¹Zvakaonekwa naObhadhiya. Zvanzi naIshe Jehovha pamusoro paEdhomu, Takanzwa mashoko akabva kuna Jehovha, nhume yatumwa pakati pamarudzi ichiti, Simukai, ngativamukire kuzorwa navo.

¹Thus said the Lord Jehovah to Edom, A report we have heard from Jehovah, And an ambassador among nations was sent, `Rise, yea, let us rise against her for battle.`

²Tarirai, ndakakuitai vaduku pakati pamarudzi, makazvidzwa kwazvo.

²Lo, little I have made thee among nations, Despised [art] thou exceedingly.

³Kuzvikudza kwemwoyo yenyu kwakakunyengerai, iyemi, mugere mumikaha yamatombo, munougaro hwakakwirira, vanoti mumwoyo yavo, Ndianiko ungatiwisira pasi?

³The pride of thy heart hath lifted thee up, O dweller in clifts of a rock, (A high place [is] his habitation, He is saying in his heart, `Who doth bring me down [to] earth?`)

⁴Kunyange mukabhururukira kumusoro segondo, uye kunyange dendere renyu rikaiswa pakati penyeredzi, ndichakuwisiraipo pasi ndizvo zvinotaura Jehovha.

⁴If thou dost go up high as an eagle, And if between stars thou dost set thy nest, From thence I bring thee down, An affirmation of Jehovah.

⁵Dai mbavha dzaisvika kwamuri, kana makororo usiku (aiwa, makaparadzwa sei!) havazaiba kusvikira varinganiswa here? Dai vatanhi vamazambiringa vaisvika kwamuri, havazaisiya mamwe mazambiringa aripo here?

⁵If thieves have come in to thee, If spoilers of the night, How hast thou been cut off! Do they not steal their sufficiency? If gatherers have come in to thee, Do they not leave gleanings?

⁶Zvinhu zvaEsau zvakanzverwa sei! fuma yavo, yakavanzwa, yakafukunurwa sei!

⁶How hath Esau been searched out! Flowed out have his hidden things,

⁷Vanhu vose vaiva nesungano nemi, vakakuperekedzai kusvikira kumuganhu; vanhu, vaigara norugare nemi, vakakunyengerai, vakakukundai; vanodya zvokudya zvenyu, vanokuteyerai musungo pasi penyu, havana njere mukati mavo.

⁷Unto the border sent thee have all thine allies, Forgotten thee, prevailed over thee, have thy friends, Thy bread they make a snare under thee, There is no understanding in him!

⁸Ko handingaparadzi nezuva iro vachenjeri pakati paEdhomu, nenjere pagomo raEsau here? Ndizvo zvinotaura Jehovha.

⁸Is it not in that day — an affirmation of Jehovah, That I have destroyed the wise out of Edom, And understanding out of the mount of Esau?

⁹Mhare dzako, iwe Temani, ndichavhunduka, kuti vose vapere nokuurawa pagomo raEsau.

⁹And broken down have been thy mighty ones, O Teman, So that every one of the mount of Esau is cut off.

¹⁰Uchafukidzwa nokunyara nemhaka yokuti wakamukira munin'ina wako simba, uchaparadzwa nokusingaperi.

¹⁰For slaughter, for violence [to] thy brother Jacob, Cover thee doth shame, And thou hast been cut off — to the age.

¹¹Nezuva ramakanga mumirepo makatarisana navo, nezuva ravakatorera fuma yavo navatorwa, vasi venyika iyo vachipinda masuwo avo, vachikanda mije nya pamusoro peJerusaremu, nemiwo makanga makaita somumwe wavo.

¹¹In the day of thy standing over-against, In the day of strangers taking captive his force, And foreigners have entered his gates, And for Jerusalem have cast a lot, Even thou [art] as one of them!

¹²Asi regai kutarira zuva romunin'ina wenyu, muchifarira zuva reutorwa hwake, murege kufara pamusoro pavana vaJudha nezuva rokuparadzwa kwavo; uye regai kutaura muchizvikudza nezuva rokumanikidzwa kwavo.

¹²And — thou dost not look on the day of thy brother, On the day of his alienation, Nor dost thou rejoice over sons of Judah, In the day of their destruction, Nor make great thy mouth in a day of distress.

¹³Regai kupinda pasuwo ravanhu vangu nezuva renhamo yavo; regai kutarira njodzi yavo nezuva renhamo yavo, regai kuvatorera fuma yavo nezuva renhamo yavo.

¹³Nor come into a gate of My people in a day of their calamity, Nor look, even thou, on its misfortune in a day of its calamity, Nor send forth against its force in a day of its calamity,

¹⁴Regai kumira pamharadzano, kuti muparadze vanhu vavo vanopukunyuka; regai kuisa kuvavengi vavo vanhu vavo vakasara nezuva rokumanikidzwa kwavo.

¹⁴Nor stand by the breach to cut off its escaped, Nor deliver up its remnant in a day of distress.

¹⁵nekuti zuva raJehovha raswedera kumarudzi ose; sezvamakaitira vamwe, muchaitirwawo saizvozvo; zvamakaita zvichadzokera pamisoro yenyu.

¹⁵For near [is] the day of Jehovah, on all the nations, As thou hast done, it is done to thee, Thy deed doth turn back on thine own head.

¹⁶nekuti sezvamakamwa pagomo rangu dzvene, saizvozvo marudzi ose acharamba achimwa; zvirokwazvo, vachamwa, nokumedza, vachaita savasina kumbovapo.

¹⁶For — as ye have drunk on My holy mount, Drink do all the nations continually, And they have drunk and have swallowed, And they have been as they have not been.

¹⁷Asi pagomo reZioni ndipo pachava navakapukunyuka, richava gomo dzvene; imba yaJakove ichadzoserwa nhaka yayo.

¹⁷And in mount Zion there is an escape, And it hath been holy, And the house of Jacob have possessed their possessions.

¹⁸Imba yaJakove ichava moto, imba yaJosefa murazvo womoto, uye imba yaEsau mashanga; vachapisa vamwe pakati pavo, nokuvapedza; hakuchina vachasarira imba yaEsau, nekuti Jehovha akataura izvozvo.

¹⁸And the house of Jacob hath been a fire, And the house of Joseph a flame, And the house of Esau for stubble, And they have burned among them, And they have consumed them, And there is not a remnant to the house of Esau, For Jehovah hath spoken.

¹⁹Vokurutivi rwezasi vachatora gomo raEsau, vokumapani vachatora nyika yavaFirisitia; vachatora nyika yaEfuremu nenyika yeSamaria; Benjamini vachatora nyika yeGiriyadhi.

¹⁹And they have possessed the south with the mount of Esau, And the low country with the Philistines, And they have possessed the field of Ephraim, And the field of Samaria, And Benjamin with Gilead.

²⁰Vatapwa vehondo iyi yavana vaIsiraeri, vagere pakati pavaKanani, vachatora nyika kusvikira Zarefati; vatapwa veJerusaremu, vari Sefaradhi, vachatora maguta okurutivi rwezasi.

²⁰And the removed of this force of the sons of Israel, That [is with] the Canaanites unto Zarephat, And the removed of Jerusalem that [is] with the Sepharad, Possess the cities of the south.

²¹Vaponesi vachakwira pagomo reZioni kuzotonga gomo raEsau; ushe huchava hwaJehovha.

²¹And gone up have saviours on mount Zion, To judge the mount of Esau, And the kingdom hath been to Jehovah!`