¹Zvakaonekwa naObhadhiya. Zvanzi naIshe Jehovha pamusoro paEdhomu, Takanzwa mashoko akabva kuna Jehovha, nhume yatumwa pakati pamarudzi ichiti, Simukai, ngativamukire kuzorwa navo.

¹The vision of Obadiah. This is what the Lord The word translated “Lord” is “Adonai.” Yahweh “Yahweh” is God’s proper Name, sometimes rendered “LORD” (all caps) in other translations. says about Edom. We have heard news from Yahweh, and an ambassador is sent among the nations, saying, “Arise, and let’s rise up against her in battle.

²Tarirai, ndakakuitai vaduku pakati pamarudzi, makazvidzwa kwazvo.

²Behold, I have made you small among the nations. You are greatly despised.

³Kuzvikudza kwemwoyo yenyu kwakakunyengerai, iyemi, mugere mumikaha yamatombo, munougaro hwakakwirira, vanoti mumwoyo yavo, Ndianiko ungatiwisira pasi?

³The pride of your heart has deceived you, you who dwell in the clefts of the rock, whose habitation is high, who says in his heart, ‘Who will bring me down to the ground?’

⁴Kunyange mukabhururukira kumusoro segondo, uye kunyange dendere renyu rikaiswa pakati penyeredzi, ndichakuwisiraipo pasi ndizvo zvinotaura Jehovha.

⁴Though you mount on high as the eagle, and though your nest is set among the stars, I will bring you down from there,” says Yahweh.

⁵Dai mbavha dzaisvika kwamuri, kana makororo usiku (aiwa, makaparadzwa sei!) havazaiba kusvikira varinganiswa here? Dai vatanhi vamazambiringa vaisvika kwamuri, havazaisiya mamwe mazambiringa aripo here?

⁵“If thieves came to you, if robbers by night—oh, what disaster awaits you—wouldn’t they only steal until they had enough? If grape pickers came to you, wouldn’t they leave some gleaning grapes?

⁶Zvinhu zvaEsau zvakanzverwa sei! fuma yavo, yakavanzwa, yakafukunurwa sei!

⁶How Esau will be ransacked! How his hidden treasures are sought out!

⁷Vanhu vose vaiva nesungano nemi, vakakuperekedzai kusvikira kumuganhu; vanhu, vaigara norugare nemi, vakakunyengerai, vakakukundai; vanodya zvokudya zvenyu, vanokuteyerai musungo pasi penyu, havana njere mukati mavo.

⁷All the men of your alliance have brought you on your way, even to the border. The men who were at peace with you have deceived you, and prevailed against you. Friends who eat your bread lay a snare under you. There is no understanding in him.”

⁸Ko handingaparadzi nezuva iro vachenjeri pakati paEdhomu, nenjere pagomo raEsau here? Ndizvo zvinotaura Jehovha.

⁸“Won’t I in that day,” says Yahweh, “destroy the wise men out of Edom, and understanding out of the mountain of Esau?

⁹Mhare dzako, iwe Temani, ndichavhunduka, kuti vose vapere nokuurawa pagomo raEsau.

⁹Your mighty men, Teman, will be dismayed, to the end that everyone may be cut off from the mountain of Esau by slaughter.

¹⁰Uchafukidzwa nokunyara nemhaka yokuti wakamukira munin'ina wako simba, uchaparadzwa nokusingaperi.

¹⁰For the violence done to your brother Jacob, shame will cover you, and you will be cut off forever.

¹¹Nezuva ramakanga mumirepo makatarisana navo, nezuva ravakatorera fuma yavo navatorwa, vasi venyika iyo vachipinda masuwo avo, vachikanda mije nya pamusoro peJerusaremu, nemiwo makanga makaita somumwe wavo.

¹¹In the day that you stood on the other side, in the day that strangers carried away his substance, and foreigners entered into his gates, and cast lots for Jerusalem, even you were like one of them.

¹²Asi regai kutarira zuva romunin'ina wenyu, muchifarira zuva reutorwa hwake, murege kufara pamusoro pavana vaJudha nezuva rokuparadzwa kwavo; uye regai kutaura muchizvikudza nezuva rokumanikidzwa kwavo.

¹²But don’t look down on your brother in the day of his disaster, and don’t rejoice over the children of Judah in the day of their destruction. Don’t speak proudly in the day of distress.

¹³Regai kupinda pasuwo ravanhu vangu nezuva renhamo yavo; regai kutarira njodzi yavo nezuva renhamo yavo, regai kuvatorera fuma yavo nezuva renhamo yavo.

¹³Don’t enter into the gate of my people in the day of their calamity. Don’t look down on their affliction in the day of their calamity, neither seize their wealth on the day of their calamity.

¹⁴Regai kumira pamharadzano, kuti muparadze vanhu vavo vanopukunyuka; regai kuisa kuvavengi vavo vanhu vavo vakasara nezuva rokumanikidzwa kwavo.

¹⁴Don’t stand in the crossroads to cut off those of his who escape. Don’t deliver up those of his who remain in the day of distress.

¹⁵nekuti zuva raJehovha raswedera kumarudzi ose; sezvamakaitira vamwe, muchaitirwawo saizvozvo; zvamakaita zvichadzokera pamisoro yenyu.

¹⁵For the day of Yahweh is near all the nations! As you have done, it will be done to you. Your deeds will return upon your own head.

¹⁶nekuti sezvamakamwa pagomo rangu dzvene, saizvozvo marudzi ose acharamba achimwa; zvirokwazvo, vachamwa, nokumedza, vachaita savasina kumbovapo.

¹⁶For as you have drunk on my holy mountain, so will all the nations drink continually. Yes, they will drink, swallow down, and will be as though they had not been.

¹⁷Asi pagomo reZioni ndipo pachava navakapukunyuka, richava gomo dzvene; imba yaJakove ichadzoserwa nhaka yayo.

¹⁷But in Mount Zion, there will be those who escape, and it will be holy. The house of Jacob will possess their possessions.

¹⁸Imba yaJakove ichava moto, imba yaJosefa murazvo womoto, uye imba yaEsau mashanga; vachapisa vamwe pakati pavo, nokuvapedza; hakuchina vachasarira imba yaEsau, nekuti Jehovha akataura izvozvo.

¹⁸The house of Jacob will be a fire, the house of Joseph a flame, and the house of Esau for stubble. They will burn among them, and devour them. There will not be any remaining to the house of Esau.” Indeed, Yahweh has spoken.

¹⁹Vokurutivi rwezasi vachatora gomo raEsau, vokumapani vachatora nyika yavaFirisitia; vachatora nyika yaEfuremu nenyika yeSamaria; Benjamini vachatora nyika yeGiriyadhi.

¹⁹Those of the South will possess the mountain of Esau, and those of the lowland, the Philistines. They will possess the field of Ephraim, and the field of Samaria. Benjamin will possess Gilead.

²⁰Vatapwa vehondo iyi yavana vaIsiraeri, vagere pakati pavaKanani, vachatora nyika kusvikira Zarefati; vatapwa veJerusaremu, vari Sefaradhi, vachatora maguta okurutivi rwezasi.

²⁰The captives of this army of the children of Israel, who are among the Canaanites, will possess even to Zarephath; and the captives of Jerusalem, who are in Sepharad, will possess the cities of the Negev.

²¹Vaponesi vachakwira pagomo reZioni kuzotonga gomo raEsau; ushe huchava hwaJehovha.

²¹Saviors will go up on Mount Zion to judge the mountains of Esau, and the kingdom will be Yahweh’s.