¹Inzwai shoko rinotaura Jehovha kwamuri, imwi imba yaIsiraeri,

¹Hear the word that Jehovah speaketh unto you, house of Israel.

²zvanzi naJehovha, Regai kudzidza tsika dzamarudzi avanhu, musavhunduswa nezviratidzo zvokudenga; nekuti marudzi avanhu anovhunduswa nazvo.

²Thus saith Jehovah: Learn not the way of the nations, and be not dismayed at the signs of the heavens; for the nations are dismayed at them.

³nekuti tsika dzavanhu hadzina maturo; nekuti mumwe unotema muti mudondo, riri basa ramaoko omunhu unoveza nedemo.

³For the statutes of the peoples are vanity; for [it is] a tree cut out of the forest, worked with a chisel by the hands of the artizan;

⁴Vanoushongedza nesirivha nendarama, vanourovera nembambo nenyundo, kuti urege kuzununguka.

⁴they deck it with silver and with gold; they fasten it with nails and with hammers, that it move not.

⁵Zvakafanana nemuti wemurara wakapfurwa, zvisingatauri; zvinofanira kutakurwa, nekuti hazvigoni kufamba. Musazvitya, nekuti hazvigoni kuita zvakaipa, kunyange kuita zvakanaka, hazvigoni.

⁵They are as a palm-column of turned work, and they speak not; they are carried, for they cannot go. Be not afraid of them; for they cannot do evil, neither also is it in them to do good.

⁶Hakuna wakafanana nemwi Jehovha; imwi muri mukuru, zita renyu iguru nesimba raro.

⁶There is none like unto thee, Jehovah; thou art great, and thy name is great in might.

⁷Ndianiko ungarega kukutyai, imwi Mambo wamarudzi avanhu? nekuti makafanira izvozvi; nekuti pakati pavakachenjera vose vamarudzi avanhu, napaushe hwavo hwose, hakuna wakafanana nemi.

⁷Who would not fear thee, O King of nations? For to thee doth it appertain; for among all the wise men of the nations, and in all their kingdoms, there is none like unto thee.

⁸Asi vose pamwechete havane njere, mapenzi; dzidzo yezvifananidzo idanda zvaro.

⁸But they are one and all senseless and foolish; the teaching of vanities is a stock.

⁹Isirivha yakapfurwa ikaita bape, yakatorwa Tarishishi, nendarama inobva Ufazi, riri basa remhizha neramaoko omupfuri wendarama; zvakafukidzwa nguvo dzemicheka mitema nemitsvuku; zvose ibasa ravanhu venjere.

⁹Silver spread into plates is brought from Tarshish, and gold from Uphaz, the work of the artizan and of the hands of the founder; blue and purple is their clothing: they are all the work of skilful [men].

¹⁰Asi Jehovha ndiye Mwari wazvokwadi; ndiye Mwari mupenyu, naMambo wokusingaperi; kana iye atsamwa nyika inodedera, marudzi avanhu haagoni kumira pahasha dzake.

¹⁰But Jehovah Elohim is truth; he is the living God, and the King of eternity. At his wrath the earth trembleth, and the nations cannot abide his indignation.

¹¹ltiyi kwavari, Vamwari vasina kuita denga nenyika, ndivo vachapera panyika napasi pedenga rose.

¹¹Thus shall ye say unto them: The gods that have not made the heavens and the earth, these shall perish from the earth, and from under the heavens.

¹²Ndiye wakaita nyika nesimba rake, wakateya nyika nohuchenjeri hwake, wakatatamura denga rose nenjere dzake.

¹²He hath made the earth by his power, he hath established the world by his wisdom, and hath stretched out the heavens by his understanding.

¹³Kana achibudisa inzwi rake, kunomubvumo wemvura zhinji kudenga; unokwidza makore pamigumo yenyika, unoita mheni kuuyisa mvura, unobudisa mhepo panovigwa fuma yake.

¹³When he uttereth his voice, there is a tumult of waters in the heavens, and he causeth the vapours to ascend from the end of the earth; he maketh lightnings for the rain, and bringeth forth the wind out of his treasuries.

¹⁴Munhu mumwe nomumwe wava usina njere, haane zivo; mupfuri mumwe nomumwe wendarama unonyadziswa nechifananidzo chake chaakaveza, nekuti chifananidzo chake chaakaumba, ndechenhema, hakuna mweya mazviri.

¹⁴Every man is become brutish, bereft of knowledge; every founder is put to shame by the graven image, for his molten image is falsehood, and there is no breath in them.

¹⁵Hazvina maturo, ibasa rinonyengera; panguva yokurohwa kwazvo zvichapera.

¹⁵They are vanity, a work of delusion: in the time of their visitation they shall perish.

¹⁶Mugove waJakove haufanani naizvozvo, nekuti ndiye muumbi wazvose; Isiraeri ndirwo rudzi rwenhaka yake; Jehovha wehondo ndiro zita rake.

¹⁶The portion of Jacob is not like them; for it is he that hath formed all [things], and Israel is the rod of his inheritance: Jehovah of hosts is his name.

¹⁷Unganidza nhumbi dzako, ubve panyika, iwe unogara wakakombwa.

¹⁷Gather up thy baggage out of the land, O inhabitress of the fortress.

¹⁸nekuti zvanzi naJehovha, Tarirai, nguva ino ndichaposhera kure vanhu vagere munyika ino, ndichavamanikidza, kuti vawanikwe.

¹⁸For thus saith Jehovah: Behold, I will this time sling out the inhabitants of the land, and will distress them, that they may be found.

¹⁹Ndine nhamo nokuda kokurwadziwa kwangu! Vanga rangu rakaipa kwazvo; asi ndakati, Zvirokwazvo ndihwo hurwere hwangu, ndinofanira kuhutakura hangu.

¹⁹Woe is me, for my wound! My stroke is hard to heal, and I had said, Yea, this is [my] grief, and I will bear it.

²⁰Tende rangu rakaputswa, mabote angu ose akadamburwa; vana vangu vabva kwandiri, havachiripo; hakuchina ungatatamura tende rangu, kana kumisazve micheka yetende rangu.

²⁰My tent is despoiled, and all my cords are broken; my children are gone forth from me, and they are not; there is none to stretch forth my tent any more, and to set up my curtains.

²¹nekuti vafudzi vava vasina njere, havana kubvunza Jehovha; naizvozvo havana kuzofara, namapoka avo ose akapararira.

²¹For the shepherds are become brutish, and have not sought Jehovah; therefore have they not acted wisely, and all their flock is scattered.

²²Inzwai, mukurumbira! Tarirai, bope guru rinouya richibva kunyika yokumusoro, kushandura maguta aJudha ave matongo, panogara makava.

²²The voice of a rumour! Behold, it cometh, and a great commotion out of the north country, to make the cities of Judah a desolation, a dwelling-place of jackals.

²³Haiwa, Jehovha, ndinoziva kuti nzira yomunhu haizi yake amene; munhu, unofamba, haagoni kururamisa nhano dzake.

²³I know, Jehovah, that the way of man is not his own; it is not in a man that walketh to direct his steps.

²⁴Haiwa, Jehovha, ndirangei henyu asi muite nokururama; musazviita nokutsamwa kwenyu, kuti murege kundipedza chose.

²⁴Jehovah, correct me, but with judgment; not in thine anger, lest thou bring me to nothing.

²⁵Dururirai kutsamwa kwenyu pamusoro pamarudzi avanhu vasingakuziviyi, napamusoro pamarudzi asingadani zita renyu; nekuti vakadya Jakove, zvirokwazvo, vakamudya nokumupedza, vakaparadza hugaro hwake

²⁵Pour out thy fury upon the nations that know thee not, and upon the families that call not on thy name; for they have eaten up Jacob, yea, they have eaten him up and consumed him, and have laid waste his dwelling-place.