¹Zvanzi naJehovha, Tarirai, ndichamutsira Bhabhironi navagere Rebhikamai mhepo inoparadza.

¹Thus said Jehovah: Lo, I am stirring up against Babylon, And the inhabitants of Leb — My withstanders, A destroying wind,

²Ndichatumira Bhabhironi varudzi vacharirudza, vachabudisa zvose zviri munyika yaro, nekuti nezuva rokutambudzika vacharikomberedza kumativi ose.

²And I have sent to Babylon fanners, And they have fanned it, and they empty its land, For they have been against it, Round about — in the day of evil.

³Mupfuri ngaapfure nohuta hwake ani naani unopfura nohuta nounozvisimudza ane nguvo dzake dzokurwa, regai kunzwira tsitsi majaya aro, paradzai chose hondo yaro yose.

³Let not the treader tread his bow, Nor lift himself up in his coat of mail, Nor have ye pity on her young men, Devote ye to destruction all her host.

⁴Vachawira pasi vaurawa panyika yavaKaradhea, vabayiwa munzira dzaro.

⁴And fallen have the wounded in the land of the Chaldeans, And the pierced-through in her streets.

⁵nekuti Isiraeri naJudha havana kurashwa naMwari wavo, naJehovha wehondo, kunyange nyika yavo izere nemhosva pamberi poMutsvene waIs iraeri.

⁵For, not forsaken is Israel and Judah, By its God — by Jehovah of Hosts, For their land hath been full of guilt, Against the Holy One of Israel.

⁶Tizai mubve mukati meBhabhironi, mumwe nomumwe aponese hupenyu hwake; regai kuparadzwa mukati mezvakaipa zvaro, nekuti inguva yokutsiva kwaJehovha, iye uchariripidzira.

⁶Flee ye from the midst of Babylon, And deliver ye each his soul, Be not cut off in its iniquity, For a time of vengeance it [is] to Jehovah, Recompence He is rendering to her.

⁷Bhabhironi wakange uri mukombe muruoko rwaJehovha, wakabatisa nyika yose; marudzi avanhu akamwa waini yawo, saka marudzi akapenga.

⁷A golden cup [is] Babylon in the hand of Jehovah, Making drunk all the earth, Of its wine drunk have nations, Therefore boast themselves do nations.

⁸Bhabhironi rakawira pasi pakarepo rikaparadzwa; wungudzai pamusoro paro, torai muti webharisami kurapa kurwadziwa kwaro, zvimwe ringapora.

⁸Suddenly hath Babylon fallen, Yea, it is broken, howl ye for it, Take balm for her pain, if so be it may be healed.

⁹Taida kuporesa Bhabhironi, asi harina kupora; risiyei, mumwe nomumwe wedu aende kunyika yake, nekuti mhosva yaro yasvikira kudenga, yasimudzirwa kumakore.

⁹We healed Babylon, and she was not healed, Forsake her, and we go, each to his land, For come unto the heavens hath its judgment, And it hath been lifted up unto the clouds.

¹⁰Jehovha wakaratidza kururama kwedu; uyai, tiparidze paZiyoni basa raJehovha Mwari wedu.

¹⁰Jehovah hath brought forth our righteousnesses, Come, and we recount in Zion the work of Jehovah our God.

¹¹Rodzai miseve, batisai nhovo! Jehovha wakamutsa mweya yamadzimambo avaMedhia, nekuti murangariro wake ndowokuparadza Bhabhironi, nekuti ndiko kutsiva kwaJehovha, iko kutsiva kwetemberi yake.

¹¹Cleanse ye the arrows, fill the shields, Stirred up hath Jehovah the spirit of the kings of Madia, For against Babylon His device [is] to destroy it, For the vengeance of Jehovah it [is], The vengeance of His temple.

¹²Simudzirai masvingo eBhabhironi mureza, simbisai varindi, isaipo nharirire, gadzirai vanovandira, nekuti Jehovha wakafunga nokuita zvaakataura pamusoro pavagere Bhabhironi.

¹²Unto the walls of Babylon lift up an ensign, Strengthen the watch, Establish the watchers, prepare the ambush, For Jehovah hath both devised and done that which He spake, Concerning the inhabitants of Babylon.

¹³Iwe ugere pamvura zhinji, une fuma zhinji, kuguma kwako kwasvika, icho chiyero chezvawakawana nokunyengera.

¹³O dweller on many waters, abundant in treasures, Come in hath thine end, the measure of thy dishonest gain.

¹⁴Jehovha wehondo wakapika naiye amene, achiti, Zvirokwazvo ndichakuzadza navanhu semhashu, ivo vachakupururudzira.

¹⁴Sworn hath Jehovah of Hosts by Himself, That, Surely I have filled thee [with] men as the cankerworm, And they have cried against thee — shouting.

¹⁵Ndiye wakaita nyika nesimba rake, wakateya nyika nohuchenjeri hwake, wakatatamura denga rose nenjere dzake.

¹⁵The maker of earth by His power, The establisher of the world by His wisdom, Who by His understanding stretched out the heavens,

¹⁶Kana achibudisa inzwi rake, kunomubvumo wemvura zhinji kudenga; unokwidza makore pamigumo yenyika, unoita mheni kuuyisa mvura, unobudisa mhepo panovigwa fuma yake.

¹⁶At the voice He giveth forth, A multitude of waters [are] in the heavens, And He causeth vapours to come up from the end of the earth, Lightnings for rain He hath made, And He bringeth out wind from His treasures.

¹⁷Munhu mumwe nomumwe wava usina njere, haane zivo; mupfuri mumwe nomumwe wendarama unonyadziswa nechifananidzo chake chaakaveza, nekuti chifananidzo chaakaumba, ndechenhema; hakuna mweya mazviri.

¹⁷Brutish hath been every man by knowledge, Put to shame hath been every refiner by a graven image, For false [is] his molten image, And there is no breath in them.

¹⁸Hazvina maturo, ibasa rinonyengera; panguva yokurohwa kwazvo zvichapera.

¹⁸Vanity [are] they — work of errors, In the time of their inspection they perish.

¹⁹Mugove waJakove haufanani naizvozvi, nekuti ndiye muumbi wazvose; Isiraeri ndirwo rudzi rwenhaka yake; Jehovha wehondo ndiro zita rake.

¹⁹Not like these [is] the portion of Jacob, For He [is] former of all things, And [Israel is] the rod of His inheritance, Jehovah of Hosts [is] His name.

²⁰Iwe uri nyundo yangu nenhumbi dzangu dzokurwa; newe ndichaputsanya marudzi avanhu newe ndichaparadza ushe;

²⁰An axe [art] thou to me — weapons of war, And I have broken in pieces by thee nations, And I have destroyed by thee kingdoms,

²¹newe ndichaputsanya bhiza nomutasvi waro; newe ndichaputsanya ngoro nounofamba nayo;

²¹And I have broken in pieces by thee horse and its rider, And I have broken in pieces by thee chariot and its charioteer,

²²newe ndichaputsanya murume nomukadzi; newe ndichaputsanya mutana nomuduku; newe ndichaputsanya mujaya nemhandara;

²²And I have broken in pieces by thee man and woman, And I have broken in pieces by thee old and young, And I have broken in pieces by thee young man and virgin,

²³newe ndichaputsanya murimi nenzombe dzake mbiri; newe ndichaputsanya vabati navakuru.

²³And I have broken in pieces by thee shepherd and his drove, And I have broken in pieces by thee husbandman and his team, And I have broken in pieces by thee governors and prefects.

²⁴Ndicharipidzira Bhabhironi navose vagere Karadhea zvakaipa zvavo zvose zvavakaita Ziyoni pamberi penyu ndizvo zvinotaura Jehovha.

²⁴And I have recompensed to Babylon, And to all inhabitants of Chaldea, All the evil that they have done in Zion, Before your eyes — an affirmation of Jehovah.

²⁵Tarira, ndine mhosva newe, iwe gomo rokuparadza, rinoparadza nyika yose ndizvo zvinotaura Jehovha; ndichatambanudzira ruoko rwangu kwauri, ndichakukungurusa pamabwe, ndichakuita gomo rakatsva.

²⁵Lo, I [am] against thee, O destroying mount, An affirmation of Jehovah, That is destroying all the earth, And I have stretched out My hand against thee, And I have rolled thee from the rocks, And given thee for a burnt mountain.

²⁶Havangatori kwauri ibwe rekona, kana ibwe renheyo; asi uchava dongo nokusingaperi, ndizvo zvinotaura Jehovha.

²⁶And they take not out of thee a stone for a corner, And a stone for foundations, For desolations age-during art thou, An affirmation of Jehovah.

²⁷Simudzai mureza panyika, ridzai hwamanda pakati pamarudzi, gadzirai marudzi kuzorwa naro, kokerai ushe bweArarati neMini neAshikenazi kuzorwa naro, gadzai mukuru wehondo kuzorwa naro, uyisai mabhiza semhashu dzinoparadza.

²⁷Lift ye up an ensign in the land, Blow a trumpet among nations, Sanctify against it nations, Summon against it the kingdoms of Ararat, Minni, and Ashkenaz, Appoint against it an infant head, Cause the horse to ascend as the rough cankerworm.

²⁸Gadzirai marudzi kuzorwa naro, iwo madzimambo avaMedhia, navabati vavo, navakuru vavo vose, nenyika yose yavakabata.

²⁸Sanctify against it the nations with the kings of Media, Its governors and all its prefects, And all the land of its dominion.

²⁹Nyika inodedera nokurwadziwa; nekuti zvakafunga Jehovha kuitira Bhabhironi zvakasimba, kuti aite nyika yeBhabhironi dongo, isina unogaramo.

²⁹And shake doth the land, and it is pained, For stood against Babylon have the purposes of Jehovah, To make the land of Babylon a desolation without inhabitant.

³⁰Mhare dzeBhabhironi dzarega kurwa, vakarambira munhare dzavo, simba ravo rakapera, vava savakadzi; vakapisa dzimba dzaro, zvipfigiso zvaro zvakavhuniwa.

³⁰Ceased have the mighty of Babylon to fight, They have remained in strongholds, Failed hath their might, they have become woman, They have burnt her tabernacles, Broken have been her bars.

³¹Imwe nhume ichamhanya kundosangana neimwe, mumwe wakatumwa kundosangana nomumwe, kuzivisa mambo weBhabhironi kuti guta rake rakundwa kumativi ose.

³¹Runner to meet runner doth run, And announcer to meet announcer, To announce to the king of Babylon, For, captured hath been his city — at the extremity.

³²Uye kuti mazambuko abatwa, kuti mapani eshanga apiswa nomoto, kuti varwi vavhunduswa.

³²And the passages have been captured, And the reeds they have burnt with fire, And the men of war have been troubled.

³³nekuti zvanzi naJehovha wehondo, Mwari waIsiraeri, Mukunda weBhabhironi wakaita seburiro nenguva yokupura; kwasara nguva duku, iye ndokusvikirwa nenguva yokukohwa.

³³For thus said Jehovah of Hosts, God of Israel, The daughter of Babylon [is] as a threshing-floor, The time of her threshing — yet a little, And come hath the time of her harvest.

³⁴Nebhukadhirezari mambo weBhabhironi wandidya, wandipwanya, wandiita mudziyo usina chinhu wandimedza seshato, razadza zidumbu raro nezvinozipa zvangu, wandidzinga.

³⁴Devoured us, crushed us, hath Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon, He hath set us [as] an empty vessel, He hath swallowed us as a dragon, He hath filled his belly with my dainties, He hath driven us away.

³⁵Ugere Ziyoni uchati, Zvakaipa zvandakaitirwa ini nenyama yangu ngazvive pamusoro peBhabhironi; Jerusaremu richati, Ropa rangu ngarive pamusoro pavagere Karadhea.

³⁵My wrong, and [that of] my flesh [is] on Babylon, Say doth the inhabitant of Zion, And my blood [is] on the inhabitants of Chaldea, Say doth Jerusalem.

³⁶Naizvozvo zvanzi naJehovha, Tarira, ndichakureverera mhaka yako, ndichakutsiva; ndichapwisa gungwa raro, ndichaomesa tsime raro.

³⁶Therefore, thus said Jehovah: Lo, I am pleading thy cause, And I have avenged thy vengeance, And dried up its sea, and made its fountains dry.

³⁷Bhabhironi richaitwa mirwi yamabwe, hugaro hwamakava, chinhu chinoshamisa, chinoridzirwa muridzo, pasina unogaramo.

³⁷And Babylon hath been for heaps, A habitation of dragons, An astonishment, and a hissing, without inhabitant.

³⁸Vachaomba pamwechete savana veshumba, vachaganya savana veshumba.

³⁸Together as young lions they roar, They have shaken themselves as lions` whelps.

³⁹Kana vamutswa moyo ndichavaitira mutambo, ndichavabatisa newaini, kuti vafare, vavate hope dzisingaperi, varege kuzomukazve ndizvo zvinotaura Jehovha.

³⁹In their heat I make their banquets, And I have caused them to drink, so that they exult, And have slept a sleep age-during, And awake not — an affirmation of Jehovah.

⁴⁰Ndichavaburusira kwavanondobayiwa samakwaiana, samakondobwe pamwechete nenhongo.

⁴⁰I cause them to go down as lambs to slaughter, As rams with he-goats.

⁴¹Sheshaki rakundwa sei! Guta rairumbidzwa nenyika yose rapindwa sei! Bhabhironi rava dongo sei pakati pamarudzi!

⁴¹How hath Sheshach been captured, Yea, caught is the praise of the whole earth, How hath Babylon been for an astonishment among nations.

⁴²Gungwa rakwira rasvika Bhabhironi, rafukidzwa namafungu aro mazhinji.

⁴²Come up against Babylon hath the sea, With a multitude of its billows it hath been covered.

⁴³Maguta aro ava matongo, nyika yakaoma nerenje, nenyika musingagari munhu, hakuna Mwanakomana womunhu unopfuura napo.

⁴³Its cities have been for a desolation, A dry land, and a wilderness, A land — none doth dwell in them, Nor pass over into them doth a son of man.

⁴⁴Ndichatonga Bheri paBhabhironi, ndichabudisa mumuromo make chaakanga amedza, marudzi avanhu haachazovangiri kwariri; zvirokwazvo rusvingo rwaBhabhironi ruchawa.

⁴⁴And I have seen after Bel in Babylon, And I have brought forth that which he swallowed — from his mouth, And flow no more unto him do nations, Also the wall of Babylon hath fallen.

⁴⁵Imi vanhu vangu, budai mukati maro, muzviponese mumwe nomumwe pakutsamwa kukuru kwaJehovha.

⁴⁵Go forth from its midst, O My people, And deliver ye, each his soul, Because of the fierceness of the anger of Jehovah,

⁴⁶moyo yenyu irege kuora, musatya guhuzve nerimwe gore shure kwaizvozvo; panyika vachaitirana simba, mubati mumwe achirwa nomumwe.

⁴⁶And lest your heart be tender, And ye be afraid of the report that is heard in the land, And come in a year hath the report, And after it in a year the report, And violence [is] in the land, ruler against ruler;

⁴⁷Naizvozvo tarirai, mazuva anouya andichatonga mifananidzo yakavezwa yaBhabhironi; nyika yaro yose ichanyadziswa, vakaurawa varo vose vachawira pasi mukati maro.

⁴⁷Therefore, lo, days are coming, And I have seen after the graven images of Babylon. And all its land is ashamed, And all its pierced ones do fall in its midst.

⁴⁸Ipapo denga nenyika nezvose zviri mukati mazvo zvichaimba nomufaro pamusoro peBhabhironi, nekuti vaparadzi vachauya kwariri vachibva kurutivi rwokumusoro ndizvo zvinotaura Jehovha.

⁴⁸And cried aloud against Babylon Have heavens and earth, and all that [is] in them, For, from the north come to it do the spoilers, An affirmation of Jehovah.

⁴⁹Vakaurawa valsiraeri, Bhabhironi rinofanira kuwawo, sezvakawira pasi paBhabhironi vakaurawa venyika yose.

⁴⁹Even Babylon [is] to fall, ye pierced of Israel, Even they of Babylon have fallen, Ye pierced of all the earth.

⁵⁰Imi makapukunyuka pamunondo, endai, musamira; rangarirai Jehovha muri kure, fungai Jerusaremu pamoyo yenyu.

⁵⁰Ye escaped of the sword, go on, stand not, Remember ye from afar Jehovah, And let Jerusalem come up on your heart.

⁵¹Takanyadziswa, nekuti takanzwa kushoorwa, kunyara kwakafukidza zviso zvedu, nekuti vatorwa vakapinda munzvimbo tsvene dzeimba yaJehovha.

⁵¹We have been ashamed, for we heard reproach, Covered hath shame our faces, For come in have strangers, against the sanctuaries of the house of Jehovah.

⁵²Naizvozvo, tarirai, ndizvo zvinotaura Jehovha mazuva anouya andichatonga mifananidzo yaro yakavezwa; vakakuvadzwa vachagomera kose panyika yaro.

⁵²Therefore, lo, days are coming, An affirmation of Jehovah, And I have seen after its graven images, And in all its land groan doth the wounded.

⁵³Kunyange Bhabhironi rikakwira kudenga, kunyange rikasimbisa pakakwirira pane simba raro, kunyange zvakadaro vaparadzi vachabva kwandiri vachiendako, ndizvo zvinotaura Jehovha.

⁵³Because Babylon goeth up to the heavens, And because it fenceth the high place of its strength, From Me come into it do spoilers, An affirmation of Jehovah.

⁵⁴Inzwai inzwi rokuchema rinobva Bhabhironi, nerokuparadzwa kukuru rinobva panyika yavaKaradhea!

⁵⁴A voice of a cry [is] from Babylon, And of great destruction from the land of the Chaldean.

⁵⁵nekuti Jehovha unoparadza Bhabhironi, uchanyaradzamo mubvumo mukuru; mafungu avo anotinhira semvura zhinji, mubvumo wamanzwi avo anonzwika.

⁵⁵For Jehovah is spoiling Babylon, And hath destroyed out of it a great voice, And sounded have its billows as many waters, Given forth a noise hath their voice.

⁵⁶nekuti muparadzi wasvika kwariri, iko Bhabhironi, mhare dzaro dzakundwa, huta hwavo hwavhuniwa-vhuniwa; nekuti Jehovha ndiMwari wokutsiva, ucharipidzira zvirokwazvo.

⁵⁶For come in against it — against Babylon — hath a spoiler, And captured have been its mighty ones, Broken have been their bows, For the God of recompences — Jehovah — doth certainly repay.

⁵⁷Ndichabatisa newaini machinda aro navakachenjera varo, vabati varo navakuru varo, nemhare dzaro, vachavata hope dzisingaperi, havangazomuki ndizvo zvinotaura Mambo, une zita rinonzi Jehovha wehondo.

⁵⁷And I have caused its princes to drink, And its wise men, its governors, And its prefects, and its mighty ones, And they have slept a sleep age-during, And they awake not — an affirmation of the king, Jehovah of Hosts [is] His name.

⁵⁸Zvanzi naJehovha wehondo, Masvingo akafara eBhabhironi achakoromorwa chose, namasuwo aro marefu achapiswa nomoto; vanhu vachabatira zvisina maturo, namarudzi achabatira moto; vachaneta.

⁵⁸Thus said Jehovah of Hosts, the wall of Babylon — The broad one — is utterly made bare, And her high gates with fire are burnt, And peoples labour in vain, And nations in fire, and have been weary!

⁵⁹Ndiro shoko, rakarairwa Seraia mwanakomana waNeria, mwanakomana waMaseia, nomuporofita Jeremiya, nguva yaakaenda Bhabhironi naZedhekia mambo waJudha negore rechina rokubata kwake ushe. Zvino Seraia wakange ari murairi mukuru parwendo.

⁵⁹The word that Jeremiah the prophet hath commanded Seraiah son of Neriah, son of Maaseiah, in his going with Zedekiah king of Judah to Babylon, in the fourth year of his reign — and Seraiah [is] a quiet prince;

⁶⁰Jeremiya akanyora mubhuku zvakaipa zvose zvaifanira kuwira Bhabhironi, iwo mashoko ose akanyorwa pamusoro peBhabhironi.

⁶⁰and Jeremiah writeth all the evil that cometh unto Babylon on one book — all these words that are written concerning Babylon.

⁶¹Jeremiya akati kuna Seraia, Kana wasvika Bhabhironi rangarira kuti urave mashoko awa ose.

⁶¹And Jeremiah saith unto Seraiah, `When thou dost enter Babylon, then thou hast seen, and hast read all these words,

⁶²Uti, Haiwa Jehovha, makataura pamusoro penzvimbo ino kuti muchai,paradza, kuti kusava nounogaramo, kana munhu kana zvipfuwo, asi kuti richava dongo nokusingaperi.

⁶²and hast said: Jehovah, Thou, Thou hast spoken concerning this place, to cut it off, that there is none dwelling in it, from man even unto cattle, for it is a desolation age-during.

⁶³Zvino kana wapedza kurava bhuku iyi, unofanira kusungira ibwe pairi, ndokuikandira mukati morwizi rwaYufuratesi;

⁶³And it hath come to pass, when thou dost finish reading this book, thou dost bind to it a stone, and hast cast it into the midst of Phrat,

⁶⁴uchiti, Saizvozvo Bhabhironi richanyura, haringazobudizve, nokuda kwezvakaipa zvandichauyisa pamusoro paro; vachaneta. Ndipo panoguma mashoko aJeremiya.

⁶⁴and said, Thus sink doth Babylon, and it doth not arise, because of the evil that I am bringing in against it, and they have been weary.` Hitherto [are] words of Jeremiah.