¹nekuti Jehovha achanzwira Jakove tsitsi, achasanangura Isaraeri nokuvagadza munyika yavo; mutorwa achandogara navo, vachanamatira imba yaJakove.

¹For Yahweh will have compassion on Jacob, and will yet choose Israel, and set them in their own land. The foreigner will join himself with them, and they will unite with the house of Jacob.

²Marudzi achavatora, nokuvaisa kunzvimbo yavo; imba yavaIsiraeri ichavabata panyika yaJehovha vave varanda navashandiri vavo; vachatapa ivo vaiva vatapi vavo, vachabata ivo vaivamanikidza.

²The peoples will take them, and bring them to their place. The house of Israel will possess them in Yahweh’s land for servants and for handmaids. They will take as captives those whose captives they were; and they shall rule over their oppressors.

³Zvino nezuva iro kana Jehovha achikuzorodza pakuchema kwako napakutambudzika kwako, napakubata kwako kunorema kwawakabatiswa nako,

³It will happen in the day that Yahweh will give you rest from your sorrow, from your trouble, and from the hard service in which you were made to serve,

⁴uchaimba rwiyo urwu pamusoro pamambo weBhabhironi, uchiti, Haiwa mumanikidzi wapera sei! Kutambudzika kwapera sei!

⁴that you will take up this parable against the king of Babylon, and say, “How the oppressor has ceased! The golden city has ceased!”

⁵Jehovha avhuna mudonzvo wowakaipa, netsvimbo youshe yavabati.

⁵Yahweh has broken the staff of the wicked, the scepter of the rulers,

⁶Iye airova marudzi avanhu nehasha nokurova kusingaperi, aibata ndudzi dzavanhu nokutambudza kusina kudzorwa nomunhu.

⁶who struck the peoples in wrath with a continual stroke, who ruled the nations in anger, with a persecution that none restrained.

⁷Nyika yose yozorora, yanyarara; vanofara nokuimba.

⁷The whole earth is at rest, and is quiet. They break out song.

⁸Zvirokwazvo miti yemisipiresi inofara nokuda kwako, nemisidhari yeRebhanoni, ichiti, Chinguva chawaparadzwa, hapano mutemi anokwira kutitema.

⁸Yes, the fir trees rejoice with you, with the cedars of Lebanon, saying, “Since you are humbled, no lumberjack has come up against us.”

⁹Sheori pasi rine nyongano pamusoro pako kuzosangana newe pakuuya kwako; rinokumutsira vakafa, ivo vose vaiva vakuru panyika; ramutsa madzimambo ose amarudzi avanhu pazvigaro zvavo zvoushe.

⁹ Sheol Sheol is the place of the dead. from beneath has moved for you to meet you at your coming. It stirs up the dead for you, even all the rulers of the earth. It has raised up from their thrones all the kings of the nations.

¹⁰Ivo vose vachapindura, vachiti kwauri, Newe wava usina simba sesu kanhi? Iwe wafanana nesu kanhi?

¹⁰They all will answer and ask you, “Have you also become as weak as we are? Have you become like us?”

¹¹Kuzvikudza kwako kwaderedzwa kusvikira paSheori, nokurira koudimbwa hwako; honye dziri pasi pako, nehonye dzinokufukidza.

¹¹Your pomp is brought down to Sheol Sheol is the place of the dead. , with the sound of your stringed instruments. Maggots are spread out under you, and worms cover you.

¹²Haiwa, wawa seiko uchibva kudenga, iwe nyamasase, iwe mwanakomana wamambakwedza! Wakandwa seiko pasi, iwe wokuwisira marudzi pasi!

¹²How you have fallen from heaven, morning star, son of the dawn! How you are cut down to the ground, who laid the nations low!

¹³Iwe wakati mumoyo mako, Ndichakwira kudenga, ndichakwiridza chigaro changu choushe kumusoro kwenyeredzi dzaMwari; ndichagara pamusoro pegomo reungano, pamigumo yamativi okumusoro;

¹³You said in your heart, “I will ascend into heaven! I will exalt my throne above the stars of God! I will sit on the mountain of assembly, in the far north!

¹⁴ndichakwira kumusoro kwamakore, ndichazvienzanisa neWekumusoro-soro.

¹⁴I will ascend above the heights of the clouds! I will make myself like the Most High!”

¹⁵Kunyange zvakadaro uchaderedzwa kusvikira paSheori, kusvikira pakadzika pegomba.

¹⁵Yet you shall be brought down to Sheol Sheol is the place of the dead. , to the depths of the pit.

¹⁶Vanokuona vachakucherekedza, vachakutarira, vachiti, Ko uyu ndiye munhu aidederesa nyika, aizunungusa ushe;

¹⁶Those who see you will stare at you. They will ponder you, saying, “Is this the man who made the earth to tremble, who shook kingdoms;

¹⁷aishandura nyika ifanane nerenje, aiparadza maguta ayo, airamba kusunungura vasungwa vake vaende kumusha here?

¹⁷who made the world like a wilderness, and overthrew its cities; who didn’t release his prisoners to their home?”

¹⁸Madzimambo ose amarudzi, iwo ose, anovata achikudzwa, mumwe nomumwe paimba yake.

¹⁸All the kings of the nations, sleep in glory, everyone in his own house.

¹⁹Asi iwe waraswa kure neguva rako, sedavi rinonyangadza, wafukidzwa navakaurawa, vakabayiwa nomunondo, vanoburukira kumabwe egomba, somutumbi watsikwa netsoka.

¹⁹But you are cast away from your tomb like an abominable branch, clothed with the slain, who are thrust through with the sword, who go down to the stones of the pit; like a dead body trodden under foot.

²⁰Haungavigwi pamwechete navo, nekuti wakaparadza nyika yako, vakauraya vanhu vako; vana vavakaipa havangarehwi nokusingaperi.

²⁰You will not join them in burial, because you have destroyed your land. You have killed your people. The seed of evildoers will not be named forever.

²¹Gadzirirai vana vake pavangaurawa nokuda kokushata kwamadzibaba avo; varege kuzomuka, vagare nhaka yenyika, vazadze pasi pose namaguta.

²¹Prepare for slaughter of his children because of the iniquity of their fathers, that they not rise up and possess the earth, and fill the surface of the world with cities.

²²Zvanzi naJehovha wehondo, Ndichavamukira, ndichatorera Bhabhironi zita navakasara, navana, navana vavana, ndizvo zvinotaura Jehovha.

²²“I will rise up against them,” says Yahweh of Armies, “and cut off from Babylon name and remnant, and son and son’s son,” says Yahweh.

²³Ndichariita nzvimbo inogarwa nenungu, uye madziva emvura; ndicharitsvaira nomutsvairo wokuparadza, ndizvo zvinotaura Jehovha wehondo.

²³“I will also make it a possession for the porcupine, and pools of water. I will sweep it with the broom of destruction,” says Yahweh of Armies.

²⁴Jehovha wehondo akapika, achiti, Zvirokwazvo, sezvandakafunga, ndizvo zvichaitika; sezvandakarangarira, zvichamira saizvozvo.

²⁴Yahweh of Armies has sworn, saying, “Surely, as I have thought, so shall it happen; and as I have purposed, so shall it stand:

²⁵Kuti ndichavhuna muAsiria munyika yangu, ndichamutsika netsoka dzangu pamakomo angu; nenguva iyo joko rake richabva kwavari, nomutoro wake uchabva pamafudzi avo.

²⁵that I will break the Assyrian in my land, and tread him under foot on my mountains. Then his yoke will leave them, and his burden leave their shoulders.

²⁶Ndicho chirevo chakatemerwa nyika yose; ndirwo ruoko rwakatambanudzwa pamusoro pamarudzi ose.

²⁶This is the plan that is determined for the whole earth. This is the hand that is stretched out over all the nations.

²⁷nekuti Jehovha wehondo wakatema chirevo, ndiani angapindurazve? Ruoko rwake rwakatambanudzwa, ndiani angarudzosa.

²⁷For Yahweh of Armies has planned, and who can stop it? His hand is stretched out, and who can turn it back?”

²⁸Negore rokufa kwamambo Ahazi chirevo ichi chakarehwa,

²⁸This burden was in the year that king Ahaz died.

²⁹Iwe nyika yeFirisitia, iwe nyika yose, usafara zvako nekuti shamhu yakanga yakurova yavhunika; nekuti pamudzi wenyoka pachabuda mvumbi, chibereko chayo chichava nyoka yomoto inoburuka.

²⁹Don’t rejoice, O Philistia, all of you, because the rod that struck you is broken; for out of the serpent’s root an adder will emerge, and his fruit will be a fiery flying serpent.

³⁰Matangwe avarombo achadya, navanoshayiwa vachavata pasi vakafara; ndichauraya mudzi wako nenzara, vakasara vako vachaurawa.

³⁰The firstborn of the poor will eat, and the needy will lie down in safety; and I will kill your root with famine, and your remnant will be killed.

³¹Chema, iwe suwo; danidzira, iwe guta; wanyauka, iwe nyika yeFirisitia, iwe nyika yose; nekuti kurutivi rwokumusoro kunobva utsi, hapana anotiza pahondo dzake.

³¹Howl, gate! Cry, city! You are melted away, Philistia, all of you; for smoke comes out of the north, and there is no straggler in his ranks.

³²Zvino nhume dzorudzi urwu vachadzipindurei? Kuti, Jehovha akavamba Ziyoni, vanotambudzika navanhu vake vachavandiramo.

³²What will they answer the messengers of the nation? That Yahweh has founded Zion, and in her the afflicted of his people will take refuge.