¹Chirevo cheshoko raJehovha pamusoro paIsiraeri. Zvanzi naJehovha, iye anotatamura denga rose, anoteya nheyo dzenyika, nokuumba mweya womunhu mukati make,

¹An oracle. The word of Yahweh concerning Israel. Yahweh, who stretches out the heavens, and lays the foundation of the earth, and forms the spirit of man within him says:

²Tarirai, ndichaita Jerusaremu mukombe wokudzedzeresa ndudzi dzose dzavanhu vakapoteredza; uchavawo pamusoro paJudha pakukombwa kweJerusaremu.

²“Behold, I will make Jerusalem a cup of reeling to all the surrounding peoples, and on Judah also will it be in the siege against Jerusalem.

³Nezuva iro ndichaita Jerusaremu ibwe rinoremedza ndudzi dzose dzavanhu; vose vanozviremedza naro vachakuvadzwa kwazvo; ndudzi dzose dzenyika dzichariunganira kuzorwa naro.

³It will happen in that day, that I will make Jerusalem a burdensome stone for all the peoples. All who burden themselves with it will be severely wounded, and all the nations of the earth will be gathered together against it.

⁴Nezuva iro ndizvo zvinotaura Jehovha ndicharova bhiza rimwe nerimwe nokutya, nomutasvi waro nokupenga; ndichasvinudzira imba yaJudha meso angu, nokurova bhiza rimwe nerimwe rendudzi dzavanhu nokupofumara.

⁴In that day,” says Yahweh, “I will strike every horse with terror, and his rider with madness; and I will open my eyes on the house of Judah, and will strike every horse of the peoples with blindness.

⁵Ipapo madzishe aJudha achati mumwoyo mavo, Vagere Jerusaremu ndivo simba redu muna Jehovha wehondo, Mwari wavo.

⁵The chieftains of Judah will say in their heart, ‘The inhabitants of Jerusalem are my strength in Yahweh of Armies their God.’

⁶Nezuva iro ndichaita madzishe aJudha segango romoto pakati pehuni, uye sezhenje romoto pakati pezvisote; vachaparadza ndudzi dzose dzavanhu vakapoteredza, kuruoko rworudyi nokuruoko rworuboshwe; veJerusaremu vachagarazve panzvimbo yavo, ipo paJerusaremu.

⁶In that day I will make the chieftains of Judah like a pan of fire among wood, and like a flaming torch among sheaves; and they will devour all the surrounding peoples, on the right hand and on the left; and Jerusalem will yet again dwell in their own place, even in Jerusalem.

⁷Jehovha achatanga kuponesawo matende aJudha, kuti kukudzwa kweimba yaDhavhidhi nokukudzwa kwavagere Jerusaremu kurege kupfuura kukudzwa kwaJudha.

⁷Yahweh also will save the tents of Judah first, that the glory of the house of David and the glory of the inhabitants of Jerusalem not be magnified above Judah.

⁸Nezuva iro Jehovha achadzitira vagere Jerusaremu; anoshaiwa simba pakati pavo nezuva iro achava saDhavhidhi; imba yaDhavhidhi ichava saMwari, somutumwa waJehovha pamberi pavo.

⁸In that day Yahweh will defend the inhabitants of Jerusalem. He who is feeble among them at that day will be like David, and the house of David will be like God, like the angel of Yahweh before them.

⁹Zvino nezuva iro ndichatsvaka kuparadza ndudzi dzose dzavanhu dzinomukira Jerusaremu.

⁹It will happen in that day, that I will seek to destroy all the nations that come against Jerusalem.

¹⁰Ndichadira mweya wenyasha nowokunyengetera pamusoro peimba yaDhavhidhi, napamusoro pavagere Jerusaremu; vachanditarira ini, wavakabvowora; vachamuchema iye, somunhu unochema mwanakomana wake mumwechete, vachava neshungu kwazvo pamusoro pake, somunhu ane shungu pamusoro pomwana wake wedangwe.

¹⁰I will pour on the house of David, and on the inhabitants of Jerusalem, the spirit of grace and of supplication; and they will look to me After “me,” the Hebrew has the two letters “Aleph Tav” (the first and last letters of the Hebrew alphabet), not as a word, but as a grammatical marker. whom they have pierced; and they shall mourn for him, as one mourns for his only son, and will grieve bitterly for him, as one grieves for his firstborn.

¹¹Nezuva iro paJerusaremu pachava nokuchema kukuru, sokuchema kweHadhadhihimoni mumupata waMegidhoni.

¹¹In that day there will be a great mourning in Jerusalem, like the mourning of Hadadrimmon in the valley of Megiddon.

¹²Nyika ichachema, veimba imwe neimwe vari voga; veimba yaDhavhidhi vari voga, navakadzi vavo vari voga, veimba yaNatani vari voga, navakadzi vavo vari voga;

¹²The land will mourn, every family apart; the family of the house of David apart, and their wives apart; the family of the house of Nathan apart, and their wives apart;

¹³naveimba yaRevhi vari voga, navakadzi vavo vari voga; veimba yavaShimei vari voga, navakadzi vavo vari voga;

¹³the family of the house of Levi apart, and their wives apart; the family of the Shimeites apart, and their wives apart;

¹⁴nedzimba dzose dzakasara, veimba imwe neimwe vari voga, navakadzi vavo vari voga.

¹⁴all the families who remain, every family apart, and their wives apart.