¹Zvino Joabhu akaudzwa, zvichinzi Tarira, mambo unochema nokuungudzira Abhusaromu.

¹And it is declared to Joab, `Lo, the king is weeping and mourning for Absalom;`

²Naizvozvo kukunda kwezuva iro kwakashandurwa kukava kuchema kwavanhu vose, nekuti vanhu vakanzwa zuva iro zvichinzi, Mambo unochema mwanakomana wake.

²and the salvation on that day becometh mourning to all the people, for the people hath heard on that day, saying, `The king hath been grieved for his son.`

³Vanhu vakapinda muguta zuva iro vachiverevedza, savanhu vanonyara kana vachitiza kurwa.

³And the people stealeth away, on that day, to go in to the city, as the people steal away, who are ashamed, in their fleeing in battle;

⁴Mambo akafukidza chiso chake, mambo akachema nenzwi guru, achiti, Haiwa, mwana wangu Abhusaromu, Abhusaromu, mwana wangu, mwana wangu!

⁴and the king hath covered his face, yea, the king crieth — a loud voice — `My son Absalom, Absalom, my son, my son.`

⁵Ipapo Joabhu akapinda mumba kuna mambo, akati, Nhasi manyadza zviso zvavaranda venyu vose vakaponesa upenyu bwenyu nhasi, neupenyu hwevanakomana navanasikana venyu, noupenyu hwevakadzi venyu, noupenyu hwevarongo venyu;

⁵And Joab cometh in unto the king to the house, and saith, `Thou hast put to shame to-day the faces of all thy servants, those delivering thy life to-day, and the life of thy sons, and of thy daughters, and the life of thy wives, and the life of thy concubines,

⁶nekuti munoda ivo vanokuvengai, muchivenga vanokudai. nekuti makatiratidza nhasi, kuti hamuna hanya namachinda navaranda, nekuti nhasi ndaona, kuti Abhusaromu akanga achiri mupenyu, nesu tose takafa hedu nhasi, maifarira izvozvo.

⁶to love thine enemies, and to hate those loving thee, for thou hast declared to-day that thou hast no princes and servants, for I have known to-day that if Absalom [were] alive, and all of us to-day dead, that then it were right in thine eyes.

⁷Naizvozvo zvino simukai, mubude, mundotaura navaranda venyu, muvanyaradze; nekuti ndinokupikirai naJehovha, kuti kana musingabudi, hakuna munhu ungasara nemwi usiku hwuno; izvozvo zvingava zvakaipa kwamuri kukunda zvakaipa zvose zvakakuwirai kubva pawuduku bwenyu kusvikira zvino.

⁷`And now, rise, go out and speak unto the heart of thy servants, for by Jehovah I have sworn, that — thou art not going out — there doth not lodge a man with thee to-night; and this [is] worse for thee than all the evil that hath come upon thee from thy youth till now.`

⁸Ipapo mambo akasimuka, akandogara pasuwo. Vakaudza vanhu vose, vachiti, Tarirai, mambo ugere pasuwo; vanhu vose vakauya pamberi pamambo.

⁸And the king riseth, and sitteth in the gate, and to all the people they have declared, saying, `Lo, the king is sitting in the gate;` and all the people come in before the king, and Israel hath fled, each to his tents.

⁹Asi vanhu vose vakanga vachiita bope kumarudzi ose avaIsiraeri, vachiti, Mambo wakatirwira pamaoko avavengi vedu, akatiponesa pamaoko avaFirisitia, zvino wabva panyika achitiza Abhusaromu.

⁹And it cometh to pass, all the people are contending through all the tribes of Israel, saying, `The king delivered us out of the hand of our enemies, yea, he himself delivered us out of the hand of the Philistines, and now he hath fled out of the land because of Absalom,

¹⁰Asi Abhusaromu watakanga tazodza kuti ave mambo wedu, wafa pakurwa. Zvino munoregereiko kutaurirana kudzosa mambo?

¹⁰and Absalom whom we anointed over us [is] dead in battle, and now, why are ye silent — to bring back the king?`

¹¹Zvino mambo Dhavhidhi wakatuma nhume kuna Zhadhoki naAbhiatari vapristi, akati, Taurai kuvakuru vaJudha, muti, Imi munononokereiko kudzosa mambo kumba kwake? nekuti mambo wakanzwa kuti vaIsiraeri vose vanotaura kuti adzoswe kumba kwake.

¹¹And king David sent unto Zadok and unto Abiathar the priests, saying, `Speak ye unto the elders of Judah, saying, Why are ye last to bring back the king unto his house? (and the word of all Israel hath come unto the king, unto his house;)

¹²imwi muri hama dzangu, muri mafupa angu nenyama yangu, zvino munononokerei kudzosa mambo?

¹²my brethren ye [are], my bone and my flesh ye [are], and why are ye last to bring back the king?

¹³Zvino muti kuna Amasa, Iwe hausi pfupa rangu nenyama yangu here? Mwari ngaandirove, arambe achidaro, kana iwe usingazovi mukuru wehondo nguva yose pamberi pangu panzvimbo yaJoabhu.

¹³And to Amasa say ye, Art not thou my bone and my flesh? Thus doth God do to me, and thus He doth add, if thou art not head of the host before me all the days instead of Joab.`

¹⁴Akarereudza moyo yavanhu vose vaJudha somoyo womunhu mumwe; naizvozvo vakatuma shoko kuna mambo, vakati, Dzokai, imwi navaranda venyu vose.

¹⁴And he inclineth the heart of all the men of Judah as one man, and they send unto the king, `Turn back, thou, and all thy servants.`

¹⁵Naizvozvo mambo akadzoka akasvika paJoridhani VaJudha vakasvika paGirigari, vakasangana namambo, vakayambusa mambo Joridhani.

¹⁵And the king turneth back, and cometh in unto the Jordan, and Judah hath come to Gilgal, to go to meet the king, to bring the king over the Jordan,

¹⁶Zvino Shimei mwanakomana waGera, muBhenjamini, wakange agere Bhahurimu, wakakurumidza akaburuka navarume vaJudha kundosangana namambo Dhavhidhi.

¹⁶and Shimei son of Gera, the Benjamite, who [is] from Bahurim, hasteth, and cometh down with the men of Judah, to meet king David,

¹⁷Iye waiva navarume veBhenjamini vane chiuru chimwe, naZibha, muranda weimba yaSauro, navanakomana vake vane gumi navashanu, navaranda vake vane makumi maviri; ivo vakayambuka Joridhani pamberi pamambo.

¹⁷and a thousand men [are] with him from Benjamin, and Ziba servant of the house of Saul, and his fifteen sons and his twenty servants with him, and they have gone prosperously over the Jordan before the king.

¹⁸Igwa rikaenda kundoyambusa veimba yamambo, nokuita sezvavaida. Ipapo Shimei mwanakomana waGera wakazviwisira pasi pamberi pamambo, iye akayambuka Joridhani.

¹⁸And passed over hath the ferry-boat to carry over the household of the king, and to do that which [is] good in his eyes, and Shimei son of Gera hath fallen before the king in his passing over into Jordan,

¹⁹Akati kuna mambo, Ishe wangu ngaarege kundipa mhaka; regai henyu kurangarira kutadza komuranda wenyu zuva riya rokubuda kwashe wangu paJerusaremu; mambo ngaarege hake kurangarira izvozvo pamoyo pake.

¹⁹and saith unto the king, `Let not my lord impute to me iniquity; neither do thou remember that which thy servant did perversely in the day that my lord the king went out from Jerusalem, — for the king to set [it] unto his heart;

²⁰nekuti muranda wenyu unoziva kuti ndakatadza; naizvozvo tarirai, nhasi ndauya ndichitangira vose veimba yaJosefa, ndakaburuka kuzosangana nashe wangu mambo.

²⁰for thy servant hath known that I have sinned; and lo, I have come to-day, first of all the house of Joseph, to go down to meet my lord the king.`

²¹Asi Abhishai mwanakomana waZeruya, akapindura akati, Shimei haafaniri here kuurawa pamusoro pechinhu ichi, nekuti wakatuka muzodzwa waJehovha?

²¹And Abishai son of Zeruiah answereth and saith, `For this is not Shimei put to death — because he reviled the anointed of Jehovah?`

²²Dhavhidhi akati, Ndine mhosva yeiko nemi, imwi vanakomana vaZeruya, zvamunoda kuva vavengi vangu nhasi? Kungaurawa munhu mumwe waIsiraeri nhasi here? Munoti handizivi here kuti ndiri mambo waIsiraeri nhasi?

²²And David saith, `What — to me and to you, O sons of Zeruiah, that ye are to me to-day for an adversary? to-day is any man put to death in Israel? for have I not known that to-day I [am] king over Israel?`

²³Mambo akati kuna Shimei, Haungafi. Mambo akapika kwaari.

²³And the king saith unto Shimei, `Thou dost not die;` and the king sweareth to him.

²⁴Zvino Mefibhosheti mwanakomana waSauro wakaburuka kuzosangana namambo; asi iye wakange asina kushambidza tsoka dzake, kana kupetura ndebvu dzake, kana kusuka nguvo dzake, kubva pazuva rakaenda mambo kusvikira zuva raakadzoka naro norugare.

²⁴And Mephibosheth son of Saul hath come down to meet the king — and he prepared not his feet, nor did he prepare his upper lip, yea, his garments he washed not, even from the day of the going away of the king, till the day that he came in peace —

²⁵Zvino wakati asvika Jerusaremu kuzosangana namambo, mambo akati kwaari, Wakaregereiko kuenda neni, Mefibhosheti?

²⁵and it cometh to pass, when he hath come to Jerusalem to meet the king, that the king saith to him, `Why didst thou not go with me, Mephibosheth?`

²⁶Iye akapindura akati, Ishe wangu mambo, muranda wangu wakandinyengera; nekuti muranda wenyu wakati, ndichazviisira chigaro pambongoro, ndiitasve, ndiende namambo, nekuti muranda wenyu chirema.

²⁶And he saith, `My lord, O king, my servant deceived me, for thy servant said, I saddle for me the ass, and ride on it, and go with the king, for thy servant [is] lame;

²⁷Iye akandochera muranda wenyu kunashe wangu mambo; asi ishe wangu mambo wakafanana nomutumwa waMwari, naizvozvo itai henyu sezvamunoda.

²⁷and he uttereth slander against thy servant unto my lord the king, and my lord the king [is] as a messenger of God; and do thou that which is good in thine eyes,

²⁸nekuti vose veimba yababa vangu vaifanira kuurawa nashe wangu mambo; kunyange zvakadaro makagadza muranda wenyu pakati pavaidya patafura yenyu. Ini ndichine simba reiko rokuchema naro kuna mambo?

²⁸for all the house of my father have been nothing except men of death before my lord the king, and thou dost set thy servant among those eating at thy table, and what right have I any more — even to cry any more unto the king?`

²⁹Mambo akati kwaari, Ucharamba uchitaureiko? Ndinoti, Iwe naZibha govanai nyika.

²⁹And the king saith to him, `Why dost thou speak any more of thy matters? I have said, Thou and Ziba — share ye the field.`

³⁰Mefibhosheti akati kuna mambo, Iye ngaatore hake zvose, ishe wangu mambo zvaakadzokera kumba kwake norugare.

³⁰And Mephibosheth saith unto the king, `Yea, the whole let him take, after that my lord the king hath come in peace unto his house.`

³¹NaBharizirai muGiriyadhi wakaburukawo achibva Rogerimi, akayambuka Joridhani namambo, kuzomuperekedzera mhiri kwaJoridhani.

³¹And Barzillai the Gileadite hath gone down from Rogelim, and passeth over the Jordan with the king, to send him away over the Jordan;

³²Zvino Bharizirai wakange ari mutana kwazvo, wakange asvika makore makumi masere; wakange avigira mambo zvokudya panguva yokugara kwake paMahanaimi, nekuti wakange akafuma kwazvo.

³²and Barzillai [is] very aged, a son of eighty years, and he hath sustained the king in his abiding in Mahanaim, for he [is] a very great man;

³³Mambo akati kuna Bharizirai, Hendei, tiyambuke tose, ini ndichakuraramisa kwandiri paJerusaremu.

³³and the king saith unto Barzillai, `Pass thou over with me, and I have sustained thee with me in Jerusalem.`

³⁴Bharizirai akati kuna mambo, Makore oupenyu hwangu achava manganiko, kuti ndikwire Jerusaremu namambo?

³⁴And Barzillai saith unto the king, `How many [are] the days of the years of my life, that I go up with the king to Jerusalem?

³⁵Nhasi ndava namakore makumi masere; ini ndichagona kutsaura zvakanaka kune zvakaipa here? Muranda wenyu uchagona kuravira zvakanaka zvaanodya kana zvaanomwa here? Ndichagona kunzwa manzwi avarume navakadzi kana vachiimba here? Muranda wenyu ucharemedzereiko ishe wangu mambo?

³⁵A son of eighty years I [am] to-day; do I know between good and evil? doth thy servant taste that which I am eating, and that which I drink? do I hearken any more to the voice of singers and songstresses? and why is thy servant any more for a burden unto my lord the king?

³⁶Muranda wenyu wakange achingoda hake kuyambuka Joridhani namambo; zvino mambo ungandiripira izvozvo nomubayiro wakadai seiko?

³⁶As a little thing, thy servant doth pass over the Jordan with the king, and why doth the king recompense me this recompense?

³⁷Regai, muranda wenyu adzoke hake, ndinofira hangu muguta rangu, pamarinda ababa vangu namai vangu; asi hoyo muranda wenyu Chimhamu, iye ngaayambuke nashe wangu mambo, mugomuitira iye sezvamunoda.

³⁷Let, I pray thee, thy servant turn back again, and I die in mine own city, near the burying-place of my father and of my mother, — and lo, thy servant Chimham, let him pass over with my lord the king, and do thou to him that which [is] good in thine eyes.`

³⁸Mambo akapindura akati, Chimhamu uchayambuka neni, ini ndichamuitira iye sezvaunoda iwe; zvose zvaunoreva kwandiri ndichakuitira izvo.

³⁸And the king saith, `With me doth Chimham go over, and I do to him that which [is] good in thine eyes, yea, all that thou dost fix on me I do to thee.`

³⁹Vanhu vose vakayambuka Joridhani, naiye mambo akayambukawo; mambo akatsvoda Bharizirai akamuropafadza, iye akadzokera kumusha kwake.

³⁹And all the people pass over the Jordan, and the king hath passed over, and the king giveth a kiss to Barzillai, and blesseth him, and he turneth back to his place.

⁴⁰Naizvozvo mambo akapfuurira Girigari, Chimhamu akayambuka naye, navanhu vose vaJudha vakapfuudzira mberi mambo, uyewo hafu yavanhu vaIsiraeri.

⁴⁰And the king passeth over to Gilgal, and Chimham hath passed over with him, and all the people of Judah, and they bring over the king, and also the half of the people of Israel.

⁴¹Zvino varume vose vaIsiraeri vakauya kuna mambo, vakati kuna mambo, Hama dzedu, varume vaJudha, vakakubireiko, vakayambusa mambo naveimba yake Joridhani, pamwechete navarume vose vaDhavhidhi?

⁴¹And, lo, all the men of Israel are coming unto the king, and they say unto the king, `Wherefore have they stolen thee — our brethren, the men of Judah?` (and they bring the king and his household over the Jordan, and all the men of David with him).

⁴²Varume vose vaJudha vakapindura varume vaIsiraeri, vakati, nekuti mambo ihama yedu yomumba; matsamwireiko nemhaka iyi? Ko isu takatongodya zvamambo here? Iye wakatongotipa chipo here?

⁴²And all the men of Judah answer against the men of Israel, `Because the king [is] near unto us, and why [is] this — ye are displeased about this matter? have we at all eaten of the king`s [substance?] a gift hath he lifted up to us?`

⁴³Varume vaIsiraeri vakapindura varume vaJudha, vakati, Isu tine migove ine gumi kuna mambo, naDhavhidhi ndewedu kukunda imi; zvino imwi makatizvidzireiko, zvamusina kutanga kurangana nesu pamusoro pokudzosa mambo wedu? Asi mashoko avarume vaJudha akanga achityisa kukunda mashoko avarume vaIsiraeri.

⁴³And the men of Israel answer the men of Judah, and say, `Ten parts we have in the king, and also in David more than you; and wherefore have ye lightly esteemed us, that our word hath not been first to bring back our king?` And the word of the men of Judah is sharper than the word of the men of Israel.