¹Regai kufara, imwi Isiraeri, muchifarisisa samarudzi avanhu; nekuti makapata, muchisiya Mwari wenyu; makada mubayiro wokufeva pamapuriro ose ezviyo.

¹`Rejoice not, O Israel, be not joyful like the peoples, For thou hast gone a-whoring from thy God, Thou hast loved a gift near all floors of corn.

²Buriro nechisviniro chewaini hazvingavagutsi, waini ichavanyengera.

²Floor and wine-press do not delight them, And new wine doth fail in her,

³Havangagari munyika yaJehovha; asi Efuremu achadzokera Egipita, vachadya zvokudya zvine tsvina paAsiria.

³They do not abide in the land of Jehovah, And turned back hath Ephraim [to] Egypt, And in Asshur an unclean thing they eat.

⁴Havangadiriri Jehovha waini, zvibayiro zvavo hazvingamufadzi; zvibayiro zvavo zvichaita kwavari sezvokudya zvavanochema; vose, vanozvidya, vachasvibiswa, nekuti zvokudya zvavo ndezvavo zvoga, hazvingasviki muimba yaJehovha.

⁴They pour not out wine to Jehovah, Nor are they sweet to Him, Their sacrifices [are] as bread of mourners to them, All eating it are unclean: For their bread [is] for themselves, It doth not come into the house of Jehovah.

⁵Muchabateiko nezuva reungano dzakatarwa, nezuva remitambo yaJehovha?

⁵What do ye at the day appointed? And at the day of Jehovah`s festival?

⁶nekuti tarirai, vakabva nokuda kokuparadzwa, asi vaEgipita vachavaunganidza, veMemifisi vachavaviga; rukato ruchavatorera zvinhu zvavo zvesirivha zvinofadza; mhinzwa ichava mumatende avo.

⁶For, lo, they have gone because of destruction, Egypt gathereth them, Moph burieth them, The desirable things of their silver, Nettles possess them — a thorn [is] in their tents.

⁷Mazuva okurohwa asvika, mazuva okutsiva asvika; Isiraeri vachazviziva; muporofita ibenzi, munhu anomweya anopenga, nemhaka yokuwanda kwezvakaipa zvenyu, uye nekuti ruvengo rukuru.

⁷Come in have the days of inspection, Come in have the days of recompence, Israel doth know! a fool [is] the prophet, Mad [is] the man of the Spirit, Because of the abundance of thine iniquity, And great [is] the hatred.

⁸Efuremu mushori kuna Mwari wangu; kana ari muporofita, rugombe rwomuteyi weshiri ruri munzira dzake dzose, noruvengo muimba yaMwari wake.

⁸Ephraim is looking [away] from My God, The prophet! a snare of a fowler [is] over all his ways, Hatred [is] in the house of his God.

⁹Vakazvishatisa zvikuru kwazvo, sapamazuva eGibhiya; acharangarira zvakaipa zvavo, achavarova pamusoro pezvivi zvavo.

⁹They have gone deep — have done corruptly, As [in] the days of Gibeah, He doth remember their iniquity, He doth inspect their sins.

¹⁰Ndakawana Isiraeri vakaita samazambiringa murenje; ndakaona madzibaba enyu vakaita sezvibereko zvakatanga kuibva pamuonde panguva yawo yokubereka yokutanga; asi vakasvika paBhaaripeori, vakazviisa kune zvinonyadzisa, vakaita zvinonyangadza vachifanana nezvaidikamwa navo.

¹⁰As grapes in a wilderness I found Israel, As the first-fruit in a fig-tree, at its beginning, I have seen your fathers, They — they have gone in [to] Baal-Peor, And are separated to a shameful thing, And are become abominable like their love.

¹¹Kana vari VaEfuremu, kukudzwa kwavo kuchabhururuka seshiri; kubereka hakungavipo, kana kukurirwa, kana kunaka pamuviri.

¹¹Ephraim [is] as a fowl, Fly away doth their honour, without birth, And without womb, and without conception.

¹²Kunyange vakarera vana vavo, ndichavatorera ivo, kusvikira kusisina munhu; zvirokwazvo, vachava nenhamowo, kana ini ndavasiya.

¹²For though they nourish their sons, I have made them childless — without man, Surely also, wo to them, when I turn aside from them.

¹³Sezvandakatsaura Tire, Efuremu vakasimwa pakanaka; asi Efuremu vachabudisira muurayi vana vavo.

¹³Ephraim! when I have looked to the rock, Is planted in comeliness, And Ephraim [is] to bring out unto a slayer his sons.

¹⁴Chivapai, Jehovha muchavapeiko? Chivapai zvizvaro zvinoshaya namazamu asina mukaka.

¹⁴Give to them, Jehovah — what dost Thou give? Give to them miscarrying womb, and dry breasts.

¹⁵Zvakaipa zvavo zvose zviri paGirigari, nekuti ndipo pandakavavenga; nemhaka yezvakaipa zvavanoita ndichavadzinga paimba yangu, handichavadi; machinda avo ose akandimukira.

¹⁵All their evil [is] in Gilgal, Surely there I have hated them, Because of the evil of their doings, Out of My house I do drive them, I add not to love them, all their heads [are] apostates.

¹⁶Efuremu varohwa, mudzi wavo waoma, havangazobereki zvibereko; zvirokwazvo, kunyange vakabereka, ndichavauraya vadikamwa vakaberekwa nezvizvaro zvavo.

¹⁶Ephraim hath been smitten, Their root hath dried up, fruit they yield not, Yea, though they bring forth, I have put to death the desired of their womb.

¹⁷Mwari wangu achavarasha, nekuti havana kumunzwa; vachava vadzungairi pakati pamarudzi avanhu.

¹⁷Reject them doth my God, Because they have not hearkened to Him, And they are wanderers among nations!