¹Haiwa, ndarama yasviba sei! Ndarama yakaisvo-naka yashanduka sei! Mabwe enzvimbo tsvene arashirwa pamharadzano dzenzira dzomuguta.

¹How is the gold become dim! the most pure gold changed! the stones of the sanctuary poured out at the top of all the streets!

²Vanakomana vanodikamwa veZiyoni vakafanana nendarama yakaisvo-naka, haiwa vakanzi vakaita sezvirongo zvevhu sei, iro basa romuumbi wehari!

²The sons of Zion, so precious, comparable to fine gold, how are they esteemed as earthen pitchers, the work of the hands of the potter!

³Kunyange namakava anobudisa mazamu, achiyamwisa vana vawo; mukunda wavanhu vangu wava nehasha semhou murenje.

³Even the jackals offer the breast, they give suck to their young; the daughter of my people is become cruel, like the ostriches in the wilderness.

⁴Rurimi rwomwana unomwa runonamatira mumukamwa womuromo wake nenyota; vanana vanokumbira chingwa, asi hakuna munhu anovamedurira.

⁴The tongue of the sucking child cleaveth to the roof of his mouth for thirst; the young children ask bread, no man breaketh it unto them.

⁵Avo vaisidya zvinozipa,varaswa munzira dzomuguta; vairerwa vakafuka micheka mitsvuku, zvino votsivama pamaturunhuru.

⁵They that fed delicately are desolate in the streets; they that were brought up in scarlet embrace dung-hills.

⁶nekuti zvakaipa zvomukunda wavanhu vangu zvinopfuura zvivi zveSodhoma, iro rakaparadzwa kamwe-kamwe kusina maoko akaribata.

⁶And the punishment of the iniquity of the daughter of my people is greater than the reward of the sin of Sodom, which was overthrown as in a moment, and no hands were violently laid upon her.

⁷Machinda aro akanga akapfuura chando nokunaka, akanga akachena kupfuura mukaka, akanga akatsvuka pamuviri kupfuura makorari, pakuonekwa akanga akaita sesafaya.

⁷Her Nazarites were purer than snow, whiter than milk; they were more ruddy in body than rubies, their figure was as sapphire.

⁸Zviso zvavo zvasviba kupfuura mazimbe, havazikamwi munzira dzomuguta; ganda ravo rinonamatira mafupa avo, raoma, rafanana nedanda.

⁸Their visage is darker than blackness, they are not known in the streets; their skin cleaveth to their bones, it is withered, it is become like a stick.

⁹Vakaurawa nomunondo vakaita nani kuna vakaurawa nenzara; nekuti ava vaonda, vabayiwa nokushayiwa zvibereko zveminda.

⁹The slain with the sword are happier than the slain with hunger; for these pine away, stricken through for want of the fruits of the field.

¹⁰Maoko avakadzi vaiva nomoyo munyoro akabika vana vavo, zvikava zvokudya zvavo pakuparadzwa komukunda wavanhu vangu.

¹⁰The hands of pitiful women have boiled their own children: they were their meat in the ruin of the daughter of my people.

¹¹Jehovha akaita zvaakanga achida nokutsamwa kwake, akadurura hasha dzake huru; akabatidza moto paZiyoni, akapedza nheyo dzaro.

¹¹Jehovah hath accomplished his fury; he hath poured out his fierce anger, and hath kindled a fire in Zion, which hath consumed the foundations thereof.

¹²Madzimambo enyika vangadai vasina kutenda, kunyange navose vagere panyika yose, kuti mudzivisi nomuvengi vachapinda pamasuwo eJerusaremu.

¹²The kings of the earth, and all the inhabitants of the world, would not have believed that the adversary and the enemy should enter into the gates of Jerusalem.

¹³Zvakaitwa nokuda kwezvivi zvavaporofita varo, nezvakaipa zvavapristi varo, vakateura ropa ravakarurama mukati maro.

¹³[It is] for the sins of her prophets, [and] the iniquities of her priests, who have shed the blood of the righteous in the midst of her.

¹⁴Vanodzungaira samapofu munzira dzomuguta, vakasvibiswa neropa, naizvozvo vanhu havagoni kubata nguvo dzavo.

¹⁴They wandered about blind in the streets; they were polluted with blood, so that men could not touch their garments.

¹⁵Vakadanidzira kwavari vachiti, Ibvai, makanora! Ibvai, ibvai, regai kutibata! Panguva yokutiza nokudzungaira kwavo, vanhu vakati pakati pamarudzi; Havangazogarizve pano vari vatorwa.

¹⁵They cried unto them, Depart! Unclean! Depart! depart, touch not! When they fled away, and wandered about, it was said among the nations, They shall no more sojourn [there].

¹⁶Kutsamwa kwaJehovha kwakavaparadzira; haachavi nehanya navo; havana kurangarira vapristi, havana kukudza vakuru.

¹⁶The face of Jehovah hath divided them; he will no more regard them. They respected not the persons of the priests, they favoured not the aged.

¹⁷Meso edu anongopera nazvino achitarira rubatsiro rwedu pasina; pakutarira kwedu takatarira rudzi rusingagoni kutiponesa.

¹⁷Our eyes still failed for our vain help; in our watching, we have watched for a nation that did not save.

¹⁸Vanoronda makwara edu, naizvozvo hatigoni kufamba munzira dzomuguta redu; kuguma kwedu kwava pedo, mazuva edu asvika, nekuti kuguma kwedu kwasvika.

¹⁸They hunted our steps, that we could not go in our streets: our end is near, our days are fulfilled; for our end is come.

¹⁹Avo vakadzingana nesu, vakamhanyisa kupfuura makondo okudenga; vakadzingana nesu pamakomo, vakatigarira murenje.

¹⁹Our pursuers were swifter than the eagles of the heavens; they chased us hotly upon the mountains, they laid wait for us in the wilderness.

²⁰Mweya wemhino dzedu, iye muzodzwa waJehovha, wakabatwa muhunza dzavo; iye watakati, Pamumvuri wake ndipo patichararama pakati pamarudzi.

²⁰The breath of our nostrils, the anointed of Jehovah, was taken in their pits; of whom we said, Under his shadow we shall live among the nations.

²¹Farisisa, uve nomufaro, iwe mukunda weEdhomu, ugere panyika yeUzi; mukombe uchasvika kwauriwo; uchabatwa newaini ukazvifukura.

²¹Rejoice and be glad, daughter of Edom, that dwellest in the land of Uz: the cup shall pass also unto thee; thou shalt be drunken, and make thyself naked.

²²Kurohwa kwezvakaipa zvako kwapera, iwe mukunda weZiyoni; haachazokutapisizve; iye achakurova pamusoro pezvakaipa zvako, iwe mukunda weEdhomu; iye achafukura zvivi zvako.

²²The punishment of thine iniquity is accomplished, O daughter of Zion; he will no more carry thee away into captivity. He will visit thine iniquity, O daughter of Edom; he will discover thy sins.