¹Zvino pamazuva aAhazi, mwanakomana waJotamu, mwanakomana waUziya, mambo waJudha, Rezini mambo weSiria, naPeka, mwanakomana waRemaria, mambo waIsiraeri, vakaenda kundorwa neJerusaremu, asi vakakoniwa kurikunda.

¹And it cometh to pass in the days of Ahaz, son of Jotham, son of Uzziah, king of Judah, gone up hath Rezin king of Aram, and Pekah, son of Remaliah, king of Israel, to Jerusalem, to battle against it, and he is not able to fight against it.

²Zvino vakaudza imba yaDhavhidhi, vachiti, VaSiria vava pakati pavaEfuremu. moyo wake nemoyo yavanhu vake ikazununguswa sokuzununguswa kwemiti mudondo nemhepo.

²And it is declared to the house of David, saying, `Aram hath been led towards Ephraim,` And his heart and the heart of his people is moved, like the moving of trees of a forest by the presence of wind.

³Zvino Jehovha akati kuna Isaya, Enda zvino undosangana naAhazi, iwe naShearijashubhi, mwanakomana wako, panoguma rukoronga rwedziva rokumusoro, panzira huru inoenda kumunda womusuki wenguvo;

³And Jehovah saith unto Isaiah, `Go forth, I pray thee, to meet Ahaz, thou, and Shear-Jashub thy son, unto the end of the conduit of the upper pool, unto the highway of the fuller`s field,

⁴undoti kwaari, Chenjera, unyarare hako; usatya, nomoyo wako urege kupera nokuda kwamatsiga awa maviri anopfungaira, nokuda kokutsamwa kukuru kwaRezini nokwavaSiria, nokomwanakomana waRemaria.

⁴and thou hast said unto him: `Take heed, and be quiet, fear not, And let not thy heart be timid, Because of these two tails of smoking brands, For the fierceness of the anger of Rezin and Aram, And the son of Remaliah.

⁵nekuti vaSiria navaEfuremu, nomwanakomamwa waRemaria vakarangana kukuitira zvakaipa, vachiti,

⁵Because that Aram counselled against thee evil, Ephraim and the son of Remaliah, saying:

⁶Hendei tindorwa navaJudha, tivatyise, tivakunde, tigadze mambo pakati pavo, iye mwanakomana waTabheeri.

⁶We go up into Judah, and we vex it, And we rend it unto ourselves, And we cause a king to reign in its midst — The son of Tabeal.

⁷Zvanzi naIshe Jehovha, lzvozvi hazvingamiri, uye hazvingaitiki.

⁷Thus said the Lord Jehovah: It doth not stand, nor shall it be!

⁸nekuti musoro weSiria ndiDhamasiko, nomusoro weDhamasiko ndiRezini; makore makumi matanhatu namashanu asati apera, vaEfuremu vachaputswa-putswa, kuti varege kuva rudzi;

⁸For the head of Aram [is] Damascus, And the head of Damascus [is] Rezin, And within sixty and five years Is Ephraim broken from [being] a people.

⁹musoro wavaEfuremu ndiSamaria, nomusoro weSamaria ndimwanakomana waRemaria. Kana musingadi kutenda, zvirokwazvo hamungasimbiswi.

⁹And the head of Ephraim [is] Samaria, And the head of Samaria [is] the son of Remaliah. If ye do not give credence, Surely ye are not stedfast.`

¹⁰Zvino Jehovha akataurazve naAhazi, achiti,

¹⁰And Jehovah addeth to speak unto Ahaz, saying:

¹¹Kumbira chiratidzo kuna Jehovha Mwari wako; uchikumbire kunyange pasi pakadzika, kana kumusoro kwakakwirira.

¹¹`Ask for thee a sign from Jehovah thy God, Make deep the request, or make [it] high upwards.`

¹²Asi Ahazi akati, Handingakumbiri, uye handingaedze Jehovha.

¹²And Ahaz saith, `I do not ask nor try Jehovah.`

¹³Akati, Chinzwai zvino, imwi imba yaDhavhidhi, chinhu chiduku kwamuri kuti munetse vanhu zvino modokunetsa Mwari wanguvo here?

¹³And he saith, `Hear, I pray you, O house of David, Is it a little thing for you to weary men, That ye weary also my God?

¹⁴Naizvozvo Ishe amene achakupai chiratidzo. Tarirai, mhandara ichava napamuviri, ichabereka mwanakomana, ichamutumidza Imanueri.

¹⁴Therefore the Lord Himself giveth to you a sign, Lo, the Virgin is conceiving, And is bringing forth a son, And hath called his name Immanuel,

¹⁵Achadya ruomba nouchi, panguva yaanoziva kuramba zvakaipa, nokusanangura zvakanaka.

¹⁵Butter and honey he doth eat, When he knoweth to refuse evil, and to fix on good.

¹⁶nekuti mwana asati aziva kuramba zvakaipa nokusanangura zvakanaka, nyika iyo yaunotya madzimambo ayo maviri, ichashanduka dongo.

¹⁶For before the youth doth know To refuse evil, and to fix on good, Forsaken is the land thou art vexed with, because of her two kings.

¹⁷Jehovha achauyisa pamusoro pako, napamusoro pavanhu vako, napamusoro peimba yababa vako, mazuva asina kumbovapo, kubvira pazuva rakaparadzana vaEfuremu navaJudha ndiye mambo weAsiria.

¹⁷Jehovah bringeth on thee, and on thy people, And on the house of thy father, Days that have not come, Even from the day of the turning aside of Ephraim from Judah, By the king of Asshur.

¹⁸Zvino nezuva iro Jehovha acharidzira muridzo nhunzi dziri pamigumo yenzizi dzeEgipita, nenyuchi dziri panyika yeAsiria.

¹⁸And it hath come to pass, in that day, Jehovah doth hiss for a fly that [is] in the extremity of the brooks of Egypt, And for a bee that [is] in the land of Asshur.

¹⁹Dzichauya, dzichamhara dzose mumipata ina mawere, nomumikaha yamatombo, napamusoro pemhinzwa yose, napamusoro pamafuro ose.

¹⁹And they have come, and rested all of them in the desolate valleys, And in holes of the rocks, and on all the thorns, And on all the commendable things.

²⁰Nezuva iro Ishe achaveura nechisvo chakakumbirwa mhiri koRwizi, iye mambo weAsiria, musoro nemvere dzamakumbo; chichabvisawo ndebvu.

²⁰In that day doth the Lord shave, By a razor that is hired beyond the river, By the king of Asshur, The head, and the hair of the feet, Yea, also the beard it consumeth.

²¹Zvino nezuva iro munhu achapfuwa mhou imwe duku namakwai maviri;

²¹And it hath come to pass, in that day, A man keepeth alive a heifer of the herd, And two of the flock,

²²zvino nokuda komukaka muzhinji wadzichamupa, achadya ruomba; nekuti mumwe nomumwe akasiiwa panyika iyo achadya ruomba nouchi.

²²And it hath come to pass, From the abundance of the yielding of milk he eateth butter, For butter and honey doth every one eat Who is left in the heart of the land.

²³Zvino nezuva iro nzvimbo imwe neimwe paiva nemiti yemizambiringa ine chiuru chimwe, yaitengwa namasirivha ane chiuru chimwe, ichava norukato nemhinzwa.

²³And it hath come to pass, in that day, Every place where there are a thousand vines, At a thousand silverlings, Is for briers and for thorns.

²⁴Vachaendako nemiseve nouta, nekuti nyika yose ichamera rukato nemhinzwa.

²⁴With arrows and with bow he cometh thither, Because all the land is brier and thorn.

²⁵Hakuna angasvika pazvikomo zvose zvairimwa namapadza nokutya rukato nemhinzwa; asi mombe dzichasundirwako, namakwai achatsikapo.

²⁵And all the hills that with a mattock are kept in order, Thither cometh not the fear of brier and thorn, And it hath been for the sending forth of ox, And for the treading of sheep!`