¹Zvino negore regumi nerimwe, nomwedzi wechitatu, nezuva rokutanga romwedzi, shoko raJehovha rakasvika kwandiri, richiti,

¹And it cometh to pass, in the eleventh year, in the third [month], in the first of the month, hath a word of Jehovah been unto me, saying:

²Mwanakomana womunhu, iti kuna Farao mambo weEgipita, nokuvanhu vake vazhinji, Iwe wakafanana nani paukuru hwako?

²`Son of man, say unto Pharaoh king of Egypt, and unto his multitude: To whom hast thou been like in thy greatness?

³Tarira, muAsiria akanga ari musidhari paRebhanoni, akanga ana mashizha akanaka, sedondo rine mumvuri, wakareba kwazvo; musoro wawo wakange uri kumakore.

³Lo, Asshur, a cedar in Lebanon, Fair in branch, and shading bough, and high in stature, And between thickets hath its foliage been.

⁴Mvura zhinji yakaumeresa, mvura yapasipasi yakaukurisa; nzizi dzayo dzaiyerera pose pakasimwa, yaisvitsa migero yayo kumiti yose yesango.

⁴Waters have made it great, The deep hath exalted him with its flowings, Going round about its planting, And its conduits it hath sent forth unto all trees of the field.

⁵Naizvozvo muti uyu wakakura kupfuura miti yose yesango, matavi awo akawanda, uye matavi awo akareba nemvura zhinji, nenguva yokumera kwawo.

⁵Therefore higher hath been his stature than all trees of the field, And multiplied are his boughs, and long are his branches, Because of many waters in his shooting forth,

⁶Shiri dzose dzokudenga dzakavaka matendere adzo mumatavi awo, nemhuka dzose dzesango dzakabereka vana vadzo pasi pamatavi, awo; marudzi makuru ose avanhu akagara mumumvuri wawo.

⁶In his boughs made a nest hath every fowl of the heavens, And under his branches brought forth hath every beast of the field, And in his shade dwell do all great nations.

⁷Saizvozvo wakange wakanaka pakukura kwawo, napakureba kwamatavi awo; nekuti midzi yawo yakanga iri mumvura zhinji.

⁷And he is fair in his greatness, In the length of his thin shoots, For his root hath been by great waters.

⁸Misidhari mumunda waMwari yakanga isingagoni kuudzitira; miti yemisiperesi haina kufanana nohutavi hwawo, nemipurani yakanga isina kufanana namatavi awo; kwakanga kusina muti mumunda waMwari wakange wakafanana nawo pakunaka kwawo.

⁸Cedars have not hid him in the garden of God, Firs have not been like unto his boughs, And chesnut-trees have not been as his branches, No tree in the garden of God hath been like unto him in his beauty,

⁹Ndakauita zvakanaka nokuwanda kwamatavi awo, naizvozvo miti yose yeEdheni, yaiva mumunda waMwari, yaiugodora.

⁹Fair I have made him in the multitude of his thin shoots, And envy him do all trees of Eden that [are] in the garden of God.

¹⁰Naizvozvo zvanzi naIshe Jehovha, Zvawakakura zvikuru iwe, akaisa musoro wake pakati pamakore, moyo wake ukazvikudza nokuda kokureba kwake,

¹⁰Therefore, thus said the Lord Jehovah: Because that thou hast been high in stature, And he yieldeth his foliage between thickets, And high is his heart in his haughtiness,

¹¹ndichamuisa muruoko rwoune simba pakati pamarudzi avanhu, iye achamuitira zvawakafanira; ndakamudzinga nokuda kwezvakaipa zvake.

¹¹I give him into the hand of a god of nations, He dealeth sorely with him, In his wickedness I have cast him out.

¹²Vatorwa, ivo vanotyisa pakati pamarudzi, vakamutema vakamurega, matavi ake akawira pamusoro pamakomo nomumipata yose, matavi ake akavhunikira pahova dzose dzenyika; vanhu vose venyika vabva pamumvuri wake, vakamusiya.

¹²And cut him off do strangers, The terrible of nations, and they leave him, On the mountains and in all valleys have his thin shoots fallen, And broken are his boughs at all streams of the land, And go down from his shade do all peoples of the land, and they leave him.

¹³Shiri dzose dzekudenga dzichagara padanda rake rakawa, mhuka dzose dzesango dzichava pamatavi ake;

¹³On his ruin dwell do all fowls of the heavens, And on his boughs have been all the beasts of the field,

¹⁴kuti miti yose iri pamvura irege kuzvikudza nokureba kwayo, kana kusvitsa misoro yayo mumakore, neine simba pakati payo irege kumira ichizvikudza iyo miti yose inomwa mvura; nekuti yose yakatarirwa rufu, iende kunzvimbo dzapasi dzenyika, pakati pavana vavanhu, pamwechete navanoburukira kugomba.

¹⁴In order that none of the trees of the waters May become haughty because of their stature, Nor give their foliage between thickets, Nor any drinking waters stand up unto them in their haughtiness, For all of them are given up to death, Unto the earth — the lower part, In the midst of the sons of men, Unto those going down to the pit.

¹⁵Zvanzi naIshe Jehovha, Nezuva raakaburukira kuSheori, ndakarayira kuti vanhu vacheme; ndakafukidza pakadzika nokuda kwake, ndikadzora nzizi dzapo, mvura zhinji ikamiswa; ndakarayira Rebhanoni kumuchema, miti yose yokusango ikati rukutu nokuda kwake.

¹⁵Thus said the Lord Jehovah: In the day of his going down to sheol I have caused mourning, I have covered for him the deep, and diminish its flowings, And restrained are many waters, And I make Lebanon black for him, And all trees of the field have been covered for him.

¹⁶Ndakadederesa marudzi ose nokutinhira kokuwa kwake, nenguva yandakamukandira muSheori, pamwechete navanoburukira kugomba; miti yose yeEdheni, iyo yakatsaurwa yakaisvonaka yeRebhanoni, iyo yose inomwa mvura, ikavaraidzwa panzvimbo dzapasi dzenyika.

¹⁶From the sound of his fall I have caused nations to shake, In My causing him to go down to sheol, With those going down to the pit, And comforted in the earth — the lower part, are all trees of Eden, The choice and the good of Lebanon, All drinking waters.

¹⁷Yakaburukirawo naye kuSheori kuna ivo vakaurawa nomunondo; zvirokwazvo, ndivo vaiva ruoko rwake, vaigara mumumvuri wake pakati pamarudzi.

¹⁷Also they with him have gone down to sheol, Unto the pierced of the sword, And — his arm — they dwelt in his shade in the midst of nations.

¹⁸Iwe wakafanana naniko pakubwinya nohukuru pakati pemiti yeEdheni? Kunyange zvakadaro uchaburuswa pamwechete nemiti yeEdheni kunzvimbo dzapasi dzenyika; uchavata pasi pakati pavasina kudzingiswa, pamwechete navakaurawa nomunondo. Ndiye Farao navanhu vake vazhinji, ndizvo zvinotaura Ishe Jehovha.

¹⁸Unto whom hast thou been thus like, In honour and in greatness among the trees of Eden, And thou hast been brought down with the trees of Eden, Unto the earth — the lower part, In the midst of the uncircumcised thou liest, With the pierced of the sword? It [is] Pharaoh, and all his multitude, An affirmation of the Lord Jehovah!`