1Aiwa, imwi Isiraeri, dzokerai kuna Jehovha Mwari wenyu, nekuti makagumburwa nezvakaipa zvenyu.
1Turn back, O Israel, unto Jehovah thy God, For thou hast stumbled by thine iniquity.
2Endai namashoko, mudzokere kuna Jehovha, muti kwaari, Bvisai zvakaipa zvose, mugamuchire zvinhu zvakanaka, ipapo tichakupai miromo yedu, zvive zvibayiro zvedu.
2Take with you words, and turn to Jehovah, Say ye unto Him: `Take away all iniquity, and give good, And we do render the fruit of our lips.
3Asiria havangatiponesi; hatingatasvi mabhiza, hatingazoti kubasa ramaoko edu. Ndimi vamwari vedu; nekuti nherera dzinowana nyasha kwamuri.
3Asshur doth not save us, on a horse we ride not, Nor do we say any more, Our God, to the work of our hands, For in Thee find mercy doth the fatherless.`
4Ndichaporesa kudzokera kwavo shure, ndichavada nokuda kwangu; nekuti kutsamwa kwangu kwabviswa kwavari.
4I heal their backsliding, I love them freely, For turned back hath Mine anger from him.
5Ndichava sedova kuna Isiraeri, vachatunga seruva, vachatanda midzi yavo seRebhanoni.
5I am as dew to Israel, he flourisheth as a lily, And he striketh forth his roots as Lebanon.
6Matavi avo achatanda, kunaka kwavo kuchafanana nomuorivhi, nokunhuhwira kwavo sokweRebhanoni.
6Go on do his sucklings, And his beauty is as an olive, And he hath fragrance as Lebanon.
7Vanogara mumumvuri wavo vachadzoka, vachavandudzika sezviyo, nokutunga maruva somuzambiringa; kurumbidzwa kwavo kuchafanana newaini yeRebhanoni.
7Return do the dwellers under his shadow, They revive [as] corn, and flourish as a vine, His memorial [is] as wine of Lebanon.
8Efuremu, ndichineiko nezvifananidzo? Ndakapindura, ndinehanya naye; ndakafanana nomuonde mutema, zvibereko zvako zvichawanikwa kwandiri.
8O Ephraim, what to Me any more with idols? I — I afflicted, and I cause him to sing: `I [am] as a green fir-tree,` From Me is thy fruit found.
9Ndianiko akachenjera, anzwisise zvinhu izvi, kana akangwara, azvizive? nekuti nzira dzaJehovha dzakarurama, vakarurama vachafamba nadzo; asi vadariki vachawa madziri.
9Who [is] wise, and doth understand these? Prudent, and knoweth them? For upright are the ways of Jehovah, And the righteous go on in them, And the transgressors stumble therein!