¹Tarirai, Jehovha anobvisa zvose panyika nokuiparadza, nokuitsindikira, nokuparadzira vagere mairi.

¹Lo, Jehovah is emptying the land, And is making it waste, And hath overturned [it on] its face, And hath scattered its inhabitants.

²Vanhu vachaitirwa zvinoitirwa mupristi, muranda zvinoitirwa tenzi wake, mushandiri zvinoitirwa vahosi vake, mutengi zvinoitirwa mutengesi, anopa chikwereti zvinoitirwa anokwereta, anoripa mhindu zvinoitirwa anoreva mhindu.

²And it hath been — as a people so a priest, As the servant so his master, As the maid-servant so her mistress, As the buyer so the seller, As the lender so the borrower, As the usurer so he who is lifting [it] on himself.

³Nyika ichabvisirwa zvose zvayo, ichaparadzwa chose; nekuti Jehovha akataura shoko iro.

³Utterly emptied is the land, and utterly spoiled, For Jehovah hath spoken this word:

⁴Nyika inochema nokuoma, pasi pose panopera simba nokuoma, vanhu vakakudzwa venyika vanopera simba.

⁴Mourned, faded hath the land, Languished, faded hath the world, Languished have they — the high place of the people of the land.

⁵Nyika yakasvibiswawo navagere mairi; nekuti vakadarika mirayiro, vakakanganisa mitemo, nokuputsa sungano isingaperi.

⁵And the land hath been defiled under its inhabitants, Because they have transgressed laws, They have changed a statute, They have made void a covenant age-during.

⁶Saka kutuka kwaMwari kwapedza nyika, navageremo vava nemhosva; saka vagere munyika vapiswa, vangosara vanhu vashoma.

⁶Therefore a curse hath consumed the land, And the inhabitants in it are become desolate, Therefore consumed have been inhabitants of the land, And few men have been left.

⁷Waini itsva inochema, muzambiringa wapera simba, vose vanomoyo unofara vanogomera.

⁷Mourned hath the new wine, languished the vine, Sighed have all the joyful of heart.

⁸Kufara kwengoma konyarara, inzwi ravanofara ropera, mufaro wembira wopera.

⁸Ceased hath the joy of tabrets, Ceased hath the noise of exulting ones, Ceased hath the joy of a harp.

⁹Havangamwi waini vachiimba; zvinobata zvichavava kuna vanozvimwa.

⁹With a song they drink not wine, Bitter is strong drink to those drinking it.

¹⁰Guta, rava dongo, rakoromorwa; dzimba dzose dzakapfigwa, kuti kurege kuva nomunhu angapindamo.

¹⁰It was broken down — a city of emptiness, Shut hath been every house from entrance.

¹¹Kuchema kunonzwikwa panzira dzomumisha nokuda kwewaini; mufaro wose wasviba, kufara kwenyika kwaenda.

¹¹A cry over the wine [is] in out-places, Darkened hath been all joy, Removed hath been the joy of the land.

¹²Muguta masara mangova dongo, suwo raputswa nokuparadzwa.

¹²Left in the city [is] desolation, And [with] wasting is the gate smitten.

¹³nekuti ndizvo zvazvichaita panyika pakati pamarudzi avanhu, zvichafanana nokuzuzwa komuorivhi, nezvakasara kana mazambiringa akohwiwa.

¹³When thus it is in the heart of the land, In the midst of the peoples, As the compassing of the olive, As gleanings when harvest hath been finished,

¹⁴Ivo vachadanidzira, vachapururudza; nokuda koumambo hwaJehovha vanodanidzira vari pagungwa.

¹⁴They — they lift up their voice, They sing of the excellency of Jehovah, They have cried aloud from the sea.

¹⁵Saka rumbidzai Jehovha kumabvazuva, iro zita raJehovha, Mwari waIsiraeri, pazvitsuwa zvegungwa.

¹⁵Therefore in prosperity honour ye Jehovah, In isles of the sea, the name of Jehovah, God of Israel.

¹⁶Takanzwa nziyo dzichiimbwa kumigumo yenyika, dzichiti, Vakarurama ngavakudzwe! Asi ini ndakati, Ndinoonda, ndinoonda, ndine nhamo! vanyepedzeri vakaita nokunyengera; zvirokwazvo, vanyepedzeri vakaita nokunyengera kukuru.

¹⁶From the skirt of the earth we heard songs, The desire of the righteous. And I say, `Leanness [is] to me, Leanness [is] to me, wo [is] to me.` Treacherous dealers dealt treacherously, Yea, treachery, treacherous dealers dealt treacherously.

¹⁷Kutya, negomba, nomusungo zvichakuwira, iwe ugere panyika.

¹⁷Fear, and a snare, and a gin, [Are] on thee, O inhabitant of the land.

¹⁸Zvino, anotiza bope rokutyisa, achawira mugomba; anokwira achibva mukati megomba, achabatwa nomusungo; nekuti mahwindo okumusoro azaruka, nenheyo dzenyika dzinodedera.

¹⁸And it hath come to pass, He who is fleeing from the noise of the fear Doth fall into the snare, And he who is coming up from the midst of the snare, Is captured by the gin, For windows on high have been opened, And shaken are foundations of the land.

¹⁹Nyika yaputswa-putswa chose, nyika yodedera chose, nyika yozununguswa chose.

¹⁹Utterly broken down hath been the land, Utterly broken hath been the land, Utterly moved hath been the land.

²⁰Nyika ichadzedzereka somunhu akabatwa, ichadengenyeka sedumba; kudarika kwayo kuchairemedza kwazvo, ichawa, ikasasimukazve.

²⁰Stagger greatly doth the land as a drunkard, And it hath been moved as a lodge, And heavy on it hath been its transgression, And it hath fallen, and addeth not to rise.

²¹Zvino nezuva iro Jehovha acharova hondo yavakakudzwa vari kumusoro, namadzimambo enyika panyika.

²¹And it hath come to pass, in that day, Jehovah layeth a charge on the host of the high place in the high place, And on the kings of the land on the land.

²²Vachaunganidzwa pamwechete, sezvinounganidzwa vasungwa mugomba, vachapfigirwa mutirongo; zvino kana mazuva mazhinji apfuura vachashanyirwa.

²²And they have been gathered — A gathering of bound ones in a pit, And shut up they have been in a prison, And after a multitude of days are inspected.

²³Ipapo mwedzi uchanyadziswa, nezuva richanyara; nekuti Jehovha wehondo achabata ushe pagomo reZiyoni, napaJerusaremu, pamberi pavakuru vake pachava nokukudzwa.

²³And confounded hath been the moon, And ashamed hath been the sun, For reigned hath Jehovah of Hosts In mount Zion, and in Jerusalem, And over-against His elders — honour!