¹Haiwa, dai musoro wangu waiva nemvura zhinji, nameso angu riri tsime remisodzi, ndingadai ndaichema masikati novusiku nokuda kwavakaurawa vomukunda wavanhu vangu!

¹Who doth make my head waters, And mine eye a fountain of tears? And I weep by day and by night, For the wounded of the daughter of my people.

²Haiwa, dai ndaiva nedumba rinosigarwa navafambi murenje, ndingadai ndaisiya vanhu vangu, ndikabva kwavari! nekuti vose imhombwe, iungano yavanhu vanonyengera.

²Who doth give me in a wilderness A lodging-place of travellers? And I leave my people, and go from them, For all of them [are] adulterers, An assembly of treacherous ones.

³Vanokunga marimi avo, sezvavanoita huta hwavo, kuzoreva nhema; vasimba panyika, asi havaiti nezvokwadi; nekuti vanoramba vachingoita zvakaipa, havandizivi, ndizvo zvinotaura Jehovha.

³And they bend their tongue, their bow [is] a lie, And not for stedfastness have they been mighty in the land, For from evil unto evil they have gone forth, And Me they have not known, An affirmation of Jehovah!

⁴Mumwe nomumwe ngaachenjerere wokwake, murege kutenda hama ipi neipi; nekuti hama imwe neimwe ichanyengera, nowokwake mumwe nomumwe uchapota-pota ana makuhwa.

⁴Each of his friend — beware ye, And on any brother, do not trust, For every brother doth utterly supplant, For every friend slanderously doth walk,

⁵Mumwe nomumwe uchanyengera wokwake, haangarevi zvokwadi; vakadzidzisa marimi avo kureva nhema, vanozvinetsa nokuita zvakaipa.

⁵And each at his friend they mock, And truth they do not speak, They taught their tongue to speak falsehood, To commit iniquity they have laboured.

⁶Hugaro bwenyu huri pakati pokunyengera; vanoramba kundiziva nokunyengera kwavo, ndizvo zvinotaura Jehovha.

⁶thy dwelling [is] in the midst of deceit, Through deceit they refused to know Me, An affirmation of Jehovah.

⁷Naizvozvo zvanzi naJehovha wehondo, Tarirai, ndichanyausa nokuvaidza; nekuti ndingaita seiko pamusoro pomukunda wavanhu vangu?

⁷Therefore, thus said Jehovah of Hosts: Lo, I am refining them, and have tried them, For how do I do because of the daughter of My people?

⁸Marimi avo miseve inouraya, anoreva zvinonyengera; munhu unoreva zvorugare kuno wokwake nomuromo wake, asi mumoyo make unovandira.

⁸A slaughtering arrow [is] their tongue, Deceit it hath spoken in its mouth, Peace with its neighbour it speaketh, And in its heart it layeth its ambush,

⁹Ko handingavarovi pamusoro pezvinhu izvi here? Ndizvo zvinotaura Jehovha. Ko mweya wangu haungatsihwi parudzi rwakadai here?

⁹For these things do not I see after them? An affirmation of Jehovah, Against a nation such as this doth not My soul avenge itself?

¹⁰Ndichachema nokuwungudza pamusoro pamakomo, ndichachema pamusoro pamafuro amarenje, nekuti zvatsva, hakuna unopfuura napo; vanhu havagoni kunzwa inzwi rezvipfuwo; shiri dzokudenga nemhuka dzose zvatiza, zvaenda hazvo.

¹⁰For the mountains I lift up weeping and wailing, And for the habitations of the wilderness a lamentation, For they have been burnt up without any passing over, Nor have they heard the voice of cattle, From the fowl of the heavens unto the beast they have fled, they have gone.

¹¹Ndichaita Jerusaremu mirwi yamabwe, panogara makava; namaguta aJudha ndichaaita matongo, asina unogaramo.

¹¹And I make Jerusalem become heaps, A habitation of dragons, And the cities of Judah I make a desolation, Without inhabitant.

¹²Munhu wakachenjera, unonzwisisa izvozvi, ndianiko? Muromo waJehovha wakataura naniko, kuti aparidze izvozvi? Nyika yakapedzwa nokupiswa serenje neiko, pasina unopfuura napo?

¹²Who [is] the wise man? and he understandeth this, And he to whom the mouth of Jehovah spake? And he doth declare it, For what hath the land perished? It hath been burnt up as a wilderness, Without any passing through.

¹³Jehovha wakati, Zvavakarasha murayiro wangu wandakaisa pamberi pavo, vakasateerera inzwi rangu, nokufamba nazvo,

¹³And Jehovah saith: Because of their forsaking My law that I set before them, And they have not hearkened to My voice nor walked in it,

¹⁴asi vakatevera hukukutu bwemoyo yavo navaBhaari, izvo zvavakadzidziswa namadzibaba avo;

¹⁴And they walk after the stubbornness of their heart, And after the Baalim, that their fathers taught them,

¹⁵naizvozvo zvanzi naJehovha wehondo, Mwari waIsiraeri, Tarirai, ndichadyisa vanhu ava gavakava, nokuvamwisa mvura yenduru.

¹⁵Therefore, thus said Jehovah of Hosts, God of Israel: Lo, I am causing them — this people — to eat wormwood, And I have caused them to drink water of gall,

¹⁶Ndichavaparadzirawo pakati pamarudzi, avakanga vasingazivi ivo kunyange namadzibaba avo; ndichatuma munondo uvatevere, kusvikira ndavapedza.

¹⁶And I have scattered them among nations Which they knew not, they and their fathers, And have sent after them the sword, Till I have consumed them.

¹⁷Zvanzi naJehovha wehondo, Rangarirai imi, mudane vakadzi vangachema, vauye; tumai mudane vakadzi mhizha, vauye;

¹⁷Thus said Jehovah of Hosts: Consider ye, and call for mourning women, And they come, And to the wise women send, and they come,

¹⁸ngavakurumidze vacheme pamusoro pedu, kuti meso edu ayerere misodzi, namafungiro edu adurure mvura.

¹⁸And they hasten, and lift up for us a wailing. And run down our eyes do tears, And from our eyelids do waters flow.

¹⁹nekuti inzwi rokuchema rinonzwika richibva Ziyoni, richiti, Haiwa, takaparadzwa seiko! Takanyadziswa kwazvo, nekuti tabva panyika yedu nekuti vakakoromora dzimba dzedu dzataigara.

¹⁹For — a voice of wailing is heard from Zion: How have we been spoiled! We have been greatly ashamed, Because we have forsaken the land, Because they have cast down our tabernacles.

²⁰Asi inzwai shoko raJehovha, Imi vakadzi nzeve dzenyu ngadzinzwe shoko romuromo wake; dzidzisai vakunda venyu kuchema, mumwe nomumwe adzidzise wokwake kuwungudza.

²⁰But hear, ye women, a word of Jehovah, And your ear receiveth a word of His mouth, And teach ye your daughters wailing, and each her neighbour lamentation.

²¹nekuti rufu rwakakwira pamahwindo edu, rwakapinda mudzimba dzamadzimambo edu, kuti rupedze vana vari kunze, namajaya ari panzira dzomuguta.

²¹For death hath come up into our windows, It hath come into our palaces, To cut off the suckling from without, Young men from the broad places.

²²Taura, uti, Zvanzi naJehovha, Zvitunha zvavanhu zvichawira pasi somupfudze kubundo, setsama yehura dzinosiiwa nomucheki, dzisina unodziunganidza.

²²Speak thus — an affirmation of Jehovah, And fallen hath the carcase of man, As dung on the face of the field, And as a handful after the reaper, And there is none gathering.

²³Zvanzi naJehovha, Munhu wakachenjera ngaarege kuzvirumbidza pamusoro pohuchenjeri hwake, nomunhu wesimba ngaarege kuzvirumbidza pamusoro pesimba rake, nomunhu wakafuma ngaarege kuzvirumbidza pamusoro pefuma yake;

²³Thus said Jehovah: Let not the wise boast himself in his wisdom, Nor let the mighty boast himself in his might, Let not the rich boast himself in his riches,

²⁴asi unozvirumbidza, ngaazvirumbidze pamusoro pechinhu ichi, kuti unondinzwisisa nokundiziva ini, kuti ndini Jehovha, unoita hunyoro nokururamisira, nokururama panyika; nekuti ndinofarira zvinhu izvi ndizvo zvinotaura Jehovha.

²⁴But — in this let the boaster boast himself, In understanding and knowing Me, For I [am] Jehovah, doing kindness, Judgment, and righteousness, in the earth, For in these I have delighted, An affirmation of Jehovah.

²⁵Tarirai, ndizvo zvinotaura Jehovha mazuva anouya, andicharova vose vakadzingiswa pakati pokusadzingiswa kwavo;

²⁵Lo, days are coming — an affirmation of Jehovah, And I have laid a charge on all circumcised in the foreskin,

²⁶vanoti, Egipita, naJudha, naEdhomu, navana vaAmoni, naMoabhu, navose vakakandwa mukona kurenje; nekuti marudzi ose haana kudzingiswa, uye vose veimba yaIsiraeri havana kudzingiswa pamoyo yavo.

²⁶On Egypt, and on Judah, and on Edom, And on the sons of Ammon, and on Moab, And on all cutting the corner [of the beard], Who are dwelling in the wilderness, For all the nations [are] uncircumcised, And all the house of Israel [are] uncircumcised in heart!