¹Zvanzi naJehovha, Tarirai, ndichamutsira Bhabhironi navagere Rebhikamai mhepo inoparadza.

¹Thus saith Jehovah: Behold, I will raise up against Babylon, and against them that dwell in Leb-kamai, a destroying wind.

²Ndichatumira Bhabhironi varudzi vacharirudza, vachabudisa zvose zviri munyika yaro, nekuti nezuva rokutambudzika vacharikomberedza kumativi ose.

²And I will send unto Babylon strangers, that shall winnow her; and they shall empty her land: for in the day of trouble they shall be against her round about.

³Mupfuri ngaapfure nohuta hwake ani naani unopfura nohuta nounozvisimudza ane nguvo dzake dzokurwa, regai kunzwira tsitsi majaya aro, paradzai chose hondo yaro yose.

³Against [him that] bendeth let the archer bend his bow, and against [him that] lifteth himself up in his coat of mail: and spare ye not her young men; destroy ye utterly all her host.

⁴Vachawira pasi vaurawa panyika yavaKaradhea, vabayiwa munzira dzaro.

⁴And they shall fall down slain in the land of the Chaldeans, and thrust through in her streets.

⁵nekuti Isiraeri naJudha havana kurashwa naMwari wavo, naJehovha wehondo, kunyange nyika yavo izere nemhosva pamberi poMutsvene waIs iraeri.

⁵For Israel is not forsaken, nor Judah, of his God, of Jehovah of hosts; though their land is full of guilt against the Holy One of Israel.

⁶Tizai mubve mukati meBhabhironi, mumwe nomumwe aponese hupenyu hwake; regai kuparadzwa mukati mezvakaipa zvaro, nekuti inguva yokutsiva kwaJehovha, iye uchariripidzira.

⁶Flee out of the midst of Babylon, and save every man his life; be not cut off in her iniquity: for it is the time of Jehovah's vengeance; he will render unto her a recompense.

⁷Bhabhironi wakange uri mukombe muruoko rwaJehovha, wakabatisa nyika yose; marudzi avanhu akamwa waini yawo, saka marudzi akapenga.

⁷Babylon hath been a golden cup in Jehovah's hand, that made all the earth drunken: the nations have drunk of her wine; therefore the nations are mad.

⁸Bhabhironi rakawira pasi pakarepo rikaparadzwa; wungudzai pamusoro paro, torai muti webharisami kurapa kurwadziwa kwaro, zvimwe ringapora.

⁸Babylon is suddenly fallen and destroyed: wail for her; take balm for her pain, if so be she may be healed.

⁹Taida kuporesa Bhabhironi, asi harina kupora; risiyei, mumwe nomumwe wedu aende kunyika yake, nekuti mhosva yaro yasvikira kudenga, yasimudzirwa kumakore.

⁹We would have healed Babylon, but she is not healed: forsake her, and let us go every one into his own country; for her judgment reacheth unto heaven, and is lifted up even to the skies.

¹⁰Jehovha wakaratidza kururama kwedu; uyai, tiparidze paZiyoni basa raJehovha Mwari wedu.

¹⁰Jehovah hath brought forth our righteousness: come, and let us declare in Zion the work of Jehovah our God.

¹¹Rodzai miseve, batisai nhovo! Jehovha wakamutsa mweya yamadzimambo avaMedhia, nekuti murangariro wake ndowokuparadza Bhabhironi, nekuti ndiko kutsiva kwaJehovha, iko kutsiva kwetemberi yake.

¹¹Make sharp the arrows; hold firm the shields: Jehovah hath stirred up the spirit of the kings of the Medes; because his purpose is against Babylon, to destroy it: for it is the vengeance of Jehovah, the vengeance of his temple.

¹²Simudzirai masvingo eBhabhironi mureza, simbisai varindi, isaipo nharirire, gadzirai vanovandira, nekuti Jehovha wakafunga nokuita zvaakataura pamusoro pavagere Bhabhironi.

¹²Set up a standard against the walls of Babylon, make the watch strong, set the watchmen, prepare the ambushes; for Jehovah hath both purposed and done that which he spake concerning the inhabitants of Babylon.

¹³Iwe ugere pamvura zhinji, une fuma zhinji, kuguma kwako kwasvika, icho chiyero chezvawakawana nokunyengera.

¹³O thou that dwellest upon many waters, abundant in treasures, thine end is come, the measure of thy covetousness.

¹⁴Jehovha wehondo wakapika naiye amene, achiti, Zvirokwazvo ndichakuzadza navanhu semhashu, ivo vachakupururudzira.

¹⁴Jehovah of hosts hath sworn by himself, [saying], Surely I will fill thee with men, as with the canker-worm; and they shall lift up a shout against thee.

¹⁵Ndiye wakaita nyika nesimba rake, wakateya nyika nohuchenjeri hwake, wakatatamura denga rose nenjere dzake.

¹⁵He hath made the earth by his power, he hath established the world by his wisdom, and by his understanding hath he stretched out the heavens:

¹⁶Kana achibudisa inzwi rake, kunomubvumo wemvura zhinji kudenga; unokwidza makore pamigumo yenyika, unoita mheni kuuyisa mvura, unobudisa mhepo panovigwa fuma yake.

¹⁶when he uttereth his voice, there is a tumult of waters in the heavens, and he causeth the vapors to ascend from the ends of the earth; he maketh lightnings for the rain, and bringeth forth the wind out of his treasuries.

¹⁷Munhu mumwe nomumwe wava usina njere, haane zivo; mupfuri mumwe nomumwe wendarama unonyadziswa nechifananidzo chake chaakaveza, nekuti chifananidzo chaakaumba, ndechenhema; hakuna mweya mazviri.

¹⁷Every man is become brutish [and is] without knowledge; every goldsmith is put to shame by his image; for his molten image is falsehood, and there is no breath in them.

¹⁸Hazvina maturo, ibasa rinonyengera; panguva yokurohwa kwazvo zvichapera.

¹⁸They are vanity, a work of delusion: in the time of their visitation they shall perish.

¹⁹Mugove waJakove haufanani naizvozvi, nekuti ndiye muumbi wazvose; Isiraeri ndirwo rudzi rwenhaka yake; Jehovha wehondo ndiro zita rake.

¹⁹The portion of Jacob is not like these; for he is the former of all things; and [Israel] is the tribe of his inheritance: Jehovah of hosts is his name.

²⁰Iwe uri nyundo yangu nenhumbi dzangu dzokurwa; newe ndichaputsanya marudzi avanhu newe ndichaparadza ushe;

²⁰Thou art my battle-axe and weapons of war: and with thee will I break in pieces the nations; and with thee will I destroy kingdoms;

²¹newe ndichaputsanya bhiza nomutasvi waro; newe ndichaputsanya ngoro nounofamba nayo;

²¹and with thee will I break in pieces the horse and his rider;

²²newe ndichaputsanya murume nomukadzi; newe ndichaputsanya mutana nomuduku; newe ndichaputsanya mujaya nemhandara;

²²and with thee will I break in pieces the chariot and him that rideth therein; and with thee will I break in pieces man and woman; and with thee will I break in pieces the old man and the youth; and with thee will I break in pieces the young man and the virgin;

²³newe ndichaputsanya murimi nenzombe dzake mbiri; newe ndichaputsanya vabati navakuru.

²³and with thee will I break in pieces the shepherd and his flock; and with thee will I break in pieces the husbandman and his yoke [of oxen]; and with thee will I break in pieces governors and deputies.

²⁴Ndicharipidzira Bhabhironi navose vagere Karadhea zvakaipa zvavo zvose zvavakaita Ziyoni pamberi penyu ndizvo zvinotaura Jehovha.

²⁴And I will render unto Babylon and to all the inhabitants of Chaldea all their evil that they have done in Zion in your sight, saith Jehovah.

²⁵Tarira, ndine mhosva newe, iwe gomo rokuparadza, rinoparadza nyika yose ndizvo zvinotaura Jehovha; ndichatambanudzira ruoko rwangu kwauri, ndichakukungurusa pamabwe, ndichakuita gomo rakatsva.

²⁵Behold, I am against thee, O destroying mountain, saith Jehovah, which destroyest all the earth; and I will stretch out my hand upon thee, and roll thee down from the rocks, and will make thee a burnt mountain.

²⁶Havangatori kwauri ibwe rekona, kana ibwe renheyo; asi uchava dongo nokusingaperi, ndizvo zvinotaura Jehovha.

²⁶And they shall not take of thee a stone for a corner, nor a stone for foundations; but thou shalt be desolate for ever, saith Jehovah.

²⁷Simudzai mureza panyika, ridzai hwamanda pakati pamarudzi, gadzirai marudzi kuzorwa naro, kokerai ushe bweArarati neMini neAshikenazi kuzorwa naro, gadzai mukuru wehondo kuzorwa naro, uyisai mabhiza semhashu dzinoparadza.

²⁷Set ye up a standard in the land, blow the trumpet among the nations, prepare the nations against her, call together against her the kingdoms of Ararat, Minni, and Ashkenaz: appoint a marshal against her; cause the horses to come up as the rough canker-worm.

²⁸Gadzirai marudzi kuzorwa naro, iwo madzimambo avaMedhia, navabati vavo, navakuru vavo vose, nenyika yose yavakabata.

²⁸Prepare against her the nations, the kings of the Medes, the governors thereof, and all the deputies thereof, and all the land of their dominion.

²⁹Nyika inodedera nokurwadziwa; nekuti zvakafunga Jehovha kuitira Bhabhironi zvakasimba, kuti aite nyika yeBhabhironi dongo, isina unogaramo.

²⁹And the land trembleth and is in pain; for the purposes of Jehovah against Babylon do stand, to make the land of Babylon a desolation, without inhabitant.

³⁰Mhare dzeBhabhironi dzarega kurwa, vakarambira munhare dzavo, simba ravo rakapera, vava savakadzi; vakapisa dzimba dzaro, zvipfigiso zvaro zvakavhuniwa.

³⁰The mighty men of Babylon have forborne to fight, they remain in their strongholds; their might hath failed; they are become as women: her dwelling-places are set on fire; her bars are broken.

³¹Imwe nhume ichamhanya kundosangana neimwe, mumwe wakatumwa kundosangana nomumwe, kuzivisa mambo weBhabhironi kuti guta rake rakundwa kumativi ose.

³¹One post shall run to meet another, and one messenger to met another, to show the king of Babylon that his city is taken on every quarter:

³²Uye kuti mazambuko abatwa, kuti mapani eshanga apiswa nomoto, kuti varwi vavhunduswa.

³²and the passages are seized, and the reeds they have burned with fire, and the men of war are affrighted.

³³nekuti zvanzi naJehovha wehondo, Mwari waIsiraeri, Mukunda weBhabhironi wakaita seburiro nenguva yokupura; kwasara nguva duku, iye ndokusvikirwa nenguva yokukohwa.

³³For thus saith Jehovah of hosts, the God of Israel: The daughter of Babylon is like a threshing-floor at the time when it is trodden; yet a little while, and the time of harvest shall come for her.

³⁴Nebhukadhirezari mambo weBhabhironi wandidya, wandipwanya, wandiita mudziyo usina chinhu wandimedza seshato, razadza zidumbu raro nezvinozipa zvangu, wandidzinga.

³⁴Nebuchadrezzar the king of Babylon hath devoured me, he hath crushed me, he hath made me an empty vessel, he hath, like a monster, swallowed me up, he hath filled his maw with my delicacies; he hath cast me out.

³⁵Ugere Ziyoni uchati, Zvakaipa zvandakaitirwa ini nenyama yangu ngazvive pamusoro peBhabhironi; Jerusaremu richati, Ropa rangu ngarive pamusoro pavagere Karadhea.

³⁵The violence done to me and to my flesh be upon Babylon, shall the inhabitant of Zion say; and, My blood be upon the inhabitants of Chaldea, shall Jerusalem say.

³⁶Naizvozvo zvanzi naJehovha, Tarira, ndichakureverera mhaka yako, ndichakutsiva; ndichapwisa gungwa raro, ndichaomesa tsime raro.

³⁶Therefore thus saith Jehovah: Behold, I will plead thy cause, and take vengeance for thee; and I will dry up her sea, and make her fountain dry.

³⁷Bhabhironi richaitwa mirwi yamabwe, hugaro hwamakava, chinhu chinoshamisa, chinoridzirwa muridzo, pasina unogaramo.

³⁷And Babylon shall become heaps, a dwelling-place for jackals, an astonishment, and a hissing, without inhabitant.

³⁸Vachaomba pamwechete savana veshumba, vachaganya savana veshumba.

³⁸They shall roar together like young lions; they shall growl as lions' whelps.

³⁹Kana vamutswa moyo ndichavaitira mutambo, ndichavabatisa newaini, kuti vafare, vavate hope dzisingaperi, varege kuzomukazve ndizvo zvinotaura Jehovha.

³⁹When they are heated, I will make their feast, and I will make them drunken, that they may rejoice, and sleep a perpetual sleep, and not wake, saith Jehovah.

⁴⁰Ndichavaburusira kwavanondobayiwa samakwaiana, samakondobwe pamwechete nenhongo.

⁴⁰I will bring them down like lambs to the slaughter, like rams with he-goats.

⁴¹Sheshaki rakundwa sei! Guta rairumbidzwa nenyika yose rapindwa sei! Bhabhironi rava dongo sei pakati pamarudzi!

⁴¹How is Sheshach taken! and the praise of the whole earth seized! how is Babylon become a desolation among the nations!

⁴²Gungwa rakwira rasvika Bhabhironi, rafukidzwa namafungu aro mazhinji.

⁴²The sea is come up upon Babylon; she is covered with the multitude of the waves thereof.

⁴³Maguta aro ava matongo, nyika yakaoma nerenje, nenyika musingagari munhu, hakuna Mwanakomana womunhu unopfuura napo.

⁴³Her cities are become a desolation, a dry land, and a desert, a land wherein no man dwelleth, neither doth any son of man pass thereby.

⁴⁴Ndichatonga Bheri paBhabhironi, ndichabudisa mumuromo make chaakanga amedza, marudzi avanhu haachazovangiri kwariri; zvirokwazvo rusvingo rwaBhabhironi ruchawa.

⁴⁴And I will execute judgment upon Bel in Babylon, and I will bring forth out of his mouth that which he hath swallowed up; and the nations shall not flow any more unto him: yea, the wall of Babylon shall fall.

⁴⁵Imi vanhu vangu, budai mukati maro, muzviponese mumwe nomumwe pakutsamwa kukuru kwaJehovha.

⁴⁵My people, go ye out of the midst of her, and save yourselves every man from the fierce anger of Jehovah.

⁴⁶moyo yenyu irege kuora, musatya guhuzve nerimwe gore shure kwaizvozvo; panyika vachaitirana simba, mubati mumwe achirwa nomumwe.

⁴⁶And let not your heart faint, neither fear ye for the tidings that shall be heard in the land; for tidings shall come one year, and after that in another year [shall come] tidings, and violence in the land, ruler against ruler.

⁴⁷Naizvozvo tarirai, mazuva anouya andichatonga mifananidzo yakavezwa yaBhabhironi; nyika yaro yose ichanyadziswa, vakaurawa varo vose vachawira pasi mukati maro.

⁴⁷Therefore, behold, the days come, that I will execute judgment upon the graven images of Babylon; and her whole land shall be confounded; and all her slain shall fall in the midst of her.

⁴⁸Ipapo denga nenyika nezvose zviri mukati mazvo zvichaimba nomufaro pamusoro peBhabhironi, nekuti vaparadzi vachauya kwariri vachibva kurutivi rwokumusoro ndizvo zvinotaura Jehovha.

⁴⁸Then the heavens and the earth, and all that is therein, shall sing for joy over Babylon; for the destroyers shall come unto her from the north, saith Jehovah.

⁴⁹Vakaurawa valsiraeri, Bhabhironi rinofanira kuwawo, sezvakawira pasi paBhabhironi vakaurawa venyika yose.

⁴⁹As Babylon hath caused the slain of Israel to fall, so at Babylon shall fall the slain of all the land.

⁵⁰Imi makapukunyuka pamunondo, endai, musamira; rangarirai Jehovha muri kure, fungai Jerusaremu pamoyo yenyu.

⁵⁰Ye that have escaped the sword, go ye, stand not still; remember Jehovah from afar, and let Jerusalem come into your mind.

⁵¹Takanyadziswa, nekuti takanzwa kushoorwa, kunyara kwakafukidza zviso zvedu, nekuti vatorwa vakapinda munzvimbo tsvene dzeimba yaJehovha.

⁵¹We are confounded, because we have heard reproach; confusion hath covered our faces: for strangers are come into the sanctuaries of Jehovah's house.

⁵²Naizvozvo, tarirai, ndizvo zvinotaura Jehovha mazuva anouya andichatonga mifananidzo yaro yakavezwa; vakakuvadzwa vachagomera kose panyika yaro.

⁵²Wherefore, behold, the days come, saith Jehovah, that I will execute judgment upon her graven images; and through all her land the wounded shall groan.

⁵³Kunyange Bhabhironi rikakwira kudenga, kunyange rikasimbisa pakakwirira pane simba raro, kunyange zvakadaro vaparadzi vachabva kwandiri vachiendako, ndizvo zvinotaura Jehovha.

⁵³Though Babylon should mount up to heaven, and though she should fortify the height of her strength, yet from me shall destroyers come unto her, saith Jehovah.

⁵⁴Inzwai inzwi rokuchema rinobva Bhabhironi, nerokuparadzwa kukuru rinobva panyika yavaKaradhea!

⁵⁴The sound of a cry from Babylon, and of great destruction from the land of the Chaldeans!

⁵⁵nekuti Jehovha unoparadza Bhabhironi, uchanyaradzamo mubvumo mukuru; mafungu avo anotinhira semvura zhinji, mubvumo wamanzwi avo anonzwika.

⁵⁵For Jehovah layeth Babylon waste, and destroyeth out of her the great voice; and their waves roar like many waters; the noise of their voice is uttered:

⁵⁶nekuti muparadzi wasvika kwariri, iko Bhabhironi, mhare dzaro dzakundwa, huta hwavo hwavhuniwa-vhuniwa; nekuti Jehovha ndiMwari wokutsiva, ucharipidzira zvirokwazvo.

⁵⁶for the destroyer is come upon her, even upon Babylon, and her mighty men are taken, their bows are broken in pieces; for Jehovah is a God of recompenses, he will surely requite.

⁵⁷Ndichabatisa newaini machinda aro navakachenjera varo, vabati varo navakuru varo, nemhare dzaro, vachavata hope dzisingaperi, havangazomuki ndizvo zvinotaura Mambo, une zita rinonzi Jehovha wehondo.

⁵⁷And I will make drunk her princes and her wise men, her governors and her deputies, and her mighty men; and they shall sleep a perpetual sleep, and not wake, saith the King, whose name is Jehovah of hosts.

⁵⁸Zvanzi naJehovha wehondo, Masvingo akafara eBhabhironi achakoromorwa chose, namasuwo aro marefu achapiswa nomoto; vanhu vachabatira zvisina maturo, namarudzi achabatira moto; vachaneta.

⁵⁸Thus saith Jehovah of hosts: The broad walls of Babylon shall be utterly overthrown, and her high gates shall be burned with fire; and the peoples shall labor for vanity, and the nations for the fire; and they shall be weary.

⁵⁹Ndiro shoko, rakarairwa Seraia mwanakomana waNeria, mwanakomana waMaseia, nomuporofita Jeremiya, nguva yaakaenda Bhabhironi naZedhekia mambo waJudha negore rechina rokubata kwake ushe. Zvino Seraia wakange ari murairi mukuru parwendo.

⁵⁹The word which Jeremiah the prophet commanded Seraiah the son of Neriah, the son of Mahseiah, when he went with Zedekiah the king of Judah to Babylon in the fourth year of his reign. Now Seraiah was chief chamberlain.

⁶⁰Jeremiya akanyora mubhuku zvakaipa zvose zvaifanira kuwira Bhabhironi, iwo mashoko ose akanyorwa pamusoro peBhabhironi.

⁶⁰And Jeremiah wrote in a book all the evil that should come upon Babylon, even all these words that are written concerning Babylon.

⁶¹Jeremiya akati kuna Seraia, Kana wasvika Bhabhironi rangarira kuti urave mashoko awa ose.

⁶¹And Jeremiah said to Seraiah, When thou comest to Babylon, then see that thou read all these words,

⁶²Uti, Haiwa Jehovha, makataura pamusoro penzvimbo ino kuti muchai,paradza, kuti kusava nounogaramo, kana munhu kana zvipfuwo, asi kuti richava dongo nokusingaperi.

⁶²and say, O Jehovah, thou hast spoken concerning this place, to cut it off, that none shall dwell therein, neither man nor beast, but that it shall be desolate for ever.

⁶³Zvino kana wapedza kurava bhuku iyi, unofanira kusungira ibwe pairi, ndokuikandira mukati morwizi rwaYufuratesi;

⁶³And it shall be, when thou hast made an end of reading this book, that thou shalt bind a stone to it, and cast it into the midst of the Euphrates:

⁶⁴uchiti, Saizvozvo Bhabhironi richanyura, haringazobudizve, nokuda kwezvakaipa zvandichauyisa pamusoro paro; vachaneta. Ndipo panoguma mashoko aJeremiya.

⁶⁴and thou shalt say, Thus shall Babylon sink, and shall not rise again because of the evil that I will bring upon her; and they shall be weary. Thus far are the words of Jeremiah.