¹Zvino awa ndiwo mashoko orugwaro rwakatumwa nomuporofita Jeremiya ari paJerusaremu kuvakuru vakanga vasara kuna vakatapwa, nokuvapristi nokuvaporofita, nokuvanhu vose, vakanga vakatapwa paJerusaremu naNebhukadhinezari, vakaiswa Bhabhironi,

¹Now these are the words of the letter that Jeremiah the prophet sent from Jerusalem to the residue of the elders of the captivity, and to the priests, to the prophets, and to all the people, whom Nebuchadnezzar had carried away captive from Jerusalem to Babylon,

²Shure kokubva paJerusaremu kwamambo Jekonia, namai vake, navaranda, namachinda aJudha neeJerusaremu, navavezi, navapfuri,

²(after that Jeconiah the king, the queen mother, the eunuchs, the princes of Judah and Jerusalem, the craftsmen, and the smiths, had departed from Jerusalem),

³noruoko rwaErasa, mwanakomana waShafani, naGemaria, mwanakomana waHirikia, vakanga vatumwa Bhabhironi naZedhekia mambo waJudha kuna Nebhukadhinezari mambo weBhabhironi, achiti,

³by the hand of Elasah the son of Shaphan, and Gemariah the son of Hilkiah, (whom Zedekiah king of Judah sent to Babylon to Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon), saying,

⁴Zvanzi naJehovha wehondo, Mwari waIsiraeri, kuna vose vakatapwa, vandakatapisa Jerusaremu vaiswe Bhabhironi.

⁴Thus says Yahweh of Armies, the God of Israel, to all the captivity, whom I have caused to be carried away captive from Jerusalem to Babylon:

⁵Zvivakirei dzimba, mugaremo; simai minda, mudye zvibereko zvayo;

⁵Build houses, and dwell in them; and plant gardens, and eat their fruit.

⁶wanai vakadzi, mubereke vanakomana navanasikana; wanisai vanakomana venyu vakadzi, navanasikana venyu muvaise kuvarume, kuti vabereke vanakomana navanasikana, muwandeko, murege kutapudzwa.

⁶Take wives, and father sons and daughters; and take wives for your sons, and give your daughters to husbands, that they may bear sons and daughters; and multiply there, and don’t be diminished.

⁷Mutsvake rugare rweguta kwandakakutapisai, murinyengeterere kuna Jehovha; nekuti norugare rwaro imwi muchava norugarewo.

⁷Seek the peace of the city where I have caused you to be carried away captive, and pray to Yahweh for it; for in its peace you shall have peace.

⁸nekuti zvanzi naJehovha wehondo, Mwari waIsiraeri, Vaporofita venyu, vari pakati penyu, navauki venyu, ngavarege kukunyengerai; regai kuteerera kurota kwenyu kwamunoroteswa.

⁸For thus says Yahweh of Armies, the God of Israel: Don’t let your prophets who are in the midst of you, and your diviners, deceive you; neither listen to your dreams which you cause to be dreamed.

⁹nekuti vanokuporofitirai nhema nezita rangu, ini handina kuvatuma, ndizvo zvinotaura Jehovha.

⁹For they prophesy falsely to you in my name: I have not sent them, says Yahweh.

¹⁰nekuti zvanzi naJehovha, Kana makore makumi manomwe aperera Bhabhironi, ndichakushanyirai, nokukusimbisirai shoko rangu rakanaka, ndichikudzoserai kunzvimbo ino.

¹⁰For thus says Yahweh, After seventy years are accomplished for Babylon, I will visit you, and perform my good word toward you, in causing you to return to this place.

¹¹nekuti ndinoziva ndangariro dzandinorangarira pamusoro penyu, ndizvo zvinotaura Jehovha, ndangariro dzorugare, dzisati dziri dzezvakaipa, kuti ndikupei mugumo une tariro.

¹¹For I know the thoughts that I think toward you, says Yahweh, thoughts of peace, and not of evil, to give you hope and a future.

¹²Muchadana kwandiri, muchandonyengetera kwandiri, neni ndichakunzwai.

¹²You shall call on me, and you shall go and pray to me, and I will listen to you.

¹³Muchanditsvaka, mukandiwana, kana muchinditsvaka nomoyo wenyu wose.

¹³You shall seek me, and find me, when you shall search for me with all your heart.

¹⁴Ndichawanikwa nemi, ndizvo zvinotaura Jehovha, ndichakudzosai pakutapwa kwenyu, nokukuunganidzai kumarudzi ose, nokunzvimbo dzose kwandakanga ndakudzingirai, ndizvo zvinotaura Jehovha; ndichakudzoseraizve kunzvimbo kwandakanga ndakutapisai.

¹⁴I will be found by you, says Yahweh, and I will turn again your captivity, and I will gather you from all the nations, and from all the places where I have driven you, says Yahweh; and I will bring you again to the place from where I caused you to be carried away captive.

¹⁵Zvamakati, Jehovha wakatimutsira vaporofita paBhabhironi;

¹⁵Because you have said, Yahweh has raised us up prophets in Babylon;

¹⁶zvanzi naJehovha pamusoro pamambo ugere pachigaro choushe chaDhavhidhi, napamusoro pavanhu vose vagere muguta rino, idzo hama dzenyu dzisina kuenda nemwi pakutapwa kwenyu;

¹⁶thus says Yahweh concerning the king who sits on the throne of David, and concerning all the people who dwell in this city, your brothers who haven’t gone forth with you into captivity;

¹⁷zvanzi naJehovha wehondo, Tarirai, ndichatuma pamusoro pavo munondo, nenzara, nehosha yakaipa, ndichavaita samaonde akaipa kwazvo, asingabviri kudyiwa nokuipa kwawo.

¹⁷thus says Yahweh of Armies; Behold, I will send on them the sword, the famine, and the pestilence, and will make them like vile figs, that can’t be eaten, they are so bad.

¹⁸Ndichateverera nomunondo, nenzara, nehosha yakaipa; ndichavaita chinhu chinotyisa ushe hwose bwenyika, vave chinhu chinotukwa, nechishamiso, nechinoridzirwa muridzo, nechinoshoorwa pakati pamarudzi ose kwandakavadzingira;

¹⁸I will pursue after them with the sword, with the famine, and with the pestilence, and will deliver them to be tossed back and forth among all the kingdoms of the earth, to be an object of horror, and an astonishment, and a hissing, and a reproach, among all the nations where I have driven them;

¹⁹zvavasina kuteerera mashoko angu, ndizvo zvinotaura Jehovha, andakatuma kwavari navaranda vangu vaporofita, ndichimuka mangwanani ndichivatuma; asi makaramba kuteerera, ndizvo zvinotaura Jehovha.

¹⁹because they have not listened to my words, says Yahweh, with which I sent to them my servants the prophets, rising up early and sending them; but you would not hear, says Yahweh.

²⁰Naizvozvo chinzwai shoko raJehovha, imwi mose makatapwa, vandakadzinga paJerusaremu ndikavaisa Bhabhironi.

²⁰Hear therefore the word of Yahweh, all you of the captivity, whom I have sent away from Jerusalem to Babylon.

²¹Zvanzi naJehovha wehondo, Mwari waIsiraeri, pamusoro paAhabhi mwanakomana waKoraia, napamusoro paZedhekia mwanakomana waMaaseia, vanokuporofitirai nhema nezita rangu, Tarirai, ndinovaisa muruoko rwaNebhukadhirezari mambo weBhabhironi; iye uchavauraya pamberi penyu;

²¹Thus says Yahweh of Armies, the God of Israel, concerning Ahab the son of Kolaiah, and concerning Zedekiah the son of Maaseiah, who prophesy a lie to you in my name: Behold, I will deliver them into the hand of Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon; and he shall kill them before your eyes;

²²vatapwa vose vaJudha, vari Bhabhironi, vachatora kwavari shoko rokutuka naro, vachiti, Jehovha akuite saZedhekia uye saAhabhi, vakagochwa pamoto namambo weBhabhironi.

²²and of them shall be taken up a curse by all the captives of Judah who are in Babylon, saying, Yahweh make you like Zedekiah and like Ahab, whom the king of Babylon roasted in the fire;

²³nekuti vakaita nohupenzi pakati paIsiraeri, vakaita hupombwe navakadzi vovokwavo, vakareva mashoko enhema nezita rangu, andisina kuvaraira; ini ndini ndinoziva, ndini chapupu, ndizvo zvinotaura Jehovha.

²³because they have worked folly in Israel, and have committed adultery with their neighbors’ wives, and have spoken words in my name falsely, which I didn’t command them; and I am he who knows, and am witness, says Yahweh.

²⁴Zvino kuna Shemaia muNeheramite, unofanira kutaura uchiti,

²⁴Concerning Shemaiah the Nehelamite you shall speak, saying,

²⁵Zvanzi naJehovha wehondo, Mwari waIsiraeri, Zvawakatuma magwaro nezita rako kuvanhu vose vari paJerusaremu, nokuna Zefaniya mwanakomana womupristi Maaseia, nokuvapristi vose, uchiti,

²⁵Thus speaks Yahweh of Armies, the God of Israel, saying, Because you have sent letters in your own name to all the people who are at Jerusalem, and to Zephaniah the son of Maaseiah, the priest, and to all the priests, saying,

²⁶Jehovha wakakuita mupristi panzvimbo yomupristi Jehoiadha, kuti mumba maJehovha muve navatariri, kuti asunge mumatanda namaketani mumwe nomumwe unopenga, achizviita muporofita.

²⁶Yahweh has made you priest in the place of Jehoiada the priest, that there may be officers in the house of Yahweh, for every man who is mad, and makes himself a prophet, that you should put him in the stocks and in shackles.

²⁷Ko zvino wakaregerei kutuka Jeremiya weAnatoti, unozviita muporofita pamberi penyu,

²⁷Now therefore, why have you not rebuked Jeremiah of Anathoth, who makes himself a prophet to you,

²⁸zvaakatuma shoko kwatiri paBhabhironi, achiti, Nguva irefu, vakai dzimba mugaremo; simai minda, mudye zvibereko zvayo?

²⁸because he has sent to us in Babylon, saying, The captivity is long: build houses, and dwell in them; and plant gardens, and eat their fruit?

²⁹Zvino mupristi Zefaniya akaravira muporofita Jeremiya rugwaro urwu.

²⁹Zephaniah the priest read this letter in the ears of Jeremiah the prophet.

³⁰Ipapo shoko raJehovha rakauya kuna Jeremiya, richiti,

³⁰Then came the word of Yahweh to Jeremiah, saying,

³¹Tumira vakatapwa vose shoko rinoti, Zvanzi naJehovha pamusoro paShemaia muNeheramiti, Shemaia zvaakakuporofitirai, ini ndisina kumutuma, akakutendisai nhema,

³¹Send to all them of the captivity, saying, Thus says Yahweh concerning Shemaiah the Nehelamite: Because Shemaiah has prophesied to you, and I didn’t send him, and he has caused you to trust in a lie;

³²naizvozvo zvanzi naJehovha, Tarirai, ndicharova Shemaia muNeheramiti, navana vake; haangavi nomunhu ungagara pakati pavanhu ava, uye haangaoni zvakanaka zvandichaitira vanhu vangu ndizvo zvinotaura Jehovha nekuti wakataura zvinomukira Jehovha.

³²therefore thus says Yahweh, Behold, I will punish Shemaiah the Nehelamite, and his seed; he shall not have a man to dwell among this people, neither shall he see the good that I will do to my people, says Yahweh, because he has spoken rebellion against Yahweh.