¹Ipapo akati kwandiri, Mwanakomana womunhu, chidya chaunowana; chidya rugwaro urwu rwakapetwa uende, undotaura neimba yaIsiraeri.

¹And He saith unto me, `Son of man, that which thou findest eat, eat this roll, and go, speak unto the house of Israel.`

²Ipapo ndakashamisa muromo wangu, iye akandidyisa rugwaro rwakapetwa.

²And I open my mouth, and He causeth me to eat this roll.

³Akati kwandiri, Mwanakomana womunhu, dyisa dumbu rako, ugutise vura bwako norugwaro rwakapetwa urwu rwandinokupa. Ipapo ndikarudya, rukava mumukamwa wangu sohuchi nokuzipa.

³And He saith unto me, `Son of man, thy belly thou dost feed, and thy bowels thou dost fill with this roll that I am giving unto thee;` and I eat it, and it is in my mouth as honey for sweetness.

⁴Zvino akati kwandiri, Mwanakomana womunhu, famba uende kuimba yaIsiraeri, utaure kwavari mashoko angu.

⁴And He saith unto me, `Son of man, go, enter in unto the house of Israel, and thou hast spoken with My words unto them.

⁵nekuti hautumwi kurudzi runo mutauriro usingazikamwi norurimi rwakaoma, asi kuimba yaIsiraeri;

⁵For, not unto a people deep of lip and heavy of tongue [art] thou sent — unto the house of Israel;

⁶hautumwi kumarudzi mazhinji anomutauriro usingazikamwi norurimi rwakaoma, vausingagoni kunzwisisa mashoko avo. Zvirokwazvo, dai ndaikutuma kwavari vangadai vaikunzwa.

⁶not unto many peoples, deep of lip and heavy of tongue, whose words thou dost not understand. If I had not sent thee unto them — they, they do hearken unto thee,

⁷Asi imba yaIsiraeri icharamba kukunzwa, nekuti havadi kundinzwa ini, nekuti imba yose yaIsiraeri vane huma dzakaoma, nomoyo mikukutu.

⁷but the house of Israel are not willing to hearken unto thee, for they are not willing to hearken unto Me, for all the house of Israel are brazen-faced and strong-hearted.

⁸Tarira, ndinoomesa chiso chako sezvakaita zviso zvavo, nehuma yako sezvakaita huma dzavo.

⁸`Lo, I have made thy face strong against their face, and thy forehead strong against their forehead.

⁹Ndakaomesa huma yako sedhaimani rinokunda musarasara; usavatya, usavhunduswa nezviso zvavo, nekuti ivo iimba inondimukira simba.

⁹As an adamant harder than a rock I have made thy forehead; thou dost not fear them, nor art thou affrighted before them, for a rebellious house [are] they.`

¹⁰Akatiwo kwandiri, Mwanakomana womunhu, mashoko angu ose andichataura kwauri, uagamuchire mumoyo mako, uanzwe nenzeve dzako.

¹⁰And He saith unto me, `Son of man, all My words, that I speak unto thee, receive with thy heart, and with thine ears hear;

¹¹Famba uende kuna vari mukutapwa, kuvana vavanhu vako, utaure navo uvaudze uti, Ndizvo zvinotaura Ishe Jehovha, kana vachida kunzwa, kana vasingadi.

¹¹and go, enter in unto the Removed, unto the sons of thy people, and thou hast spoken unto them, and hast said unto them: Thus said the Lord Jehovah: whether they hear, or whether they forbear.`

¹²Ipapo Mweya wakandisimudza, ndikanzwa shure kwangu mubvumo wokuunga kukuru, zvichiti, Kubwinya kwaJehovha ngakurumbidzwe panzvimbo yake.

¹²And lift me up doth a spirit, and I hear behind me a noise, a great rushing — `Blessed [is] the honour of Jehovah from His place!` —

¹³Ndikanzwa mubvumo wamapapiro ezvipenyu, achigunzvana, nomubvumo wamakumbo engoro kumativi azvo, uri mubvumo wokuunga kukuru.

¹³even a noise of the wings of the living creatures touching one another, and a noise of the wheels over-against them, even a noise of a great rushing.

¹⁴Ipapo Mweya wakandisimudza, ndokundibvisapo; ndikaenda ndine shungu, mweya wangu wakatsamwa; ruoko rwaJehovha rwakanga ruri pamusoro pangu nesimba.

¹⁴And a spirit hath lifted me up, and doth take me away, and I go bitterly, in the heat of my spirit, and the hand of Jehovah on me [is] strong.

¹⁵Zvino ndakasvika kuna vaiva mukutapwa paTeriabhibhi, vakanga vagere parwizi rwaKebhari, ipapo pavakanga vagere; ini ndikagarapo pakati pavo mazuva manomwe ndichishayiwa mashoko.

¹⁵And I come in unto the Removed, at Tel-Ahib, who are dwelling at the river Chebar, and where they are dwelling I also dwell seven days, causing astonishment in their midst.

¹⁶Zvino mazuva manomwe akati apera, shoko raJehovha rikasvika kwandiri richiti,

¹⁶And it cometh to pass, at the end of seven days,

¹⁷Mwanakomana womunhu, ndakakuita nharire yeimba yaIsiraeri; naizvozvo chinzwa shoko rinobva mumuromo mangu, uvanyevere panzvimbo yangu.

¹⁷that there is a word of Jehovah unto me, saying, `Son of man, a watchman I have given thee to the house of Israel, and thou hast heard from My mouth a word, and hast warned them from Me.

¹⁸Kana ini ndikati kuno wakaipa, Zvirokwazvo uchafa, iwe ukasamunyevera, kana kutaura zvinonyevera wakaipa panzira yake yakaipa, kuti aponese upenyu hwake, munhu uyu wakaipa achafira muzvakaipa zvake, asi ropa rake ndicharibvunza paruoko rwako.

¹⁸In My saying to the wicked: Thou dost surely die; and thou hast not warned him, nor hast spoken to warn the wicked from his wicked way, so that he doth live; he — the wicked — in his iniquity dieth, and his blood from thy hand I require.

¹⁹Asi kana iwe ukanyevera akaipa, akasatendeuka pazvakaipa zvake, kana panzira yake yakaipa, iye achafira muzvakaipa zvake, asi iwe waponesa hako mweya wako.

¹⁹And thou, because thou hast warned the wicked, and he hath not turned back from his wickedness, and from his wicked way, he in his iniquity dieth, and thou thy soul hast delivered.

²⁰Uyezve, kana munhu akarurama akatsauka pakururama kwake, akaita zvakaipa, ini ndikaisa chigumbuso pamberi pake, achafa; zvausina kumunyevera, achafira muzvivi zvake; zvakarurama zvaakaita hazvingarangarirwi, asi ropa rake ndicharibvunza paruoko rwako.

²⁰`And in the turning back of the righteous from his righteousness, and he hath done perversity, and I have put a stumbling-block before him, he dieth; because thou hast not warned him, in his sin he dieth, and not remembered is his righteousness that he hath done, and his blood from thy hand I require.

²¹Asi kana ukanyevera munhu wakarurama, kuti wakarurama arege kutadza, iye akasatadza, zvirokwazvo achararama, nekuti wakateerera kunyeverwa, newe waponesa mweya wako.

²¹And thou, because thou hast warned him — the righteous — that the righteous sin not, and he hath not sinned, he surely liveth, because he hath been warned; and thou thy soul hast delivered.`

²²Ruoko rwaJehovha rwakanga ruri pamusoro pangu ipapo, akati kwandiri, Simuka, uende kubani, ndichataura newe ipapo.

²²And there is on me there a hand of Jehovah, and He saith to me, `Rise, go forth to the valley, and there I do speak with thee.`

²³Zvino ndakasimuka, ndikaenda kubani, ndikaona kubwinya kwaJehovha kumirepo, kwakafanana nokubwinya kwandakaona parwizi rwaKebhari; ndikawira pasi nechiso changu.

²³And I rise and go forth unto the valley, and lo, there the honour of Jehovah is standing as the honour that I had seen by the river Chebar, and I fall on my face.

²⁴Ipapo Mweya wakapinda mandiri, ukandimisa namakumbo angu, ukataura neni, ukati kwandiri, Enda, undozvipfigira mumba mako.

²⁴And come into me doth a spirit, and causeth me to stand on my feet, and He speaketh with me, and saith unto me, `Go in, be shut up in the midst of thy house.

²⁵Asi iwe, Mwanakomana womunhu, tarira, vachauya nezvisungo kwauri, vachakusunga nazvo, kuti urege kubudira pakati pavo;

²⁵`And thou, son of man, lo, they have put on thee thick bands, and have bound thee with them, and thou goest not forth in their midst;

²⁶ini ndichanamatirisa rurimi rwako mumukamwa wako, kuti uve mbeveve, urege kuva murayiri wavo; nekuti ivo iimba inondimukira simba.

²⁶and thy tongue I cause to cleave unto thy palate, and thou hast been dumb, and art not to them for a reprover, for a rebellious house [are] they.

²⁷Asi kana ndichitaura newe, ndichashamisa muromo wako, iwe ugoti kwavari, Zvanzi nalshe Jehovha, anonzwa ngaanzwe, anoramba, ngaarambe; nekuti ivo iimba inondimukira simba.

²⁷And in My speaking with thee, I do open thy mouth, and thou hast said unto them: Thus said the Lord Jehovah; the hearer doth hear, and the forbearer doth forbear; for a rebellious house [are] they.