¹Shoko raJehovha, rakauya kuna Mika weMoresheti namazuva aJotamu naAhazi naHezekia, madzimambo aJudha, raakaona pamusoro peSamaria neJerusaremu.

¹The word of Yahweh “Yahweh” is God’s proper Name, sometimes rendered “LORD” (all caps) in other translations. that came to Micah the Morashtite in the days of Jotham, Ahaz, and Hezekiah, kings of Judah, which he saw concerning Samaria and Jerusalem.

²Inzwai imwi marudzi avanhu, imwi mose; teerera iwe nyika, nezvose zvirimo; Ishe Jehovha ngaakupupurirei, iye Ishe ari mutemberi yake tsvene.

²Hear, you peoples, all of you. Listen, O earth, and all that is therein: and let the Lord The word translated “Lord” is “Adonai.” Yahweh be witness against you, the Lord from his holy temple.

³nekuti tarirai, Jehovha anobuda panzvimbo yake, achaburuka nokutsika panzvimbo dzakakwirira dzenyika.

³For, behold, Yahweh comes forth out of his place, and will come down and tread on the high places of the earth.

⁴Makomo achanyauka pasi pake, mipata ichapamuka senamo yakaiswa pamoto, semvura inodururwa pamateru.

⁴The mountains melt under him, and the valleys split apart, like wax before the fire, like waters that are poured down a steep place.

⁵Zvose izvi zvinoitwa nokuda kokudarika kwaJakove, uye nokuda kwezvivi zveimba yaIsiraeri. Kudarika kwaJakove ndokweiko? Harizi Samaria here? Nzvimbo dzakakwirira dzaJudha ndedzipiko? Harizi Jerusaremu here?

⁵“All this is for the disobedience of Jacob, and for the sins of the house of Israel. What is the disobedience of Jacob? Isn’t it Samaria? And what are the high places of Judah? Aren’t they Jerusalem?

⁶Saka Samaria ndichariita somurwi wamabwe musango, senzvimbo dzingasimwa mizambiringa; ndichadurura mabwe aro mumupata, ndichifukunura nheyo dzaro.

⁶Therefore I will make Samaria like a rubble heap of the field, like places for planting vineyards; and I will pour down its stones into the valley, and I will uncover its foundations.

⁷Mifananidzo yaro yose yakavezwa ichaputswa-putswa, mibairo yaro yose ichapiswa nomoto, uye ndichaparadza zvifananidzo zvaro zvose; nekuti rakazviunganidza izvo uri mubayiro wechifeve, naizvozvi zvichadzokerazve kumubayiro wechifeve.

⁷All her idols will be beaten to pieces, and all her temple gifts will be burned with fire, and all her images I will destroy; for of the hire of a prostitute has she gathered them, and to the hire of a prostitute shall they return.”

⁸Nemhaka iyi ndichachema nokuungudza, ndichafamba ndisina nguvo ndakashama, ndichaungudza samakava nokurira semhou.

⁸For this I will lament and wail; I will go stripped and naked; I will howl like the jackals, and moan like the daughters of owls.

⁹nekuti mavanga aro haadi kupora, nekuti zvasvika kuna Judhawo; zvasvikira pasuwo ravanhu vangu, ipo paJerusaremu.

⁹For her wounds are incurable; for it has come even to Judah. It reaches to the gate of my people, even to Jerusalem.

¹⁰Musazvireva paGati, regai kutongochema; paBheti-re-Afura muumburuke muguruva.

¹⁰Don’t tell it in Gath. Don’t weep at all. At Beth Ophrah Beth Ophrah means literally “House of Dust.” I have rolled myself in the dust.

¹¹Chibva uende, iwe ugere Shafiri, wakashama uchinyara; agere Zaanani haana kubuda kuungudza paBheti-ezeri kuchakutorera pokumira.

¹¹Pass on, inhabitant of Shaphir, in nakedness and shame. The inhabitant of Zaanan won’t come out. The wailing of Beth Ezel will take from you his protection.

¹²nekuti agere Maroti anomirira nemoyo zvikuru chinhu chakanaka, nekuti zvakaipa zvakaburuka zvichibva kuna Jehovha zvikasvikira kusuwo reJerusaremu.

¹²For the inhabitant of Maroth waits anxiously for good, because evil has come down from Yahweh to the gate of Jerusalem.

¹³Iwe ugere Rakishi, sunga mabhiza pangoro; ndiro rakatanga kuisa mukunda weZiyoni pazvivi, nekuti kudarika kwalsiraeri kwakawanikwa mauri.

¹³Harness the chariot to the swift steed, inhabitant of Lachish. She was the beginning of sin to the daughter of Zion; For the transgressions of Israel were found in you.

¹⁴Saka iwe uchapa Moresheti-gati chipo chokuonekana; dzimba dzeAkizibhi dzichava chinhu chinonyengera madzimambo aIsiraeri.

¹⁴Therefore you will give a parting gift to Moresheth Gath. The houses of Achzib will be a deceitful thing to the kings of Israel.

¹⁵Iwe ugere Maresha, ndichakuuyisira mumwe achakukunda; vakakudzwa valsiraeri vachasvika paAdhurami.

¹⁵I will yet bring to you, inhabitant of Mareshah. He who is the glory of Israel will come to Adullam.

¹⁶Zviitire mhazha, vevura vhudzi rako pamusoro pavana vaunofarira; kurisa mhazha yako seyegondo, nekuti vakatapwa kure newe.

¹⁶Shave your heads, and cut off your hair for the children of your delight. Enlarge your baldness like the vulture; for they have gone into captivity from you!