1Ini ndakati, Chinzwai henyu, imwi vakuru vaJakove, navabati veimba yaIsiraeri. Ko hamuzaifanira kuziva kururamisira vanhu here?
1And I said, Hear, I pray you, ye heads of Jacob, and princes of the house of Israel: Is it not for you to know judgment?
2Iyemi, munovenga zvakanaka, muchida zvakaipa, munovhiya vanhu ganda ravo, muchibvambura nyama yavo pamafupa avo;
2Ye who hate the good, and love evil; who pluck off their skin from them, and their flesh from off their bones;
3imi, munodyawo nyama yavanhu vangu, muchisvuura ganda ravo, munovhuna mafupa avo, muchiaguranya seehari, senyama iri mugate.
3and who eat the flesh of my people, and flay their skin from off them, and break their bones, and chop them in pieces as for the pot, and as flesh within the cauldron.
4Ipapo vachadana kuna Jehovha, asi haangavapinduri; nokuvavanzira chiso chake nenguva iyo, nokuda kwezvakaipa zvavakaita pamabasa avo.
4Then shall they cry unto Jehovah, but he will not answer them; and he will hide his face from them at that time, according as they have wrought evil in their doings.
5Zvanzi naJehovha pamusoro pavaporofita, vakatsausa vanhu vangu, vanoruma nameno avo, vachidana vachiti, Rugare! Asi asingaisi chinhu mumiromo yavo, vanomumukira hondo.
5Thus saith Jehovah concerning the prophets that cause my people to err, that bite with their teeth, and cry, Peace! but whoso putteth not into their mouths they prepare war against him:
6Naizvozvo muchasvikirwa nousiku, kuti murege kuva nechamunoona; muchava nerima, kuti murege kuuka; zuva richavirira vaporofita, chiedza chamasikati chichavasvibira.
6therefore ye shall have night without a vision; and it shall be dark unto you, without divination; and the sun shall go down upon the prophets, and the day shall be black over them.
7Vaoni vachanyadziswa, navauki vachakanganiswa; zvirokwazvo, vose vachapfumbira ndebvu dzavo, nekuti hakune mhinduro inobva kuna Mwari.
7And the seers shall be ashamed, and the diviners confounded; and they shall all cover their lips, for there will be no answer of God.
8Asi kana ndirini, ndizere nesimba pamwechete noMweya waJehovha, nokutonga nokutsunga, kuti ndiparidzire Jakove kudarika kwavo, uye Isiraeri zvivi zvavo.
8But truly I am filled with power by the Spirit of Jehovah, and with judgment and with might, to declare unto Jacob his transgression, and to Israel his sin.
9Chinzwai henyu chinhu ichi, imwi vakuru veimba yaJakove, navabati viemba munosema kururamisa, nokuminamisa zvose zvakarurama.
9Hear this, I pray you, ye heads of the house of Jacob, and princes of the house of Israel, that abhor judgment, and pervert all equity,
10Munovaka Ziyoni neropa, uye Jerusaremu nezvakaipa.
10that build up Zion with blood, and Jerusalem with unrighteousness.
11Vakuru varo vanotamba mhaka kuti vapiwe zvipo, vapristi varo vanodzidzisa kuti vapiwe mubayiro, vaporofita varo vanouka kuti vapiwe mari; kunyange zvakadaro vanosendamira kuda Jehovha vachiti, Ko Jehovha haazi pakati pedu here? Hatingawirwi nezvakaipa.
11The heads thereof judge for reward, and the priests thereof teach for hire, and the prophets thereof divine for money; yet do they lean upon Jehovah, and say, Is not Jehovah in the midst of us? no evil shall come upon us.
12Naizvozvo Ziyoni richarimwa somunda nemhaka yenyu, Jerusaremu richaitwa mirwi yamabwe, uye gomo reimba yaJehovha senzvimbo dzakakwirira dzokudondo.
12Therefore shall Zion for your sake be ploughed [as] a field, and Jerusalem shall become heaps, and the mountain of the house as the high places of a forest.