¹Pagore rokufa kwamambo Uziya, ndakaona Ishe agere pachigaro choushe, chirefu chakakwirira, mipendero yenguvo dzake ichizadza temberi.

¹In the year of the death of king Uzziah, I saw the Lord sitting upon a throne, high and lifted up; and his train filled the temple.

²Kumusoro kwake kwakanga kumire serafimi; imwe neimwe yakanga ina mapapiro matanhatu, neimwe mapapiro matanhatu; namaviri yakafukidza chiso chayo, namaviri yakafukidza makumbo ayo, namaviri yakanga ichibhururuka nawo.

²Seraphim were standing above him: each had six wings; with twain he covered his face, and with twain he covered his feet, and with twain he flew.

³Imwe yakadanidzira kune imwe, ichiti, Mutsvene, mutsvene, mutsvene, iye Jehovha wehondo; nyika yose izere nokubwinya kwake.

³And one called to the other and said, Holy, holy, holy is Jehovah of hosts; the whole earth is full of his glory!

⁴Nheyo dzezvikumbaridzo dzikazununguka nenzwi rowakanga achidana, imba ikazadzwa noutsi.

⁴And the foundations of the thresholds shook at the voice of him that cried, and the house was filled with smoke.

⁵Ipapo ndikati, Ndine nhamo! nekuti ndoparara, nekuti ndiri munhu wemiromo yakanora, ndigere pakati pavanhu vemiromo yakanora; nekuti meso angu akaona Mambo; Jehovha wehondo.

⁵And I said, Woe unto me! for I am undone; for I am a man of unclean lips, and I dwell in the midst of a people of unclean lips: for mine eyes have seen the King, Jehovah of hosts.

⁶Ipapo imwe serafimi yakabhururukira kwandiri, yakabata zimbe rinopfuta muruoko rwayo, rayakanga yatora nembato paaritari; ikagumura muromo wangu naro, ikati,

⁶And one of the seraphim flew unto me, and he had in his hand a glowing coal, which he had taken with the tongs from off the altar;

⁷Tarira, zimbe iri ragumura miromo yako, zvakaipa zvako zvabviswa, zvivi zvako zvadzikunurwa.

⁷and he made it touch my mouth, and said, Behold, this hath touched thy lips; and thine iniquity is taken away, and thy sin expiated.

⁸Ipapo ndakanzwa nzwi raShe richiti, Ndingatuma aniko? Ndiani angatiendera? Ipapo ndakati, Ndiri pano ini, nditumei.

⁸And I heard the voice of the Lord saying, Whom shall I send, and who will go for us? And I said, Here am I; send me.

⁹Iye akati, Enda, unondoudza vanhu ava, uti, Rambai henyu muchinzwa, asi musanzwisisa, rambai henyu muchiona, asi musaonesesa.

⁹And he said, Go; and thou shalt say unto this people, Hearing ye shall hear and shall not understand, and seeing ye shall see and shall not perceive.

¹⁰Kodzai moyo yavanhu ava, remedzai nzeve dzavo, tsinzinisai meso avo, kuti varege kuona nameso avo, kana kunzwa nenzeve dzavo, kana kunzwisisa nemoyo yavo, vadzoke vapodzwe.

¹⁰Make the heart of this people fat, and make their ears heavy, and blind their eyes; lest they see with their eyes, and hear with their ears, and understand with their heart, and be converted, and healed.

¹¹Zvino ndakati, Ishe kusvikira rinhiko? Akapindura, akati, Kusvikira maguta ava matongo, asina vanogaramo, nedzimba dzisina munhu, nenyika yaparadzwa chose,

¹¹And I said, Lord, how long? And he said, Until the cities be wasted, without inhabitant, and the houses without man, and the land become an utter desolation,

¹²kusvikira Jehovha abvisira vanhu kure, nenzvimbo, dzashanduka matongo, dzava zhinji panyika.

¹²and Jehovah have removed men far away, and the solitude be great in the midst of the land.

¹³Kana kuchinge kwasara mukati mayo chegumi, naichowo chichadyiwazve; sezvakaita muterebhinti nomuouki wasiirwa hunde kana watemwa, saizvozvo rudzi rutsvene ndiyo hunde yawo.

¹³But a tenth part shall still be therein, and it shall return and be eaten; as the terebinth and as the oak whose trunk [remaineth] after the felling: the holy seed shall be the trunk thereof.