¹Shoko raJehovha, rakasvika kumuporofita Jeremiya pamusoro pamarudzi.

¹The word of Jehovah which came to Jeremiah the prophet concerning the nations.

²Pamusoro peEgipita; pamusoro pehondo yaFaraoneko mambo weEgipita, yakanga iri parwizi Yufuratesi paKarikemishi, yakakundwa naNebhukadhirezari mambo weBhabhironi negore rechina raJehoiakimu mwanakomana waJosiya, mambo waJudha.

²Of Egypt: concerning the army of Pharaoh-neco king of Egypt, which was by the river Euphrates in Carchemish, which Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon smote in the fourth year of Jehoiakim the son of Josiah, king of Judah.

³Gadzirai nhovo duku nenhovo huru, muswedere kunorwiwa.

³Prepare ye the buckler and shield, and draw near to battle.

⁴Sungai mabhiza, kwirai imwi vatasvi mumire makadzika ngowani dzenyu; rodzai mapfumo, pfekai nguvo dzamatare.

⁴Harness the horses, and get up, ye horsemen, and stand forth with your helmets; furbish the spears, put on the coats of mail.

⁵Ndakazviwonereiko? Vakanganiswa, vadzokera shure; mhare dzavo dzakundwa, dzatiza, hadzicheukiri shure, kutya kuri pamativi ose, ndizvo zvinotaura Jehovha.

⁵Wherefore have I seen it? they are dismayed and are turned backward; and their mighty ones are beaten down, and are fled apace, and look not back: terror is on every side, saith Jehovah.

⁶Vanomhanyisa ngavarege kutiza, mhare ngadzirege kupukunyuka; kurutivi rwokumusoro, parwizi rwaYufuratesi, vakagumburwa vakawira pasi.

⁶Let not the swift flee away, nor the mighty man escape; in the north by the river Euphrates have they stumbled and fallen.

⁷Ndianiko uyo unokwira sorwizi rwaNairi, mvura yarwo inotamba senzizi?

⁷Who is this that riseth up like the Nile, whose waters toss themselves like the rivers?

⁸Egipita rinokwira saNairi, mvura yarwo inotamba senzizi; rinoti, Ndichakwira, ndichafukidza nyika, ndichaparadza maguta navageremo.

⁸Egypt riseth up like the Nile, and his waters toss themselves like the rivers: and he saith, I will rise up, I will cover the earth; I will destroy cities and the inhabitants thereof.

⁹Kwirai, imwi mabhiza, fambisai imwi ngoro, mhare ngadzibude, vanoti, Kushi naPuti vanoshonga nhovo, navaRudhi vanobata nokuwembura huta.

⁹Go up, ye horses; and rage, ye chariots; and let the mighty men go forth: Cush and Put, that handle the shield; and the Ludim, that handle and bend the bow.

¹⁰nekuti zuva iro izuva raShe, Jehovha wehondo, zuva rokutsiva kuti azvitsivire vadzivisi vake; munondo uchadya nokuguta, uchamwa ropa ravo ukaguta, nekuti Ishe, Jehovha wehondo, unechibayiro chake kunyika yokumusoro parwizi rwaYufuratesi.

¹⁰For that day is [a day] of the Lord, Jehovah of hosts, a day of vengeance, that he may avenge him of his adversaries: and the sword shall devour and be satiate, and shall drink its fill of their blood; for the Lord, Jehovah of hosts, hath a sacrifice in the north country by the river Euphrates.

¹¹Kwira uende Giriyadhi, undotorako muti webharisami, iwe mhandara, mukunda weEgipita; wawanza mishonga mizhinji isina maturo, hauporeswi.

¹¹Go up into Gilead, and take balm, O virgin daughter of Egypt: in vain dost thou use many medicines; there is no healing for thee.

¹²Marudzi akanzwa zvokunyadziswa kwako, nyika izere nokuchema kwako; nekuti mhare dzakabonderana nemhare, vose vaviri vakawira pasi.

¹²The nations have heard of thy shame, and the earth is full of thy cry; for the mighty man hath stumbled against the mighty, they are fallen both of them together.

¹³Shoko, rakaudzwa muporofita Jeremiya naJehovha, richireva muuyire waNebhukadhirezari mambo weBhabhironi nomukundire wake nyika yeEgipita.

¹³The word that Jehovah spake to Jeremiah the prophet, how that Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon should come and smite the land of Egypt.

¹⁴Paridzirai paEgipita, zivisai paMigidhori, zivisai paNofi napaTapanesi, muti, Simukai muzvigadzire, nekuti munondo wakadya zviri kumativi ako ose.

¹⁴Declare ye in Egypt, and publish in Migdol, and publish in Memphis and in Tahpanhes: say ye, Stand forth, and prepare thee; for the sword hath devoured round about thee.

¹⁵Mhare dzako dzakabviswa neiko? Havana kumira, nekuti Jehovha wakavadzinga.

¹⁵Why are thy strong ones swept away? they stood not, because Jehovah did drive them.

¹⁶Wakagumbusa vazhinji, zvirokwazvo mumwe wakawira pamusoro pomumwe; vakati, Simukai, tiendezve kuvanhu vedu, nokunyika kwatakaberekerwa, titize munondo unomanikidza.

¹⁶He made many to stumble, yea, they fell one upon another: and they said, Arise, and let us go again to our own people, and to the land of our nativity, from the oppressing sword.

¹⁷Vakadanidzirako, vachiti, Farao mambo weEgipita iguhu zvaro, wakarega nguva yakatarwa ichipfuura.

¹⁷They cried there, Pharaoh king of Egypt is but a noise; he hath let the appointed time pass by.

¹⁸Nohupenyu hwangu, ndizvo zvinotaura mambo une zita rinonzi Jehovha wehondo, Zvirokwazvo uchauya akaita seTabhori pakati pamakomo, uye seKarimeri pagungwa.

¹⁸As I live, saith the King, whose name is Jehovah of hosts, surely like Tabor among the mountains, and like Carmel by the sea, so shall he come.

¹⁹Iwe mukunda unogara Egipita, zvigadzirire kutapwa, nekuti Nofi richaitwa dongo, richapiswa, risina unogaramo.

¹⁹O thou daughter that dwellest in Egypt, furnish thyself to go into captivity; for Memphis shall become a desolation, and shall be burnt up, without inhabitant.

²⁰Egipita imhorombe yakaisvonaka, asi vuvu rinobva kurutivi rwokumusoro rasvika, rasvika.

²⁰Egypt is a very fair heifer; [but] destruction out of the north is come, it is come.

²¹Navanhu varo vanoripirwa, vari mukati maro, vakafanana nemhuru dzomudanga, nekuti naivo vakadzoka, vakatiza pamwechete, havana kumira; nekuti zuva renjodzi yavo rakauya pamusoro pavo, iyo nguva yokurohwa kwavo.

²¹Also her hired men in the midst of her are like calves of the stall; for they also are turned back, they are fled away together, they did not stand: for the day of their calamity is come upon them, the time of their visitation.

²²Mubvumo waro uchava sowenyoka, nekuti vachafamba nehondo, vachandorwa navo namatemo, savatemi vemiti.

²²The sound thereof shall go like the serpent; for they shall march with an army, and come against her with axes, as hewers of wood.

²³Vachatema dondo raro, ndizvo zvinotaura Jehovha, nekuti havanganzverwi, nekuti vakawanda kupfuura mhashu, havangaverengwi.

²³They shall cut down her forest, saith Jehovah, though it cannot be searched; because they are more than the locusts, and are innumerable.

²⁴Mukunda weEgipita uchanyadziswa, uchaiswa mumaoko avanhu vanobva kurutivi rwokumusoro.

²⁴The daughter of Egypt shall be put to shame; she shall be delivered into the hand of the people of the north.

²⁵Jehovha wehondo, Mwari waIsiraeri, unoti, Tarirai, ndicharova Amoni weNo, naFarao, neEgipita navamwari varo, namadzimambo aro, iye Farao navose vanovimba naye.

²⁵Jehovah of hosts, the God of Israel, saith: Behold, I will punish Amon of No, and Pharaoh, and Egypt, with her gods, and her kings; even Pharaoh, and them that trust in him:

²⁶Ndichavaisa mumaoko avanotsvaka kuvauraya, nomumaoko aNebhukadhirezari mambo weBhabhironi, nomumaoko avaranda vake; zvino pashure richagarwa, sapamazuva akare ndizvo zvinotaura Jehovha.

²⁶and I will deliver them into the hand of those that seek their lives, and into the hand of Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon, and into the hand of his servants; and afterwards it shall be inhabited, as in the days of old, saith Jehovah.

²⁷Asi usatya hako, iwe Jakove, muranda wangu, usavhunduswa, iwe Isiraeri; nekuti tarira, ndichakuponesa uri kure, navana vako vari panyika kwavakatapirwa; Jakove uchadzoka, uchanyarara nokuzorora, hakuna ungamutyisa.

²⁷But fear not thou, O Jacob my servant, neither be dismayed, O Israel: for, lo, I will save thee from afar, and thy seed from the land of their captivity; and Jacob shall return, and shall be quiet and at ease, and none shall make him afraid.

²⁸Usatya hako, iwe Jakove, muranda wangu, ndizvo zvinotaura Jehovha, nekuti ndinewe; nekuti ndichapedza kwazvo marudzi ose kwandakakudzingira; asi iwe handingakupedzi, asi ndichakuranga ndichiita nokururama, handingakuregi usina kurohwa.

²⁸Fear not thou, O Jacob my servant, saith Jehovah; for I am with thee: for I will make a full end of all the nations whither I have driven thee; but I will not make a full end of thee, but I will correct thee in measure, and will in no wise leave thee unpunished.