¹Zvino ndakarinzira meso angu, ndikatarira, ndikaona murume akabata rwonzi rwokuyera muruoko rwake.

¹I lifted up my eyes, and saw, and behold, a man with a measuring line in his hand.

²Ipapo ndikati, Unoendepiko? Iye akati kwandiri, Kundoyera Jerusaremu, ndione kufara kwaro nokureba kwaro.

²Then I asked, “Where are you going?” He said to me, “To measure Jerusalem, to see what is its breadth and what is its length.”

³Zvino tarira, mutumwa akanga achitaurirana neni, akabuda, mumwe mutumwa akandomuchingamidza,

³Behold, the angel who talked with me went forth, and another angel went out to meet him,

⁴akati kwaari, Mhanya, undotaura nejaya iri, uti, Jerusaremu richagara semisha isina masvingo, nokuda kokuwanda kwavanhu nezvipfuwo zvirimo.

⁴and said to him, “Run, speak to this young man, saying, ‘Jerusalem will be inhabited as villages without walls, because of the multitude of men and livestock in it.

⁵nekuti zvanzi naJehovha, ndichava kwariri sorusvingo rwomoto rwakapoteredza, ini ndichava kubwinya kwaro mukati maro.

⁵For I,’ says Yahweh, ‘will be to her a wall of fire around it, and I will be the glory in the midst of her.

⁶Nhai, imwi tizai panyika yokumusoro ndizvo zvinotaura Jehovha; nekuti ndakakuparadzirai semhepo ina dzokudenga, ndizvo zvinotaura Jehovha.

⁶Come! Come! Flee from the land of the north,’ says Yahweh; ‘for I have spread you abroad as the four winds of the sky,’ says Yahweh.

⁷Nhai, Ziyoni, pukunyuka, iwe ugere nomukunda weBhabhironi.

⁷‘Come, Zion! Escape, you who dwell with the daughter of Babylon.’

⁸nekuti zvanzi naJehovha wehondo, Wakanditumira kundudzi dzakakupambai imi, kuti ndiwane kukudzwa; nekuti unokugunzvai imi, unogunzva mboni yeziso rake.

⁸For thus says Yahweh of Armies: ‘For honor he has sent me to the nations which plundered you; for he who touches you touches the apple of his eye.

⁹nekuti tarirai, ndichazunungusa ruoko rwangu pamusoro pavo, vachava chinhu chakapambwa kuna ivo vaivabatira; ipapo muchaziva kuti Jehovha wehondo ndiye akandituma.

⁹For, behold, I will shake my hand over them, and they will be a spoil to those who served them; and you will know that Yahweh of Armies has sent me.

¹⁰Imba, ufare, iwe mukunda weZiyoni; nekuti tarira, ndinouya, ndichagara mukati mako, ndizvo zvinotaura Jehovha.

¹⁰Sing and rejoice, daughter of Zion; for, behold, I come, and I will dwell in the midst of you,’ says Yahweh.

¹¹Ndudzi zhinji dzichanamatira Jehovha nezuva iro, vakava vanhu vangu; ndichagara mukati mako, ipapo iwe uchaziva kuti ndiye Jehovha wehondo wakandituma kwauri.

¹¹Many nations shall join themselves to Yahweh in that day, and shall be my people; and I will dwell in the midst of you, and you shall know that Yahweh of Armies has sent me to you.

¹²Judha vachagarwa nhaka naJehovha, uchava mugove wake munyika tsvene, uchazvisanangurirazve Jerusaremu.

¹²Yahweh will inherit Judah as his portion in the holy land, and will again choose Jerusalem.

¹³Nyararai imwi nyama yose pamberi paJehovha; nekuti wamuka paugaro hwake hutsvene.

¹³Be silent, all flesh, before Yahweh; for he has roused himself from his holy habitation!”