1Muputsanyi auya kuzorwa nemi; rindirai nhare, tarirai nzira, simbisai zviuno zvenyu, itai nesimba renyu kwazvo.
1Come up hath a scatterer to thy face, Keep the bulwark, watch the way, Strengthen the loins, strengthen power mightily.
2nekuti Jehovha anodzosa kurumbidzwa kukuru kwaJakove sokurumbidzwa kukuru kwaIsiraeri; nekuti vapambi vakavapamba, vakaparadza matavi emizambiringa yavo.
2For turned back hath Jehovah to the excellency of Jacob, As [to] the excellency of Israel, For emptied them out have emptiers, And their branches they have marred.
3Nhovo dzemhare dzake dzakatsvukiswa, varume vakatsunga vakapfeka nguvo tsvuku; ngoro dziri mumoto wedare nezuva rokuzvigadzira kwake, mapfumo ake emisipiresi anosimudzwa.
3The shield of his mighty ones is become red, Men of might [are in] scarlet, With fiery torches [is] the chariot in a day of his preparation, And the firs have been caused to tremble.
4Ngoro dzinovirima virima munzira dzomumusha, dzinobonderana pamapani dzakafanana namazhenje, dzinomhanya semheni.
4In out-places shine do the chariots, They go to and fro in broad places, Their appearances [are] like torches, As lightnings they run.
5Ucharangarira vakuru vake, vanogumburwa pakufamba kwavo, vanomhanyira kurusvingo rwaro pakagadzirwa chitaviridzo.
5He doth remember his honourable ones, They stumble in their goings, They hasten [to] its wall, and prepared is the covering.
6Masuwo enzizi akazarurwa, imba yamambo yakanyauka.
6Gates of the rivers have been opened, And the palace is dissolved.
7Shoko ratemwa, rokuti, rakafukurwa, rakatapwa, vashandiri varo vanomutungamirira vachichema namazwi akaita seenjiva, vachizvirova pazvipfuva zvavo.
7And it is established — she hath removed, She hath been brought up, And her handmaids are leading as the voice of doves, Tabering on their hearts.
8Asi kubva kare Ninivhe rakanga rakaita sedziva remvura; kunyange zvakadaro vanotiza. Vanodana vachiti, Mirai, mirai! Asi hakuna anocheuka.
8And Nineveh [is] as a pool of waters, From of old it [is] — and they are fleeing! `Stand ye, stand;` and none is turning!
9Pambai sirivha, pambai ndarama; nekuti kuwanda kwazvo hakuperi, iyo fuma yenhumbi dzakaisvonaka.
9Seize ye silver, seize ye gold, And there is no end to the prepared things, [To] the abundance of all desirable vessels.
10Harina chinhu, rinoshaiwa zvose, rava dongo; mwoyo unonyauka, mabvi anobonderana, kurwadziwa kwazvo kuripo pazviuno zvose, zviso zvavose zvacheneruka.
10She is empty, yea, emptiness and waste, And the heart hath melted, And the knees have smitten together, And great pain [is] in all loins, And the faces of all of them have gathered paleness.
11Nzvimbo yeshumba iripi? Panodyira shumba duku ndapapi? Ndapapi panofamba shumba nehadzi yayo nomwana weshumba, kusina anodzikarudza?
11Where [is] the habitation of lionesses? And a feeding-place it [is] for young lions Where walked hath a lion, an old lion, A lion`s whelp, and there is none troubling.
12Shumba yaibvamburanya zvakaringana vana vayo, yaidzipira hadzi dzayo, yaizadza mapako ayo nezvayairuma, nenzimba dzayo nezvayaibata.
12The lion is tearing parts [for] his whelps, And is strangling for his lionesses, And he doth fill [with] prey his holes, And his habitations [with] rapine.
13Tarirai, ndine mhaka nemwi ndizvo zvinotaura Jehovha wehondo ndichapisa ngoro dzaro dziite utsi, munondo uchapedza shumba dzenyu duku; ndichabvisa zvawakapamba panyika, inzwi renhume dzako haringatongonzwikwizve.
13Lo, I [am] against thee, An affirmation of Jehovah of Hosts, And I have burned in smoke its chariot, And thy young lions consume doth a sword, And I have cut off from the land thy prey, And not heard any more is the voice of thy messengers!