1Haiwa, nyika yokuvirira kwamapapiro, iri mhiri kwenzizi dzeItiopia,
1Ah, the land of the rustling of wings, which is beyond the rivers of Ethiopia;
2inotuma nhume nenzira dzegungwa namagwa enhokwe pamusoro pemvura, ichiti, Endai, imwi nhume dzinokurumidza, kurudzi rwavanhu vakareba vakanaka kumeso, kuvanhu vanotyiwa kose-kose, rudzi rune simba, runotsika-tsika pasi, rune nyika inokamurwa nenzizi.
2that sends ambassadors by the sea, even in vessels of papyrus on the waters, saying, “Go, you swift messengers, to a nation tall and smooth, to a people awesome from their beginning onward, a nation that measures out and treads down, whose land the rivers divide!”
3Imi mose muri pasi pose, nemwi mugere panyika, kana mureza uchisimudzwa pamakomo, tarirai; kana hwamanda ichiridzwa, inzwai!
3All you inhabitants of the world, and you dwellers on the earth, when a banner is lifted up on the mountains, look! When the trumpet is blown, listen!
4nekuti Jehovha akataura kwandiri kudai, Ndichanyarara, ndichatarira ndiri paugaro hwangu, sokupisa kwezuva pamushana, seguti pakupisa kwenguva yokukohwa.
4For Yahweh said to me, “I will be still, and I will see in my dwelling place, like clear heat in sunshine, like a cloud of dew in the heat of harvest.”
5nekuti kukohwa kusati kwasvika, kana maruva azuka, ruva rashanduka zambiringa roda kuibva, achagura matavi namapanga; namatavi anotandira achaabvisa nokuatema.
5For before the harvest, when the blossom is over, and the flower becomes a ripening grape, he will cut off the sprigs with pruning hooks, and he will cut down and take away the spreading branches.
6Ose pamwechete achasiirwa magora ari pamakomo, nezvikara zvenyika; magora achagara pamusoro pavo chirimo chose, nezvikara zvenyika zvichapedza chando pamusoro pavo.
6They will be left together for the ravenous birds of the mountains, and for the animals of the earth. The ravenous birds will summer on them, and all the animals of the earth will winter on them.
7Nenguva iyo Jehovha wehondo achavigirwa zvipo norudzi rwavanhu vakareba vakanaka kumeso, vanhu vanotyiwa kose-kose, rudzi rune simba, runotsika-tsika pasi, rune nyika inokamurwa nenzizi, kunzvimbo yezita raJehovha wehondo, kugomo reZiyoni.
7In that time, a present will be brought to Yahweh of Armies from a people tall and smooth, even from a people awesome from their beginning onward, a nation that measures out and treads down, whose land the rivers divide, to the place of the name of Yahweh of Armies, Mount Zion.