¹Efuremu vakati vachitaura, kudedera kukavapo; vakazvikudza pakati paIsiraeri; asi akati apara mhaka naBhaari, akafa.

¹When Ephraim spoke, there was trembling. He exalted himself in Israel, but when he became guilty in Baal, he died.

²Asi zvino vanongoramba vachiwedzera zvivi zvavo, vakazviitira zvifananidzo zvakaumbwa nesirivha yavo, zviri zvifananidzo zvenjere dzavo, zvose zviri basa remhizha; zvino vanoti pamusoro pazvo, Vanobayira mhuru ngavadzisvete.

²Now they sin more and more, and have made themselves molten images of their silver, even idols according to their own understanding, all of them the work of the craftsmen. They say of them, ‘They offer human sacrifice and kiss the calves.’

³Saka vachaita semhute yamangwanani, sedova rinokurumidza kunyangarika, sehundi inopepereswa nechamupupuri paburiro, soutsi bwechoto hunobuda napaburi.

³Therefore they will be like the morning mist, and like the dew that passes away early, like the chaff that is driven with the whirlwind out of the threshing floor, and like the smoke out of the chimney.

⁴Kunyange zvakadaro ndini Jehovha Mwari wako kubva panyika hamuzivi mumwe mwari asi ini, hakuna mumwe muponesi kunze kwangu.

⁴“Yet I am Yahweh your God from the land of Egypt; and you shall acknowledge no god but me, and besides me there is no savior.

⁵Ndakakuzivai murenje, munyika yakaoma kwazvo.

⁵I knew you in the wilderness, in the land of great drought.

⁶Zvavakapiwa mafuro akanaka, vakaguta; vakaguta, mwoyo yavo ikazvikudza, naizvozvo vakandikangamwa.

⁶According to their pasture, so were they filled; they were filled, and their heart was exalted. Therefore they have forgotten me.

⁷Saka ndava kwavari seshumba, ndichavagarira panzira sengwe;

⁷Therefore I am like a lion to them. Like a leopard, I will lurk by the path.

⁸ndicharwa navo sebere rakatorerwa vana varo, ndichatsemura chifukidziro chomwoyo wavo; ndichavadyirapo seshumbakadzi; zvikara zvichavabvamburanya.

⁸I will meet them like a bear that is bereaved of her cubs, and will tear the covering of their heart. There I will devour them like a lioness. The wild animal will tear them.

⁹Ndizvo zvichakuparadzai, imwi Isiraeri, zvamunorwa neni, ini mubatsiri wenyu.

⁹You are destroyed, Israel, because you are against me, against your help.

¹⁰Ko zvino mambo wenyu aripi, akuponesei mumaguta enyu ose? Ko vatongi venyu varipi, vamaiti, Tipei mambo namachinda?

¹⁰Where is your king now, that he may save you in all your cities? And your judges, of whom you said, ‘Give me a king and princes?’

¹¹Ndakakupai mambo pakutsamwa kwangu, ndikamubvisazve nehasha dzangu.

¹¹I have given you a king in my anger, and have taken him away in my wrath.

¹²Zvakaipa zvaEfuremu zvakasungwa pamwechete, zvivi zvake zvakachengetwa.

¹²The guilt of Ephraim is stored up. His sin is stored up.

¹³Kurwadziwa komukadzi anosurumuka kuchasvika kwaari; iye mwanakomana asine njere; nekuti kana nguva ichisvika, haaswederi pakuzvarwa.

¹³The sorrows of a travailing woman will come on him. He is an unwise son; for when it is time, he doesn’t come to the opening of the womb.

¹⁴Ndichavadzikunura pasimba reSheori, ndichavadzikunura parufu. Aiwa, rufu, hosha dzako dziripiko? Aiwa, Sheori, kuparadza kwako kuripi? Kuzvidemba hakungaonekwi nameso angu.

¹⁴I will ransom them from the power of Sheol Sheol is the place of the dead. . I will redeem them from death! Death, where are your plagues? Sheol, where is your destruction? “Compassion will be hidden from my eyes.

¹⁵Kunyange akabereka zvibereko pakati pehama dzake, mhepo yokumabvazuva ichasvika, iri mhepo yaJehovha inobva kurenje; chitubu chake chichapwa, tsime rake richaoma, iye uchapamba fuma yenhumbi dzose dzinodikamwa.

¹⁵Though he is fruitful among his brothers, an east wind will come, the breath of Yahweh coming up from the wilderness; and his spring will become dry, and his fountain will be dried up. He will plunder the storehouse of treasure.

¹⁶Samaria richava nemhosva yaro, nekuti vakamukira Mwari wavo; vachaparadzwa nomunondo, vacheche vavo vachaputsanyiwa, vakadzi vavo vane mimba vachatumburwa.

¹⁶Samaria will bear her guilt; for she has rebelled against her God. They will fall by the sword. Their infants will be dashed in pieces, and their pregnant women will be ripped open.”