1Don’t rejoice, Israel, to jubilation like the nations; for you were unfaithful to your God. You love the wages of a prostitute at every grain threshing floor.
1Regai kufara, imwi Isiraeri, muchifarisisa samarudzi avanhu; nekuti makapata, muchisiya Mwari wenyu; makada mubayiro wokufeva pamapuriro ose ezviyo.
2The threshing floor and the winepress won’t feed them, and the new wine will fail her.
2Buriro nechisviniro chewaini hazvingavagutsi, waini ichavanyengera.
3They won’t dwell in Yahweh’s land; but Ephraim will return to Egypt, and they will eat unclean food in Assyria.
3Havangagari munyika yaJehovha; asi Efuremu achadzokera Egipita, vachadya zvokudya zvine tsvina paAsiria.
4They won’t pour out wine offerings to Yahweh, neither will they be pleasing to him. Their sacrifices will be to them like the bread of mourners; all who eat of it will be polluted; for their bread will be for their appetite. It will not come into the house of Yahweh.
4Havangadiriri Jehovha waini, zvibayiro zvavo hazvingamufadzi; zvibayiro zvavo zvichaita kwavari sezvokudya zvavanochema; vose, vanozvidya, vachasvibiswa, nekuti zvokudya zvavo ndezvavo zvoga, hazvingasviki muimba yaJehovha.
5What will you do in the day of solemn assembly, and in the day of the feast of Yahweh?
5Muchabateiko nezuva reungano dzakatarwa, nezuva remitambo yaJehovha?
6For, behold, they have gone away from destruction. Egypt will gather them up. Memphis will bury them. Nettles will possess their pleasant things of silver. Thorns will be in their tents.
6nekuti tarirai, vakabva nokuda kokuparadzwa, asi vaEgipita vachavaunganidza, veMemifisi vachavaviga; rukato ruchavatorera zvinhu zvavo zvesirivha zvinofadza; mhinzwa ichava mumatende avo.
7The days of visitation have come. The days of reckoning have come. Israel will consider the prophet to be a fool, and the man who is inspired to be insane, because of the abundance of your sins, and because your hostility is great.
7Mazuva okurohwa asvika, mazuva okutsiva asvika; Isiraeri vachazviziva; muporofita ibenzi, munhu anomweya anopenga, nemhaka yokuwanda kwezvakaipa zvenyu, uye nekuti ruvengo rukuru.
8A prophet watches over Ephraim with my God. A fowler’s snare is on all of his paths, and hostility in the house of his God.
8Efuremu mushori kuna Mwari wangu; kana ari muporofita, rugombe rwomuteyi weshiri ruri munzira dzake dzose, noruvengo muimba yaMwari wake.
9They have deeply corrupted themselves, as in the days of Gibeah. He will remember their iniquity. He will punish them for their sins.
9Vakazvishatisa zvikuru kwazvo, sapamazuva eGibhiya; acharangarira zvakaipa zvavo, achavarova pamusoro pezvivi zvavo.
10I found Israel like grapes in the wilderness. I saw your fathers as the first ripe in the fig tree at its first season; but they came to Baal Peor, and consecrated themselves to the shameful thing, and became abominable like that which they loved.
10Ndakawana Isiraeri vakaita samazambiringa murenje; ndakaona madzibaba enyu vakaita sezvibereko zvakatanga kuibva pamuonde panguva yawo yokubereka yokutanga; asi vakasvika paBhaaripeori, vakazviisa kune zvinonyadzisa, vakaita zvinonyangadza vachifanana nezvaidikamwa navo.
11As for Ephraim, their glory will fly away like a bird. There will be no birth, none with child, and no conception.
11Kana vari VaEfuremu, kukudzwa kwavo kuchabhururuka seshiri; kubereka hakungavipo, kana kukurirwa, kana kunaka pamuviri.
12Though they bring up their children, yet I will bereave them, so that not a man shall be left. Indeed, woe also to them when I depart from them!
12Kunyange vakarera vana vavo, ndichavatorera ivo, kusvikira kusisina munhu; zvirokwazvo, vachava nenhamowo, kana ini ndavasiya.
13I have seen Ephraim, like Tyre, planted in a pleasant place; but Ephraim will bring out his children to the murderer.
13Sezvandakatsaura Tire, Efuremu vakasimwa pakanaka; asi Efuremu vachabudisira muurayi vana vavo.
14Give them—Yahweh what will you give? Give them a miscarrying womb and dry breasts.
14Chivapai, Jehovha muchavapeiko? Chivapai zvizvaro zvinoshaya namazamu asina mukaka.
15“All their wickedness is in Gilgal; for there I hated them. Because of the wickedness of their deeds I will drive them out of my house! I will love them no more. All their princes are rebels.
15Zvakaipa zvavo zvose zviri paGirigari, nekuti ndipo pandakavavenga; nemhaka yezvakaipa zvavanoita ndichavadzinga paimba yangu, handichavadi; machinda avo ose akandimukira.
16Ephraim is struck. Their root has dried up. They will bear no fruit. Even though they bring forth, yet I will kill the beloved ones of their womb.”
16Efuremu varohwa, mudzi wavo waoma, havangazobereki zvibereko; zvirokwazvo, kunyange vakabereka, ndichavauraya vadikamwa vakaberekwa nezvizvaro zvavo.
17My God will cast them away, because they did not listen to him; and they will be wanderers among the nations.
17Mwari wangu achavarasha, nekuti havana kumunzwa; vachava vadzungairi pakati pamarudzi avanhu.