¹Inzwai shoko iri, imwi mhou dzeBhashani, dziri mugomo reSamaria, imwi munomanikidza varombo, munopwanya vanoshaiwa, munoti kumadzishe enyu, Uyai nezvokumwa timwe.

¹Listen to this word, you cows of Bashan, who are on the mountain of Samaria, who oppress the poor, who crush the needy, who tell their husbands, “Bring us drinks!”

²Ishe Jehovha akapika noutsvene hwake, achiti, Tarirai, mazuva achauya pamusoro penyu, avachakukwevai nezvikokovonho, uye vakasara venyu nezviredzo zvehove.

²The Lord Yahweh has sworn by his holiness that behold, “The days shall come on you that they will take you away with hooks, and the last of you with fish hooks.

³Muchabuda napakakoromoka, mumwe nomumwe paakatarisana napo; mucharashirwa Harimoni, ndizvo zvinotaura Jehovha.

³You will go out at the breaks in the wall, everyone straight before her; and you will cast yourselves into Harmon,” says Yahweh.

⁴Uyai Bhetieri, mudarike; uyai Girigari, muwedzere kudarika; uyai nezvibayiro zvenyu mangwanani ose, uye zvegumi zvenyu pazuva rimwe nerimwe retatu;

⁴“Go to Bethel, and sin; to Gilgal, and sin more. Bring your sacrifices every morning, your tithes every three days,

⁵uyai nechibayiro chokuvonga chezvakaviriswa, muraire zvipiriso zvomwoyo, muzviparidze; nekuti ndizvo zvinokufadzai, imwi vana vaIsiraeri, ndizvo zvinotaura Jehovha.

⁵offer a sacrifice of thanksgiving of that which is leavened, and proclaim free will offerings and brag about them: for this pleases you, you children of Israel,” says the Lord Yahweh.

⁶Ndakakupaiwo meno akachena pamaguta enyu ose, nokushaiwa zvokudya panzvimbo dzenyu dzose; kunyange zvakadaro hamuna kudzokera kwandiri, ndizvo zvinotaura Jehovha.

⁶“I also have given you cleanness of teeth in all your cities, and lack of bread in every town; yet you haven’t returned to me,” says Yahweh.

⁷Ndakakunyimawo mvura, kukohwa kuchigere mwedzi mitatu; pane rimwe guta; imwe nzvimbo ikanaisirwa mvura, nzvimbo isina kunaisirwa mvura ikaoma.

⁷“I also have withheld the rain from you, when there were yet three months to the harvest; and I caused it to rain on one city, and caused it not to rain on another city. One place was rained on, and the piece where it didn’t rain withered.

⁸Naizvozvo vanhu vamaguta maviri kana matatu vakadzungairira kune rimwe guta kundomwa mvura, vakasagungwa; kunyange zvakadaro hamuna kudzokera kwandiri, ndizvo zvinotaura Jehovha.

⁸So two or three cities staggered to one city to drink water, and were not satisfied: yet you haven’t returned to me,” says Yahweh.

⁹Ndakakurovai nenyunje nokuvhuvha; muteteni wakapedza minda yenyu mizhinji, neminda yenyu yemizambiringa, nemionde yenyu, nemiorivhi yenyu; kunyange zvakadaro hamuna kudzokera kwandiri, ndizvo zvinotaura Jehovha.

⁹“I struck you with blight and mildew many times in your gardens and your vineyards; and your fig trees and your olive trees have the swarming locust devoured: yet you haven’t returned to me,” says Yahweh.

¹⁰Ndakatuma pakati penyu hosha yakaipa sezvakaitwa Egipita; majaya enyu ndakaauraya nomunondo, ndikatapa mabhiza enyu; ndakasvitsa kunhuwa kwemisasa yenyu imo mumhino dzenyu; kunyange zvakadaro hamuna kudzokera kwandiri, ndizvo zvinotaura Jehovha.

¹⁰“I sent plagues among you like I did Egypt. I have slain your young men with the sword, and have carried away your horses; and I filled your nostrils with the stench of your camp, yet you haven’t returned to me,” says Yahweh.

¹¹Ndakaparadza maguta pakati penyu, Mwari sezvaakaparadza Sodhoma neGomora, imwi mukaita sechitsiga chakabvutwa pamoto; kunyange zvakadaro hamuna kudzokera kwandiri, ndizvo zvinotaura Jehovha.

¹¹“I have overthrown some of you, as when God overthrew Sodom and Gomorrah, and you were like a burning stick plucked out of the fire; yet you haven’t returned to me,” says Yahweh.

¹²Saka ndichakuitirai izvi, imwi Isiraeri; zvino zvandichakuitirai izvi, zvigadzirei kusongana naMwari wenyu, imwi Isiraeri.

¹²“Therefore thus will I do to you, Israel; because I will do this to you, prepare to meet your God, Israel.

¹³nekuti tarirai, iye, anoumba makomo, anosika mhepo, anozivisa munhu zviri mumurangariro wake, anoshandura mangwanani rikava rima, anotsika panzvimbo dzenyika dzakakwirira, Jehovha Mwari wehondo, ndiro zita rake.

¹³For, behold, he who forms the mountains, and creates the wind, and declares to man what is his thought; who makes the morning darkness, and treads on the high places of the earth: Yahweh, the God of Armies, is his name.”