¹Erisha akati, Inzwai shoko raJehovha, Zvanzi naJehovha, Mangwana nenguva ino, chiyero chimwe choupfu hwakatsetseka chichatengeswa neshekeri rimwe, nezviyero zviviri zvebhari neshekeri rimwe pasuwo reSamaria.

¹Elisha said, “Hear the word of Yahweh. Thus says Yahweh, ‘Tomorrow about this time a measure of fine flour will be sold for a shekel, and two measures of barley for a shekel, in the gate of Samaria.’”

²Zvino mukuru uyo, mambo waakanga akasendama paruoko rwake, akapindura munhu waMwari, akati, Tarirai, kunyange Jehovha akaita mahwindo kudenga, chinhu ichi chingaitika here? Erisha akati, Tarira, uchazviona nameso ako, asi haungazvidyi.

²Then the captain on whose hand the king leaned answered the man of God, and said, “Behold, if Yahweh made windows in heaven, could this thing be?” He said, “Behold, you shall see it with your eyes, but shall not eat of it.”

³Zvino kwakanga kuna varume vana vaiva namaperembudzi kunze kwesuwo; ivo vakataurirana, vakati, Tinogarireiko pano kusvikira tafa?

³Now there were four leprous men at the entrance of the gate. They said one to another, “Why do we sit here until we die?

⁴Kana tikati, Tichapinda muguta, nzara huru iri muguta, tichandofiramo; kana tikagara pano, tichafawo. Naizvozvo zvino hendei tiende hedu kuhondo dzavaSiria; kana vakatirega tiri vapenyu, tararama hedu; kana vakatiuraya, tafa hedu.

⁴If we say, ‘We will enter into the city,’ then the famine is in the city, and we shall die there. If we sit still here, we also die. Now therefore come, and let us surrender to the army of the Syrians. If they save us alive, we will live; and if they kill us, we will only die.”

⁵Ipapo vakasimuka mambakwedza, vakaenda kumisasa yavaSiria; vakati vasvika kumisasa yokumudzivo yavaSamaria, vakawana kusina munhu.

⁵They rose up in the twilight, to go to the camp of the Syrians. When they had come to the outermost part of the camp of the Syrians, behold, there was no man there.

⁶nekuti Jehovha wakange anzwisa hondo yavaSiria kutinhira kwengoro, nokutinhira kwamabhiza, kuri kutinhira kwehondo huru; vakataurirana, vakati, Tarirai, mambo waIsiraeri wakakoka madzimambo avaHiti namadzimambo avaEgipita kuzorwa nesu.

⁶For the Lord The word translated “Lord” is “Adonai.” had made the army of the Syrians to hear a noise of chariots, and a noise of horses, even the noise of a great army: and they said one to another, Behold, the king of Israel has hired against us the kings of the Hittites, and the kings of the Egyptians, to come on us.

⁷Naizvozvo vakamuka mambakwedza, vakasiya matende avo, namabhiza avo, namahesera avo, musasa wose wakangodaro, vakatiza kuti vararame.

⁷Therefore they arose and fled in the twilight, and left their tents, and their horses, and their donkeys, even the camp as it was, and fled for their life.

⁸Zvino vaya vaiva namaperembudzi vakati vachisvika kumisasa yokumidzivo, vakapinda patende rimwe, vakadya nokumwa, vakatoramo sirivha nendarama nenguvo, vakandozviviga; vakadzokazve, vakapinda mune rimwe tende, vakatora zvakanga zvirimowo, vakandozviviga.

⁸When these lepers came to the outermost part of the camp, they went into one tent, and ate and drink, and carried there silver, and gold, and clothing, and went and hid it. Then they came back, and entered into another tent, and carried there also, and went and hid it.

⁹Ipapo vakataurirana, vakati, Hatiiti zvakanaka; nhasi izuva reshoko rakanaka, asi isu tinongonyarara hedu; kana tikanonoka kusvikira kwaedza, tichavingwa nokurohwa; naizvozvo hendei zvino, tindoudza imba yamambo.

⁹Then they said one to another, “We aren’t doing right. This day is a day of good news, and we keep silent. If we wait until the morning light, punishment will overtake us. Now therefore come, let us go and tell the king’s household.”

¹⁰Naizvozvo vakaenda vakadanidzira kuvatariri vesuwo reguta, vakavaudza, vakati kwaari, Takasvika kumisasa yavaSiria, tikawana kusisina munhupo, kunyange inzwi romunhu, asi mabhiza akasungirwa, namahesera akasungirwa, namatende akangodaro.

¹⁰So they came and called to the porter of the city; and they told them, saying, “We came to the camp of the Syrians, and, behold, there was no man there, neither voice of man, but the horses tied, and the donkeys tied, and the tents as they were.”

¹¹Ipapo vatariri vesuwo vakadanidzira, vakaudza vomumba mamambo mukati.

¹¹He called the porters; and they told it to the king’s household within.

¹²Mambo akamuka pakati pousiku, akati kuvaranda vake, Ndichakuudzai zvataitirwa navaSiria. Vanoziva kuti tine nzara; naizvozvo vakabuda pamisasa vakandovanda kusango, vachiti, Kana vakabuda muguta, tichavabata vari vapenyu, isu tigopinda muguta.

¹²The king arose in the night, and said to his servants, “I will now show you what the Syrians have done to us. They know that we are hungry. Therefore are they gone out of the camp to hide themselves in the field, saying, ‘When they come out of the city, we shall take them alive, and get into the city.’”

¹³Ipapo mumwe muranda wake akapindura, akati, Vamwe ngavatore mabhiza mashanu kuna akasara, akasiiwa muguta (tarirai, vakafanana navamwe vaIsiraeri vazhinji vakasara imomo; tarirai vakafananawo navamwe vaIsiraeri vazhinji vatoparadzwa havo;) tivatume, tione.

¹³One of his servants answered, “Please let some take five of the horses that remain, which are left in the city. Behold, they are like all the multitude of Israel who are left in it. Behold, they are like all the multitude of Israel who are consumed. Let us send and see.”

¹⁴Naizvozvo vakatora ngoro mbiri namabhiza adzo, mambo akatuma vanhu kuzotevera hondo yavaSiria, akati, Endai, mundoona.

¹⁴They took therefore two chariots with horses; and the king sent after the army of the Syrians, saying, “Go and see.”

¹⁵Ivo vakaenda, vakavatevera kusvikira kwaJoridhani, vakawana nzira yose izere nenguvo, nenhumbi, dzakanga dzarashwa navaSiria nokumhanya kwavo. Nhume dzikadzoka, dzikaudza mambo.

¹⁵They went after them to the Jordan; and behold, all the way was full of garments and vessels, which the Syrians had cast away in their haste. The messengers returned, and told the king.

¹⁶Ipapo vanhu vakabuda, vakapamba misasa yavaSiria. Naizvozvo chiyero choupfu hwakatsetseka chakatengeswa neshekeri rimwe, nezvi yero zviviri zvebhari neshekeri rimwe, sezvakanga zvarehwa naJehovha.

¹⁶The people went out, and plundered the camp of the Syrians. So a measure of fine flour was sold for a shekel, and two measures of barley for a shekel, according to the word of Yahweh.

¹⁷Mambo akagadza mukuru uya, waakanga akasendama paruoko rwake, kuti arindire suwo; vanhu vakamutsikirira musuwo, akafa sezvakanga zvarehwa nomunhu waMwari, wakataura shoko iro musi wakaburukira mambo kwaari.

¹⁷The king appointed the captain on whose hand he leaned to be in charge of the gate: and the people trod on him in the gate, and he died as the man of God had said, who spoke when the king came down to him.

¹⁸Zvikaitika sezvakanga zvataurwa nomunhu waMwari kuna mambo, zvaakati, Mangwana nenguva ino zviyero zviviri zvebhari zvichatengeswa neshekeri, nechiyero chimwe choupfu hwakatsetseka neshekeri pasuwo reSamaria;

¹⁸It happened, as the man of God had spoken to the king, saying, “Two measures of barley for a shekel, and a measure of fine flour for a shekel, shall be tomorrow about this time in the gate of Samaria”;

¹⁹mukuru uyo akapindura munhu waMwari, akati, Zvino tarira, kunyange Jehovha akaita mahwindo kudenga, chinhu ichi chakadai chingaitwa here? Iye akati Tarira, uchazviona nameso ako, asi haungazvidyi.

¹⁹and that captain answered the man of God, and said, “Now, behold, if Yahweh should make windows in heaven, might such a thing be?” and he said, “Behold, you shall see it with your eyes, but shall not eat of it.”

²⁰Ndizvo zvaakazoitirwa; nekuti vanhu vakamutsikirira musuwo, akafa.

²⁰It happened like that to him; for the people trod on him in the gate, and he died.