¹Isiraeri achiri mwana muduku, ndaimuda, ndikadana mwanakomana wangu abve Egipita.

¹When Israel was a child, then I loved him, and called my son out of Egypt.

²Vaporofita vachinyanya kuvadana,, ivo vakanyanya kuvatiza; vakabayira vaBhaari, nokupisira zvifananidzo zvakavezwa zvinonhuhwira.

²As they called them, so they went from them: they sacrificed unto Baalim, and burned incense to graven images.

³Kunyange zvakadaro ini ndakadzidzisa Efuremu kufamba; ndakavatakura mumaoko angu, asi havana kuziva kuti ndini ndakavaporesa.

³I taught Ephraim also to go, taking them by their arms; but they knew not that I healed them.

⁴Ndakavakakata namabote omunhu, nezvisungo zvorudo; ndakava kwavari somunhu anobvisa joko pashaya dzavo, ndikagadza zvokudya pamberi pavo.

⁴I drew them with cords of a man, with bands of love: and I was to them as they that take off the yoke on their jaws, and I laid meat unto them.

⁵Havangadzokeri kunyika yeEgipita, asi muAsiria ndiye achava mambo wavo, nekuti vakaramba kudzokera kwandiri.

⁵He shall not return into the land of Egypt, and the Assyrian shall be his king, because they refused to return.

⁶Munondo uchava nehasha pakati pemaguta avo, uchapedza zvipfigiso zvavo nokuzviparadza, nemhaka yamano avo.

⁶And the sword shall abide on his cities, and shall consume his branches, and devour them, because of their own counsels.

⁷Vanhu vangu vanoramba vachida kudzokera shure vachindisiya; kunyange vachidamwa kune Wekumusoro-soro, havatongosimuki.

⁷And my people are bent to backsliding from me: though they called them to the most High, none at all would exalt him.

⁸Ndingakuregedza seiko, iwe Isiraeri? Ndingakuita seiko seAdhima? Ndingakuenzanisa seiko neZebhoimi? Mwoyo wangu washandukurwa mukati mangu, tsitsi dzangu dzamutswa pamwechete.

⁸How shall I give thee up, Ephraim? how shall I deliver thee, Israel? how shall I make thee as Admah? how shall I set thee as Zeboim? mine heart is turned within me, my repentings are kindled together.

⁹Handingaiti nokutsamwa kwangu kukuru, handingadzoki ndichiti ndiparadze Efuremu; nekuti ndiri Mwari, handizi munhu, ndini Mutsvene pakati penyu, handingauyi ndakatsamwa.

⁹I will not execute the fierceness of mine anger, I will not return to destroy Ephraim: for I am God, and not man; the Holy One in the midst of thee: and I will not enter into the city.

¹⁰Vachatevera Jehovha, achiomba seshumba; nekuti uchaomba, vana vachauya vachidedera vachibva mavirazuva.

¹⁰They shall walk after the LORD: he shall roar like a lion: when he shall roar, then the children shall tremble from the west.

¹¹Vachauya seshiri vachibva Egipita, senjiva vachibva panyika yeAsiria; ini ndichavagarisa mudzimba dzavo, ndizvo zvinotaura Jehovha.

¹¹They shall tremble as a bird out of Egypt, and as a dove out of the land of Assyria: and I will place them in their houses, saith the LORD.

¹²Efuremu vakandikombera nenhema, uye imba yaIsiraeri nokunyengera; Judha vanongoramba vachipenga pamberi paMwari, pamberi paiye Mutsvene akatendeka.

¹²Ephraim compasseth me about with lies, and the house of Israel with deceit: but Judah yet ruleth with God, and is faithful with the saints.