¹Zvino Mweya wakandisimudza, ndokundiisa kusuwo ramabvazuva reimba yaJehovha, raitarira kumabvazuva; ndikaona pamukova wesuwo varume vana makumi maviri navashanu, ndikaona pakati pavo Jaazania mwanakomana waAzuri, naPeratia mwanakomana waBhenaia, machinda avanhu.

¹And lift me up doth a spirit, and it bringeth me in unto the east gate of the house of Jehovah, that is facing the east, and lo, at the opening of the gate twenty and five men, and I see in their midst Jaazaniah son of Azzur, and Pelatiah son of Benaiah, heads of the people.

²Akati kwandiri, Mwanakomana womunhu, ava ndivo varume vanofunga zvakaipa, vanorayirira mano akaipa muguta rino;

²And He saith unto me, `Son of man, these [are] the men who are devising iniquity, and who are giving evil counsel in this city;

³vanoti, Nguva ichigere kuswedera yokuvaka dzimba, guta igate, isu tiri nyama.

³who are saying, It [is] not near — to build houses, it [is] the pot, and we the flesh.

⁴Naizvozvo chivaporofitira, Mwanakomana womunhu, chiporofita.

⁴Therefore prophesy concerning them, prophesy, son of man.`

⁵Ipapo Mweya waJehovha wakawira pamusoro pangu, akati kwandiri, Taura, uti, Zvanzi naJehovha, ndizvo zvamakataura, imwi imba yaIsiraeri; nekuti ndinoziva zvamunofunga mundangariro dzenyu.

⁵And fall upon me doth the Spirit of Jehovah, and He saith unto me, `Say: Thus said Jehovah: Rightly ye have said, O house of Israel, And the steps of your spirit I have known.

⁶Makawanza vamakauraya muguta rino, makazadza nzira dzaro navakaurawa.

⁶Ye multiplied your wounded in this city, And filled its out-places with the wounded.

⁷Naizvozvo zvanzi naIshe Jehovha, Vamakauraya, vamakaradzika mukati maro, ndiyo nyama, guta rino igate, asi imwi muchabudiswa mukati maro.

⁷Therefore, thus said the Lord Jehovah: Your wounded whom ye placed in its midst, They [are] the flesh, and it [is] the pot, And you he hath brought out from its midst.

⁸Makatya munondo; ini ndichauyisa munondo pamusoro penyu, ndizvo zvinotaura Ishe Jehovha.

⁸A sword ye have feared, And a sword I bring in against you, An affirmation of the Lord Jehovah.

⁹Ini ndichakubudisai mukati maro, ndichakuisai mumaoko avatorwa, ndichaita zvandakatonga pakati penyu.

⁹And I have brought you out of its midst, And given you into the hand of strangers, And I have done among you judgments.

¹⁰Muchaurawa nomunondo; ndichakutongai munyika yaIsiraeri, zvino muchaziva kuti ndini Jehovha.-

¹⁰By the sword ye do fall, On the border of Israel I do judge you, And ye have known that I [am] Jehovah.

¹¹Guta rino haringavi gate renyu, nemwi hamungavi nyama mukati maro; ndichakutongai munyika yaIsiraeri.

¹¹It is not to you for a pot, Nor are ye in its midst for flesh, At the border of Israel I do judge you.

¹²Ipapo muchaziva kuti ndini Jehovha, nekuti hamuna kufamba nemitemo yangu kana kuita zvandakarayira, asi makatevera mirayiro yamarudzi anokupoteredzai.

¹²And ye have known that I [am] Jehovah, For in My statutes ye have not walked, And My Judgments ye have not done, And according to the judgments of the nations Who are round about you — ye have done!`

¹³Zvino ndakati ndichiporofita, Peratia mwanakomana waBhenaia akafa. Ipapo ndakawira pasi nechiso changu, ndikachema nenzwi guru ndichiti, Aiwa, Ishe Jehovha! Moda kupedza chose vakasara vose vaIsiraeri here?

¹³And it cometh to pass, at my prophesying, that Pelatiah son of Benaiah is dying, and I fall on my face, and cry — a loud voice — and say, `Ah, Lord Jehovah, an end Thou art making of the remnant of Israel.`

¹⁴Zvino shoko raJehovha rakasvika kwandiri, richiti,

¹⁴And there is a word of Jehovah unto me, saying,

¹⁵Mwanakomana womunhu, hama dzako, idzo hama dzako, vanhu vorudzi rwako, neimba yose yaIsiraeri, ivo vose, ndivo vakanzi navagere Jerusaremu, Ibvai kure naJehovha, nyika ino yakapiwesu, ive yedu.

¹⁵`Son of man, thy brethren, thy brethren, men of thy kindred, and all the house of Israel — all of it, [are] they to whom inhabitants of Jerusalem have said, Keep far off from Jehovah;

¹⁶Naizvozvo uti, Zvanzi naIshe Jehovha, zvandakavabvisa, ndikavaisa kure pakati pamarudzi, uye zvandakavaparadzira pakati penyika, ndichava kwavari nzvimbo tsvene nguva duku kunyika idzo kwavakaenda kwadziri;

¹⁶it [is] ours, the land hath been given for an inheritance; therefore say: Thus said the Lord Jehovah: Because I put them afar off among nations, And because I scattered them through lands, I also am to them for a little sanctuary, In lands whither they have gone in.

¹⁷naizvozvo uti, Zvanzi naIshe Jehovha, ndichakuunganidzai mubve pakati pamarudzi, ndichakukokerai mubve panyika kwamakaparadzirwa, ndigokupai nyika yaIsiraeri.

¹⁷Therefore say: Thus said the Lord Jehovah: And I have assembled you from the peoples, And I have gathered you from the lands, Into which ye have been scattered, And I have given to you the ground of Israel.

¹⁸Vachadzokerako nokubvisamo zvose zvayo zvinosemesa nezvose zvayo zvinonyangadza.

¹⁸And they have gone in thither. And turned aside all its detestable things, And all its abominations — out of it.

¹⁹Ndichavapa moyo mumwe, nokuisa mweya mutsva mukati menyu; ndichabvisa moyo webwe munyama yavo, ndokuvapa moyo wenyama;

¹⁹And I have given to them one heart, And a new spirit I do give in your midst, And I have turned the heart of stone out of their flesh, And I have given to them a heart of flesh.

²⁰kuti vafambe nemitemo yangu, vachengete zvandakarayira nokuzviita; ivo vachava vanhu vangu, neni ndichava Mwari wavo.

²⁰So that in My statutes they walk, And My judgments they keep, and have done them, And they have been to me for a people, And I am to them for God.

²¹Asi kana vari ivo, vane moyo inotevera moyo yezvinhu zvavo zvinosemesa nezvinonyangadza, ndichauyisa zvavakaita pamisoro yavo, ndizvo zvinotaura Ishe Jehovha.

²¹As to those whose heart is going unto the heart Of their detestable and their abominable things, Their way on their head I have put, An affirmation of the Lord Jehovah.`

²²Ipapo makerubhi akasimudza mapapiro awo, namakumbo engoro akanga ari pamativi awo; kubwinya kwaMwari waIsiraeri kwakanga kuri nechokumusoro kwavo.

²²And the cherubs lift up their wings, and the wheels [are] over-against them, and the honour of the God of Israel [is] over them above.

²³Kubwinya kwaJehovha ndokukwira kuchibva mukati meguta, ndokumira pamusoro pegomo riri kumabvazuva eguta.

²³And the honour of Jehovah goeth up from off the midst of the city, and standeth on the mountain, that [is] on the east of the city.

²⁴Ipapo Mweya wakandisimudza ndokundiisa Karadhea kuna vakatapwa, ndichizvioneswa noMweya waMwari. Zvino chiratidzo chandakanga ndaona chakakwidzwa chichibva kwandiri.

²⁴And a spirit hath lifted me up, and bringeth me in to Chaldea, unto the Removed, in a vision, by the Spirit of God, and go up from off me doth the vision that I have seen;

²⁵Ipapo ndakaudza vakatapwa zvinhu zvose zvandakaratidzwa naJehovha.

²⁵and I speak unto the Removed all the matters of Jehovah that He hath shewed me.