¹“Say to your brothers, ‘My people!’ ‘Ammi’ in Hebrew and to your sisters, ‘My loved one!’ ‘Ruhamah’ in Hebrew

¹Itiyi kuna vanin'ina venyu, Ama; nokuhanzvadzi dzenyu, Ruhama.

²Contend with your mother! Contend, for she is not my wife, neither am I her husband; and let her put away her prostitution from her face, and her adulteries from between her breasts;

²Kakavarai namai venyu, kakavarai; nekuti haazi mukadzi wangu, neni handizi murume wake; ngaabvise kufeva kwake pachiso chake, nokupata kwake pakati pamazamu ake;

³Lest I strip her naked, and make her bare as in the day that she was born, and make her like a wilderness, and set her like a dry land, and kill her with thirst.

³kuti ndirege kumukumurira nguvo dzake dzose, ndimuite sezvaakanga akaita nezuva rokuzvarwa kwake, ndimuite serenje, ndimushandure ave nyika yakaoma, ndimuuraye nenyota.

⁴Indeed, on her children I will have no mercy; for they are children of unfaithfulness;

⁴Zvirokwazvo handinganzwiri vana vake nyasha, zvavari vana voufeve;

⁵For their mother has played the prostitute. She who conceived them has done shamefully; for she said, ‘I will go after my lovers, who give me my bread and my water, my wool and my flax, my oil and my drink.’

⁵nekuti mai vavo vakafeva; vakavabereka vakaita zvinonyadzisa, nekuti vakati, Ndichatevera vadikani vangu, vanondipa zvokudya zvangu nemvura yangu, namakushe angu neshinda yangu, namafuta angu nezvokumwa zvangu.

⁶Therefore behold, I will hedge up your way with thorns, and I will build a wall against her, that she can’t find her way.

⁶Naizvozvo tarira, ndichasosera nzira yako nemhinzwa, ndichamuvakira rusvingo, kuti arege kuwana nzira dzake.

⁷She will follow after her lovers, but she won’t overtake them; and she will seek them, but won’t find them. Then she will say, ‘I will go and return to my first husband; for then was it better with me than now.’

⁷Achatevera vadikani vake, asi haangavabati; achavatsvaka, asi haangavawani; ipapo achati, Ndichadzokera kumurume wangu wokutanga, nekuti nenguva iyo ndaifara kupfuura zvino.

⁸For she did not know that I gave her the grain, the new wine, and the oil, and multiplied to her silver and gold, which they used for Baal.

⁸nekuti akanga asingazivi kuti ndini ndaimupa zviyo, newaini namafuta, nokumuwanzira sirivha nendarama, zvavaibatira Bhaari nazvo.

⁹Therefore I will take back my grain in its time, and my new wine in its season, and will pluck away my wool and my flax which should have covered her nakedness.

⁹Saka ndichamutorera zviyo zvangu nenguva yazvo, newaini yangu itsva nenhambo yazvo, ndichabvisa makushe angu neshinda yangu zvaifanira kufukidza kushama kwake.

¹⁰Now I will uncover her lewdness in the sight of her lovers, and no one will deliver her out of my hand.

¹⁰Zvino ndichafukura kunyadzisa kwake pamberi pavadikani vake, hakuna angamurwira paruoko rwangu.

¹¹I will also cause all her celebrations to cease: her feasts, her new moons, her Sabbaths, and all her solemn assemblies.

¹¹Ndichagumisawo mufaro wake wose, nemitambo yake, nenguva dzake dzokugara komwedzi, namasabata ake, nevungano dzake dzose dzakatarwa.

¹²I will lay waste her vines and her fig trees, about which she has said, ‘These are my wages that my lovers have given me; and I will make them a forest,’ and the animals of the field shall eat them.

¹²Ndichaparadza mizambiringa yake nemionde yake, yaaiti, Ndiwo mubayiro wangu wandakapiwa navadikani vangu; ndichazviita dondo, mhuka dzokusango dzichazvidya.

¹³I will visit on her the days of the Baals, to which she burned incense, when she decked herself with her earrings and her jewels, and went after her lovers, and forgot me,” says Yahweh.

¹³Ndichamuranga nokuda kwamazuva avaBhaari, vaaipisira zvinonhuhwira, azvichishonga nezvindori zvake zvenzeve nezvishongo zvake, akatevera vadikani vake, akandikangwamwa, ndizvo zvinotaura Jehovha.

¹⁴“Therefore behold, I will allure her, and bring her into the wilderness, and speak tenderly to her.

¹⁴Saka tarirai, ndichamunyengera nokumuisa kurenje, ndichitaura zvinofadza mwoyo wake.

¹⁵I will give her vineyards from there, and the valley of Achor for a door of hope; and she will respond there, as in the days of her youth, and as in the day when she came up out of the land of Egypt.

¹⁵Ndichamupa minda yake yemizambiringa zvichibva ipapo, nomupata waAkori uve mukova wetariro kwaari; achapindura aripo, sapamazuva ousikana hwake, uye sapazuva raakabuda panyika

¹⁶It will be in that day,” says Yahweh, “that you will call me ‘my husband,’ and no longer call me ‘my master.’

¹⁶Zvino nezuva iro, ndizvo zvinotaura Jehovha, achandiidza Ishi, haungazondiidzi Bhaari.

¹⁷For I will take away the names of the Baals out of her mouth, and they will no longer be mentioned by name.

¹⁷nekuti ndichabvisa mazita avaBhaari mumuromo make, havangazozikamwi namazita avo.

¹⁸In that day I will make a covenant for them with the animals of the field, and with the birds of the sky, and with the creeping things of the ground. I will break the bow, the sword, and the battle out of the land, and will make them lie down safely.

¹⁸Nezuva iro ndichavaitira sungano nemhuka dzokusango, neshiri dzokudenga, nezvinokambaira zvapasi; ndichavhuna uta nomundo nehondo panyika, ndivavatise pasi vakachengetwa.

¹⁹I will betroth you to me forever. Yes, I will betroth you to me in righteousness, in justice, in loving kindness, and in compassion.

¹⁹Ndichakunyenga uve wangu nokusingaperi; zvirokwazvo ndichakunyenga uve wangu nokururama, nokururamisira, nounyoro, nenyasha.

²⁰I will even betroth you to me in faithfulness; and you shall know Yahweh.

²⁰Ndichakunyenga uve wangu nokutendeka; ipapo uchaziva Jehovha.

²¹It will happen in that day, I will respond,” says Yahweh, “I will respond to the heavens, and they will respond to the earth;

²¹Zvino nezuva iro ndichapindura, ndizvo zvinotaura Jehovha ndichapindura denga rose, iro richapindura nyika;

²²and the earth will respond to the grain, and the new wine, and the oil; and they will respond to Jezreel.

²²nyika ichapindura zviyo, newaini, namafuta; izvo zvichapindura Jezireeri.

²³I will sow her to me in the earth; and I will have mercy on her who had not obtained mercy; and I will tell those who were not my people, ‘You are my people;’ and they will say, ‘My God!’”

²³Ndichazvisimira iye panyika; ndichamunzwira nyasha, iye akanga asina kunzwirwa nyasha; ndichati kuna ivo vakanga vasi vanhu vangu, Imi muri vanhu vangu, ivo vachati, Imi muri Mwari wedu.