¹Pagore rokufa kwamambo Uziya, ndakaona Ishe agere pachigaro choushe, chirefu chakakwirira, mipendero yenguvo dzake ichizadza temberi.

¹In the year of the death of king Uzziah — I see the Lord, sitting on a throne, high and lifted up, and His train is filling the temple.

²Kumusoro kwake kwakanga kumire serafimi; imwe neimwe yakanga ina mapapiro matanhatu, neimwe mapapiro matanhatu; namaviri yakafukidza chiso chayo, namaviri yakafukidza makumbo ayo, namaviri yakanga ichibhururuka nawo.

²Seraphs are standing above it: six wings hath each one; with two [each] covereth its face, and with two [each] covereth its feet, and with two [each] flieth.

³Imwe yakadanidzira kune imwe, ichiti, Mutsvene, mutsvene, mutsvene, iye Jehovha wehondo; nyika yose izere nokubwinya kwake.

³And this one hath called unto that, and hath said: `Holy, Holy, Holy, [is] Jehovah of Hosts, The fulness of all the earth [is] His glory.`

⁴Nheyo dzezvikumbaridzo dzikazununguka nenzwi rowakanga achidana, imba ikazadzwa noutsi.

⁴And the posts of the thresholds are moved by the voice of him who is calling, and the house is full of smoke.

⁵Ipapo ndikati, Ndine nhamo! nekuti ndoparara, nekuti ndiri munhu wemiromo yakanora, ndigere pakati pavanhu vemiromo yakanora; nekuti meso angu akaona Mambo; Jehovha wehondo.

⁵And I say, `Wo to me, for I have been silent, For a man — unclean of lips [am] I, And in midst of a people unclean of lips I am dwelling, Because the King, Jehovah of Hosts, have my eyes seen.`

⁶Ipapo imwe serafimi yakabhururukira kwandiri, yakabata zimbe rinopfuta muruoko rwayo, rayakanga yatora nembato paaritari; ikagumura muromo wangu naro, ikati,

⁶And flee unto me doth one of the seraphs, and in his hand a burning coal, (with tongs he hath taken [it] from off the altar,)

⁷Tarira, zimbe iri ragumura miromo yako, zvakaipa zvako zvabviswa, zvivi zvako zvadzikunurwa.

⁷and he striketh against my mouth, and saith: `Lo, this hath stricken against thy lips, And turned aside is thine iniquity, And thy sin is covered.`

⁸Ipapo ndakanzwa nzwi raShe richiti, Ndingatuma aniko? Ndiani angatiendera? Ipapo ndakati, Ndiri pano ini, nditumei.

⁸And I hear the voice of the Lord, saying: `Whom do I send? and who doth go for Us?` And I say, `Here [am] I, send me.`

⁹Iye akati, Enda, unondoudza vanhu ava, uti, Rambai henyu muchinzwa, asi musanzwisisa, rambai henyu muchiona, asi musaonesesa.

⁹And He saith, `Go, and thou hast said to this people, Hear ye — to hear, and ye do not understand, And see ye — to see, and ye do not know.

¹⁰Kodzai moyo yavanhu ava, remedzai nzeve dzavo, tsinzinisai meso avo, kuti varege kuona nameso avo, kana kunzwa nenzeve dzavo, kana kunzwisisa nemoyo yavo, vadzoke vapodzwe.

¹⁰Declare fat the heart of this people, And its ears declare heavy, And its eyes declare dazzled, Lest it see with its eyes, And with its ears hear, and its heart consider, And it hath turned back, and hath health.`

¹¹Zvino ndakati, Ishe kusvikira rinhiko? Akapindura, akati, Kusvikira maguta ava matongo, asina vanogaramo, nedzimba dzisina munhu, nenyika yaparadzwa chose,

¹¹And I say, `Till when, O Lord?` And He saith, `Surely till cities have been wasted without inhabitant, And houses without man, And the ground be wasted — a desolation,

¹²kusvikira Jehovha abvisira vanhu kure, nenzvimbo, dzashanduka matongo, dzava zhinji panyika.

¹²And Jehovah hath put man far off, And great [is] the forsaken part in the heart of the land.

¹³Kana kuchinge kwasara mukati mayo chegumi, naichowo chichadyiwazve; sezvakaita muterebhinti nomuouki wasiirwa hunde kana watemwa, saizvozvo rudzi rutsvene ndiyo hunde yawo.

¹³And yet in it a tenth, and it hath turned, And hath been for a burning, As a teil-tree, and as an oak, that in falling, Have substance in them, The holy seed [is] its substance!`