¹Zvino shoko raJehovha rakasvika kwandiri richiti,

¹The word of Yahweh came to me, saying,

²Mwanakomana womunhu, porofita pamusoro pavafudzi vaIsiraeri, porofita, uti kwavari, kuna ivo vafudzi, zvanzi nalshe Jehovha, Vane nhamo ivo vafudzi vaIsiraeri vanozvifudza! Ko vafudzi havafaniri kufudza makwai here?

²Son of man, prophesy against the shepherds of Israel, prophesy, and tell them, even to the shepherds, Thus says the Lord Yahweh: Woe to the shepherds of Israel who feed themselves! Shouldn’t the shepherds feed the sheep?

³Munodya mafuta munofuka makushe awo, munobaya akakora asi, hamufudzi makwai.

³You eat the fat, and you clothe yourself with the wool, you kill the fatlings; but you don’t feed the sheep.

⁴Hamuna kusimbisa anoshayiwa simba, kana kurapa anorwara, kana kudzosa akadzingwa, kana kundotsvaka akarasika, asi makaabata nesimba nehasha.

⁴You haven’t strengthened the diseased, neither have you healed that which was sick, neither have you bound up that which was broken, neither have you brought back that which was driven away, neither have you sought that which was lost; but with force and with rigor you have ruled over them.

⁵Akapararira, nekuti akanga asina mufudzi, akava zvokudya zvezvikara zvose zvokusango, akapararira.

⁵They were scattered, because there was no shepherd; and they became food to all the animals of the field, and were scattered.

⁶Makwai angu akadzungaira pamakomo ose, napachikomo chimwe nechimwe chakakwirira, zvirokwazvo makwai angu akapararira pasi pose, hakuna akaaronda nokuatsvaka.

⁶My sheep wandered through all the mountains, and on every high hill: yes, my sheep were scattered on all the surface of the earth; and there was none who searched or sought.

⁷Naizvozvo imwi vafudzi, inzwai shoko raJehovha.

⁷Therefore, you shepherds, hear the word of Yahweh:

⁸Noupenyu hwangu ndizvo zvinotaura Ishe Jehovha zvirokwazvo, makwai angu zvaakapambwa, zvaakava zvokudya zvezvikara zvose zvokusango, nekuti kwakanga kusino mufudzi, navafudzi vangu zvavasina kuronda makwai angu, asi vafudzi vangu vakazvifudza ivo, vakasafudza makwai angu;

⁸As I live, says the Lord Yahweh, surely because my sheep became a prey, and my sheep became food to all the animals of the field, because there was no shepherd, neither did my shepherds search for my sheep, but the shepherds fed themselves, and didn’t feed my sheep;

⁹naizvozvo, imwi vafudzi, inzwai shoko raJehovha.

⁹therefore, you shepherds, hear the word of Yahweh:

¹⁰Zvanzi naIshe Jehovha, Tarirai, ndine mhaka navafudzi, ndichabvunza makwai angu pamaoko avo, nokuvadzivisa kuzofudza makwai, uye vafudzi havangazozvifudzi ivo; ndicharwira makwai angu pamiromo yavo, kuti arege kuzova zvokudya zvavo.

¹⁰Thus says the Lord Yahweh: Behold, I am against the shepherds; and I will require my sheep at their hand, and cause them to cease from feeding the sheep; neither shall the shepherds feed themselves any more; and I will deliver my sheep from their mouth, that they may not be food for them.

¹¹nekuti zvanzi naIshe Jehovha, Tarirai, ini, ini ndimene, ndicharonda makwai angu nokuatsvaka.

¹¹For thus says the Lord Yahweh: Behold, I myself, even I, will search for my sheep, and will seek them out.

¹²Mufudzi sezvaanotsvaka boka rake, nezuva raari pakati pemakwai ake akapararira kose, saizvozvo ndichatsvaka makwai angu, ndichaasunungure panzvimbo dzose kwaakapararira nezuva ramakore nererima.

¹²As a shepherd seeks out his flock in the day that he is among his sheep that are scattered abroad, so will I seek out my sheep; and I will deliver them out of all places where they have been scattered in the cloudy and dark day.

¹³Ndichaabudisa pakati pamarudzi avanhu, nokuaunganidza kunyika dzose, ndiasvitse kunyika yawo, ndichaafudza pamakomo aIsiraeri, pahova napanzvimbo dzose dzenyika dzakagarwa navanhu.

¹³I will bring them out from the peoples, and gather them from the countries, and will bring them into their own land; and I will feed them on the mountains of Israel, by the watercourses, and in all the inhabited places of the country.

¹⁴Ndichaafudza namafuro akakora, danga rawo richava pamakomo akakwirira aIsiraeri; achavata ipapo pasi mudanga rakanaka, achafura pamafuro emakamera mumakomo alsiraeri.

¹⁴I will feed them with good pasture; and on the mountains of the height of Israel shall their fold be: there shall they lie down in a good fold; and on fat pasture shall they feed on the mountains of Israel.

¹⁵Ini ndimene ndichava mufudzi wamakwai angu, ndichaavatisa pasi, ndizvo zvinotaura Ishe Jehovha.

¹⁵I myself will be the shepherd of my sheep, and I will cause them to lie down, says the Lord Yahweh.

¹⁶Ndichatsvaka akarasika, ndichadzosa akadzingwa, ndichapombera akavhunika, ndichasimbisa anorwara; asi akakora naane simba ndichaaparadza; ndichaafudza zvakarurama.

¹⁶I will seek that which was lost, and will bring back that which was driven away, and will bind up that which was broken, and will strengthen that which was sick: but the fat and the strong I will destroy; I will feed them in justice.

¹⁷Kana murimi boka rangu, ndizvo zvinotaura Ishe Jehovha tarirai ndinotonga pakati pamakwai namakwai, pakati pamakondobwe nenhongo.

¹⁷As for you, O my flock, thus says the Lord Yahweh: Behold, I judge between sheep and sheep, the rams and the male goats.

¹⁸Ko chinhu chiduku here zvamakafura pamafuro akanaka, zvino motsika netsoka dzenyu mafuro enyu akasara?

¹⁸Does it seem a small thing to you to have fed on the good pasture, but you must tread down with your feet the residue of your pasture? and to have drunk of the clear waters, but you must foul the residue with your feet?

¹⁹Kana ari makwai angu, anodya zvamakatsika netsoka dzenyu, nokumwa zvamakabvongodza netsoka dzenyu.

¹⁹As for my sheep, they eat that which you have trodden with your feet, and they drink that which you have fouled with your feet.

²⁰Naizvozvo zvanzi naIshe Jehovha kwavari, Tarirai, ini, iyeni, ndichatonga pakati pamakwai akakora namakwai akaonda.

²⁰Therefore thus says the Lord Yahweh to them: Behold, I, even I, will judge between the fat sheep and the lean sheep.

²¹Zvamunosunda norutivi nefudzi, muchitunga asine simba nenyanga dzenyu, kusvikira maaparadzira kose,

²¹Because you thrust with side and with shoulder, and push all the diseased with your horns, until you have scattered them abroad;

²²naizvozvo ndichaponesa boka rangu, kuti arege kuzopambwa; ndichatonga pakati pamakwai namakwai.

²²therefore will I save my flock, and they shall no more be a prey; and I will judge between sheep and sheep.

²³Ndichaamutsira mufudzi mumwe woga, iye achaafudza, iye muranda wangu Dhavhidhi; iye uchaafudza, iye achava mufudzi wawo.

²³I will set up one shepherd over them, and he shall feed them, even my servant David; he shall feed them, and he shall be their shepherd.

²⁴Ini Jehovha ndichava Mwari wavo, nomuranda wangu Dhavhidhi achava muchinda pakati pavo; ini Jehovha ndakataura izvozvo.

²⁴I, Yahweh, will be their God, and my servant David prince among them; I, Yahweh, have spoken it.

²⁵Ndichaita navo sungano yorugare, ndichapedza zvikara panyika yavo, vachagara zvakanaka murenje, nokuvata mumatondo.

²⁵I will make with them a covenant of peace, and will cause evil animals to cease out of the land; and they shall dwell securely in the wilderness, and sleep in the woods.

²⁶Ndichavaita ropafadzo ivo nenzvimbo dzakapoteredza chikomo changu; ndichapfunhisa mvura nenguva yayo, mashoko anoropafadza achavapo.

²⁶I will make them and the places around my hill a blessing; and I will cause the shower to come down in its season; there shall be showers of blessing.

²⁷Miti iri kusango ichabereka zvibereko zvayo, nenyika ichabereka zvayo, vachagara zvakanaka panyika yavo; zvino vachaziva kuti ndini Jehovha, nenguva yandinovhuna matanda ejoko ravo, nokuvarwira pamaoko avaivabatisa.

²⁷The tree of the field shall yield its fruit, and the earth shall yield its increase, and they shall be secure in their land; and they shall know that I am Yahweh, when I have broken the bars of their yoke, and have delivered them out of the hand of those who made slaves of them.

²⁸Havangazovi chinhu chinopambwa namarudzi avanhu, nezvikara zvenyika hazvingavaparadzi; asi vachagara zvakanaka, hakuna angavatyisa.

²⁸They shall no more be a prey to the nations, neither shall the animals of the earth devour them; but they shall dwell securely, and none shall make them afraid.

²⁹Ndichavameresera miti inorumbidzwa, havangazofa nenzara munyika yavo, kana kuzoshorwa namarudzi avanhu.

²⁹I will raise up to them a plantation for renown, and they shall be no more consumed with famine in the land, neither bear the shame of the nations any more.

³⁰Zvino vachaziva kuti ini Jehovha Mwari wavo ndinavo, uye kuti ivo, iyo imba yaIsiraeri, ndivo vanhu vangu ndizvo zvinotaura Ishe Jehovha.

³⁰They shall know that I, Yahweh, their God am with them, and that they, the house of Israel, are my people, says the Lord Yahweh.

³¹Asi imi, makwai angu, makwai anofudzwa neni, muri vanhu, neni ndiri Mwari wenyu, ndizvo zvinotaura Ishe Jehovha.

³¹You my sheep, the sheep of my pasture, are men, and I am your God, says the Lord Yahweh.