¹Ndizvo zvinotaura Jehovha, Ruripiko rugwaro rwokuramba mai venyu, vandakaramba? Kana ndiyani wandine chikwereti naye, wandakakutengesai kwaari? Tarirai makazvitengesa nokuda kwezvakaipa zvenyu, uye nokuda kokudarika kwenyu, mai venyu vakarashwa.

¹Thus saith the LORD, Where is the bill of your mother's divorcement, whom I have put away? or which of my creditors is it to whom I have sold you? Behold, for your iniquities have ye sold yourselves, and for your transgressions is your mother put away.

²Sei pakusvika kwangu kwakanga kusina munhu? Pakudana kwangu kwakanga kusina anopindura? Ko ruoko rwangu rwakatongopfupiswa here?, kuti rukoniwe kudzikunura? Handina simba rokurwira here? Tarirai nokutuka kwangu, ndinopwisa gungwa , Ndinoita nzizi dzive renje; hove dzadzo dzinhuwhe, nekuti hadzina mvura, dzinofa nenyota.

²Wherefore, when I came, was there no man? when I called, was there none to answer? Is my hand shortened at all, that it cannot redeem? or have I no power to deliver? behold, at my rebuke I dry up the sea, I make the rivers a wilderness: their fish stinketh, because there is no water, and dieth for thirst.

³Ndinofukidza matenga nokusviba, Ndinoita masaga ave chifukidziro chawo.

³I clothe the heavens with blackness, and I make sackcloth their covering.

⁴Ishe Jehovha akandipa rurimi rwavakadzidza, kuti ndizive kutaura shoko nenguva yakafanira kune vakaneta ; anomuka mangwanani ose, anomutsa nzeve dzangu kuti ndinzwe savanodzidziswa.

⁴The Lord GOD hath given me the tongue of the learned, that I should know how to speak a word in season to him that is weary: he wakeneth morning by morning, he wakeneth mine ear to hear as the learned.

⁵Ishe Mwari wakadziura nzeve dzangu,vuye handina kupanduka kana kudzokera shure.

⁵The Lord GOD hath opened mine ear, and I was not rebellious, neither turned away back.

⁶Ndakapa musana wangu kuvarovi, namatama angu kuna vakatavura ndebvu dzangu; handina kuvanza chiso changu pakunyadziswa nokupfirwa mate.

⁶I gave my back to the smiters, and my cheeks to them that plucked off the hair: I hid not my face from shame and spitting.

⁷nekuti Ishe Mwari achandibatsira, naizvozvo handina kunyadziswa; naizvozvo ndakaita chiso changu semusarasara,vuye ndinoziva kuti handinganyadziswi.

⁷For the Lord GOD will help me; therefore shall I not be confounded: therefore have I set my face like a flint, and I know that I shall not be ashamed.

⁸Ari pedo iye unondiruramsa; ndiani acharwa neni?Ngatimirisane, Ndiani mudzivisi wangu? Ngaaswedere kwandiri.

⁸He is near that justifieth me; who will contend with me? let us stand together: who is mine adversary? let him come near to me.

⁹Tarirai, Ishe, Jehovha achandibatsira; ndiani angandipa mhosva? Tarirai, avo vose vachasakara senguvo;zvipfunho. zvichavadya.

⁹Behold, the Lord GOD will help me; who is he that shall condemn me? lo, they all shall wax old as a garment; the moth shall eat them up.

¹⁰Ndianiko pakati penyu anotya Jehovha, anoteerera inzwi romuranda wake? Anofamba murima,vuye asina chiedza, ngaavimbe nezita raJehovha, asendame kuna Mwari wake.

¹⁰Who is among you that feareth the LORD, that obeyeth the voice of his servant, that walketh in darkness, and hath no light? let him trust in the name of the LORD, and stay upon his God.

¹¹Tarirai, imwi mose, munobatidza moto, munozvisunga zviuno nezvitsiga; fambai muchiedza chomoto wenyu, napakati pezvitsiga zvamakabatidza. Muchapiwa izvozvo noruoko rwangu, muchavata pasi muchitambudzika.

¹¹Behold, all ye that kindle a fire, that compass yourselves about with sparks: walk in the light of your fire, and in the sparks that ye have kindled. This shall ye have of mine hand; ye shall lie down in sorrow.