¹Zvino Jehovha akati kwandiri, Chiendazve, undoda mukadzi anodikamwa nomurume wake, asi chiri chifeve, sezvinoda Jehovha vana vaIsiraeri, kunyange vachitsaukira kuna vamwe vamwari, vachida mapundu amadzamb iringa.

¹And Jehovah saith unto me: `Again, go, love a woman, loved of a friend, and an adulteress, like the loved of Jehovah, the sons of Israel, and they are turning unto other gods, and are lovers of grape-cakes.`

²Naizvozvo ndakamutenga namasirivha ane gumi namashanu, nehomeri yebhari, nehomeri yebhari;

²And I buy her to me for fifteen silverlings, and a homer and a letech of barley;

³ndikati kwaari, Uchafanira kundimirira mazuva mazhinji; haufaniri kupata, haufaniri kuva mukadzi womumwe murume; neniwo ndichaita saizvozvo kwauri.

³and I say unto her, `Many days thou dost remain for Me, thou dost not go a-whoring, nor become any one`s; and I also [am] for thee.`

⁴nekuti vana vaIsiraeri vachagara mazuva mazhinji vasina mambo, vasina muchinda, vasina zvibairo vasina shongwe vasina efodhi kana terafimi.

⁴For many days remain do the sons of Israel without a king, and there is no prince, and there is no sacrifice, and there is no standing pillar, and there is no ephod and teraphim.

⁵Pashure vana vaIsiraeri vachadzoka vachitsvaka Jehovha Mwari wavo naDhavhidhi mambo wavo; vachauya kuna Jehovha vachitya, nokuunyoro hwake namazuva okupedzisira.

⁵Afterwards turned back have the sons of Israel, and sought Jehovah their God, and David their king, and have hastened unto Jehovah, and unto His goodness, in the latter end of the days.