichashaikwa, chichashaiwa shamwari yacho; nekuti muromo wangu wakarayira izvozvo, nomweya wake wakazviunganidza.

¹⁷For he himself hath cast the lot for them, and his hand hath divided it unto them with the line: they shall possess it for ever; from generation to generation shall they dwell therein.

¹⁷Iye wakazvikandira mijenya, ruoko rwake rwakazviganhurira nyika norwonzi; ichava yazvo nokusingaperi, vachagaramo kusvikira kumarudzi namarudzi.