¹Zvino Nebhukadhirezari mambo weBhabhironi wakati atapa Jekonia mwanakomana waJehoiakimu, mambo waJudha, namachinda aJudha, pamwechete navavezi navapfuri, paJerusaremu, akavaisa Bhabhironi, Jehovha akandiratidza, ndikaona tswanda mbiri dzina maonde dzakanga dzakaiswa pamberi petemberi yaJehovha.

¹Jehovah showed me, and, behold, two baskets of figs set before the temple of Jehovah, after that Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon had carried away captive Jeconiah the son of Jehoiakim, king of Judah, and the princes of Judah, with the craftsmen and smiths, from Jerusalem, and had brought them to Babylon.

²Imwe tswanda yakanga ina maonde akanaka kwazvo, samaonde anotanga kuibva; asi imwe tswanda yakanga inamaonde akaipa kwazvo, asingabviri kudyiwa nokuipa kwawo.

²One basket had very good figs, like the figs that are first-ripe; and the other basket had very bad figs, which could not be eaten, they were so bad.

³Ipapo Jehovha akati kwandiri, Unowoneiko Jeremiya? Ini ndikati, Maonde; maonde akanaka, akanaka kwazvo, asi akaipa kwazvo, asingabviri kudyiwa nokuipa kwawo.

³Then said Jehovah unto me, What seest thou, Jeremiah? And I said, Figs; the good figs, very good; and the bad, very bad, that cannot be eaten, they are so bad.

⁴Ipapo shoko raJehovha rakauya kwandiri, richiti,

⁴And the word of Jehovah came unto me, saying,

⁵Zvanzi naJehovha, Mwari waIsiraeri, Sezvakaita maonde awa akanaka, ndizvo zvandicharangarira nomoyo wakanaka vatapwa vaJudha, vandakatuma vabve panyika ino vaende kunyika yavaKaradhea.

⁵Thus saith Jehovah, the God of Israel: Like these good figs, so will I regard the captives of Judah, whom I have sent out of this place into the land of the Chaldeans, for good.

⁶nekuti ndichavatarira nameso angu nomoyo wakanaka, ndivadzoserezve kunyika ino; ndichavavaka, handingavakoromori; ndichavasima, handingavadzuri.

⁶For I will set mine eyes upon them for good, and I will bring them again to this land: and I will build them, and not pull them down; and I will plant them, and not pluck them up.

⁷Ndichavapa moyo wokundiziva, kuti ndini Jehovha; ivo vachava vanhu vangu, neni ndichava Mwari wavo; nekuti vachadzokera kwandiri nomoyo wavo wose.

⁷And I will give them a heart to know me, that I am Jehovah: and they shall be my people, and I will be their God; for they shall return unto me with their whole heart.

⁸Uye, sezvakaita maonde akaipa, asingabviri kudyiwa nokuipa kwawo, zvirokwazvo ndizvo zvinotaura Jehovha ndizvo zvandichaita Zedhekia mambo waJudha, namachinda ake, navakasara veJerusaremu, vakasara panyika ino, navagere panyika yeEgipita.

⁸And as the bad figs, which cannot be eaten, they are so bad, surely thus saith Jehovah, So will I give up Zedekiah the king of Judah, and his princes, and the residue of Jerusalem, that remain in this land, and them that dwell in the land of Egypt,

⁹Ndichavaita chinhu chinotyisa pakati poushe hwose bwenyika, vaitirwe zvakaipa, vave chinhu chinoshoorwa, neshumo, nechinosekwa nechinotukwa panzvimbo dzose kwandichavadzingira.

⁹I will even give them up to be tossed to and fro among all the kingdoms of the earth for evil; to be a reproach and a proverb, a taunt and a curse, in all places whither I shall drive them.

¹⁰Ndichatuma pakati pavo munondo, nenzara, nehosha, kusvikira vapera munyika yandakavapa ivo namadzibaba avo.

¹⁰And I will send the sword, the famine, and the pestilence, among them, till they be consumed from off the land that I gave unto them and to their fathers.