Isaya 19

¹.Chirevo pamusoro peIjipiti.Tarirai, Jehovha akatasva gore rinomhanya, oswedera Ijipiti; zvifananidzo zvichadedera pamberi pake, nomoyo weIjipiti uchanyauka mukati mawo.The burden of Egypt. Behold, the LORD rideth upon a swift cloud, and shall come into Egypt: and the idols of Egypt shall be moved at his presence, and the heart of Egypt shall melt in the midst of it.

²Ndichamutsa moyo yavaIjipiti vamukire vaIjipiti; mumwe nomumwe acharwa nehama yake, mumwe nomumwe nowakavakirana naye; guta richa mukira guta, ushe huchamukira ushe.And I will set the Egyptians against the Egyptians: and they shall fight every one against his brother, and every one against his neighbour; city against city, and kingdom against kingdom.

³Mweya weIjipiti uchapera mukati mawo; ndichaparadza kufunga kwawo; vachandobvunza zvifananidzo, navanamazango, navauki nen’anga.And the spirit of Egypt shall fail in the midst thereof; and I will destroy the counsel thereof: and they shall seek to the idols, and to the charmers, and to them that have familiar spirits, and to the wizards.

⁴Ndichaisa vaIjipiti muruoko rwamambo ane hasha; mambo anomoyo mukukutu achavabata ushe, ndizvo zvinotaura Ishe, Jehovha wehondo.And the Egyptians will I give over into the hand of a cruel lord; and a fierce king shall rule over them, saith the Lord, the LORD of hosts.

⁵Mvura ichapwa mugungwa, rwizi ruchaderera nokuoma.And the waters shall fail from the sea, and the river shall be wasted and dried up.

⁶Nzizi dzichanhuwa, hova dzeIjipiti dzichava shoma nokupwa; tsanga nenhokwe dzichaoma.And they shall turn the rivers far away; and the brooks of defence shall be emptied and dried up: the reeds and flags shall wither.

⁷Mafuro kunhivi dzaNairi, pamhenderekedzo dzaNairi, neminda yose yakadyarwa yaNairi, zvichaoma, zvichatorwa nemhepo, hazvichazovipo.The paper reeds by the brooks, by the mouth of the brooks, and every thing sown by the brooks, shall wither, be driven away, and be no more.

⁸Vabati vehove vachachema, vose vanokandira zviredzo maNairi vachaungudza, vanokanda hutava hwavo mumvura vachapera simba.The fishers also shall mourn, and all they that cast angle into the brooks shall lament, and they that spread nets upon the waters shall languish.

⁹Uye vanobata neshinda yakanatswa, navanoruka micheka michena, vachanyadziswa.Moreover they that work in fine flax, and they that weave networks, shall be confounded.

¹⁰Mbiru dzichaputswa-putswa; vose vanobatira mubayiro vachava neshungu pamweya.And they shall be broken in the purposes thereof, all that make sluices and ponds for fish.

¹¹Machinda eZoani mapenzi kwazvo; mano amakota akaisvochenjera aFarao ashanduka upenzi; munoreva seiko kuna Farao, muchiti, Ndini mwanakomana wavakachenjera, mwanakomana wamadzimambo akare?Surely the princes of Zoan are fools, the counsel of the wise counsellors of Pharaoh is become brutish: how say ye unto Pharaoh, I am the son of the wise, the son of ancient kings?

¹²Varipiko zvino ivo vanhu vako vakachenjera? Ngavakuudze zvino; ngavazivise zvakafungwa naJehovha wehondo pamusoro peIjipiti.Where are they? where are thy wise men? and let them tell thee now, and let them know what the LORD of hosts hath purposed upon Egypt.

¹³Machinda eZoani ava mapenzi, machinda eNofi akanyengerwa; vakarasisa Ijipiti nzira, ivo vaiva ibwe rekona ramarudzi avo.The princes of Zoan are become fools, the princes of Noph are deceived; they have also seduced Egypt, even they that are the stay of the tribes thereof.

¹⁴Jehovha akadira mweya wokuramba mukati mavo; vakarasisa Ijipiti nzira pamabasa avo vose, somunhu akabatwa nedoro anodzedzereka pakurutsa kwake.The LORD hath mingled a perverse spirit in the midst thereof: and they have caused Egypt to err in every work thereof, as a drunken man staggereth in his vomit.

¹⁵Saka Ijipiti haingazovi nebasa chose, ringaitwa nomusoro kana nomuswe, kana nedavi romuchindwe kana nenhokwe.Neither shall there be any work for Egypt, which the head or tail, branch or rush, may do.

¹⁶Nezuva iro vaIjipiti vachafanana navakadzi; vachadedera nokutya nokuda kwokusimudzwa kworuoko rwaJehovha wehondo; rwaanosimudza pamusoro pavo.In that day shall Egypt be like unto women: and it shall be afraid and fear because of the shaking of the hand of the LORD of hosts, which he shaketh over it.

¹⁷Nyika yaJudha ichava chityiso cheIjipiti; mumwe nomumwe anozviudzwa achatya nokuda kwomutemo waJehovha wehondo, waakatema pamusoro pavo.And the land of Judah shall be a terror unto Egypt, every one that maketh mention thereof shall be afraid in himself, because of the counsel of the LORD of hosts, which he hath determined against it.

¹⁸Nezuva iro maguta mashanu achavapo panyika yeIjipiti, anotaura rurimi rweKanani, vachipika naJehovha wehondo; mumwe achaidzwa Guta rokuparadzwa.In that day shall five cities in the land of Egypt speak the language of Canaan, and swear to the LORD of hosts; one shall be called, The city of destruction.

¹⁹Nezuva iro pakati penyika yeIjipiti pachava nearitari kuna Jehovha, nembiru pamuganho waro kuna Jehovha.In that day shall there be an altar to the LORD in the midst of the land of Egypt, and a pillar at the border thereof to the LORD.

²⁰Zvichava chiratidzo nechapupu chaJehovha wehondo panyika yeIjipiti; nokuti vachadanidzira kuna Jehovha nemhaka yavamanikidzi, achavatumira muponesi nomurwiri, iye achavaponesa.And it shall be for a sign and for a witness unto the LORD of hosts in the land of Egypt: for they shall cry unto the LORD because of the oppressors, and he shall send them a saviour, and a great one, and he shall deliver them.

²¹Jehovha achazviratidza kuIjipiti, navaIjipiti vachaziva Jehovha nezuva iro; zvirokwazvo vachamunamata nezvibayiro nezvipo, vachapikira Jehovha mhiko, nokuzviita.And the LORD shall be known to Egypt, and the Egyptians shall know the LORD in that day, and shall do sacrifice and oblation; yea, they shall vow a vow unto the LORD, and perform it.

²²Jehovha acharova Ijipiti, achirova nokuporesazve; zvino vachadzokera kuna Jehovha, iye achanzwa kunyengetera kwavo achivaporesa.And the LORD shall smite Egypt: he shall smite and heal it: and they shall return even to the LORD, and he shall be intreated of them, and shall heal them.

²³Nezuva iro nzira huru ichavapo inobva Ijipiti ichienda Asiria; vaAsiria vachaenda Ijipiti, navaIjipiti vachaenda Asiria; vaIjipiti vachanamata pamwechete navaAsiria.In that day shall there be a highway out of Egypt to Assyria, and the Assyrian shall come into Egypt, and the Egyptian into Assyria, and the Egyptians shall serve with the Assyrians.

²⁴Nezuva iro vaIsiraeri vachava rudzi rwechitatu vachitevera Ijipiti neAsiria, vachava ruropafadzo pakati penyika;In that day shall Israel be the third with Egypt and with Assyria, even a blessing in the midst of the land:

²⁵nokuti Jehovha wehondo akavaropafadza, achiti, VaIjipiti, vanhu vangu, navaAsiria, basa ramaoko angu, navaIsiraeri, nhaka yangu, ngavaropafadzwe.Whom the LORD of hosts shall bless, saying, Blessed be Egypt my people, and Assyria the work of my hands, and Israel mine inheritance.