¹Chinzwai zvino zvinorehwa naJehovha. Simuka, ita nharo pamberi pamakomo, zvikomo ngazvinzwe izwi rako.

¹Hear, I pray you, that which Jehovah is saying: `Rise — strive thou with the mountains, And cause thou the hills to hear thy voice.`

²Chinzwai, imwi makomo, rukave rwaJehovha, nemwi nheyo dzenyika dzinogara dziripo; nekuti Jehovha anorukave navanhu vake, achaita nharo naIsiraeri.

²Hear, O mountains, the strife of Jehovah, Ye strong ones — foundations of earth! For a strife [is] to Jehovah, with His people, And with Israel He doth reason.

³Nhai, imwi vanhu vangu, ndakakuiteiko? Ndakakunetsai neiko? Pupura uchindipikisa.

³O My people, what have I done to thee? And what — have I wearied thee? Testify against Me.

⁴nekuti ndakakubudisai panyika ndikakudzikunurai paimba youranda, ndikatuma pamberi penyu Mozisi naAroni naMiriami.

⁴For I brought thee up from the land of Egypt, And from the house of servants I have ransomed thee, And I send before thee Moses, Aaron, and Miriam.

⁵Aiwa, vanhu vangu, rangarirai zvino zvakarangamwa naBharaki mambo waMoabhi, uye zvaakapindurwa naBharami mwanakomana waBheori; rangarirai zvakaitwa kubva paShitimi kusvikira Girigari, kuti muzive zvakarurama zvamakaitirwa naJehovha.

⁵O My people, remember, I pray you, What counsel did Balak king of Moab, What answer him did Balaam son of Beor, (From Shittim unto Gilgal,) In order to know the righteous acts of Jehovah.`

⁶Ndichauya nei pamberi paJehovha, ndichikotamira pamberi paMwari wokumusoro? Ndichauya pamberi pake nezvibayiro zvinopiswa, nemhuru dzakaita gore rimwe hete?

⁶With what do I come before Jehovah? Do I bow to God Most High? Do I come before Him with burnt-offerings? With calves — sons of a year?

⁷Ko Jehovha ungafadzwa namakondobwe ane chiuru chezana, kana nenzizi dzamafuta dzine zviuru zvine gumi here? Ndingamuvigira dangwe rangu pamusoro pokudarika kwangu, icho chibereko chomuviri wangu pamusoro pezvivi zvomweya wangu here?

⁷Is Jehovah pleased with thousands of rams? With myriads of streams of oil? Do I give my first-born [for] my transgression? The fruit of my body [for] the sin of my soul?

⁸Iye wakakuzivisa, iwe munhu, kuti zvakanaka ndezvipi; chinotsvakwa naJehovha kwauri chinyiko, asi kuti uite zvakarurama, ude unyoro, uye ufambe uchizvininipisa pamberi paMwari wako?

⁸He hath declared to thee, O man, what [is] good; Yea, what is Jehovah requiring of thee, Except — to do judgment, and love kindness, And lowly to walk with thy God?

⁹Izwi raJehovha rinodana kuguta, akachenjera achatya zita renyu; teererai shamhu, nowakairaira.

⁹A voice of Jehovah to the city calleth, And wisdom doth fear Thy name, Hear ye the rod, and Him who appointed it.

¹⁰Ko fuma yezvakashata ichipo muimba yowakashata here, uye chiyero chakatapudzwa chinonyangadza here?

¹⁰Are there yet [in] the house of the wicked Treasures of wickedness, And the abhorred scanty ephah?

¹¹Ko ndingava wakachena kana ndine zviyero zvakashata, nehomo yezviyereso zvinonyengera here?

¹¹Do I reckon [it] pure with balances of wickedness? And with a bag of deceitful stones?

¹²nekuti vafumi veguta vazere nokuita nehasha, vageremo vakareva nhema, rurimi rwavo mumuromo wavo runonyengera.

¹²Whose rich ones have been full of violence, And its inhabitants have spoken falsehood, And their tongue [is] deceitful in their mouth.

¹³Saka neniwo ndakakurovai vanga rakaipa kwazvo; ndakakuitai dongo nokuda kwezvivi zvenyu.

¹³And I also, I have begun to smite thee, To make desolate, because of thy sins.

¹⁴Muchadya, asi hamungaguti, kushoorwa kwenyu kuchava pakati penyu; muchabvisa nhumbi dzenyu, asi hamungadzichengeti, idzo dzamunochengeta, ndichadziparadzisa nomunondo.

¹⁴Thou — thou eatest, and thou art not satisfied, And thy pit [is] in thy midst, And thou removest, and dost not deliver, And that which thou deliverest, to a sword I give.

¹⁵Muchakusha, asi hamungacheki, muchasvina maorivhi, asi hamungazori mafuta, muchasvina mazambiringa, asi hamungamwi waini.

¹⁵Thou — thou sowest, and thou dost not reap, Thou — thou treadest the olive, And thou pourest not out oil, And new wine — and thou drinkest not wine.

¹⁶nekuti zvakatemwa naOmiri zvinochengetwa, namabasa ose eimba yaAhabhi, imwi munofamba nokurangarira kwavo, kuti ndikuitei dongo imi, navageremo chinhu chinoridzirwa muridzo; imwi muchava nemhosva yokushoorwa kwavanhu vangu.

¹⁶And kept habitually are the statutes of Omri, And all the work of the house of Ahab, And ye do walk in their counsels, For My giving thee for a desolation, And its inhabitants for a hissing, And the reproach of My people ye do bear!