Hosea 9

¹Regai kufara, imi Isiraeri, muchifarisisa samarudzi avanhu; nokuti makapata, muchisiya Mwari wenyu; makada mubayiro wokufeva pamapuriro ose ezviyo.Rejoice not, O Israel, for joy, as other people: for thou hast gone a whoring from thy God, thou hast loved a reward upon every cornfloor.

²Buriro nechisviniro chewaini hazvingavagutsi, waini ichavanyengera.The floor and the winepress shall not feed them, and the new wine shall fail in her.

³Havangagari munyika yaJehovha; asi Efuremu achadzokera Ijipiti, vachadya zvokudya zvine tsvina paAsiria.They shall not dwell in the LORD’S land; but Ephraim shall return to Egypt, and they shall eat unclean things in Assyria.

⁴Havangadiriri Jehovha waini, zvibayiro zvavo hazvingamufadzi; zvibayiro zvavo zvichaita kwavari sezvokudya zvavanochema; vose, vanozvidya, vachasvibiswa, nokuti zvokudya zvavo ndezvavo zvoga, hazvingasviki muimba yaJehovha.They shall not offer wine offerings to the LORD, neither shall they be pleasing unto him: their sacrifices shall be unto them as the bread of mourners; all that eat thereof shall be polluted: for their bread for their soul shall not come into the house of the LORD.

⁵Muchabateiko nezuva reungano dzakatarwa, nezuva remitambo yaJehovha?What will ye do in the solemn day, and in the day of the feast of the LORD?

⁶Nokuti tarirai, vakabva nokuda kwokuparadzwa, asi vaIjipiti vachavaunganidza, veMemifisi vachavaviga; rukato ruchavatorera zvinhu zvavo zvesirivha zvinofadza; minzwa ichava mumatende avo.For, lo, they are gone because of destruction: Egypt shall gather them up, Memphis shall bury them: the pleasant places for their silver, nettles shall possess them: thorns shall be in their tabernacles.

⁷Mazuva okurohwa asvika, mazuva okutsiva asvika; Isiraeri vachazviziva; muporofita ibenzi, munhu anomweya anopenga, nemhaka yokuwanda kwezvakaipa zvenyu, uye nokuti ruvengo rukuru.The days of visitation are come, the days of recompence are come; Israel shall know it: the prophet is a fool, the spiritual man is mad, for the multitude of thine iniquity, and the great hatred.

⁸Efuremu mushori kuna Mwari wangu; kana ari muporofita, rugombe rwomuteyi weshiri ruri munzira dzake dzose, noruvengo muimba yaMwari wake.The watchman of Ephraim was with my God: but the prophet is a snare of a fowler in all his ways, and hatred in the house of his God.

⁹Vakazvishatisa zvikuru kwazvo, sapamazuva eGibhiya; acharangarira zvakaipa zvavo, achavarova pamusoro pezvivi zvavo.They have deeply corrupted themselves, as in the days of Gibeah: therefore he will remember their iniquity, he will visit their sins.

¹⁰Ndakawana Isiraeri vakaita samazambiringa murenje; ndakaona madzibaba enyu vakaita sezvibereko zvakatanga kuibva pamuonde panguva yawo yokubereka yokutanga; asi vakasvika paBhaaripeori, vakazviisa kunezvinonyadzisa, vakaita zvinonyangadza vachifanana nezvaidikanwa navo.I found Israel like grapes in the wilderness; I saw your fathers as the firstripe in the fig tree at her first time: but they went to Baal-peor, and separated themselves unto that shame; and their abominations were according as they loved.

¹¹Kana vari VaEfuremu, kukudzwa kwavo kuchabhururuka seshiri; kubereka hakungavipo, kana kukurirwa, kana kunaka pamuviri.As for Ephraim, their glory shall fly away like a bird, from the birth, and from the womb, and from the conception.

¹²Kunyange vakarera vana vavo, ndichavatorera ivo, kusvikira kusisina munhu; zvirokwazvo, vachava nenhamowo, kana ini ndavasiya.Though they bring up their children, yet will I bereave them, that there shall not be a man left: yea, woe also to them when I depart from them!

¹³Sezvandakatsaura Tire, Efuremu vakasimwa pakanaka; asi Efuremu vachabudisira muurayi vana vavo.Ephraim, as I saw Tyrus, is planted in a pleasant place: but Ephraim shall bring forth his children to the murderer.

¹⁴Chivapai, Jehovha muchavapeiko? Chivapai zvizvaro zvinoshaya namazamu asina mukaka.Give them, O LORD: what wilt thou give? give them a miscarrying womb and dry breasts.

¹⁵Zvakaipa zvavo zvose zviri paGirigari, nokuti ndipo pandakavavenga; nemhaka yezvakaipa zvavanoita ndichavadzinga paimba yangu, handichavadi; machinda avo ose akandimukira.All their wickedness is in Gilgal: for there I hated them: for the wickedness of their doings I will drive them out of mine house, I will love them no more: all their princes are revolters.

¹⁶Efuremu varohwa, mudzi wavo waoma, havangazobereki zvibereko; zvirokwazvo, kunyange vakabereka, ndichavauraya vadikanwa vakaberekwa nezvizvaro zvavo.Ephraim is smitten, their root is dried up, they shall bear no fruit: yea, though they bring forth, yet will I slay even the beloved fruit of their womb.

¹⁷Mwari wangu achavarasha, nokuti havana kumunzwa; vachava vadzungairi pakati pamarudzi avanhu.My God will cast them away, because they did not hearken unto him: and they shall be wanderers among the nations.