¹Yahweh said to me, “Take a large tablet, and write on it with a man’s pen, ‘For Maher Shalal Hash Baz; “Maher Shalal Hash Baz” means “quick to the plunder, swift to the spoil.” ’

¹Zvino Jehovha akati kwandiri,Tora bwendefa guru, unyore pariri nepeni yavanhu, uti, Chimbidzikai kutapa, zvakapambwa zvokurumbidza.

²and I will take for myself faithful witnesses to testify: Uriah the priest, and Zechariah the son of Jeberechiah.”

²Ndichatora zvapupu zvakatendeka, zvinoti: Uriya mupristi, naZekariya mwanakomana waJebherekia.

³I went to the prophetess, and she conceived, and bore a son. Then Yahweh said to me, “Call his name ‘Maher Shalal Hash Baz.’

³Ipapo ndakaenda kumuporofitakadzi, iye akatora pamuviri, akabereka mwanakomana. Zvino Jehovha akati kwandiri Mutumidze zita rokuti, Chimbidzikai kutapa, zvakapambwa zvokurumbidza.

⁴For before the child knows how to say, ‘My father,’ and, ‘My mother,’ the riches of Damascus and the spoil of Samaria will be carried away by the king of Assyria.”

⁴nekuti mwana asati aziva kuti, baba vangu, kana mai vangu, fuma yeDhamasiko nezvakapambwa zveSamaria zvichaiswa pamberi pamambo weAsiria.

⁵Yahweh spoke to me yet again, saying,

⁵Zvino Jehovha akataurazve kwandiri, achiti,

⁶“Because this people have refused the waters of Shiloah that go softly, and rejoice in Rezin and Remaliah’s son;

⁶Vanhu ava zvavakaramba mvura yeShiroa, inonyatsa kuyerera, vachifarira Rezini nomwanakomana waRemaria;

⁷now therefore, behold, the Lord brings upon them the mighty flood waters of the River: the king of Assyria and all his glory. It will come up over all its channels, and go over all its banks.

⁷saka zvino, tarira, Ishe achauyisa pamusoro pavo mvura zhinji yoRwizi, ine simba yakawanda, iye mambo weAsiria nokubwinya kwake kose; ruchabuda kuhova dzarwo dzose, nokudarika nhivi dzarwo dzose;

⁸It will sweep onward into Judah. It will overflow and pass through; it will reach even to the neck; and the stretching out of its wings will fill the breadth of your land, Immanuel.

⁸ruchakukura kusvikira kwaJudha; ruchapa fuma, ndokupfuura, ruchasvika pamutsipa; kutandavara kwamapapiro arwo kuchazadza kufara kwenyika yako yose, iwe Imanueri.

⁹Make an uproar, you peoples, and be broken in pieces! Listen, all you from far countries: dress for battle, and be shattered! Dress for battle, and be shattered!

⁹Itai bope, imwi ndudzi, muputsweputswe; nemwi mose muri kunyika dziri kure, inzwai; zvisungei zviuno, muputswe-putswe, zvisungei zviuno, muputswe-putswe.

¹⁰Take counsel together, and it will be brought to nothing; speak the word, and it will not stand: for God is with us.”

¹⁰Ranganai henyu, asi zvichakona; taurai shoko, asi haringamiri; nekuti Mwari anesu.

¹¹For Yahweh spoke thus to me with a strong hand, and instructed me not to walk in the way of this people, saying,

¹¹nekuti Jehovha akataura saizvozvo neni noruoko rune simba, akandirayira kuti ndirege kufamba nenzira yavanhu ava, achiti,

¹²“Don’t say, ‘A conspiracy!’ concerning all about which this people say, ‘A conspiracy!’ neither fear their threats, nor be terrorized.

¹²Musati, Irangano, pamusoro pezvose zvinonzi navanhu ava, irangano; uye musatya zvavanotya, kana kuvhunduka.

¹³Yahweh of Armies is who you must respect as holy. He is the one you must fear. He is the one you must dread.

¹³Jehovha wehondo, ndiye wamunofanira kuti mutsvene; mumutye iye, mumuvhunduke iye.

¹⁴He will be a sanctuary, but for both houses of Israel, he will be a trap and a snare for the inhabitants of Jerusalem.

¹⁴Ipapo iye achava nzvimbo tsvene yenyu; asi achava ibwe rokugumbusa nedombo rokupinganidza kudzimba dzose mbiri dzaIsiraeri, ave rugombe nomusungo kuna vanogara Jerusaremu.

¹⁵Many will stumble over it, fall, be broken, be snared, and be captured.”

¹⁵Vazhinji vavo vachagumburwa naro, vachawa, nokuputswa, nokuteyiwa, nokubatwa.

¹⁶Wrap up the testimony. Seal the law among my disciples.

¹⁶Sunga chipupuriro, namatidza murayiro nechisimbiso pakati pavadzidzi vangu.

¹⁷I will wait for Yahweh, who hides his face from the house of Jacob, and I will look for him.

¹⁷Ndichamirira Jehovha, anovanzira imba yaJakove chiso chake, ndichamutsvaka.

¹⁸Behold, I and the children whom Yahweh has given me are for signs and for wonders in Israel from Yahweh of Armies, who dwells in Mount Zion.

¹⁸Tarirai, ini navana vandakapiwa naJehovha, tiri zviratidzo nezvishamiso pakati paIsiraeri zvaJehovha wehondo, agere mugomo reZiyoni.

¹⁹When they tell you, “Consult with those who have familiar spirits and with the wizards, who chirp and who mutter:” shouldn’t a people consult with their God? Should they consult the dead on behalf of the living?

¹⁹Zvino kana vachiti kwamuri, bvunzai masvikiro navavuki, vanorira nokuita zevezeve: Ko vanhu havafaniri kubvunza Mwari wavo here? Ko vanofanira kubvunza vakafa pamusoro pavapenyu here?

²⁰Turn to the law and to the testimony! If they don’t speak according to this word, surely there is no morning for them.

²⁰Dzokerai kumurayiro nokuzvipupuriro! Kana vasingatauri sezvinoreva shoko iri, havangavi nechiedza chamangwanani.

²¹They will pass through it, very distressed and hungry; and it will happen that when they are hungry, they will worry, and curse by their king and by their God. They will turn their faces upward,

²¹Vachafamba nenyika vakamanikidzwa kwazvo, vane nzara; zvino kana vane nzara, vachava neshungu, vachatuka mambo wavo naMwari wavo, vachitarira kudenga.

²²and look to the earth, and see distress, darkness, and the gloom of anguish. They will be driven into thick darkness.

²²Vachatarirawo pasi, asi tarirai, vachaona njodzi nerima, nokusviba kokumanikidzwa; vachadzingirwa kurima guru.