¹Zvino negore repfumbamwe rokubata kwake ushe, nomwedzi wegumi, nezuva regumi romwedzi, Nebhukadhinezari mambo weBhabhironi akasvika, iye nehondo yake yose, kuzorwa neJerusaremu, vakadzika matende avopo, vakarikomba nenhare.

¹And it cometh to pass, in the ninth year of his reign, in the tenth month, in the tenth of the month, come hath Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon, he and all his force, against Jerusalem, and encampeth against it, and buildeth against it a fortification round about.

²Naizvozvo guta rakakombwa kusvikira pagore regumi nerimwe ramambo Zedhekia.

²And the city entereth into siege till the eleventh year of king Zedekiah,

³Zvino negore repfumbamwe romwedzi wechina nzara ikanyanya kwazvo paguta, vanhu venyika iyo vakashaiwa zvokudya.

³on the ninth of the month — when the famine is severe in the city, and there hath not been bread for the people of the land,

⁴Vakaputsa rusvingo rweguta, vanhu vose vehondo vakatiza usiku nenzira yesuwo, pakati pamadziro maviri aiva pamunda wamambo; (zvino vaKaradhea vakanga vakakomba guta;) mambo akaenda nenzira yerenje.

⁴then the city is broken up, and all the men of war [go] by night the way of the gate, between the two walls that [are] by the garden of the king, and the Chaldeans [are] against the city round about, and [the king] goeth the way of the plain.

⁵Asi hondo yavaKaradhea yakatevera mambo, vakamubata pamapani eJeriko, hondo yake yose ikapararira ikabva kwaari.

⁵And the force of the Chaldeans pursue after the king, and overtake him in the plains of Jericho, and all his force have been scattered from him;

⁶Zvino vakabata mambo, vakaenda naye kuna mambo weBhabhironi paRibhira, vakamutongerapo.

⁶and they seize the king, and bring him up unto the king of Babylon, to Riblah, and they speak with him — judgment.

⁷Vakauraya vana vaZedhekia achizviona, vakatumbura meso aZedhekia, vakamusunga namatare, vakamuisa Bhabhironi.

⁷And the sons of Zedekiah they have slaughtered before his eyes, and the eyes of Zedekiah he hath blinded, and bindeth him with brazen fetters, and they bring him to Babylon.

⁸Zvino nomwedzi wechishanu, nezuva rechinomwe romwedzi, negore regumi namapfumbamwe ramambo Nebhukadhinezari mambo weBhabhiron, Nebhuzaradhani mukuru wavarindi, muranda wamambo weBhabhironi akasvika Jerusaremu;

⁸And in the fifth month, on the seventh of the month (it [is] the nineteenth year of king Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon), hath Nebuzaradan chief of the executioners, servant of the king of Babylon, come to Jerusalem,

⁹akapisa imba yaJehovha, neimba yamambo; akapisawo dzimba dzose dzeJerusaremu, dzimba dzose huru, nomoto.

⁹and he burneth the house of Jehovah, and the house of the king, and all the houses of Jerusalem, yea, every great house he hath burned with fire;

¹⁰Hondo yose yavaKaradhea, yakanga inomukuru wavarindi, ikaputsa masvingo eJerusaremu kunhivi dzose.

¹⁰and the walls of Jerusalem round about have all the forces of the Chaldeans, who [are] with the chief of the executioners, broken down.

¹¹Nebhuzaradhani mukuru wavarindi, akatapa vanhu vakanga vasara muguta, navakanga vatiza, vakaenda kuna mambo weBhabhironi, navakanga vasara kuvazhinji.

¹¹And the rest of the people, those left in the city, and those falling who have fallen to the king of Babylon, and the rest of the multitude, hath Nebuzaradan chief of the executioners removed;

¹²Asi mukuru wavarindi wakasiya varombo venyika, kuti vave varimi veminda yemizambiringa nemimwe minda.

¹²and of the poor of the land hath the chief of the executioners left for vine-dressers and for husbandmen.

¹³VaKaradhea vakaputsanya mbiru dzendarira dzaiva mumba maJehovha, nezvingoro, nedziva rendarira, zvaiva mumba maJehovha, vakaenda nendarira yazvo Bhabhironi.

¹³And the pillars of brass that [are] in the house of Jehovah, and the bases, and the sea of brass, that [is] in the house of Jehovah, have the Chaldeans broken in pieces, and bear away their brass to Babylon.

¹⁴vakatorawo hari nefoshoro nembato dzemwenje, nezvirongo, nenhumbi dzose dzendarira dzavaibata nadzo.

¹⁴And the pots, and the shovels, and the snuffers, and the spoons, and all the vessels of brass with which they minister they have taken,

¹⁵Nezvaenga zvomoto, nembiya, nezvose zvaiva zvendarama nezvose zvaiva zvesirivha, mukuru wavarindi akazvitora.

¹⁵and the fire-pans, and the bowls that [are] wholly of silver, hath the chief of the executioners taken.

¹⁶Nembiru mbiri, nedziva rimwe, nezvindori, zvakanga zvaitirwa imba yaJehovha naSoromoni; kurema kwendarira yenhumbi idzi dzose kwakanga kusingagoni kuyerwa.

¹⁶The two pillars, the one sea, and the bases that Solomon made for the house of Jehovah, there was no weighing of the brass of all these vessels;

¹⁷Kureba kwembiru imwe kwakasvika makubhiti ane gumi namasere, yaiva nomusoro wendarira pamusoro payo; kureba komusoro kwakasvika makubhiti matatu; uye kwakanga kune zvakarukwa, namatamba, zvaipoteredza musoro, zvose zviri zvendarira; mbiru yechipiri yakanga yakafanana neyiyi nezvakarukwawo.

¹⁷eighteen cubits [is] the height of the one pillar, and the chapiter on it [is] of brass, and the height of the chapiter [is] three cubits, and the net and the pomegranates [are] on the chapiter round about — the whole [is] of brass; and like these hath the second pillar, with the net.

¹⁸Mukuru wavarindi akatora Saraya mupristi wapamusoro, naZefaniya mupristi wechipiri, navarindi vatatu vomukova;

¹⁸And the chief of the executioners taketh Seraiah the head priest, and Zephaniah the second priest, and the three keepers of the threshold,

¹⁹uye paguta akatora mukuru waitarira varume vehondo, navarume vashanu vaisionana namambo, vaakawana muguta; nomunyori, nomukuru wehondo waiunganidza vanhu venyika, navarume vanamakumi matanhatu vavanhu venyika, vaakawana muguta.

¹⁹and out of the city he hath taken a certain eunuch who is appointed over the men of war, and five men of those seeing the king`s face who have been found in the city, and the head scribe of the host, who mustereth the people of the land, and sixty men of the people of the land who are found in the city,

²⁰Nebhuzaradhani mukuru wavarindi akavatora, akavaisa kuna mambo weBhabhironi paRibhira.

²⁰and Nebuzaradan chief of the executioners taketh them, and causeth them to go unto the king of Babylon, to Libnah,

²¹Mambo weBhabhironi akavabaya, akavauraya paRibhira, panyika yeHamati. Naizvozvo vaJudha vakatapwa panyika yavo.

²¹and the king of Babylon smiteth them, and putteth them to death in Riblah, in the land of Hamath, and he removeth Judah from off its land.

²²Kana vari vanhu vakasiiwa panyika yaJudha, vakasiiwa naNebhukadhinezari mambo weBhabhironi, wakaita Gedharia mwanakomana waAhikami, mwanakomana waShafani, mubati wavo.

²²And the people that is left in the land of Judah whom Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon hath left — he appointeth over them Gedaliah son of Ahikam, son of Shaphan.

²³Zvino vakuru vose vehondo, ivo navanhu vavo, vakati vanzwa kuti mambo weBhabhironi wakange aita Gedharia mubati wavo, vakaenda kuna Gedharia paMizipa, vaiti, Ishimaeri mwanakomana waNetania, naJohwanani mwanakomana waKarea, naSeraya mwanakomana waTanhumeti muNetofati, naJaazania mwanakomana womuMaakati, ivo navanhu vavo.

²³And all the heads of the forces hear — they and the men — that the king of Babylon hath appointed Gedaliah, and they come in unto Gedaliah, to Mizpah, even Ishmael son of Nethaniah, and Johanan son of Kareah, and Seraiah son of Tanhumeth the Netophathite, and Jaazaniah son of the Maachathite — they and their men;

²⁴Gedharia akapika kwavari, ivo navanhu vavo, akati kwavari, Regai kutya nokuda kwavaranda vavaKaradhea; garai panyika, mushumire mambo weBhabhironi, mugofara henyu.

²⁴and Gedaliah sweareth to them, and to their men, and saith to them, `Be not afraid of the servants of the Chaldeans, dwell in the land and serve the king of Babylon, and it is good for you.`

²⁵Asi nomwedzi wechinomwe Ishimaeri mwanakomana waNetania, mwanakomana waErishama, worudzi rwamambo, wakasvika anavarume vane gumi, akabaya Gedharia, akafa iye pamwechete navaJudha navaKaradhea vaiva naye paMizipa.

²⁵And it cometh to pass, in the seventh month, come hath Ishmael son of Nathaniah, son of Elishama of the seed of the kingdom, and ten men with him, and they smite Gedaliah, and he dieth, and the Jews and the Chaldeans who have been with him in Mizpah.

²⁶Ipapo vanhu vose, vaduku navakuru, navakuru vehondo vakasimuka vakaenda Egipita, nekuti vakanga vachitya vaKaradhea.

²⁶And all the people rise, from small even unto great, and the heads of the forces, and come in to Egypt, for they have been afraid of the presence of the Chaldeans.

²⁷Zvino negore ramakumi matatu namanomwe rokutapwa kwaJehoyakini mambo waJudha, nomwedzi wegumi nemiviri, nezuva ramakumi maviri namanomwe romwedzi, Evhiri-merodhaki mambo weBhabhironi, negore raakatanga kubata ushe naro, wakasimudza musoro waJehoyakini mambo waJudha, akamubvisa mutirongo;

²⁷And it cometh to pass, in the thirty and seventh year of the removal of Jehoiachin king of Judah, in the twelfth month, in the twenty and seventh of the month hath Evil-Merodach king of Babylon lifted up, in the year of his reigning, the head of Jehoiachin king of Judah, out of the house of restraint,

²⁸akataura naye nomoyo munyoro, akakudza chigaro chake choushe kupfuura zvigaro zvoushe zvamadzimambo aiva naye paBhabhironi.

²⁸and speaketh with him good things and putteth his throne above the throne of the kings who [are] with him in Babylon,

²⁹Akashandura nguvo dzake dzokusungwa, akaramba achidya zvokudya pamberi pake mazuva ose oupenyu hwake.

²⁹and hath changed the garments of his restraint, and he hath eaten bread continually before him all days of his life,

³⁰Kana zviri zvokurarama nazvo, waisipiwa zvokurarama nazvo namambo nguva dzose, zuva rimwe nerimwe mugove waro, mazuva ose oupenyu hwake.

³⁰and his allowance — a continual allowance — hath been given to him from the king, the matter of a day in its day, all days of his life.