¹Swederai, imwi marudzi avanhu, munzwe, teererai imwi vanhu, nyika ngainzwe, nezvose zvayo, pasi pose, nezvose zvinobudamo.

¹Come near, you nations, to hear! Listen, you peoples. Let the earth and all it contains hear; the world, and everything that comes from it.

²nekuti Jehovha akatsamwira marudzi ose, ane hasha nehondo dzawo dzose; akavaparadza chose, akavaisa pakuurawa.

²For Yahweh is enraged against all the nations, and angry with all their armies. He has utterly destroyed them. He has given them over for slaughter.

³Vakaurawa vavo vacharaswa kunze, kunhuwa kwezvitunha zvavo kuchakwira, makomo achanyauswa neropa ravo.

³Their slain will also be cast out, and the stench of their dead bodies will come up; and the mountains will melt in their blood.

⁴Hondo dzose dzokudenga dzichanyakatika, denga rose richapetwa sorugwaro rwakapetwa; hondo dzaro dzose dzichaoma, sokuoma kwamashizha pamuzambiringa, uye seshizha rinooma pamuonde.

⁴All of the army of the sky will be dissolved. The sky will be rolled up like a scroll, and all its armies will fade away, as a leaf fades from off a vine or a fig tree.

⁵nekuti munondo wangu wamwa ukaguta kudenga; tarirai uchaburukira pamusoro paEdhomu, napamusoro pavanhu vakatukwa neni, kuti vatongwe.

⁵For my sword has drunk its fill in the sky. Behold, it will come down on Edom, and on the people of my curse, for judgment.

⁶Munondo waJehovha uzere neropa, unobwinya namafuta, neropa ramakwayana nerembudzana, namafuta etsvo dzamakondobwe; nekuti Jehovha ane chibayiro chake paBhozira, nokubaya kukuru panyika yaEdhomu.

⁶Yahweh’s sword is filled with blood. It is covered with fat, with the blood of lambs and goats, with the fat of the kidneys of rams; for Yahweh has a sacrifice in Bozrah, And a great slaughter in the land of Edom.

⁷Nyati dzichawa pamwechete navo, nenzombe pamwechete nehandira; nyika yavo ichabatwa neropa, guruva ravo richazara namafuta.

⁷The wild oxen will come down with them, and the young bulls with the mighty bulls; and their land will be drunken with blood, and their dust made greasy with fat.

⁸nekuti Jehovha ane zuva rokutsiva, negore rokutsiva zvakaitirwa Ziyoni.

⁸For Yahweh has a day of vengeance, a year of recompense for the cause of Zion.

⁹Hova dzayo dzichashanduka namo, ,huruva rayo sariferi, nyika yavo ichaitwa namo inopfuta.

⁹Its streams will be turned into pitch, its dust into sulfur, And its land will become burning pitch.

¹⁰Haingadzimwi usiku namasikati; utsi hwayo huchakwira nokusingaperi; richava dongo kusvikira kumarudzi namarudzi; hakuna munhu angapfuura noko nokusingaperi.

¹⁰It won’t be quenched night nor day. Its smoke will go up forever. From generation to generation, it will lie waste. No one will pass through it forever and ever.

¹¹Asi zvichava zvehukurwizi nenungu; zizi negunguvo zvichagaramo; achatambanudzirapo rwonzi rwokuparadza nechokururamisa chezvisina chinhu.

¹¹But the pelican and the porcupine will possess it. The owl and the raven will dwell in it. He will stretch the line of confusion over it, and the plumb line of emptiness.

¹²Vakuru vayo vachadanirwa kuushe, asi havangavipo; machinda ayo ose achava pasina.

¹²They shall call its nobles to the kingdom, but none shall be there; and all its princes shall be nothing.

¹³mhinzwa ichamera mudzimba dzamadzimambo ayo, hutumbambeva norukato munhare dzayo; huchava hugaro hwamakava, nenzvimbo yemhou.

¹³Thorns will come up in its palaces, nettles and thistles in its fortresses; and it will be a habitation of jackals, a court for ostriches.

¹⁴Zvikara zvomusango zvichasangana namapere, mweya wakaipa uchadana shamwari yawo; zvirokwazvo, chikara chousiku chichagarapo norugare, chichiwanapo nzvimbo yokuzorora.

¹⁴The wild animals of the desert will meet with the wolves, and the wild goat will cry to his fellow. Yes, the night creature literally, lilith, which could also be a night demon or night monster shall settle there, and shall find herself a place of rest.

¹⁵Rovambira richaita dendere raropo, nokukandira, nokuchechenya mazai aro, nokuunganidza vana varo mumumvuri waro; zvirokwazvo, ndipo pachaunganira ruvangu, rumwe norumwe neshamwari yarwo.

¹⁵The arrow snake will make her nest there, and lay, hatch, and gather under her shade. Yes, the kites will be gathered there, every one with her mate.

¹⁶Tsvakai pabhuku yaJehovha, murave; hapana chimwe chezvinhu izvi chichashaikwa, chichashaiwa shamwari yacho; nekuti muromo wangu wakarayira izvozvo, nomweya wake wakazviunganidza.

¹⁶Search in the book of Yahweh, and read: not one of these will be missing. none will lack her mate. For my mouth has commanded, and his Spirit has gathered them.

¹⁷Iye wakazvikandira mijenya, ruoko rwake rwakazviganhurira nyika norwonzi; ichava yazvo nokusingaperi, vachagaramo kusvikira kumarudzi namarudzi.

¹⁷He has cast the lot for them, and his hand has divided it to them with a measuring line. They shall possess it forever. From generation to generation they will dwell in it.