¹Shoko raJehovha, rakauya kuna Mika weMoresheti namazuva aJotamu naAhazi naHezekia, madzimambo aJudha, raakaona pamusoro peSamaria neJerusaremu.

¹The word of Jehovah that came to Micah the Morashtite in the days of Jotham, Ahaz, and Hezekiah, kings of Judah, which he saw concerning Samaria and Jerusalem.

²Inzwai imwi marudzi avanhu, imwi mose; teerera iwe nyika, nezvose zvirimo; Ishe Jehovha ngaakupupurirei, iye Ishe ari mutemberi yake tsvene.

²Hear, ye peoples, all of you: hearken, O earth, and all that therein is: and let the Lord Jehovah be witness against you, the Lord from his holy temple.

³nekuti tarirai, Jehovha anobuda panzvimbo yake, achaburuka nokutsika panzvimbo dzakakwirira dzenyika.

³For, behold, Jehovah cometh forth out of his place, and will come down, and tread upon the high places of the earth.

⁴Makomo achanyauka pasi pake, mipata ichapamuka senamo yakaiswa pamoto, semvura inodururwa pamateru.

⁴And the mountains shall be melted under him, and the valleys shall be cleft, as wax before the fire, as waters that are poured down a steep place.

⁵Zvose izvi zvinoitwa nokuda kokudarika kwaJakove, uye nokuda kwezvivi zveimba yaIsiraeri. Kudarika kwaJakove ndokweiko? Harizi Samaria here? Nzvimbo dzakakwirira dzaJudha ndedzipiko? Harizi Jerusaremu here?

⁵For the transgression of Jacob is all this, and for the sins of the house of Israel. What is the transgression of Jacob? is it not Samaria? and what are the high places of Judah? are they not Jerusalem?

⁶Saka Samaria ndichariita somurwi wamabwe musango, senzvimbo dzingasimwa mizambiringa; ndichadurura mabwe aro mumupata, ndichifukunura nheyo dzaro.

⁶Therefore I will make Samaria as a heap of the field, [and] as places for planting vineyards; and I will pour down the stones thereof into the valley, and I will uncover the foundations thereof.

⁷Mifananidzo yaro yose yakavezwa ichaputswa-putswa, mibairo yaro yose ichapiswa nomoto, uye ndichaparadza zvifananidzo zvaro zvose; nekuti rakazviunganidza izvo uri mubayiro wechifeve, naizvozvi zvichadzokerazve kumubayiro wechifeve.

⁷And all her graven images shall be beaten to pieces, and all her hires shall be burned with fire, and all her idols will I lay desolate; for of the hire of a harlot hath she gathered them, and unto the hire of a harlot shall they return.

⁸Nemhaka iyi ndichachema nokuungudza, ndichafamba ndisina nguvo ndakashama, ndichaungudza samakava nokurira semhou.

⁸For this will I lament and wail; I will go stripped and naked; I will make a wailing like the jackals, and a lamentation like the ostriches.

⁹nekuti mavanga aro haadi kupora, nekuti zvasvika kuna Judhawo; zvasvikira pasuwo ravanhu vangu, ipo paJerusaremu.

⁹For her wounds are incurable; for it is come even unto Judah; it reacheth unto the gate of my people, even to Jerusalem.

¹⁰Musazvireva paGati, regai kutongochema; paBheti-re-Afura muumburuke muguruva.

¹⁰Tell it not in Gath, weep not at all: at Beth-le-aphrah have I rolled myself in the dust.

¹¹Chibva uende, iwe ugere Shafiri, wakashama uchinyara; agere Zaanani haana kubuda kuungudza paBheti-ezeri kuchakutorera pokumira.

¹¹Pass away, O inhabitant of Shaphir, in nakedness and shame: the inhabitant of Zaanan is not come forth; the wailing of Beth-ezel shall take from you the stay thereof.

¹²nekuti agere Maroti anomirira nemoyo zvikuru chinhu chakanaka, nekuti zvakaipa zvakaburuka zvichibva kuna Jehovha zvikasvikira kusuwo reJerusaremu.

¹²For the inhabitant of Maroth waiteth anxiously for good, because evil is come down from Jehovah unto the gate of Jerusalem.

¹³Iwe ugere Rakishi, sunga mabhiza pangoro; ndiro rakatanga kuisa mukunda weZiyoni pazvivi, nekuti kudarika kwalsiraeri kwakawanikwa mauri.

¹³Bind the chariot to the swift steed, O inhabitant of Lachish: she was the beginning of sin to the daughter of Zion; for the transgressions of Israel were found in thee.

¹⁴Saka iwe uchapa Moresheti-gati chipo chokuonekana; dzimba dzeAkizibhi dzichava chinhu chinonyengera madzimambo aIsiraeri.

¹⁴Therefore shalt thou give a parting gift to Moresheth-gath: the houses of Achzib shall be a deceitful thing unto the kings of Israel.

¹⁵Iwe ugere Maresha, ndichakuuyisira mumwe achakukunda; vakakudzwa valsiraeri vachasvika paAdhurami.

¹⁵I will yet bring unto thee, O inhabitant of Mareshah, him that shall possess thee: the glory of Israel shall come even unto Adullam.

¹⁶Zviitire mhazha, vevura vhudzi rako pamusoro pavana vaunofarira; kurisa mhazha yako seyegondo, nekuti vakatapwa kure newe.

¹⁶Make thee bald, and cut off thy hair for the children of thy delight: enlarge thy baldness as the eagle; for they are gone into captivity from thee.