¹Nezuva iro Jehovha acharova nomunondo wake mukukutu, mukuru, noune simba, revhiatani, iyo nyoka inokurumidza, iyo, nyoka yakagonyana; achauraya chikara chiri mugungwa.

¹In that day lay a charge doth Jehovah, With his sword — the sharp, and the great, and the strong, On leviathan — a fleeing serpent, And on leviathan — a crooked serpent, And He hath slain the dragon that [is] in the sea.

²Nezuva iro vachaimba vachiti, Munda wemizambiringa, chiuimbirai!

²In that day, `A desirable vineyard,` respond ye to her,

³Ini Jehovha ndini muchengeti wawo; ndichaudiridza nguva imwe neimwe; ndichauchengeta masikati nousiku, kuti urege kutadzirwa nomunhu.

³I, Jehovah, am its keeper, every moment I water it, Lest any lay a charge against it, Night and day I keep it!

⁴Ini handina hasha; dai rukato nemhinzwa zvairwa neni! Ndaizvivamba, ndaizvipisa pamwechete.

⁴Fury is not in Me; Who giveth Me a brier — a thorn in battle? I step into it, I burn it at once.

⁵Kana asingadaro, ngaabate simba rangu, ayanane neni, ngaayanane neni.

⁵Or — he doth take hold on My strength, He doth make peace with Me, Peace he doth make with Me.

⁶Namazuva anouya Jakove achamera midzi; Isiraeri achatunga maruva nokutumbuka; vachazadza nyika yose nezvibereko.

⁶Those coming in He causeth to take root, Jacob doth blossom, and flourished hath Israel, And they have filled the face of the world [with] increase.

⁷Ko akavarova iye sezvaakarova avo vakavarova here? Ko vakaurawa nokuurawa kwaivo vakaurawa navo here?

⁷As the smiting of his smiter hath He smitten him? As the slaying of his slain doth He slay?

⁸Pakuvadzinga kwenyu makarwa navo nechiyero chakafanira; wakavabvisa nemhepo yake ine simba nezuva remhepo yokumabvazuva.

⁸In measure, in sending it forth, thou strivest with it, He hath taken away by His sharp wind, In the day of an east wind,

⁹Saka nenzira iyi zvakaipa zvaJakove zvichadzikunurwa; izvi ndizvo zvibereko zvose zvokubviswa kwezvivi zvake, kana achiita mabwe ose earitari ave samabwe omunyaka akaputswa-putswa, kuti miti yakatsaurwa nemifananidzo yezuva zvirege kuzomiswa.

⁹Therefore by this is the iniquity of Jacob covered, And this [is] all the fruit — To take away his sin, in His setting all the stones of an altar, As chalkstones beaten in pieces, They rise not — shrines and images.

¹⁰nekuti guta, rakakombwa norusvingo, rasiiwa riri roga, hwava hugaro hwasiiwa riri dongo, serenje; ndipo pachava namafuro emhuru, ndipo paichavata pasi, ichidya mashizha apo.

¹⁰For the fenced city [is] alone, A habitation cast out and forsaken as a wilderness, There doth the calf delight, And there it lieth down, And hath consumed its branches.

¹¹Kana matavi apo aoma, achavhumwa; vakadzi vachauya vachiapisa; nekuti vanhu ava havana njere; saka akavaita haangavi netsitsi navo, akavaumba haangavi norudo navo.

¹¹In the withering of its branch it is broken off, Women are coming in setting it on fire, For it [is] not a people of understanding, Therefore pity it not doth its Maker, And its Former doth not favour it.

¹²Zvino nezuva iro Jehovha achapura zviyo kubvira pamvura yoRwizi kusvikira parukova rweEgipita; imwi muchaunganidzwa, muchiita mumwe-mumwe, imwi vana vaIsiraeti.

¹²And it hath come to pass, in that day, Beat out doth Jehovah from the branch of the river, Unto the stream of Egypt, And ye are gathered one by one, O sons of Israel.

¹³Zvino nezuva iro hwamanda huru icharidzwa; vakanga voparara panyika yeAsiria, navakanga vadzingirwa kunyika yeEgipita, vachauya; vachanamata Jehovha pagomo dzvene paJerusaremu.

¹³And it hath come to pass, in that day, It is blown with a great trumpet, And come in have those perishing in the land of Asshur, And those cast out in the land of Egypt, And have bowed themselves to Jehovah, In the holy mount — in Jerusalem!