¹Give ear, you heavens, and I will speak. Let the earth hear the words of my mouth.

¹Inzwa iwe denga, ndichataura; Nenyika ngainzwe mashoko omuromo wangu;

²My doctrine shall drop as the rain. My speech shall condense as the dew, as the small rain on the tender grass, as the showers on the herb.

²Kudzidzisa kwangu kuchadonha semvura, Kutaura kwangu kuchayerera sedova, Seguti pabumhudza nyoro, Sokupfunha kwemvura pauswa;

³For I will proclaim the name of Yahweh. Ascribe greatness to our God!

³nekuti ndichaparidza zita raJehovha; Rumbidzai ukuru hwaMwari wedu.

⁴The Rock, his work is perfect, for all his ways are justice: a God of faithfulness and without iniquity, just and right is he.

⁴Iye ndiro dombo, basa rake rakakwana; nekuti nzira dzake dzose dzakarurama. Ndiye Mwari wakatendeka, usinganyengeri, Wakarurama, ndewechokwadi.

⁵They have dealt corruptly with him. They are not his children, because of their defect. They are a perverse and crooked generation.

⁵Vakamuitira zvakashata, havazi vana vake, ndiko kuremara kwavo; Ivo rudzi rwakatsauka, rwakakombama.

⁶Do you thus requite Yahweh, foolish people and unwise? Isn’t he your father who has bought you? He has made you, and established you.

⁶Munoripira Jehovha saizvozvo here, Nhai, imwi mapenzi asina kungwara? Ko haazi baba vako vakakubereka here? Ndiye wakakuita, nokukusimbisa.

⁷Remember the days of old. Consider the years of many generations. Ask your father, and he will show you; your elders, and they will tell you.

⁷Rangarira mazuva ekare, Funga makore amarudzi mazhinji; Bvunza baba vako, ndivo vachakuratidza; Navatana vako, ndivo vachakuudza.

⁸When the Most High gave to the nations their inheritance, when he separated the children of men, he set the bounds of the peoples according to the number of the children of Israel.

⁸Wekumusoro-soro nguva yaakapa ndudzi nhaka yadzo, Nguva yaakaparadzanisa vana vavanhu, Wakatema miganhu yendudzi Achirangarira kuwanda kwavana valsiraeri.

⁹For Yahweh’s portion is his people. Jacob is the lot of his inheritance.

⁹nekuti mugove waJehovha ndivo vanhu vake; Jakove ndiyo nhaka yake yakayerwa.

¹⁰He found him in a desert land, in the waste howling wilderness. He surrounded him. He cared for him. He kept him as the apple of his eye.

¹⁰Wakamuwana munyika yesango, Murenje risina chinhu, rinotyisa; Wakamukomberedza, nokumutarira, Nokumuchengeta semboni yeziso rake;

¹¹As an eagle that stirs up her nest, that flutters over her young, he spread abroad his wings, he took them, he bore them on his feathers.

¹¹Segondo rinomutsa vana varo, Richiengerera pamusoro pavana varo,

¹²Yahweh alone led him. There was no foreign god with him.

¹²Saizvozvo Jehovha, iye oga, wakamutungamirira, Kwakanga kusina mwari wokumwe kwaari.

¹³He made him ride on the high places of the earth. He ate the increase of the field. He caused him to suck honey out of the rock, oil out of the flinty rock;

¹³Wakamutasvisa panzvimbo dzakakwirira dzenyika, Wakadya michero yeminda; Wakamusvutidza uchi hunobva padombo, Namafuta anobva padombo romusarasara,

¹⁴Butter of the herd, and milk of the flock, with fat of lambs, rams of the breed of Bashan, and goats, with the finest of the wheat. Of the blood of the grape you drank wine.

¹⁴Nomukaka wakafa wemhou, nomukaka wamakwai, Pamwechete namafuta amakwayana, Namakondobwe orudzi rwapaBhashani, nembudzi, Namafuta etsvo dzekoroni; Iwe wakamwa waini yeropa ramazambiringa.

¹⁵But Jeshurun grew fat, and kicked. You have grown fat. You have grown thick. You have become sleek. Then he forsook God who made him, and lightly esteemed the Rock of his salvation.

¹⁵Asi Jeshuruni wakazokora, ndokupfura, Iwe wakakora, wakava mukobvu, ukava namafuta, Zvino iye akarasha Mwari wakamuita, Akazvidza dombo rakamuchengeta.

¹⁶They moved him to jealousy with strange gods. They provoked him to anger with abominations.

¹⁶Vakamugodoresa navamwari vokumwe, Vakamutsamwisa nezvinonyangadza;

¹⁷They sacrificed to demons, not God, to gods that they didn’t know, to new gods that came up recently, which your fathers didn’t dread.

¹⁷Vakabayira mweya yakaipa, yakanga isi Mwari, Vatsva vakanga vachangomuka, Zvakanga zvisingatyiwi namadzibaba enyu.

¹⁸Of the Rock who became your father, you are unmindful, and have forgotten God who gave you birth.

¹⁸Dombo, rakakubereka, haurirangariri, Wakakangamwa Mwari wakakupona.

¹⁹Yahweh saw and abhorred, because of the provocation of his sons and his daughters.

¹⁹Jehovha wakazviona, akavarasha, nekuti wakatsamwiswa navanakomana vake navanasikana vake.

²⁰He said, “I will hide my face from them. I will see what their end shall be; for they are a very perverse generation, children in whom is no faithfulness.

²⁰Akati, Ndichavavanzira chiso changu, Ndinoda kuona kuguma kwavo, kuti kwakadiniko; nekuti ivo rudzi rwakatsauka kwazvo. Vana vasina kutendeka chose.

²¹They have moved me to jealousy with that which is not God. They have provoked me to anger with their vanities. I will move them to jealousy with those who are not a people. I will provoke them to anger with a foolish nation.

²¹Vakamutsa godo rangu nechinhu chisati chiri Mwari; Vakanditsamwisa nezvinhu zvavo zvisina maturo; Neniwo ndichavagodoresa navasati vari vanhu; Ndichavatsamwisa norudzi runopenga.

²²For a fire is kindled in my anger, Burns to the lowest Sheol Sheol is the place of the dead. , Devours the earth with its increase, and sets the foundations of the mountains on fire.

²²nekuti moto wakabatidzwa pakutsamwa kwangu, Unopisa kusvikira pasi kugomba ravakafa, Unoparadza nyika nezvibereko zvayo, Unotungidza nheyo dzamakomo.

²³“I will heap evils on them. I will spend my arrows on them.

²³Ndichatutira njodzi pamusoro pavo, Ndichapedza miseve yangu ndichivapfura.

²⁴They shall be wasted with hunger, and devoured with burning heat and bitter destruction. I will send the teeth of animals on them, With the poison of crawling things of the dust.

²⁴Vachaonda nenzara, nokuparadzwa nokupisa kukuru, Nokuparadzwa kwakaisvoipa; Ndichatuma meno ezvikara kwavari, Pamwechete nomuti unouraya wezvinokambaira muguruva.

²⁵Outside the sword shall bereave, and in the rooms, terror; on both young man and virgin, The nursing infant with the gray-haired man.

²⁵Munondo uchavatorera kunze, Nokutyisa mudzimba dzomukati; Zvichaparadza jaya nemhandara, Mwana unomwa pamwechete navarume, vachena vhudzi.

²⁶I said, I would scatter them afar. I would make their memory to cease from among men;

²⁶Ndakati, ndichavaparadzira, ndichagumisa kurangarirwa kwavo pakati pavanhu;

²⁷were it not that I feared the provocation of the enemy, lest their adversaries should judge wrongly, lest they should say, ‘Our hand is exalted, Yahweh has not done all this.’”

²⁷Dai ndisina kutya kutsamwa kwavavengi, Kuti vavengi vavo vasanzwisisa, Vakati, Ruoko rwedu ndirwo rwakakunda, Haazi Jehovha wakaita izvozvo zvose.

²⁸For they are a nation void of counsel. There is no understanding in them.

²⁸nekuti ivo rudzi rusina mano, Hakuna kunzwisisa pakati pavo.

²⁹Oh that they were wise, that they understood this, that they would consider their latter end!

²⁹Dai vakanga vakachenjera, vangadai vakazvinzwisisa, Vangadai vakaona kuguma kwavo!

³⁰How could one chase a thousand, and two put ten thousand to flight, unless their Rock had sold them, and Yahweh had delivered them up?

³⁰Munhu mumwe ungadzinga seiko vanhu vane chiuru chezana, Navanhu vaviri vangatizisa seiko vanhu vane zviuru zvine gumi, Kana dombo ravo risina kuvatengesa, NaJehovha asina kuvaisa mumaoko avo?

³¹For their rock is not as our Rock, even our enemies themselves being judges.

³¹nekuti dombo ravo harina kufanana nedombo redu, Kunyange vavengi vedu vamene vachitonga.

³²For their vine is of the vine of Sodom, of the fields of Gomorrah. Their grapes are grapes of gall, Their clusters are bitter.

³²nekuti muzambiringa wavo wakabva pamuzambiringa weSodhoma, Napaminda yeGomora; Mazambiringa avo mazambiringa enduru, Masumbu awo anovava;

³³Their wine is the poison of serpents, The cruel venom of asps.

³³Waini yavo uturu bwenyoka, Nouturu hunouraya kwazvo bwemhungu.

³⁴“Isn’t this laid up in store with me, sealed up among my treasures?

³⁴Ko izvi hazvina kuunganidwza kwandiri here? Hazvina kufunhurwa pakati pefuma yangu here?

³⁵Vengeance is mine, and recompense, at the time when their foot slides; for the day of their calamity is at hand. The things that are to come on them shall make haste.”

³⁵Kutsiva ndokwangu, nokutsividza, Panguva yokutedzemuka kwetsoka dzavo; nekuti zuva renjodzi yavo riri pedo,

³⁶For Yahweh will judge his people, and have compassion on his servants, when he sees that their power is gone, There is none remaining, shut up or left at large.

³⁶nekuti Jehovha ucharuramisira vanhu vake, Nokunzwira varanda vake tsitsi, Kana achiona kuti simba ravo raenda, Uye kuti vapera vose,

³⁷He will say, “Where are their gods, The rock in which they took refuge;

³⁷Zvino iye uchati, Vamwari vavo varipiko, Nedombo ravakanga vachivimba naro

³⁸Which ate the fat of their sacrifices, And drank the wine of their drink offering? Let them rise up and help you! Let them be your protection.

³⁸Ivo vaidya mafuta ezvibayiro zvavo, Vaimwa waini yezvipiriso zvavo zvinodururwa. Ngavasimuke, vakubatsirei, Ngavave utiziro bwenyu.

³⁹“See now that I, even I, am he, There is no god with me. I kill, and I make alive. I wound, and I heal. There is no one who can deliver out of my hand.

³⁹Tarirai zvino, muone kuti ndini iye, Hakuno mumwe mwari pamwechete neni; Ini ndinouraya, ini ndinoraramisa; Ini ndakakuvadza, ini ndinoporesa; Hakuna ungarwirwa paruoko rwangu.

⁴⁰For I lift up my hand to heaven, And say, As I live forever,

⁴⁰nekuti ndinosimudzira ruoko rwangu kudenga, Ndichiti, Zvirokwazvo, noupenyu hwangu husingaperi,

⁴¹if I whet my glittering sword, My hand take hold on judgment; I will render vengeance to my adversaries, and will recompense those who hate me.

⁴¹Kana ndarodza munondo wangu unobwinya, Noruoko rwangu rukabata kutonga, Ndichatsiva vavengi vangu, Nokutsividza vanondivenga.

⁴²I will make my arrows drunk with blood. My sword shall devour flesh with the blood of the slain and the captives, from the head of the leaders of the enemy.”

⁴²Ndichanyudza miseve yangu muropa, Munondo wangu uchadya nyama; Neropa ravakaurawa neravakatapwa, Neremisoro yavatungamiri vavavengi.

⁴³Rejoice, you nations, with his people, for he will avenge the blood of his servants. He will render vengeance to his adversaries, And will make expiation for his land, for his people.

⁴³Farai, imwi ndudzi, pamwechete navanhu vake, nekuti uchatsiva ropa ravaranda vake, nokutsividza vavengi vake, Nokudzikunura nyika yake navanhu vake.

⁴⁴Moses came and spoke all the words of this song in the ears of the people, he and Joshua the son of Nun.

⁴⁴Zvino Mozisi akauya ndokutaura mashoko ose orwiyo urwu vanhu vachizvinzwa, iye naHoshea, mwanakomana waNuni.

⁴⁵Moses made an end of speaking all these words to all Israel;

⁴⁵Mozisi akapedza kutaura mashoko awa ose kuvaIsiraeri vose;

⁴⁶He said to them, “Set your heart to all the words which I testify to you this day, which you shall command your children to observe to do, all the words of this law.

⁴⁶akati kwavari, teererai nemoyo yenyu mashoko ose andinokupupurirai nhasi, kuti muraire vana venyu, vagochenjera kuita mashoko ose omurayiro uyu.

⁴⁷For it is no vain thing for you; because it is your life, and through this thing you shall prolong your days in the land, where you go over the Jordan to possess it.”

⁴⁷nekuti hachizi chinhu chisina maturo kwamuri, asi ndihwo upenyu bwenyu; nechinhu ichi muchawedzera mazuva enyu panyika, yamunoyambuka Joridhani kwairi, kuti ive yenyu.

⁴⁸Yahweh spoke to Moses that same day, saying,

⁴⁸Zvino Jehovha wakataura naMozisi nomusi iwoyo, akati,

⁴⁹“Go up into this mountain of Abarim, to Mount Nebo, which is in the land of Moab, that is over against Jericho; and see the land of Canaan, which I give to the children of Israel for a possession;

⁴⁹Kwira pagomo iri reAbharimu, kugomo reNebho, riri panyika yaMoabhu, rakatarisana neJeriko, uone nyika yeKanani, yandinopa vana vaIsiraeri, ive yavo;

⁵⁰and die on the mountain where you go up, and be gathered to your people, as Aaron your brother died on Mount Hor, and was gathered to his people:

⁵⁰ufire pagomo raunokwira ugosanganiswa navanhu vako; sezvakafa Aroni, mukuru wako, pagomo reHori, akasanganiswa navanhu vake;

⁵¹because you trespassed against me in the midst of the children of Israel at the waters of Meribah of Kadesh, in the wilderness of Zin; because you didn’t sanctify me in the midst of the children of Israel.

⁵¹nekuti makaita nomutowo usina kutendeka kwandiri pakati pavana vaIsiraeri pamvura yeMeribha paKadheshi murenje reZini; nekuti hamuna kunditsaura pakati pavana vaIsiraeri.

⁵²For you shall see the land before you; but you shall not go there into the land which I give the children of Israel.”

⁵²nekuti uchaona hako nyika pamberi pako, asi haungapindipo panyika yandinopa vana vaIsiraeri.