¹Zvino namazuva iwayo Hezekia akarwara, akasvikira pakufa. Muporofita Isaya mwanakomana waAmozi akasvika kwaari, akati kwaari, Zvanzi naJehovha, Chirayira nhaka yako, nekuti uchafa, haungararami.

¹In those days was Hezekiah sick and near death. Isaiah the prophet, the son of Amoz, came to him, and said to him, “Thus says Yahweh, ‘Set your house in order, for you will die, and not live.’”

²Ipapo Hezekia akatendeukira kumadziro, akanyengetera kuna Jehovha,

²Then Hezekiah turned his face to the wall and prayed to Yahweh,

³akati, Dorangarirai henyu, Jehovha, kuti ndakafamba pamberi penyu nechokwadi nomoyo wose, ndikaita zvakanaka pamberi penyu. Hezekia akachema kwazvo.

³and said, “Remember now, Yahweh, I beg you, how I have walked before you in truth and with a perfect heart, and have done that which is good in your sight.” Hezekiah wept bitterly.

⁴Ipapo shoko raJehovha rakasvika kuna Isaya, richiti,

⁴Then the word of Yahweh came to Isaiah, saying,

⁵Enda undoti kuna Hezekia, zvanzi naJehovha, Mwari wababa vako Dhavhidhi, Ndanzwa kunyengetera kwako, ndaona misodzi yako; tarira, ndichawedzera pamazuva ako makore ane gumi namashanu.

⁵“Go, and tell Hezekiah, ‘Thus says Yahweh, the God of David your father, “I have heard your prayer. I have seen your tears. Behold, I will add fifteen years to your life.

⁶Ndichakurwira iwe neguta rino paruoko rwamambo weAsiria; uye ndichadzivirira guta rino.

⁶I will deliver you and this city out of the hand of the king of Assyria, and I will defend this city.

⁷Hechi chiratidzo chaJehovha kwauri, kuti Jehovha achaita chinhu ichi chaakataura.

⁷This shall be the sign to you from Yahweh, that Yahweh will do this thing that he has spoken.

⁸Tarira, ndichadzosa mumvuri pamitaro, yakanga yakadzira nezuva pachikati chaAhazi, udzoke mitaro ine gumi. Naizvozvo zuva rakadzoka mitaro ine gumi pachikati chaAhazi, pawakanga wadzikira.

⁸Behold, I will cause the shadow on the sundial, which has gone down on the sundial of Ahaz with the sun, to return backward ten steps. So the sun returned ten steps on the sundial on which it had gone down.”’”

⁹Horwu runyoro rwaHezekia mambo waJudha, panguva yaakanga arwara, akaporazve pakurwara kwake.

⁹The writing of Hezekiah king of Judah, when he had been sick, and had recovered of his sickness.

¹⁰Ndakati, ndichapinda pamasuwo eSheori achiri masikati pamazuva angu; Ndatorerwa makore angu akanga asara.

¹⁰I said, “In the middle of my life I go into the gates of Sheol Sheol is the place of the dead. . I am deprived of the residue of my years.”

¹¹Ndakati, handichazooni Jehovha, iye Jehovha, panyika yavapenyu; Handichazooni vanhu pamwechete navagere panyika.

¹¹I said, “I won’t see Yah, Yah in the land of the living. I will see man no more with the inhabitants of the world.

¹²Ugaro hwangu hwaputswa, hwabviswa kwandiri setende romufudzi; Ndapeta upenyu hwangu, somuruki, uchandigura pachirukiso; Muchandigumisa kubvira mangwanani kusvikira madekwana.

¹²My dwelling is removed, and is carried away from me like a shepherd’s tent. I have rolled up, like a weaver, my life. He will cut me off from the loom. From day even to night you will make an end of me.

¹³Ndakachema kusvikira kwaedza; unovhuna mafupa angu ose seshumba; Muchandigumisa kubvira mangwanani kusvikira madekwana.

¹³I waited patiently until morning. He breaks all my bones like a lion. From day even to night you will make an end of me.

¹⁴Ndakarira senyenganyenga kana kondo; Ndakachema senjiva; meso angu akapera nokutarira kumusoro; Haiwa Jehovha, ndakamanikidzwa, ivai mumiririri wangu imi.

¹⁴I chattered like a swallow or a crane. I moaned like a dove. My eyes weaken looking upward. Lord, I am oppressed. Be my security.”

¹⁵Ndingatiiko? Ndiye akataura neni, ndiye akazviita; Ndichanyasa kufamba makore angu ose, nokuda kokurwadziwa komoyo wangu.

¹⁵What will I say? He has both spoken to me, and himself has done it. I will walk carefully all my years because of the anguish of my soul.

¹⁶Ishe, vanhu vanorarama nezvinhu izvozvi; Upenyu hwose hwomweya wangu huri mazviri; Naizvozvo ndiporesei, mundiraramise.

¹⁶Lord, men live by these things; and my spirit finds life in all of them: you restore me, and cause me to live.

¹⁷Tarirai, kutambudzika kwangu kukuru kwakazondivigira rugare; Asi makarwira mweya wangu norudo pagomba rokuparadzwa; nekuti makarasira zvivi zvangu zvose shure kwenyu.

¹⁷Behold, for peace I had great anguish, but you have in love for my soul delivered it from the pit of corruption; for you have cast all my sins behind your back.

¹⁸nekuti Sheori harigoni kukuvongai, rufu harugoni kukurumbidzai; Vanoburukira kugomba havangagoni kutarira zvokwadi yenyu.

¹⁸For Sheol Sheol is the place of the dead. can’t praise you. Death can’t celebrate you. Those who go down into the pit can’t hope for your truth.

¹⁹Mupenyu, mupenyu, ndiye uchakuvongai, sezvandinoita nhasi; baba vachazivisa vana vavo zvokwadi yenyu.

¹⁹The living, the living, he shall praise you, as I do this day. The father shall make known your truth to the children.

²⁰Jehovha akazvigadzirira kundiponesa; Naizvozvo tichaimba nziyo dzangu nemitengeramwa Mazuva ose oupenyu bwedu mumba maJehovha.

²⁰Yahweh will save me. Therefore we will sing my songs with stringed instruments all the days of our life in the house of Yahweh.

²¹Zvino Isaya akanga ati, Ngavatore bundu, ramawonde varinamire pamota, ipapo achapora.

²¹Now Isaiah had said, “Let them take a cake of figs, and lay it for a poultice on the boil, and he shall recover.”

²²Hezekiawo akanga ati, Chiratidzo ndechipi kuti ndichakwira kuimba yaJehovha?

²²Hezekiah also had said, “What is the sign that I will go up to the house of Yahweh?”