¹,Chirevo chaMwari pamusoro peBhabhironi, chakaonekwa naIsaya, mwanakomana waAmozi.

¹The burden of Babylon, which Isaiah the son of Amoz saw.

²Simudzai mureza pagomo risina miti; danidzirai kwavari, ninirai noruoko, kuti vapinde pamasuwo avakuru.

²Lift up a banner upon a bare mountain, raise the voice unto them, shake the hand, that they may enter the gates of the nobles.

³Ndakaraira vatsvene vangu, ndakadana mhare dzangu nokuda kokutsamwa kwangu, ivo varume vangu vanofara vachizvikudza.

³I have commanded my hallowed ones, I have also called my mighty men for mine anger, them that rejoice in my highness.

⁴Inzwai kutinhira pamakomo, kwakaita sokwavanhu vazhinji Kutinhira kweungano dzoushe kwamarudzi akaungana pamwechete! Jehovha wehondo wogadzira hondo kundorwa.

⁴The noise of a multitude on the mountains, as of a great people; a tumultuous noise of the kingdoms of nations assembled together: Jehovah of hosts mustereth the host of the battle.

⁵Vanobva kunyika iri kure, kumugumo wedenga, iye Jehovha nenhumbi dzake dzokurwa dzeshungu dzake, kuti aparadze nyika yose.

⁵They come from a far country, from the end of the heavens -- Jehovah, and the weapons of his indignation -- to destroy the whole land.

⁶Chemai, nekuti zuva raJehovha riri pedo; rinosvika sokuparadza kunobva kuna waMasimbaose.

⁶Howl, for the day of Jehovah is at hand; it cometh as destruction from the Almighty.

⁷Saka maoko ose achashayiwa simba, nomoyo mumwe nomumwe wavanhu uchanyauka;

⁷Therefore shall all hands be feeble, and every heart of man shall melt,

⁸vachavhunduka; vachabatwa nokurwadziwa namatambudziko; vacharwadziwa somukadzi anosununguka; vachatarisana vachashamiswa; zviso zvavo zvichafanana nezviso zvomoto.

⁸and they shall be terrified: pangs and sorrows shall take hold of them, they shall writhe as a woman that travaileth; they shall be amazed one at another, their faces shall be as flames.

⁹Tarirai, zuva raJehovha rinouya, rinotyisa, rine hasha nokutsamwa kukuru, kuti ashandure nyika iite dongo, nokuparadza vatadzi vayo vabvemo.

⁹Behold, the day of Jehovah cometh, cruel both with wrath and fierce anger, to lay the earth desolate; and he will destroy the sinners thereof out of it.

¹⁰nekuti nyeredzi dzokudenga, namapoka adzo, hadzingaratidzi chiedza chadzo; zuva richasvibiswa pakubuda kwaro, uye mwedzi haungavhenekeri nechiedza chawo.

¹⁰For the stars of the heavens and the constellations thereof shall not give their light; the sun shall be darkened in his going forth, and the moon shall not cause her light to shine.

¹¹Ndicharova nyika nokuda kokushata kwayo, navakaipa nokuda kwezvakaipa zvavo; ndichagumisa manyawi avanozvikudza, nokuwisira pasi kudada kwavanotyisa.

¹¹And I will punish the world for evil, and the wicked for their iniquity; and I will make the arrogance of the proud to cease, and will bring low the haughtiness of the violent.

¹²Vanhu ndichavaita vashoma kupfuura ndarama yakaisvonaka, iye munhu kupfuura ndarama tsvene yeOfiri.

¹²I will make a man more precious than fine gold, even man than the gold of Ophir.

¹³Saka ndichadederesa denga, nyika ichazununguswa ibve panzvimbo yayo, nehasha dzaJehovha wehondo, napazuva rokutsamwa kwake kukuru.

¹³Therefore I will make the heavens to shake, and the earth shall be removed out of her place, at the wrath of Jehovah of hosts, and in the day of his fierce anger.

¹⁴Zvino semhara inovhimwa, uye sezvipfuwo zvisina unozviunganidza, saizvozvo munhu mumwe nomumwe achadzokera kurudzi rwake, mumwe nomumwe achatizira kunyika yake.

¹⁴And it shall be as with a chased roe, and as with a flock that no man gathereth together; every one shall turn to his own people, and every one flee into his own land.

¹⁵Mumwe nomumwe anowanikwa, achabayiwa; mumwe nomumwe anobatwa, achaurawa nomunondo.

¹⁵All that are found shall be thrust through; and every one that is in league [with them] shall fall by the sword.

¹⁶Vacheche vavo vacharoverwa pasi pamberi pavo, dzimba dzavo dzichapambwa, vakadzi vavo vachachinyiwa. ,

¹⁶And their infants shall be dashed in pieces before their eyes, their houses shall be rifled, and their women ravished.

¹⁷Tarirai, ndichavamutsira vaMedhia, vasingarangariri sirivha, kunyange ndarama havaifariri.

¹⁷Behold, I will stir up the Medes against them, who do not regard silver, and as for gold, they have no delight in it.

¹⁸Uta hwavo huchawisira pasi majaya avo, havangavi netsitsi nezvibereko zvechizvaro; ziso ravo haringadariki vana.

¹⁸And [their] bows shall dash the young men to pieces, and they shall have no pity on the fruit of the womb: their eye shall not spare children.

¹⁹Zvino Bhabhironi, rine mbiri paushe hwose, raizvikudza vaKaradhea pamusoro pokunaka kwaro, richaita sapanguva yakaparadza Mwari Sodhoma neGomora.

¹⁹And Babylon, the glory of kingdoms, the beauty of the Chaldeans' pride, shall be as when God overthrew Sodom and Gomorrah.

²⁰Haringatongogarwi navanhu, hakuna vangatongogaramo kusvikira kumarudzi namarudzi; kunyange nomuArabhia haangadziki tende rakemo, navafudzi havangavatisi mapoka avopo.

²⁰It shall never be inhabited, neither shall it be dwelt in, even to generation and generation; nor shall Arabian pitch tent there, nor shepherds make fold there.

²¹Asi zvikara zvomusango zvichavatamo; dzimba dzavo dzichazara nezvinorira; mhou dzichagaramo, nemweya yakaipa ichatambapo.

²¹But beasts of the desert shall lie there, and their houses shall be full of owls; and ostriches shall dwell there, and wild goats shall dance there.

²²Mapere acharira munhare dzavo, namakava mudzimba dzamadzimambo dzaifadza; nguva yaro yaswedera pedo, mazuva aro haangawedzerwi.

²²And jackals shall cry to one another in their palaces, and wild dogs in the pleasant castles. And her time is near to come, and her days shall not be prolonged.