¹Zvino negore rechitanhatu, nomwedzi wechitanhatu, nezuwa reshanu romwedzi, ini ndigere mumba mangu, navakuru vaJudha vagere pamberi pangu, ruoko rwaIshe Jehovha ndokuwira pamusoro pangu.

¹It happened in the sixth year, in the sixth month, in the fifth day of the month, as I sat in my house, and the elders of Judah sat before me, that the hand of the Lord Yahweh fell there on me.

²Ipapo ndikatarira ndikaona mufananidzo unenge somoto; kubva pakaita sechiuno chake zvichienda pasi, kwakanga kunomoto, kubva pachiuno chake zvichikwira kumusoro zvinenge kubwinya, sedare rinopenya.

²Then I saw, and behold, a likeness as the appearance of fire; from the appearance of his waist and downward, fire; and from his waist and upward, as the appearance of brightness, as it were glowing metal.

³Akatambanudza zvakanga zvakaita soruoko, akandibata nebumu romusoro wangu, Mweya wakandisimudza pakati pedenga nenyika, ndokundiisa paJerusaremu ndichiratidzwa zviratiidzo naMwari, kumukova wesuwo roruvanze rwomukati unotarira kurutivi rwokumusoro, pakanga pane chigaro chechifananidzo chegodo, chinomutsa godo.

³He put forth the form of a hand, and took me by a lock of my head; and the Spirit lifted me up between earth and the sky, and brought me in the visions of God to Jerusalem, to the door of the gate of the inner court that looks toward the north; where there was the seat of the image of jealousy, which provokes to jealousy.

⁴Zvino tarira, kubwinya kwaMwari waIsiraeri kwakanga kuripo, zvakafanana nezvandakaona mubani.

⁴Behold, the glory of the God of Israel was there, according to the appearance that I saw in the plain.

⁵Ipapo akati kwandiri, Mwanakomana womunhu, rinzira meso ako kurutivi rwokumusoro. Ipapo ndakaringira meso angu kurutivi rwokumusoro, ndikaona kurutivi rwokumusoro rwesuwo rearitari chifananidzo ichi chegodo chimire panopindwa napo.

⁵Then he said to me, Son of man, lift up your eyes now the way toward the north. So I lifted up my eyes the way toward the north, and see, northward of the gate of the altar this image of jealousy in the entry.

⁶Akati kwandiri, Mwanakomana womunhu, unoona zvavanoita here? Izvo zvinonyangadza zvikuru zvinoitwa pano neimba yaIsiraeri, kuti ini ndibve ndiende kure nenzvimbo yangu tsvene here? Asi uchaonazve zvimwe zvinonyangadza zvikuru.

⁶He said to me, Son of man, do you see what they do? even the great abominations that the house of Israel do commit here, that I should go far off from my sanctuary? But you shall again see yet other great abominations.

⁷Akandiisa kumukova woruvanze; zvino ndakati ndichitarira, ndikaona pakakoromoka parusvingo.

⁷He brought me to the door of the court; and when I looked, behold, a hole in the wall.

⁸Zvino akati kwandiri, Mwanakomana womunhu, chera zvino parusvingo; zvino ndakati ndachera parusvingo, ndikaona mukova.

⁸Then he said to me, Son of man, dig now in the wall: and when I had dug in the wall, behold, a door.

⁹Akati kwandiri, Pinda, undoona zvinonyangadza zvakashata zvavanoita pano.

⁹He said to me, Go in, and see the wicked abominations that they do here.

¹⁰Ipapo ndakapinda, ndikaona; tarira, mifananidzo yamarudzi ose ezvinokambaira pasi, nemhuka dzinonyangadza, nezvifananidzo zvose zveimba yaIsiraeri zvakafananidzwa parusvingo kumativi ose.

¹⁰So I went in and saw; and see, every form of creeping things, and abominable animals, and all the idols of the house of Israel, portrayed around on the wall.

¹¹Pamberi pazvo pakanga pamire varume vana makumi manomwe vavakuru veimba yaIsiraeri; pakati pavo pakanga pamire Jaazania mwanakomana waShafani, mumwe nomumwe akabata hadyana yake yezvinonhuhwira muruoko rwake; munhuwi wegore rezvinonhuhwira ukaramba uchikwira.

¹¹There stood before them seventy men of the elders of the house of Israel; and in their midst stood Jaazaniah the son of Shaphan, every man with his censer in his hand; and the odor of the cloud of incense went up.

¹²Ipapo akati kwandiri, Mwanakomana womunhu, waona here zvinoitwa navakuru veimba yaIsiraeri murima, mumwe nomumwe mukamuri yake yemifananidzo? nekuti vanoti, Jehovha haationi; Jehovha akabva panyika ino.

¹²Then he said to me, Son of man, have you seen what the elders of the house of Israel do in the dark, every man in his rooms of imagery? for they say, Yahweh doesn’t see us; Yahweh has forsaken the land.

¹³Akatiwo kwandiri, Uchaonazve zvimwe zvinonyangadza zvikuru zvavanoita.

¹³He said also to me, You shall again see yet other great abominations which they do.

¹⁴Ipapo akandiisa kumukova wesuwo reimba yaJehovha rakanga riri kurutivi rwokumusoro; ndikaona vakadzi vagerepo vachichema Tamuzi.

¹⁴Then he brought me to the door of the gate of Yahweh’s house which was toward the north; and see, there sat the women weeping for Tammuz.

¹⁵Zvino akati kwandiri, Wazviona here, iwe Mwanakomana womunhu? Uchaona zvimwe zvinonyangadza zvinopfuura izvo.

¹⁵Then he said to me, Have you seen this, son of man? You shall again see yet greater abominations than these.

¹⁶Ipapo akandiisa muruvanze rwomukati rweimba yaJehovha; tarira, pamukova wetemberi yaJehovha pakati peberere nearitari, kwakanga kuna varume vanenge makumi maviri navashanu, vakafuratira temberi yaJehovha, zviso zvavo zvakaringira kurutivi rwamabvazuva; vakanga vachinamata zuva kurutivi rwamabvazuva.

¹⁶He brought me into the inner court of Yahweh’s house; and see, at the door of Yahweh’s temple, between the porch and the altar, were about twenty-five men, with their backs toward Yahweh’s temple, and their faces toward the east; and they were worshipping the sun toward the east.

¹⁷Zvino akati kwandiri, Wazviona here, iwe Mwanakomana womunhu? Chinhu chiduku here kuimba yaJudha, kuti vaite zvinonyangadza zvavanoita pano? nekuti vakazadza nyika nokuita nesimba, vakadzoka vomutsa kutsamwa kwangu; tarira vanoisa davi kumhino dzavo.

¹⁷Then he said to me, Have you seen this, son of man? Is it a light thing to the house of Judah that they commit the abominations which they commit here? for they have filled the land with violence, and have turned again to provoke me to anger: and behold, they put the branch to their nose.

¹⁸Naizvozvo neniwo ndichaita nehasha; ziso rangu haringapembedzi, handingavi netsitsi; kunyange vakadanidzira munzeve dzangu nenzwi guru, handingavanzwi.

¹⁸Therefore will I also deal in wrath; my eye shall not spare, neither will I have pity; and though they cry in my ears with a loud voice, yet will I not hear them.