¹Zarura mikova yako, iwe Rebhanoni, kuti moto upedze misidhari yako.

¹Open, O Lebanon, thy doors, And fire doth devour among thy cedars.

²Ungudza iwe musipiresi, nekuti musidhari wawira pasi, nekuti miti yakanaka kwazvo yaparadzwa; ungudzai, imwi miouki yeBhashani, nekuti dondo risingabviri kupindwa ratemwa.

²Howl, O fir, for fallen hath the cedar, For their honourable ones were destroyed, Howl, ye oaks of Bashan, For come down hath the fenced forest,

³Inzwai izwi rokuungudza kwavafudzi ! nekuti kukudzwa kwavo kwaparadzwa; inzwai izwi rokuwomba kwavana veshumba! nekuti kuzvikudza kwaJoridhani kwaitwa dongo.

³A voice of the howling of the shepherds! For destroyed was their robe of honour, A voice of the roaring of young lions! For destroyed was the excellency of Jordan.

⁴Zvanzi naJehovha Mwari wangu, Fudza makwai anozourawa;

⁴Thus said Jehovah my God: `Feed the flock of the slaughter,

⁵iwo anourawa navana vawo, vasingatorwi sevane mhosva; vanowatengesa vanoti, Jehovha ngaavongwe, nekuti ndakafuma; vafudzi vawo havana tsitsi nawo.

⁵Whose buyers slay them, and are not guilty, And their sellers say, Blessed [is] Jehovah, And I am rich, And their shepherds have no pity on them.

⁶nekuti handichazovi netsitsi navagere munyika ndizvo zvinotaura Jehovha; asi tarirai, ndichaisa vanhu avo, mumwe nomumwe muruoko rwookwake, nomuruoko rwamambo wake; vachaparadza nyika, ini ndisingavarwiri paruoko rwavo.

⁶For I have pity no more on inhabitants of the land, An affirmation of Jehovah, And lo, I am causing man to come forth, Each into the hand of his neighbour, And into the hand of his king, And they have beaten down the land, And I do not deliver out of their hand.`

⁷Saka ini ndakafudza makwai aizourawa, zvirokwazvo aiva makwai aizourawa, zvirokwazvo aiva makwai anonzwisa urombo. Ndikatora tsvimbo mbiri, imwe ndikaitumidza zita rinonzi, Kunaka, imwe ndikaitumidza zita rinonzi Zvisungo; ndikafudza makwai.

⁷And I feed the flock of slaughter, even you, ye afflicted of the flock; and I take to me two staves, the one I have called Pleasantness, and the other I have called Bands, and I feed the flock.

⁸Ndikaparadza vafudzi vatatu nomwedzi mumwe, nekuti mweya wangu wakange waneta navo, nemweya yavo yakandisemawo.

⁸And I cut off the three shepherds in one month, and my soul is grieved with them, and also their soul hath abhorred me.

⁹Ipapo ndikati, Handichadi kukufudzai; chinoda kufa ngachife hacho, chinofanira kuparadzwa, ngachiparadzwe hacho; akasara ngaadye mumwe nomumwe nyama yomumwe.

⁹And I say, `I do not feed you, the dying, let die; and the cut off, let be cut off; and the remaining ones, let each eat the flesh of its neighbour.`

¹⁰Ipapo ndakatora tsvimbo yangu yainzi, Kunaka, ndikaivhuna-vhuna, kuti ndiputse sungano yangu yandakanga ndaita nendudzi bose dzavanhu.

¹⁰And I take My staff Pleasantness, and cut it asunder, to make void My covenant that I had made with all the peoples:

¹¹ikavhuniwa nezuva iro; naizvozvo varombo pakati pamakwai, vakanditeerera, vakaziva kuti ishoko raJehovha.

¹¹and it is broken in that day, and know well do the afflicted of the flock who are observing me, that it [is] a word of Jehovah.

¹²Ndikati kwavari, Kana muchiti zvakanaka, chindipai mubayiro wangu; kana zvisakanaka, regai. Ipapo vakandiyerera mubayiro wangu, masirivha ana makumi matatu.

¹²And I say unto them: `If good in your eyes, give my hire, and if not, forbear;` and they weigh out my hire — thirty silverlings.

¹³Jehovha akati kwandiri, Chizvikandira kumuumbi wehari; ndiwo mutengo wakanaka wandakatengwa nawo navo. Ini ndikatora masirivha ana makumi matatu, ndikaakandira kumuumbi wehari mumba maJehovha.

¹³And Jehovah saith unto me, `Cast it unto the potter;` the goodly price that I have been prized at by them, and I take the thirty silverlings, and cast them [to] the house of Jehovah, unto the potter.

¹⁴Ipapo ndikavhuna-vhuna imwe tsvimbo yangu, yainzi, Zvisungo, kuti ndiputse ukama hwaiva pakati paJudha nalsiraeri.

¹⁴And I cut asunder my second staff, Bands, to break the unity between Judah and Israel.

¹⁵Ipapo Jehovha akati kwandiri, Chitorazve nhumbi dzomufudzi chete.

¹⁵And Jehovah saith unto me, `Again take to thee the instrument of a foolish shepherd.

¹⁶nekuti tarirai, ndichamutsa panyika ino mufudzi asingavi nehanya naakarashika, kana kutsvaka akapararira, kana kurapa akavhunika, kana kufudza anovata; asi achadya nyama yaakakora, nokubvamburanya mahwanda awo.

¹⁶For lo, I am raising up a shepherd in the land, The cut off he doth not inspect, The shaken off he doth not seek, And the broken he doth not heal, The standing he doth not sustain, And the flesh of the fat he doth eat, And their hoofs he doth break off.

¹⁷Ane nhamo mufudzi asina maturo, anosiya makwai! Munondo uchatema ruoko rwake neziso rake rorudyi; ruoko rwake ruchaoma chose, uye ziso rake rorudyi richasvibirwa chose.

¹⁷Wo [to] the worthless shepherd, forsaking the flock, A sword [is] on his arm, and on his right eye, His arm is utterly dried up, And his right eye is very dim!`