Zvakazarurwa 9

¹Zvino mutumwa wechishanu wakaridza, ndikavona nyeredzi,, yakabva kudenga, yawira pasi; ikapiwa kiyi yegomba rakadzika-dzika.And the fifth angel sounded, and I saw a star fall from heaven unto the earth: and to him was given the key of the bottomless pit.

²Ikazarura gomba rakadzika-dzika, vutsi bwukakwira bwuchibva mugomba, sovutsi bwevira guru; zuva nedenga zvikasvibiswa novutsi bwegomba.And he opened the bottomless pit; and there arose a smoke out of the pit, as the smoke of a great furnace; and the sun and the air were darkened by reason of the smoke of the pit.

³Muvutsi makabuda mhashu dzikavuya panyika, dzikapiwa simba sesimba rezvinyavada zvenyika.And there came out of the smoke locusts upon the earth: and unto them was given power, as the scorpions of the earth have power.

⁴Dzikavudzwa kuti dzirege kutadzira vuswa bwenyika, nechinhu chinyoro, kana miti yose, asi vanhu bedzi vasinechisimbiso chaMwari pahuma dzavo.And it was commanded them that they should not hurt the grass of the earth, neither any green thing, neither any tree; but only those men which have not the seal of God in their foreheads.

⁵Hadzina kupiwa basa rokuvavuraya, asi kuti varwadziswe mwedzi mishanu; kurwadzisa kwadzo kwakanga kwakaita sokurwadzisa kwechinyavada, kana chichiruma munhu.And to them it was given that they should not kill them, but that they should be tormented five months: and their torment was as the torment of a scorpion, when he striketh a man.

⁶Namazuva iwayo vanhu vachatsvaka rufu, asi havangatongoruwani, vachavinga kufa, asi rufu ruchavatiza.And in those days shall men seek death, and shall not find it; and shall desire to die, and death shall flee from them.

⁷Pakuvonekwa kwadzo mhashu dzakanga dzakaita samabhiza akagadzirirwa kurwa; pamisoro yadzo pakanga pane zvimwe zvakafanana nekorona dzakafanana nendarama, zviso zvadzo zvakanga zvakaita sezviso zvavanhu.And the shapes of the locusts were like unto horses prepared unto battle; and on their heads were as it were crowns like gold, and their faces were as the faces of men.

⁸Dzakanga dzinevhudzi rakaita sevhudzi ravakadzi, nameno adzo akanga akaita seeshumba.And they had hair as the hair of women, and their teeth were as the teeth of lions.

⁹Dzakanga dzinezvidzitiro zvechifuva zvakaita sezvamatare; nokutinhira kwamapapiro adzo kwakaita sokutinhira kwengoro dzamabhiza mazhinji anomhanyira kurwa.And they had breastplates, as it were breastplates of iron; and the sound of their wings was as the sound of chariots of many horses running to battle.

¹⁰Dzakanga dzinemiswe, yakaita seyezvinyavada, novumborera; pamiswe yadzo pakanga panesimba rokukuvadza vanhu mwedzi mishanu.And they had tails like unto scorpions, and there were stings in their tails: and their power was to hurt men five months.

¹¹Dzakanga dzinamambo wadzo, ari mutumwa wegomba rakadzika dzika, zita rake nechiHebheru ndiAbhadhoni, nechi Giriki zita rake ndi Aporioni.And they had a king over them, which is the angel of the bottomless pit, whose name in the Hebrew tongue is Abaddon, but in the Greek tongue hath his name Apollyon.

¹²Nhamo imwe yapfuvura; tarira, nhamo dzimwe mbiri dzinotevera shure kwaizvozvi.One woe is past; and, behold, there come two woes more hereafter.

¹³Zvino mutumwa wechitanhatu wakaridza, ndikanzwa inzwi richibva panyanga ina dzearitari yendarama yakanga iri pamberi paMwari,And the sixth angel sounded, and I heard a voice from the four horns of the golden altar which is before God,

¹⁴richiti kumutumwa wechitanhatu wakanga anehwamanda; Sunungura vatumwa vana vakasungwa parwizi rukuru runonzi Yufratesi.Saying to the sixth angel which had the trumpet, Loose the four angels which are bound in the great river Euphrates.

¹⁵Ipapo vatumwa vana vakasunungurwa, vakanga vakagadzirirwa nguva, nezuva, nomwedzi, negore, kuti vavuraye chetatu chavanhu.And the four angels were loosed, which were prepared for an hour, and a day, and a month, and a year, for to slay the third part of men.

¹⁶Kuwanda kwehondo dzavatasvi vamabhiza kwakanga kuri zvuru zvezvuru zvamazana maviri; ndikanzwa kuverengwa kwavo.And the number of the army of the horsemen were two hundred thousand thousand: and I heard the number of them.

¹⁷Saizvozvo vo ndakavona mabhiza pakuratidzwa kwangu, navakanga vakaatasva, vanezvidzitiro zvechifuva zvakaita sezvomoto, nezvehiasinto, nezvesurferi; nemisoro yamabhiza yakanga yakaita semisoro yeshumba; nomumiromo yawo makabuda moto, novutsi nesurferi.And thus I saw the horses in the vision, and them that sat on them, having breastplates of fire, and of jacinth, and brimstone: and the heads of the horses were as the heads of lions; and out of their mouths issued fire and smoke and brimstone.

¹⁸Chetatu chavanhu chakavurawa namadambudziko awa matatu, anoti, moto novutsi nesurferi, zvakabuda mumiromo yawo.By these three was the third part of men killed, by the fire, and by the smoke, and by the brimstone, which issued out of their mouths.

¹⁹Nokuti simba ramabhiza riri mumiromo yawo, nomumiswe yawo; nokuti miswe yawo yakaita senyoka, inemisoro; anokuvadza nayo.For their power is in their mouth, and in their tails: for their tails were like unto serpents, and had heads, and with them they do hurt.

²⁰Vamwe vanhu vasina kuvurawa namadambudziko awa, havana kutendevuka pamabasa amavoko avo, kuti varege kunamata mweya yakaipa, nezvifananidzo zvendarama, nezvesirivheri, nezvendarira, nezvamabwe, nezvemiti, zvisingagoni kuvona, kana kunzwa, kana kufamba;And the rest of the men which were not killed by these plagues yet repented not of the works of their hands, that they should not worship devils, and idols of gold, and silver, and brass, and stone, and of wood: which neither can see, nor hear, nor walk:

²¹havana kutendevuka vo pakuvuraya kwavo, kana pakurowa kwavo, kana pavupombwe bwavo, kana pakuba kwavo.Neither repented they of their murders, nor of their sorceries, nor of their fornication, nor of their thefts.