¹Zvino negore rokutanga raKoreshi mambo waPerisia, kuti shoko raJehovha rakarehwa nomuromo waJeremiya riitike, Jehovha akamutsa mweya waKoreshi mambo wePerisia, akaparidza paushe hwake hwose, akazvinyorawo, akati,

¹Now in the first year of Cyrus king of Persia, that the word of Yahweh “Yahweh” is God’s proper Name, sometimes rendered “LORD” (all caps) in other translations. by the mouth of Jeremiah might be accomplished, Yahweh stirred up the spirit of Cyrus king of Persia, so that he made a proclamation throughout all his kingdom, and put it also in writing, saying,

²Zvanzi naKoreshi mambo wePerisia, Jehovha Mwari wokudenga akandipa ushe hwose bwenyika, akandiraira kuti ndimuvakire imba paJerusaremu riri paJudha.

²“Thus says Cyrus king of Persia, ‘Yahweh, the God The Hebrew word rendered “God” is “Elohim.” of heaven, has given me all the kingdoms of the earth; and he has commanded me to build him a house in Jerusalem, which is in Judah.

³Zvino ani naani aripo pakati penyu wavanhu vake, Jehovha Mwari wake ngaave naye, ngaakwire hake Jerusaremu riri paJudha, kundovaka imba yaJehovha Mwari waIsiraeri (ndiye Mwari), anogara Jerusaremu.

³Whoever there is among you of all his people, may his God be with him, and let him go up to Jerusalem, which is in Judah, and build the house of Yahweh, the God of Israel (he is God), which is in Jerusalem.

⁴Ani naani akasara, papi napapi paanogara, varume vokwake ngavamubatsirc nesirivha, nendarama, nenhumbi, nemombe, uye nezvipo zvavanopa nokuzvidira, kuzovaka imba yaMwari iri paJerusaremu.

⁴Whoever is left, in any place where he lives, let the men of his place help him with silver, with gold, with goods, and with animals, besides the freewill offering for God’s house which is in Jerusalem.’”

⁵Ipapo vakuru vedzimba dzamadzibaba aJudha naBhenjamini vakazvigadzira, navapristi, navaRevhi, ivo vose vakanga vamutswa mweya yavo naMwari, kundovaka imba yaJehovha yakanga iri paJerusaremu.

⁵Then the heads of fathers’ households of Judah and Benjamin, and the priests, and the Levites, even all whose spirit God had stirred to go up rose up to build the house of Yahweh which is in Jerusalem.

⁶Uye vose vakanga vakavapoteredza vakasimbisa maoko avo nemidziyo yesirivha, nendarama, nenhumbi, nemombe, nezvinhu zvinokosha, pamwechete nezvose zvavakapa nomoyo wavo.

⁶All those who were around them strengthened their hands with vessels of silver, with gold, with goods, and with animals, and with precious things, besides all that was willingly offered.

⁷Naiye mambo Koreshiwo akabudisa midziyo yeimba yaJehovha, yakanga yatorwa paJerusaremu naNebhukadhinezari ikaiswa naye paimba yavamwari vake;

⁷Also Cyrus the king brought forth the vessels of the house of Yahweh, which Nebuchadnezzar had brought out of Jerusalem, and had put in the house of his gods;

⁸Koreshi, mambo wePerisia akaraira Mitiredhati muchengeti wefuma kubudisa iyeyo, akaiverenga achiipa Sheshibhazari, muchinda waJudha.

⁸even those, Cyrus king of Persia brought out by the hand of Mithredath the treasurer, and numbered them to Sheshbazzar, the prince of Judah.

⁹Kuwanda kwayo ndikoku: Ndiro dzendarama dzina makumi matatu, nendiro dzesirivha dzine chiuru chimwe, namapanga ana makumi maviri namapfumbamwe;

⁹This is the number of them: thirty platters of gold, one thousand platters of silver, twenty-nine knives,

¹⁰nembiya dzendarama dzina makumi matatu, nembiya dzesirivha dzorumwe rudzi dzina mazana mana negumi, nemimwe midziyo ine chiuru chimwe.

¹⁰thirty bowls of gold, silver bowls of a second sort four hundred and ten, and other vessels one thousand.

¹¹Midziyo yose yendarama neyesirivha yakanga ine zviuru zvishanu namazana mana. Izvo zvose Sheshibhazari akaenda nazvo panguva yokubva kwavatapwa Bhabhironi vachienda Jerusaremu.

¹¹All the vessels of gold and of silver were five thousand and four hundred. Sheshbazzar brought all these up, when the captives were brought up from Babylon to Jerusalem.