¹Shoko raJehovha, rakauya kuna Mika weMoresheti namazuva aJotamu naAhazi naHezekia, madzimambo aJudha, raakaona pamusoro peSamaria neJerusaremu.

¹A word of Jehovah that hath been unto Micah the Morashite in the days of Jotham, Ahaz, Hezekiah, kings of Judah, that he hath seen concerning Samaria and Jerusalem:

²Inzwai imwi marudzi avanhu, imwi mose; teerera iwe nyika, nezvose zvirimo; Ishe Jehovha ngaakupupurirei, iye Ishe ari mutemberi yake tsvene.

²Hear, O peoples, all of them! Attend, O earth, and its fulness, And the Lord Jehovah is against you for a witness, The Lord from His holy temple.

³nekuti tarirai, Jehovha anobuda panzvimbo yake, achaburuka nokutsika panzvimbo dzakakwirira dzenyika.

³For lo, Jehovah is going out from His place, And He hath come down, And hath trodden on high places of earth.

⁴Makomo achanyauka pasi pake, mipata ichapamuka senamo yakaiswa pamoto, semvura inodururwa pamateru.

⁴Melted have been the mountains under Him, And the valleys do rend themselves, As wax from the presence of fire, As waters cast down by a slope.

⁵Zvose izvi zvinoitwa nokuda kokudarika kwaJakove, uye nokuda kwezvivi zveimba yaIsiraeri. Kudarika kwaJakove ndokweiko? Harizi Samaria here? Nzvimbo dzakakwirira dzaJudha ndedzipiko? Harizi Jerusaremu here?

⁵For the transgression of Jacob [is] all this, And for the sins of the house of Israel. What [is] the transgression of Jacob? Is it not Samaria? And what the high places of Judah? Is it not Jerusalem?

⁶Saka Samaria ndichariita somurwi wamabwe musango, senzvimbo dzingasimwa mizambiringa; ndichadurura mabwe aro mumupata, ndichifukunura nheyo dzaro.

⁶And I have set Samaria for a heap of the field, For plantations of a vineyard, And poured out into a valley her stones, And her foundations I uncover.

⁷Mifananidzo yaro yose yakavezwa ichaputswa-putswa, mibairo yaro yose ichapiswa nomoto, uye ndichaparadza zvifananidzo zvaro zvose; nekuti rakazviunganidza izvo uri mubayiro wechifeve, naizvozvi zvichadzokerazve kumubayiro wechifeve.

⁷And all her graven images are beaten down, And all her gifts are burnt with fire, And all her idols I make a desolation, For, from the hire of a harlot she gathered, and unto the hire of a harlot they return.

⁸Nemhaka iyi ndichachema nokuungudza, ndichafamba ndisina nguvo ndakashama, ndichaungudza samakava nokurira semhou.

⁸For this I lament and howl, I go spoiled and naked, I make a lamentation like dragons, And a mourning like daughters of an ostrich.

⁹nekuti mavanga aro haadi kupora, nekuti zvasvika kuna Judhawo; zvasvikira pasuwo ravanhu vangu, ipo paJerusaremu.

⁹For mortal [are] her wounds, For it hath come unto Judah, It hath come to a gate of My people — to Jerusalem.

¹⁰Musazvireva paGati, regai kutongochema; paBheti-re-Afura muumburuke muguruva.

¹⁰In Gath tell ye not — in Acco weep not, In Beth-Aphrah, in dust roll thyself.

¹¹Chibva uende, iwe ugere Shafiri, wakashama uchinyara; agere Zaanani haana kubuda kuungudza paBheti-ezeri kuchakutorera pokumira.

¹¹Pass over for thee, O inhabitant of Shaphir, Naked one of shame. Not gone out hath the inhabitant of Zaanan, The lamentation of Beth-Ezel doth take from you its standing.

¹²nekuti agere Maroti anomirira nemoyo zvikuru chinhu chakanaka, nekuti zvakaipa zvakaburuka zvichibva kuna Jehovha zvikasvikira kusuwo reJerusaremu.

¹²For stayed for good hath the inhabitant of Maroth, For evil hath come down from Jehovah to the gate of Jerusalem.

¹³Iwe ugere Rakishi, sunga mabhiza pangoro; ndiro rakatanga kuisa mukunda weZiyoni pazvivi, nekuti kudarika kwalsiraeri kwakawanikwa mauri.

¹³Bind the chariot to a swift beast, O inhabitant of Lachish, The beginning of sin [is] she to the daughter of Zion, For in thee have been found the transgressions of Israel.

¹⁴Saka iwe uchapa Moresheti-gati chipo chokuonekana; dzimba dzeAkizibhi dzichava chinhu chinonyengera madzimambo aIsiraeri.

¹⁴Therefore thou givest presents to Moresheth-Gath, The houses of Achzib become a lying thing to the kings of Israel.

¹⁵Iwe ugere Maresha, ndichakuuyisira mumwe achakukunda; vakakudzwa valsiraeri vachasvika paAdhurami.

¹⁵Yet the possessor I do bring in to thee, O inhabitant of Mareshah, To Adullam come in doth the honour of Israel.

¹⁶Zviitire mhazha, vevura vhudzi rako pamusoro pavana vaunofarira; kurisa mhazha yako seyegondo, nekuti vakatapwa kure newe.

¹⁶Make bald and shave, for thy delightful sons, Enlarge thy baldness as an eagle, For they have removed from thee!