¹Itiyi kuna vanin'ina venyu, Ama; nokuhanzvadzi dzenyu, Ruhama.

¹Say ye unto your brethren, Ammi; and to your sisters, Ruhamah.

²Kakavarai namai venyu, kakavarai; nekuti haazi mukadzi wangu, neni handizi murume wake; ngaabvise kufeva kwake pachiso chake, nokupata kwake pakati pamazamu ake;

²Contend with your mother, contend; for she is not my wife, neither am I her husband; and let her put away her whoredoms from her face, and her adulteries from between her breasts;

³kuti ndirege kumukumurira nguvo dzake dzose, ndimuite sezvaakanga akaita nezuva rokuzvarwa kwake, ndimuite serenje, ndimushandure ave nyika yakaoma, ndimuuraye nenyota.

³lest I strip her naked, and set her as in the day that she was born, and make her as a wilderness, and set her like a dry land, and slay her with thirst.

⁴Zvirokwazvo handinganzwiri vana vake nyasha, zvavari vana voufeve;

⁴Yea, upon her children will I have no mercy; for they are children of whoredom;

⁵nekuti mai vavo vakafeva; vakavabereka vakaita zvinonyadzisa, nekuti vakati, Ndichatevera vadikani vangu, vanondipa zvokudya zvangu nemvura yangu, namakushe angu neshinda yangu, namafuta angu nezvokumwa zvangu.

⁵for their mother hath played the harlot; she that conceived them hath done shamefully; for she said, I will go after my lovers, that give me my bread and my water, my wool and my flax, mine oil and my drink.

⁶Naizvozvo tarira, ndichasosera nzira yako nemhinzwa, ndichamuvakira rusvingo, kuti arege kuwana nzira dzake.

⁶Therefore, behold, I will hedge up thy way with thorns, and I will build a wall against her, that she shall not find her paths.

⁷Achatevera vadikani vake, asi haangavabati; achavatsvaka, asi haangavawani; ipapo achati, Ndichadzokera kumurume wangu wokutanga, nekuti nenguva iyo ndaifara kupfuura zvino.

⁷And she shall follow after her lovers, but she shall not overtake them; and she shall seek them, but shall not find them: then shall she say, I will go and return to my first husband; for then was it better with me than now.

⁸nekuti akanga asingazivi kuti ndini ndaimupa zviyo, newaini namafuta, nokumuwanzira sirivha nendarama, zvavaibatira Bhaari nazvo.

⁸For she did not know that I gave her the grain, and the new wine, and the oil, and multiplied unto her silver and gold, which they used for Baal.

⁹Saka ndichamutorera zviyo zvangu nenguva yazvo, newaini yangu itsva nenhambo yazvo, ndichabvisa makushe angu neshinda yangu zvaifanira kufukidza kushama kwake.

⁹Therefore will I take back my grain in the time thereof, and my new wine in the season thereof, and will pluck away my wool and my flax which should have covered her nakedness.

¹⁰Zvino ndichafukura kunyadzisa kwake pamberi pavadikani vake, hakuna angamurwira paruoko rwangu.

¹⁰And now will I uncover her lewdness in the sight of her lovers, and none shall deliver her out of my hand.

¹¹Ndichagumisawo mufaro wake wose, nemitambo yake, nenguva dzake dzokugara komwedzi, namasabata ake, nevungano dzake dzose dzakatarwa.

¹¹I will also cause all her mirth to cease, her feasts, her new moons, and her sabbaths, and all her solemn assemblies.

¹²Ndichaparadza mizambiringa yake nemionde yake, yaaiti, Ndiwo mubayiro wangu wandakapiwa navadikani vangu; ndichazviita dondo, mhuka dzokusango dzichazvidya.

¹²And I will lay waste her vines and her fig-trees, whereof she hath said, These are my hire that my lovers have given me; and I will make them a forest, and the beasts of the field shall eat them.

¹³Ndichamuranga nokuda kwamazuva avaBhaari, vaaipisira zvinonhuhwira, azvichishonga nezvindori zvake zvenzeve nezvishongo zvake, akatevera vadikani vake, akandikangwamwa, ndizvo zvinotaura Jehovha.

¹³And I will visit upon her the days of the Baalim, unto which she burned incense, when she decked herself with her earrings and her jewels, and went after her lovers, and forgat me, saith Jehovah.

¹⁴Saka tarirai, ndichamunyengera nokumuisa kurenje, ndichitaura zvinofadza mwoyo wake.

¹⁴Therefore, behold, I will allure her, and bring her into the wilderness, and speak comfortably unto her.

¹⁵Ndichamupa minda yake yemizambiringa zvichibva ipapo, nomupata waAkori uve mukova wetariro kwaari; achapindura aripo, sapamazuva ousikana hwake, uye sapazuva raakabuda panyika

¹⁵And I will give her her vineyards from thence, and the valley of Achor for a door of hope; and she shall make answer there, as in the days of her youth, and as in the day when she came up out of the land of Egypt.

¹⁶Zvino nezuva iro, ndizvo zvinotaura Jehovha, achandiidza Ishi, haungazondiidzi Bhaari.

¹⁶And it shall be at that day, saith Jehovah, that thou shalt call me Ishi, and shalt call me no more Baali.

¹⁷nekuti ndichabvisa mazita avaBhaari mumuromo make, havangazozikamwi namazita avo.

¹⁷For I will take away the names of the Baalim out of her mouth, and they shall no more be mentioned by their name.

¹⁸Nezuva iro ndichavaitira sungano nemhuka dzokusango, neshiri dzokudenga, nezvinokambaira zvapasi; ndichavhuna uta nomundo nehondo panyika, ndivavatise pasi vakachengetwa.

¹⁸And in that day will I make a covenant for them with the beasts of the field, and with the birds of the heavens, and with the creeping things of the ground: and I will break the bow and the sword and the battle out of the land, and will make them to lie down safely.

¹⁹Ndichakunyenga uve wangu nokusingaperi; zvirokwazvo ndichakunyenga uve wangu nokururama, nokururamisira, nounyoro, nenyasha.

¹⁹And I will betroth thee unto me for ever; yea, I will betroth thee unto me in righteousness, and in justice, and in lovingkindness, and in mercies.

²⁰Ndichakunyenga uve wangu nokutendeka; ipapo uchaziva Jehovha.

²⁰I will even betroth thee unto me in faithfulness; and thou shalt know Jehovah.

²¹Zvino nezuva iro ndichapindura, ndizvo zvinotaura Jehovha ndichapindura denga rose, iro richapindura nyika;

²¹And it shall come to pass in that day, I will answer, saith Jehovah, I will answer the heavens, and they shall answer the earth;

²²nyika ichapindura zviyo, newaini, namafuta; izvo zvichapindura Jezireeri.

²²and the earth shall answer the grain, and the new wine, and the oil; and they shall answer Jezreel.

²³Ndichazvisimira iye panyika; ndichamunzwira nyasha, iye akanga asina kunzwirwa nyasha; ndichati kuna ivo vakanga vasi vanhu vangu, Imi muri vanhu vangu, ivo vachati, Imi muri Mwari wedu.

²³And I will sow her unto me in the earth; and I will have mercy upon her that had not obtained mercy; and I will say to them that were not my people, Thou art my people; and they shall say, [Thou art] my God.