¹Zvino negore repfumbamwe rokubata kwake ushe, nomwedzi wegumi, nezuva regumi romwedzi, Nebhukadhinezari mambo weBhabhironi akasvika, iye nehondo yake yose, kuzorwa neJerusaremu, vakadzika matende avopo, vakarikomba nenhare.

¹And it came to pass in the ninth year of his reign, in the tenth month, on the tenth of the month, [that] Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon came, he and all his army, against Jerusalem, and encamped against it; and they built turrets against it round about.

²Naizvozvo guta rakakombwa kusvikira pagore regumi nerimwe ramambo Zedhekia.

²And the city was besieged until the eleventh year of king Zedekiah.

³Zvino negore repfumbamwe romwedzi wechina nzara ikanyanya kwazvo paguta, vanhu venyika iyo vakashaiwa zvokudya.

³On the ninth of the [fourth] month the famine prevailed in the city, and there was no bread for the people of the land.

⁴Vakaputsa rusvingo rweguta, vanhu vose vehondo vakatiza usiku nenzira yesuwo, pakati pamadziro maviri aiva pamunda wamambo; (zvino vaKaradhea vakanga vakakomba guta;) mambo akaenda nenzira yerenje.

⁴And the city was broken into; and all the men of war [fled] by night, by the way of the gate between the two walls, which [leads] to the king's garden (now the Chaldeans were by the city round about); and they went the way toward the plain.

⁵Asi hondo yavaKaradhea yakatevera mambo, vakamubata pamapani eJeriko, hondo yake yose ikapararira ikabva kwaari.

⁵And the army of the Chaldeans pursued after the king, and overtook him in the plains of Jericho; and all his army was scattered from him.

⁶Zvino vakabata mambo, vakaenda naye kuna mambo weBhabhironi paRibhira, vakamutongerapo.

⁶And they took the king, and brought him up to the king of Babylon unto Riblah; and they pronounced judgment upon him,

⁷Vakauraya vana vaZedhekia achizviona, vakatumbura meso aZedhekia, vakamusunga namatare, vakamuisa Bhabhironi.

⁷and slaughtered the sons of Zedekiah before his eyes, and put out the eyes of Zedekiah, and bound him with chains of brass, and carried him to Babylon.

⁸Zvino nomwedzi wechishanu, nezuva rechinomwe romwedzi, negore regumi namapfumbamwe ramambo Nebhukadhinezari mambo weBhabhiron, Nebhuzaradhani mukuru wavarindi, muranda wamambo weBhabhironi akasvika Jerusaremu;

⁸And in the fifth month, on the seventh of the month, which was in the nineteenth year of king Nebuchadnezzar, king of Babylon, Nebuzar-adan, captain of the body-guard, servant of the king of Babylon, came unto Jerusalem;

⁹akapisa imba yaJehovha, neimba yamambo; akapisawo dzimba dzose dzeJerusaremu, dzimba dzose huru, nomoto.

⁹and he burned the house of Jehovah, and the king's house, and all the houses of Jerusalem; and every great [man's] house he burned with fire.

¹⁰Hondo yose yavaKaradhea, yakanga inomukuru wavarindi, ikaputsa masvingo eJerusaremu kunhivi dzose.

¹⁰And all the army of the Chaldeans that were with the captain of the body-guard broke down the walls of Jerusalem round about.

¹¹Nebhuzaradhani mukuru wavarindi, akatapa vanhu vakanga vasara muguta, navakanga vatiza, vakaenda kuna mambo weBhabhironi, navakanga vasara kuvazhinji.

¹¹And Nebuzar-adan the captain of the body-guard carried away captive the rest of the people that were left in the city, and the deserters that had deserted to the king of Babylon, and the rest of the multitude.

¹²Asi mukuru wavarindi wakasiya varombo venyika, kuti vave varimi veminda yemizambiringa nemimwe minda.

¹²But the captain of the body-guard left of the poor of the land for vinedressers and husbandmen.

¹³VaKaradhea vakaputsanya mbiru dzendarira dzaiva mumba maJehovha, nezvingoro, nedziva rendarira, zvaiva mumba maJehovha, vakaenda nendarira yazvo Bhabhironi.

¹³And the brazen pillars that were in the house of Jehovah, and the bases, and the brazen sea that was in the house of Jehovah, the Chaldeans broke in pieces, and carried the brass thereof to Babylon.

¹⁴vakatorawo hari nefoshoro nembato dzemwenje, nezvirongo, nenhumbi dzose dzendarira dzavaibata nadzo.

¹⁴The cauldrons also and the shovels and the knives and the cups, and all the vessels of copper wherewith they ministered, they took away.

¹⁵Nezvaenga zvomoto, nembiya, nezvose zvaiva zvendarama nezvose zvaiva zvesirivha, mukuru wavarindi akazvitora.

¹⁵And the censers and the bowls, that which was of gold in gold, and that which was of silver in silver, the captain of the body-guard took away.

¹⁶Nembiru mbiri, nedziva rimwe, nezvindori, zvakanga zvaitirwa imba yaJehovha naSoromoni; kurema kwendarira yenhumbi idzi dzose kwakanga kusingagoni kuyerwa.

¹⁶The two pillars, the one sea, and the bases which Solomon had made for the house of Jehovah: for the brass of all these vessels there was no weight.

¹⁷Kureba kwembiru imwe kwakasvika makubhiti ane gumi namasere, yaiva nomusoro wendarira pamusoro payo; kureba komusoro kwakasvika makubhiti matatu; uye kwakanga kune zvakarukwa, namatamba, zvaipoteredza musoro, zvose zviri zvendarira; mbiru yechipiri yakanga yakafanana neyiyi nezvakarukwawo.

¹⁷The height of one pillar was eighteen cubits, and the capital upon it was brass, and the height of the capital three cubits; and the network and the pomegranates, upon the capital round about, all of brass: and similarly for the second pillar with the network.

¹⁸Mukuru wavarindi akatora Saraya mupristi wapamusoro, naZefaniya mupristi wechipiri, navarindi vatatu vomukova;

¹⁸And the captain of the body-guard took Seraiah the high priest, and Zephaniah the second priest, and the three doorkeepers.

¹⁹uye paguta akatora mukuru waitarira varume vehondo, navarume vashanu vaisionana namambo, vaakawana muguta; nomunyori, nomukuru wehondo waiunganidza vanhu venyika, navarume vanamakumi matanhatu vavanhu venyika, vaakawana muguta.

¹⁹And out of the city he took a chamberlain that was set over the men of war, and five men of them that were in the king's presence, who were found in the city, and the scribe of the captain of the host, who enrolled the people of the land; and sixty men of the people of the land that were found in the city.

²⁰Nebhuzaradhani mukuru wavarindi akavatora, akavaisa kuna mambo weBhabhironi paRibhira.

²⁰And Nebuzar-adan the captain of the body-guard took them and brought them to the king of Babylon to Riblah;

²¹Mambo weBhabhironi akavabaya, akavauraya paRibhira, panyika yeHamati. Naizvozvo vaJudha vakatapwa panyika yavo.

²¹and the king of Babylon smote them and put them to death at Riblah in the land of Hamath. Thus Judah was carried away captive out of his land.

²²Kana vari vanhu vakasiiwa panyika yaJudha, vakasiiwa naNebhukadhinezari mambo weBhabhironi, wakaita Gedharia mwanakomana waAhikami, mwanakomana waShafani, mubati wavo.

²²And [as for] the people that remained in the land of Judah, whom Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon had left behind, over them he appointed Gedaliah the son of Ahikam, the son of Shaphan.

²³Zvino vakuru vose vehondo, ivo navanhu vavo, vakati vanzwa kuti mambo weBhabhironi wakange aita Gedharia mubati wavo, vakaenda kuna Gedharia paMizipa, vaiti, Ishimaeri mwanakomana waNetania, naJohwanani mwanakomana waKarea, naSeraya mwanakomana waTanhumeti muNetofati, naJaazania mwanakomana womuMaakati, ivo navanhu vavo.

²³And all the captains of the forces, they and their men, heard that the king of Babylon had appointed Gedaliah, and they came to Gedaliah to Mizpah, namely, Ishmael the son of Nethaniah, and Johanan the son of Kareah, and Seraiah the son of Tanhumeth the Netophathite, and Jaazaniah the son of a Maachathite, they and their men.

²⁴Gedharia akapika kwavari, ivo navanhu vavo, akati kwavari, Regai kutya nokuda kwavaranda vavaKaradhea; garai panyika, mushumire mambo weBhabhironi, mugofara henyu.

²⁴And Gedaliah swore unto them and to their men, and said to them, Fear not to be servants of the Chaldeans: dwell in the land, and serve the king of Babylon, and it shall be well with you.

²⁵Asi nomwedzi wechinomwe Ishimaeri mwanakomana waNetania, mwanakomana waErishama, worudzi rwamambo, wakasvika anavarume vane gumi, akabaya Gedharia, akafa iye pamwechete navaJudha navaKaradhea vaiva naye paMizipa.

²⁵And it came to pass in the seventh month, that Ishmael the son of Nethaniah, the son of Elishama, of the royal seed, came, and ten men with him, and smote Gedaliah, that he died, and the Jews and the Chaldeans that were with him at Mizpah.

²⁶Ipapo vanhu vose, vaduku navakuru, navakuru vehondo vakasimuka vakaenda Egipita, nekuti vakanga vachitya vaKaradhea.

²⁶And all the people, both small and great, and the captains of the forces, arose and came to Egypt; for they were afraid of the Chaldeans.

²⁷Zvino negore ramakumi matatu namanomwe rokutapwa kwaJehoyakini mambo waJudha, nomwedzi wegumi nemiviri, nezuva ramakumi maviri namanomwe romwedzi, Evhiri-merodhaki mambo weBhabhironi, negore raakatanga kubata ushe naro, wakasimudza musoro waJehoyakini mambo waJudha, akamubvisa mutirongo;

²⁷And it came to pass in the thirty-seventh year of the captivity of Jehoiachin king of Judah, in the twelfth month, on the twenty-seventh of the month, [that] Evil-Merodach king of Babylon, in the year that he began to reign, lifted up the head of Jehoiachin king of Judah out of prison;

²⁸akataura naye nomoyo munyoro, akakudza chigaro chake choushe kupfuura zvigaro zvoushe zvamadzimambo aiva naye paBhabhironi.

²⁸and he spoke kindly to him, and set his seat above the seat of the kings that were with him in Babylon.

²⁹Akashandura nguvo dzake dzokusungwa, akaramba achidya zvokudya pamberi pake mazuva ose oupenyu hwake.

²⁹And he changed his prison garments; and he ate bread before him continually all the days of his life;

³⁰Kana zviri zvokurarama nazvo, waisipiwa zvokurarama nazvo namambo nguva dzose, zuva rimwe nerimwe mugove waro, mazuva ose oupenyu hwake.

³⁰and his allowance was a continual allowance given him by the king, every day a portion, all the days of his life.