¹nekuti Jehovha achanzwira Jakove tsitsi, achasanangura Isaraeri nokuvagadza munyika yavo; mutorwa achandogara navo, vachanamatira imba yaJakove.

¹Because Jehovah loveth Jacob, And hath fixed again on Israel, And given them rest on their own land, And joined hath been the sojourner to them, And they have been admitted to the house of Jacob.

²Marudzi achavatora, nokuvaisa kunzvimbo yavo; imba yavaIsiraeri ichavabata panyika yaJehovha vave varanda navashandiri vavo; vachatapa ivo vaiva vatapi vavo, vachabata ivo vaivamanikidza.

²And peoples have taken them, And have brought them in unto their place, And the house of Israel have inherited them, On the land of Jehovah, For men-servants and for maid-servants, And they have been captors of their captors, And have ruled over their exactors.

³Zvino nezuva iro kana Jehovha achikuzorodza pakuchema kwako napakutambudzika kwako, napakubata kwako kunorema kwawakabatiswa nako,

³And it hath come to pass, In the day of Jehovah`s giving rest to thee, From thy grief, and from thy trouble, And from the sharp bondage, That hath been served upon thee,

⁴uchaimba rwiyo urwu pamusoro pamambo weBhabhironi, uchiti, Haiwa mumanikidzi wapera sei! Kutambudzika kwapera sei!

⁴That thou hast taken up this simile Concerning the king of Babylon, and said, How hath the exactor ceased,

⁵Jehovha avhuna mudonzvo wowakaipa, netsvimbo youshe yavabati.

⁵Ceased hath the golden one. Broken hath Jehovah the staff of the wicked, The sceptre of rulers.

⁶Iye airova marudzi avanhu nehasha nokurova kusingaperi, aibata ndudzi dzavanhu nokutambudza kusina kudzorwa nomunhu.

⁶He who is smiting peoples in wrath, A smiting without intermission, He who is ruling in anger nations, Pursuing without restraint!

⁷Nyika yose yozorora, yanyarara; vanofara nokuimba.

⁷At rest — quiet hath been all the earth, They have broken forth [into] singing.

⁸Zvirokwazvo miti yemisipiresi inofara nokuda kwako, nemisidhari yeRebhanoni, ichiti, Chinguva chawaparadzwa, hapano mutemi anokwira kutitema.

⁸Even firs have rejoiced over thee, Cedars of Lebanon — [saying]: Since thou hast lain down, The hewer cometh not up against us.

⁹Sheori pasi rine nyongano pamusoro pako kuzosangana newe pakuuya kwako; rinokumutsira vakafa, ivo vose vaiva vakuru panyika; ramutsa madzimambo ose amarudzi avanhu pazvigaro zvavo zvoushe.

⁹Sheol beneath hath been troubled at thee, To meet thy coming in, It is waking up for thee Rephaim, All chiefs ones of earth, It hath raised up from their thrones All kings of nations.

¹⁰Ivo vose vachapindura, vachiti kwauri, Newe wava usina simba sesu kanhi? Iwe wafanana nesu kanhi?

¹⁰All of them answer and say unto thee, Even thou hast become weak like us! Unto us thou hast become like!

¹¹Kuzvikudza kwako kwaderedzwa kusvikira paSheori, nokurira koudimbwa hwako; honye dziri pasi pako, nehonye dzinokufukidza.

¹¹Brought down to Sheol hath been thine excellency, The noise of thy psaltery, Under thee spread out hath been the worm, Yea, covering thee is the worm.

¹²Haiwa, wawa seiko uchibva kudenga, iwe nyamasase, iwe mwanakomana wamambakwedza! Wakandwa seiko pasi, iwe wokuwisira marudzi pasi!

¹²How hast thou fallen from the heavens, O shining one, son of the dawn! Thou hast been cut down to earth, O weakener of nations.

¹³Iwe wakati mumoyo mako, Ndichakwira kudenga, ndichakwiridza chigaro changu choushe kumusoro kwenyeredzi dzaMwari; ndichagara pamusoro pegomo reungano, pamigumo yamativi okumusoro;

¹³And thou saidst in thy heart: the heavens I go up, Above stars of God I raise my throne, And I sit in the mount of meeting in the sides of the north.

¹⁴ndichakwira kumusoro kwamakore, ndichazvienzanisa neWekumusoro-soro.

¹⁴I go up above the heights of a thick cloud, I am like to the Most High.

¹⁵Kunyange zvakadaro uchaderedzwa kusvikira paSheori, kusvikira pakadzika pegomba.

¹⁵Only — unto Sheol thou art brought down, Unto the sides of the pit.

¹⁶Vanokuona vachakucherekedza, vachakutarira, vachiti, Ko uyu ndiye munhu aidederesa nyika, aizunungusa ushe;

¹⁶Thy beholders look to thee, to thee they attend, Is this the man causing the earth to tremble, Shaking kingdoms?

¹⁷aishandura nyika ifanane nerenje, aiparadza maguta ayo, airamba kusunungura vasungwa vake vaende kumusha here?

¹⁷He hath made the world as a wilderness, And his cities he hath broken down, Of his bound ones he opened not the house.

¹⁸Madzimambo ose amarudzi, iwo ose, anovata achikudzwa, mumwe nomumwe paimba yake.

¹⁸All kings of nations — all of them, Have lain down in honour, each in his house,

¹⁹Asi iwe waraswa kure neguva rako, sedavi rinonyangadza, wafukidzwa navakaurawa, vakabayiwa nomunondo, vanoburukira kumabwe egomba, somutumbi watsikwa netsoka.

¹⁹And — thou hast been cast out of thy grave, As an abominable branch, raiment of the slain, Thrust through ones of the sword, Going down unto the sons of the pit, As a carcase trodden down.

²⁰Haungavigwi pamwechete navo, nekuti wakaparadza nyika yako, vakauraya vanhu vako; vana vavakaipa havangarehwi nokusingaperi.

²⁰Thou art not united with them in burial, For thy land thou hast destroyed, Thy people thou hast slain, Not named to the age is the seed of evil doers.

²¹Gadzirirai vana vake pavangaurawa nokuda kokushata kwamadzibaba avo; varege kuzomuka, vagare nhaka yenyika, vazadze pasi pose namaguta.

²¹Prepare ye for his sons slaughter; Because of the iniquity of their fathers, They rise not, nor have possessed the land, Nor filled the face of the world [with] cities.

²²Zvanzi naJehovha wehondo, Ndichavamukira, ndichatorera Bhabhironi zita navakasara, navana, navana vavana, ndizvo zvinotaura Jehovha.

²²And I have risen up against them, (The affirmation of Jehovah of Hosts,) And have cut off, in reference to Babylon, Name and remnant, and continuator and successor, The affirmation of Jehovah.

²³Ndichariita nzvimbo inogarwa nenungu, uye madziva emvura; ndicharitsvaira nomutsvairo wokuparadza, ndizvo zvinotaura Jehovha wehondo.

²³And have made it for a possession of a bittern, And ponds of waters, And daubed it with the mire of destruction, The affirmation of Jehovah of Hosts!

²⁴Jehovha wehondo akapika, achiti, Zvirokwazvo, sezvandakafunga, ndizvo zvichaitika; sezvandakarangarira, zvichamira saizvozvo.

²⁴Sworn hath Jehovah of Hosts, saying, `As I thought — so hath it not been? And as I counselled — it standeth;

²⁵Kuti ndichavhuna muAsiria munyika yangu, ndichamutsika netsoka dzangu pamakomo angu; nenguva iyo joko rake richabva kwavari, nomutoro wake uchabva pamafudzi avo.

²⁵To break Asshur in My land, And on My mountains I tread him down, And turned from off them hath his yoke, Yea, his burden from off their shoulder turneth aside.

²⁶Ndicho chirevo chakatemerwa nyika yose; ndirwo ruoko rwakatambanudzwa pamusoro pamarudzi ose.

²⁶This [is] the counsel that is counselled for all the earth, And this [is] the hand that is stretched out for all the nations.

²⁷nekuti Jehovha wehondo wakatema chirevo, ndiani angapindurazve? Ruoko rwake rwakatambanudzwa, ndiani angarudzosa.

²⁷For Jehovah of Hosts hath purposed, And who doth make void? And His hand that is stretched out, Who doth turn it back?`

²⁸Negore rokufa kwamambo Ahazi chirevo ichi chakarehwa,

²⁸In the year of the death of king Ahaz was this burden:

²⁹Iwe nyika yeFirisitia, iwe nyika yose, usafara zvako nekuti shamhu yakanga yakurova yavhunika; nekuti pamudzi wenyoka pachabuda mvumbi, chibereko chayo chichava nyoka yomoto inoburuka.

²⁹Rejoice not thou, Philistia, all of thee, That broken hath been the rod of thy smiter, For from the root of a serpent cometh out a viper, And its fruit [is] a flying saraph.

³⁰Matangwe avarombo achadya, navanoshayiwa vachavata pasi vakafara; ndichauraya mudzi wako nenzara, vakasara vako vachaurawa.

³⁰And delighted have the first-born of the poor, And the needy in confidence lie down, And I have put to death with famine thy root, And thy remnant it slayeth.

³¹Chema, iwe suwo; danidzira, iwe guta; wanyauka, iwe nyika yeFirisitia, iwe nyika yose; nekuti kurutivi rwokumusoro kunobva utsi, hapana anotiza pahondo dzake.

³¹Howl, O gate; cry, O city, Melted art thou, Philistia, all of thee, For from the north smoke hath come, And there is none alone in his set places.

³²Zvino nhume dzorudzi urwu vachadzipindurei? Kuti, Jehovha akavamba Ziyoni, vanotambudzika navanhu vake vachavandiramo.

³²And what doth one answer the messengers of a nation? `That Jehovah hath founded Zion, And in it do the poor of His people trust!`