¹Teererai kwandiri, imwi munotevera kururama, imwi munotsvaka Jehovha; cherechedzai dombo pamakatemwa, negomba romugodhi pamakacherwa.

¹Hearken unto Me, ye pursuing righteousness, Seeking Jehovah, Look attentively unto the rock — ye have been hewn, And unto the hole of the pit — ye have been digged.

²Tarairai Abhurahamu, baba venyu, naSara akakuberekai; nekuti ndakamudana achiri mumwechete, ndikamuropafadza, ndikamuita vazhinji.

²Look attentively unto Abraham your father, And unto Sarah — she bringeth you forth, For — one — I have called him, And I bless him, and multiply him.

³nekuti Jehovha akanyaradza Ziyoni; akanyaradza matongo aro ose, akashandura renje raro rive seEdheni, negwenga raro rive somunda waJehovha; mufaro nokufarisisa zvichawanikwamo, nokuvonga nenzwi rokuimba.

³For Jehovah hath comforted Zion, He hath comforted all her wastes, And He setteth her wilderness as Eden, And her desert as a garden of Jehovah, Joy, yea, gladness is found in her, Confession, and the voice of song.

⁴Teererai kwandiri, imwi vanhu vangu; rerekai nzeve dzenyu kwandiri, imwi rudzi rwangu; nekuti ndichatema murayiro, zvakarurama zvangu ndichazviita chiedza chavanhu.

⁴Attend unto Me, O My people, And, O My nation, unto Me give ear. For a law from Me goeth out, And My judgment to the light, Peoples I do cause to rest.

⁵Kururama kwangu kuri pedo, ruponeso rwangu rwabuda, uye maoko angu achatonga vanhu; zvivi zvichandimirira, zvichavimba noruoko rwangu.

⁵Near [is] My righteousness, Gone out hath My salvation and Mine arms, Peoples they judge, on Me isles do wait, Yea, on Mine arm they do wait with hope.

⁶Tarirai kudenga nameso enyu, mucherechedze nyika pasi; nekuti denga rose richanyangarika soutsi, nenyika ichasakara senguvo; vageremo vachafa sohunyunyu; asi ruponeso rwangu ruchava nokusingaperi, kururama kwangu hakungaperi.

⁶Lift ye up to the heavens your eyes, And look attentively unto the earth beneath, For the heavens as smoke have vanished, And the earth as a garment weareth out, And its inhabitants as gnats do die, And My salvation is to the age, And My righteousness is not broken.

⁷Nditeererei, imwi munoziva kururama; vanhu vanomurayiro wangu pamoyo yenyu; musatya kuzvidza kwavanhu, kana kuvhunduswa nokutuka kwavo.

⁷Hearken unto Me, ye who know righteousness, A people, in whose heart [is] My law, Fear ye not the reproach of men, And for their reviling be not affrighted,

⁸nekuti zvipfukuto zvichavadya senguvo, nerukonye guchavadya semvere; asi kururama kwangu kuchavapo nokusingaperi, noruponeso rwangu kusvikira kumarudzi namarudzi.

⁸For as a garment eat them doth a moth, And as wool eat them doth a worm, And My righteousness is to the age, And My salvation to all generations.

⁹Muka, muka zvifukidze nesimba, iwe ruoko rwaJehovha; muka sapamazuva akare, sapamarudzi enguva dzakarekare. Ko hamuzimi makagura Rahabhi, mukakuvadza chikara here?

⁹Awake, awake, put on strength, O arm of Jehovah, Awake, as [in] days of old, generations of the ages, Art not Thou it that is hewing down Rahab, Piercing a dragon!

¹⁰Ko hamuzimi makapwisa gungwa, nemvura yakadzika , mukaitawo nzvimbo dzakadzika dzegungwa nzira pangayambuka vakadzikunurwa here?

¹⁰Art not Thou it that is drying up a sea, Waters of a great deep? That hath made deep places of a sea A way for the passing of the redeemed?

¹¹Naizvozvo Vakasunungurwa vaJehovha vachadzoka, vachaenda Ziyoni vachiimba; nomufaro usingaperi uchava pamisoro yavo, vachawana mufaro nokufarisisa, kuchema nokugomera kuchatiza.

¹¹And the ransomed of Jehovah turn back, And they have come to Zion with singing, And joy age-during [is] on their head, Gladness and joy they attain, Fled away have sorrow and sighing,

¹²Ini, iyeni, ndini ndinokunyaradzai; ndiwe aniko, uchatya munhu anozofa, kana Mwanakomana womunhu, achaitwa souswa;

¹²I — I [am] He — your comforter, Who [art] thou — and thou art afraid of man? he dieth! And of the son of man — grass he is made!

¹³uye wakakangamwa Jehovha muiti wako akatatamura matenga ose,nekuteya nheyo dzenyika; ukaramba uchingotya mazuva ose nokuda kwehasha dzomumanikidzi, seakazvigadzira kuparadza here? uye hasha dzomumanikidzi dziripiko?

¹³And thou dost forget Jehovah thy maker, Who is stretching out the heavens, and founding earth, And thou dost fear continually all the day, Because of the fury of the oppressor, As he hath prepared to destroy. And where [is] the fury of the oppressor?

¹⁴Musungwa wakatapwa achakurumidza kusunungurwa,Vuye haangafi nokuburukira mugomba, zvokudya zvake hazvingashaikwi.

¹⁴Hastened hath a wanderer to be loosed, And he doth not die at the pit, And his bread is not lacking.

¹⁵nekuti ndini Jehovha Mwari wako, anoparadzanisa gungwa, rine mafungu anotinhira; Jehovha wehondo ndiro zita rake.

¹⁵And I [am] Jehovah thy God, Quieting the sea, when its billows roar, Jehovah of Hosts [is] His name.

¹⁶Ndakaisa mashoko angu mumuromo mako, ndikakufukidza mumumvuri woruoko rwangu, kuti ndivambe matenga , nokuteya nheyo dzenyika, nditi kuZiyoni, Imi muri vanhu vangu.

¹⁶And I put My words in thy mouth, And with the shadow of My hand have covered thee, To plant the heavens, and to found earth, And to say to Zion, `My people [art] thou.`

¹⁷Muka, muka, simuka, iwe Jerusaremu,iwe wakamwa paruoko rwaJehovha mukombe wokutsamwa kwake; wakamwa manzete emukombe wose wokudederesa, ukaapedza kwazvo.

¹⁷Stir thyself, stir thyself, rise, Jerusalem, Who hast drunk from the hand of Jehovah The cup of His fury, The goblet, the cup of trembling, thou hast drunk, Thou hast wrung out.

¹⁸Hakuna nomumwe pakati pavanakomana vake vose vaakabereka angamutungamirira, hakuna angamubata noruoko pakati pavanakomana vose vaakarera.

¹⁸There is not a leader to her Out of all the sons she hath borne, And there is none laying hold on her hand Out of all the sons she hath nourished.

¹⁹Zvinhu izvi zviviri zvakuwira; ndianiko achakunzwira tsitsi? Kusiiwa nokuparadzwa, nenzara nomunondo; ndingakunyaradza sei?

¹⁹These two are meeting thee, who is moved for thee? Spoiling and destruction — Famine and sword, who — I comfort thee?

²⁰Vanakomana vako vaziya, vavete pamigumo yenzira dzomumusha, senzombe yesango yabatwa mumambure; vazadzwa nokutsamwa kwaJehovha nokutuka kwaMwari wako.

²⁰Thy sons have been wrapt up, they have lain down, At the head of all out places, as a wild ox [in] a net, They are full of the fury of Jehovah, The rebuke of Thy God.

²¹Naizvozvo zvino chinzwa chinhu ichi, iwe unotambudzika, wakabatwa, asi kwete newaini,

²¹Therefore, hear, I pray thee, this, O afflicted and drunken one, and not with wine,

²²Ndizvo zvinotaura IShe wako Jehovha, naMwari wako,unoreverera vanhu vake, Tarirai, ndakabvisa muruoko rwako mukombe wokudzedzeresa, iwo manzete emukombe wokutsamwa kwangu, haungazoamwizve.

²²Thus said thy Lord Jehovah, and thy God, He pleadeth [for] his people: `Lo, I have taken out of thy hand the cup of trembling, The goblet, the cup of My fury, Thou dost not add to drink it any more.

²³Asi ndichauisa muruoko rwavanokutambudza, ivo vakati kumweya wako, Kotama,kuti tipfuure napamusoro; iwe ukaita musana wako sapasi, senzira yomumusha yavanopfuura.

²³And I have put it into the hand of those afflicting thee, Who have said to thy soul, Bow down, and we pass over, And thou makest as the earth thy body, And as the street to those passing by!`