¹Zvanzi naJehovha, Tarirai, ndichamutsira Bhabhironi navagere Rebhikamai mhepo inoparadza.

¹Thus saith Jehovah: Behold, I will raise up against Babylon, and against them that dwell in the heart of those that rise against me, a destroying wind;

²Ndichatumira Bhabhironi varudzi vacharirudza, vachabudisa zvose zviri munyika yaro, nekuti nezuva rokutambudzika vacharikomberedza kumativi ose.

²and I will send unto Babylon strangers, who shall fan her, and shall empty her land: for in the day of trouble they shall be against her round about.

³Mupfuri ngaapfure nohuta hwake ani naani unopfura nohuta nounozvisimudza ane nguvo dzake dzokurwa, regai kunzwira tsitsi majaya aro, paradzai chose hondo yaro yose.

³Against him that bendeth let the archer bend his bow, and against him that lifteth himself up in his coat of mail; and spare not her young men: destroy utterly all her host.

⁴Vachawira pasi vaurawa panyika yavaKaradhea, vabayiwa munzira dzaro.

⁴And the slain shall fall in the land of the Chaldeans, and they that are thrust through in her streets.

⁵nekuti Isiraeri naJudha havana kurashwa naMwari wavo, naJehovha wehondo, kunyange nyika yavo izere nemhosva pamberi poMutsvene waIs iraeri.

⁵For Israel is not forsaken, nor Judah of his God, of Jehovah of hosts; for their land is full of guilt against the Holy One of Israel.

⁶Tizai mubve mukati meBhabhironi, mumwe nomumwe aponese hupenyu hwake; regai kuparadzwa mukati mezvakaipa zvaro, nekuti inguva yokutsiva kwaJehovha, iye uchariripidzira.

⁶Flee out of the midst of Babylon, and save every man his life; be ye not cut off in her iniquity: for this is the time of Jehovah's vengeance: he shall render unto her a recompence.

⁷Bhabhironi wakange uri mukombe muruoko rwaJehovha, wakabatisa nyika yose; marudzi avanhu akamwa waini yawo, saka marudzi akapenga.

⁷Babylon hath been a golden cup in Jehovah's hand, that made all the earth drunken: the nations have drunk of her wine; therefore have the nations become mad.

⁸Bhabhironi rakawira pasi pakarepo rikaparadzwa; wungudzai pamusoro paro, torai muti webharisami kurapa kurwadziwa kwaro, zvimwe ringapora.

⁸Babylon is suddenly fallen and ruined. Howl over her; take balm for her pain, if so be she may be healed.

⁹Taida kuporesa Bhabhironi, asi harina kupora; risiyei, mumwe nomumwe wedu aende kunyika yake, nekuti mhosva yaro yasvikira kudenga, yasimudzirwa kumakore.

⁹We have treated Babylon, but she is not healed: forsake her, and let us go every one into his own country; for her judgment reacheth unto the heavens, and is lifted up to the skies.

¹⁰Jehovha wakaratidza kururama kwedu; uyai, tiparidze paZiyoni basa raJehovha Mwari wedu.

¹⁰Jehovah hath brought forth our righteousness: come, and let us declare in Zion the work of Jehovah our God.

¹¹Rodzai miseve, batisai nhovo! Jehovha wakamutsa mweya yamadzimambo avaMedhia, nekuti murangariro wake ndowokuparadza Bhabhironi, nekuti ndiko kutsiva kwaJehovha, iko kutsiva kwetemberi yake.

¹¹Sharpen the arrows; take the shields. Jehovah hath stirred up the spirit of the kings of the Medes; for his purpose is against Babylon, to destroy it; for this is the vengeance of Jehovah, the vengeance of his temple.

¹²Simudzirai masvingo eBhabhironi mureza, simbisai varindi, isaipo nharirire, gadzirai vanovandira, nekuti Jehovha wakafunga nokuita zvaakataura pamusoro pavagere Bhabhironi.

¹²Lift up a banner towards the walls of Babylon, make the watch strong, set the watchmen, prepare the ambushes; for Jehovah hath both devised and done that which he spoke against the inhabitants of Babylon.

¹³Iwe ugere pamvura zhinji, une fuma zhinji, kuguma kwako kwasvika, icho chiyero chezvawakawana nokunyengera.

¹³Thou that dwellest upon many waters, abundant in treasures, thine end is come, the measure of thy rapacity.

¹⁴Jehovha wehondo wakapika naiye amene, achiti, Zvirokwazvo ndichakuzadza navanhu semhashu, ivo vachakupururudzira.

¹⁴Jehovah of hosts hath sworn by himself, I will assuredly fill thee with men, as with caterpillars; and they shall raise a shout against thee.

¹⁵Ndiye wakaita nyika nesimba rake, wakateya nyika nohuchenjeri hwake, wakatatamura denga rose nenjere dzake.

¹⁵He hath made the earth by his power, he hath established the world by his wisdom, and hath stretched out the heavens by his understanding.

¹⁶Kana achibudisa inzwi rake, kunomubvumo wemvura zhinji kudenga; unokwidza makore pamigumo yenyika, unoita mheni kuuyisa mvura, unobudisa mhepo panovigwa fuma yake.

¹⁶When 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 treasures.

¹⁷Munhu mumwe nomumwe wava usina njere, haane zivo; mupfuri mumwe nomumwe wendarama unonyadziswa nechifananidzo chake chaakaveza, nekuti chifananidzo chaakaumba, ndechenhema; hakuna mweya mazviri.

¹⁷Every man is become brutish, so as to have no knowledge; every founder is put to shame by the graven image, for his molten image is falsehood, and there is no breath in them.

¹⁸Hazvina maturo, ibasa rinonyengera; panguva yokurohwa kwazvo zvichapera.

¹⁸They are vanity, a work of delusion: in the time of their visitation they shall perish.

¹⁹Mugove waJakove haufanani naizvozvi, nekuti ndiye muumbi wazvose; Isiraeri ndirwo rudzi rwenhaka yake; Jehovha wehondo ndiro zita rake.

¹⁹The 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.

²⁰Iwe uri nyundo yangu nenhumbi dzangu dzokurwa; newe ndichaputsanya marudzi avanhu newe ndichaparadza ushe;

²⁰Thou art my maul, [my] weapons of war: and with thee I will break in pieces the nations, and I will with thee destroy kingdoms;

²¹newe ndichaputsanya bhiza nomutasvi waro; newe ndichaputsanya ngoro nounofamba nayo;

²¹and with thee I will break in pieces the horse and his rider; and with thee I will break in pieces the chariot and its driver;

²²newe ndichaputsanya murume nomukadzi; newe ndichaputsanya mutana nomuduku; newe ndichaputsanya mujaya nemhandara;

²²and with thee will I break in pieces man and woman; and with thee will I break in pieces old and young; and with thee will I break in pieces the young man and the maid;

²³newe ndichaputsanya murimi nenzombe dzake mbiri; newe ndichaputsanya vabati navakuru.

²³and with thee will I break in pieces the shepherd and his flock; and with thee will I break in pieces the husbandman and his yoke of oxen; and with thee will I break in pieces governors and rulers.

²⁴Ndicharipidzira Bhabhironi navose vagere Karadhea zvakaipa zvavo zvose zvavakaita Ziyoni pamberi penyu ndizvo zvinotaura Jehovha.

²⁴And I will render unto Babylon and to all the inhabitants of Chaldea, in your sight, all their evil which they have done in Zion, saith Jehovah.

²⁵Tarira, ndine mhosva newe, iwe gomo rokuparadza, rinoparadza nyika yose ndizvo zvinotaura Jehovha; ndichatambanudzira ruoko rwangu kwauri, ndichakukungurusa pamabwe, ndichakuita gomo rakatsva.

²⁵Behold, I am against thee, mount of destruction, saith Jehovah, which destroyest all the earth; and I will stretch out my hand upon thee, and roll thee down from the rocks, and will make thee a burning mountain.

²⁶Havangatori kwauri ibwe rekona, kana ibwe renheyo; asi uchava dongo nokusingaperi, ndizvo zvinotaura Jehovha.

²⁶And they shall not take of thee a stone for a corner, nor a stone for foundations; for thou shalt be desolate for ever, saith Jehovah.

²⁷Simudzai mureza panyika, ridzai hwamanda pakati pamarudzi, gadzirai marudzi kuzorwa naro, kokerai ushe bweArarati neMini neAshikenazi kuzorwa naro, gadzai mukuru wehondo kuzorwa naro, uyisai mabhiza semhashu dzinoparadza.

²⁷Lift up a banner in the land, blow the trumpet among the nations, prepare nations against her; call together against her the kingdoms of Ararat, Minni, and Ashkenaz; appoint a captain against her; cause the horses to come up as the bristly caterpillars.

²⁸Gadzirai marudzi kuzorwa naro, iwo madzimambo avaMedhia, navabati vavo, navakuru vavo vose, nenyika yose yavakabata.

²⁸Prepare nations against her, the kings of the Medes, their governors and all their rulers, yea, all the land of their dominion.

²⁹Nyika inodedera nokurwadziwa; nekuti zvakafunga Jehovha kuitira Bhabhironi zvakasimba, kuti aite nyika yeBhabhironi dongo, isina unogaramo.

²⁹And the land trembleth and is in pain; for the purposes of Jehovah against Babylon do stand, to make the land of Babylon a desolation, without inhabitant.

³⁰Mhare dzeBhabhironi dzarega kurwa, vakarambira munhare dzavo, simba ravo rakapera, vava savakadzi; vakapisa dzimba dzaro, zvipfigiso zvaro zvakavhuniwa.

³⁰The mighty men of Babylon have ceased to fight, they are sitting in the fortresses; their might hath failed, they are become as women: they have set her dwelling places on fire; her bars are broken.

³¹Imwe nhume ichamhanya kundosangana neimwe, mumwe wakatumwa kundosangana nomumwe, kuzivisa mambo weBhabhironi kuti guta rake rakundwa kumativi ose.

³¹Courier runneth to meet courier, and messenger to meet messenger, to announce to the king of Babylon that his city is taken from end to end;

³²Uye kuti mazambuko abatwa, kuti mapani eshanga apiswa nomoto, kuti varwi vavhunduswa.

³²and the passages are seized, and the reedy places are burnt with fire, and the men of war are affrighted.

³³nekuti zvanzi naJehovha wehondo, Mwari waIsiraeri, Mukunda weBhabhironi wakaita seburiro nenguva yokupura; kwasara nguva duku, iye ndokusvikirwa nenguva yokukohwa.

³³For thus saith Jehovah of hosts, the God of Israel: The daughter of Babylon is like a threshing-floor, at the time of its being trodden; yet a little while, and the time of harvest shall come for her.

³⁴Nebhukadhirezari mambo weBhabhironi wandidya, wandipwanya, wandiita mudziyo usina chinhu wandimedza seshato, razadza zidumbu raro nezvinozipa zvangu, wandidzinga.

³⁴Nebuchadrezzar the king of Babylon hath devoured me, he hath crushed me, he hath made me an empty vessel; he hath swallowed me up like a dragon, he hath filled his belly with my delicates, he hath cast me out.

³⁵Ugere Ziyoni uchati, Zvakaipa zvandakaitirwa ini nenyama yangu ngazvive pamusoro peBhabhironi; Jerusaremu richati, Ropa rangu ngarive pamusoro pavagere Karadhea.

³⁵The violence done to me and to my flesh be upon Babylon, shall the inhabitress of Zion say; and, My blood be upon the inhabitants of Chaldea, shall Jerusalem say.

³⁶Naizvozvo zvanzi naJehovha, Tarira, ndichakureverera mhaka yako, ndichakutsiva; ndichapwisa gungwa raro, ndichaomesa tsime raro.

³⁶Therefore thus saith Jehovah: Behold, I will plead thy cause, and take vengeance for thee; and I will dry up her sea, and make her spring dry.

³⁷Bhabhironi richaitwa mirwi yamabwe, hugaro hwamakava, chinhu chinoshamisa, chinoridzirwa muridzo, pasina unogaramo.

³⁷And Babylon shall become heaps, a dwelling-place of jackals, an astonishment, and a hissing, without inhabitant.

³⁸Vachaomba pamwechete savana veshumba, vachaganya savana veshumba.

³⁸They shall roar together like young lions, growl as lions' whelps.

³⁹Kana vamutswa moyo ndichavaitira mutambo, ndichavabatisa newaini, kuti vafare, vavate hope dzisingaperi, varege kuzomukazve ndizvo zvinotaura Jehovha.

³⁹When they are heated, I will prepare their drink, and I will make them drunken, that they may exult, and sleep a perpetual sleep, and not wake, saith Jehovah.

⁴⁰Ndichavaburusira kwavanondobayiwa samakwaiana, samakondobwe pamwechete nenhongo.

⁴⁰I will bring them down like lambs to the slaughter, like rams with he-goats.

⁴¹Sheshaki rakundwa sei! Guta rairumbidzwa nenyika yose rapindwa sei! Bhabhironi rava dongo sei pakati pamarudzi!

⁴¹How is Sheshach taken! and how is the praise of the whole earth seized! How is Babylon become an astonishment among the nations!

⁴²Gungwa rakwira rasvika Bhabhironi, rafukidzwa namafungu aro mazhinji.

⁴²The sea is come up upon Babylon: she is covered with the multitude of its waves.

⁴³Maguta aro ava matongo, nyika yakaoma nerenje, nenyika musingagari munhu, hakuna Mwanakomana womunhu unopfuura napo.

⁴³Her cities are become a desolation, a dry land, and a desert, a land wherein no one dwelleth, neither doth a son of man pass thereby.

⁴⁴Ndichatonga Bheri paBhabhironi, ndichabudisa mumuromo make chaakanga amedza, marudzi avanhu haachazovangiri kwariri; zvirokwazvo rusvingo rwaBhabhironi ruchawa.

⁴⁴And I will punish Bel in Babylon, and I will bring forth out of his mouth what he hath swallowed up; and the nations shall not flow together any more unto him: yea, the wall of Babylon is fallen.

⁴⁵Imi vanhu vangu, budai mukati maro, muzviponese mumwe nomumwe pakutsamwa kukuru kwaJehovha.

⁴⁵Go ye out of the midst of her, my people, and deliver every man his soul from the fierce anger of Jehovah!

⁴⁶moyo yenyu irege kuora, musatya guhuzve nerimwe gore shure kwaizvozvo; panyika vachaitirana simba, mubati mumwe achirwa nomumwe.

⁴⁶lest your heart faint, and ye fear for the rumour that shall be heard in the land; for a rumour shall come [one] year, and after that a rumour in [another] year, and violence in the earth, ruler against ruler.

⁴⁷Naizvozvo tarirai, mazuva anouya andichatonga mifananidzo yakavezwa yaBhabhironi; nyika yaro yose ichanyadziswa, vakaurawa varo vose vachawira pasi mukati maro.

⁴⁷Therefore behold, days are coming when I will punish the graven images of Babylon; and her whole land shall be put to shame, and all her slain shall fall in the midst of her.

⁴⁸Ipapo denga nenyika nezvose zviri mukati mazvo zvichaimba nomufaro pamusoro peBhabhironi, nekuti vaparadzi vachauya kwariri vachibva kurutivi rwokumusoro ndizvo zvinotaura Jehovha.

⁴⁸And the heavens and the earth, and all that is therein, shall shout aloud over Babylon; for out of the north the spoilers shall come against her, saith Jehovah.

⁴⁹Vakaurawa valsiraeri, Bhabhironi rinofanira kuwawo, sezvakawira pasi paBhabhironi vakaurawa venyika yose.

⁴⁹As Babylon caused the slain of Israel to fall, so at Babylon shall fall the slain of all the earth.

⁵⁰Imi makapukunyuka pamunondo, endai, musamira; rangarirai Jehovha muri kure, fungai Jerusaremu pamoyo yenyu.

⁵⁰Ye that have escaped the sword, go, stand not still: remember Jehovah from afar, and let Jerusalem come into your mind.

⁵¹Takanyadziswa, nekuti takanzwa kushoorwa, kunyara kwakafukidza zviso zvedu, nekuti vatorwa vakapinda munzvimbo tsvene dzeimba yaJehovha.

⁵¹-- We are put to shame, for we have heard reproach; confusion hath covered our face: for strangers are come into the sanctuaries of Jehovah's house.

⁵²Naizvozvo, tarirai, ndizvo zvinotaura Jehovha mazuva anouya andichatonga mifananidzo yaro yakavezwa; vakakuvadzwa vachagomera kose panyika yaro.

⁵²-- Therefore behold, days come, saith Jehovah, that I will punish her graven images; and throughout her land the wounded shall groan.

⁵³Kunyange Bhabhironi rikakwira kudenga, kunyange rikasimbisa pakakwirira pane simba raro, kunyange zvakadaro vaparadzi vachabva kwandiri vachiendako, ndizvo zvinotaura Jehovha.

⁵³Though Babylon should mount up to the heavens, and though she should fortify the height of her strength, yet from me shall spoilers come unto her, saith Jehovah.

⁵⁴Inzwai inzwi rokuchema rinobva Bhabhironi, nerokuparadzwa kukuru rinobva panyika yavaKaradhea!

⁵⁴The sound of a cry [cometh] from Babylon, and great destruction from the land of the Chaldeans;

⁵⁵nekuti Jehovha unoparadza Bhabhironi, uchanyaradzamo mubvumo mukuru; mafungu avo anotinhira semvura zhinji, mubvumo wamanzwi avo anonzwika.

⁵⁵for Jehovah spoileth Babylon, and he will destroy out of her the great voice; and their waves roar like great waters, the noise of their voice resoundeth.

⁵⁶nekuti muparadzi wasvika kwariri, iko Bhabhironi, mhare dzaro dzakundwa, huta hwavo hwavhuniwa-vhuniwa; nekuti Jehovha ndiMwari wokutsiva, ucharipidzira zvirokwazvo.

⁵⁶For the spoiler is come against her, against Babylon, and her mighty men are taken; their bows are broken in pieces; for Jehovah, the ùGod of recompences, will certainly requite.

⁵⁷Ndichabatisa newaini machinda aro navakachenjera varo, vabati varo navakuru varo, nemhare dzaro, vachavata hope dzisingaperi, havangazomuki ndizvo zvinotaura Mambo, une zita rinonzi Jehovha wehondo.

⁵⁷And I will make drunk her princes, and her wise men, her governors, and her rulers, and her mighty men; and they shall sleep a perpetual sleep, and not wake, saith the King, whose name is Jehovah of hosts.

⁵⁸Zvanzi naJehovha wehondo, Masvingo akafara eBhabhironi achakoromorwa chose, namasuwo aro marefu achapiswa nomoto; vanhu vachabatira zvisina maturo, namarudzi achabatira moto; vachaneta.

⁵⁸Thus saith Jehovah of hosts: The broad walls of Babylon shall be utterly laid bare, and her high gates shall be burned with fire; so that the peoples will have laboured in vain, and the nations for the fire: and they shall be weary.

⁵⁹Ndiro shoko, rakarairwa Seraia mwanakomana waNeria, mwanakomana waMaseia, nomuporofita Jeremiya, nguva yaakaenda Bhabhironi naZedhekia mambo waJudha negore rechina rokubata kwake ushe. Zvino Seraia wakange ari murairi mukuru parwendo.

⁵⁹The word that Jeremiah the prophet commanded Seraiah the son of Nerijah, the son of Mahseiah, when he went with Zedekiah the king of Judah to Babylon in the fourth year of his reign. Now Seraiah was chief chamberlain.

⁶⁰Jeremiya akanyora mubhuku zvakaipa zvose zvaifanira kuwira Bhabhironi, iwo mashoko ose akanyorwa pamusoro peBhabhironi.

⁶⁰And Jeremiah wrote in a book all the evil that should come upon Babylon, all these words that are written against Babylon.

⁶¹Jeremiya akati kuna Seraia, Kana wasvika Bhabhironi rangarira kuti urave mashoko awa ose.

⁶¹And Jeremiah said to Seraiah, When thou comest to Babylon, see that thou read all these words;

⁶²Uti, Haiwa Jehovha, makataura pamusoro penzvimbo ino kuti muchai,paradza, kuti kusava nounogaramo, kana munhu kana zvipfuwo, asi kuti richava dongo nokusingaperi.

⁶²and say, Jehovah, thou hast spoken concerning this place, that thou wilt cut it off, so that none shall dwell in it, neither man nor beast, but that it shall be desolate for ever.

⁶³Zvino kana wapedza kurava bhuku iyi, unofanira kusungira ibwe pairi, ndokuikandira mukati morwizi rwaYufuratesi;

⁶³And it shall be, when thou hast ended reading this book, [that] thou shalt bind a stone to it, and cast it into the midst of the Euphrates;

⁶⁴uchiti, Saizvozvo Bhabhironi richanyura, haringazobudizve, nokuda kwezvakaipa zvandichauyisa pamusoro paro; vachaneta. Ndipo panoguma mashoko aJeremiya.

⁶⁴and shalt say, Thus shall Babylon sink, and shall not rise, because of the evil that I will bring upon it: and they shall be weary. Thus far the words of Jeremiah.