¹Ndichandomira panzvimbo yangu yokurindira, ndichazviisa panharirire yangu, ndichatarira ndione zvaachataura neni, uye zvandingapindura pamusoro pokuchema kwangu.

¹I will stand upon my watch, and set me upon the tower, and will look forth to see what he will say unto me, and what I shall answer as to my reproof.

²Jehovha akandipindura, akati, Nyora zvawaratidzwa, zvionekwe kwazvo pamabwendefa, kuti zvigone kurahwa nowanomhanya.

²And Jehovah answered me and said, Write the vision, and engrave it upon tablets, that he may run that readeth it.

³nekuti zvakaratidzwa izvi ndezvenguva yakatarwa, zvovavarira kuguma, hazvingarevi nhema; kunyange zvikanonoka, uzvimirire, nekuti zvichauya zvirokwazvo, hazvingaiti nguva huru.

³For the vision is yet for an appointed time, but it hasteth to the end, and shall not lie: though it tarry, wait for it; for it will surely come, it will not delay.

⁴Tarirai, mweya wavo una manyawi, hauna kururama mukati mavo; asi akarurama achararama nokutenda kwake.

⁴Behold, his soul is puffed up, it is not upright within him: but the just shall live by his faith.

⁵Hongu uyezve unonyengera newaini, murume anozvikudza, asingagari kumba kwake, akashamisa kukara kwake seSheori, akafanana norufu; haangaguti, asi anozviunganidzira marudzi ose, unozvikokerera marudzi ose avanhu.

⁵And moreover, the wine is treacherous: he is a proud man, and keepeth not at rest, he enlargeth his desire as Sheol, and he is like death and cannot be satisfied; and he assembleth unto him all nations, and gathereth unto him all peoples.

⁶Ko ava vose havangaimbi rwiyo pamusoro pake, nokumudadira nechirabwe, vachiti, Ane nhamo anowanza zvisati zviri zvake! Kusvikira riniko? Uye anozviremedza nezvikwereti!

⁶Shall not all these take up a proverb about him, and a taunting riddle against him, and say, Woe to him that increaseth that which is not his! how long? -- and to him that loadeth himself with pledges!

⁷Vachakurumai havangasimuki pakarepo, vanokumanikidzai havangamuki here, imwi mukapambwa navo?

⁷Shall they not rise up suddenly that shall bite thee, and they awake up that shall vex thee, and thou shalt be for booties unto them?

⁸imwi zvamakapamba marudzi mazhinji, vose vakasara vamarudzi avanhu vachakupambai nemhaka yeropa ravanhu, uye nemhaka yokuti makaitira nyika simba, neguta navose vageremo.

⁸Because thou hast plundered many nations, all the rest of the peoples shall plunder thee; because of men's blood, and for the violence [done] to the land, to the city, and all that dwell therein.

⁹Ane nhamo unozviwanira imba yake fuma yakaipa, kuti aise dendere rake kwakakwirira, kuti arwirwe paruoko rwezvakaipa!

⁹Woe to him that getteth iniquitous gain to his house, that he may set his nest on high, that he may be delivered from the grasp of evil!

¹⁰Makaranganira imba yenyu zvinonyadza, zvamakaparadza marudzi mazhinji avanhu, mukatadzira mweya wenyu.

¹⁰Thou hast devised shame to thy house, by cutting off many peoples, and hast sinned against thine own soul.

¹¹nekuti ibwe richadanidzira riri parusvingo, danda riri mudenga richapindura.

¹¹For the stone shall cry out of the wall, and the beam out of the timber shall answer it.

¹²Ane nhamo anovaka musha neropa, anovamba guta nezvakaipa!

¹²Woe to him that buildeth a town with blood, and establisheth a city by unrighteousness!

¹³Tarirai, hazvina kubva kuna Jehovha wehondo here kuti vanhu vabatire moto, uye kuti marudzi avanhu azvinetse nokuda kwezvisina maturo?

¹³Behold, is it not of Jehovah of hosts that the peoples labour for the fire, and the nations weary themselves in vain?

¹⁴nekuti nyika yose ichazadzwa nokuziva kubwinya kwaJehovha, mvura sezvainofukidza pasi pegungwa.

¹⁴For the earth shall be filled with the knowledge of the glory of Jehovah as the waters cover the sea.

¹⁵Ane nhamo anopa wokwake zvinobata azvimwe, anovhenganisiramo uturu bwenyu, muchimudhakisawo, kuti muone kushama kwavo !

¹⁵Woe unto him that giveth his neighbour drink, -- that pourest out thy flask, and makest [him] drunken also, that thou mayest look on their nakedness!

¹⁶Mazvigutisa nezvinonyadzisa panzvimbo yezvinokudzwa; chimwai nemiwo, muve seasina kudzingiswa; mukombe worudyi rwaJehovha uchasvikira kwamuri, zvinonyadzisa zvakaipa zvichauya pamusoro pokukudzwa kwenyu.

¹⁶Thou art filled with shame instead of glory; drink thou also, and let thy foreskin be uncovered: the cup of Jehovah's right hand shall be turned unto thee, and a shameful spewing shall be on thy glory.

¹⁷nekuti zvakaipa zvakaitirwa Rebhanoni zvichakufukidzai imi, uye kuparadzwa kwezvipfuwo kwakazvityisa; nemhaka yeropa ravanhu, nemhaka yezvakaipa zvakaitirwa nyika, neguta, navose vageremo.

¹⁷For the violence [done] to Lebanon shall cover thee, and the destruction of beasts which made them afraid; because of men's blood, and for the violence [done] to the land, to the city, and all that dwell therein.

¹⁸Mufananidzo wakavezwa unobatsireiko, zvawavezwa nomuvezi wawo; kana mufananidzo wakaumbwa, iwo mudzidzisi wenhema, iye wakauumba zvaanovimba nawo, zvaakaita zvifananidzo zvisingagoni kutaura?

¹⁸What profiteth the graven image that the maker thereof hath graven it? the molten image, and the teacher of falsehood, that the maker of his work dependeth thereon, to make dumb idols?

¹⁹Ane nhamo anoti kudanda, Pepuka! Nokuti kubwe risingatauri. Muka! Iro richadzidzisa? Tarirai, zvakanamirwa nendarama nesirivha, asi hakuna mweya mukati mazvo napaduku.

¹⁹Woe unto him that saith to the wood, Awake! to the dumb stone, Arise! Shall it teach? Behold it is overlaid with gold and silver, and there is no breath at all in the midst of it.

²⁰Asi Jehovha ari mutemberi yake tsvene, nyika yose ngairambe inyerere pamberi pake.

²⁰But Jehovah is in his holy temple. Let all the earth keep silence before him!