1Zvino Satani akamukira vaIsiraeri, akakurudzira Dhavhidhi kuti averenge vaIsiraeri.
1Satan stood up against Israel, and moved David to number Israel.
2Dhavhidhi akati kuna Joabhu nokumachinda avanhu, Endai mundoverenga vaIsiraeri kubva paBheerishebha kusvikira paDhani; mudzoke neshoko, ndizive kuwanda kwavo.
2David said to Joab and to the princes of the people, “Go, number Israel from Beersheba even to Dan; and bring me word, that I may know the sum of them.”
3Joabhu akati, Jehovha ngaawedzere vanhu vake runezana pakuwanda kwavo zvino; asi ishe wangu mambo, vose havazi varanda vashe wangu here? Ishe wangu anotsvakireiko chinhu ichi? Achapinzireiko vaIsiraeri pamhosva?
3Joab said, “May Yahweh make his people a hundred times as many as they are. But, my lord the king, aren’t they all my lord’s servants? Why does my lord require this thing? Why will he be a cause of guilt to Israel?”
4Kunyange zvakadaro shoko ramambo rakakurira Joabhu. Zvino Joabhu akaenda, akapota pakati pavaIsiraeri vose, akasvika Jerusaremu.
4Nevertheless the king’s word prevailed against Joab. Therefore Joab departed, and went throughout all Israel, and came to Jerusalem.
5Joabhu akarondedzera kuwanda kwavanhu kuna Dhavhidhi. Valsiraeri vose vakasvika zviuru zvinezviuru nezviuru zvinezana zvavanhu vaigona kurwa nomunondo; uye vaJudha vakasvika zviuru zvamazana mana namakumi manomwe vaigona kurwa nomunondo.
5Joab gave up the sum of the numbering of the people to David. All those of Israel were one million one hundred thousand men who drew sword: and in Judah were four hundred seventy thousand men who drew sword.
6Asi haana kuverenga vaRevhi navaBhenjamini pakati pavo; nekuti shoko ramambo rakanga rakaipa kwazvo kuna Joabhu.
6But he didn’t count Levi and Benjamin among them; for the king’s word was abominable to Joab.
7Zvino Mwari akanga asingafari nechinhu ichi; saka akarova Isiraeri.
7God was displeased with this thing; therefore he struck Israel.
8Dhavhidhi akati kuna Mwari, Ndatadza kwazvo zvandaita chinhu ichi; asi zvino bvisai henyu kuipa komuranda wenyu; nekuti ndaita sebenzi kwazvo.
8David said to God, “I have sinned greatly, in that I have done this thing. But now, put away, I beg you, the iniquity of your servant; for I have done very foolishly.”
9Jehovha akataura naGadhi, muoni waDhavhidhi, akati,
9Yahweh spoke to Gad, David’s seer, saying,
10Enda unotaura naDhavhidhi, uti, zvanzi naJehovha, Ndinokuisira zvinhu zvitatu, chizvitsaurira chimwe chazvo, ndikuitire icho.
10“Go and speak to David, saying, ‘Thus says Yahweh, “I offer you three things. Choose one of them, that I may do it to you.”’”
11Zvino Gadhi akaenda kuna Dhavhidhi, akati kwaari, Zvanzi naJehovha, Chitsaura chaunoda;
11So Gad came to David, and said to him, “Thus says Yahweh, ‘Take your choice:
12makore matatu enzara, kana kuparadzwa navavengi vako mwedzi mitatu, uchidzingwa nomunondo wavavengi vako, kana munondo waJehovha mazuva matatu, ndiro denda panyika, mutumwa waJehovha achiparadza panyika yose yaIsiraeri. Zvino chifunga hako, urangarire mhinduro yandingadzosera kuna iye akandituma.
12either three years of famine; or three months to be consumed before your foes, while the sword of your enemies overtakes you; or else three days the sword of Yahweh, even pestilence in the land, and the angel of Yahweh destroying throughout all the borders of Israel. Now therefore consider what answer I shall return to him who sent me.’”
13Ipapo Dhavhidhi akati kuna Gadhi, Ndiri pakumanikidzwa kukuru; ndiwire hangu zvino muruoko rwaJehovha, nekuti nyasha dzake ihuru, asi ndirege hangu kuwira muruoko rwomunhu.
13David said to Gad, “I am in distress. Let me fall, I pray, into the hand of Yahweh; for his mercies are very great. Let me not fall into the hand of man.”
14Ipapo Jehovha akatuma denda pakati paIsiraeri; varume vane zviuru zvina makumi manomwe vakafa pakati paIsiraeri.
14So Yahweh sent a pestilence on Israel; and seventy thousand men of Israel fell.
15Mwari akatuma mutumwa Jerusaremu kuzoriparadza; zvino wakati oda kuparadza, Jehovha akatarira, akazvidemba pamusoro pechinhu icho chakaipa, akati kumutumwa akanga achiparadza, Zvino, chidzosa ruoko rwako. Zvino mutumwa waJehovha akanga amire paburiro raOrinani muJebhusi.
15God sent an angel to Jerusalem to destroy it. As he was about to destroy, Yahweh saw, and he relented of the disaster, and said to the destroying angel, “It is enough; now stay your hand.” The angel of Yahweh was standing by the threshing floor of Ornan the Jebusite.
16Dhavhidhi akatarira, akaona mutumwa waJehovha amire pakati penyika nokudenga, akabata munondo wakavhomorwa muruoko rwake, wakatambanudzwa pamusoro peJerusaremu. Ipapo Dhavhidhi navakuru vakawira pasi nezviso zvavo, vakafuka saga.
16David lifted up his eyes, and saw the angel of Yahweh standing between earth and the sky, having a drawn sword in his hand stretched out over Jerusalem. Then David and the elders, clothed in sackcloth, fell on their faces.
17Zvino Dhavhidhi akati kuna Mwari, Ko handizi ini here ndakaraira kuti vanhu vaverengwe? Ndini ndakatadza hangu ndikaita zvakaipa zvikuru; asi makwai awa akaiteiko? Jehovha Mwari wangu, ruoko rwenyu ngarundirove harwo ini neimba yababa vangu; asi ngarurege kurova vanhu venyu, nokuvatambudza.
17David said to God, “Isn’t it I who commanded the people to be numbered? It is even I who have sinned and done very wickedly; but these sheep, what have they done? Please let your hand, O Yahweh my God, be against me, and against my father’s house; but not against your people, that they should be plagued.”
18Ipapo mutumwa waJehovha akaraira Gadhi kuti audze Dhavhidhi kuti Dhavhidhi akwire avakire Jehovha aritari paburiro raOrinani muJebhusi.
18Then the angel of Yahweh commanded Gad to tell David that David should go up, and raise an altar to Yahweh in the threshing floor of Ornan the Jebusite.
19Dhavhidhi akakwira nokureva kwaGadhi kwaakataura nezita raJehovha.
19David went up at the saying of Gad, which he spoke in the name of Yahweh.
20Orinani akacheuka, akaona mutumwa; vanakomana vake vana, vaiva naye, vakavanda. Zvino Orinani wakange achipura gorosi.
20Ornan turned back, and saw the angel; and his four sons who were with him hid themselves. Now Ornan was threshing wheat.
21Dhavhidhi akati achisvika kuna Orinani, Orinani akatarira akaona Dhavhidhi, akabuda paburiro, akakotamira pasi nechiso chake pamberi paDhavhidhi.
21As David came to Ornan, Ornan looked and saw David, and went out of the threshing floor, and bowed himself to David with his face to the ground.
22Ipapo Dhavhidhi akati kuna Orinani, Ndipe nzvimbo yeburiro iri, kuti ndivakirepo aritari kuna Jehovha; unofanira kundipa iro nditenge nomutengo wakafanira, kuti denda ripere pakati pavanhu.
22Then David said to Ornan, “Give me the place of this threshing floor, that I may build thereon an altar to Yahweh. You shall sell it to me for the full price, that the plague may be stopped from afflicting the people.”
23Ipapo Orinani akati kuna Dhavhidhi, Ritorei henyu, ishe wangu, mambo aite sezvaanoda; tarirai, ndinokupai nzombe zvive zvipiriso zvinopiswa, nenhumbi dzokupura nadzo dzive huni, nezviyo chive chipiriso choupfu; ndinozvipa zvose.
23Ornan said to David, “Take it for yourself, and let my lord the king do that which is good in his eyes. Behold, I give the oxen for burnt offerings, and the threshing instruments for wood, and the wheat for the meal offering. I give it all.”
24Mambo Dhavhidhi akati kuna Orinani, Kwete, asi zvirokwazvo ndicharitenga nomutengo wakafanira; nekuti handingatori chinhu chako ndikapa Jehovha, kana kuuya nechipiriso chinopiswa chisina mutengo.
24King David said to Ornan, “No; but I will most certainly buy it for the full price. For I will not take that which is yours for Yahweh, nor offer a burnt offering without cost.”
25Naizvozvo Dhavhidhi akapa Orinani mashekeri ana mazana matanhatu endarama pakurema kwawo, uri mutengo wenzvimbo iyo.
25So David gave to Ornan six hundred shekels of gold by weight for the place.
26Dhavhidhi akavakira Jehovha aritari ipapo, akabayira zvipiriso zvinopiswa nezvipiriso zvokuyananisa, akashumira Jehovha; iye akamupindura nomoto wakabva kudenga ukawira paaritari yechipiriso chinopiswa.
26David built an altar to Yahweh there, and offered burnt offerings and peace offerings, and called on Yahweh; and he answered him from the sky by fire on the altar of burnt offering.
27Jehovha akaraira mutumwa, iye akadzoserazve munondo wake mumuhara wawo.
27Yahweh commanded the angel; and he put up his sword again into its sheath.
28Zvino nenguva iyo Dhavhidhi akati aona kuti Jehovha amupindura paburiro raOrinani muJebhusi, akabayirapo.
28At that time, when David saw that Yahweh had answered him in the threshing floor of Ornan the Jebusite, then he sacrificed there.
29Nekuti panguva iyo tabhenekari yaJehovha, yakanga yavakwa naMozisi murenje, nearitari yokupisira zvipiriso, zvakanga zviri padunhu rakakwirira paGibhiyoni.
29For the tabernacle of Yahweh, which Moses made in the wilderness, and the altar of burnt offering, were at that time in the high place at Gibeon.
30Asi Dhavhidhi akanga asingagoni kuendako kuzobvunza Mwari pamberi payo; nekuti akanga achitya nemhaka yomunondo womutumwa waJehovha.
30But David couldn’t go before it to inquire of God; for he was afraid because of the sword of the angel of Yahweh.