1Zvino naJehovha, Vane nhamo vana vanondimukira, vanofunga mano vasingandibvunzi, vanoita sungano zvisingabvi paMweya wangu,kuti vawedzere zvivi nezvivi;
1“Woe to the rebellious children,” says Yahweh, “who take counsel, but not from me; and who make an alliance, but not with my Spirit, that they may add sin to sin,
2vanozvirongedza kuenda Egipita, vasina kundibvunza, kuti vazvisimbise nesimba raFarao, nokuvanda mumumvuri weEgipita.
2who set out to go down into Egypt, and have not asked my advice; to strengthen themselves in the strength of Pharaoh, and to take refuge in the shadow of Egypt!
3Naizvozvo simba raFarao richakunyadzisai, kuvanda kwenyu mumumvuri waFarao kuchava kukanganisa kwenyu.
3Therefore the strength of Pharaoh will be your shame, and the refuge in the shadow of Egypt your confusion.
4nekuti machinda avo ari paZoani, nhume dzake dzakasvika Hanesi.
4For their princes are at Zoan, and their ambassadors have come to Hanes.
5Vose vachanyadziswa pamusoro porudzi rwavanhu vasingagoni kuvafumisa, vasingavabatsiri kana kuvafumisa, asi kuvanyadzisa nokuvashovodza.
5They shall all be ashamed because of a people that can’t profit them, that are not a help nor profit, but a shame, and also a reproach.”
6Chirevo pamusoro pezvikara zvenyika yezasi. Panyika yokutambudzika neyokuchema, kunobva shumba hadzi negonho, nenyoka, nenyoka yomoto inobhururuka, ndipo pavanotakudza fuma yavo pamusoro pamafudzi avana vembongoro, nezvinokosha zvavo panyundwa dzemakamera, vachizviisa kuvanhu vasingavafumisi.
6The burden of the animals of the South. Through the land of trouble and anguish, of the lioness and the lion, the viper and fiery flying serpent, they carry their riches on the shoulders of young donkeys, and their treasures on the humps of camels, to an unprofitable people.
7nekuti Egipita inobatsira pasina, zvisina maturo; saka ndakaitumidza zita rokuti, Rahabhi anongogara zvake.
7For Egypt helps in vain, and to no purpose; therefore have I called her Rahab who sits still.
8Zvino chienda, uzvinyore pamberi pavo pabwendefa rebwe, uzvinyore mubhuku, zvivepo panguva inouya nokusingaperi-peri.
8Now go, write it before them on a tablet, and inscribe it in a book, that it may be for the time to come forever and ever.
9nekuti ava rudzi runondimukira, vana vane nhema, vana vasingadi kunzwa murayiro waJehovha;
9For it is a rebellious people, lying children, children who will not hear the law of Yahweh;
10vanoti kuvaoni, Musaona; nokuvaporofita. Musatiporofitira zvinhu zvakarurama, tiudzei zvinofadza, tiporofitire zvinonyengera,
10who tell the seers, “Don’t see!” and to the prophets, “Don’t prophesy to us right things. Tell us pleasant things. Prophesy deceits.
11ibvai panzira, tsaukai pagwara, bvisai Mutsvene waIsiraeri pamberi pedu.
11Get out of the way. Turn aside from the path. Cause the Holy One of Israel to cease from before us.”
12Naizvozvo zvanzi noMutsvene waIsiraeri, Zvamunozvidza shoko iri, muchivimba nokumanikidzwa nokunyengera, muchizvitenda izvo;
12Therefore thus says the Holy One of Israel, “Because you despise this word, and trust in oppression and perverseness, and rely on it;
13naizvozvo kuipa uku kuchava kwamuri sapakakoromoka panoda kuwa, panotsveyama parusvingo rwakareba, panowa kamwekamwe pakarepo.
13therefore this iniquity shall be to you like a breach ready to fall, swelling out in a high wall, whose breaking comes suddenly in an instant.
14Uchaiputsa sezvinoputswa mudziyo womuumbi, uchaiputsa-putsa asine nyasha, kusvikira pachishaikwa pakati pezvimedu zvayo chaenga chokundogoka moto nacho pachoto, kana kutekesa mvura nacho patsime.
14He will break it as a potter’s vessel is broken, breaking it in pieces without sparing, so that there won’t be found among the broken piece a piece good enough to take fire from the hearth, or to dip up water out of the cistern.”
15nekuti zvanzi naIshe Jehovha, Mutsvene waIsiraeri, Pakudzoka nokuzorora ndipo panoruponeso rwenyu, pakunyarara napakutenda ndipo pachava nesimba renyu; asi makaramba,
15For thus said the Lord Yahweh, the Holy One of Israel, “You will be saved in returning and rest. Your strength will be in quietness and in confidence.” You refused,
16mukati, Kwete, tichatiza takatasva mabhiza; saka muchatiza zvenyu; uyezve, Tichatasva mabhiza anomhanyisa; saka vanodzingana nemwi vachamhanyisa.
16but you said, “No, for we will flee on horses”; therefore you will flee; and, “We will ride on the swift”; therefore those who pursue you will be swift.
17Vane chiuru vachatiza kana vachivambwa nomumwe; muchatiza kana muchivambwa navashanu; kusvikira masiiwa sedanda pamusoro pegomo, somureza pamusoro pechikomo.
17One thousand will flee at the threat of one. At the threat of five, you will flee until you are left like a beacon on the top of a mountain, and like a banner on a hill.
18Naizvozvo Jehovha achambomira, kuti akunzwirei tsitsi; naizvozvo achakudzwa, kuti ave nenyasha nemi, nekuti Jehovha ndiMwari wokururamisira; vakaropafadzwa vose vanomumirira.
18Therefore Yahweh will wait, that he may be gracious to you; and therefore he will be exalted, that he may have mercy on you, for Yahweh is a God of justice. Blessed are all those who wait for him.
19nekuti vanhu vachagara paZiyoni paJerusaremu; hamungazochemi, zvirokwazvo achakunzwirai tsitsi, kana achinzwa kuchema kwenyu; kana achinzwa, achakupindurai.
19For the people will dwell in Zion at Jerusalem. You will weep no more. He will surely be gracious to you at the voice of your cry. When he hears you, he will answer you.
20Kunyange Ishe akakupai chingwa chenhamo nemvura yokutambudzika, kunyange zvakadaro vadzidzisi venyu havangavandi, asi meso enyu achaona vadzidzisi venyu;
20Though the Lord may give you the bread of adversity and the water of affliction, yet your teachers won’t be hidden anymore, but your eyes will see your teachers;
21nzeve dzenyu dzichanzwa shoko shure kwenyu, richiti, Heyi nzira, fambai nayo! Kana muchida kutsaukira kurudyi, kana zvimwe muchida kutsaukira kuruboshwe.
21and when you turn to the right hand, and when you turn to the left, your ears will hear a voice behind you, saying, “This is the way. Walk in it.”
22Muchashatisa sirivha yakafukidza mifananidzo yenyu yakavezwa, nendarama yakanamirwa pamifananidzo yenyu yakaumbwa; uchairashira kure sechinhu chakashata; uchati kwachiri, Ibva pano.
22You shall defile the overlaying of your engraved images of silver, and the plating of your molten images of gold. You shall cast them away as an unclean thing. You shall tell it, “Go away!”
23Achakupa mvura yokumeresa mbeu yako, yauchadzvara muvhu; nezvokudya, zvinoberekwa nevhu, zvichava zvakakora zvizhinji. Nezuva iro mombe dzenyu dzichafura pamafuro makuru;
23He will give the rain for your seed, with which you will sow the ground; and bread of the increase of the ground will be rich and plentiful. In that day, your livestock will feed in large pastures.
24nzombe navana vembongoro, zvinorima minda, zvichadya zvokudya zvakarungwa; zvakarudzwa nemitsvairo nemisero.
24The oxen likewise and the young donkeys that till the ground will eat savory provender, which has been winnowed with the shovel and with the fork.
25Pamusoro pegomo rimwe nerimwe rakareba napachikomo chimwe nechimwe chakwirira, pachava nenzizi nehova dzemvura, nezuva rokuurawa kukuru kana shongwe dzichiwa.
25There shall be brooks and streams of water on every lofty mountain and on every high hill in the day of the great slaughter, when the towers fall.
26Uyezve, chiedza chomwedzi chichafanana nechiedza chezuva, chiedza chezuva chichawedzerwa kanomwe; sechiedza chamazuva manomwe, nezuva iro kana Jehovha achisunga pakakuvara pavanhu vake, nokuporesa vanga ravakarohwa.
26Moreover the light of the moon will be like the light of the sun, and the light of the sun will be seven times brighter, like the light of seven days, in the day that Yahweh binds up the fracture of his people, and heals the wound they were struck with.
27Tarirai, zita raJehovha rinobva kure, richipisa nokutsamwa kwake, richibudisa utsi uzhinji; miromo yake izere nehasha, rurimi rwake rwakafanana nomoto unopedza zvose;
27Behold, the name of Yahweh comes from far away, burning with his anger, and in thick rising smoke. His lips are full of indignation, and his tongue is as a devouring fire.
28mweya wake wakaita sorwizi runodira kunze, runosvikira pamutsipa, kuti asere marudzi avanhu nomusero wokuparadza; matomu anotsausa achava mumiromo yavanhu.
28His breath is as an overflowing stream that reaches even to the neck, to sift the nations with the sieve of destruction; and a bridle that leads to ruin will be in the jaws of the peoples.
29Muchaimba rwiyo, sezvinoitwa usiku kana mutambo mutsvene uchitambwa; muchava nokufara komoyo, wakafanana nowomunhu anoenda achiridza nyere kugomo raJehovha, kudombo raIsiraeri.
29You will have a song, as in the night when a holy feast is kept; and gladness of heart, as when one goes with a flute to come to Yahweh’s mountain, to Israel’s Rock.
30Jehovha achanzwisa inzwi rake roumambo, acharatidza kuburuka koruoko rwake, nokutsamwa kwake kukuru, nomurazvo womoto unopedza zvose, nechamupupuri, nokunaya kukuru kwemvura, nechimvuramabwe.
30Yahweh will cause his glorious voice to be heard, and will show the descent of his arm, with the indignation of his anger, and the flame of a devouring fire, with a blast, storm, and hailstones.
31nekuti muAsiria achakanganiswa nenzwi raJehovha; achamurova neshamhu.
31For through the voice of Yahweh the Assyrian will be dismayed. He will strike him with his rod.
32Kurova kose kwetsvimbo yakatumwa, yaacharohwa nayo naJehovha, kuchaitwa nokurira kwengoma nembira; acharwa navo nokurwa kuchazunungusa.
32Every stroke of the rod of punishment, which Yahweh will lay on him, will be with the sound of tambourines and harps. He will fight with them in battles, brandishing weapons.
33nekuti Tofeti rakagara ragadzirwa, zvirokwazvo rakagadzirirwa mambo; wakaridzikisa nokurikurisa; dutu riripo moto nehuni zhinji; mweya waJehovha, wakafanana norwizi rwesariferi, uchazvipfutidza.
33For his burning place has long been ready. Yes, for the king it is prepared. He has made its pyre deep and large with fire and much wood. Yahweh’s breath, like a stream of sulfur, kindles it.