¹Zvino muchafanira kuungana makaita mapoka, iwe mukunda wamapoka; muvengi wakatikomba, vacharova mutongi waIsiraeri netsvimbo padama rake.

¹Now shalt thou gather thyself in troops, O daughter of troops: he hath laid siege against us; they shall smite the judge of Israel with a rod upon the cheek.

²Asi iwe Bheterehemu Efurata, muduku kwazvo pakati pezvuru zvamazana zvaJudha, kwauri kuchandibudira mumwe achava mubati pakati paIsiraeri; mabudiro ake ndaakare, pamazuva akare-kare.

²But thou, Beth-lehem Ephrathah, which art little to be among the thousands of Judah, out of thee shall one come forth unto me that is to be ruler in Israel; whose goings forth are from of old, from everlasting.

³Naizvozvo uchavaisa kuvavengi vavo, kusvikira panguva yokuzvara kwaiye anosurumuka; ipapo hama dzake, dzakasara, dzichadzoka navana vaIsiraeri.

³Therefore will he give them up, until the time that she who travaileth hath brought forth: then the residue of his brethren shall return unto the children of Israel.

⁴Achamira, ndokufudza makwai ake nesimba raJehovha, noumambo bwezita raJehovha Mwari wake; zvino vachagara zvakanaka, nekuti zvino achava mukuru kusvikira kumigumo yenyika.

⁴And he shall stand, and shall feed [his flock] in the strength of Jehovah, in the majesty of the name of Jehovah his God: and they shall abide; for now shall he be great unto the ends of the earth.

⁵Iye achava rugare rwedu. Kana muAsiria achipinda munyika yedu, kana achitsika mudzimba dzedu dzoushe, tichamutsa vafudzi vanomwe namachinda masere pakati pavanhu kuti varwe naye.

⁵And this [man] shall be [our] peace. When the Assyrian shall come into our land, and when he shall tread in our palaces, then shall we raise against him seven shepherds, and eight principal men.

⁶Ivo vachaparadza nyika yeAsiria nomunondo, nenyika yaNimurodhi painopindwa napo; iye achatirwira kumuAsiria, kana achinge achipinda nyika yedu nokutsika mukati memiganho yedu.

⁶And they shall waste the land of Assyria with the sword, and the land of Nimrod in the entrances thereof: and he shall deliver us from the Assyrian, when he cometh into our land, and when he treadeth within our border.

⁷Ipapo vakasara vaJakove vachava pakati pamarudzi mazhinji avanhu sedova rinobva kuna Jehovha, semvura inonaya pauswa, zvisingamiriri munhu kana kugarira vanakomana vavanhu.

⁷And the remnant of Jacob shall be in the midst of many peoples as dew from Jehovah, as showers upon the grass, that tarry not for man, nor wait for the sons of men.

⁸Vakasara vaJakove vachava pakati pendudzi pakati pamarudzi mazhinji avanhu, seshumba pakati pemhuka dzomudondo, seshumba duku pakati pamapoka amakwai, inoti kana ichipfuurapo, inotsika nokubvamburanya, kusina anorwira.

⁸And the remnant of Jacob shall be among the nations, in the midst of many peoples, as a lion among the beasts of the forest, as a young lion among the flocks of sheep; who, if he go through, treadeth down and teareth in pieces, and there is none to deliver.

⁹Ruoko rwenyu ngarusimudzirwe kumusoro kwavadzivisi venyu, vavengi venyu vose ngavaparadzwe.

⁹Let thy hand be lifted up above thine adversaries, and let all thine enemies be cut off.

¹⁰Zvino nezuva iro ndizvo zvinotaura Jehovha ndichaparadza mabhiza enyu pakati penyu, nokuputsa ngoro dzenyu;

¹⁰And it shall come to pass in that day, saith Jehovah, that I will cut off thy horses out of the midst of thee, and will destroy thy chariots:

¹¹ndichaparadza maguta enyika yenyu, nokukoromora nhare dzenyu dzose.

¹¹and I will cut off the cities of thy land, and will throw down all thy strongholds.

¹²Ndichaparadza uroyi pamaoko enyu, hamungazovi navafemberi;

¹²And I will cut off witchcrafts out of thy hand; and thou shalt have no [more] soothsayers:

¹³ndichaparadza mifananidzo yenyu yakavezwa neshongwe dzenyu pakati penyu; hamungazonamati mabasa amaoko enyu;

¹³and I will cut off thy graven images and thy pillars out of the midst of thee; and thou shalt no more worship the work of thy hands;

¹⁴ndichadzura miti yenyu yakatsaurwa pakati penyu, ndichaparadza maguta enyu.

¹⁴and I will pluck up thine Asherim out of the midst of thee; and I will destroy thy cities.

¹⁵Ndichatsiva marudzi asina kuteerera ndichiita nokutsamwa nehasha.

¹⁵And I will execute vengeance in anger and wrath upon the nations which hearkened not.