1Vane nhamo vagere zvakanaka paZiyoni, navagere pakasimba mugomo reSamaria, ivo vanhu vane mbiri vorudzi rukuru pakati pamarudzi, kunoenda imba yaIsiraeri!
1Wo [to] those secure in Zion, And those confident in the mount of Samaria, The marked of the chief of the nations, And come to them have the house of Israel.
2Pfuurirai Karine, muone; kubva ipapo endai Hamati, iro guta guru; zvino muende Gati ravaFirisitia; ivo vakakurira ushe hwohuno here? Nyika yavo ihuru kune yenyu here?
2Pass ye over [to] Calneh and see, And go thence [to] Hamath the great, And go down [to] Gath of the Philistines, Are [they] better than these kingdoms? Greater [is] their border than your border?
3Iyemi, munoti zuva rakaipa richiri kure, muchiswededza zvigaro panoitwa nesimba;
3Who are putting away the day of evil, And ye bring nigh the seat of violence,
4imwi, munovata pamibhedha yenyanga dzenzou, muchizamura pauvato bwenyu, muchidya makwayana amapoka, nemhuru dziri mukati mechirugu;
4Who are lying down on beds of ivory, And are spread out on their couches, And are eating lambs from the flock, And calves from the midst of the stall,
5munoimba nziyo dzisina maturo mbira dzichiridzwa, munozviitira zvinoridzwa saDhavhidhi;
5Who are taking part according to the psaltery, Like David they invented for themselves instruments of music;
6imi, munomwa waini nemidziyo yokubayira, muchizora mafuta akaisvonaka; asi hamune hanya nokukuvadzwa kwaJosefa.
6Who are drinking with bowls of wine, And [with] chief perfumes anoint [themselves], And have not been pained for the breach of Joseph.
7Naizvozvo zvino vachatapwa nowokutanga vanotapwa; ipapo ruzha rwavanozamura ruchapfuura.
7Therefore now they remove at the head of the captives, And turned aside is the mourning-feast of stretched-out ones.
8Ishe Jehovha wakapika naiye amene ndizvo zvinotaura Jehovha, iye Mwari wehondo achiti, Ndinosema kuzvikudza kwaJakove, ndinovenga dzimba dzavo dzoushe; naizvozvo ndinoisa guta nezvose zvirimo kuvavengi vavo.
8Sworn hath the Lord Jehovah by Himself, An affirmation of Jehovah, God of Hosts: I am abominating the excellency of Jacob, And his high places I have hated, And I have delivered up the city and its fulness.
9Zvino kana varume vane gumi vakasara muimba imwe vachafa.
9And if there are left ten persons in one house, It hath come to pass — that they have died.
10Kana hama yomunhu wakafa ichiuya kumutora iye anozomupisa, ichibvisa mafupa mumba, ikati kuno ari mukati-kati meimba, Kuchinomumwe newe here? Iye akati Kwete! ipapo uchati nyarara, nekuti hazvina kufanira kuti tireve zita raJehovha.
10And lifted him up hath his loved one, even his burner, To bring forth the bones from the house, And he said to him who [is] in the sides of the house, `Is there yet with thee?` And he said, `None,` then he said, `Hush! Save to make mention of the name of Jehovah.`
11nekuti tarirai, Jehovha anoraira, iye achakoromora imba huru, neimba duku ichaita mitswe.
11For lo, Jehovah is commanding, And He hath smitten the great house [with] breaches, And the little house [with] clefts.
12Ko mabhiza angamhanya paruware here? Ko pangarimwa nemombe here? nekuti makashandura kururamisa mukakuita nduru, nezvibereko zvokururama mukazviita gavakava;
12Do horses run on a rock? Doth one plough [it] with oxen? For ye have turned to gall judgment, And the fruit of righteousness to wormwood.
13iyemi, munofarira chinhu chisina maturo, muchiti, Hatina kuzviwanira nyanga nesimba redu here?
13O ye who are rejoicing at nothing, Who are saying, `Have we not by our strength taken to ourselves horns?`
14nekuti tarirai, ndichakumutsirai rumwe rudzi, imwi imba yaIsiraeri, ndizvo zvinotaura Jehovha, iye Mwari wehondo; ruchakutambudzai kubva pavanopinda paHamati kusvikira kurukova rwerenje.
14Surely, lo, I am raising against you a nation, O house of Israel, An affirmation of Jehovah, God of Hosts, And they have oppressed you from the coming in to Hamath, Unto the stream of the desert.