¹Shoko rakasvika kuna Jeremiya pamusoro pavaJudha vose vakanga vagere panyika vakanga vagere Migidhori neTapanesi neNofi nomunyika yePatirosi, richiti,

¹The word that came to Jeremiah concerning all the Jews who lived in the land of Egypt, who lived at Migdol, and at Tahpanhes, and at Memphis, and in the country of Pathros, saying,

²Zvanzi naJehovha wehondo, Mwari walsiraeri, Makaona zvakaipa zvose zvandakauyisa pamusoro peJerusaremu napamusoro pamaguta ose aJudha; zvino tarirai, nhasi ava matongo, hapachina munhu unogaramo,

²Thus says Yahweh of Armies, the God of Israel: You have seen all the evil that I have brought on Jerusalem, and on all the cities of Judah; and behold, this day they are a desolation, and no man dwells therein,

³nemhaka yezvakashata zvavo zvavakaita, zvakanditsamwisa, vachindopisa zvinonhuhwira, nokushumira vamwe vamwari, vavakanga vasingazivi, ivo kana imwi kana madzibaba enyu.

³because of their wickedness which they have committed to provoke me to anger, in that they went to burn incense, to serve other gods, that they didn’t know, neither they, nor you, nor your fathers.

⁴Asi ndakakutumirai varanda vangu vose vaporofita, ndichimuka mangwanani ndichivatuma, ndichiti, Haiwa, regai kuita chinhu ichi chinonyangadza, chandinovenga.

⁴However I sent to you all my servants the prophets, rising up early and sending them, saying, Oh, don’t do this abominable thing that I hate.

⁵Asi havana kuteerera, kana kurerekera nzeve dzavo kuti vadzoke pazvakashata zvavo, vakarega kupisira vamwe vamwari zvinonhuhwira.

⁵But they didn’t listen, nor inclined their ear to turn from their wickedness, to burn no incense to other gods.

⁶Naizvozvo hasha dzangu nokutsamwa kwangu zvakadururwa, zvikatungidzwa mumaguta aJudha nomunzira dzomuJerusaremu; zvino aparadzwa ava matongo, sezvazvakaita nhasi.

⁶Therefore my wrath and my anger was poured forth, and was kindled in the cities of Judah and in the streets of Jerusalem; and they are wasted and desolate, as it is this day.

⁷Naizvozvo zvino zvanzi naJehovha, Mwari wehondo, Mwari waIsiraeri, Munotadzirireiko mweya yenyu nechinhu chakaipa chikuru ichi, kuti muparadzirwe varume navakadzi navacheche navanomwa pakati paJudha, kuti murege kusarirwa nomumwe;

⁷Therefore now thus says Yahweh, the God of Armies, the God of Israel: Why do you commit great evil against your own souls, to cut off from yourselves man and woman, infant and nursing child out of the midst of Judah, to leave yourselves none remaining;

⁸zvamunonditsamwisa namabasa amaoko enyu, muchipisira vamwe vamwari zvinonhuhwira munyika yeEgipita kwamakaenda kundogara muri vatorwa; mugoparadzwa, muve chinotukwa nechinoshoorwa pakati pamarudzi ose enyika?

⁸in that you provoke me to anger with the works of your hands, burning incense to other gods in the land of Egypt, where you have gone to live; that you may be cut off, and that you may be a curse and a reproach among all the nations of the earth?

⁹Makangamwa here zvakashata zvamadzibaba enyu nezvakashata zvamadzimambo aJudha, nezvakashata zvavakadzi vavo, nezvakashata zvenyu, nezvakashata zvavakadzi venyu, zvavakaita munyika yaJudha nomunzira dzomuJerusaremu?

⁹Have you forgotten the wickedness of your fathers, and the wickedness of the kings of Judah, and the wickedness of their wives, and your own wickedness, and the wickedness of your wives which they committed in the land of Judah, and in the streets of Jerusalem?

¹⁰Kusvikira zuva ranhasi havana kuzvininipisa, kana kutya, kana kufamba nomurayiro wangu kana nezviga zvangu, zvandakaisa pamberi penyu napamberi pamadzibaba enyu.

¹⁰They are not humbled even to this day, neither have they feared, nor walked in my law, nor in my statutes, that I set before you and before your fathers.

¹¹Naizvozvo zvanzi naJehovha wehondo, Mwari walsiraeri, Tarirai, ndichakurinzirai chiso changu kuti ndikuitirei zvakaipa, kuti ndiparadze Judha rose.

¹¹Therefore thus says Yahweh of Armies, the God of Israel: Behold, I will set my face against you for evil, even to cut off all Judah.

¹²Ndichabvisa vakasara vose vaJudha, vakarinzira zviso zvavo kuti vaende kunyika yeEgipita kundogarako vari vatorwa, vachaparadzwa vose; vachaparadzwa nomunondo nenzara, vachafa nomunondo nenzara kubva kuvaduku kusvikira kuvakuru; vachava chinhu chinotukwa, nechishamiso, nechinomhurwa, nechinoshoorwa.

¹²I will take the remnant of Judah, that have set their faces to go into the land of Egypt to live there, and they shall all be consumed; in the land of Egypt shall they fall; they shall be consumed by the sword and by the famine; they shall die, from the least even to the greatest, by the sword and by the famine; and they shall be an object of horror, an astonishment, and a curse, and a reproach.

¹³nekuti ndicharova vagere munyika yeEgipita, sezvandakarova Jerusaremu nomunondo nenzara uye nehosha yakaipa;

¹³For I will punish those who dwell in the land of Egypt, as I have punished Jerusalem, by the sword, by the famine, and by the pestilence;

¹⁴kuti kurege kuva nomumwe wakasara waJudha, vakaenda kunyika yeEgipita kundogarako vari vatorwa, ungapukunyuka kana ungasara, kuti adzokere kunyika yaJudha, kwavanoshuva kudzokera kuti vagarekozve; nekuti hakuna ungadzokera, asi vakapukunyuka.

¹⁴so that none of the remnant of Judah, who have gone into the land of Egypt to live there, shall escape or be left, to return into the land of Judah, to which they have a desire to return to dwell there: for none shall return save such as shall escape.

¹⁵Ipapo varume vose, vaiziva kuti vakadzi vavo vanopisira vamwe vamwari zvinonhuhwira, navakadzi vose, vakanga vamirepo, ungano huru, ivo vanhu vose vakanga vagere munyika yeEgipita, naPatirosi, vakapindura Jeremiya, vachiti,

¹⁵Then all the men who knew that their wives burned incense to other gods, and all the women who stood by, a great assembly, even all the people who lived in the land of Egypt, in Pathros, answered Jeremiah, saying,

¹⁶Kana riri shoko rawakatiudza nezita raJehovha, hatingakuteereri.

¹⁶As for the word that you have spoken to us in the name of Yahweh, we will not listen to you.

¹⁷Asi zvirokwazvo tichaita shoko rimwe nerimwe rakabuda mumiromo yedu, tichapisira vahosi vokudenga zvinonhuhwira, nokuvadururira zvipiriso zvinodururwa, sezvatakaita isu namadzibaba edu namadzimambo edu namachinda edu, pamaguta aJudha nomunzira dzomuJerusaremu; nekuti nenguva iyo taiva nezvokudya zvizhinji, taifara pamuviri, tikasaona njodzi.

¹⁷But we will certainly perform every word that is gone forth out of our mouth, to burn incense to the queen of the sky, and to pour out drink offerings to her, as we have done, we and our fathers, our kings and our princes, in the cities of Judah, and in the streets of Jerusalem; for then had we plenty of food, and were well, and saw no evil.

¹⁸Asi kubvira panguva yatakarega kupisira vahosi vokudenga zvinonhuhwira, nokuvadururira zvipiriso zvinodururwa, takashaiwa zvose, tikapedzwa nomunondo nenzara.

¹⁸But since we left off burning incense to the queen of the sky, and pouring out drink offerings to her, we have wanted all things, and have been consumed by the sword and by the famine.

¹⁹Zvino panguva yatakapisira vahosi vokudenga zvinonhuhwira, nokuvadururira zvipiriso zvinodururwa, ko taivaitira zvingwa zvokuvanamata nazvo, tikavadururira zvipiriso zvinodururwa, tisina varume vedu here?

¹⁹When we burned incense to the queen of the sky, and poured out drink offerings to her, did we make her cakes to worship her, and pour out drink offerings to her, without our husbands?

²⁰Ipapo Jeremiya akati kuvanhu vose, kuvarume nokuvakadzi, kuna ivo vanhu vose vakanga vamupindura saizvozvo, akati,

²⁰Then Jeremiah said to all the people, to the men, and to the women, even to all the people who had given him an answer, saying,

²¹Zvinonhuhwira zvamaipisa mumaguta aJudha nomunzira dzomuJerusaremu, imwi namadzibaba enyu namadzimambo enyu namachinda enyu navanhu vose venyika, ko Jehovha haana kuzvirangarira here? Hazvina kufungwa mumoyo make here?

²¹The incense that you burned in the cities of Judah, and in the streets of Jerusalem, you and your fathers, your kings and your princes, and the people of the land, didn’t Yahweh remember them, and didn’t it come into his mind?

²²Kusvikira Jehovha akakoniwa kuzova nomoyo murefu, nokuda kwezvakaipa zvamabasa enyu, uye nokuda kwezvinonyangadza zvamaiita; naizvozvo nyika yenyu rava dongo, nechinoshamisa nechinotukwa, isina unogaramo, sezvazvakaita zuva ranhasi.

²²so that Yahweh could no longer bear, because of the evil of your doings, and because of the abominations which you have committed; therefore your land has become a desolation, and an astonishment, and a curse, without inhabitant, as it is this day.

²³Zvamakapisa zvinonhuhwira, zvamakatadzira Jehovha, mukasateerera inzwi raJehovha, mukasafamba nomurayiro wake, kana nezviga zvake, kana nezvaakapupura, naizvozvo zvakaipa izvi zvakakuwirai, sezvazvakaita zuva ranhasi.

²³Because you have burned incense, and because you have sinned against Yahweh, and have not obeyed the voice of Yahweh, nor walked in his law, nor in his statutes, nor in his testimonies; therefore this evil has happened to you, as it is this day.

²⁴Zvino Jeremiya akatiwo kuvanhu vose nokuvakadzi vose, Inzwai shoko raJehovha, imwi vaJudha vose vari munyika yeEgipita,

²⁴Moreover Jeremiah said to all the people, and to all the women, Hear the word of Yahweh, all Judah who are in the land of Egypt:

²⁵Zvanzi naJehovha wehondo, Mwari waIsiraeri, Imi navakadzi venyu makataura nemiromo yenyu, mukazviita namaoko enyu, muchiti, Zvirokwazvo, mhiko dzedu dzatakapika tichadziita, kuti tichapisira vahosi vokudenga zvinonhuhwira, nokuvadururira zvipiriso zvinodururwa; zvino chisimbisai henyu mhiko dzenyu, itai henyu mhiko dzenyu.

²⁵Thus says Yahweh of Armies, the God of Israel, saying, You and your wives have both spoken with your mouths, and with your hands have fulfilled it, saying, We will surely perform our vows that we have vowed, to burn incense to the queen of the sky, and to pour out drink offerings to her: establish then your vows, and perform your vows.

²⁶Zvino chinzwai shoko raJehovha, imwi vaJudha vose vagere munyika yeEgipita Tarirai, ndakapika nezita rangu guru ndizvo zvinotaura Jehovha kuti zita rangu harichazorehwi nomuromo womunhu upi noupi waJudha munyika yose yeEgipita, zvichinzi, NaIshe Jehovha mupenyu!

²⁶Therefore hear the word of Yahweh, all Judah who dwell in the land of Egypt: Behold, I have sworn by my great name, says Yahweh, that my name shall no more be named in the mouth of any man of Judah in all the land of Egypt, saying, As the Lord Yahweh lives.

²⁷Tarirai, ndinovarindira ndivaitire zvakaipa, ndirege kuvaitira zvakanaka; vanhu vose vaJudha vari munyika yeEgipita vachaparadzwa nomunondo nenzara, kusvikira vapera vose.

²⁷Behold, I watch over them for evil, and not for good; and all the men of Judah who are in the land of Egypt shall be consumed by the sword and by the famine, until they are all gone.

²⁸Vanopukunyuka pamunondo vachabva munyika yeEgipita vachidzokera kunyika yaJudha, vava vashoma vakasara vose vaJudha vakanga vaenda kunyika yeEgipita kundogarako vari vatorwa, vachaziva kuti shoko richava nesimba nderani, rangu kana ravo.

²⁸Those who escape the sword shall return out of the land of Egypt into the land of Judah, few in number; and all the remnant of Judah, who have gone into the land of Egypt to live there, shall know whose word shall stand, mine, or theirs.

²⁹Zvino ichi ndicho chichava chiratidzo kwamuri ndizvo zvinotaura Jehovha kuti ndichakurovai panzvimbo ino, kuti muzive kuti mashoko angu achava nesimba kukuitirai zvakaipa.

²⁹This shall be the sign to you, says Yahweh, that I will punish you in this place, that you may know that my words shall surely stand against you for evil:

³⁰Zvanzi naJehovha, Tarirai, ndichaisa Farao Hofira mambo weEgipita, mumaoko avavengi vake, nomumaoko avanotsvaka kumuuraya, sezvandakaisa Zedhekia mambo waJudha mumaoko aNebhukadhirezari mambo weBhabhironi, waiva muvengi wake, waitsvaka kumuuraya.

³⁰Thus says Yahweh, Behold, I will give Pharaoh Hophra king of Egypt into the hand of his enemies, and into the hand of those who seek his life; as I gave Zedekiah king of Judah into the hand of Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon, who was his enemy, and sought his life.