1Behold, Yahweh’s hand is not shortened, that it can’t save; neither his ear heavy, that it can’t hear:
1Tarirai, ruoko rwaJehovha haruna kupfupiswa, kuti rukoniwe kuponesa, nzeve yake haina kuremerwa, kuti ikoniwe kunzwa;
2but your iniquities have separated between you and your God, and your sins have hidden his face from you, so that he will not hear.
2asi zvakaipa zvenyu zvakakuparadzanisai naMwari wenyu, zvivi zvenyu zvakakuvanzirai chiso chake, kuti arege kunzwa.
3For your hands are defiled with blood, and your fingers with iniquity; your lips have spoken lies, your tongue mutters wickedness.
3nekuti maoko enyu akasvibiswa neropa, nemimwe yenyu nezvakaipa; miromo yenyu yakareva nhema, rurimi rwenyu runogunin'ina zvakashata.
4None sues in righteousness, and none pleads in truth: they trust in vanity, and speak lies; they conceive mischief, and bring forth iniquity.
4Hakuna munhu anokwirira mumwe nokururama, hakuna anoreverera mumwe nezvokwadi; vanovimba nezvisina maturo, vachireva nhema; vanotora pamuviri pezvakashata, ndokubereka zvakaipa.
5They hatch adders’ eggs, and weave the spider’s web: he who eats of their eggs dies; and that which is crushed breaks out into a viper.
5Vanochochonya mazai emvumbi, vanoruka dandira rebuve; anodya mazai avo achafa, kana richipwanyika rinobudisa nyoka.
6Their webs shall not become garments, neither shall they cover themselves with their works: their works are works of iniquity, and the act of violence is in their hands.
6Matandira avo haangaiti nguvo, havangafuki zvavakaita; mabasa avo mabasa ezvakaipa, kuita nesimba ndizvo zviri pamaoko avo.
7Their feet run to evil, and they make haste to shed innocent blood: their thoughts are thoughts of iniquity; desolation and destruction are in their paths.
7Tsoka dzavo dzinomhanyira zvakaipa, vanokurumidza kuteura ropa risina mhaka; ndangariro dzavo indangariro dzezvakaipa; kuparadza nokuputsanya zviri panzira dzavo.
8The way of peace they don’t know; and there is no justice in their goings: they have made them crooked paths; whoever goes therein does not know peace.
8Nzira yorugare havaizivi; hakuna kururama pakufamba kwavo; vakazviitira nzira dzakaminama, ani naani anofamba nadzo haazivi rugare.
9Therefore is justice far from us, neither does righteousness overtake us: we look for light, but, behold, darkness; for brightness, but we walk in obscurity.
9Naizvozvo kururamisirwa kuri kure nesu, nokururama hakusvikiri kwatiri; tinotsvaka chiedza, asi, tarirai, rima chete; tinotsvaka kubwinya, asi tinofamba pakasviba.
10We grope for the wall like the blind; yes, we grope as those who have no eyes: we stumble at noonday as in the twilight; among those who are lusty we are as dead men.
10Tinotsvangadzira pamadziro samapofu; zvirokwazvo tinotsvangadzira savasina meso; tinogumburwa masikati sezvatinoita kana kosviba; pakati pavapenyu takafanana navakafa.
11We roar all like bears, and moan bitterly like doves: we look for justice, but there is none; for salvation, but it is far off from us.
11Tinoomba tose samapere, tinochema zvikuru senjiva; tinotsvaka kururamisirwa; asi hakuna; tinotsvaka ruponeso, asi ruri kure nesu.
12For our transgressions are multiplied before you, and our sins testify against us; for our transgressions are with us, and as for our iniquities, we know them:
12nekuti kudarika kwedu kwakawanda pamberi penyu, zvivi zvedu zvinotipupurira; nekuti kudarika kwedu kunesu, kana zviri zvakaipa zvedu tinozviziva, zvinoti:
13transgressing and denying Yahweh, and turning away from following our God, speaking oppression and revolt, conceiving and uttering from the heart words of falsehood.
13Kudarikira Jehovha nokumuramba, nokutsauka tisingateveri Mwari wedu, kutaura mashoko okumanikidza nokumukira, kufunga nokutaura mashoko enhema anobva pamoyo.
14Justice is turned away backward, and righteousness stands afar off; for truth is fallen in the street, and uprightness can’t enter.
14Kururamisa kwakadzoswa shure, kururama kumire kure; nekuti chokwadi chakawira pasi panzira yomumusha, kutendeka hakugoni kupinda.
15Yes, truth is lacking; and he who departs from evil makes himself a prey. Yahweh saw it, and it displeased him that there was no justice.
15Zvirokwazvo, chokwadi chinoshaikwa; anotiza zvakaipa anopambwa; Jehovha akazviona, zvikasamufadza kuti kwakanga kusina kururamisa.
16He saw that there was no man, and wondered that there was no intercessor: therefore his own arm brought salvation to him; and his righteousness, it upheld him.
16Akaona kuti hakuna munhu, akashamiswa nekuti kwakanga kusina murevereri, naizvozvo ruoko rwake rwakamuvigira ruponeso, kururama kwake kwakamutsigira.
17He put on righteousness as a breastplate, and a helmet of salvation on his head; and he put on garments of vengeance for clothing, and was clad with zeal as a mantle.
17Akashonga kururama senguvo yendarira, nenguwani yoruponeso pamusoro wake, akafuka nguvo dzokutsiva zvikava zvokufuka zvake, akapfekedzwa nokushingaira sejasi.
18According to their deeds, accordingly he will repay, wrath to his adversaries, recompense to his enemies; to the islands he will repay recompense.
18Sezvavakaita, achavaripira saizvozvo, kutsamwa kuvadzivisi vake, nokutsiva kuvavengi vake; zvivi uchazviripira mubayiro wokutsiva.
19So shall they fear the name of Yahweh from the west, and his glory from the rising of the sun; for he will come as a rushing stream, which the breath of Yahweh drives.
19Naizvozvo vachatya zita raJehovha kubva kumavirazuva, noumambo hwake kubva kumabvazuva; nekuti achauya sorwizi runodira, runotinhwa nomweya waJehovha.
20“A Redeemer will come to Zion, and to those who turn from disobedience in Jacob,” says Yahweh.
20Zvino Mudzikunuri achasvika paZiyoni, nokuna vanodzoka pakudarika pakati paJakove, ndizvo zvinotaura Jehovha.
21“As for me, this is my covenant with them,” says Yahweh. “My Spirit who is on you, and my words which I have put in your mouth, shall not depart out of your mouth, nor out of the mouth of your seed, nor out of the mouth of your seed’s seed,” says Yahweh, “from henceforth and forever.”
21Zvino kana ndirini, iyi ndiyo sungano yangu navo ndizvo zvinotaura Jehovha, Mweya wangu, uri pamusoro pako, namashoko angu andakaisa mumuromo mako, hazvingabvi mumuromo mako, kana mumiromo yavana vako, kana mumiromo yavana vavana vako, kubva zvino kusvikira nokusingaperi ndizvo zvinotaura Jehovha.