¹Zvino iwe, imba mariro pamusoro pamachinda aIsiraeri,

¹Moreover take thou up a lamentation for the princes of Israel,

²uti, Mai vako vaiva aniko? Vaiva shumbakadzi, yaivata pakati peshumba, ichirera vana vayo pakati peshumba duku.

²And say, What is thy mother? A lioness: she lay down among lions, she nourished her whelps among young lions.

³Zvino yakarera mumwe mwana wayo, ikava shumba duku, ikadzidza kubata zvaingauraya, ikapedza vanhu.

³And she brought up one of her whelps: it became a young lion, and it learned to catch the prey; it devoured men.

⁴Marudzi avanhu akainzwawo ikabatwa muhuzha yavo, vakaiisa kunyika yeEgipita.

⁴The nations also heard of him; he was taken in their pit, and they brought him with chains unto the land of Egypt.

⁵Zvino yakati ichiona kuti yanyengerwa, kuti tariro yanyangarika, ikatorazve mumwe mwana wayo, ikaiita shumba duku.

⁵Now when she saw that she had waited, and her hope was lost, then she took another of her whelps, and made him a young lion.

⁶Iyo ikafamba-famba pakati peshumba; ikava shumba duku, ikadzidza kubata zvaingauraya, ikapedza vanhu.

⁶And he went up and down among the lions, he became a young lion, and learned to catch the prey, and devoured men.

⁷Ikaziva dzimba dzavo dzohushe, ikaparadza maguta avo; nyika nezvose zvayo ikava dongo, nokuda kokuwomba kwayo.

⁷And he knew their desolate palaces, and he laid waste their cities; and the land was desolate, and the fulness thereof, by the noise of his roaring.

⁸Ipapo marudzi avanhu venyika dzakapoteredza akarwa nayo, vakakandira mumbure wavo pamusoro payo, ikabatwa muhuzha yavo.

⁸Then the nations set against him on every side from the provinces, and spread their net over him: he was taken in their pit.

⁹Vakaiisa muchirugu chine zvikokovonho, vakandoiisa kuna mambo weBhabhironi; vakaiisa munhare, kuti inzwi rayo rirege kuzonzwikwa pamakomo alsiraeri.

⁹And they put him in ward in chains, and brought him to the king of Babylon: they brought him into holds, that his voice should no more be heard upon the mountains of Israel.

¹⁰Mai vako vakanga vakaita somuzambiringa, panguva yokuzorora kwako, wakange wakasimwa pamvura;wakabereka zvakanaka, una matavi mazhinji, nokuda kwemvura zhinji.

¹⁰Thy mother is like a vine in thy blood, planted by the waters: she was fruitful and full of branches by reason of many waters.

¹¹Ukava namatanda makobvu okuita tsvimbo dzavaibata hushe, musoro wawo ukakwirira kumusoro pakati pamatavi makobvu, ukaonekwa kumusoro-soro pamwechete namashizha awo mazhinji.

¹¹And she had strong rods for the sceptres of them that bare rule, and her stature was exalted among the thick branches, and she appeared in her height with the multitude of her branches.

¹²Asi wakadzurwa nehasha, ukakandirwa pasi, mhepo inobva mabvazuva ikaomesa michero yawo, matanda awo makobvu akavuniwa, ndokuoma, moto ukaapedza.

¹²But she was plucked up in fury, she was cast down to the ground, and the east wind dried up her fruit: her strong rods were broken and withered; the fire consumed them.

¹³Zvino wasimwa murenje, munyika yakaoma ine nyota.

¹³And now she is planted in the wilderness, in a dry and thirsty ground.

¹⁴Moto wabuda padanda ramatavi awo, ukapedza michero yawo, hapachine danda rine simba ringaita tsvimbo yokubata ushe. Awa ndiwo mariro, uye achazova mariro.

¹⁴And fire is gone out of a rod of her branches, which hath devoured her fruit, so that she hath no strong rod to be a sceptre to rule. This is a lamentation, and shall be for a lamentation.