¹Chirevo pamusoro pomupata wezvakaonekwa. Unonzweiko, zvawakwira navanhu vako vose pamatenga edzimba?

¹The burden of the valley of vision. What ails you now, that you have all gone up to the housetops?

²Haiwa, iwe, uzere nokupururudza, guta rine bope, musha unomufaro; vakaurawa vako havana kuurawa nomunondo, havana kufira pakurwa.

²You that are full of shouting, a tumultuous city, a joyous town; your slain are not slain with the sword, neither are they dead in battle.

³vabati vako vose vakatiza pamwechete, vakasungwa vasina uta; vose vako, vakawanikwa, vakasungwa pamwechete; vakatizira kure.

³All your rulers fled away together. They were bound by the archers. All who were found by you were bound together. They fled far away.

⁴Naizvozvo ndakati, Regai kunditarira, ndinoda kuchema kwazvo; musaramba muchiedza kundinyaradza pamusoro pokuparadzwa komukunda wavanhu vangu.

⁴Therefore I said, “Look away from me. I will weep bitterly. Don’t labor to comfort me for the destruction of the daughter of my people.

⁵nekuti izuva rokuvhundusa, nerokutsikira pasi, nerokukanganisa, zvinobva kuna She, Jehovha wehondo, pamupata wokuratidzwa; rokukoromorwa kwamasvingo, nerokudanidzira kumakomo.

⁵For it is a day of confusion, and of treading down, and of perplexity, from the Lord, Yahweh of Armies, in the valley of vision; a breaking down of the walls, and a crying to the mountains.”

⁶Erami akabata goba, pamwechete namapoka avanhu navatasvi vamabhiza, Kiri akafudugura nhovo.

⁶Elam carried his quiver, with chariots of men and horsemen; and Kir uncovered the shield.

⁷Ipapo mipata yenyu yakaisvonaka yakazara nengoro, navatasvi vamabhiza vakazvigadzirira kurwa pasuwo.

⁷It happened that your choicest valleys were full of chariots, and the horsemen set themselves in array at the gate.

⁸Vakabvisa chifukidziro chaJudha; nezuva iro mukatarira nhumbi dzokurwa muimba yomudondo.

⁸He took away the covering of Judah; and you looked in that day to the armor in the house of the forest.

⁹Mukaona pakakoromoka paguta raDhavhidhi, kuti pakanga pari pazhinji, mukachingidzira mvura yedziva rezasi;

⁹You saw the breaches of the city of David, that they were many; and you gathered together the waters of the lower pool.

¹⁰mukaverenga dzimba dzeJerusaremu, mukakoromora dzimba kuti musimbise rusvingo;

¹⁰You numbered the houses of Jerusalem, and you broke down the houses to fortify the wall.

¹¹mukaitawo gungwa pakati pamasvingo maviri rokuchingidzira mvura yedziva rakare. Asi hamuna kutarira iye akazviita, makanga musine hanya naiye akazvifunga kare.

¹¹You also made a reservoir between the two walls for the water of the old pool. But you didn’t look to him who had done this, neither did you have respect for him who purposed it long ago.

¹²Zvino nezuva iro Ishe, Jehovha wehondo, akakudanirai kumisodzi, nokukuchema, nokukuveurwa mhanza, nokukufuka makudza;

¹²In that day, the Lord, Yahweh of Armies, called to weeping, and to mourning, and to baldness, and to dressing in sackcloth:

¹³asi tarirai, makava nomufaro nokupembera, nokubayiwa kwemombe, nokushinjiwa kwamakwai, nokudyiwa kwenyama nokumwiwa kwewaini, muchiti, Ngatidye, ngatimwe, nekuti mangwana tinofa.

¹³and behold, joy and gladness, killing cattle and killing sheep, eating flesh and drinking wine: “Let us eat and drink, for tomorrow we will die.”

¹⁴Asi Jehovha wehondo wakazvizivisa munzeve dzangu, akati, Zvirokwazvo, hamungakangamwirwi zvakaipa izvi, kusvikira pakufa kwenyu, ndizvo zvinotaura Ishe, Jehovha wehondo.

¹⁴Yahweh of Armies revealed himself in my ears, “Surely this iniquity will not be forgiven you until you die,” says the Lord, Yahweh of Armies.

¹⁵Zvanzi naShe, Jehovha wehondo, Enda kumuchengeti uyu wefuma, kuna Shebhina, unotarira imba yamambo, uti,

¹⁵Thus says the Lord, Yahweh of Armies, “Go, get yourself to this treasurer, even to Shebna, who is over the house, and say,

¹⁶Unobateiko pano? Unaniko pano, zvawazvivezera guva pano? Semunhu anozvivezera guva pakakwirira, anozvicherera ugaro hwake padombo!

¹⁶‘What are you doing here? Who has you here, that you have dug out a tomb here?’ Cutting himself out a tomb on high, chiseling a habitation for himself in the rock!”

¹⁷Tarira, Jehovha, achakurasira kure nesimba somurume; zvirokwazvo, achakupeta-peta.

¹⁷Behold, Yahweh will overcome you and hurl you away violently. Yes, he will grasp you firmly.

¹⁸Zvirokwazvo achakupomba-pomba, ndokukukandira sehurungudo munyika yakapamhamha; ndipo pauchafira, ndipo pachava nengoro dzembiri yako, iwe munyadzi weimba yatenzi wako.

¹⁸He will surely wind you around and around, and throw you like a ball into a large country. There you will die, and there the chariots of your glory will be, you shame of your lord’s house.

¹⁹Ndichakudzinga pabasa rako, iye uchakukwevera pasi ubve panzvimbo yako.

¹⁹I will thrust you from your office. You will be pulled down from your station.

²⁰Zvino nezuva iro ndichadana muranda wangu Eriakimi, mwanakomana waHirikia;

²⁰It will happen in that day that I will call my servant Eliakim the son of Hilkiah,

²¹ndichamufukidza nguvo yako, nokumusimbisa nebhanhire rako, ndigoisa ushe hwako muruoko rwake; iye achava baba kuna vagere Jerusaremu, nokuimba yaJudha.

²¹and I will clothe him with your robe, and strengthen him with your belt. I will commit your government into his hand; and he will be a father to the inhabitants of Jerusalem, and to the house of Judah.

²²Ndichaisa kiyi yeimba yaDhavhidhi pafudzi rake; iye achazarura, hapana angazarira, iye achazarira, hapana angazarura.

²²I will lay the key of the house of David on his shoulder. He will open, and no one will shut. He will shut, and no one will open.

²³Ndichamurovera pakasimba sembambo; achava chigaro chinokudzwa paimba yababa vake.

²³I will fasten him like a nail in a sure place. He will be for a throne of glory to his father’s house.

²⁴Vachaturika paari kukudzwa kose kweimba yababa vake, matavi namabukira, nemidziyo yose miduku, kubvira pamikombe kusvikira pamakate.

²⁴They will hang on him all the glory of his father’s house, the offspring and the issue, every small vessel, from the cups even to all the pitchers.

²⁵Nezuva iro, ndizvo zvinotaura Jehovha wehondo, mbambo yakanga yaroverwa pakasimba, ichabva; ichatemwa, ndokuwira pasi; nomutoro wakange wakaturikwa pairi, uchatemwa; nekuti Jehovha akataura izvozvo.

²⁵“In that day,” says Yahweh of Armies, “the nail that was fastened in a sure place will give way. It will be cut down, and fall. The burden that was on it will be cut off, for Yahweh has spoken it.”