1Chirevo pamusoro peDhamasiko. Tarirai, Dhamasiko robviswa, rirege kuzova guta, richava dongo rakakoromoka.
1The burden of Damascus: “Behold, Damascus is taken away from being a city, and it will be a ruinous heap.
2Maguta eAroeri asiiwa; achava mafuro ezvipfuwo, zvichavatapo pasi, zvisina anozvivhundusa.
2The cities of Aroer are forsaken. They will be for flocks, which shall lie down, and none shall make them afraid.
3Nhare ichabviswa panaEfuremu, noushe paDhamasiko; vakasara veSiria vachava sembiri yavana vaIsiraeri, ndizvo zvinotaura Jehovha wehondo.
3The fortress shall cease from Ephraim, and the kingdom from Damascus, and the remnant of Syria. They will be as the glory of the children of Israel,” says Yahweh of Armies.
4Zvino nezuva iro ukuru hwaJakove huchaitwa hutete, uye kukora kwenyama yake kuchaonda.
4“It will happen in that day that the glory of Jacob will be made thin, and the fatness of his flesh will become lean.
5Zvichafanana nenguva kana mucheki achiunganidza zviyo mumunda, achicheka hura noruoko rwake; zvirokwazvo zvichafanana nokuunganidza hura pamupata weRefaimi.
5It will be like when the harvester gathers the wheat, and his arm reaps the grain. Yes, it will be like when one gleans grain in the valley of Rephaim.
6Kunyange zvakadaro mimwe michero ichasariramo, sezvinoitika kana muorivhi uchizuzwa, zvibereko zviviri kana zvitatu kumuromo wedavi rokumusoro-soro, zvina kana zvishanu pamatavi okunze omuti unobereka kwazvo, ndizvo zvinotaura Jehovha, Mwari waIsiraeri.
6Yet gleanings will be left there, like the shaking of an olive tree, two or three olives in the top of the uppermost bough, four or five in the outermost branches of a fruitful tree,” says Yahweh, the God of Israel.
7Nezuva iro vanhu vachatarira Musiki wavo, meso avo achaona Mutsvene waIsiraeri.
7In that day, people will look to their Maker, and their eyes will have respect for the Holy One of Israel.
8Havangatariri aritari, iro basa ramaoko avo; zvakaitwa nemimwe yavo havangavi nehanya nazvo, kana iri miti yakatsaurwa kana mifananidzo yezuva.
8They will not look to the altars, the work of their hands; neither shall they respect that which their fingers have made, either the Asherim, or the incense altars.
9Nezuva iro maguta avo akasimba achaita samatongo kumatondo napamisoro yamakomo, akasiiwa nokuda kwavana vaIsraeri; achava matongo.
9In that day, their strong cities will be like the forsaken places in the woods and on the mountain top, which were forsaken from before the children of Israel; and it will be a desolation.
10nekuti wakangamwa Mwari Muponesi wako, hauna kurangarira dombo routiziro hwako. Saka unozvisimira miti inofadza, unoisamo mizambiringa yakabva kumwe.
10For you have forgotten the God of your salvation, and have not remembered the rock of your strength. Therefore you plant pleasant plants, and set out foreign seedlings.
11Nomusi wokusima kwako, unouvakira ruzhowa, fume mangwana unotumbusa mbeu dzako; asi kukohwa kunotiza nezuva rokutambudzika nerokuchema kukuru.
11In the day of your planting, you hedge it in. In the morning, you make your seed blossom, but the harvest flees away in the day of grief and of desperate sorrow.
12Haiwa, kutinhira kwavanhu vazhinji, vanotinhira sokutinhira kwegungwa, nokuririma kwamarudzi avanhu anoririma sokuririma kwemvura zhinji!
12Ah, the uproar of many peoples, who roar like the roaring of the seas; and the rushing of nations, that rush like the rushing of mighty waters!
13Marudzi acharirima sokuririma kwemvura zhinji; asi uchavatuka, vachatizira kure, vachadzingirirwa sehundi yamakomo pamberi pemhepo, seguruva rinopfungaira pamberi pedutu remhepo.
13The nations will rush like the rushing of many waters: but he will rebuke them, and they will flee far off, and will be chased like the chaff of the mountains before the wind, and like the whirling dust before the storm.
14Nenguva yamadekwana, tarirai, kuchava nokutyisa; mangwanani kusati kwaedza, havachipo. Ndiwo mugove wavanotipambara, nomubayiro wavanotibira.
14At evening, behold, terror! Before the morning, they are no more. This is the portion of those who plunder us, and the lot of those who rob us.