¹Zvino kwakauya umwe wevatumwa vanomwe, vakange vane ndiro nomwe akataura neni achiti kwandiri: Uya pano, ndicharatidza kwauri kutongwa kwemhombwe huru igere pamusoro pemvura zhinji;

¹And there came one of the seven messengers, who were having the seven vials, and he spake with me, saying to me, `Come, I will shew to thee the judgment of the great whore, who is sitting upon the many waters,

²madzimambo enyika akaita upomwe nayo, nevagari vepanyika vakadhakiswa newaini yeupombwe hwayo.

²with whom the kings of the earth did commit whoredom; and made drunk from the wine of her whoredom were those inhabiting the earth;`

³Zvino wakandisengera kurenje mumweya, uye ndakaona mukadzi akatasva chikara chitsvuku, chizere nemazita ekunyomba, chine misoro minomwe nenyanga gumi.

³and he carried me away to a wilderness in the Spirit, and I saw a woman sitting upon a scarlet-coloured beast, full of names of evil-speaking, having seven heads and ten horns,

⁴Zvino mukadzi wakange akapfeka zvine ruvara rwehute nezvitsvuku, uye akashonga ndarama nemabwe anokosha nemaparera*, ane mukombe wendarama muruoko rwake uzere nezvinosemesa netsvina yeupombwe hwake.

⁴and the woman was arrayed with purple and scarlet-colour, and gilded with gold, and precious stone, and pearls, having a golden cup in her hand full of abominations and uncleanness of her whoredom,

⁵Nepahuma yake pakange pakanyorwa zita rekuti: CHAKAVANZIKA, BHABHIRONI GURU, MAI VEMHOMBWE NEZVINOSEMESA ZVENYIKA.

⁵and upon her forehead was a name written: `Secret, Babylon the Great, the Mother of the Whores, and the Abominations of the earth.`

⁶Zvino ndakaona mukadzi akadhakwa neropa revatsvene, uye neropa rezvapupu zvaJesu; zvino ndakati ndamuona ndikashamisika nekushamisika kukuru.

⁶And I saw the woman drunken from the blood of the saints, and from the blood of the witnesses of Jesus, and I did wonder — having seen her — with great wonder;

⁷Zvino mutumwa akati kwandiri: Washamisika nei? Ndichakuudza chakavanzika chemukadzi, nechechikara chinomutakura chine misoro minomwe nenyanga gumi.

⁷and the messenger said to me, `Wherefore didst thou wonder? I — I will tell thee the secret of the woman and of the beast that [is] carrying her, which hath the seven heads and the ten horns.

⁸Chikara chawaona, chaivapo, uye chisisisipo; uye choda kukwira chichibva mugomba risina chigadziko chichienda kundoparadzwa; uye vanogara panyika vasina kunyorwa mazita avo mubhuku reupenyu kubva pakuvambwa kwenyika vachashamisika vachiona chikara chaivapo uye chisisisipo uye kunyange chiripo.

⁸`The beast that thou didst see: it was, and it is not; and it is about to come up out of the abyss, and to go away to destruction, and wonder shall those dwelling upon the earth, whose names have not been written upon the scroll of the life from the foundation of the world, beholding the beast that was, and is not, although it is.

⁹Zvino hekuno kufunga kune njere. Misoro minomwe makomo manomwe pamusoro pawo pagere mukadzi,

⁹`Here [is] the mind that is having wisdom; the seven heads are seven mountains, upon which the woman doth sit,

¹⁰uye ndiwo madzimambo manomwe; vashanu vawa, umwe uripo, umwe uchigere kusvika; uye kana achisvika, unofanira kugara chinguva chiduku.

¹⁰and there are seven kings, the five did fall, and the one is, the other did not yet come, and when he may come, it behoveth him to remain a little time;

¹¹Uye chikara chaivapo uye chisisisipo naiye ndiyewo werusere, uye unobva pavanomwe, achienda mukuparadzwa.

¹¹and the beast that was, and is not, he also is eighth, and out of the seven he is, and to destruction he doth go away.

¹²Nenyanga gumi dzawaona, ndiwo madzimambo gumi achigere kugamuchira ushe, asi achagamuchira simba semadzimambo pamwe nechikara awa rimwe.

¹²`And the ten horns that thou sawest, are ten kings, who a kingdom did not yet receive, but authority as kings the same hour do receive with the beast,

¹³Ivo vane ndangariro imwe, uye vanopa simba ravo neutongi hwavo kuchikara .

¹³these have one mind, and their own power and authority to the beast they shall give over;

¹⁴Ava vachaita hondo neGwayana, uye Gwayana richavakunda; nekuti iro ndiro Ishe wemadzishe, naMambo wemadzimambo; naivo vanaro ndevakadamwa nevakasarudzwa nevakatendeka.

¹⁴these with the Lamb shall make war, and the Lamb shall overcome them, because Lord of lords he is, and King of kings, and those with him are called, and choice, and stedfast.`

¹⁵Zvino akati kwandiri: mvura yawaona inogarwa nemhobwe, ndivo vanhu, nezvaunga nemarudzi, nendimi.

¹⁵And he saith to me, `The waters that thou didst see, where the whore doth sit, are peoples, and multitudes, and nations, and tongues;`

¹⁶Uye nyanga gumi dzawaona pamusoro pechikara ndivo vachavenga mhombwe, uye vachaiparadza nekuifukura; uye vachadya nyama yayo, nekuipisa nemoto.

¹⁶and the ten horns that thou didst see upon the beast, these shall hate the whore, and shall make her desolate and naked, and shall eat her flesh, and shall burn her in fire,

¹⁷Nekuti Mwari wakaisa mumoyo yavo kuti vaite fungwa dzake, vave nekufunga kumwe, vape chikara ushe hwavo, kusvikira mashoko aMwari apedzeredzwa.

¹⁷for God did give into their hearts to do its mind, and to make one mind, and to give their kingdom to the beast till the sayings of God may be complete,

¹⁸Zvino mukadzi wawaona ndiro guta guru, rinotonga pamusoro pemadzimambo enyika.

¹⁸and the woman that thou didst see is the great city that is having reign over the kings of the land.`