¹Chirevo cheshoko raJehovha pamusoro paIsiraeri. Zvanzi naJehovha, iye anotatamura denga rose, anoteya nheyo dzenyika, nokuumba mweya womunhu mukati make,

¹The burden of a word of Jehovah on Israel. An affirmation of Jehovah, Stretching out heaven, and founding earth, And forming the spirit of man in his midst.

²Tarirai, ndichaita Jerusaremu mukombe wokudzedzeresa ndudzi dzose dzavanhu vakapoteredza; uchavawo pamusoro paJudha pakukombwa kweJerusaremu.

²Lo, I am making Jerusalem a cup of reeling To all the peoples round about, And also against Judah it is, In the siege against Jerusalem.

³Nezuva iro ndichaita Jerusaremu ibwe rinoremedza ndudzi dzose dzavanhu; vose vanozviremedza naro vachakuvadzwa kwazvo; ndudzi dzose dzenyika dzichariunganira kuzorwa naro.

³And it hath come to pass, in that day, I make Jerusalem a burdensome stone to all the peoples, All loading it are completely pressed down, And gathered against it have been all nations of the earth.

⁴Nezuva iro ndizvo zvinotaura Jehovha ndicharova bhiza rimwe nerimwe nokutya, nomutasvi waro nokupenga; ndichasvinudzira imba yaJudha meso angu, nokurova bhiza rimwe nerimwe rendudzi dzavanhu nokupofumara.

⁴In that day — an affirmation of Jehovah, I do smite every horse with astonishment, And its rider with madness, And on the house of Judah I open My eyes, And every horse of the peoples I smite with blindness.

⁵Ipapo madzishe aJudha achati mumwoyo mavo, Vagere Jerusaremu ndivo simba redu muna Jehovha wehondo, Mwari wavo.

⁵And leaders of Judah have said in their heart, `Strength to me [are] the inhabitants of Jerusalem, In Jehovah of Hosts their God.`

⁶Nezuva iro ndichaita madzishe aJudha segango romoto pakati pehuni, uye sezhenje romoto pakati pezvisote; vachaparadza ndudzi dzose dzavanhu vakapoteredza, kuruoko rworudyi nokuruoko rworuboshwe; veJerusaremu vachagarazve panzvimbo yavo, ipo paJerusaremu.

⁶In that day I make the leaders of Judah As a hearth of fire among trees, And as a torch of fire in a sheaf, And they have consumed — on the right and on the left — all the peoples round about, And Jerusalem hath inhabited again her place in Jerusalem.

⁷Jehovha achatanga kuponesawo matende aJudha, kuti kukudzwa kweimba yaDhavhidhi nokukudzwa kwavagere Jerusaremu kurege kupfuura kukudzwa kwaJudha.

⁷And saved hath Jehovah the tents of Judah first, So that become not great against Judah Doth the beauty of the house of David, And the beauty of the inhabitant of Jerusalem.

⁸Nezuva iro Jehovha achadzitira vagere Jerusaremu; anoshaiwa simba pakati pavo nezuva iro achava saDhavhidhi; imba yaDhavhidhi ichava saMwari, somutumwa waJehovha pamberi pavo.

⁸In that day cover over doth Jehovah the inhabitant of Jerusalem, And the stumbling among them hath been in that day as David, And the house of David as God — As a messenger of Jehovah — before them.

⁹Zvino nezuva iro ndichatsvaka kuparadza ndudzi dzose dzavanhu dzinomukira Jerusaremu.

⁹And it hath come to pass, in that day, I seek to destroy all the nations Who are coming in against Jerusalem,

¹⁰Ndichadira mweya wenyasha nowokunyengetera pamusoro peimba yaDhavhidhi, napamusoro pavagere Jerusaremu; vachanditarira ini, wavakabvowora; vachamuchema iye, somunhu unochema mwanakomana wake mumwechete, vachava neshungu kwazvo pamusoro pake, somunhu ane shungu pamusoro pomwana wake wedangwe.

¹⁰And I have poured on the house of David, And on the inhabitant of Jerusalem, A spirit of grace and supplications, And they have looked unto Me whom they pierced, And they have mourned over it, Like a mourning over the only one, And they have been in bitterness for it, Like a bitterness over the first-born.

¹¹Nezuva iro paJerusaremu pachava nokuchema kukuru, sokuchema kweHadhadhihimoni mumupata waMegidhoni.

¹¹In that day, great is the mourning of Jerusalem, As the mourning of Hadadrimmon in the valley of Megiddon,

¹²Nyika ichachema, veimba imwe neimwe vari voga; veimba yaDhavhidhi vari voga, navakadzi vavo vari voga, veimba yaNatani vari voga, navakadzi vavo vari voga;

¹²And mourned hath the land — every family apart, The family of the house of David apart, And their women apart; The family of the house of Nathan apart, And their women apart;

¹³naveimba yaRevhi vari voga, navakadzi vavo vari voga; veimba yavaShimei vari voga, navakadzi vavo vari voga;

¹³The family of the house of Levi apart, And their women apart; The family of Shimei apart, And their women apart,

¹⁴nedzimba dzose dzakasara, veimba imwe neimwe vari voga, navakadzi vavo vari voga.

¹⁴All the families that are left, Every family apart, and their women apart!