1Ipapo Jona akanyengetera kuna Jehovha Mwari wake ari mudumbu rehove.
1And Jonah prayeth unto Jehovah his God from the bowels of the fish.
2Akati, Ndakadana kuna Jehovha ndiri munhamo yangu, Akandipindura; Ndakadana ndiri mudumbu reSheori, imwi mukanzwa izwi rangu.
2And he saith: I called, because of my distress, to Jehovah, And He doth answer me, From the belly of sheol I have cried, Thou hast heard my voice.
3nekuti makandikandira makadzika, mukati momwoyo wegungwa, Mvura zhinji yakanga yandikomberedza; Mafungu enyu namapoporodzi enyu akapfuura napamusoro pangu.
3When Thou dost cast me [into] the deep, Into the heart of the seas, Then the flood doth compass me, All Thy breakers and Thy billows have passed over me.
4Ndikati, Ndarashwa, hamuchandioni; Asi ndicharingirazve kuTemberi yenyu tsvene.
4And I — I said: I have been cast out from before Thine eyes, (Yet I add to look unto Thy holy temple!)
5Mvura zhinji yakandikomberedza, kusvikira kumweya wangu; Pakadzika pakanga pandipoteredza; Maharanga akanga amonera musoro wangu.
5Compassed me have waters unto the soul, The deep doth compass me, The weed is bound to my head.
6Ndakaburukira kumavambiso amakomo; Nyika, zvipfigiso zvayo zvakandipfigiramo nokusingaperi; kunyange zvakadaro makabudisa upenyu hwangu pagomba, imi, Jehovha Mwari wangu.
6To the cuttings of mountains I have come down, The earth, her bars [are] behind me to the age. And Thou bringest up from the pit my life, O Jehovah my God.
7Mweya wangu wakati uchiziya mukati mangu, ndikarangarira Jehovha; Munyengetero wangu ukapinda kwamuri, mutemberi yenyu tsvene.
7In the feebleness within me of my soul Jehovah I have remembered, And come in unto Thee doth my prayer, Unto Thy holy temple.
8Vanorangarira zvisina maturo zvenhema Vanorasha nyasha yavo.
8Those observing lying vanities their own mercy forsake.
9Asi ndichakubayirai nenzwi rokuvonga; Ndicharipa zvandapika. Ruponeso runobva kuna Jehovha.
9And I — with a voice of thanksgiving — I sacrifice to Thee, That which I have vowed I complete, Salvation [is] of Jehovah.
10Jehovha akataura nehove, ikandorutsira Jona panyika yakaoma.
10And Jehovah saith to the fish, and it vomiteth out Jonah on the dry land.