¹Zvanzi naJehovha, Enda undotenga chirongo chakaumbwa nomuumbi wehari, unavamwe vakuru vavanhu navamwe vakuru vavapristi;

¹Thus said Yahweh, Go, and buy a potter’s earthen bottle, and take some of the elders of the people, and of the elders of the priests;

²ipapo uende kumupata womwanakomana waHinomi, uripo pavanopinda pasuwo rezvaenga zvehari uparidzirepo mashoko andichakuudza;

²and go forth to the valley of the son of Hinnom, which is by the entry of the gate Harsith, and proclaim there the words that I shall tell you;

³uti, Inzwai shoko raJehovha, imwi madzimambo aJudha navagere Jerusaremu, zvanzi naJehovha wehondo, Mwari waIsiraeri, Tarirai, ndichauyisa zvakaipa pamusoro penzvimbo ino, nzeve dzomumwe nomumwe unozvinzwa dzichawunga.

³and say, Hear the word of Yahweh, kings of Judah, and inhabitants of Jerusalem: thus says Yahweh of Armies, the God of Israel, Behold, I will bring evil on this place, which whoever hears, his ears shall tingle.

⁴nekuti vakandisiya, vakashandura nzvimbo ino, vakapisirapo zvinonhuhwira kuna vamwe vamwari vavakanga vasingazivi, ivo namadzibaba avo namadzimambo aJudha, vakazadza nzvimbo ino neropa ravasina mhosva,

⁴Because they have forsaken me, and have estranged this place, and have burned incense in it to other gods, that they didn’t know, they and their fathers and the kings of Judah; and have filled this place with the blood of innocents,

⁵vakavaka nzvimbo dzakakwirira dzaBhaari, kuti vapisire Bhaari vanakomana vavo pamoto zvive zvipiriso zvinomupisirwa; izvo, zvandisina kuvaraira, kana kuzvitaura, zvandisina kufunga mumoyo mangu.

⁵and have built the high places of Baal, to burn their sons in the fire for burnt offerings to Baal; which I didn’t command, nor spoke it, neither came it into my mind:

⁶Naizvozvo tarirai, mazuva anouya ndizvo zvinotaura Jehovha nzvimbo ino haichazonzi Tofeti, kana Mupata womwanakomana waHinomi, asi Mupata woKuurawa.

⁶therefore, behold, the days come, says Yahweh, that this place shall no more be called Topheth, nor The valley of the son of Hinnom, but The valley of Slaughter.

⁷Ndichakonesa mano aJudha naveJerusaremu panzvimbo ino; ndichavawisa nomunondo pamberi pavavengi vavo, uye namaoko avanotsvaka kuvauraya; zvitunha zvavo ndichazvipa shiri dzokudenga nezvikara zvenyika, zvive zvokudya zvazvo.

⁷I will make void the counsel of Judah and Jerusalem in this place; and I will cause them to fall by the sword before their enemies, and by the hand of those who seek their life: and their dead bodies will I give to be food for the birds of the sky, and for the animals of the earth.

⁸Guta rino ndichariita chishamiso nechinhu chinoridzirwa muridzo; mumwe nomumwe unopfuura napo uchashamiswa achiridza muridzo nokuda kwamatambudziko aro ose.

⁸I will make this city an astonishment, and a hissing; everyone who passes thereby shall be astonished and hiss because of all its plagues.

⁹Ndichavadyisa nyama yavanakomana vavo nenyama yavanasikana vavo; mumwe nomumwe uchadya nyama yeshamwari yake pakukombwa kwaro napakumanikidzwa kwavachamanikidzwa nako navavengi vavo navanotsvaka kuvauraya.

⁹I will cause them to eat the flesh of their sons and the flesh of their daughters; and they shall eat everyone the flesh of his friend, in the siege and in the distress, with which their enemies, and those who seek their life, shall distress them.

¹⁰Zvino unofanira kuputsa chirongo pamberi pavarume vakaenda newe,

¹⁰Then you shall break the bottle in the sight of the men who go with you,

¹¹ugoti kwavari, Zvanzi naJehovha wehondo, Saizvozvo ndichaputsa vanhu ava neguta rino, sezvinoputswa mudziyo womuumbi wehari, usingabviri kuzogadzirwazve; zvino vachaviga vakafa paTofeti nokuti kuchashaikwa imwe nzvimbo.

¹¹and shall tell them, Thus says Yahweh of Armies: Even so will I break this people and this city, as one breaks a potter’s vessel, that can’t be made whole again; and they shall bury in Topheth, until there is no place to bury.

¹²Ndizvo zvandichaitira nzvimbo ino navagerepo, ndiite guta rino seTofeti ndizvo zvinotaura Jehovha.

¹²Thus will I do to this place, says Yahweh, and to its inhabitants, even making this city as Topheth:

¹³Dzimba dzeJerusaremu, nedzimba dzamadzimambo aJudha, dzakasvibiswa, dzichaita senzvimbo yeTofeti, idzo dzimba dzose dzavakapisira pamatenga adzo zvinonhuhwira kuhondo dzokudenga,nokudururira vamwe vamwari zvipiriso zvinodururwa.

¹³and the houses of Jerusalem, and the houses of the kings of Judah, which are defiled, shall be as the place of Topheth, even all the houses on whose roofs they have burned incense to all the army of the sky, and have poured out drink offerings to other gods.

¹⁴Ipapo Jeremiya wakabva Tofeti, kwaakanga atumwa naJehovha kundoporofita, akandomira muruvazhe rweimba yaJehovha, akati kuvanhu vose,

¹⁴Then came Jeremiah from Topheth, where Yahweh had sent him to prophesy; and he stood in the court of Yahweh’s house, and said to all the people:

¹⁵Zvanzi naJehovha wehondo, Mwari waIsiraeri, Tarirai, ndichauyisa pamusoro peguta rino napamusoro pemisha yaro yose, zvakaipa zvose zvandakataura pamusoro paro; nekuti vakaomesa mitsipa yavo, kuti varege kunzwa mashoko angu.

¹⁵Thus says Yahweh of Armies, the God of Israel, Behold, I will bring on this city and on all its towns all the evil that I have pronounced against it; because they have made their neck stiff, that they may not hear my words.