¹Zvino Dhavhidhi wakatiza paNaioti paRama, akaenda akati kuna Jonatani, Ndadiniko? Kutadza kwangu ndokwei? Chivi changu pamberi pababa vako ndechipi, zvavanotsvaka kundiuraya?

¹And David fleeth from Naioth in Ramah, and cometh, and saith before Jonathan, `What have I done? what [is] mine iniquity? and what my sin before thy father, that he is seeking my life?`

²Iye akati kwaari, Ngazvisadaro, usadaro, haungafi; tarira baba vangu havangaiti chinhu chikuru kana chiduku, vasingandizivisi icho; zvino baba vangu vangandivanzirireiko chinhu ichi? Hazvizi izvo.

²And he saith to him, `Far be it! thou dost not die; lo, my father doth not do anything great or small and doth not uncover mine ear; and wherefore doth my father hide from me this thing? this [thing] is not.`

³Ipapo Dhavhidhi akapikazve akati, Baba vako vanoziva kwazvo kuti ini ndakawana nyasha kwauri; naizvozvo vakati, Jonatani ngaarege kuzviziva, zvimwe ungazvidya moyo; asi zvirokwazvo, naJehovha mupenyu, nomweya wako mupenyu, kune nhambwe imwechete pakati pangu norufu.

³And David sweareth again, and saith, `Thy father hath certainly known that I have found grace in thine eyes, and he saith, Let not Jonathan know this, lest he be grieved; and yet, Jehovah liveth, and thy soul liveth, but — as a step between me and death.`

⁴Ipapo Jonatani akati kuna Dhavhidhi, Zvose zvinodikamwa nomoyo wako, ndichakuitira izvozvo.

⁴And Jonathan saith to David, `What doth thy soul say? — and I do it for thee.`

⁵Dhavhidhi akati kuna Jonatani, Tarira, mangwana mwedzi wogara, ndichafanira kundogara pakudya namambo; asi nditendere, ndiende kundovanda mumunda kusvikira madekwana ezuva rechitatu.

⁵And David saith unto Jonathan, `Lo, the new moon [is] to-morrow; and I do certainly sit with the king to eat; and thou hast sent me away, and I have been hidden in a field till the third evening;

⁶Kana baba vako vakandishaiwa, uti kwavari, Dhavhidhi wakakumbira zvikuru kwandiri, kuti amhanyire Bheterehemu, kuguta rake; nekuti ikoko kunoitwa chibayiro chegore rimwe nerimwe chavose veimba yake.

⁶if thy father at all look after me, and thou hast said, David asked earnestly of me to run to Beth-Lehem his city, for a sacrifice of the days [is] there for all the family.

⁷Kana vakati, Zvakanaka hazvo! Muranda wako uchava norugare; asi kana vakatsamwa, uzive kuti vagara vandifungira zvakaipa.

⁷If thus he say: Good; peace [is] for thy servant; and if it be very displeasing to him — know that the evil hath been determined by him;

⁸Naizvozvo chiitira hako muranda wako zvakanaka; nekuti wakaita sungano nomuranda wako pamberi paJehovha, asi kana zvakaipa zviriko kwandiri, undiuraye iwe, nekuti uchandiisireiko kuna baba vako?

⁸and thou hast done kindness, to thy servant, for into a covenant of Jehovah thou hast brought thy servant with thee; — and if there is in me iniquity, put thou me to death; and unto thy father, why is this — thou dost bring me in?`

⁹Jonatani akati, Usadaro, nekuti dai ndaiziva kuti baba vangu vagara vafunga kukuitira zvakaipa, handizaikuudza here?

⁹And Jonathan saith, `Far be it from thee! for I certainly do not know that the evil hath been determined by my father to come upon thee, and I do not declare it to thee.`

¹⁰Dhavhidhi akati kuna Jonatani, Ndianiko uchandiudza kana baba vako vachinge vakupindura nehasha?

¹⁰And David saith unto Jonathan, `Who doth declare to me? or what [if] thy father doth answer thee sharply?`

¹¹Jonatani akati kuna Dhavhidhi, Hendei kusango. Ivo vakaenda vari vaviri kusango.

¹¹And Jonathan saith unto David, `Come, and we go out into the field;` and they go out both of them into the field.

¹²Zvino Jonatani akati kuna Dhavhidhi, Jehovha Mwari waIsiraeri ngaave chapupu; kana ndabvunzisisa baba vangu nenguva ino mangwana, kana kuswera mangwana, kana ndikaona kuti vanomoyo wakanaka kuna Dhavhidhi, handingakutumiri shoko, ndikakuzivisa here?

¹²And Jonathan saith unto David, `Jehovah, God of Israel — when I search my father, about [this] time to-morrow [or] the third [day], and lo, good [is] towards David, and I do not then send unto thee, and have uncovered thine ear —

¹³Jehovha ngaarove Jonatani, arambe achidaro, kana baba vangu vachinge vachida kukuitira zvakaipa, ini ndikasakuzivisa izvozvo, ndikakuendisa norugare, Jehovha ngaave newe, sezvaaiva nababa vangu.

¹³thus doth Jehovah do to Jonathan, and thus doth He add; when the evil concerning thee is good to my father, then I have uncovered thine ear, and sent thee away, and thou hast gone in peace, and Jehovah is with thee, as he was with my father;

¹⁴Newewo undiitire tsitsi dzaJehovha ndichiri mupenyu, ndirege kufa,

¹⁴and not only while I am alive dost thou do with me the kindness of Jehovah, and I die not,

¹⁵uye usabvisa tsitsi dzako kuna veimba yangu nokusingaperi, kunyange kana Jehovha abvisa vavengi vaDhavhidhi, mumwe nomumwe panyika yose.

¹⁵but thou dost not cut off thy kindness from my house unto the age, nor in Jehovah`s cutting off the enemies of David, each one from off the face of the ground.`

¹⁶Naizvozvo Jonatani akaita sungano neimba yaDhavhidhi, akati, Jehovha ngaazvitsvake kumaoko avavengi vaDhavhidhi

¹⁶And Jonathan covenanteth with the house of David, and Jehovah hath sought [it] from the hand of the enemies of David;

¹⁷Naizvozvo akapikisa Dhavhidhizve norudo rwake kwaari, nekuti wakange achimuda sezvaakada moyo wake.

¹⁷and Jonathan addeth to cause David to swear, because he loveth him, for with the love of his own soul he hath loved him.

¹⁸Zvino Jonatani akati kwaari, Mangwana mwedzi wogara; iwe uchashaikwa, nekuti chigaro chako chichashaiwa munhu.

¹⁸And Jonathan saith to him, `To-morrow [is] new moon, and thou hast been looked after, for thy seat is looked after;

¹⁹Kana wagara mazuva matatu, unofanira kukurumidza kuburukira kunzvimbo iya pawakavanda musi watakataurirana pamusoro peshoko riya, ugogara pabwe rinonzi Ezeri.

¹⁹and on the third day thou dost certainly come down, and hast come in unto the place where thou wast hidden in the day of the work, and hast remained near the stone Ezel.

²⁰Zvino ini ndichaposha miseve mitatu kurutivi rwaro, ndichiita sendinoposhera chinhu chakatimikwa.

²⁰`And I shoot three of the arrows at the side, sending out for myself at a mark;

²¹Ipapo, tarira, ndichatuma mukomana, ndichiti, Enda undotsvaka miseve. Kana ndikati kumukomana, Tarira miseve iri nechokuno kwako, uya nayo, ipapo ungauya hako, nekuti kunorugare kwauri, hakuna mhosva, naJehovha mupenyu.

²¹and lo, I send the youth: Go, find the arrows. If I at all say to the youth, Lo, the arrows [are] on this side of thee — take them, — then come thou, for peace [is] for thee, and there is nothing; Jehovah liveth.

²²Asi kana ndikati kumukomana, Tarira, miseve iri mberi kwako, ipapo uende hako, nekuti Jehovha wakuendisa.

²²And if thus I say to the young man, Lo, the arrows [are] beyond thee, — go, for Jehovah hath sent thee away;

²³Kana riri shoko ratakataurirana pamusoro paro iwe neni, tarira Jehovha uri pakati pako neni nokusingaperi.

²³as to the thing which we have spoken, I and thou, lo, Jehovah [is] between me and thee — unto the age.`

²⁴Naizvozvo Dhavhidhi akandovanda musango; zvino mwedzi wakati wagara, mambo akagara pakudya kuti adye.

²⁴And David is hidden in the field, and it is the new moon, and the king sitteth down by the food to eat,

²⁵Mambo akagara pachigaro chake, sapanguva dzose, pachigaro chaiva pamadziro, Jonatani akasimuka, Abhineri akagara parutivi rwaSauro; asi chigaro chaDhavhidhi chakashaiwa munhu.

²⁵and the king sitteth on his seat, as time by time, on a seat by the wall, and Jonathan riseth, and Abner sitteth at the side of Saul, and David`s place is looked after.

²⁶Asi Sauro haana kutaura chinhu musi iwoyo; nekuti wakati, zvimwe wawirwa nechinhu, zvimwe haana kunaka, zvirokwazvo haana kunaka.

²⁶And Saul hath not spoken anything on that day, for he said, `It [is] an accident; he is not clean — surely not clean.`

²⁷Zvino pazuva rakatevera kugara komwedzi, pazuva rechipiri, chigaro chaDhavhidhi chakashaiwazve munhu; ipapo Sauro akati kuna Jonatani mwanakomana wake, Mwanakomana waJese wakaregereiko kuuya kuzodya zuro kana nhasi?

²⁷And it cometh to pass on the second morrow of the new moon, that David`s place is looked after, and Saul saith unto Jonathan his son, `Wherefore hath the son of Jesse not come in, either yesterday or to-day, unto the food?`

²⁸Jonatani akapindura Sauro akati, Dhavhidhi wakakumbira zvikuru kwandiri kuti aende Bheterehemu,

²⁸And Jonathan answereth Saul, `David hath been earnestly asked of me unto Beth-Lehem,

²⁹akati, Nditenderewo ndiende, nekuti veimba yedu vanobayira muguta; mukuru wangu wakandiraira kuti ndivepo; zvino kana uchifara nazvo, nditendere hako ndiende kundoshanyira hama dzangu. Naizvozvo haana kuuya patafura yamambo.

²⁹and he saith, Send me away, I pray thee, for a family sacrifice we have in the city, and my brother himself hath given command to me, and now, if I have found grace in thine eyes, let me go away, I pray thee, and see my brethren; therefore he hath not come unto the table of the king.`

³⁰Ipapo Sauro akatsamwira Jonatani, akati kwaari, Iwe mwanakomana womukadzi usinganzwi, wakapanduka, handizivi kanhi kuti wakatsaura mwanakomana waJese unyadzwe iwe, namai vako vanyadzwewo?

³⁰And the anger of Saul burneth against Jonathan, and he saith to him, `Son of a perverse rebellious woman! have I not known that thou art fixing on the son of Jesse to thy shame, and to the shame of the nakedness of thy mother?

³¹Nekuti iwe haungasimbiswi noushe hwako, kana mwanakomana waJese achiri mupenyu panyika. Naizvozvo zvino chituma munhu auye naye kwandiri, nekuti zvirokwazvo unofanira kufa.

³¹for all the days that the son of Jesse liveth on the ground thou art not established, thou and thy kingdom; and now, send and bring him unto me, for he [is] a son of death.`

³²Jonatani akapindura Sauro baba vake, akati kwavari, Ko unofanira kuurayirwei? Waiteiko?

³²And Jonathan answereth Saul his father, and saith unto him, `Why is he put to death? what hath he done?`

³³Ipapo Sauro akaposha pfumo .rake kwaari, achida kumubaya. Naizvozvo Jonatani wakaziva kuti baba vake vakagara vafunga kuuraya Dhavhidhi.

³³And Saul casteth the javelin at him to smite him, and Jonathan knoweth that it hath been determined by his father to put David to death.

³⁴Naizvozvo Jonatani akasimuka patafura, atsamwa kwazvo, akasadya zvokudya nomusi wechipiri womwedzi; nekuti wakange ane shungu pamoyo pamusoro paDhavhidhi, nekuti wakange anyadzwa nababa vake.

³⁴And Jonathan riseth from the table in the heat of anger, and hath not eaten food on the second day of the new moon, for he hath been grieved for David, for his father put him to shame.

³⁵Zvino fume mangwana Jonatani akaenda kusango nenguva yakanga yatarwa naDhavhidhi, anomukomana muduku.

³⁵And it cometh to pass in the morning, that Jonathan goeth out into the field for the appointment with David, and a little youth [is] with him.

³⁶Akati kumukomana wake, Mhanya utsvake miseve yandinoposha. Ipapo mukomana wakati achimhanya, iye akaposha museve mberi kwake.

³⁶And he saith to his youth, `Run, find, I pray thee, the arrows which I am shooting;` the youth is running, and he hath shot the arrow, causing [it] to pass over him.

³⁷Zvino mukomana wakati achisvika pakanga paposhwa museve naJonatani. Jonatani akadanidzira kumukomana, akati, Ko museve hausi mberi kwako here?

³⁷And the youth cometh unto the place of the arrow which Jonathan hath shot, and Jonathan calleth after the youth, and saith, `Is not the arrow beyond thee?`

³⁸Jonatani akadanidzirazve kumukomana akati, Kasira, kurumidza, usamira. Mukomana waJonatani akanonga miseve, akauya nayo kuna tenzi wake.

³⁸and Jonathan calleth after the youth, `Speed, haste, stand not;` and Jonathan`s youth gathereth the arrows, and cometh unto his lord.

³⁹Asi mukomana haana kuziva chinhu; asi Jonatani naDhavhidhi voga ndivo vakaziva shoko iro.

³⁹And the youth hath not known anything, only Jonathan and David knew the word.

⁴⁰Zvino Jonatani akapa mukomana nhumbi dzake dzokurwa nadzo, akati kwaari, Enda nadzo undodziisa kuguta.

⁴⁰And Jonathan giveth his weapons unto the youth whom he hath, and saith to him, `Go, carry into the city.`

⁴¹Mukomana wakati aenda, Dhavhidhi akasimuka kurutivi rwezasi, akawira pasi nechiso chake, akakotama katatu, vakatsvodana, vakachema vose, kusvikira Dhavhidhi anyanya kwazvo.

⁴¹The youth hath gone, and David hath risen from Ezel, at the south, and falleth on his face to the earth, and boweth himself three times, and they kiss one another, and they weep one with another, till David exerted himself;

⁴²Jonatani akati kuna Dhavhidhi, Enda hako norugare, nekuti takapika tose nezita raJehovha tichiti, Jehovha uchava pakati pangu newe, napakati pavana vangu navako nokusingaperi. Akasimuka, akaenda, naJonatani akapinda muguta.

⁴²and Jonathan saith to David, `Go in peace, in that we have sworn — we two — in the name of Jehovah, saying, Jehovah is between me and thee, and between my seed and thy seed — unto the age;` and he riseth and goeth; and Jonathan hath gone in to the city.