¹Zvino negore regumi nerimwe, nomwedzi wechitatu, nezuva rokutanga romwedzi, shoko raJehovha rakasvika kwandiri, richiti,

¹And it came to pass in the eleventh year, in the third [month], in the first [day] of the month, that the word of Jehovah came unto me, saying,

²Mwanakomana womunhu, iti kuna Farao mambo weEgipita, nokuvanhu vake vazhinji, Iwe wakafanana nani paukuru hwako?

²Son of man, say unto Pharaoh king of Egypt, and to his multitude: Whom art thou like in thy greatness?

³Tarira, muAsiria akanga ari musidhari paRebhanoni, akanga ana mashizha akanaka, sedondo rine mumvuri, wakareba kwazvo; musoro wawo wakange uri kumakore.

³Behold, the Assyrian was a cedar in Lebanon with fair branches, and with a forest-like shade, and of high stature; and its top was among the thick boughs.

⁴Mvura zhinji yakaumeresa, mvura yapasipasi yakaukurisa; nzizi dzayo dzaiyerera pose pakasimwa, yaisvitsa migero yayo kumiti yose yesango.

⁴The waters nourished it, the deep made it to grow: the rivers thereof ran round about its plantation; and it sent out its channels unto all the trees of the field.

⁵Naizvozvo muti uyu wakakura kupfuura miti yose yesango, matavi awo akawanda, uye matavi awo akareba nemvura zhinji, nenguva yokumera kwawo.

⁵Therefore its stature was exalted above all the trees of the field; and its boughs were multiplied, and its branches became long by reason of many waters, when it shot [them] forth.

⁶Shiri dzose dzokudenga dzakavaka matendere adzo mumatavi awo, nemhuka dzose dzesango dzakabereka vana vadzo pasi pamatavi, awo; marudzi makuru ose avanhu akagara mumumvuri wawo.

⁶All the birds of the heavens made their nests in its boughs; and under its branches did all the beasts of the field bring forth their young; and under its shadow dwelt all great nations.

⁷Saizvozvo wakange wakanaka pakukura kwawo, napakureba kwamatavi awo; nekuti midzi yawo yakanga iri mumvura zhinji.

⁷Thus was it fair in its greatness, in the length of its branches; for its root was by many waters.

⁸Misidhari mumunda waMwari yakanga isingagoni kuudzitira; miti yemisiperesi haina kufanana nohutavi hwawo, nemipurani yakanga isina kufanana namatavi awo; kwakanga kusina muti mumunda waMwari wakange wakafanana nawo pakunaka kwawo.

⁸The cedars in the garden of God could not hide it; the fir-trees were not like its boughs, and the plane-trees were not as its branches; nor was any tree in the garden of God like unto it in its beauty.

⁹Ndakauita zvakanaka nokuwanda kwamatavi awo, naizvozvo miti yose yeEdheni, yaiva mumunda waMwari, yaiugodora.

⁹I made it fair by the multitude of its branches, so that all the trees of Eden, that were in the garden of God, envied it.

¹⁰Naizvozvo zvanzi naIshe Jehovha, Zvawakakura zvikuru iwe, akaisa musoro wake pakati pamakore, moyo wake ukazvikudza nokuda kokureba kwake,

¹⁰Therefore thus said the Lord Jehovah: Because thou art exalted in stature, and he hath set his top among the thick boughs, and his heart is lifted up in his height;

¹¹ndichamuisa muruoko rwoune simba pakati pamarudzi avanhu, iye achamuitira zvawakafanira; ndakamudzinga nokuda kwezvakaipa zvake.

¹¹I will even deliver him into the hand of the mighty one of the nations; he shall surely deal with him; I have driven him out for his wickedness.

¹²Vatorwa, ivo vanotyisa pakati pamarudzi, vakamutema vakamurega, matavi ake akawira pamusoro pamakomo nomumipata yose, matavi ake akavhunikira pahova dzose dzenyika; vanhu vose venyika vabva pamumvuri wake, vakamusiya.

¹²And strangers, the terrible of the nations, have cut him off, and have left him: upon the mountains and in all the valleys his branches are fallen, and his boughs are broken by all the watercourses of the land; and all the peoples of the earth are gone down from his shadow, and have left him.

¹³Shiri dzose dzekudenga dzichagara padanda rake rakawa, mhuka dzose dzesango dzichava pamatavi ake;

¹³Upon his ruin all the birds of the heavens shall dwell, and all the beasts of the field shall be upon his branches;

¹⁴kuti miti yose iri pamvura irege kuzvikudza nokureba kwayo, kana kusvitsa misoro yayo mumakore, neine simba pakati payo irege kumira ichizvikudza iyo miti yose inomwa mvura; nekuti yose yakatarirwa rufu, iende kunzvimbo dzapasi dzenyika, pakati pavana vavanhu, pamwechete navanoburukira kugomba.

¹⁴to the end that none of all the trees by the waters exalt themselves in their stature, neither set their top among the thick boughs, nor that their mighty ones stand up on their height, [even] all that drink water: for they are all delivered unto death, to the nether parts of the earth, in the midst of the children of men, with them that go down to the pit.

¹⁵Zvanzi naIshe Jehovha, Nezuva raakaburukira kuSheori, ndakarayira kuti vanhu vacheme; ndakafukidza pakadzika nokuda kwake, ndikadzora nzizi dzapo, mvura zhinji ikamiswa; ndakarayira Rebhanoni kumuchema, miti yose yokusango ikati rukutu nokuda kwake.

¹⁵Thus saith the Lord Jehovah: In the day when he went down to Sheol I caused a mourning: I covered the deep for him, and I restrained the rivers thereof; and the great waters were stayed; and I caused Lebanon to mourn for him, and all the trees of the field fainted for him.

¹⁶Ndakadederesa marudzi ose nokutinhira kokuwa kwake, nenguva yandakamukandira muSheori, pamwechete navanoburukira kugomba; miti yose yeEdheni, iyo yakatsaurwa yakaisvonaka yeRebhanoni, iyo yose inomwa mvura, ikavaraidzwa panzvimbo dzapasi dzenyika.

¹⁶I made the nations to shake at the sound of his fall, when I cast him down to Sheol with them that descend into the pit; and all the trees of Eden, the choice and best of Lebanon, all that drink water, were comforted in the nether parts of the earth.

¹⁷Yakaburukirawo naye kuSheori kuna ivo vakaurawa nomunondo; zvirokwazvo, ndivo vaiva ruoko rwake, vaigara mumumvuri wake pakati pamarudzi.

¹⁷They also went down into Sheol with him unto them that are slain by the sword; yea, they that were his arm, [that] dwelt under his shadow in the midst of the nations.

¹⁸Iwe wakafanana naniko pakubwinya nohukuru pakati pemiti yeEdheni? Kunyange zvakadaro uchaburuswa pamwechete nemiti yeEdheni kunzvimbo dzapasi dzenyika; uchavata pasi pakati pavasina kudzingiswa, pamwechete navakaurawa nomunondo. Ndiye Farao navanhu vake vazhinji, ndizvo zvinotaura Ishe Jehovha.

¹⁸To whom art thou thus like in glory and in greatness among the trees of Eden? yet shalt thou be brought down with the trees of Eden unto the nether parts of the earth: thou shalt lie in the midst of the uncircumcised, with them that are slain by the sword. This is Pharaoh and all his multitude, saith the Lord Jehovah.