1Danidzira kwazvo, usarega, danidzira nenzwi rako sehwamanda, uparidzire vanhu vangu kudarika kwavo, neimba yaJakove zvivi zvavo.
1“Cry aloud, don’t spare, lift up your voice like a trumpet, and declare to my people their disobedience, and to the house of Jacob their sins.
2Kunyange zvakadaro, vanonditsvaka zuva rimwe nerimwe, vachifarira kuziva nzira dzangu; vanokumbira kwandiri mirayiro yakarurama, sorudzi runoita zvakarurama, rusingasii zvakarayirwa naMwari wavo; vanofarira kuswedera kuna Mwari.
2Yet they seek me daily, and delight to know my ways: as a nation that did righteousness, and didn’t forsake the ordinance of their God, they ask of me righteous judgments; they delight to draw near to God.
3Vanoti, Takazvinyimireiko zvoku dya, imwi mukasazviona? Takatambudzireiko mweya yedu, imwi mukasazviziva? Taurirai, pazuva rokutsanya munotsvaka kuzvifadza henyu nokubata mabasa enyu ose.
3‘Why have we fasted,’ say they, ‘and you don’t see? Why have we afflicted our soul, and you take no knowledge?’ “Behold, in the day of your fast you find pleasure, and exact all your labors.
4Tarirai, munotsanya, kuti murwe nokukakavara, nokurova netsiva yezvakaipa, hamuzvinyimi zvokudya nhasi, kuti inzwi renyu rinzwike kumusoro.
4Behold, you fast for strife and contention, and to strike with the fist of wickedness: you don’t fast this day so as to make your voice to be heard on high.
5Ndikoko kutsanya kwandakasanangura here? Izuva rokuti munhu atambudze mweya wake here? Ndiko kukotamisa musoro wake senhokwe, nokuwarira makudza namadota pasi pake here? Izvozvo ungazviti ndiko kutsanya, nezuva rinodikamwa naJehovha here?
5Is such the fast that I have chosen? the day for a man to afflict his soul? Is it to bow down his head as a rush, and to spread sackcloth and ashes under him? Will you call this a fast, and an acceptable day to Yahweh?
6Ko kutsanya kwandakasanangura hakuzakadai here, kuti musunungure zvisungo zvezvakaipa, nokubvisa makashu ejoko, kuti akamanikidzwa aende hake, uye kuti muvhune majoko ose here?
6“Isn’t this the fast that I have chosen: to release the bonds of wickedness, to undo the bands of the yoke, and to let the oppressed go free, and that you break every yoke?
7Hakuzi kuti ugovane zvokudya zvako neanenzara, uye kuti udane varombo vakadzingwa vapinde mumba mako kuti kana uchiona munhu wakashama umufukidze, uye kuti urege kuvanda venyama yako here?
7Isn’t it to distribute your bread to the hungry, and that you bring the poor who are cast out to your house? When you see the naked, that you cover him; and that you not hide yourself from your own flesh?
8Ipapo chiedza chako chichabuda sechamambakwedza, kuporeswa kwako kuchabukira nokukurumidza, kururama kwako kuchakutungamirira, nokubwinya kwaJehovha kuchakurindira mumashure.
8Then your light shall break forth as the morning, and your healing shall spring forth speedily; and your righteousness shall go before you; the glory of Yahweh shall be your rear guard.
9Ipapo uchadana, Jehovha uchakupindura; achadanidzira iwe, iye achati, Ndiripano. Kana uchibvisa pakati pako joko, nokutendeka nomumwe, nokutaura zvakaipa;
9Then you shall call, and Yahweh will answer; you shall cry, and he will say, ‘Here I am.’ “If you take away from the midst of you the yoke, the putting forth of the finger, and speaking wickedly;
10kana mweya wako ukava nehanya navane nzara, nokugutisa mweya woanotambudzika; ipapo chiedza chako chichabuda murima, kusvibirwa kwako kuchaita samasikati;
10and if you draw out your soul to the hungry, and satisfy the afflicted soul: then your light shall rise in darkness, and your obscurity be as the noonday;
11Jehovha achakufambisa nguva dzose, achagutisa mweya wako panzvimbo dzakaoma, nokusimbisa mafupa ako; uchava somunda wakadiridzwa, uye setsime remvura, risingapwi mvura yaro.
11and Yahweh will guide you continually, and satisfy your soul in dry places, and make strong your bones; and you shall be like a watered garden, and like a spring of water, whose waters don’t fail.
12Vachaberekwa newe vachavakazve matongo akare; uchamutsa nheyo dzamarudzi mazhinji, uye uchatumidzwa, Mugadziri wopakakoromoka, muvandudzi wenzira, kuti vanhu vagone kugarapo.
12Those who shall be of you shall build the old waste places; you shall raise up the foundations of many generations; and you shall be called The repairer of the breach, The restorer of paths to dwell in.
13Kana uchidzora gumbo rako pazuva resabata, kuti urege kuita zvaunoda pazuva rangu dzvene, uchiti, sabata izuva rinofadza, nezuva dzvene raJehovha rinofanira kukudzwa, uchirikudza, usingaiti zvaunoda, kana kutsvaka zvinokufadza, kana kutaura mashoko ako.,
13“If you turn away your foot from the Sabbath, from doing your pleasure on my holy day; and call the Sabbath a delight, and the holy of Yahweh honorable; and shall honor it, not doing your own ways, nor finding your own pleasure, nor speaking your own words:
14Ipapo uchafarira Jehovha kwazvo; neni ndichakufambisa panzvimbo dzakakwirira dzenyika ndichakugutisa nenhaka yababa vako Jakove, nekuti muromo waJehovha wakataura izvozvo.
14then you shall delight yourself in Yahweh; and I will make you to ride on the high places of the earth; and I will feed you with the heritage of Jacob your father:” for the mouth of Yahweh has spoken it.