Jeremiah 9
1 Oh that my head were waters, and my eyes a spring of tears, that I might weep day and night for the slain of the daughter of my people!
Haiwa, dai musoro wangu waiva chitubu chemvura uye meso angu riri tsime remisodzi! Ndingadai ndaichema masikati nousiku nokuda kwavakaurayiwa vavanhu vangu.
2 Oh that I had in the wilderness a lodging place of wayfaring men, that I might leave my people and go from them! For they are all adulterers, an assembly of treacherous men.
Haiwa, dai ndaiva nenzvimbo mugwenga yokugara yavafambi, kuitira kuti ndisiye vanhu vangu ndiende kure navo; nokuti vose imhombwe, ungano yavanhu vasina kutendeka.
3 “They bend their tongue, as their bow, for falsehood. They have grown strong in the land, but not for truth; for they proceed from evil to evil, and they don’t know me,” says the LORD.
“Vanokunga rurimi rwavo souta, kuti vapfure nhema; havaiti nechokwadi pakukunda kwavanoita munyika. Vanobva pane chimwe chivi vachienda pane chimwe; havandizivi ini,” ndizvo zvinotaura Jehovha.
4 “Everyone beware of his neighbour, and don’t trust in any brother; for every brother will utterly supplant, and every neighbour will go around like a slanderer.
“Chenjererai shamwari dzenyu; musavimba nehama dzenyu. Nokuti hama ipi neipi inonyengera, uye shamwari ipi neipi inoita makuhwa.
5 Friends deceive each other, and will not speak the truth. They have taught their tongue to speak lies. They weary themselves committing iniquity.
Shamwari inonyengera shamwari, uye hakuna anotaura chokwadi. Vakadzidzisa ndimi dzavo kureva nhema; vanozvinetsa nokuita zvakaipa.
6 Your habitation is in the middle of deceit. Through deceit, they refuse to know me,” says the LORD.
Munogara pakati pounyengeri; mukunyengera kwavo vanoramba kundiziva ini,” ndizvo zvinotaura Jehovha.
7 Therefore the LORD of Armies says, “Behold, I will melt them and test them; for how should I deal with the daughter of my people?
Naizvozvo zvanzi naJehovha Wamasimba Ose: “Tarirai, ndichavanatsa uye ndichavaedza, ndechipi chimwe chandingaita nokuda kwechivi chavanhu vangu?
8 Their tongue is a deadly arrow. It speaks deceit. One speaks peaceably to his neighbour with his mouth, but in his heart, he waits to ambush him.
Rurimi rwavo museve unouraya; runotaura nokunyengera. Nomuromo wake mumwe nomumwe anotaura zvakanaka kune wokwake, asi mumwoyo make anomuteyera musungo.
9 Shouldn’t I punish them for these things?” says the LORD. “Shouldn’t my soul be avenged on a nation such as this?
Ko, handigavarangi nokuda kwechinhu ichi here?” ndizvo zvinotaura Jehovha. “Ko, handingazvitsiviri pamusoro porudzi rwakadai here?”
10 I will weep and wail for the mountains, and lament for the pastures of the wilderness, because they are burnt up, so that no one passes through; Men can’t hear the voice of the livestock. Both the birds of the sky and the animals have fled. They are gone.
Ndichachema uye ndichaungudza nokuda kwamakomo, uye ndichachema pamusoro pamafuro egwenga. Aparara uye hakuna anofambako, uye kukuma kwemombe hakunzwiki. Shiri dzedenga dzatiza, uye mhuka dzaenda.
11 “I will make Jerusalem heaps, a dwelling place of jackals. I will make the cities of Judah a desolation, without inhabitant.”
“Ndichaita Jerusarema murwi wedongo, panogara makava; uye ndichaparadza maguta eJudha, kuti kurege kuva nomunhu anogarako.”
12 Who is wise enough to understand this? Who is he to whom the mouth of the LORD has spoken, that he may declare it? Why has the land perished and burnt up like a wilderness, so that no one passes through?
Ndoupiko munhu akachenjera zvokuti anganzwisisa izvi? Ndianiko akarayirwa naJehovha uye angatsanangura izvi? Nemhaka yeiko nyika yanyangadzwa yava dongo ikafanana negwenga risina angapfuura nomo?
13 The LORD says, “Because they have forsaken my law which I set before them, and have not obeyed my voice or walked in my ways,
Jehovha akati, “Nemhaka yokuti vakasiya murayiro wangu, wandakaisa pamberi pavo, havana kunditeerera kana kutevera murayiro wangu.
14 but have walked after the stubbornness of their own heart and after the Baals, which their fathers taught them.”
Asi, vakatevera kusindimara kwemwoyo yavo; vakatevera vanaBhaari, sezvavakadzidziswa namadzibaba avo.”
15 Therefore the LORD of Armies, the God of Israel, says, “Behold, I will feed them, even this people, with wormwood and give them poisoned water to drink.
Naizvozvo zvanzi naJehovha Wamasimba Ose, Mwari weIsraeri, “Tarirai ndichaita kuti vanhu ava vadye zvinovava uye kuti vanwe mvura ino muchetura.
16 I will scatter them also amongst the nations, whom neither they nor their fathers have known. I will send the sword after them, until I have consumed them.”
Ndichavaparadzira pakati pendudzi dzavasina kumboziva uye dzisina kumbozivikanwa namadzibaba avo, uye ndichavatevera nomunondo kusvikira ndavaparadza.”
17 The LORD of Armies says, “Consider, and call for the mourning women, that they may come. Send for the skilful women, that they may come.
Zvanzi naJehovha Wamasimba Ose: “Rangarirai zvino! Danai vakadzi vanochema vauye; danai vanogonesesa pakati pavo.
18 Let them make haste and take up a wailing for us, that our eyes may run down with tears and our eyelids gush out with waters.
Ngavakurumidze kuuya vagochema pamusoro pedu kusvikira maziso edu ayerera misodzi, nzizi dzoyerera mumaziso edu.
19 For a voice of wailing is heard out of Zion, ‘How we are ruined! We are greatly confounded because we have forsaken the land, because they have cast down our dwellings.’”
Maungira okuchema anonzwika kubva kuZioni achiti: ‘Haiwa taparadzwa sei! Haiwa kunyadziswa kwedu kukuru sei! Tinofanira kusiya nyika yedu nokuti dzimba dzedu dzava matongo.’”
20 Yet hear the LORD’s word, you women. Let your ear receive the word of his mouth. Teach your daughters wailing. Everyone teach her neighbour a lamentation.
Zvino, imi vakadzi, inzwai shoko raJehovha; dziurai nzeve dzenyu dzinzwe mashoko omuromo wake. Dzidzisai vanasikana venyu kuungudza; dzidzisanai kuchema.
21 For death has come up into our windows. It has entered into our palaces to cut off the children from outside, and the young men from the streets.
Rufu rwakapinda napamawindo edu uye rwapinda munhare dzedu; rwauraya vana mumigwagwa namajaya ari munzira dzeguta.
22 Speak, “The LORD says, “‘The dead bodies of men will fall as dung on the open field, and as the handful after the harvester. No one will gather them.’”
Uti, “Zvanzi naJehovha: “‘Zvitunha zvavanhu zvichavata somupfudze uri pamusoro pomunda, sezviyo zvakachekwa shure kwavacheki, zvisina achazviunganidza.’”
23 The LORD says, “Don’t let the wise man glory in his wisdom. Don’t let the mighty man glory in his might. Don’t let the rich man glory in his riches.
Zvanzi naJehovha: “Akachenjera ngaarege kuzvirumbidza pamusoro penjere dzake, kana munhu ane simba pamusoro pesimba rake, kana akapfuma pamusoro pepfuma yake,
24 But let him who glories glory in this, that he has understanding, and knows me, that I am the LORD who exercises loving kindness, justice, and righteousness in the earth, for I delight in these things,” says the LORD.
Asi anozvirumbidza ngaazvirumbidze pamusoro pezvizvi: kuti anondinzwisisa uye kuti anondiziva ini, kuti ndini Jehovha, anoita unyoro, nokukururamisira, nokururama panyika, nokuti ndinofarira izvozvi,” ndizvo zvinotaura Jehovha.
25 “Behold, the days come,” says the LORD, “that I will punish all those who are circumcised only in their flesh:
“Mazuva anouya,” ndizvo zvinotaura Jehovha, “andicharanga vose vakadzingiswa panyama chete,
26 Egypt, Judah, Edom, the children of Ammon, Moab, and all who have the corners of their hair cut off, who dwell in the wilderness, for all the nations are uncircumcised, and all the house of Israel are uncircumcised in heart.”
Ijipiti, Judha, Edhomu, Amoni, Moabhu navose vanogara mugwenga kunzvimbo dziri kure. Nokuti ndudzi dzose idzi hadzina kumbodzingiswa, uye kunyange imba yose yaIsraeri haina kudzingiswa, mumwoyo.”
