¹Haiwa, guta, rakanga rizere navanhu, rinogara sei riri roga! Iro, rakanga riri guru pakati pamarudzi, rava sechirikadzi! Iro, rakanga riri vamoyo pakati penyika, rovigira mutero.

¹How doth the city sit solitary, that was full of people! how is she become as a widow! she that was great among the nations, and princess among the provinces, how is she become tributary!

²Rinochema zvikuru usiku, misodzi yaro iri pamatama aro; pakati pavadikamwi varo vose rinoshaiwa muvaraidzi, shamwari dzaro dzose dzarinyengera, dzashanduka vavengi varo.

²She weepeth sore in the night, and her tears are on her cheeks: among all her lovers she hath none to comfort her: all her friends have dealt treacherously with her, they are become her enemies.

³Judha aenda kuutapwa nokuda kokutambudzika, nokuda kokubatiswa zvikuru; vanogara pakati pamarudzi, asi haavane zororo, vose vaidzingana navo vakamubata pakamanikana.

³Judah is gone into captivity because of affliction, and because of great servitude: she dwelleth among the heathen, she findeth no rest: all her persecutors overtook her between the straits.

⁴Nzira dzeZiyoni dzinochema, nekuti hakuna anouya kumutambo, masuwo aro ose akaparadzwa, vapristi varo vanogomera, mhandara dzaro dzinotambudzika, iro romene rinovavirwa.

⁴The ways of Zion do mourn, because none come to the solemn feasts: all her gates are desolate: her priests sigh, her virgins are afflicted, and she is in bitterness.

⁵Vadzivisi varo ndivo vava vakuru, vavengi varo vanofara; nekuti Jehovha akaritambudza nemhaka yokudarika kwaro kuzhinji; vana varo vaduku vakaenda kuutapwa pamberi pomudzivisi.

⁵Her adversaries are the chief, her enemies prosper; for the LORD hath afflicted her for the multitude of her transgressions: her children are gone into captivity before the enemy.

⁶Kunaka kwake kose kwakabva pamukunda weZiyoni; machinda ake aita senondo dzinoshaiwa mafuro, akatiza asine simba pamberi poanodzingana nawo.

⁶And from the daughter of Zion all her beauty is departed: her princes are become like harts that find no pasture, and they are gone without strength before the pursuer.

⁷Namazuva okutambudzika nokudzungaira kwaro, Jerusaremu rinorangarira zvose zvairifadza kubva pamazuva akare; panguva yakawira vanhu varo pamaoko omudzivisi, kusina wakaribatsira, vadzivisi vakariona, vakaseka kuparadzwa kwaro.

⁷Jerusalem remembered in the days of her affliction and of her miseries all her pleasant things that she had in the days of old, when her people fell into the hand of the enemy, and none did help her: the adversaries saw her, and did mock at her sabbaths.

⁸Jerusaremu rakatadza zvikuru kwazvo, naizvozvo raitwa sechinhu chisakanaka; vose vairikudza, vorishora, nekuti vakaona kushama kwaro, zvirokwazvo, rakagomera, rikadzokera shure.

⁸Jerusalem hath grievously sinned; therefore she is removed: all that honoured her despise her, because they have seen her nakedness: yea, she sigheth, and turneth backward.

⁹Tsvina yaro yakanga iri panguvo yaro, harina kurangarira kuguma kwaro; naizvozvo rakanyura zvinoshamisa, harina munyaradzi; tarirai, Jehovha, kutambudzika kwangu, nekuti muvengi wazvikudza.

⁹Her filthiness is in her skirts; she remembereth not her last end; therefore she came down wonderfully: she had no comforter. O LORD, behold my affliction: for the enemy hath magnified himself.

¹⁰Mudzivisi atambanudzira ruoko rwake kune zvose zvaro zvinofadza; nekuti rakaona marudzi achipinda panzvimbo yaro tsvene, vamakanga marayira pamusoro pavo kuti varege kupinda paungano yenyu.

¹⁰The adversary hath spread out his hand upon all her pleasant things: for she hath seen that the heathen entered into her sanctuary, whom thou didst command that they should not enter into thy congregation.

¹¹Vanhu varo vose vanogomera, vanotsvaka zvokudya; vakapa zvinhu zvavo zvinofadza kuti zvive zvokudya zvokusimbisa mweya yavo; tarirai, Jehovha, muone; nekuti ndaitwa wakazvidzwa.

¹¹All her people sigh, they seek bread; they have given their pleasant things for meat to relieve the soul: see, O LORD, and consider; for I am become vile.

¹²Nhai, imwi mose munopfuura, hamuna hanya nazvo here? Tarirai muone kana kuchema kuripo kwakafanana nokuchema kwangu, kwakauyiswa pamusoro pangu, kwandakatambudzwa nako naJehovha nezuva rokutsamwa kwake kukuru.

¹²Is it nothing to you, all ye that pass by? behold, and see if there be any sorrow like unto my sorrow, which is done unto me, wherewith the LORD hath afflicted me in the day of his fierce anger.

¹³Akatuma moto mumafupa angu, zvichibva kumusoro, akavakunda; akadzikira tsoka dzangu mumbure, akandidzosera shure; akandiparadza nokundishaisa simba zuva rose.

¹³From above hath he sent fire into my bones, and it prevaileth against them: he hath spread a net for my feet, he hath turned me back: he hath made me desolate and faint all the day.

¹⁴Joko rokudarika kwangu kuzhinji rakasungwa noruoko rwake; zvakarukwa, zvaiswa pamutsipa wangu, zvandishaisa simba rangu; Ishe akandiisa mumaoko avasingagoni kudzivisa.

¹⁴The yoke of my transgressions is bound by his hand: they are wreathed, and come up upon my neck: he hath made my strength to fall, the LORD hath delivered me into their hands, from whom I am not able to rise up.

¹⁵Ishe akashaisa simba mhare dzangu dzose dzakandipoteredza, akakokera ungano yakatarwa kuzondipwanyira majaya angu; Ishe akatsika mukunda mhandara yaJudha sapachisviniro.

¹⁵The LORD hath trodden under foot all my mighty men in the midst of me: he hath called an assembly against me to crush my young men: the LORD hath trodden the virgin, the daughter of Judah, as in a winepress.

¹⁶Ndinochema nokuda kwezvinhu izvi, maziso angu anoyerera misodzi, nekuti munyaradzi, aifanira kusimbisa mweya wangu, uri kure neni; vana vangu vava nhoronhondo, nekuti muvengi akunda.

¹⁶For these things I weep; mine eye, mine eye runneth down with water, because the comforter that should relieve my soul is far from me: my children are desolate, because the enemy prevailed.

¹⁷Ziyoni rinotambanudza maoko aro, hakuna angarinyaradza; Jehovha akarayira pamusoro paJakove, kuti vakamupoteredza vave vadzivisi vake; Jerusaremu riri pakati pavo sechinhu chakanaka.

¹⁷Zion spreadeth forth her hands, and there is none to comfort her: the LORD hath commanded concerning Jacob, that his adversaries should be round about him: Jerusalem is as a menstruous woman among them.

¹⁸Jehovha akarurama, nekuti ndakamukira murayiro wake; doteererai imwi vanhu vose, muone kuchema kwangu; mhandara dzangu namajaya angu aenda kuutapwa.

¹⁸The LORD is righteous; for I have rebelled against his commandment: hear, I pray you, all people, and behold my sorrow: my virgins and my young men are gone into captivity.

¹⁹Ndakadana vaindida, asi vakandinyengera; vapristi vangu navakuru vangu vakaparara muguta, panguva yavakanga vachizvitsvakira zvokudya kusimbisa mweya yavo.

¹⁹I called for my lovers, but they deceived me: my priests and mine elders gave up the ghost in the city, while they sought their meat to relieve their souls.

²⁰Tarirai, Jehovha, nekuti ndiri panjodzi, moyo wangu unotambudzika; moyo wangu washanduka mukati mangu, nekuti ndakakumukirai kwazvo; kunze munondo unonditorera vana, mumba makaita somuno rufu.

²⁰Behold, O LORD; for I am in distress: my bowels are troubled; mine heart is turned within me; for I have grievously rebelled: abroad the sword bereaveth, at home there is as death.

²¹Vakandinzwa ndichigomera, hakuna anondinyaradza; vavengi vangu vose vakanzwa nhamo dzangu, vanofara kuti makazviita; muchauyisa zuva ramakatara ipapo vachafanana neni.

²¹They have heard that I sigh: there is none to comfort me: all mine enemies have heard of my trouble; they are glad that thou hast done it: thou wilt bring the day that thou hast called, and they shall be like unto me.

²²Zvakaipa zvavo zvose ngazviuye pamberi penyu; muvaitire ivo sezvamakandiitira ini nokuda kokudarika kwangu kose; nekuti kugomera kwangu kuzhinji, moyo wangu washaiwa simba.

²²Let all their wickedness come before thee; and do unto them, as thou hast done unto me for all my transgressions: for my sighs are many, and my heart is faint.