1Aiwa, imwi Isiraeri, dzokerai kuna Jehovha Mwari wenyu, nekuti makagumburwa nezvakaipa zvenyu.
1O Israel, return unto Jehovah thy God; for thou hast fallen by thine iniquity.
2Endai namashoko, mudzokere kuna Jehovha, muti kwaari, Bvisai zvakaipa zvose, mugamuchire zvinhu zvakanaka, ipapo tichakupai miromo yedu, zvive zvibayiro zvedu.
2Take with you words, and return unto Jehovah: say unto him, Take away all iniquity, and accept that which is good: so will we render [as] bullocks [the offering of] our lips.
3Asiria havangatiponesi; hatingatasvi mabhiza, hatingazoti kubasa ramaoko edu. Ndimi vamwari vedu; nekuti nherera dzinowana nyasha kwamuri.
3Assyria shall not save us; we will not ride upon horses; neither will we say any more to the work of our hands, [Ye are] our gods; for in thee the fatherless findeth mercy.
4Ndichaporesa kudzokera kwavo shure, ndichavada nokuda kwangu; nekuti kutsamwa kwangu kwabviswa kwavari.
4I will heal their backsliding, I will love them freely; for mine anger is turned away from him.
5Ndichava sedova kuna Isiraeri, vachatunga seruva, vachatanda midzi yavo seRebhanoni.
5I will be as the dew unto Israel; he shall blossom as the lily, and cast forth his roots as Lebanon.
6Matavi avo achatanda, kunaka kwavo kuchafanana nomuorivhi, nokunhuhwira kwavo sokweRebhanoni.
6His branches shall spread, and his beauty shall be as the olive-tree, and his smell as Lebanon.
7Vanogara mumumvuri wavo vachadzoka, vachavandudzika sezviyo, nokutunga maruva somuzambiringa; kurumbidzwa kwavo kuchafanana newaini yeRebhanoni.
7They that dwell under his shadow shall return; they shall revive [as] the grain, and blossom as the vine: the scent thereof shall be as the wine of Lebanon.
8Efuremu, ndichineiko nezvifananidzo? Ndakapindura, ndinehanya naye; ndakafanana nomuonde mutema, zvibereko zvako zvichawanikwa kwandiri.
8Ephraim [shall say], What have I to do any more with idols? I have answered, and will regard him: I am like a green fir-tree; from me is thy fruit found.
9Ndianiko akachenjera, anzwisise zvinhu izvi, kana akangwara, azvizive? nekuti nzira dzaJehovha dzakarurama, vakarurama vachafamba nadzo; asi vadariki vachawa madziri.
9Who is wise, that he may understand these things? prudent, that he may know them? for the ways of Jehovah are right, and the just shall walk in them; but transgressors shall fall therein.