¹Ishe akafukidza sei mukunda weZiyoni negore rokutsamwa kwake! Akabvisa kunaka kwalsiraeri akazvikandira pasi, akasarangarira chitsiko chake nezuva rokutsamwa kwake.

¹How hath the Lord covered the daughter of Zion with a cloud in his anger! He hath cast down from heaven unto the earth the beauty of Israel, And hath not remembered his footstool in the day of his anger.

²Ishe akaparadza ugaro hwose hwaJakove, akasanzwira tsitsi; pakutsamwa kwake akawisira pasi nhare dzomukunda waJudha; akadziwisira pasi; akamhura ushe namachinda ahwo.

²The Lord hath swallowed up all the habitations of Jacob, and hath not pitied: He hath thrown down in his wrath the strongholds of the daughter of Judah; He hath brought them down to the ground; he hath profaned the kingdom and the princes thereof.

³Nokutsamwa kukuru akagura nyanga dzose dzaIsiraeri, akadzosa ruoko rwake rworudyi pamberi pomuvengi akapisa muna Jakove somurazvo womoto unopedza zvose kumativi ose

³He hath cut off in fierce anger all the horn of Israel; He hath drawn back his right hand from before the enemy: And he hath burned up Jacob like a flaming fire, which devoureth round about.

⁴Akakunga uta hwake somuvengi, akamira noruoko rwake somudzivisi, akauraya vose vaifadza meso; akadurura kutsamwa kwake somoto patende romukunda weZiyoni.

⁴He hath bent his bow like an enemy, he hath stood with his right hand as an adversary, And hath slain all that were pleasant to the eye: In the tent of the daughter of Zion he hath poured out his wrath like fire.

⁵Ishe wava somuvengi, akamedza Isiraeri; akamedza dzimba dzavo dzose dzoushe, akaparadza nhare dzavo; akawanzira mukunda waJudha kuchema nokurira.

⁵The Lord is become as an enemy, he hath swallowed up Israel; He hath swallowed up all her palaces, he hath destroyed his strongholds; And he hath multiplied in the daughter of Judah mourning and lamentation.

⁶Akabvisa ruzhowa rwake nesimba sorwomunda; akaparadza nzvimbo yake yokuungana; Jehovha akakangamwisa paZiyoni ungano yakatarwa nesabata, akashora madzimambo navapristi neshungu dzokutsamwa kwake.

⁶And he hath violently taken away his tabernacle, as if it were of a garden; he hath destroyed his place of assembly: Jehovah hath caused solemn assembly and sabbath to be forgotten in Zion, And hath despised in the indignation of his anger the king and the priest.

⁷Jehovha akarasa atari yake, akasema nzvimbo yake tsvene, akaisa masvingo edzimba dzavo vakaita bope mumba maJehovha, sapazuva reungano yakatarwa.

⁷The Lord hath cast off his altar, he hath abhorred his sanctuary; He hath given up into the hand of the enemy the walls of her palaces: They have made a noise in the house of Jehovah, as in the day of a solemn assembly.

⁸Jehovha akafunga kuparadza rusvingo rwomukunda weZiyoni; akatatanura rwonzi rwokuyera,pakuparadza; akachemedza nhare norusvingo, zvinopera simba pamwechete.

⁸Jehovah hath purposed to destroy the wall of the daughter of Zion; He hath stretched out the line, he hath not withdrawn his hand from destroying; And he hath made the rampart and wall to lament; they languish together.

⁹Masuwo aro akanyura pasi, akaparadza nokuvhuna zvipfigiso zvaro; mambo waro namachinda aro vari pakati pamarudzi asina murayiro. Zvirokwazvo vaporofita varo havana zvavanoratidzwa naJehovha.

⁹Her gates are sunk into the ground; he hath destroyed and broken her bars: Her king and her princes are among the nations where the law is not; Yea, her prophets find no vision from Jehovah.

¹⁰Vakuru vomukunda weZiyoni vagere pasi, vanoramba vanyerere; vakakushira guruva pamisoro yavo, vakazvisunga zviuno namasaga; mhandara dzeJerusaremu dzakakotamisa misoro yadzo pasi.

¹⁰The elders of the daughter of Zion sit upon the ground, they keep silence; They have cast up dust upon their heads; they have girded themselves with sackcloth: The virgins of Jerusalem hang down their heads to the ground.

¹¹Meso angu apera nemisodzi, moyo wangu unotambudzika; chiropa changu chadururirwa pasi, nemhaka yokuparadzwa komukunda wavanhu vangu, nekuti vanana navanoyamwa vanoziya munzira dzomuguta.

¹¹Mine eyes do fail with tears, my heart is troubled; My liver is poured upon the earth, because of the destruction of the daughter of my people, Because the young children and the sucklings swoon in the streets of the city.

¹²Vanoti kuna madzimai avo, Zviyo newaini zviripiko? Vachingoziya munzira dzomuguta savakakuvadzwa, mweya yavo ichidururirwa pachipfuva chamadzimai avo.

¹²They say to their mothers, Where is grain and wine? When they swoon as the wounded in the streets of the city, When their soul is poured out into their mothers' bosom.

¹³Ndichakupupureiko? Ndichakufananidza nei, iwe mukunda weJerusaremu? Ndichakuenzanisa nei, kuti ndikunyaradze, iwe mhandara mukunda weZiyoni? nekuti pawakaparadzwa pakakura segungwa, ndiani achakuporesa?

¹³What shall I testify unto thee? what shall I liken to thee, O daughter of Jerusalem? What shall I compare to thee, that I may comfort thee, O virgin daughter of Zion? For thy breach is great like the sea: who can heal thee?

¹⁴Vaporofita vako vakakuonera zviratidzo zvenhema nezvoupenzi; havana kubudisa zvakaipa zvako, kuti vadzose kutapwa kwako, asi vakakuonera zviga zvenhema nezvinokutapisa.

¹⁴Thy prophets have seen for thee false and foolish visions; And they have not uncovered thine iniquity, to bring back thy captivity, But have seen for thee false oracles and causes of banishment.

¹⁵Vose vanopfuura vachavarovera maoko pamusoro pako, vanoridza muridzo nokudzungudzira mukunda weJerusaremu misoro yavo, vachiti, Ko ndiro guta rainzi navanhu rakanaka-naka kwazvo, mufaro wenyika yose?

¹⁵All that pass by clap their hands at thee; They hiss and wag their head at the daughter of Jerusalem, [saying], Is this the city that men called The perfection of beauty, The joy of the whole earth?

¹⁶Vavengi vako vose vakakushamisira miromo yavo; vanoridza muridzo nokugeda-geda meno, vanoti, Tariparadza; zvirokwazvo ndiro zuva ratakanga takatarira; tariwana, tariona.

¹⁶All thine enemies have opened their mouth wide against thee; They hiss and gnash the teeth; they say, We have swallowed her up; Certainly this is the day that we looked for; we have found, we have seen it.

¹⁷Jehovha akaita izvo zvaakafunga, akapedzisa shoko rake raakaraira pamazuva akare; akawisira pasi, akasava netsitsi; akafadza muvengi pamusoro pako, akasimudza runyanga rwavadzivisi vako.

¹⁷Jehovah hath done that which he purposed; he hath fulfilled his word that he commanded in the days of old; He hath thrown down, and hath not pitied: And he hath caused the enemy to rejoice over thee; he hath exalted the horn of thine adversaries.

¹⁸moyo yavo yakadana kuna Ishe. Iwe rusvingo rwomukunda weZiyoni, misodzi ngaiyerere sorwizi masikati nousiku, usazorora, mboni yeziso rako isarega kuchema.

¹⁸Their heart cried unto the Lord: O wall of the daughter of Zion, let tears run down like a river day and night; Give thyself no respite; let not the apple of thine eye cease.

¹⁹Muka, danidzira usiku, pakutanga kwenguva dzose; durura moyo wako semvura pamberi paJehovha; simudzira maoko ako kwaari nokuda koupenyu hwevana vako, vanoziya nenzara pakuvamba kwenzira imwe neimwe yomuguta.

¹⁹Arise, cry out in the night, at the beginning of the watches; Pour out thy heart like water before the face of the Lord: Lift up thy hands toward him for the life of thy young children, that faint for hunger at the head of every street.

²⁰Tarirai, Jehovha, muone vamakaitira zvakadai! Ko vakadzi vangadye zvibereko zvavo, ivo vana vari pamaoko here? Ko vapristi navaporofita vangaurawe panzvimbo tsvene yaishe here?

²⁰See, O Jehovah, and behold to whom thou hast done thus! Shall the women eat their fruit, the children that are dandled in the hands? Shall the priest and the prophet be slain in the sanctuary of the Lord?

²¹Majaya navatana vavete pasi munzira dzomuguta; mhandara dzangu namajaya angu vaurawa nomunondo; makavauraya nezuva rokutsamwa kwenyu, makavabaya, hamuna kuvanzwira tsitsi.

²¹The youth and the old man lie on the ground in the streets; My virgins and my young men are fallen by the sword: Thou hast slain them in the day of thine anger; thou hast slaughtered, [and] not pitied.

²²Makadaidza zvinondityisa pamativi ose, sapazuva reungano yakatarwa; hakuna akapukunyuka kana akasara pazuva rokutsamwa kwaJehovha; vandakabata mumaoko navandakarera vapedzwa nomuvengi wangu.

²²Thou hast called, as in the day of a solemn assembly, my terrors on every side; And there was none that escaped or remained in the day of Jehovah's anger: Those that I have dandled and brought up hath mine enemy consumed.