¹Shoko, rakataurwa naJehovha pamusoro peBhabhironi, napamusoro penyika yavaKaradhea nomuporofita Jeremiya.

¹The word that Yahweh spoke concerning Babylon, concerning the land of the Chaldeans, by Jeremiah the prophet.

²Paridzirai pakati pamarudzi, muzvizivise, musimudze mureza,muzvizivise murege kuvanza muti Bhabhironi rakundwa , Bheri wanyadziswa, Merodhaki wavhunduswa; zvifananidzo zvavo zvanyadziswa, matanda avo avhunika.

²Declare among the nations and publish, and set up a standard; publish, and don’t conceal: say, Babylon is taken, Bel is disappointed, Merodach is dismayed; her images are disappointed, her idols are dismayed.

³nekuti rudzi ruriko runobva kurutivi rwomusoro kuzorwa naro, ruchaita nyika yaro dongo, hakuna uchagaramo; vatiza, vaenda, vanhu nezvipfuwo.

³For out of the north there comes up a nation against her, which shall make her land desolate, and none shall dwell therein: they are fled, they are gone, both man and animal.

⁴Namazuva iwayo, nenguva iyo, ndizvo zvinotaura Jehovha, vana vaIsiraeri vachauya, ivo navana vaJudha pamwechete; vachafamba vachingochema, vachitsvaka Jehovha Mwari wavo.

⁴In those days, and in that time, says Yahweh, the children of Israel shall come, they and the children of Judah together; they shall go on their way weeping, and shall seek Yahweh their God.

⁵Vachabvunza Ziyoni, vakaringira zviso zvavo ikoko, vachiti, Uyai tizviise kuna Jehovha nesungano isingaperi, isingakanganikwi.

⁵They shall inquire concerning Zion with their faces turned toward it, saying, Come, and join yourselves to Yahweh in an everlasting covenant that shall not be forgotten.

⁶Vanhu vangu akanga ari makwai akarashika, vafudzi vavo vakavarashisa, vakavatsausira kumakomo, vakafamba vachibva kumakomo vachienda kuzvikomo, vakakangamwa nzvimbo yavo yokuzorora.

⁶My people have been lost sheep: their shepherds have caused them to go astray; they have turned them away on the mountains; they have gone from mountain to hill; they have forgotten their resting place.

⁷Vose vaivawana vaivadya, navadzivisi vavo vaiti, Hatina mhosva, nekuti vakatadzira Jehovha, ihwo hugaro hwokururama, iye Jehovha, tariro yamadzibaba avo.

⁷All who found them have devoured them; and their adversaries said, We are not guilty, because they have sinned against Yahweh, the habitation of righteousness, even Yahweh, the hope of their fathers.

⁸Tizai mubve pakati peBhabhironi, budai panyika yavaKaradhea, muve senhongo pamberi pamapoka amakwai.

⁸Flee out of the midst of Babylon, and go forth out of the land of the Chaldeans, and be as the male goats before the flocks.

⁹nekuti tarirai, ndichamutsira Bhabhironi nokuuyisira boka ramarudzi makuru anobva kunyika yokumusoro; vachazvigadzira kuzorwa naro, richakundwa noko; miseve yavo ichava seyemhare yakangwara, isingadzoki isina chinhu.

⁹For, behold, I will stir up and cause to come up against Babylon a company of great nations from the north country; and they shall set themselves in array against her; from there she shall be taken: their arrows shall be as of an expert mighty man; none shall return in vain.

¹⁰Nyika yeKaradhea ichava chinhu chakapambwa; vose vanoipamba vachaguta ndizvo zvinotaura Jehovha.

¹⁰Chaldea shall be a prey: all who prey on her shall be satisfied, says Yahweh.

¹¹Kunyange makafara, kunyange muchifarisisa, iyemi munoparadza nhaka yangu, kunyange muchikwakuka setsiru rinopura zviyo, muchirira samabhiza ane simba,

¹¹Because you are glad, because you rejoice, O you who plunder my heritage, because you are wanton as a heifer that treads out the grain, and neigh as strong horses;

¹²mai venyu vachanyadziswa kwazvo, ivo vakakuberekai vachakanganiswa; tarirai, vachava rudzi ruri shure kwaose, nesango, nenyika yakaoma, nerenje.

¹²your mother shall be utterly disappointed; she who bore you shall be confounded: behold, she shall be the least of the nations, a wilderness, a dry land, and a desert.

¹³Nemhaka yokutsamwa kwaJehovha haringagarwi, asi richava dongo chose; mumwe nomumwe unopfuura napaBhabhironi uchashamiswa, ucharidza muridzo pamusoro pamatambudziko aro ose.

¹³Because of the wrath of Yahweh she shall not be inhabited, but she shall be wholly desolate: everyone who goes by Babylon shall be astonished, and hiss at all her plagues.

¹⁴Muzvigadzire imwi mose munofura nohuta kuzorwa neBhabhironi kumativi ose, rifurei, regai kuchengeta miseve, nekuti rakatadzira Jehovha.

¹⁴Set yourselves in array against Babylon all around, all you who bend the bow; shoot at her, spare no arrows: for she has sinned against Yahweh.

¹⁵Pururudzai kumativi aro ose, razvirega, shongwe dzaro dzawa, masvingo aro akoromorwa; nekuti ndiko kutsiva kwaJehovha; zvitsivei pamusoro paro, sezvarakaita muriitirewo.

¹⁵Shout against her all around: she has submitted herself; her bulwarks are fallen, her walls are thrown down; for it is the vengeance of Yahweh: take vengeance on her; as she has done, do to her.

¹⁶Paradzai mudzvari paBhabhironi, naiye unobata nejeko panguva yokukohwa; nemhaka yokutya munondo unomanikidza, mumwe nomumwe uchatendeukira kunowokwake, mumwe nomumwe uchatizira kunyika yake.

¹⁶Cut off the sower from Babylon, and him who handles the sickle in the time of harvest: for fear of the oppressing sword they shall turn everyone to his people, and they shall flee everyone to his own land.

¹⁷Isiraeri igwai rakadzingwa-dzingwa, shumba dzakaridzinga; pakutanga mambo -weAsiria wakamudya, zvino pakupedzisira Nebhukadhirezari mambo weBhabhironi wakavhuna mafupa ake.

¹⁷Israel is a hunted sheep; the lions have driven him away: first, the king of Assyria devoured him; and now at last Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon has broken his bones.

¹⁸Naizvozvo zvanzi naJehovha wehondo, Mwari waIsiraeri, Tarirai, ndicharova mambo weBhabhironi nenyika yake, sezvandakarova mambo weAsiria.

¹⁸Therefore thus says Yahweh of Armies, the God of Israel: Behold, I will punish the king of Babylon and his land, as I have punished the king of Assyria.

¹⁹Ndichadzosera Isiraerizve kumafuro avo, vachafura paKarimeri napaBhashani, mweya wavo uchagutiswa pazvikomo zvaEfuremu napaCireadhi.

¹⁹I will bring Israel again to his pasture, and he shall feed on Carmel and Bashan, and his soul shall be satisfied on the hills of Ephraim and in Gilead.

²⁰Namazuva iwayo nenguva iyo ndizvo zvinotaura Jehovha zvakaipa zvaIsiraeri zvichatsvakwa, asi hazvingavipo, nezvivi zvaJudha, asi hazvingawanikwi; nekuti ndichakangamwira vandakasiya.

²⁰In those days, and in that time, says Yahweh, the iniquity of Israel shall be sought for, and there shall be none; and the sins of Judah, and they shall not be found: for I will pardon them whom I leave as a remnant.

²¹Endai mundorwa nenyika yeMerataimu, murwe nayo uye navagere Pekodhi; urayai, muparadze chose zviri shure kwavo, muite zvose zvandakakurairai ndizvo zvinotaura Jehovha.

²¹Go up against the land of Merathaim, even against it, and against the inhabitants of Pekod: kill and utterly destroy after them, says Yahweh, and do according to all that I have commanded you.

²²Mubvumo wokurwa uri munyika, nowokuparadza kukuru.

²²A sound of battle is in the land, and of great destruction.

²³Nyundo yenyika yose yagurwa-gurwa nokuvhuniwa sei! Bhabhironi rava dongo sei pakati pamarudzi!

²³How is the hammer of the whole earth cut apart and broken! how is Babylon become a desolation among the nations!

²⁴Ndakakuteyera musungo, ukabatwawo, iwe Bhabhironi, ukasazviziva; wakawanikwa, ukabatwawo, nekuti wakarwa naJehovha.

²⁴I have laid a snare for you, and you are also taken, Babylon, and you weren’t aware: you are found, and also caught, because you have striven against Yahweh.

²⁵Jehovha wakazarura chivigiro chefuma yake, akabudisa nhumbi dzokurwa dzokutsamwa kwake, nekuti Ishe Jehovha wehondo une basa raanofanira kubata panyika yavaKaradhea.

²⁵Yahweh has opened his armory, and has brought forth the weapons of his indignation; for the Lord, Yahweh of Armies, has a work to do in the land of the Chaldeans.

²⁶Uyai murwe nayo muchibva kumativi ose, zarurai matura aro, muite mirwi, muriparadze chose, regai kusiya chinhu charo.

²⁶Come against her from the utmost border; open her storehouses; cast her up as heaps, and destroy her utterly; let nothing of her be left.

²⁷Urayai nzombe dzaro dzose, ngadziburukire kundourawa. Vane nhamo, nekuti zuva ravo rasvika, iyo nguva yokurohwa kwavo.

²⁷Kill all her bulls; let them go down to the slaughter: woe to them! for their day has come, the time of their visitation.

²⁸Inzwai inzwi ravanotiza navano pukunyuka panyika yebhabhironi, kundoparidzira paZiyoni kutsiva kwaJehovha Mwari wedu, iko kutsiva kwetemberi yake.

²⁸The voice of those who flee and escape out of the land of Babylon, to declare in Zion the vengeance of Yahweh our God, the vengeance of his temple.

²⁹Kokerai vafuri varwe neBhabhironi, ivo vose vanofura novuta; rikomberedzei nemisasa yenyu yokurwa, kurege kuva nomumwe unopukunyuka; muritsive parakabata napo, zvose zvarakaita iro muriitire saizvozvo nekuti rakaita manyawi pamberi paJehovha, pamberi poMutsvene waIsiraeri.

²⁹Call together the archers against Babylon, all those who bend the bow; encamp against her all around; let none of it escape: recompense her according to her work; according to all that she has done, do to her; for she has been proud against Yahweh, against the Holy One of Israel.

³⁰Naizvozvo majaya aro achawira pasi munzira dzaro, navarwi varo vose vachanyarara nezuva iro, ndizvo zvinotaura Jehovha.

³⁰Therefore her young men will fall in her streets, and all her men of war will be brought to silence in that day, says Yahweh.

³¹Tarira, ndine mhosva newe, iwe wokuzvikudza, ndizvo zvinotaura Ishe Jehovha wehondo; nekuti zuva rako rasvika, nguva yandichakurova nayo.

³¹Behold, I am against you, you proud one, says the Lord, Yahweh of Armies; for your day has come, the time that I will visit you.

³²Unozvikudza uchagumburwa nokuwira pasi, hakuna ungamusimudza; ini ndichabatidza moto mumaguta ake, uchapedza vose vakamupoteredza.

³²The proud one shall stumble and fall, and none shall raise him up; and I will kindle a fire in his cities, and it shall devour all who are around him.

³³Zvanzi naJehovha wehondo, Vana vaIsiraeri navana vaJudha vakamanikidzwa pamwechete; vose, vakavatapa, vakavabata, vanoramba kuvaregedza.

³³Thus says Yahweh of Armies: The children of Israel and the children of Judah are oppressed together; and all who took them captive hold them fast; they refuse to let them go.

³⁴Asi Mudzikunuri wavo une simba, Jehovha wehondo ndiro zita rake; iye uchavareverera mhaka yavo kwazvo, kuti azorodze nyika, nokushaisa vagere Bhabhironi zororo.

³⁴Their Redeemer is strong; Yahweh of Armies is his name: he will thoroughly plead their cause, that he may give rest to the earth, and disquiet the inhabitants of Babylon.

³⁵Munondo uri pamusoro pavaKaradhea, napamusoro pavagere Bhabhironi, napamusoro pamachinda aro, napamusoro pavachenjeri varo ndizvo zvinotaura Jehovha.

³⁵A sword is on the Chaldeans, says Yahweh, and on the inhabitants of Babylon, and on her princes, and on her wise men.

³⁶Munondo uri pamusoro pavana manyawi, vachava mapenzi; munondo uri pamusoro pemhare dzaro, vachavhunduka.

³⁶A sword is on the boasters, and they shall become fools; a sword is on her mighty men, and they shall be dismayed.

³⁷Munondo uri pamusoro pamabhiza avo, napamusoro pengoro dzavo, napamusoro pavanhu vose vakavhengana mukati maro, vachava savakadzi; munondo uri pamusoro pefuma yaro, ichapambwa.

³⁷A sword is on their horses, and on their chariots, and on all the mixed people who are in the midst of her; and they shall become as women: a sword is on her treasures, and they shall be robbed.

³⁸Kuoma kuri pamusoro pemvura yaro, ichapwa; nekuti inyika yemifananidzo yakavezwa, vanopengera zvifananidzo.

³⁸A drought is on her waters, and they shall be dried up; for it is a land of engraved images, and they are mad over idols.

³⁹Naizvozvo zvikara zvamarenje zvichagaramo, pamwechete namakava, nemhou dzichagaramo; hapangazogarwi nokusingaperi, hakuna ungagaramo kusvikira kumarudzi namarudzi.

³⁹Therefore the wild animals of the desert with the wolves shall dwell there, and the ostriches shall dwell therein: and it shall be no more inhabited forever; neither shall it be lived in from generation to generation.

⁴⁰Mwari sezvaakaparadza Sodhoma neGomora namamwe maguta akanga akabatana nawo ndizvo zvinotaura Jehovha saizvozvo hakuna munhu ungagaramo hakuna mwanakomana womunhu uchavamo ari mutorwa.

⁴⁰As when God overthrew Sodom and Gomorrah and the neighbor cities of it, says Yahweh, so shall no man dwell there, neither shall any son of man live therein.

⁴¹Tarirai, rudzi rwavanhu runobva kurutivi rwokumusoro, rudzi rukuru namadzimambo mazhinji achamutswa abve kumigumo yenyika.

⁴¹Behold, a people comes from the north; and a great nation and many kings shall be stirred up from the uttermost parts of the earth.

⁴²Vakabata huta nepfumo, vane hasha, havane nyasha; manzwi avo anotinhira segungwa, vakatasva mabhiza, mumwe nomumwe wakashongedzwa somurwi, kuzorwa newe, iwe mukunda weBhabhironi.

⁴²They lay hold on bow and spear; they are cruel, and have no mercy; their voice roars like the sea; and they ride on horses, everyone set in array, as a man to the battle, against you, daughter of Babylon.

⁴³Mambo weBhabhironi wakanzwa guhu ravo, maoko ake akashaiwa simba, wabatwa nokutambudzika nokurwadziwa sokomukadzi unosurumuka.

⁴³The king of Babylon has heard the news of them, and his hands wax feeble: anguish has taken hold of him, pains as of a woman in labor.

⁴⁴Tarirai, uchauya seshumba achibva kumatenhere aJoridhani kuzorwa nohugaro hwakasimba; nekuti ndichavatizisapo pakarepo; wakatsaurwa ndiye wandichagadzapo; nekuti ndiani wakafanana neni? Ndiani uchanditarira nguva? Mufudzi ungamira pamberi pangu ndiani?

⁴⁴Behold, the enemy shall come up like a lion from the pride of the Jordan against the strong habitation: for I will suddenly make them run away from it; and whoever is chosen, him will I appoint over it: for who is like me? and who will appoint me a time? and who is the shepherd who can stand before me?

⁴⁵Naizvozvo chinzwai chirevo chaJehovha chaakatema pamusoro peBhabhironi, nemifungo yake yaakafunga pamusoro penyika yavaKaradhea, Zvirokwazvo vachavakwekweredza, ivo vaduku vamapoka avo; zvirokwazvo mafuro avo achashamiswa pamusoro pavo.

⁴⁵Therefore hear the counsel of Yahweh, that he has taken against Babylon; and his purposes, that he has purposed against the land of the Chaldeans: Surely they shall drag them away, even the little ones of the flock; surely he shall make their habitation desolate over them.

⁴⁶Nyika inodedera nomubvumo wokukundwa kweBhabhironi, kuchema kunonzwika pakati pamarudzi ose.

⁴⁶At the noise of the taking of Babylon the earth trembles, and the cry is heard among the nations.