1Zvino Nebhukadhirezari mambo weBhabhironi wakati atapa Jekonia mwanakomana waJehoiakimu, mambo waJudha, namachinda aJudha, pamwechete navavezi navapfuri, paJerusaremu, akavaisa Bhabhironi, Jehovha akandiratidza, ndikaona tswanda mbiri dzina maonde dzakanga dzakaiswa pamberi petemberi yaJehovha.
1Yahweh showed me, and behold, two baskets of figs set before Yahweh’s temple, after that Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon had carried away captive Jeconiah the son of Jehoiakim, king of Judah, and the princes of Judah, with the craftsmen and smiths, from Jerusalem, and had brought them to Babylon.
2Imwe tswanda yakanga ina maonde akanaka kwazvo, samaonde anotanga kuibva; asi imwe tswanda yakanga inamaonde akaipa kwazvo, asingabviri kudyiwa nokuipa kwawo.
2One basket had very good figs, like the figs that are first-ripe; and the other basket had very bad figs, which could not be eaten, they were so bad.
3Ipapo Jehovha akati kwandiri, Unowoneiko Jeremiya? Ini ndikati, Maonde; maonde akanaka, akanaka kwazvo, asi akaipa kwazvo, asingabviri kudyiwa nokuipa kwawo.
3Then Yahweh said to me, What do you see, Jeremiah? I said, Figs; the good figs, very good; and the bad, very bad, that can’t be eaten, they are so bad.
4Ipapo shoko raJehovha rakauya kwandiri, richiti,
4The word of Yahweh came to me, saying,
5Zvanzi naJehovha, Mwari waIsiraeri, Sezvakaita maonde awa akanaka, ndizvo zvandicharangarira nomoyo wakanaka vatapwa vaJudha, vandakatuma vabve panyika ino vaende kunyika yavaKaradhea.
5Thus says Yahweh, the God of Israel: Like these good figs, so will I regard the captives of Judah, whom I have sent out of this place into the land of the Chaldeans, for good.
6nekuti ndichavatarira nameso angu nomoyo wakanaka, ndivadzoserezve kunyika ino; ndichavavaka, handingavakoromori; ndichavasima, handingavadzuri.
6For I will set my eyes on them for good, and I will bring them again to this land: and I will build them, and not pull them down; and I will plant them, and not pluck them up.
7Ndichavapa moyo wokundiziva, kuti ndini Jehovha; ivo vachava vanhu vangu, neni ndichava Mwari wavo; nekuti vachadzokera kwandiri nomoyo wavo wose.
7I will give them a heart to know me, that I am Yahweh: and they shall be my people, and I will be their God; for they shall return to me with their whole heart.
8Uye, sezvakaita maonde akaipa, asingabviri kudyiwa nokuipa kwawo, zvirokwazvo ndizvo zvinotaura Jehovha ndizvo zvandichaita Zedhekia mambo waJudha, namachinda ake, navakasara veJerusaremu, vakasara panyika ino, navagere panyika yeEgipita.
8As the bad figs, which can’t be eaten, they are so bad, surely thus says Yahweh, So will I give up Zedekiah the king of Judah, and his princes, and the residue of Jerusalem, who remain in this land, and those who dwell in the land of Egypt,
9Ndichavaita chinhu chinotyisa pakati poushe hwose bwenyika, vaitirwe zvakaipa, vave chinhu chinoshoorwa, neshumo, nechinosekwa nechinotukwa panzvimbo dzose kwandichavadzingira.
9I will even give them up to be tossed back and forth among all the kingdoms of the earth for evil; to be a reproach and a proverb, a taunt and a curse, in all places where I shall drive them.
10Ndichatuma pakati pavo munondo, nenzara, nehosha, kusvikira vapera munyika yandakavapa ivo namadzibaba avo.
10I will send the sword, the famine, and the pestilence, among them, until they be consumed from off the land that I gave to them and to their fathers.