¹Zvanzi naJehovha, Nemhaka yokuti Moabhi vakadarika katatu, zvimwe kana, handingadzori kurohwa kwavo; nekuti vakapisa mafupa amambo waEdhomu kusvikira aita madota.

¹Thus saith Jehovah: For three transgressions of Moab, and for four, I will not revoke its sentence; because he burned the bones of the king of Edom into lime.

²Asi ndichatuma moto kuvaMoabhi, uchapedza dzimba dzoushe dzeKerioti; Moabhi vachafa nebope nokudanidzira uye nokurira kwehwamanda;

²And I will send a fire upon Moab, and it shall devour the palaces of Kerijoth; and Moab shall die with tumult, with shouting, [and] with the sound of the trumpet.

³ndichaparadza vatongi pakati pavo; nokuuraya machinda avo ose pamwechete navo, ndizvo zvinotaura Jehovha.

³And I will cut off the judge from the midst thereof, and will slay all the princes thereof with him, saith Jehovah.

⁴Zvanzi naJehovha, Nemhaka yokuti Judha vakadarika katatu, zvimwe kana, handingadzori kurohwa kwavo; nekuti vakaramba murayiro waJehovha, vakasachengeta mitemo yake, vakarashiswa nenhema dzavo dzakateverwa namadzibaba avo.

⁴Thus saith Jehovah: For three transgressions of Judah, and for four, I will not revoke its sentence; because they have despised the law of Jehovah, and have not kept his statutes; and their lies have caused them to err, after which their fathers walked.

⁵Asi ndichatuma moto kuna Judha, uchapedza dzimba dzoushe dzeJerusaremu.

⁵And I will send a fire upon Judah, and it shall devour the palaces of Jerusalem.

⁶Zvanzi naJehovha, Nemhaka yokuti Isiraeri vakadarika katatu, zvimwe kana, handingadzori kurohwa kwavo; nekuti vakatengesa vakarurama nesirivha, uye anoshaiwa, vachipiwa shangu mbiri;

⁶Thus saith Jehovah: For three transgressions of Israel, and for four, I will not revoke its sentence; because they have sold the righteous for silver, and the needy for a pair of shoes;

⁷ndivo vanoshuva kuona guruva rapasi pamusoro womurombo, vachitsausa nzira yomunhu munyoro; munhu nababa vake vachienda vose kumusikana mumwe, kuti vamhure zita rangu dzvene;

⁷panting after the dust of the earth on the head of the poor, and turning aside the way of the meek; and a man and his father will go in unto the [same] maid, to profane my holy name.

⁸vanovata pasi pamaaritari ose panguvo dzakatorwa dzichiitwa rubatso, vanomwa waini yavakaripiswa mumba maMwari wavo.

⁸And they lay [themselves] down by every altar upon clothes taken in pledge, and they drink [in] the house of their God the wine of the condemned.

⁹Kunyange zvakadaro ndakaparadza vaAmori pamberi pavo, ivo vakanga vakareba semisidhari, vane simba semioki; kunyange zvakadaro ndakaparadza zvibereko zvavo kumusoro nemidzi yavo pasi.

⁹But I destroyed the Amorite before them, whose height was as the height of the cedars, and he was strong as the oaks; but I destroyed his fruit from above, and his roots from beneath.

¹⁰Ndakakubudisaiwo munyika yeEgipita, ndikakufambisai murenje makore makumi mana, kuti mundopiwa nyika yavaAmori.

¹⁰And I brought you up from the land of Egypt, and led you forty years in the wilderness, to possess the land of the Amorite.

¹¹Ndakamutsawo vaporofita pakati pavanakomana venyu, navaNaziri pakati pavanakomana venyu, navaNaziri pakati pamajaya enyu. Handizvo here, imwi vana vaIsiraeri?

¹¹And I raised up of your sons for prophets, and of your young men for Nazarites. Is it not even thus, ye children of Israel? saith Jehovah.

¹²Asi makapa vaNaziri waini vamwe, nokuraira vaporofita, muchiti, Regai kuporofita.

¹²And ye gave the Nazarites wine to drink; and commanded the prophets, saying, Prophesy not.

¹³Tarirai, ndichakutsikirirai pasi, sezvinotsikirira ngoro izere nemwanda.

¹³Behold, I will press upon you, as a cart presseth that is full of sheaves.

¹⁴Anomhanyisa achakoniwa kutiza, anesimba haangasimbisi simba rake, kunyange nemhare haingazvirwiri.

¹⁴And flight shall perish from the swift, and the strong shall not strengthen his force, neither shall the mighty deliver his soul.

¹⁵Kunyange anobata uta haangamiri, anetsoka dzinomhanyisa haangazvirwiri; kunyange akatasva bhiza haangarwiri hupenyu hwake;

¹⁵Neither shall he stand that handleth the bow; and the swift of foot shall not escape, and he that rideth the horse shall not deliver his soul;

¹⁶ane mwoyo mukuru pakati pemhare achatiza akashama nezuva iro, ndizvo zvinotaura Jehovha.

¹⁶and he that is stout-hearted among the mighty shall flee away naked in that day, saith Jehovah.