¹Shoko rakauya kuna Jeremiya richibva kuna Jehovha, richiti,

¹The word that came to Jeremiah from Yahweh, saying,

²Mira pasuwo reimba yaJehovha, uparidzirepo shoko iri, uti, Inzwai shoko raJehovha, imwi vaJudha mose munopinda napamusuwo awa kuzonamata Jehovha.

²“Stand in the gate of Yahweh’s house, and proclaim there this word, and say, ‘Hear the word of Yahweh, all you of Judah, who enter in at these gates to worship Yahweh.

³Zvanzi naJehovha wehondo, Mwari waIsiraeri, Ruramisai nzira dzenyu nezvamunoita, ndigokugarisai panzvimbo ino.

³Thus says Yahweh of Armies, the God of Israel, Amend your ways and your doings, and I will cause you to dwell in this place.

⁴Musavimba namashoko enhema, Izvezvi itemberi yaJehovha, temberi yaJehovha, temberi yaJehovha.

⁴Don’t trust in lying words, saying, Yahweh’s temple, Yahweh’s temple, Yahweh’s temple, are these.

⁵nekuti kana mukaruramisa kwazvo nzira dzenyu nezvamunoita, kana muchiita zvakarurama munhu mumwe nomumwe kunowokwake.

⁵For if you thoroughly amend your ways and your doings; if you thoroughly execute justice between a man and his neighbor;

⁶Kana musingamanikidzi mutorwa, nenherera, nechirikadzi, mukasateura ropa risina mhosva panzvimbo ino, nokusatevera vamwe vamwari, vanokuisai panjodzi;

⁶if you don’t oppress the foreigner, the fatherless, and the widow, and don’t shed innocent blood in this place, neither walk after other gods to your own hurt:

⁷ipapo ndichakugarisai panzvimbo ino, panyika yandakapa madzibaba enyu, kubvira panguva yakare kusvikira nokusingaperi.

⁷then will I cause you to dwell in this place, in the land that I gave to your fathers, from of old even forevermore.

⁸Tarirai, munovimba namashoko enhema, asingagoni kubatsira.

⁸Behold, you trust in lying words, that can’t profit.

⁹Mungaba, nokuuraya, nokuita hupombwe, nokupika nhema, nokupisira Bhaari zvinonhuhwira, nokutevera vamwe vapirwa vamakanga musingazivi,

⁹Will you steal, murder, and commit adultery, and swear falsely, and burn incense to Baal, and walk after other gods that you have not known,

¹⁰ndokuzouya momira pamberi pangu muimba ino, panodamwa zita rangu, muchiti, Tasunungurwa; kuti mugoita izvi zvose zvinonyangadza here?

¹⁰and come and stand before me in this house, which is called by my name, and say, We are delivered; that you may do all these abominations?

¹¹Ko imba ino panodamwa zita rangu rava bako ramakororo pamberi penyu here? Tarirai, ini, ini ndimene ndaona izvozvo ndizvo zvinotaura Jehovha.

¹¹Is this house, which is called by my name, become a den of robbers in your eyes? Behold, I, even I, have seen it, says Yahweh.

¹²Asi zvino endai kunzvimbo yangu yaiva paShiro, pandakagarisa zita rangu pakutanga, muone zvandakaiitira nokuda kwezvakaipa zvavanhu vangu Isiraeri.

¹²But go now to my place which was in Shiloh, where I caused my name to dwell at the first, and see what I did to it for the wickedness of my people Israel.

¹³Zvino, zvamakaita mabasa awa ose ndizvo zvinotaura Jehovha ini ndikataura nemi, ndichifumira mangwanani ndichitaura, imwi mukasanzwa, ndikakudanai, mukasapindura.

¹³Now, because you have done all these works, says Yahweh, and I spoke to you, rising up early and speaking, but you didn’t hear; and I called you, but you didn’t answer:

¹⁴Naizvozvo ndichaitira imba panodamwa zita rangu, yamunovimba nayo, nenzvimbo yandakakupai imwi namadzibaba enyu, sezvandakaitira Shiro.

¹⁴therefore will I do to the house which is called by my name, in which you trust, and to the place which I gave to you and to your fathers, as I did to Shiloh.

¹⁵Ndichakurashirai kure neni, sezvandakarasha hama dzenyu dzose, irwo rudzi rwose rwaEfuremu.

¹⁵I will cast you out of my sight, as I have cast out all your brothers, even the whole seed of Ephraim.

¹⁶Naizvozvo iwe chirega kunyengeterera vanhu ava, usadanidzira nokunyengetera nokuda kwavo, kana kuvakumbira kwandiri; nekuti handingakunzwi.

¹⁶Therefore don’t pray for this people, neither lift up a cry nor prayer for them, neither make intercession to me; for I will not hear you.

¹⁷Hauoni here zvavanoita mumaguta aJudha nomunzira dzomuJerusaremu here?

¹⁷Don’t you see what they do in the cities of Judah and in the streets of Jerusalem?

¹⁸Vana vanounganidza huni, madzibaba ndokubatidza moto, vakadzi vanokanya hupfu kuti vabikire vahosi vokudenga zvingwa, uye kuti vadirire vamwe vamwari zvipiriso zvinodururwa, kuti vanditsamwise.

¹⁸The children gather wood, and the fathers kindle the fire, and the women knead the dough, to make cakes to the queen of the sky, and to pour out drink offerings to other gods, that they may provoke me to anger.

¹⁹Vanonditsamwisa here? Ndizvo zvinotaura Jehovha; havazinozvinetsa havo, vachingozvinyadzisa havo?

¹⁹Do they provoke me to anger? says Yahweh. Don’t they provoke themselves, to the confusion of their own faces?

²⁰Saka zvanzi naJehovha Mwari, Tarirai, kutsamwa kwangu nehasha dzangu zvichadururirwa panzvimbo ino, pamusoro pavanhu, napamusoro pezvipfuwo, napamusoro pemiti yokubundo, napamusoro pezvibereko zvenyika; zvichapfuta, zvisingadzimwi.

²⁰Therefore thus says the Lord Yahweh: Behold, my anger and my wrath shall be poured out on this place, on man, and on animal, and on the trees of the field, and on the fruit of the ground; and it shall burn, and shall not be quenched.

²¹Zvanzi naJehovha wehondo, Mwari waIsiraeri, Wedzerai zvipiriso zvenyu zvinopiswa pazvibayiro zvenyu, mudye nyama yazvo.

²¹Thus says Yahweh of Armies, the God of Israel: Add your burnt offerings to your sacrifices, and eat meat.

²²nekuti handina kutaura namadzibaba enyu, kana kuvaraira panguva yandakavabudisa panyika yeEgipita pamusoro pezvipiriso zvinopiswa kana zvibayiro;

²²For I didn’t speak to your fathers, nor command them in the day that I brought them out of the land of Egypt, concerning burnt offerings or sacrifices:

²³asi ndakavaraira chinhu ichi, ndichiti, teererai inzwi rangu, ndigova Mwari wenyu, nemwi muchaba vanhu vangu; mufambe nenzira yose yandichakurairai, mugova nomufaro.

²³but this thing I commanded them, saying, Listen to my voice, and I will be your God, and you shall be my people; and walk in all the way that I command you, that it may be well with you.

²⁴Asi havana kuteerera, kana kurerekera nzeve dzavo, asi vakafamba nokurangarira kwavo nohukukutu bwemoyo yavo vakadzokera sure havana kupfuura mberi.

²⁴But they didn’t listen nor turn their ear, but walked in their own counsels and in the stubbornness of their evil heart, and went backward, and not forward.

²⁵Kubvira pazuva rokubuda kwamadzibaba enyu munyika yeEgipita, kusvikira pazuva ranhasi, ndakakutumirai varanda vangu vose vaporofita, ndichifumira mangwanani zuva rimwe nerimwe ndichivatuma;

²⁵Since the day that your fathers came forth out of the land of Egypt to this day, I have sent to you all my servants the prophets, daily rising up early and sending them:

²⁶kunyange zvakadaro, havana kunditeerera, kana kurerekera nzeve dzavo, asi vakaomesa mitsipa yavo; vakaita zvakaipa kukunda madzibaba avo.

²⁶yet they didn’t listen to me, nor inclined their ear, but made their neck stiff: they did worse than their fathers.

²⁷Zvino iwe unofanira kuvataurira mashoko awa ose; asi havangakuteereri; unofanira kudanawo kwavari, asi havangakupinduri.

²⁷You shall speak all these words to them; but they will not listen to you: you shall also call to them; but they will not answer you.

²⁸Zvino iwe uti kwavari, Urwu ndirwo rudzi rusinganzwi shoko raJehovha Mwari wavo, kana kutenda kurangwa; kutendeka kwapera, kwabva chose pamiromo yavo.

²⁸You shall tell them, This is the nation that has not listened to the voice of Yahweh their God, nor received instruction: truth is perished, and is cut off from their mouth.

²⁹Vevura hukomba hwako, iwe Jerusaremu, uhurashire kure; undochema pazvikomo zvisina miti, nekuti Jehovha wakarasha nokusiya rudzi rwaakatsamwira.

²⁹Cut off your hair, and throw it away, and take up a lamentation on the bare heights; for Yahweh has rejected and forsaken the generation of his wrath.

³⁰nekuti vana vaJudha vakaita zvakaipa pamberi pangu, vakaisa zvinonyangadza zvavo muimba pakadamwa zita rangu, kuti vaisvibise ndizvo zvinotaura Jehovha.

³⁰For the children of Judah have done that which is evil in my sight, says Yahweh: they have set their abominations in the house which is called by my name, to defile it.

³¹Vakavaka nzvimbo dzakakwirira dzeTofeti, dziri mumupata womwanakomana waHinomi, kuti vapise vanakomana navanasikana vavo mumoto, zviri zvinhu zvandisina kuvaraira, kana kufunga mumoyo mangu.

³¹They have built the high places of Topheth, which is in the valley of the son of Hinnom, to burn their sons and their daughters in the fire; which I didn’t command, nor did it come into my mind.

³²Naizvozvo zvanzi naJehovha, Tarirai, mazuva anouya, avasingazopaidzi Tofeti, kana mupata womwanakomana waHinomi, asi Mupata wokuuraya; nekuti vachaviga vakafa paTofeti, nekuti kuchashaikwa imwe nzvimbo.

³²Therefore behold, the days come, says Yahweh, that it shall no more be called Topheth, nor The valley of the son of Hinnom, but The valley of Slaughter: for they shall bury in Topheth, until there is no place to bury.

³³Mitumbu yavanhu ava zvichava zvokudya zveshiri dzokudenga nezvezvikara zvenyika; hakuna uchazvidzinga.

³³The dead bodies of this people shall be food for the birds of the sky, and for the animals of the earth; and none shall frighten them away.

³⁴Ipapo ndichagumisa pamaguta aJudha napanzira dzomuJerusaremu inzwi rokuseka, nenzwi romufaro, nenzwi rechikomba nenzwi romufaro, nenzwi rechikomba nenzwi romwenga; nekuti nyika ichava dongo.

³⁴Then will I cause to cease from the cities of Judah, and from the streets of Jerusalem, the voice of mirth and the voice of gladness, the voice of the bridegroom and the voice of the bride; for the land shall become a waste.