1Buruka, ugare muguruva, iwe mhandara, mukunda weBhabhironi; gara pasi pasine chigaro choushe, iwe mukunda wavaKaradhea; nekuti hauchazonzi unoundere nechidikamwa.
1“Come down, and sit in the dust, virgin daughter of Babylon; sit on the ground without a throne, daughter of the Chaldeans: for you shall no more be called tender and delicate.
2Tora guyo nehuyo ukuye upfu; bvisa chifukidziro chechiso chako, kurura rokwe rako, fukura gumbo rako, yambuka nzizi.
2Take the millstones, and grind meal; remove your veil, strip off the train, uncover the leg, pass through the rivers.
3Kusafuka kwako kuchava pachena, kunyadzwa kwako kuchaonekwa; ndichazvitsiva, ndisingarangariri munhu.
3Your nakedness shall be uncovered, yes, your shame shall be seen: I will take vengeance, and will spare no man.”
4Mudzikunuri wedu, zita rake rinonzi Jehovha wehondo, Mutsvene walsiraeri.
4Our Redeemer, Yahweh of Armies is his name, the Holy One of Israel.
5Gara unyerere, upinde murima, iwe mukunda wavaKaradhea; nekuti hauchazonzi Vahosi hwovushe huzhinji.
5“Sit in silence, and go into darkness, daughter of the Chaldeans; for you shall no more be called the mistress of kingdoms.
6Ndakanga ndakatsamwira vanhu vangu, ndakamhura nhaka yangu, ndikavaisa mumaoko ako; iwe hauna kuvanzwira tsitsi, wakaisa joko rako rinorema kwazvo pamusoro pavatana.
6I was angry with my people, I profaned my inheritance, and gave them into your hand: you showed them no mercy; on the aged you have very heavily laid your yoke.
7Ukati, Ndichava vahosi nokusingaperi; naizvozvo hauna kuisa zvinhu izvi muhana yako, hauna kurangarira kuguma kwazvo.
7You said, ‘I shall be a mistress forever;’ so that you did not lay these things to your heart, nor did you remember the latter end of it.
8Naizvozvo zvino chinzwa chinhu ichi, iwe unozvinofadza, ugere zvakasimba, unoti mumoyo mako Ndini ndoga, hakuna mumwe kunze kwangu; handingagari ndiri chirikadzi, handingazivi kufirwa navana.
8“Now therefore hear this, you who are given to pleasures, who sit securely, who say in your heart, ‘I am, and there is none else besides me; I shall not sit as a widow, neither shall I know the loss of children:’
9Asi zvinhu izvi zviviri zvichakuwira nechinguva chiduku, nezuva rimwe chete, kufirwa navana, nouchirikadzi; zvichakuwira nechiyero chizere, pakati paun'anga hwako huzhinji, nouroyi hwako hwakawanda.
9but these two things shall come to you in a moment in one day, the loss of children, and widowhood; in their full measure shall they come on you, in the multitude of your sorceries, and the great abundance of your enchantments.
10nekuti wakavimba nezvakaipa zvako; wakati, Hakuna anondiona; wakakanganiswa nouchenjeri hwako nezivo yako, ukati mumoyo mako, Ndini ndoga, hakuna mumwe kunze kwangu.
10For you have trusted in your wickedness; you have said, No one sees me; your wisdom and your knowledge, it has perverted you, and you have said in your heart, I am, and there is none else besides me.
11Nezvakaipa zvichakuwira, zvausingazivi kuvamba kwazvo; uchawirwa nenjodzi, yausingagoni kubvisa; kuparadzwa kuchakuwira pakarepo, kwausingazivi.
11Therefore evil will come on you; you won’t know when it dawns: and mischief will fall on you; you will not be able to put it away: and desolation shall come on you suddenly, which you don’t know.
12Zvino uya nouroyi hwako noun'anga hwako huzhinji, hwawakabata nahwo kubva pauduku hwako, zvimwe ungabatsirwa, zvimwe ungava nepundutso.
12“Stand now with your enchantments, and with the multitude of your sorceries, in which you have labored from your youth; if so be you shall be able to profit, if so be you may prevail.
13Waneta nokuwanda kwamano ako; zvino, vanodudzira zvokudenga, navanocherekedza nyeredzi, navanofembera zvomwedzi mumwe nomumwe ngavasimuke, vakuponese pazvinhu zvichakuwira.
13You are wearied in the multitude of your counsels: let now the astrologers, the stargazers, the monthly prognosticators, stand up, and save you from the things that shall come on you.
14Tarira, vachaita samashanga, vachapiswa nomoto, havangagoni kuzvirwira pasimba romurazvo; haungavi zimbe rokudziya, kana moto wokudziya.
14Behold, they shall be as stubble; the fire shall burn them; they shall not deliver themselves from the power of the flame: it shall not be a coal to warm at, nor a fire to sit before.
15Ndizvo zvichaita zvose zvawakabatira; vakashambadzirana newe kubva pauduku hwako, vachadzungaira mumwe nomumwe nenzira yake; pachashaikwa anokuponesa.
15Thus shall the things be to you in which you have labored: those who have trafficked with you from your youth shall wander everyone to his quarter; there shall be none to save you.