¹Inzwa, iwe Isiraeri, nhasi unofanira kuyambuka Joridhani, kuti upinde nyika kundopiwa ndudzi dzinokupfuura paukuru nesimba, dzive dzako, namaguta makuru ana masvingo anosvika kudenga,

¹`Hear, Israel, thou art passing over to-day the Jordan, to go in to possess nations greater and mightier than thyself; cities great and fenced in the heavens;

²navanhu vakuru varefu, vana vaAnaki, vaunoziva, vawakanzwa zvichinzi, Ndianiko ungamira pamberi pavana vaAnaki?

²a people great and tall, sons of Anakim, whom thou — thou hast known, (and thou — thou hast heard: Who doth station himself before sons of Anak?)

³Naizvozvo uzive nhasi kuti Jehovha Mwari wako ndiye unokutungamirira somoto unoparadza; iye uchavaparadza, iye uchavakunda pamberi pako; naizvozvo iwe uchavadzinga, nokuvaparadza nokukurumidza, sezvawakaudzwa naJehovha.

³and thou hast known to-day, that Jehovah thy God [is] He who is passing over before thee — a fire consuming; He doth destroy them, and He doth humble them before thee, and thou hast dispossessed them, and destroyed them hastily, as Jehovah hath spoken to thee.

⁴Zvino kana Jehovha Mwari wako avadzinga pamberi pako, usataura mumoyo mako, uchiti, Jehovha wakandipinza munyika ino ive yangu, nokuda kokururama kwangu; nekuti Jehovha unodzinga ndudzi idzi nokuda kokuipa kwavo.

⁴`Thou dost not speak in thy heart (in Jehovah thy God`s driving them away from before thee), saying, For my righteousness hath Jehovah brought me in to possess this land, seeing for the wickedness of these nations is Jehovah dispossessing them from thy presence;

⁵Haupindi munyika yavo, ive yako, nokuda kokururama kwako, kana nokuda kokururama komoyo wako; asi Jehovha Mwari wako unodzinga ndudzi idzi pamberi pako nokuda kokuipa kwavo, uye kuti asimbise shoko rakapikirwa madzibaba ako naJehovha, kuna Abhurahamu, nokuna Isaka, nokuna Jakove.

⁵not for thy righteousness, and for the uprightness of thy heart, art thou going in to possess their land; but for the wickedness of these nations is Jehovah thy God dispossessing them from before thee; and in order to establish the word which Jehovah hath sworn to thy fathers, to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob;

⁶Naizvozvo uzive kuti Jehovha Mwari wako haakupi nyika iyi yakanaka ive yako, nokuda kokururama kwako; nekuti uri rudzi rune mitsipa mikukutu.

⁶and thou hast known, that not for thy righteousness is Jehovah thy God giving to thee this good land to possess it, for a people stiff of neck thou [art].

⁷Rangarira, usakangamwa, kuti wakatsamwisa Jehovha Mwari wako sei murenje; kubva pazuva rawakabuda naro panyika yeEgipita kudzimana masvika kunzvimbo iyi, makaramba muchimukira Jehovha.

⁷`Remember — do not forget — that [with] which thou hast made Jehovah thy God wroth in the wilderness; even from the day that thou hast come out of the land of Egypt till your coming in unto this place rebels ye have been with Jehovah;

⁸NapaHorebhu makatsamwisa Jehovha, Jehovha akakutsamwirai, akada kukuparadzai.

⁸even in Horeb ye have made Jehovah wroth, and Jehovah sheweth Himself angry against you — to destroy you.

⁹Nguva yandakakwira pagomo kundogamuchira mabwendefa amabwe, iwo mabwendefa esungano, yaakaita iye Jehovha nemi, ndakagara mugomo mazuva ana makumi mana nousiku huna makumi mana; ndakanga ndisingadyi zvokudya, kana kumwa mvura.

⁹`In my going up into the mount to receive the tables of stone (tables of the covenant which Jehovah hath made with you), and I abide in the mount forty days and forty nights; bread I have not eaten, and water I have not drunk;

¹⁰Zvino Jehovha akandipa mabwendefa maviri amabwe, akanga akanyorwa nomumwe waMwari; pamusoro pawo pakanga pakanyorwa mashoko ose akanga ataurwa kwamuri naJehovha pagomo, ari mukati momoto nomusi weungano.

¹⁰and Jehovah giveth unto me the two tables of stone written with the finger of God, and on them according to all the words which Jehovah hath spoken with you in the mount, out of the midst of the fire, in the day of the assembly.

¹¹Zvino mazuva ana makumi mana nousiku huna makumi mana zvakati zvapera, Jehovha akandipa mabwendefa maviri amabwe, iwo mabwendefa esungano.

¹¹`And it cometh to pass, at the end of forty days and forty nights, Jehovah hath given unto me the two tables of stone — tables of the covenant,

¹²Zvino Jehovha akati kwandiri, Simuka, kurumidza kuburuka pano, nekuti vanhu vako vawakabudisa paEgipita, vazvitadzira; vakurumidza kutsauka panzira yandakavaraira; vazviitira mufananidzo wakaumbwa.

¹²and Jehovah saith unto me, Rise, go down, hasten from this, for thy people hath done corruptly, whom thou hast brought out of Egypt; they have turned aside hastily out of the way which I have commanded them — they have made to themselves a molten thing!

¹³Uye Jehovha akataura neni, akati, Ndaona rudzi urwu, tarira, rudzi rune mitsipa mikukutu;

¹³`And Jehovah speaketh unto me, saying, I have seen this people, and lo, a people stiff of neck it [is];

¹⁴ndirege, ndivaparadze, ndidzime zita ravo pasi pedenga, ndikuite iwe rudzi runovapfuura nesimba noukuru.

¹⁴desist from Me, and I destroy them, and blot out their name from under the heavens, and I make thee become a nation more mighty and numerous than it.

¹⁵Naizvozvo ndakadzoka, ndikaburuka mugomo, gomo rikapfuta nomoto; zvino mabwendefa maviri esungano akanga ari mumaoko angu maviri.

¹⁵`And I turn, and come down from the mount, and the mount is burning with fire, and the two tables of the covenant on my two hands,

¹⁶Ndikatarira, ndikaona kuti makanga matadzira Jehovha Mwari wenyu; makanga mazviitira mhuru yakaumbwa; makanga makurumidza kutsauka panzira yamakanga marairwa naJehovha.

¹⁶and I see, and lo, ye have sinned against Jehovah your God; ye have made to yourselves a molten calf; ye have turned aside hastily out of the way which Jehovah hath commanded you.

¹⁷Ndikabata mabwendefa maviri, ndikaarashira pasi muchizviona.

¹⁷`And I lay hold on the two tables, and cast them out of my two hands, and break them before your eyes,

¹⁸Ndikawira pasi pamberi paJehovha, sapakutanga, mazuva ana makumi mana nousiku huna makumi mana; ndakanga ndisingadyi zvokudya, kana kumwa mvura, nokuda kwezvivi zvenyu zvose zvamakanga matadza, muchiita zvakaipa pamberi paJehovha, muchimutsamwisa.

¹⁸and I throw myself before Jehovah, as at first, forty days and forty nights; bread I have not eaten, and water I have not drunk, because of all your sins which ye have sinned, by doing the evil thing in the eyes of Jehovah, to make Him angry.

¹⁹Nekuti ndakatya hasha nekutsamwa kukuru, kwamakatsamwirwa nako naJehovha, nekuti wakange achida kukuparadzai. Asi Jehovha wakandinzwawo nenguva iyo.

¹⁹`For I have been afraid because of the anger and the fury with which Jehovah hath been wroth against you, to destroy you; and Jehovah doth hearken unto me also at this time.

²⁰Jehovha wakange ane shunguvo kwazvo naAroni, akada kumuparadza, ndikanyengeterera Aroniwo nenguva iyo.

²⁰`And with Aaron hath Jehovah shewed himself very angry, to destroy him, and I pray also for Aaron at that time;

²¹Ndikatora zvivi zvenyu, iyo mhuru iya yamakanga maumba, ndikaipisa nomoto, ndikaipwanya, nokuikuya kwazvo, kusvikira yatsetseka seguruva; ndikakandira guruva rayo murukova rwakanga ruchibva mugomo.

²¹and your sin, which ye have made — the calf — I have taken, and I burn it with fire, and beat it, grinding well till that it [is] small as dust, and I cast its dust unto the brook which is going down out of the mount.

²²NapaTabherawo, napaMasa, napaKibhiroti-hatava makatsamwisa Jehovha.

²²`And in Taberah, and in Massah, and in Kibroth-Hattaavah, ye have been making Jehovah wroth:

²³Nenguva yamakatumwa naJehovha kuti mubve paKadheshi-bharinea, achiti, Kwirai, mutore nyika, yandakakupai, ive yenyu, makamukira murayiro waJehovha Mwari wenyu, mukasamutenda, nokusateerera inzwi rake.

²³and in Jehovah`s sending you from Kadesh-Barnea, saying, Go up, and possess the land which I have given to you, then ye provoke the mouth of Jehovah your God, and have not given credence to Him, nor hearkened to His voice;

²⁴Makaramba muchimukira Jehovha kubva pazuva randakatanga kukuzivai.

²⁴rebels ye have been with Jehovah from the day of my knowing you.

²⁵Zvino ndikawira pasi pamberi paJehovha mazuva ana makumi mana nousiku huna makumi mana, ndiyo nguva yandakawira pasi; nekuti Jehovha wakati, Ndichakuparadzai.

²⁵`And I throw myself before Jehovah, the forty days and the forty nights, as I had thrown myself, for Jehovah hath said — to destroy you;

²⁶Zvino ndikanyengetera kuna Jehovha, ndikati, Haiwa, Jehovha Mwari, musaparadza henyu vanhu venyu nenhaka yenyu, vamakadzikunura noukuru bwenyu, vamakabudisa paEgipita neruoko rune simba.

²⁶and I pray unto Jehovah, and say, Lord Jehovah, destroy not Thy people, and Thine inheritance, whom Thou hast ransomed in Thy greatness; whom Thou hast brought out of Egypt with a strong hand;

²⁷Rangarirai varanda venyu, Abhurahamu, naIsaka, naJakove; musatarira kusindimara kwavanhu ava, kana kuipa kwavo, kana zvivi zvavo;

²⁷be mindful of Thy servants, of Abraham, of Isaac, and of Jacob, turn not unto the stiffness of this people, and unto its wickedness, and unto its sin;

²⁸kuti nyika kwamakatibudisa, irege kuzoti, Jehovha wakavabudisa akavaurayira murenje, nekuti wakange asingagoni kuvapinza munyika yaakanga avapikira, uye nekuti wakange achivavenga.

²⁸lest the land say from which Thou hast brought us out, Because of Jehovah`s want of ability to bring them in unto the land of which He hath spoken to them, and because of His hating them, He brought them out to put them to death in the wilderness;

²⁹Kunyange zvakadaro rudzi rwenyu nenhaka yenyu, rwamakabudisa nesimba renyu guru, noruoko rwenyu rwakatambanudzwa.

²⁹and they [are] Thy people, and Thine inheritance, whom Thou hast brought out by Thy great power, and by Thy stretched-out arm!