1Muputsanyi auya kuzorwa nemi; rindirai nhare, tarirai nzira, simbisai zviuno zvenyu, itai nesimba renyu kwazvo.
1He who dashes in pieces has come up against you. Keep the fortress! Watch the way! Strengthen your waist! Fortify your power mightily!
2nekuti Jehovha anodzosa kurumbidzwa kukuru kwaJakove sokurumbidzwa kukuru kwaIsiraeri; nekuti vapambi vakavapamba, vakaparadza matavi emizambiringa yavo.
2For Yahweh restores the excellency of Jacob, as the excellency of Israel; for the destroyers have destroyed them, and ruined their vine branches.
3Nhovo dzemhare dzake dzakatsvukiswa, varume vakatsunga vakapfeka nguvo tsvuku; ngoro dziri mumoto wedare nezuva rokuzvigadzira kwake, mapfumo ake emisipiresi anosimudzwa.
3The shield of his mighty men is made red. The valiant men are in scarlet. The chariots flash with steel in the day of his preparation, and the pine spears are brandished.
4Ngoro dzinovirima virima munzira dzomumusha, dzinobonderana pamapani dzakafanana namazhenje, dzinomhanya semheni.
4The chariots rage in the streets. They rush back and forth in the broad ways. Their appearance is like torches. They run like the lightnings.
5Ucharangarira vakuru vake, vanogumburwa pakufamba kwavo, vanomhanyira kurusvingo rwaro pakagadzirwa chitaviridzo.
5He summons his picked troops. They stumble on their way. They dash to its wall, and the protective shield is put in place.
6Masuwo enzizi akazarurwa, imba yamambo yakanyauka.
6The gates of the rivers are opened, and the palace is dissolved.
7Shoko ratemwa, rokuti, rakafukurwa, rakatapwa, vashandiri varo vanomutungamirira vachichema namazwi akaita seenjiva, vachizvirova pazvipfuva zvavo.
7It is decreed: she is uncovered, she is carried away; and her handmaids moan as with the voice of doves, beating on their breasts.
8Asi kubva kare Ninivhe rakanga rakaita sedziva remvura; kunyange zvakadaro vanotiza. Vanodana vachiti, Mirai, mirai! Asi hakuna anocheuka.
8But Nineveh has been from of old like a pool of water, yet they flee away. “Stop! Stop!” they cry, but no one looks back.
9Pambai sirivha, pambai ndarama; nekuti kuwanda kwazvo hakuperi, iyo fuma yenhumbi dzakaisvonaka.
9Take the spoil of silver. Take the spoil of gold, for there is no end of the store, the glory of all goodly furniture.
10Harina chinhu, rinoshaiwa zvose, rava dongo; mwoyo unonyauka, mabvi anobonderana, kurwadziwa kwazvo kuripo pazviuno zvose, zviso zvavose zvacheneruka.
10She is empty, void, and waste. The heart melts, the knees knock together, their bodies and faces have grown pale.
11Nzvimbo yeshumba iripi? Panodyira shumba duku ndapapi? Ndapapi panofamba shumba nehadzi yayo nomwana weshumba, kusina anodzikarudza?
11Where is the den of the lions, and the feeding place of the young lions, where the lion and the lioness walked, the lion’s cubs, and no one made them afraid?
12Shumba yaibvamburanya zvakaringana vana vayo, yaidzipira hadzi dzayo, yaizadza mapako ayo nezvayairuma, nenzimba dzayo nezvayaibata.
12The lion tore in pieces enough for his cubs, and strangled for his lionesses, and filled his caves with the kill, and his dens with prey.
13Tarirai, ndine mhaka nemwi ndizvo zvinotaura Jehovha wehondo ndichapisa ngoro dzaro dziite utsi, munondo uchapedza shumba dzenyu duku; ndichabvisa zvawakapamba panyika, inzwi renhume dzako haringatongonzwikwizve.
13“Behold, I am against you,” says Yahweh of Armies, “and I will burn her chariots in the smoke, and the sword will devour your young lions; and I will cut off your prey from the earth, and the voice of your messengers will no longer be heard.”