¹Zvino kwakauya umwe wevatumwa vanomwe, vakange vane ndiro nomwe akataura neni achiti kwandiri: Uya pano, ndicharatidza kwauri kutongwa kwemhombwe huru igere pamusoro pemvura zhinji;

¹One of the seven angels who had the seven bowls came and spoke with me, saying, “Come here. I will show you the judgment of the great prostitute who sits on many waters,

²madzimambo enyika akaita upomwe nayo, nevagari vepanyika vakadhakiswa newaini yeupombwe hwayo.

²with whom the kings of the earth committed sexual immorality, and those who dwell in the earth were made drunken with the wine of her sexual immorality.”

³Zvino wakandisengera kurenje mumweya, uye ndakaona mukadzi akatasva chikara chitsvuku, chizere nemazita ekunyomba, chine misoro minomwe nenyanga gumi.

³He carried me away in the Spirit into a wilderness. I saw a woman sitting on a scarlet-colored animal, full of blasphemous names, having seven heads and ten horns.

⁴Zvino mukadzi wakange akapfeka zvine ruvara rwehute nezvitsvuku, uye akashonga ndarama nemabwe anokosha nemaparera*, ane mukombe wendarama muruoko rwake uzere nezvinosemesa netsvina yeupombwe hwake.

⁴The woman was dressed in purple and scarlet, and decked with gold and precious stones and pearls, having in her hand a golden cup full of abominations and the impurities of the sexual immorality of the earth.

⁵Nepahuma yake pakange pakanyorwa zita rekuti: CHAKAVANZIKA, BHABHIRONI GURU, MAI VEMHOMBWE NEZVINOSEMESA ZVENYIKA.

⁵And on her forehead a name was written, “MYSTERY, BABYLON THE GREAT, THE MOTHER OF THE PROSTITUTES AND OF THE ABOMINATIONS OF THE EARTH.”

⁶Zvino ndakaona mukadzi akadhakwa neropa revatsvene, uye neropa rezvapupu zvaJesu; zvino ndakati ndamuona ndikashamisika nekushamisika kukuru.

⁶I saw the woman drunken with the blood of the saints, and with the blood of the martyrs of Jesus. When I saw her, I wondered with great amazement.

⁷Zvino mutumwa akati kwandiri: Washamisika nei? Ndichakuudza chakavanzika chemukadzi, nechechikara chinomutakura chine misoro minomwe nenyanga gumi.

⁷The angel said to me, “Why do you wonder? I will tell you the mystery of the woman, and of the beast that carries her, which has the seven heads and the ten horns.

⁸Chikara chawaona, chaivapo, uye chisisisipo; uye choda kukwira chichibva mugomba risina chigadziko chichienda kundoparadzwa; uye vanogara panyika vasina kunyorwa mazita avo mubhuku reupenyu kubva pakuvambwa kwenyika vachashamisika vachiona chikara chaivapo uye chisisisipo uye kunyange chiripo.

⁸The beast that you saw was, and is not; and is about to come up out of the abyss and to go into destruction. Those who dwell on the earth and whose names have not been written in the book of life from the foundation of the world will marvel when they see that the beast was, and is not, and shall be present. TR reads “yet is” instead of “shall be present”

⁹Zvino hekuno kufunga kune njere. Misoro minomwe makomo manomwe pamusoro pawo pagere mukadzi,

⁹Here is the mind that has wisdom. The seven heads are seven mountains, on which the woman sits.

¹⁰uye ndiwo madzimambo manomwe; vashanu vawa, umwe uripo, umwe uchigere kusvika; uye kana achisvika, unofanira kugara chinguva chiduku.

¹⁰They are seven kings. Five have fallen, the one is, the other has not yet come. When he comes, he must continue a little while.

¹¹Uye chikara chaivapo uye chisisisipo naiye ndiyewo werusere, uye unobva pavanomwe, achienda mukuparadzwa.

¹¹The beast that was, and is not, is himself also an eighth, and is of the seven; and he goes to destruction.

¹²Nenyanga gumi dzawaona, ndiwo madzimambo gumi achigere kugamuchira ushe, asi achagamuchira simba semadzimambo pamwe nechikara awa rimwe.

¹²The ten horns that you saw are ten kings who have received no kingdom as yet, but they receive authority as kings, with the beast, for one hour.

¹³Ivo vane ndangariro imwe, uye vanopa simba ravo neutongi hwavo kuchikara .

¹³These have one mind, and they give their power and authority to the beast.

¹⁴Ava vachaita hondo neGwayana, uye Gwayana richavakunda; nekuti iro ndiro Ishe wemadzishe, naMambo wemadzimambo; naivo vanaro ndevakadamwa nevakasarudzwa nevakatendeka.

¹⁴These will war against the Lamb, and the Lamb will overcome them, for he is Lord of lords, and King of kings. They also will overcome who are with him, called and chosen and faithful.”

¹⁵Zvino akati kwandiri: mvura yawaona inogarwa nemhobwe, ndivo vanhu, nezvaunga nemarudzi, nendimi.

¹⁵He said to me, “The waters which you saw, where the prostitute sits, are peoples, multitudes, nations, and languages.

¹⁶Uye nyanga gumi dzawaona pamusoro pechikara ndivo vachavenga mhombwe, uye vachaiparadza nekuifukura; uye vachadya nyama yayo, nekuipisa nemoto.

¹⁶The ten horns which you saw, and the beast, these will hate the prostitute, and will make her desolate, and will make her naked, and will eat her flesh, and will burn her utterly with fire.

¹⁷Nekuti Mwari wakaisa mumoyo yavo kuti vaite fungwa dzake, vave nekufunga kumwe, vape chikara ushe hwavo, kusvikira mashoko aMwari apedzeredzwa.

¹⁷For God has put in their hearts to do what he has in mind, and to be of one mind, and to give their kingdom to the beast, until the words of God should be accomplished.

¹⁸Zvino mukadzi wawaona ndiro guta guru, rinotonga pamusoro pemadzimambo enyika.

¹⁸The woman whom you saw is the great city, which reigns over the kings of the earth.”