¹Zvino ndakapiwa rutsanga rwakaita semudonzvo; uye mutumwa wakamira achiti: Simuka uyere tembere yaMwari, nearitari, nevanonamata mairi.

¹And there was given to me a reed like to a rod, and the messenger stood, saying, `Rise, and measure the sanctuary of God, and the altar, and those worshipping in it;

²Asi ruvanze ruri kunze kwetembere usiye, uye usaruyera; nekuti rwakapiwa kuvechirudzi; vachatsikira guta dzvene pasi petsoka mwedzi makumi mana nemiviri.

²and the court that is without the sanctuary leave out, and thou mayest not measure it, because it was given to the nations, and the holy city they shall tread down forty-two months;

³zvekare ndichapa simba kuzvapupu zvangu zviviri, zvino zvichaporofita mazuva churu nemazana maviri nemakumi matanhatu zvakapfeka masaga.

³and I will give to My two witnesses, and they shall prophesy days, a thousand, two hundred, sixty, arrayed with sackcloth;

⁴Ava ndiyo miti miviri yemiorivhi nezvigadziko zvemwenje zviviri zvimire pamberi paMwari wenyika.

⁴these are the two olive [trees], and the two lamp-stands that before the God of the earth do stand;

⁵Kana kune unoda kuvakuvadza, moto unobuda mumuromo mavo uchiparadza vavengi vavo; uye kana munhu achishuva kuvakuvadza, unofanira kuurawa saizvozvi.

⁵and if any one may will to injure them, fire doth proceed out of their mouth, and doth devour their enemies, and if any one may will to injure them, thus it behoveth him to be killed.

⁶Ava vane simba rekupfiga denga kuti kusanaya nemazuva ekuporofita kwavo; uye vane simba pamusoro pemvura kuti vaishandure ive ropa, nekurova nyika nematambudziko ose kazhinji sezvavanoda.

⁶These have authority to shut the heaven, that it may not rain rain in the days of their prophecy, and authority they have over the waters to turn them to blood, and to smite the land with every plague, as often as they may will.

⁷Uye kana vapedza kupupura kwavo, chikara chinokwira chichibva mugomba risina chigadziko chichaita hondo navo, chigovakunda nekuvauraya.

⁷`And when they may finish their testimony, the beast that is coming up out of the abyss shall make war with them, and overcome them, and kill them,

⁸Uye zvitunha zvavo zvichava panzira dzemuguta guru, rinonzi pamweya Sodhoma neEgipita, pakarovererwawo Ishe wedu pamuchinjikwa.

⁸and their dead bodies [are] upon the broad-place of the great city (that is called spiritually Sodom, and Egypt, where also our Lord was crucified,)

⁹Zvekare vanobva kuvanhu nemarudzi nendimi nendudzi vachaona zvitunha zvavo mazuva matatu nehafu, uye havangatenderi zvitunha zvavo kuti zviiswe muguva.

⁹and they shall behold — they of the peoples, and tribes, and tongues, and nations — their dead bodies three days and a half, and their dead bodies they shall not suffer to be put into tombs,

¹⁰Neavo vanogara panyika vachafara pamusoro pavo nekupembera, uye vachatumirana zvipo, nekuti vaporofita ava vaviri vakatambudza avo vanogara panyika.

¹⁰and those dwelling upon the land shall rejoice over them, and shall make merry, and gifts they shall send to one another, because these — the two prophets — did torment those dwelling upon the land.`

¹¹Zvino shure kwemazuva matatu nehafu mweya weupenyu wakabva kuna Mwari wakapinda mavari, vakamira netsoka dzavo, uye kutya kukuru kukawira vose vakavaona.

¹¹And after the three days and a half, a spirit of life from God did enter into them, and they stood upon their feet, and great fear fell upon those beholding them,

¹²Ipapo vakanzwa inzwi guru richibva kudenga richiti kwavari: Kwirai pano. Vakakwira kudenga vari mugore, vavengi vavo vakavaona.

¹²and they heard a great voice out of the heaven saying to them, `Come up hither;` and they went up to the heaven in the cloud, and their enemies beheld them;

¹³Zvino nenguva iyoyo kudengenyeka kwenyika kukuru kwakavapo, chegumi cheguta ndokuwa, nevanhu zvuru zvinomwe vakaurawa mukudengenyeka kwenyika; vakasara vakavhunduswa, vakapa rumbidzo kuna Mwari wekudenga.

¹³and in that hour came a great earthquake, and the tenth of the city did fall, and killed in the earthquake were names of men — seven thousands, and the rest became affrighted, and they gave glory to the God of the heaven.

¹⁴Nhamo yechipiri yapfuura; tarira, nhamo yechitatu inokurumidza kusvika.

¹⁴The second wo did go forth, lo, the third wo doth come quickly.

¹⁵Zvino mutumwa wechinomwe wakaridza; manzwi makuru ndokuvako kudenga, achiti: Ushe hwenyika ino hwava hwaIshe wedu, nehwaKristu wake; uye uchatonga kusvikira rinhi narinhi.

¹⁵And the seventh messenger did sound, and there came great voices in the heaven, saying, `The kingdoms of the world did become [those] of our Lord and of His Christ, and he shall reign to the ages of the ages!`

¹⁶Uye vakuru makumi maviri nevana vagere pamberi paMwari pazvigaro zvavo zveushe vakawira pasi nezviso zvavo vakanamata Mwari.

¹⁶and the twenty and four elders, who before God are sitting upon their thrones, did fall upon their faces, and did bow before God,

¹⁷vachiti: Tinokupai kuvonga imwi, Ishe Mwari Wamasimbaose, uripo, wakange aripo, neuchauya; nekuti makazvitorera simba renyu guru, mukatonga.

¹⁷saying, `We give thanks to Thee, O Lord God, the Almighty, who art, and who wast, and who art coming, because Thou hast taken Thy great power and didst reign;

¹⁸Marudzi akatsamwa, nekutsamwa kwenyu kwasvika, nenguva yevakafa kuti vatongwe, uye kuti mupe mubairo kuvaranda venyu vaporofita, nekuvatsvene, nevanotya zita renyu, vaduku nevakuru; uye yekuvaparadza avo vanoparadza nyika.

¹⁸and the nations were angry, and Thine anger did come, and the time of the dead, to be judged, and to give the reward to Thy servants, to the prophets, and to the saints, and to those fearing Thy name, to the small and to the great, and to destroy those who are destroying the land.`

¹⁹Zvino kwakazarurwa tembere yaMwari kudenga; kukaonekwa areka yesungano mutembere yake; ndokuvapo mheni, nemanzwi, nekutinhira, nekudengenyeka kwenyika, nechimvuramabwe chikuru.

¹⁹And opened was the sanctuary of God in the heaven, and there was seen the ark of His covenant in His sanctuary, and there did come lightnings, and voices, and thunders, and an earthquake, and great hail.