¹Zvino Satani akamukira vaIsiraeri, akakurudzira Dhavhidhi kuti averenge vaIsiraeri.

¹And there standeth up an adversary against Israel, and persuadeth David to number Israel,

²Dhavhidhi akati kuna Joabhu nokumachinda avanhu, Endai mundoverenga vaIsiraeri kubva paBheerishebha kusvikira paDhani; mudzoke neshoko, ndizive kuwanda kwavo.

²And David saith unto Joab, and unto the heads of the people, `Go, number Israel from Beer-Sheba even unto Dan, and bring unto me, and I know their number.`

³Joabhu akati, Jehovha ngaawedzere vanhu vake runezana pakuwanda kwavo zvino; asi ishe wangu mambo, vose havazi varanda vashe wangu here? Ishe wangu anotsvakireiko chinhu ichi? Achapinzireiko vaIsiraeri pamhosva?

³And Joab saith, `Jehovah doth add to His people as they are a hundred times; are they not, my lord, O king, all of them to my lord for servants? why doth my lord seek this? why is he for a cause of guilt to Israel?`

⁴Kunyange zvakadaro shoko ramambo rakakurira Joabhu. Zvino Joabhu akaenda, akapota pakati pavaIsiraeri vose, akasvika Jerusaremu.

⁴And the word of the king [is] severe against Joab, and Joab goeth out, and goeth up and down in all Israel, and cometh in to Jerusalem.

⁵Joabhu akarondedzera kuwanda kwavanhu kuna Dhavhidhi. Valsiraeri vose vakasvika zviuru zvinezviuru nezviuru zvinezana zvavanhu vaigona kurwa nomunondo; uye vaJudha vakasvika zviuru zvamazana mana namakumi manomwe vaigona kurwa nomunondo.

⁵And Joab giveth the account of the numbering of the people unto David, and all Israel is a thousand thousand and a hundred thousand, each drawing sword, and Judah [is] four hundred and seventy thousand, each drawing sword.

⁶Asi haana kuverenga vaRevhi navaBhenjamini pakati pavo; nekuti shoko ramambo rakanga rakaipa kwazvo kuna Joabhu.

⁶And Levi and Benjamin he hath not numbered in their midst, for the word of the king was abominable with Joab.

⁷Zvino Mwari akanga asingafari nechinhu ichi; saka akarova Isiraeri.

⁷And it is evil in the eyes of God concerning this thing, and He smiteth Israel,

⁸Dhavhidhi akati kuna Mwari, Ndatadza kwazvo zvandaita chinhu ichi; asi zvino bvisai henyu kuipa komuranda wenyu; nekuti ndaita sebenzi kwazvo.

⁸and David saith unto God, `I have sinned exceedingly, in that I have done this thing; and now, cause to pass away, I pray Thee, the iniquity of Thy servant, for I have acted very foolishly.`

⁹Jehovha akataura naGadhi, muoni waDhavhidhi, akati,

⁹And Jehovah speaketh unto Gad, seer of David, saying:

¹⁰Enda unotaura naDhavhidhi, uti, zvanzi naJehovha, Ndinokuisira zvinhu zvitatu, chizvitsaurira chimwe chazvo, ndikuitire icho.

¹⁰`Go, and thou hast spoken unto David, saying, Thus said Jehovah, Three — I am stretching out unto thee; choose for thee one of these, and I do [it] to thee.`

¹¹Zvino Gadhi akaenda kuna Dhavhidhi, akati kwaari, Zvanzi naJehovha, Chitsaura chaunoda;

¹¹And Gad cometh in unto David, and saith to him, `Thus said Jehovah, Take for thee —

¹²makore matatu enzara, kana kuparadzwa navavengi vako mwedzi mitatu, uchidzingwa nomunondo wavavengi vako, kana munondo waJehovha mazuva matatu, ndiro denda panyika, mutumwa waJehovha achiparadza panyika yose yaIsiraeri. Zvino chifunga hako, urangarire mhinduro yandingadzosera kuna iye akandituma.

¹²either for three years — famine, or three months to be consumed from the face of thine adversaries, even the sword of thine enemies to overtake, or three days the sword of Jehovah, even pestilence in the land, and a messenger of Jehovah destroying in all the border of Israel; and now, see; what word do I return to Him who is sending me?`

¹³Ipapo Dhavhidhi akati kuna Gadhi, Ndiri pakumanikidzwa kukuru; ndiwire hangu zvino muruoko rwaJehovha, nekuti nyasha dzake ihuru, asi ndirege hangu kuwira muruoko rwomunhu.

¹³And David saith unto Gad, `I am greatly distressed, let me fall, I pray thee, into the hand of Jehovah, for very many [are] His mercies, and into the hand of man let me not fall.`

¹⁴Ipapo Jehovha akatuma denda pakati paIsiraeri; varume vane zviuru zvina makumi manomwe vakafa pakati paIsiraeri.

¹⁴And Jehovah giveth a pestilence in Israel, and there fall of Israel seventy thousand men,

¹⁵Mwari akatuma mutumwa Jerusaremu kuzoriparadza; zvino wakati oda kuparadza, Jehovha akatarira, akazvidemba pamusoro pechinhu icho chakaipa, akati kumutumwa akanga achiparadza, Zvino, chidzosa ruoko rwako. Zvino mutumwa waJehovha akanga amire paburiro raOrinani muJebhusi.

¹⁵and God sendeth a messenger to Jerusalem to destroy it, and as he is destroying Jehovah hath seen, and is comforted concerning the evil, and saith to the messenger who [is] destroying, `Enough, now, cease thy hand.` And the messenger of Jehovah is standing by the threshing-floor of Ornan the Jebusite,

¹⁶Dhavhidhi akatarira, akaona mutumwa waJehovha amire pakati penyika nokudenga, akabata munondo wakavhomorwa muruoko rwake, wakatambanudzwa pamusoro peJerusaremu. Ipapo Dhavhidhi navakuru vakawira pasi nezviso zvavo, vakafuka saga.

¹⁶and David lifteth up his eyes, and seeth the messenger of Jehovah standing between the earth and the heavens, and his sword drawn in his hand, stretched out over Jerusalem, and David falleth, and the elders, covered with sackcloth, on their faces.

¹⁷Zvino Dhavhidhi akati kuna Mwari, Ko handizi ini here ndakaraira kuti vanhu vaverengwe? Ndini ndakatadza hangu ndikaita zvakaipa zvikuru; asi makwai awa akaiteiko? Jehovha Mwari wangu, ruoko rwenyu ngarundirove harwo ini neimba yababa vangu; asi ngarurege kurova vanhu venyu, nokuvatambudza.

¹⁷And David saith unto God, `Did not I — I say to number the people? Yea, I it [is] who have sinned, and done great evil: and these, the flock, what did they? O Jehovah, my God, let, I pray Thee, Thy hand be on me, and on the house of my father, and not on Thy people — to be plagued.`

¹⁸Ipapo mutumwa waJehovha akaraira Gadhi kuti audze Dhavhidhi kuti Dhavhidhi akwire avakire Jehovha aritari paburiro raOrinani muJebhusi.

¹⁸And the messenger of Jehovah spake unto Gad, saying for David, `Surely David doth go up to raise an altar to Jehovah in the threshing-floor of Ornan the Jebusite.`

¹⁹Dhavhidhi akakwira nokureva kwaGadhi kwaakataura nezita raJehovha.

¹⁹And David goeth up by the word of Gad, that he spake in the name of Jehovah.

²⁰Orinani akacheuka, akaona mutumwa; vanakomana vake vana, vaiva naye, vakavanda. Zvino Orinani wakange achipura gorosi.

²⁰And Ornan turneth back, and seeth the messenger, and his four sons [are] with him, hiding themselves, and Ornan is threshing wheat.

²¹Dhavhidhi akati achisvika kuna Orinani, Orinani akatarira akaona Dhavhidhi, akabuda paburiro, akakotamira pasi nechiso chake pamberi paDhavhidhi.

²¹And David cometh in unto Ornan, and Ornan looketh attentively, and seeth David, and goeth out from the threshing-floor, and boweth himself to David — face to the earth.

²²Ipapo Dhavhidhi akati kuna Orinani, Ndipe nzvimbo yeburiro iri, kuti ndivakirepo aritari kuna Jehovha; unofanira kundipa iro nditenge nomutengo wakafanira, kuti denda ripere pakati pavanhu.

²²And David saith unto Ornan, `Give to me the place of the threshing-floor, and I build in it an altar to Jehovah; for full silver give it to me, and the plague is restrained from the people.`

²³Ipapo Orinani akati kuna Dhavhidhi, Ritorei henyu, ishe wangu, mambo aite sezvaanoda; tarirai, ndinokupai nzombe zvive zvipiriso zvinopiswa, nenhumbi dzokupura nadzo dzive huni, nezviyo chive chipiriso choupfu; ndinozvipa zvose.

²³And Ornan saith unto David, `Take to thee — and my lord the king doth that which is good in his eyes: see, I have given the oxen for burnt-offerings, and the threshing instruments for wood, and the wheat for a present; the whole I have given.`

²⁴Mambo Dhavhidhi akati kuna Orinani, Kwete, asi zvirokwazvo ndicharitenga nomutengo wakafanira; nekuti handingatori chinhu chako ndikapa Jehovha, kana kuuya nechipiriso chinopiswa chisina mutengo.

²⁴And king David saith to Ornan, `Nay, for I surely buy for full silver; for I do not lift up that which is thine to Jehovah, so as to offer a burnt-offering without cost.`

²⁵Naizvozvo Dhavhidhi akapa Orinani mashekeri ana mazana matanhatu endarama pakurema kwawo, uri mutengo wenzvimbo iyo.

²⁵And David giveth to Ornan for the place shekels of gold [in] weight six hundred;

²⁶Dhavhidhi akavakira Jehovha aritari ipapo, akabayira zvipiriso zvinopiswa nezvipiriso zvokuyananisa, akashumira Jehovha; iye akamupindura nomoto wakabva kudenga ukawira paaritari yechipiriso chinopiswa.

²⁶and David buildeth there an altar to Jehovah, and offereth burnt-offerings and peace-offerings, and calleth unto Jehovah, and He answereth him with fire from the heavens on the altar of the burnt-offering.

²⁷Jehovha akaraira mutumwa, iye akadzoserazve munondo wake mumuhara wawo.

²⁷And Jehovah saith to the messenger, and he turneth back his sword unto its sheath.

²⁸Zvino nenguva iyo Dhavhidhi akati aona kuti Jehovha amupindura paburiro raOrinani muJebhusi, akabayirapo.

²⁸At that time when David seeth that Jehovah hath answered him in the threshing-floor of Ornan the Jebusite, then he sacrificeth there;

²⁹Nekuti panguva iyo tabhenekari yaJehovha, yakanga yavakwa naMozisi murenje, nearitari yokupisira zvipiriso, zvakanga zviri padunhu rakakwirira paGibhiyoni.

²⁹and the tabernacle of Jehovah that Moses made in the wilderness, and the altar of the burnt-offering, [are] at that time in a high place, in Gibeon;

³⁰Asi Dhavhidhi akanga asingagoni kuendako kuzobvunza Mwari pamberi payo; nekuti akanga achitya nemhaka yomunondo womutumwa waJehovha.

³⁰and David is not able to go before it to seek God, for he hath been afraid because of the sword of the messenger of Jehovah.