¹Guta reropa rine nhamo! Rizere nenhema nokupamba; zvakapambwa hazviperimo.

¹Woe to the bloody city! It is all full of lies and robbery. The prey doesn’t depart.

²Kurira kwetyava, nomubvumo wokutinhira kwamakumbo engoro, nowokutsika kwamabhiza, nengoro dzinojata,

²The noise of the whip, the noise of the rattling of wheels, prancing horses, and bounding chariots,

³nowavatasvi vanomhanyisa, nomunondo unopenya, nepfumo rinovaima, navazhinji vakaurawa, nomurwi mukuru wezvitunha; zvitunha hazviperi, vanogumburwa nezvitunha zvavo;

³the horseman mounting, and the flashing sword, the glittering spear, and a multitude of slain, and a great heap of corpses, and there is no end of the bodies. They stumble on their bodies,

⁴nemhaka yokufeva kuzhinji kwechifeve chakanaka pakudikamwa, iye mwene wouroyi, anotengesa marudzi avanhu nokufeva kwake, nemhuri dzavanhu nouroyi hwake.

⁴because of the multitude of the prostitution of the alluring prostitute, the mistress of witchcraft, who sells nations through her prostitution, and families through her witchcraft.

⁵Tarira, ndine mhaka newe ndizvo zvinotaura Jehovha wehondo ndichakufukura ndiise nguvo dzako kuchiso chako; ndicharatidza marudzi ose kushama kwako, uye ushe hwose kunyara kwako.

⁵“Behold, I am against you,” says Yahweh of Armies, “and I will lift your skirts over your face. I will show the nations your nakedness, and the kingdoms your shame.

⁶Ndichakandira pamusoro pako tsvina inosemesa, nokukushatisa, nokukuita chinhu chinotarirwa navose.

⁶I will throw abominable filth on you, and make you vile, and will set you a spectacle.

⁷Ipapo vose vanokuona vachakutiza, vachiti, Ninivhe raparadzwa, ndiani acharichema? Ndichakutsvakirepi vanyaradzi?

⁷It will happen that all those who look at you will flee from you, and say, ‘Nineveh is laid waste! Who will mourn for her?’ Where will I seek comforters for you?”

⁸Ko iwe unopfuura No-amoni, rakanga rakavakwa pakati penzizi, rakanga rakapoteredzwa nemvura; rusvingo rwaro raiva gungwa, namadziro aro raiva gungwazve?

⁸Are you better than No-Amon, or, Thebes who was situated among the rivers, who had the waters around her; whose rampart was the sea, and her wall was of the sea?

⁹Itiopia neEgipita raiva simba raro, rakanga risina mugumo; Puti neRubhimi vaiva vabatsiri vako.

⁹Cush and Egypt were her boundless strength. Put and Libya were her helpers.

¹⁰Kunyange zvakadaro vakazoenda naro, rakatapwa; vana varo vaduku vakaputsanyiwa pakuvamba kwenzira dzose dzomumusha; vakakanda mijenya pamusoro pavaikudzwa pakati pavo, vakuru varo vose vakasungwa namangetani.

¹⁰Yet was she carried away. She went into captivity. Her young children also were dashed in pieces at the head of all the streets, and they cast lots for her honorable men, and all her great men were bound in chains.

¹¹Newewo uchabatwa newaini, uchandovanda; newewo uchandotsvaka nhare nemhaka yomuvengi wako.

¹¹You also will be drunken. You will be hidden. You also will seek a stronghold because of the enemy.

¹²Nhare dzako dzose dzichafanana nemionde ina maonde otanga kuibva; kana ichizunzwa, anowira mumuromo woanodya.

¹²All your fortresses will be like fig trees with the first-ripe figs: if they are shaken, they fall into the mouth of the eater.

¹³Tarira, vanhu vako pakati pako vakaita savakadzi; masuwo enyika yako azarurirwa vavengi vako kwazvo; moto wapedza zvipfigiso zvako.

¹³Behold, your troops in your midst are women. The gates of your land are set wide open to your enemies. The fire has devoured your bars.

¹⁴Zvicherere mvura yokumwa pakukombwa kwako, simbisa nhare dzako, pinda mudope ukanye ivhu, ubate foroma.

¹⁴Draw water for the siege. Strengthen your fortresses. Go into the clay, and tread the mortar. Make the brick kiln strong.

¹⁵Moto uchakupedzapo, munondo uchakuparadza, uchakupedza segwatakwata; zviitei vazhinji segwatakwata, zviitei vazhinji semhashu.

¹⁵There the fire will devour you. The sword will cut you off. It will devour you like the grasshopper. Multiply like grasshoppers. Multiply like the locust.

¹⁶Makawanza vatengesi venyu vakapfuura nyeredzi dzokudenga; gwatakwata rinoparadza, ndokubhururuka richienda.

¹⁶You have increased your merchants more than the stars of the skies. The grasshopper strips, and flees away.

¹⁷Machinda enyu akaita semhashu, vakuru venyu semhashu zhinji-zhinji, dzinovata pazhowa kana kune chando, asi kana zuva rabuda dzinobhururuka dzichienda, hadzichazikamwi kwadziri.

¹⁷Your guards are like the locusts, and your officials like the swarms of locusts, which settle on the walls on a cold day, but when the sun appears, they flee away, and their place is not known where they are.

¹⁸Vafudzi vako vanotsumwaira, iwe mambo weAsiria, vakakudzwa vako vanyarara, vanhu vako vakapararira pamakomo, hakuna angavaunganidza.

¹⁸Your shepherds slumber, king of Assyria. Your nobles lie down. Your people are scattered on the mountains, and there is no one to gather them.

¹⁹Kukuvadzwa kwako hakungarapwi, vanga rako rakaipa kwazvo; vose vanonzwa guhu rako vachakuitira nondo; nekuti ndianiko akanga asingatambudzwi nguva dzose nezvakashata zvako?

¹⁹There is no healing your wound, for your injury is fatal. All who hear the report of you clap their hands over you; for who hasn’t felt your endless cruelty?