¹Ini ndakati, Chinzwai henyu, imwi vakuru vaJakove, navabati veimba yaIsiraeri. Ko hamuzaifanira kuziva kururamisira vanhu here?

¹I said, “Please listen, you heads of Jacob, and rulers of the house of Israel: Isn’t it for you to know justice?

²Iyemi, munovenga zvakanaka, muchida zvakaipa, munovhiya vanhu ganda ravo, muchibvambura nyama yavo pamafupa avo;

²You who hate the good, and love the evil; who tear off their skin, and their flesh from off their bones;

³imi, munodyawo nyama yavanhu vangu, muchisvuura ganda ravo, munovhuna mafupa avo, muchiaguranya seehari, senyama iri mugate.

³who also eat the flesh of my people, and flay their skin from off them, and break their bones, and chop them in pieces, as for the pot, and as flesh within the caldron.

⁴Ipapo vachadana kuna Jehovha, asi haangavapinduri; nokuvavanzira chiso chake nenguva iyo, nokuda kwezvakaipa zvavakaita pamabasa avo.

⁴Then they will cry to Yahweh, but he will not answer them. Yes, he will hide his face from them at that time, because they made their deeds evil.”

⁵Zvanzi naJehovha pamusoro pavaporofita, vakatsausa vanhu vangu, vanoruma nameno avo, vachidana vachiti, Rugare! Asi asingaisi chinhu mumiromo yavo, vanomumukira hondo.

⁵Thus says Yahweh concerning the prophets who lead my people astray; for those who feed their teeth, they proclaim, “Peace!” and whoever doesn’t provide for their mouths, they prepare war against him:

⁶Naizvozvo muchasvikirwa nousiku, kuti murege kuva nechamunoona; muchava nerima, kuti murege kuuka; zuva richavirira vaporofita, chiedza chamasikati chichavasvibira.

⁶“Therefore night is over you, with no vision, and it is dark to you, that you may not divine; and the sun will go down on the prophets, and the day will be black over them.

⁷Vaoni vachanyadziswa, navauki vachakanganiswa; zvirokwazvo, vose vachapfumbira ndebvu dzavo, nekuti hakune mhinduro inobva kuna Mwari.

⁷The seers shall be disappointed, and the diviners confounded. Yes, they shall all cover their lips; for there is no answer from God The Hebrew word rendered “God” is “Elohim.” .”

⁸Asi kana ndirini, ndizere nesimba pamwechete noMweya waJehovha, nokutonga nokutsunga, kuti ndiparidzire Jakove kudarika kwavo, uye Isiraeri zvivi zvavo.

⁸But as for me, I am full of power by the Spirit of Yahweh, and of judgment, and of might, to declare to Jacob his disobedience, and to Israel his sin.

⁹Chinzwai henyu chinhu ichi, imwi vakuru veimba yaJakove, navabati viemba munosema kururamisa, nokuminamisa zvose zvakarurama.

⁹Please listen to this, you heads of the house of Jacob, and rulers of the house of Israel, who abhor justice, and pervert all equity.

¹⁰Munovaka Ziyoni neropa, uye Jerusaremu nezvakaipa.

¹⁰They build up Zion with blood, and Jerusalem with iniquity.

¹¹Vakuru varo vanotamba mhaka kuti vapiwe zvipo, vapristi varo vanodzidzisa kuti vapiwe mubayiro, vaporofita varo vanouka kuti vapiwe mari; kunyange zvakadaro vanosendamira kuda Jehovha vachiti, Ko Jehovha haazi pakati pedu here? Hatingawirwi nezvakaipa.

¹¹Her leaders judge for bribes, and her priests teach for a price, and her prophets of it tell fortunes for money: yet they lean on Yahweh, and say, “Isn’t Yahweh in the midst of us? No disaster will come on us.”

¹²Naizvozvo Ziyoni richarimwa somunda nemhaka yenyu, Jerusaremu richaitwa mirwi yamabwe, uye gomo reimba yaJehovha senzvimbo dzakakwirira dzokudondo.

¹²Therefore Zion for your sake will be plowed like a field, and Jerusalem will become heaps of rubble, and the mountain of the temple like the high places of a forest.