¹Ishe akafukidza sei mukunda weZiyoni negore rokutsamwa kwake! Akabvisa kunaka kwalsiraeri akazvikandira pasi, akasarangarira chitsiko chake nezuva rokutsamwa kwake.

¹How has the Lord covered the daughter of Zion with a cloud in his anger! He has cast down from heaven to the earth the beauty of Israel, And hasn’t remembered his footstool in the day of his anger.

²Ishe akaparadza ugaro hwose hwaJakove, akasanzwira tsitsi; pakutsamwa kwake akawisira pasi nhare dzomukunda waJudha; akadziwisira pasi; akamhura ushe namachinda ahwo.

²The Lord has swallowed up all the habitations of Jacob, and has not pitied: He has thrown down in his wrath the strongholds of the daughter of Judah; He has brought them down to the ground; he has profaned the kingdom and its princes.

³Nokutsamwa kukuru akagura nyanga dzose dzaIsiraeri, akadzosa ruoko rwake rworudyi pamberi pomuvengi akapisa muna Jakove somurazvo womoto unopedza zvose kumativi ose

³He has cut off in fierce anger all the horn of Israel; He has drawn back his right hand from before the enemy: He has burned up Jacob like a flaming fire, which devours all around.

⁴Akakunga uta hwake somuvengi, akamira noruoko rwake somudzivisi, akauraya vose vaifadza meso; akadurura kutsamwa kwake somoto patende romukunda weZiyoni.

⁴He has bent his bow like an enemy, he has stood with his right hand as an adversary, Has killed all that were pleasant to the eye: In the tent of the daughter of Zion he has poured out his wrath like fire.

⁵Ishe wava somuvengi, akamedza Isiraeri; akamedza dzimba dzavo dzose dzoushe, akaparadza nhare dzavo; akawanzira mukunda waJudha kuchema nokurira.

⁵The Lord has become as an enemy, he has swallowed up Israel; He has swallowed up all her palaces, he has destroyed his strongholds; He has multiplied in the daughter of Judah mourning and lamentation.

⁶Akabvisa ruzhowa rwake nesimba sorwomunda; akaparadza nzvimbo yake yokuungana; Jehovha akakangamwisa paZiyoni ungano yakatarwa nesabata, akashora madzimambo navapristi neshungu dzokutsamwa kwake.

⁶He has violently taken away his tabernacle, as if it were of a garden; he has destroyed his place of assembly: Yahweh has caused solemn assembly and Sabbath to be forgotten in Zion, Has despised in the indignation of his anger the king and the priest.

⁷Jehovha akarasa atari yake, akasema nzvimbo yake tsvene, akaisa masvingo edzimba dzavo vakaita bope mumba maJehovha, sapazuva reungano yakatarwa.

⁷The Lord has cast off his altar, he has abhorred his sanctuary; He has given up into the hand of the enemy the walls of her palaces: They have made a noise in the house of Yahweh, as in the day of a solemn assembly.

⁸Jehovha akafunga kuparadza rusvingo rwomukunda weZiyoni; akatatanura rwonzi rwokuyera,pakuparadza; akachemedza nhare norusvingo, zvinopera simba pamwechete.

⁸Yahweh has purposed to destroy the wall of the daughter of Zion; He has stretched out the line, he has not withdrawn his hand from destroying; He has made the rampart and wall to lament; they languish together.

⁹Masuwo aro akanyura pasi, akaparadza nokuvhuna zvipfigiso zvaro; mambo waro namachinda aro vari pakati pamarudzi asina murayiro. Zvirokwazvo vaporofita varo havana zvavanoratidzwa naJehovha.

⁹Her gates are sunk into the ground; he has destroyed and broken her bars: Her king and her princes are among the nations where the law is not; Yes, her prophets find no vision from Yahweh.

¹⁰Vakuru vomukunda weZiyoni vagere pasi, vanoramba vanyerere; vakakushira guruva pamisoro yavo, vakazvisunga zviuno namasaga; mhandara dzeJerusaremu dzakakotamisa misoro yadzo pasi.

¹⁰The elders of the daughter of Zion sit on the ground, they keep silence; They have cast up dust on their heads; they have clothed themselves with sackcloth: The virgins of Jerusalem hang down their heads to the ground.

¹¹Meso angu apera nemisodzi, moyo wangu unotambudzika; chiropa changu chadururirwa pasi, nemhaka yokuparadzwa komukunda wavanhu vangu, nekuti vanana navanoyamwa vanoziya munzira dzomuguta.

¹¹My eyes do fail with tears, my heart is troubled; My liver is poured on the earth, because of the destruction of the daughter of my people, Because the young children and the infants swoon in the streets of the city.

¹²Vanoti kuna madzimai avo, Zviyo newaini zviripiko? Vachingoziya munzira dzomuguta savakakuvadzwa, mweya yavo ichidururirwa pachipfuva chamadzimai avo.

¹²They tell their mothers, Where is grain and wine? When they swoon as the wounded in the streets of the city, When their soul is poured out into their mothers’ bosom.

¹³Ndichakupupureiko? Ndichakufananidza nei, iwe mukunda weJerusaremu? Ndichakuenzanisa nei, kuti ndikunyaradze, iwe mhandara mukunda weZiyoni? nekuti pawakaparadzwa pakakura segungwa, ndiani achakuporesa?

¹³What shall I testify to you? what shall I liken to you, daughter of Jerusalem? What shall I compare to you, that I may comfort you, virgin daughter of Zion? For your breach is great like the sea: who can heal you?

¹⁴Vaporofita vako vakakuonera zviratidzo zvenhema nezvoupenzi; havana kubudisa zvakaipa zvako, kuti vadzose kutapwa kwako, asi vakakuonera zviga zvenhema nezvinokutapisa.

¹⁴Your prophets have seen for you false and foolish visions; They have not uncovered your iniquity, to bring back your captivity, but have seen for you false oracles and causes of banishment.

¹⁵Vose vanopfuura vachavarovera maoko pamusoro pako, vanoridza muridzo nokudzungudzira mukunda weJerusaremu misoro yavo, vachiti, Ko ndiro guta rainzi navanhu rakanaka-naka kwazvo, mufaro wenyika yose?

¹⁵All that pass by clap their hands at you. They hiss and wag their head at the daughter of Jerusalem, saying, Is this the city that men called The perfection of beauty, The joy of the whole earth?

¹⁶Vavengi vako vose vakakushamisira miromo yavo; vanoridza muridzo nokugeda-geda meno, vanoti, Tariparadza; zvirokwazvo ndiro zuva ratakanga takatarira; tariwana, tariona.

¹⁶All your enemies have opened their mouth wide against you; They hiss and gnash the teeth; they say, We have swallowed her up; Certainly this is the day that we looked for; we have found, we have seen it.

¹⁷Jehovha akaita izvo zvaakafunga, akapedzisa shoko rake raakaraira pamazuva akare; akawisira pasi, akasava netsitsi; akafadza muvengi pamusoro pako, akasimudza runyanga rwavadzivisi vako.

¹⁷Yahweh has done that which he purposed; he has fulfilled his word that he commanded in the days of old; He has thrown down, and has not pitied: He has caused the enemy to rejoice over you; he has exalted the horn of your adversaries.

¹⁸moyo yavo yakadana kuna Ishe. Iwe rusvingo rwomukunda weZiyoni, misodzi ngaiyerere sorwizi masikati nousiku, usazorora, mboni yeziso rako isarega kuchema.

¹⁸Their heart cried to the Lord: wall of the daughter of Zion, let tears run down like a river day and night; Give yourself no respite; don’t let the apple of your eye cease.

¹⁹Muka, danidzira usiku, pakutanga kwenguva dzose; durura moyo wako semvura pamberi paJehovha; simudzira maoko ako kwaari nokuda koupenyu hwevana vako, vanoziya nenzara pakuvamba kwenzira imwe neimwe yomuguta.

¹⁹Arise, cry out in the night, at the beginning of the watches; Pour out your heart like water before the face of the Lord: Lift up your hands toward him for the life of your young children, that faint for hunger at the head of every street.

²⁰Tarirai, Jehovha, muone vamakaitira zvakadai! Ko vakadzi vangadye zvibereko zvavo, ivo vana vari pamaoko here? Ko vapristi navaporofita vangaurawe panzvimbo tsvene yaishe here?

²⁰Look, Yahweh, and see to whom you have done thus! Shall the women eat their fruit, the children that are dandled in the hands? Shall the priest and the prophet be killed in the sanctuary of the Lord?

²¹Majaya navatana vavete pasi munzira dzomuguta; mhandara dzangu namajaya angu vaurawa nomunondo; makavauraya nezuva rokutsamwa kwenyu, makavabaya, hamuna kuvanzwira tsitsi.

²¹The youth and the old man lie on the ground in the streets; My virgins and my young men are fallen by the sword: You have killed them in the day of your anger; you have slaughtered, and not pitied.

²²Makadaidza zvinondityisa pamativi ose, sapazuva reungano yakatarwa; hakuna akapukunyuka kana akasara pazuva rokutsamwa kwaJehovha; vandakabata mumaoko navandakarera vapedzwa nomuvengi wangu.

²²You have called, as in the day of a solemn assembly, my terrors on every side; There was none that escaped or remained in the day of Yahweh’s anger: Those that I have dandled and brought up has my enemy consumed.