¹Zvino Nebhukadhirezari mambo weBhabhironi wakati atapa Jekonia mwanakomana waJehoiakimu, mambo waJudha, namachinda aJudha, pamwechete navavezi navapfuri, paJerusaremu, akavaisa Bhabhironi, Jehovha akandiratidza, ndikaona tswanda mbiri dzina maonde dzakanga dzakaiswa pamberi petemberi yaJehovha.

¹Jehovah hath shewed me, and lo, two baskets of figs, appointed before the temple of Jehovah, — after the removing by Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon, of Jeconiah, son of Jehoiakim king of Judah, and the heads of Judah, and the artizan, and the smith, from Jerusalem, when he bringeth them into Babylon —

²Imwe tswanda yakanga ina maonde akanaka kwazvo, samaonde anotanga kuibva; asi imwe tswanda yakanga inamaonde akaipa kwazvo, asingabviri kudyiwa nokuipa kwawo.

²In the one basket [are] figs very good, like the first-ripe figs, and in the other basket [are] figs very bad, that are not eaten for badness.

³Ipapo Jehovha akati kwandiri, Unowoneiko Jeremiya? Ini ndikati, Maonde; maonde akanaka, akanaka kwazvo, asi akaipa kwazvo, asingabviri kudyiwa nokuipa kwawo.

³And Jehovah saith unto me, `What art thou seeing, Jeremiah?` and I say, `Figs, the good figs [are] very good, and the bad [are] very bad, that are not eaten for badness.`

⁴Ipapo shoko raJehovha rakauya kwandiri, richiti,

⁴And there is a word of Jehovah unto me, saying:

⁵Zvanzi naJehovha, Mwari waIsiraeri, Sezvakaita maonde awa akanaka, ndizvo zvandicharangarira nomoyo wakanaka vatapwa vaJudha, vandakatuma vabve panyika ino vaende kunyika yavaKaradhea.

⁵Thus said Jehovah, God of Israel, Like these good figs so do I acknowledge The removed of Judah — that I sent from this place, [To] the land of the Chaldeans — for good.

⁶nekuti ndichavatarira nameso angu nomoyo wakanaka, ndivadzoserezve kunyika ino; ndichavavaka, handingavakoromori; ndichavasima, handingavadzuri.

⁶And I have set Mine eyes on them for good, And have brought them back to this land, And built them up, and I throw not down, And have planted them, and pluck not up.

⁷Ndichavapa moyo wokundiziva, kuti ndini Jehovha; ivo vachava vanhu vangu, neni ndichava Mwari wavo; nekuti vachadzokera kwandiri nomoyo wavo wose.

⁷And have given to them a heart to know Me, For I [am] Jehovah, And they have been to Me for a people, And I am to them for God, For they turned back unto Me with all their heart.

⁸Uye, sezvakaita maonde akaipa, asingabviri kudyiwa nokuipa kwawo, zvirokwazvo ndizvo zvinotaura Jehovha ndizvo zvandichaita Zedhekia mambo waJudha, namachinda ake, navakasara veJerusaremu, vakasara panyika ino, navagere panyika yeEgipita.

⁸And like the bad figs, that are not eaten for badness, Surely thus said Jehovah: So do I make Zedekiah king of Judah, And his heads, and the remnant of Jerusalem, Who are left in this land, And who are dwelling in the land of Egypt,

⁹Ndichavaita chinhu chinotyisa pakati poushe hwose bwenyika, vaitirwe zvakaipa, vave chinhu chinoshoorwa, neshumo, nechinosekwa nechinotukwa panzvimbo dzose kwandichavadzingira.

⁹And I have given them for a trembling, For evil — to all kingdoms of the earth, For a reproach, and for a simile, For a byword, and for a reviling, In all the places whither I drive them.

¹⁰Ndichatuma pakati pavo munondo, nenzara, nehosha, kusvikira vapera munyika yandakavapa ivo namadzibaba avo.

¹⁰And I have sent against them the sword, The famine and the pestilence, Till their consumption from off the ground, That I gave to them and to their fathers!