¹Zvino ndinoti: Ko Mwari wakarasa vanhu vake here? Ngazvisadaro! Nekuti iniwo ndiri muIsraeri, wembeu yaAbhurahamu, werudzi rwaBenjanimi.

¹I say, then, Did God cast away His people? let it not be! for I also am an Israelite, of the seed of Abraham, of the tribe of Benjamin:

²Mwari haana kurasha vanhu vake vaakagara aziva. Ko hamuzivi kuti Rugwaro runoti kudini kuna Eria here? Kuti unoreverera sei kuna Mwari pamusoro pevaIsraeri, achiti:

²God did not cast away His people whom He knew before; have ye not known — in Elijah — what the Writing saith? how he doth plead with God concerning Israel, saying,

³Ishe, vakauraya vaporofita venyu, vakaputsa aritari dzenyu, zvino ini ndasara ndoga, uye vanotsvaka upenyu hwangu.

³`Lord, Thy prophets they did kill, and Thy altars they dug down, and I was left alone, and they seek my life;`

⁴Asi mhinduro yaMwari inoti kudii kwaari? Unoti: Ndakazvichengetera zvuru zvinomwe zvevarume, vasina kufugamira ibvi kuna Bhaari.

⁴but what saith the divine answer to him? `I left to Myself seven thousand men, who did not bow a knee to Baal.`

⁵Zvino saizvozvo nguva inowo variko vakasara maererano nesananguro yenyasha.

⁵So then also in the present time a remnant according to the choice of grace there hath been;

⁶Zvino kana zviri zvenyasha, hazvisati zvichiri zvemabasa; asi kana zvisakadaro, nyasha hadzisisiri nyasha. Asi kana zvichibva kumabasa hazvisati zvichiri zvenyasha; kana zvisakadaro basa harizati richibasa.

⁶and if by grace, no more of works, otherwise the grace becometh no more grace; and if of works, it is no more grace, otherwise the work is no more work.

⁷Ko zvino? Israeri haana kuwana zvaakanga achitsvaka, asi vasanangurwa vakazviwana; vamwe vakawomeswa,

⁷What then? What Israel doth seek after, this it did not obtain, and the chosen did obtain, and the rest were hardened,

⁸maererano sezvazvakanyorwa, zvichinzi: Mwari wakavapa mweya wekutsumwaira; meso kuti varege kuona; nenzeve kuti varege kunzwa, kusvikira zuva ranhasi.

⁸according as it hath been written, `God gave to them a spirit of deep sleep, eyes not to see, and ears not to hear,` — unto this very day,

⁹NaDhavhidhi unoti: Tafura yavo ngaiitwe rudzingi, nemusungo nechigumbuso nekutsiva kwavari;

⁹and David saith, `Let their table become for a snare, and for a trap, and for a stumbling-block, and for a recompense to them;

¹⁰meso avo ngaasvibirwe kuti varege kuona; uye mukotamise musana wavo nokusingaperi.

¹⁰let their eyes be darkened — not to behold, and their back do Thou always bow down.`

¹¹Zvino ndinoti: Vakagumbuswa kuti vawe here? Ngazvisadaro! Asi kubudikidza nokuwa kwavo ruponeso rwakasvika kuvahedheni, kuvamutsira godo.

¹¹I say, then, Did they stumble that they might fall? let it not be! but by their fall the salvation [is] to the nations, to arouse them to jealousy;

¹²Zvino kana kuwa kwavo kuri fuma yenyika, nekutapudzika kwavo fuma yevahedheni, zvikuru sei kuzara kwavo?

¹²and if the fall of them [is] the riches of a world, and the diminution of them the riches of nations, how much more the fulness of them?

¹³Nekuti ndinotaura kwamuri vahedheni; sezvandiri muapositori wevahedheni, ndinokudza basa rangu.

¹³For to you I speak — to the nations — inasmuch as I am indeed an apostle of nations, my ministration I do glorify;

¹⁴Kuti zvimwe ndingamutsira godo venyama yangu, ndiponese vamwe vavo.

¹⁴if by any means I shall arouse to jealousy mine own flesh, and shall save some of them,

¹⁵Nekuti kana kurashwa kwavo kuri kuyananiswa kwenyika, kugamuchirwa kwavo kuchaveiko, kunze kweupenyu hunobva kuvakafa?

¹⁵for if the casting away of them [is] a reconciliation of the world, what the reception — if not life out of the dead?

¹⁶Zvino kana chibereko chekutanga chiri chitsvene, bunduwo rakadaro; kana mudzi uri mutsvene, matavi akadarowo;

¹⁶and if the first-fruit [is] holy, the lump also; and if the root [is] holy, the branches also.

¹⁷Zvino kana mamwe amatavi akavhuniwa, iwe uri muorivhi wekudondo ukabatanidzwa pakati pavo, ukava nemugove pamwe nawo pamudzi nepamafuta emuorivhi;

¹⁷And if certain of the branches were broken off, and thou, being a wild olive tree, wast graffed in among them, and a fellow-partaker of the root and of the fatness of the olive tree didst become —

¹⁸usazvikudza pamusoro pematavi; asi kana uchizvikudza hausi iwe unotakura mudzi, asi mudzi unokutakura iwe.

¹⁸do not boast against the branches; and if thou dost boast, thou dost not bear the root, but the root thee!

¹⁹Zvino uchati: Matavi akavhuniwa, kuti ini ndibatanidzwe.

¹⁹Thou wilt say, then, `The branches were broken off, that I might be graffed in;` right!

²⁰Zvakanaka; nekusatenda vakavhuniwa, iwe unomira nerutendo. Usazvikudza, asi utye;

²⁰by unbelief they were broken off, and thou hast stood by faith; be not high-minded, but be fearing;

²¹nekuti kana Mwari asina kurega matavi echisikigo, zvimwe haangakuregi iwewo.

²¹for if God the natural branches did not spare — lest perhaps He also shall not spare thee.

²²Zvino tarira unyoro nekuomarara kwaMwari, kune vanowa kuomarara; asi kwauri unyoro, kana uchigara paunyoro hwake; zvimwe newewo ungatemwa.

²²Lo, then, goodness and severity of God — upon those indeed who fell, severity; and upon thee, goodness, if thou mayest remain in the goodness, otherwise, thou also shalt be cut off.

²³Naivowo, kana vasingagari pakusatenda, vachabatanidzwa, nekuti Mwari unogona kuvabatanidzazve.

²³And those also, if they may not remain in unbelief, shall be graffed in, for God is able again to graff them in;

²⁴Nekuti kana iwe wakatemwa kumuorivhi uri wekudondo pachisikigo, ukabatanidzwa pamuorivhi wakanaka, zvichipesana nechisikigo chawo, vangabatanidzwa zvikuru sei avo vari matavi echisikigo pamuti wavo wemuorivhi?

²⁴for if thou, out of the olive tree, wild by nature, wast cut out, and, contrary to nature, wast graffed into a good olive tree, how much rather shall they, who [are] according to nature, be graffed into their own olive tree?

²⁵Nekuti handidi hama kuti musaziva chakavanzika ichi, kuti murege kungwara mumanyawi enyu; kuti kuwomeswa kwemoyo kwakaitika pamusoro pevamwe vevaIsraeri kusvikira kuzara kwavahedheni kwapinda;

²⁵For I do not wish you to be ignorant, brethren, of this secret — that ye may not be wise in your own conceits — that hardness in part to Israel hath happened till the fulness of the nations may come in;

²⁶saizvozvo Israeri wose uchaponeswa; sezvazvakanyorwa zvichinzi: PaZiyoni pachabuda Musununguri; uchabvisa kusada Mwari kuna Jakobho;

²⁶and so all Israel shall be saved, according as it hath been written, `There shall come forth out of Sion he who is delivering, and he shall turn away impiety from Jacob,

²⁷Uye iyi isungano yangu kwavari, pandichabvisa zvivi zvavo.

²⁷and this to them [is] the covenant from Me, when I may take away their sins.`

²⁸Zvino maererano neevhangeri, vavengi nekuda kwenyu; asi maererano nekusanangura, vadikamwa nekuda kwemadzibaba.

²⁸As regards, indeed, the good tidings, [they are] enemies on your account; and as regards the choice — beloved on account of the fathers;

²⁹Nekuti zvipo nekudana kwaMwari hazvishanduki.

²⁹for unrepented of [are] the gifts and the calling of God;

³⁰Nekuti semwiwo kare makanga musina kuteerera Mwari, asi zvino makagamuchira tsitsi kubudikidza nekusateerera kwavo;

³⁰for as ye also once did not believe in God, and now did find kindness by the unbelief of these:

³¹saizvozvo naivava ikozvino havana kuteerera, kuti kubudikidza netsitsi dzenyu naivo vawanewo tsitsi;

³¹so also these now did not believe, that in your kindness they also may find kindness;

³²nekuti Mwari wakavapfigira vose mukusateera kwavo, kuti ave netsitsi pane vose.

³²for God did shut up together the whole to unbelief, that to the whole He might do kindness.

³³Haiwa kudzika kwefuma, zvose yeuchenjeri neruzivo rwaMwari! Kutonga kwake hakunzverwi zvakadini, nenzira dzake hadzingarondwi!

³³O depth of riches, and wisdom and knowledge of God! how unsearchable His judgments, and untraceable His ways!

³⁴Nekuti ndiani wakaziva fungwa yaMwari kana ndiani wakange ari murairidzi wake?

³⁴for who did know the mind of the Lord? or who did become His counsellor?

³⁵Ndiani wakatanga kupa kwaari, uye zvicharipirwazve kwaari?

³⁵or who did first give to Him, and it shall be given back to him again?

³⁶Nekuti zvimwe zvose zvinobva kwaari kubudikidza naye, zvinoenda kwaari; umambo ngahuve kwaari nokusingaperi. Ameni.

³⁶because of Him, and through Him, and to Him [are] the all things; to Him [is] the glory — to the ages. Amen.