¹Vane nhamo vanofunga zvakaipa vachiita zvisakarurama panhovo dzavo! Vanozviita mangwanani kana koedza, nekuti simba rokuzviita riri mumaoko avo.

¹Wo [to] those devising iniquity, And working evil on their beds, In the light of the morning they do it, For their hand is — to God.

²Vanochiva minda, ndokuipamba, nedzimba, dzokuzvitorera idzo; vanomanikidza murume neimba yake, murume nenhaka yake.

²And they have desired fields, And they have taken violently, And houses, and they have taken away, And have oppressed a man and his house, Even a man and his inheritance.

³Naizvozvo zvanzi naJehovha, Tarirai, ndinofungira rudzi urwu zvakaipa, hamungagoni kubvisa mitsipa yenyu pazvivi, hamungafambi namanyawi, nekuti inguva yakaipa.

³Therefore, thus said Jehovah: Lo, I am devising against this family evil, From which ye do not remove your necks, Nor walk loftily, for a time of evil it [is].

⁴Nezuva iro vachataura mufananidzo pamusoro penyu, nokuchema nokuchema kokurira, vachiti, Takaparadzwa chose, iye unopa vamwe mugove wavanhu vangu, aiwa wanditorera ini sei! Minda yedu anoigovera vanomumukira.

⁴In that day doth [one] take up for you a simile, And he hath wailed a wailing of wo, He hath said, We have been utterly spoiled, The portion of my people He doth change, How doth He move toward me! To the backslider our fields He apportioneth.

⁵Saka iwe uchashaiwa munhu anokukandira rwonzi rwokuyera nhaka yako paungano yaJehovha.

⁵Therefore, thou hast no caster of a line by lot In the assembly of Jehovah.

⁶Regai kuporofita ndizvo zvavanoporofita ivo. Kana vasingaporofiti pamusoro pezvinhu izvi, kushoora kwavo hakungaperi.

⁶Ye do not prophesy — they do prophesy, They do not prophesy to these, It doth not remove shame.

⁷Nhai imwi munonzi imba yaJakove, Mweya waJehovha wafupiswa here? Ndiwo mabasa ake here? Ko mashoko angu haangaitiri zvakanaka anofamba nokururama here?

⁷Doth the house of Jacob say, `Hath the Spirit of Jehovah been shortened? Are these His doings?` Do not My words benefit the people that is walking uprightly?

⁸Asi zuro vanhu vangu vakandimukira somuvengi; munozumbura jasi panguvo dzavanopfuura havo norugare vasingadi kurwa.

⁸And yesterday My people for an enemy doth raise himself up, From the outer garment the honourable ornament ye strip off, From the confident passers by, Ye who are turning back from war.

⁹Munodzinga vakadzi vavanhu vangu padzimba dzavo dzinofadza; munoteerera vana vavo vaduku mbiri yangu nokusingaperi.

⁹The women of My people ye cast out from its delightful house, From its sucklings ye take away My honour to the age.

¹⁰simukai, muende, nekuti haizi nzvimbo yokuzorora pano, nemhaka yetsvina inoparadza nokuparadza kwakaipa kwazvo.

¹⁰Rise and go, for this [is] not the rest, Because of uncleanness it doth corrupt, And corruption is powerful.

¹¹Kana munhu aripo, anofambira mhepo nenhema, anoreva nhema achiti, Ndichakuporofitira zvewaini nezvinomwiwa zvinobata, iye achava muporofita wavanhu ava.

¹¹If one is going [with] the wind, And [with] falsehood hath lied: `I prophesy to thee of wine, and of strong drink,` He hath been the prophet of this people!

¹²Zvirokwazvo ndichakuunganidza, Jakove, iwe wose; zvirokwazvo ndichaunganidza vakasara vaIsiraeri; ndichavaisa pamwechete samakwai muchirugu, seboka ramakwai pakati pamafuro awo; vachaita ruzha rukuru nokuwanda kwavanhu.

¹²I do surely gather thee, O Jacob, all of thee, I surely bring together the remnant of Israel, Together I do set it as the flock of Bozrah, As a drove in the midst of its pasture, It maketh a noise because of man.

¹³Mupasanuri wakavatungamirira; vakapasanura, vakapfuurira kusuwo, vakabuda napo; mambo wavo wakavatungamirira, Jehovha ari pamberi pavo.

¹³Gone up hath the breaker before them, They have broken through, Yea, they pass through the gate, Yea, they go out through it, And pass on doth their king before them, And Jehovah at their head!