¹Guta reropa rine nhamo! Rizere nenhema nokupamba; zvakapambwa hazviperimo.

¹Woe to the bloody city! It is all full of lies [and] violence; the prey departeth not.

²Kurira kwetyava, nomubvumo wokutinhira kwamakumbo engoro, nowokutsika kwamabhiza, nengoro dzinojata,

²The crack of the whip, and the noise of the rattling of the wheels, and of the prancing horses, and of the bounding chariots!

³nowavatasvi vanomhanyisa, nomunondo unopenya, nepfumo rinovaima, navazhinji vakaurawa, nomurwi mukuru wezvitunha; zvitunha hazviperi, vanogumburwa nezvitunha zvavo;

³The horseman springing up, and the glitter of the sword, and the flash of the spear, and a multitude of slain, and a mass of carcases, and no end of corpses: they stumble over their corpses.

⁴nemhaka yokufeva kuzhinji kwechifeve chakanaka pakudikamwa, iye mwene wouroyi, anotengesa marudzi avanhu nokufeva kwake, nemhuri dzavanhu nouroyi hwake.

⁴-- Because of the multitude of the fornications of the well-favoured harlot, mistress of sorceries, that selleth nations through her fornications, and families through her sorceries,

⁵Tarira, ndine mhaka newe ndizvo zvinotaura Jehovha wehondo ndichakufukura ndiise nguvo dzako kuchiso chako; ndicharatidza marudzi ose kushama kwako, uye ushe hwose kunyara kwako.

⁵behold, I am against thee, saith Jehovah of hosts; and I will uncover thy skirts upon thy face, and I will shew the nations thy nakedness, and the kingdoms thy shame.

⁶Ndichakandira pamusoro pako tsvina inosemesa, nokukushatisa, nokukuita chinhu chinotarirwa navose.

⁶And I will cast abominable filth upon thee, and make thee vile, and will set thee as a gazing stock.

⁷Ipapo vose vanokuona vachakutiza, vachiti, Ninivhe raparadzwa, ndiani acharichema? Ndichakutsvakirepi vanyaradzi?

⁷And it shall come to pass, [that] all they that see thee shall flee from thee, and shall say, Nineveh is laid waste! Who will bemoan her? whence shall I seek comforters for thee?

⁸Ko iwe unopfuura No-amoni, rakanga rakavakwa pakati penzizi, rakanga rakapoteredzwa nemvura; rusvingo rwaro raiva gungwa, namadziro aro raiva gungwazve?

⁸Art thou better than No-Amon, that was situate among the rivers, [that had] the waters round about her, whose rampart was the sea, [and] of the sea was her wall?

⁹Itiopia neEgipita raiva simba raro, rakanga risina mugumo; Puti neRubhimi vaiva vabatsiri vako.

⁹Ethiopia was her strength, and Egypt, and it was infinite; Phut and the Libyans were her helpers.

¹⁰Kunyange zvakadaro vakazoenda naro, rakatapwa; vana varo vaduku vakaputsanyiwa pakuvamba kwenzira dzose dzomumusha; vakakanda mijenya pamusoro pavaikudzwa pakati pavo, vakuru varo vose vakasungwa namangetani.

¹⁰She too was carried away, she went into captivity: her infants also were dashed in pieces, at the top of all the streets; and they cast lots for her honourable men, and all her great men were bound with chains.

¹¹Newewo uchabatwa newaini, uchandovanda; newewo uchandotsvaka nhare nemhaka yomuvengi wako.

¹¹Thou also shalt be drunken: thou shalt be hid; thou also shalt seek a refuge from the enemy.

¹²Nhare dzako dzose dzichafanana nemionde ina maonde otanga kuibva; kana ichizunzwa, anowira mumuromo woanodya.

¹²All thy strongholds are [like] fig-trees with the first-ripe figs: if they be shaken, they even fall into the mouth of the eater.

¹³Tarira, vanhu vako pakati pako vakaita savakadzi; masuwo enyika yako azarurirwa vavengi vako kwazvo; moto wapedza zvipfigiso zvako.

¹³Behold, thy people in the midst of thee are [as] women: the gates of thy land are set wide open unto thine enemies; the fire devoureth thy bars.

¹⁴Zvicherere mvura yokumwa pakukombwa kwako, simbisa nhare dzako, pinda mudope ukanye ivhu, ubate foroma.

¹⁴Draw thee water for the siege, strengthen thy fortresses; go into the clay, and tread the mortar, make strong the brick-kiln.

¹⁵Moto uchakupedzapo, munondo uchakuparadza, uchakupedza segwatakwata; zviitei vazhinji segwatakwata, zviitei vazhinji semhashu.

¹⁵There shall the fire devour thee; the sword shall cut thee off; it shall devour thee like the cankerworm. Make thyself many as the cankerworm, make thyself many as the locust.

¹⁶Makawanza vatengesi venyu vakapfuura nyeredzi dzokudenga; gwatakwata rinoparadza, ndokubhururuka richienda.

¹⁶Thou hast multiplied thy merchants more than the stars of the heavens; the cankerworm spreadeth himself out and flieth away.

¹⁷Machinda enyu akaita semhashu, vakuru venyu semhashu zhinji-zhinji, dzinovata pazhowa kana kune chando, asi kana zuva rabuda dzinobhururuka dzichienda, hadzichazikamwi kwadziri.

¹⁷Thy chosen men are as the locusts, and thy captains as swarms of grasshoppers, which camp in the hedges in the cold day: when the sun ariseth they flee away, and their place is not known where they are.

¹⁸Vafudzi vako vanotsumwaira, iwe mambo weAsiria, vakakudzwa vako vanyarara, vanhu vako vakapararira pamakomo, hakuna angavaunganidza.

¹⁸Thy shepherds slumber, O king of Assyria; thy nobles lie still; thy people are scattered upon the mountains, and no man gathereth them.

¹⁹Kukuvadzwa kwako hakungarapwi, vanga rako rakaipa kwazvo; vose vanonzwa guhu rako vachakuitira nondo; nekuti ndianiko akanga asingatambudzwi nguva dzose nezvakashata zvako?

¹⁹There is no healing of thy breach; thy wound is grievous; all that hear the report of thee clap the hands over thee; for upon whom hath not thy wickedness passed continually?