¹Ndizvo zvinotaura Jehovha, Ruripiko rugwaro rwokuramba mai venyu, vandakaramba? Kana ndiyani wandine chikwereti naye, wandakakutengesai kwaari? Tarirai makazvitengesa nokuda kwezvakaipa zvenyu, uye nokuda kokudarika kwenyu, mai venyu vakarashwa.

¹Thus saith Jehovah: Where is the bill of your mother's divorce, whom I have put away? or which of my creditors is it to whom I have sold you? Behold, through your iniquities have ye sold yourselves, and for your transgressions is your mother put away.

²Sei pakusvika kwangu kwakanga kusina munhu? Pakudana kwangu kwakanga kusina anopindura? Ko ruoko rwangu rwakatongopfupiswa here?, kuti rukoniwe kudzikunura? Handina simba rokurwira here? Tarirai nokutuka kwangu, ndinopwisa gungwa , Ndinoita nzizi dzive renje; hove dzadzo dzinhuwhe, nekuti hadzina mvura, dzinofa nenyota.

²Wherefore did I come, and there was no man? I called, and there was none to answer? Is my hand at all shortened that I cannot redeem, or have I no power to deliver? behold, at my rebuke I dry up the sea, I make rivers a wilderness; their fish stink because there is no water, and die for thirst.

³Ndinofukidza matenga nokusviba, Ndinoita masaga ave chifukidziro chawo.

³I clothe the heavens with blackness, and I make sackcloth their covering.

⁴Ishe Jehovha akandipa rurimi rwavakadzidza, kuti ndizive kutaura shoko nenguva yakafanira kune vakaneta ; anomuka mangwanani ose, anomutsa nzeve dzangu kuti ndinzwe savanodzidziswa.

⁴The Lord Jehovah hath given me the tongue of the instructed, that I should know how to succour by a word him that is weary. He wakeneth morning by morning, he wakeneth mine ear to hear as the instructed.

⁵Ishe Mwari wakadziura nzeve dzangu,vuye handina kupanduka kana kudzokera shure.

⁵The Lord Jehovah hath opened mine ear, and I was not rebellious; I turned not away back.

⁶Ndakapa musana wangu kuvarovi, namatama angu kuna vakatavura ndebvu dzangu; handina kuvanza chiso changu pakunyadziswa nokupfirwa mate.

⁶I gave my back to smiters, and my cheeks to them that plucked off the hair; I hid not my face from shame and spitting.

⁷nekuti Ishe Mwari achandibatsira, naizvozvo handina kunyadziswa; naizvozvo ndakaita chiso changu semusarasara,vuye ndinoziva kuti handinganyadziswi.

⁷But the Lord Jehovah will help me: therefore shall I not be confounded; therefore have I set my face like a flint, and I know that I shall not be ashamed.

⁸Ari pedo iye unondiruramsa; ndiani acharwa neni?Ngatimirisane, Ndiani mudzivisi wangu? Ngaaswedere kwandiri.

⁸He is near that justifieth me: who will contend with me? let us stand together; who is mine adverse party? let him draw near unto me.

⁹Tarirai, Ishe, Jehovha achandibatsira; ndiani angandipa mhosva? Tarirai, avo vose vachasakara senguvo;zvipfunho. zvichavadya.

⁹Behold, the Lord Jehovah will help me; who is he that shall condemn me? Behold, they all shall grow old as a garment; the moth shall eat them up.

¹⁰Ndianiko pakati penyu anotya Jehovha, anoteerera inzwi romuranda wake? Anofamba murima,vuye asina chiedza, ngaavimbe nezita raJehovha, asendame kuna Mwari wake.

¹⁰Who is among you that feareth Jehovah, that hearkeneth to the voice of his servant? he that walketh in darkness, and hath no light, -- let him confide in the name of Jehovah, and stay himself upon his God.

¹¹Tarirai, imwi mose, munobatidza moto, munozvisunga zviuno nezvitsiga; fambai muchiedza chomoto wenyu, napakati pezvitsiga zvamakabatidza. Muchapiwa izvozvo noruoko rwangu, muchavata pasi muchitambudzika.

¹¹Behold, all ye that kindle a fire, that compass yourselves about with sparks: walk in the light of your fire, and among the sparks [that] ye have kindled. This shall ye have of my hand: ye shall lie down in sorrow.