1Haiwa, nyika yokuvirira kwamapapiro, iri mhiri kwenzizi dzeItiopia,
1Ah, the land of the rustling of wings, which is beyond the rivers of Ethiopia;
2inotuma nhume nenzira dzegungwa namagwa enhokwe pamusoro pemvura, ichiti, Endai, imwi nhume dzinokurumidza, kurudzi rwavanhu vakareba vakanaka kumeso, kuvanhu vanotyiwa kose-kose, rudzi rune simba, runotsika-tsika pasi, rune nyika inokamurwa nenzizi.
2that sendeth ambassadors by the sea, even in vessels of papyrus upon the waters, [saying], Go, ye swift messengers, to a nation tall and smooth, to a people terrible from their beginning onward, a nation that meteth out and treadeth down, whose land the rivers divide!
3Imi mose muri pasi pose, nemwi mugere panyika, kana mureza uchisimudzwa pamakomo, tarirai; kana hwamanda ichiridzwa, inzwai!
3All ye inhabitants of the world, and ye dwellers on the earth, when an ensign is lifted up on the mountains, see ye; and when the trumpet is blown, hear ye.
4nekuti Jehovha akataura kwandiri kudai, Ndichanyarara, ndichatarira ndiri paugaro hwangu, sokupisa kwezuva pamushana, seguti pakupisa kwenguva yokukohwa.
4For thus hath Jehovah said unto me, I will be still, and I will behold in my dwelling-place, like clear heat in sunshine, like a cloud of dew in the heat of harvest.
5nekuti kukohwa kusati kwasvika, kana maruva azuka, ruva rashanduka zambiringa roda kuibva, achagura matavi namapanga; namatavi anotandira achaabvisa nokuatema.
5For before the harvest, when the blossom is over, and the flower becometh a ripening grape, he will cut off the sprigs with pruning-hooks, and the spreading branches will he take away [and] cut down.
6Ose pamwechete achasiirwa magora ari pamakomo, nezvikara zvenyika; magora achagara pamusoro pavo chirimo chose, nezvikara zvenyika zvichapedza chando pamusoro pavo.
6They shall be left together unto the ravenous birds of the mountains, and to the beasts of the earth; and the ravenous birds shall summer upon them, and all the beasts of the earth shall winter upon them.
7Nenguva iyo Jehovha wehondo achavigirwa zvipo norudzi rwavanhu vakareba vakanaka kumeso, vanhu vanotyiwa kose-kose, rudzi rune simba, runotsika-tsika pasi, rune nyika inokamurwa nenzizi, kunzvimbo yezita raJehovha wehondo, kugomo reZiyoni.
7In that time shall a present be brought unto Jehovah of hosts [from] a people tall and smooth, even from a people terrible from their beginning onward, a nation that meteth out and treadeth down, whose land the rivers divide, to the place of the name of Jehovah of hosts, the mount Zion.