¹Vane nhamo vafudzi vanoparadza nokuparadzira makwai amafuro angu! Ndizvo zvinotaura Jehovha.

¹Woe to the shepherds who destroy and scatter the sheep of my pasture! says Yahweh.

²Naizvozvo zvanzi naJehovha, Mwari waIsiraeri, pamusoro pavafudzi vanofudza vanhu vangu, Makaparadzira makwai angu, mukaadzinga, mukasaatarira; tarirai, ndichakurovai nokuda kwezvakaipa zvamabasa enyu ndizvo zvinotaura Jehovha.

²Therefore thus says Yahweh, the God of Israel, against the shepherds who feed my people: You have scattered my flock, and driven them away, and have not visited them; behold, I will visit on you the evil of your doings, says Yahweh.

³Ndichaunganidza vakasara vamakwai angu kunyika dzose kwandakanga ndaadzingira, ndichaadzosera kumafuro awo; achaberekana nokuwanda.

³I will gather the remnant of my flock out of all the countries where I have driven them, and will bring them again to their folds; and they shall be fruitful and multiply.

⁴Ndichaagadzira vafudzi vanowafudza; haangazotyi kana kuvhunduswa, hakuna nerimwe ringashaikwa ndizvo zvinotaura Jehovha.

⁴I will set up shepherds over them, who shall feed them; and they shall fear no more, nor be dismayed, neither shall any be lacking, says Yahweh.

⁵Tarirai, ndizvo zvinotaura Jehovha, Mazuva achauya, andichamutsira Dhavhidhi bukira rakarurama, iye uchabata ushe ari mambo, uchaita nohuchenjeri nokururama achiita zvakarurama panyika.

⁵Behold, the days come, says Yahweh, that I will raise to David a righteous Branch, and he shall reign as king and deal wisely, and shall execute justice and righteousness in the land.

⁶Pamazuva ake VaJudha vachaponeswa, naVaIsiraeri vachagara vakachengetwa; zita rake raachatumidzwa ndireri, Jehovha ndiye kururama kwedu.

⁶In his days Judah shall be saved, and Israel shall dwell safely; and this is his name by which he shall be called: Yahweh our righteousness.

⁷Naizvozvo, tarirai, ndizvo zvinotaura Jehovha mazuva anouya, avasingazoti, NaJehovha mupenyu, wakabudisa vana valsiraeri munyika yeEgipita;

⁷Therefore behold, the days come, says Yahweh, that they shall no more say, As Yahweh lives, who brought up the children of Israel out of the land of Egypt;

⁸asi, NaJehovha mupenyu, wakabudisa rudzi rweimba yaIsiraeri munyika yokumusoro, achivaperekedza, nomunyika dzose kwandakanga ndavadzingira. Ivo vachagara munyika yavo.

⁸but, As Yahweh lives, who brought up and who led the seed of the house of Israel out of the north country, and from all the countries where I had driven them. They shall dwell in their own land.

⁹Kana vari vaporofita, moyo wangu wakaputsika mukati mangu; mafupa angu ose anozununguka, ndakaita somunhu wakabatwa, somunhu wakundwa newaini, nokuda kwaJehovha, uye nokuda kwamashoko ake matsvene.

⁹Concerning the prophets. My heart within me is broken, all my bones shake; I am like a drunken man, and like a man whom wine has overcome, because of Yahweh, and because of his holy words.

¹⁰nekuti nyika izere nemhombwe; nekuti nyika inochema nemhaka yokutuka, mafuro erenje akaoma; zvavanovavarira zvakaipa, simba ravo harizakarurama.

¹⁰For the land is full of adulterers; for because of swearing the land mourns; the pastures of the wilderness are dried up. Their course is evil, and their might is not right;

¹¹nekuti muporofita nomupristi vose vanomhura Jehovha; zvirokwazvo, mumba mangu ndakawana zvakaipa zvavo, ndizvo zvinotaura Jehovha.

¹¹for both prophet and priest are profane; yes, in my house have I found their wickedness, says Yahweh.

¹²Naizvozvo nzira yavo ichava kwavari senzvimbo dzinotedza murima; vachatinhwa, ndokuwiramo; nekuti ndichavauyisira zvakaipa pagore rokurohwa kwavo, ndizvo zvinotaura Jehovha.

¹²Therefore their way shall be to them as slippery places in the darkness: they shall be driven on, and fall therein; for I will bring evil on them, even the year of their visitation, says Yahweh.

¹³Ndakaona hupenzi kuvaporofita veSamaria; vakaporofita naBhaari, vakashatisa vanhu vangu Isiraeri.

¹³I have seen folly in the prophets of Samaria; they prophesied by Baal, and caused my people Israel to err.

¹⁴Kuvaporofita veJerusaremu ndakaonawo chinhu chinonyangadza, vanoita hupombwe, nokufamba nenhema; vanosimbisa maoko avanoita zvakaipa, naizvozvo hakuna nomumwe unodzoka pazvakaipa zvake; vose vava kwandiri seSodhoma, navagerepo seGomora.

¹⁴In the prophets of Jerusalem also I have seen a horrible thing: they commit adultery, and walk in lies; and they strengthen the hands of evildoers, so that none does return from his wickedness: they are all of them become to me as Sodom, and its inhabitants as Gomorrah.

¹⁵Naizvozvo zvanzi naJehovha wehondo pamusoro pavaporofita, Tarirai, ndichavadyisa gavakava, ndichavamwisa mvura yenduru; nekuti kumhura Jehovha kwakabuda kuvaporofita veJerusaremu kukaenda kunyika yose.

¹⁵Therefore thus says Yahweh of Armies concerning the prophets: Behold, I will feed them with wormwood, and make them drink the water of gall; for from the prophets of Jerusalem is ungodliness gone forth into all the land.

¹⁶Zvanzi naJehovha wehondo, Regai kuteerera mashoko avaporofita vanokuporofitirai; vanokudzidzisai zvisina maturo, vanotaura zvavakaona pamoyo yavo, zvisati zviri izvo zvinobuda mumuromo waJehovha.

¹⁶Thus says Yahweh of Armies, Don’t listen to the words of the prophets who prophesy to you: they teach you vanity; they speak a vision of their own heart, and not out of the mouth of Yahweh.

¹⁷Vanoramba vachiti kuna vanondizvidza, Jehovha wakati, Muchava norugare; uye kunomumwe nomumwe unofamba nohukukutu hwomoyo wake, vanoti, Hakune chakaipa chingakuwira.

¹⁷They say continually to those who despise me, Yahweh has said, You shall have peace; and to everyone who walks in the stubbornness of his own heart they say, No evil shall come on you.

¹⁸nekuti ndiani wakamira parangano yaJehovha, akaona nokunzwa shoko rake? Ndiani wakateerera akanzwa shoko rake?

¹⁸For who has stood in the council of Yahweh, that he should perceive and hear his word? who has marked my word, and heard it?

¹⁹Tarirai, dutu remhepo raJehovha, iko kutsamwa kwake, rabuda, zvirokwazvo dutu rechamupupuri; richamonereka pamisoro yavakaipa.

¹⁹Behold, the storm of Yahweh, his wrath, has gone forth. Yes, a whirling storm. It shall burst on the head of the wicked.

²⁰Kutsamwa kwaJehovha hakungadzoki, kusvikira azviita, apedza ndangariro dzomoyo wake; pamazuva okupedzisira muchazvinzwisisa kwazvo.

²⁰The anger of Yahweh shall not return, until he has executed, and until he have performed the intents of his heart: in the latter days you shall understand it perfectly.

²¹ini handina kutuma vaporofita ava, kunyange zvakadaro vakamhanya; ini handina kutaura navo, kunyange zvakadaro vakaporofita.

²¹I sent not these prophets, yet they ran: I didn’t speak to them, yet they prophesied.

²²Asi dai vakanga vamira parangano yangu, vangadai vakanzwisa vanhu vangu mashoko angu, vakavadzora panzira yavo yakaipa, napazvakaipa zvamabasa avo.

²²But if they had stood in my council, then had they caused my people to hear my words, and had turned them from their evil way, and from the evil of their doings.

²³Ko ini ndiri Mwari uri pedo, ndisati ndiri Mwari uri kure here? Ndizvo zvinotaura Jehovha.

²³Am I a God at hand, says Yahweh, and not a God afar off?

²⁴Ko munhu uripo ungavanda panzvimbo dzisingazikamwi, ini ndikasamuona here? Ndizvo zvinotaura Jehovha. Ko ini handizadzi denga nenyika here? Ndizvo zvinotaura Jehovha.

²⁴Can any hide himself in secret places so that I shall not see him? says Yahweh. Don’t I fill heaven and earth? says Yahweh.

²⁵Ndakanzwa zvakarehwa navaporofita, vanoporofita nhema muzita rangu, vachiti, Ndarota hope, ndarota hope.

²⁵I have heard what the prophets have said, who prophesy lies in my name, saying, I have dreamed, I have dreamed.

²⁶Ko izvi zvichavapo pamoyo yavaporofita vanoporofita nhema kusvikira rinhi, ivo vaporofita vezvinonyengera zvemoyo yavo?

²⁶How long shall this be in the heart of the prophets who prophesy lies, even the prophets of the deceit of their own heart?

²⁷Ivo, vanofunga kukanganisa vanhu vangu zita rangu nokurota kwavo, kwavanoudza mumwe nomumwe hama yake, madzibaba avo sezvavakakangamwa zita rangu nokunamata Bhaari.

²⁷who think to cause my people to forget my name by their dreams which they tell every man to his neighbor, as their fathers forgot my name for Baal.

²⁸Muporofita, wakarota, ngaaudze kurota kwake; uneshoko rangu, ngaataure shoko rangu nokutendeka. Mashanga nezviyo zvakaenzana pai? Ndizvo zvinotaura Jehovha.

²⁸The prophet who has a dream, let him tell a dream; and he who has my word, let him speak my word faithfully. What is the straw to the wheat? says Yahweh.

²⁹Shoko rangu harina kudaro here, semoto? Ndizvo zvinotaura Jehovha; uye senyundo inoputsanya dombo here?

²⁹Isn’t my word like fire? says Yahweh; and like a hammer that breaks the rock in pieces?

³⁰Naizvozvo, tarirai, ndizvo zvinotaura Jehovha, handina hukama navaporofita, vanoba mashoko angu mumwe nomumwe kunowokwake.

³⁰Therefore behold, I am against the prophets, says Yahweh, who steal my words everyone from his neighbor.

³¹Tarirai, ndizvo zvinotaura Jehovha, handina hukama navaporofita, vanoreva namarimi avo, vachiti, Ndiye unodaro.

³¹Behold, I am against the prophets, says Yahweh, who use their tongues, and say, He says.

³²Tarirai, ndizvo zvinotaura Jehovha, handina hukama navanoporofita kurota kwavo kwenhema, vachiudza vamwe, vachirashisa vanhu vangu nenhema dzavo uye nokuzvirumbidza kwavo kusina maturo; kunyange zvakadaro handina kuvatuma, kana kuvaraira; uye havatongobatsiri vanhu ava, ndizvo zvinotaura Jehovha.

³²Behold, I am against those who prophesy lying dreams, says Yahweh, and do tell them, and cause my people to err by their lies, and by their vain boasting: yet I didn’t send them, nor commanded them; neither do they profit this people at all, says Yahweh.

³³Zvino kana vanhu ava, kana muporofita kana mupristi, vakakubvunza, vachiti, Chirevo chaJehovha ndechipiko? Ipapo uti kwavari, Chirevo chei! Ini ndichakurasai, ndizvo zvinotaura Jehovha.

³³When this people, or the prophet, or a priest, shall ask you, saying, What is the burden of Yahweh? Then you shall tell them, What burden! I will cast you off, says Yahweh.

³⁴Kana ari muporofita, kana mupristi, kana vanhu, kana vachiti, Chirevo chaJehovha; ndicharova munhu uyo neimba yake.

³⁴As for the prophet, and the priest, and the people, who shall say, The burden of Yahweh, I will even punish that man and his house.

³⁵Ndizvo zvamunofanira kuti, mumwe nomumwe kunowokwake, nomumwe nomumwe kuhama yake, Jehovha wakapindurei? Jehovha wakataurei?

³⁵You shall say everyone to his neighbor, and everyone to his brother, What has Yahweh answered? and, What has Yahweh spoken?

³⁶Musazoti chirevo chaJehovha; nekuti shoko romunhu mumwe nomumwe ndicho chirevo chake; nekuti makakanganisa mashoko aMwari mupenyu, aJehovha wehondo, Mwari wedu.

³⁶You shall mention the burden of Yahweh no more: for every man’s own word shall be his burden; for you have perverted the words of the living God, of Yahweh of Armies our God.

³⁷Uti kumuporofita, Jehovha wakakupindurei? Jehovha wakataurei?

³⁷You shall say to the prophet, What has Yahweh answered you? and, What has Yahweh spoken?

³⁸Asi kana mukati, Chirevo chaJehovha; zvanzi naJehovha, Zvamunoreva shoko iri, muchiti, chirevo chaJehovha, ini zvandakatuma shoko kwamuri ndichiti, Musati, chirevo chaJehovha;

³⁸But if you say, The burden of Yahweh; therefore thus says Yahweh: Because you say this word, The burden of Yahweh, and I have sent to you, saying, You shall not say, The burden of Yahweh;

³⁹naizvozvo tarirai, ndichakukangamwai chose, ndichakurashai kure neni, imi, neguta randakakupai imwi namadzibaba enyu;

³⁹therefore, behold, I will utterly forget you, and I will cast you off, and the city that I gave to you and to your fathers, away from my presence:

⁴⁰ndichauyisa pamusoro penyu kushoorwa kusingaperi, nokunyadziswa kusingaperi, zvisingazokanganikwi.

⁴⁰and I will bring an everlasting reproach on you, and a perpetual shame, which shall not be forgotten.