¹Zvino negore ramakumi matatu, nomwedzi wechina, nezuva rechishanu romwedzi, ini ndiri pakati pavakatapwa parwizi rwaKebhari, kudenga kwakazarurwa, ndikaona zvandakaratidzwa zvaMwari.

¹And it cometh to pass, in the thirtieth year, in the fourth [month], in the fifth of the month, and I [am] in the midst of the Removed by the river Chebar, the heavens have been opened, and I see visions of God.

²Nezuva rechishanu romwedzi, riri gore rechishanu rokutapwa kwamambo Jehoiakini,

²In the fifth of the month — it is the fifth year of the removal of the king Jehoiachin —

³shoko raJehovha rakasvika kumupristi Ezekieri, mwanakomana waBhuzi, munyika yavaKaradhea, parwizi rwaKebhari; ruoko rwaJehovha rwakanga ruri pamusoro pake ipapo

³hath the word of Jehovah certainly been unto Ezekiel son of Buzi the priest, in the land of the Chaldeans, by the river Chebar, and there is on him there a hand of Jehovah.

⁴Ndikatarira, ndikaona dutu remhepo richibva kurutivi rwokumusoro, riri gore guru rinomoto wakangozvibatirira, rakakomberedzwa nokubwinya, nomukati maro, imo mukati momoto, mune chinhu chaipenya sedare.

⁴And I look, and lo, a tempestuous wind is coming from the north, a great cloud, and fire catching itself, and brightness to it round about, and out of its midst as the colour of copper, out of the midst of the fire.

⁵Zvino mukati mazvo mukabuda zvakanga zvakaita sezvipenyu zvina. Zvakanga zvakadai: Zvakanga zvakafanana nomunhu;

⁵And out of its midst [is] a likeness of four living creatures, and this [is] their appearance; a likeness of man [is] to them,

⁶chimwe nechimwe chaiva nezviso zvina, nechimwe nechimwe chazvo chaiva namapapiro mana.

⁶and four faces [are] to each, and four wings [are] to each of them,

⁷Makumbo azvo akanga akarurama, pasi petsoka dzadzo pakanga pakaita sapasi petsoka dzemhuru; dzaipenya sendarira yakabwinyiswa.

⁷and their feet [are] straight feet, and the sole of their feet [is] as a sole of a calf`s foot, and they are sparkling as the colour of bright brass;

⁸Zvakanga zvina maoko omunhu pasi pamapapiro azvo kumativi azvo mana; zvose zviri zvina zvakanga zvakadai pazviso zvazvo namapapiro azvo:

⁸and hands of man under their wings — on their four sides, and their faces and their wings — [are] to them four;

⁹Mapapiro azvo akanga akabatana; hazvina kutsauka pakufamba kwazvo, asi chimwe nechimwe chairuramira mberi pakufamba kwacho.

⁹joining one unto another [are] their wings, they turn not round in their going, each straight forward they go.

¹⁰Kana zviri zviso zvazvo pakuonekwa kwazvo, zvaiva nechiso chomunhu; zvose zviri zvina zvaiva nechiso cheshumba kurutivi rworudyi; zvose zviri zvina zvaiva nechiso chenzombe kurutivi rworuboshwe; zvose zviri zvina zvaiva nechiso chegondobwe.

¹⁰As to the likeness of their faces, the face of a man, and the face of a lion, toward the right [are] to them four, and the face of an ox on the left [are] to them four, and the face of an eagle [are] to them four.

¹¹Ndizvo zvakanga zvakaita zviso zvazvo; namapapiro azvo akanga zvakaparadzana kumusoro; mapapiro maviri echimwe nechimwe akanga akabatana, asi maviri akanga akafukidza muviri wazvo.

¹¹And their faces and their wings are separate from above, to each [are] two joining together, and two are covering their bodies.

¹²Chimwe nechimwe chairuramira mberi pakufamba kwacho; kwaida kufamba mweya, ndiko kwazvaifamba; hazvina kutsauka pakufamba kwazvo.

¹²And each straight forward they go, whither the spirit is to go, they go, they turn not round in their going.

¹³Kana zviri zvipenyu pakuonekwa kwazvo, zvakanga zvakafanana namazimbe omoto anopfuta, zvakafanana namazhenje; moto wairamba uchifamba pakati pezvipenyu; moto waipenya, nomukati momoto maibuda mheni.

¹³As to the likeness of the living creatures, their appearances [are] as coals of fire — burning as the appearance of lamps; it is going up and down between the living creatures, and brightness [is] to the fire, and out of the fire is going forth lightning.

¹⁴Zvipenyu zvaimhanya zvichidzoka, zvakafanana nokupenya kwemheni.

¹⁴And the living creatures are running, and turning back, as the appearance of the flash.

¹⁵Zvino ndakati ndichitarira zvipenyu izvo, ndikaona gumbo rimwe rengoro riri pasi kurutivi rwezvipenyu izvo, kurutivi rumwe norumwe rwezviso zvacho.

¹⁵And I see the living creatures, and lo, one wheel [is] in the earth, near the living creatures, at its four faces.

¹⁶Makumbo awo pakuonekwa kwawo nomuitirwo wawo zvakanga zvakafanana nebheriri; ose ari mana akanga akafanana; pakuonekwa kwawo napamuitirwo wawo zvakanga zvakaita segumbo rimwe riri mukati merimwe gumbo.

¹⁶The appearance of the wheels and their works [is] as the colour of beryl, and one likeness [is] to them four, and their appearances and their works [are] as it were the wheel in the midst of the wheel.

¹⁷Pakufamba kwawo akafamba kumativi awo mana; haana kutsauka pakufamba kwawo.

¹⁷On their four sides, in their going they go, they turn not round in their going.

¹⁸Kana ari marimu awo, akanga akakwirira uye achityisa; marimu awo mana akanga azere nameso kose-kose.

¹⁸As to their rings, they are both high and fearful, and their rings [are] full of eyes round about them four.

¹⁹Zvino kana zvipenyu zvofamba, makumbo ofambawo parutivi rwazvo, kana zvipenyu zvokwidzwa zvichibva pasi, naiwo makumbo okwidzwawo.

¹⁹And in the going of the living creatures, the wheels go beside them, and in the living creatures being lifted up from off the earth, lifted up are the wheels.

²⁰Kose kwaienda mweya, ndiko kwazvaienda, makumbo ndokukwidzwa pamwechete nazvo, nekuti mweya wechipenyu wakange uri mumakumbo.

²⁰Whither the spirit is to go, they go, thither the spirit [is] to go, and the wheels are lifted up over-against them, for a living spirit [is] in the wheels.

²¹Kana izvo zvofamba, iwo ofamba; kana izvo zvomira zvichibva pasi, makumbo okwidzwa pamwechete nazvo; nekuti mweya wechipenyu wakange uri mumakumbo.

²¹In their going, they go; and in their standing, they stand; and in their being lifted up from off the earth, lifted up are the wheels over-against them; for a living spirit [is] in the wheels.

²²Kumusoro kwemisoro yezvipenyu kwakanga kune chinhu chakafanana nedenga, rakanga rakaita sekiristaro inotyisa, rakatatamurwa pamusoro pemisoro yazvo.

²²And a likeness [is] over the heads of the living creatures of an expanse, as the colour of the fearful ice, stretched out over their heads from above.

²³Pasi pedenga mapapiro azvo akanga akarurama, rimwe rakabatana nerimwe; chimwe nechimwe chazvo chakanga china mapapiro maviri aifukidza muviri wacho kurutivi rwowuno, nechimwe nechimwe chaiva namapapiro maviri aifukidza kurutivi rweseri.

²³And under the expanse their wings [are] straight, one toward the other, to each are two covering on this side, and to each are two covering on that side — their bodies.

²⁴Zvino kana zvofamba, ndainzwa kuunga kwamapapiro azvo zvichiita sokuunga kwemvura zhinji, senzwi reane simba rose, somubvumo webope wakaita sokutinhira kwehondo; kana zvomira, zvaipeta mapapiro azvo.

²⁴And I hear the noise of their wings, as the noise of many waters, as the noise of the Mighty One, in their going — the noise of tumult, as the noise of a camp, in their standing they let fall their wings.

²⁵Kwakanga kunenzwi kumusoro kwedenga raiva pamusoro pemisoro yazvo; kana zvomira, zvaideredza mapapiro azvo.

²⁵And there is a voice from above the expanse, that [is] above their head: in their standing they let fall their wings.

²⁶Kumusoro kwedenga rakanga riri pamusoro pemisoro yazvo, kwakanga kune chinhu chakafanana nechigaro chohushe, chaiita sebwe resafiri; pachinhu chakafanana nechigaro chohushe kwakanga kuno mufananidzo womunhu agere pamusoro pacho.

²⁶And above the expanse that [is] over their head, as an appearance of a sapphire stone, [is] the likeness of a throne, and on the likeness of the throne a likeness, as the appearance of man upon it from above.

²⁷Zvino ndakaona zvakaita sedare rinopenya, zvakafanana nomoto mukati mazvo kumativi ose, zvakabva pakaita sechiuno chake zvichikwira kumusoro; zvino kubva ipapo pakaita sechiuno chake zvichienda pasi ndakaona chakaita somoto; iye akanga akakomberedzwa nokubwinya kumativi ose.

²⁷And I see as the colour of copper, as the appearance of fire within it round about, from the appearance of his loins and upward, and from the appearance of his loins and downward, I have seen as the appearance of fire, and brightness [is] to it round about.

²⁸Sezvakaita murarawungu uri mugore nezuva remvura, ndizvo zvakanga zvakaita kubwinya pakuonekwa kwahwo kumativi ose. Ndizvo zvakanga zvakaita kubwinya kwaJehovha. Zvino ndakati ndichizviona, ndikawira pasi nechiso changu, ndikanzwa inzwi romumwe akanga achitaura.

²⁸As the appearance of the bow that is in a cloud in a day of rain, so [is] the appearance of the brightness round about.