¹Chirevo pamusoro peDhamasiko. Tarirai, Dhamasiko robviswa, rirege kuzova guta, richava dongo rakakoromoka.

¹The burden of Damascus. Lo, Damascus is taken away from [being] a city, And it hath been a heap — a ruin.

²Maguta eAroeri asiiwa; achava mafuro ezvipfuwo, zvichavatapo pasi, zvisina anozvivhundusa.

²Forsaken are the cities of Aroer, For droves they are, and they have lain down, And there is none troubling.

³Nhare ichabviswa panaEfuremu, noushe paDhamasiko; vakasara veSiria vachava sembiri yavana vaIsiraeri, ndizvo zvinotaura Jehovha wehondo.

³And ceased hath the fortress from Ephraim, And the kingdom from Damascus, And the remnant of Aram are as the honour of the sons of Israel, The affirmation of Jehovah of Hosts!

⁴Zvino nezuva iro ukuru hwaJakove huchaitwa hutete, uye kukora kwenyama yake kuchaonda.

⁴And it hath come to pass, in that day, Wax poor doth the honour of Jacob, And the fatness of his flesh doth wax lean.

⁵Zvichafanana nenguva kana mucheki achiunganidza zviyo mumunda, achicheka hura noruoko rwake; zvirokwazvo zvichafanana nokuunganidza hura pamupata weRefaimi.

⁵And it hath come to pass, As the gathering by the reaper of the standing corn, And his arm the ears reapeth, And it hath come to pass, As the gathering of the ears in the valley of Rephaim,

⁶Kunyange zvakadaro mimwe michero ichasariramo, sezvinoitika kana muorivhi uchizuzwa, zvibereko zviviri kana zvitatu kumuromo wedavi rokumusoro-soro, zvina kana zvishanu pamatavi okunze omuti unobereka kwazvo, ndizvo zvinotaura Jehovha, Mwari waIsiraeri.

⁶And left in him have been gleanings, As the compassing of an olive, Two — three berries on the top of a branch, Four — five on the fruitful boughs, The affirmation of Jehovah, God of Israel!

⁷Nezuva iro vanhu vachatarira Musiki wavo, meso avo achaona Mutsvene waIsiraeri.

⁷In that day doth man look to His Maker, Yea, his eyes to the Holy One of Israel look,

⁸Havangatariri aritari, iro basa ramaoko avo; zvakaitwa nemimwe yavo havangavi nehanya nazvo, kana iri miti yakatsaurwa kana mifananidzo yezuva.

⁸And he looketh not unto the altars. The work of his own hands, And that which his own fingers made He seeth not — the shrines and the images.

⁹Nezuva iro maguta avo akasimba achaita samatongo kumatondo napamisoro yamakomo, akasiiwa nokuda kwavana vaIsraeri; achava matongo.

⁹In that day are the cities of his strength As the forsaken thing of the forest, And the branch that they have left, Because of the sons of Israel, It also hath been a desolation.

¹⁰nekuti wakangamwa Mwari Muponesi wako, hauna kurangarira dombo routiziro hwako. Saka unozvisimira miti inofadza, unoisamo mizambiringa yakabva kumwe.

¹⁰Because thou hast forgotten the God of thy salvation, And the rock of thy strength hast not remembered, Therefore thou plantest plants of pleasantness, And with a strange slip sowest it,

¹¹Nomusi wokusima kwako, unouvakira ruzhowa, fume mangwana unotumbusa mbeu dzako; asi kukohwa kunotiza nezuva rokutambudzika nerokuchema kukuru.

¹¹In the day thy plant thou causest to become great, And in the morning thy seed makest to flourish, A heap [is] the harvest in a day of overflowing, And of mortal pain.

¹²Haiwa, kutinhira kwavanhu vazhinji, vanotinhira sokutinhira kwegungwa, nokuririma kwamarudzi avanhu anoririma sokuririma kwemvura zhinji!

¹²Wo [to] the multitude of many peoples, As the sounding of seas they sound; And [to] the wasting of nations, As the wasting of mighty waters they are wasted.

¹³Marudzi acharirima sokuririma kwemvura zhinji; asi uchavatuka, vachatizira kure, vachadzingirirwa sehundi yamakomo pamberi pemhepo, seguruva rinopfungaira pamberi pedutu remhepo.

¹³Nations as the wasting of many waters are wasted, And He hath pushed against it, And it hath fled afar off, And been pursued as chaff of hills before wind, And as a rolling thing before a hurricane.

¹⁴Nenguva yamadekwana, tarirai, kuchava nokutyisa; mangwanani kusati kwaedza, havachipo. Ndiwo mugove wavanotipambara, nomubayiro wavanotibira.

¹⁴At even-time, lo, terror, before morning it is not, This [is] the portion of our spoilers, And the lot of our plunderers!