Moabu inowokolomodziwa
1 Dama ngekwe Moabu.
Ngoti nzi nkulu Ari wakolomogwa busiku gung'ompela,
Moabu yapalala,
ngoti nzi nkulu Ari wakolomogwa busiku gung'ompela
Moabu yapalala.
2 Diboni watathila ku magalo awe ekunamata kunolila,
Moabu inolilila mizi mikulu Nebo ne Medeba.
Nsholo mmwe ne mmwe watesegwa
ne ndendu dzakeriwa.
3 Mu zila bakazwipomba nge masaka,
pezhugwi kwe ng'umba ne mu mashanganilo,
mmwe ne mmwe unolila etebula mishodzi.
4 Bathu be Heshibhoni ne Eleale banolila,
mahwi abo akahwika kule kunoti ku Jahazi,
ndizo babhayani be Moabu banolilila pezhugwi,
moyo yabo inotetema.
5 Moyo wangu unolilila Moabu,
batizhi bayo banotizhila ku Zowa
ne ku Egila Shelishiya.
Ngoti panotathuka Luhiti
banoyenda belila,
mu zila ye Horonayimi
banolila tjililo tje golomodzo.
6 Vula dze Nimirimu dzapkhwa,
bushwa gwabuna,
zwinomela butshwa zotimbama,
akutjina mazhani matshwa.
7 Ndizo thundu yabakashaba
ne zwabakabe bakubunganya
bakazwitutila seli kwe Gorokoro le Mipopula.
8 Ngoti tjililo tjayenda
nge shango yose ye Moabu;
guwo loswika ku Egilaimu,
ne ku Bheerelimu.
9 Ngoti vula dze Dimoni dzizhele malopa,
koga nditjawozhisa mu Dimoni zwinyanya,
ndowozhisila shumba ibabo bakapudzumuka be Moabu
ne malimbelimbe mu shango.
1 The burden of Moab. Because in the night Ar of Moab is laid waste, and brought to silence; because in the night Kir of Moab is laid waste, and brought to silence; 2 He is gone up to Bajith, and to Dibon, the high places, to weep: Moab shall howl over Nebo, and over Medeba: on all their heads shall be baldness, and every beard cut off. 3 In their streets they shall gird themselves with sackcloth: on the tops of their houses, and in their streets, every one shall howl, weeping abundantly. 4 And Heshbon shall cry, and Elealeh: their voice shall be heard even unto Jahaz: therefore the armed soldiers of Moab shall cry out; his life shall be grievous unto him. 5 My heart shall cry out for Moab; his fugitives shall flee unto Zoar, an heifer of three years old: for by the mounting up of Luhith with weeping shall they go it up; for in the way of Horonaim they shall raise up a cry of destruction.
6 For the waters of Nimrim shall be desolate: for the hay is withered away, the grass faileth, there is no green thing. 7 Therefore the abundance they have gotten, and that which they have laid up, shall they carry away to the brook of the willows. 8 For the cry is gone round about the borders of Moab; the howling thereof unto Eglaim, and the howling thereof unto Beer-elim. 9 For the waters of Dimon shall be full of blood: for I will bring more upon Dimon, lions upon him that escapeth of Moab, and upon the remnant of the land.