¹Haiwa, dai musoro wangu waiva nemvura zhinji, nameso angu riri tsime remisodzi, ndingadai ndaichema masikati novusiku nokuda kwavakaurawa vomukunda wavanhu vangu!

¹Oh that my head were waters, and mine eye a fountain of tears, that I might weep day and night for the slain of the daughter of my people!

²Haiwa, dai ndaiva nedumba rinosigarwa navafambi murenje, ndingadai ndaisiya vanhu vangu, ndikabva kwavari! nekuti vose imhombwe, iungano yavanhu vanonyengera.

²Oh that I had in the wilderness a traveller's lodging-place, that I might leave my people, and go away from them! For they are all adulterers, an assembly of treacherous men.

³Vanokunga marimi avo, sezvavanoita huta hwavo, kuzoreva nhema; vasimba panyika, asi havaiti nezvokwadi; nekuti vanoramba vachingoita zvakaipa, havandizivi, ndizvo zvinotaura Jehovha.

³And they bend their tongue, their bow of falsehood, and not for fidelity are they valiant in the land; for they proceed from evil to evil, and they know not me, saith Jehovah.

⁴Mumwe nomumwe ngaachenjerere wokwake, murege kutenda hama ipi neipi; nekuti hama imwe neimwe ichanyengera, nowokwake mumwe nomumwe uchapota-pota ana makuhwa.

⁴Take ye heed every one of his friend, and confide not in any brother; for every brother only supplanteth, and every friend goeth about with slander.

⁵Mumwe nomumwe uchanyengera wokwake, haangarevi zvokwadi; vakadzidzisa marimi avo kureva nhema, vanozvinetsa nokuita zvakaipa.

⁵And they act deceitfully every one with his neighbour, and speak not the truth: they teach their tongue to speak falsehood, they weary themselves with perverse dealing.

⁶Hugaro bwenyu huri pakati pokunyengera; vanoramba kundiziva nokunyengera kwavo, ndizvo zvinotaura Jehovha.

⁶Thy habitation is in the midst of deceit; through deceit they refuse to know me, saith Jehovah.

⁷Naizvozvo zvanzi naJehovha wehondo, Tarirai, ndichanyausa nokuvaidza; nekuti ndingaita seiko pamusoro pomukunda wavanhu vangu?

⁷Therefore thus saith Jehovah of hosts: Behold, I will melt them, and try them; for how else could I do for the daughter of my people?

⁸Marimi avo miseve inouraya, anoreva zvinonyengera; munhu unoreva zvorugare kuno wokwake nomuromo wake, asi mumoyo make unovandira.

⁸Their tongue is a murderous arrow; it speaketh deceit. [A man] speaketh peaceably to his neighbour with his mouth, but in his heart he layeth his ambush.

⁹Ko handingavarovi pamusoro pezvinhu izvi here? Ndizvo zvinotaura Jehovha. Ko mweya wangu haungatsihwi parudzi rwakadai here?

⁹Shall I not visit them for these [things]? saith Jehovah; shall not my soul be avenged on such a nation as this?

¹⁰Ndichachema nokuwungudza pamusoro pamakomo, ndichachema pamusoro pamafuro amarenje, nekuti zvatsva, hakuna unopfuura napo; vanhu havagoni kunzwa inzwi rezvipfuwo; shiri dzokudenga nemhuka dzose zvatiza, zvaenda hazvo.

¹⁰For the mountains will I take up weeping and wailing, and for the pastures of the wilderness, a lamentation; for they are burnt up, so that none passeth through them; and the voice of the cattle is not heard. Both the fowl of the heavens and the beasts are fled; they are gone.

¹¹Ndichaita Jerusaremu mirwi yamabwe, panogara makava; namaguta aJudha ndichaaita matongo, asina unogaramo.

¹¹And I will make Jerusalem heaps, a dwelling-place of jackals; and I will make the cities of Judah a desolation, without inhabitant.

¹²Munhu wakachenjera, unonzwisisa izvozvi, ndianiko? Muromo waJehovha wakataura naniko, kuti aparidze izvozvi? Nyika yakapedzwa nokupiswa serenje neiko, pasina unopfuura napo?

¹²Who is a wise man, that he may understand this? and he to whom the mouth of Jehovah hath spoken, that he may declare it? Why is the land perished, burnt up like a wilderness, so that none passeth through?

¹³Jehovha wakati, Zvavakarasha murayiro wangu wandakaisa pamberi pavo, vakasateerera inzwi rangu, nokufamba nazvo,

¹³And Jehovah saith, Because they have forsaken my law which I set before them, and have not hearkened unto my voice, nor walked in it,

¹⁴asi vakatevera hukukutu bwemoyo yavo navaBhaari, izvo zvavakadzidziswa namadzibaba avo;

¹⁴but have walked after the stubbornness of their own heart, and after the Baals, as their fathers taught them;

¹⁵naizvozvo zvanzi naJehovha wehondo, Mwari waIsiraeri, Tarirai, ndichadyisa vanhu ava gavakava, nokuvamwisa mvura yenduru.

¹⁵therefore thus saith Jehovah of hosts, the God of Israel, Behold, I will feed this people with wormwood, and give them water of gall to drink,

¹⁶Ndichavaparadzirawo pakati pamarudzi, avakanga vasingazivi ivo kunyange namadzibaba avo; ndichatuma munondo uvatevere, kusvikira ndavapedza.

¹⁶and will scatter them among the nations, whom neither they nor their fathers have known; and I will send the sword after them, till I have consumed them.

¹⁷Zvanzi naJehovha wehondo, Rangarirai imi, mudane vakadzi vangachema, vauye; tumai mudane vakadzi mhizha, vauye;

¹⁷Thus saith Jehovah of hosts: Consider, and call for the mourning women, that they may come, and send for the skilful women, that they may come;

¹⁸ngavakurumidze vacheme pamusoro pedu, kuti meso edu ayerere misodzi, namafungiro edu adurure mvura.

¹⁸and let them make haste, and take up a wailing for us, that our eyes may run down with tears, and our eyelids pour forth waters.

¹⁹nekuti inzwi rokuchema rinonzwika richibva Ziyoni, richiti, Haiwa, takaparadzwa seiko! Takanyadziswa kwazvo, nekuti tabva panyika yedu nekuti vakakoromora dzimba dzedu dzataigara.

¹⁹For a voice of wailing is heard out of Zion, How are we spoiled, sorely put to shame! For we have forsaken the land, for they have cast down our dwellings.

²⁰Asi inzwai shoko raJehovha, Imi vakadzi nzeve dzenyu ngadzinzwe shoko romuromo wake; dzidzisai vakunda venyu kuchema, mumwe nomumwe adzidzise wokwake kuwungudza.

²⁰Hear then the word of Jehovah, ye women, and let your ear receive the word of his mouth, and teach your daughters wailing, and each one her companion lamentation.

²¹nekuti rufu rwakakwira pamahwindo edu, rwakapinda mudzimba dzamadzimambo edu, kuti rupedze vana vari kunze, namajaya ari panzira dzomuguta.

²¹For death is come up through our windows, is entered into our palaces, to cut off the children from the street, the young men from the broadways.

²²Taura, uti, Zvanzi naJehovha, Zvitunha zvavanhu zvichawira pasi somupfudze kubundo, setsama yehura dzinosiiwa nomucheki, dzisina unodziunganidza.

²²Speak, Thus saith Jehovah: Yea, the carcases of men shall fall as dung upon the open field, and as the handful after the reaper, and there shall be none to gather.

²³Zvanzi naJehovha, Munhu wakachenjera ngaarege kuzvirumbidza pamusoro pohuchenjeri hwake, nomunhu wesimba ngaarege kuzvirumbidza pamusoro pesimba rake, nomunhu wakafuma ngaarege kuzvirumbidza pamusoro pefuma yake;

²³Thus saith Jehovah: Let not the wise glory in his wisdom, neither let the mighty glory in his might; let not the rich glory in his riches:

²⁴asi unozvirumbidza, ngaazvirumbidze pamusoro pechinhu ichi, kuti unondinzwisisa nokundiziva ini, kuti ndini Jehovha, unoita hunyoro nokururamisira, nokururama panyika; nekuti ndinofarira zvinhu izvi ndizvo zvinotaura Jehovha.

²⁴but let him that glorieth glory in this, that he understandeth and knoweth me, that I [am] Jehovah, who exercise loving-kindness, judgment, and righteousness in the earth; for in these things I delight, saith Jehovah.

²⁵Tarirai, ndizvo zvinotaura Jehovha mazuva anouya, andicharova vose vakadzingiswa pakati pokusadzingiswa kwavo;

²⁵Behold, days are coming, saith Jehovah, when I will visit all [them that are] circumcised with the uncircumcised;

²⁶vanoti, Egipita, naJudha, naEdhomu, navana vaAmoni, naMoabhu, navose vakakandwa mukona kurenje; nekuti marudzi ose haana kudzingiswa, uye vose veimba yaIsiraeri havana kudzingiswa pamoyo yavo.

²⁶Egypt, and Judah, and Edom, and the children of Ammon, and Moab, and all that have the corners [of their beard] cut off, that dwell in the wilderness: for all the nations are uncircumcised, and all the house of Israel are uncircumcised in heart.