Ndzimu banowoloba Itopiya
1 Yee mme wee, shango ye nsindo we mapapilo,
iseli kwe njizi dze Itopiya,
2 inotumila bamilili nge gungwa,
bali mu vula mu zwikepe zwakathamiwa nge shanga dze gwizi!
Yendani imwi batumwa bana majatu,
ku itjaba tjakakula tjina ganda buyanana,
yendani ku bathu banotjiwa pejo na kule,
itjaba tjakasima gunokunda,
guna shango yakathubukanyiwa nge njizi.
3 Imwi mose bagali be lubumbo,
imwi mugele mu shango,
ha tjilakidzo tjimilidziwa pezhugwi kwe matombo, mulinge!
Lunyanga ha gulidziwa muhwe!
4 Ngoti Yahwe bakati kundili,
“Ndowolinga ndilinyelele kudwa mu magalo angu
se kupisa kunodwa mu kupenya kwe zhuba,
kufanana ne gole le khawa kupisa mu nsi we kuvuna.”
5 Kowoti kusathu kukavungwa, maluba asinoshashamuka,
zhambi dzoyendila kubidwa dzishanyuka,
unowothubula thabi tshwa dzinokula nge mipanga inosunulila
ebe ekuthubulila pasi thabi dzinopasha.
6 Bose koga banowosiigwa
nyuni dze matombo dzinoja nyama
ne zwibandana zwe shango.
Nyuni dzinoja nyama dzowopitsha tjilimo nabo dzibaja,
zwibandana zose zwe shango zwikapitsha mbaba nabo.
7 Mu tjibaka itjetjo zwipo zowozhisiwa kuna Yahwe Masimbawose
zwizhisiwa nge bathu balefu be ganda buyanana,
bathu banotjiwa pejo na kule,
ludzi gwakasima gunokunda,
be shango yakathubugwanyiwa nge njizi.
Banowozha ku Dombo le Ziyoni
bugalo gwe zina la Yahwe Masimbawose.
1 Woe to the land shadowing with wings, which is beyond the rivers of Ethiopia: 2 That sendeth ambassadors by the sea, even in vessels of bulrushes upon the waters, saying , Go, ye swift messengers, to a nation scattered and peeled, to a people terrible from their beginning hitherto; a nation meted out and trodden down, whose land the rivers have spoiled! 3 All ye inhabitants of the world, and dwellers on the earth, see ye, when he lifteth up an ensign on the mountains; and when he bloweth a trumpet, hear ye. 4 For so the LORD said unto me, I will take my rest, and I will consider in my dwelling place like a clear heat upon herbs, and like a cloud of dew in the heat of harvest. 5 For afore the harvest, when the bud is perfect, and the sour grape is ripening in the flower, he shall both cut off the sprigs with pruning hooks, and take away and cut down the branches. 6 They shall be left together unto the fowls of the mountains, and to the beasts of the earth: and the fowls shall summer upon them, and all the beasts of the earth shall winter upon them.
7 ¶ In that time shall the present be brought unto the LORD of hosts of a people scattered and peeled, and from a people terrible from their beginning hitherto; a nation meted out and trodden under foot, whose land the rivers have spoiled, to the place of the name of the LORD of hosts, the mount Zion.