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| 1. | Bathi: Uba indoda isehlukana lomkayo, abesesiba ngowenye indoda, isezambuyisa yini? Lelolizwe belingayikungcoliswa kakhulu yini? Kanti wena usufebile lezithandwa ezinengi, usabuya kimi yini? kutsho i Nkosi. |
| 2. | Phakamisela amehlo akho emadundulwini angelalutho, ubone. Kungaphi lapho ongalalelwanga khona? Ezindleleni wahlalela izithandwa njengomArabhiya enkangala. Ulingcolisile ilizwe ngobufebe bakho obubi. |
| 3. | Ngenxa yalokho izihlambo zinqandiwe, lezulu lentwasa kalinanga. Kanti ulesibindi sesifebe, kawulanhloni. |
| 4. | Kawusand’ukumemeza kimi yini ukuthi: Baba, wena ungumngane wobutsha bami? |
| 5. | Uzahlala uthukuthele njalonjalo, elolaka kuze kube sekucineni yini? Khangela, utsho njalo wena, kodwa uphikilele ukwenza konke okubi. |
| 6. | I Nkosi yathi kimi ensukwini zenkosi uJosiya: Ubonile yini okwenziwe nguIsrayeli ongathembekanga? Ukhwelile kuzo zonke intaba, langaphansi kwezihlahla zonke eziluhlaza uphingile khona. |
| 7. | Ngathi uzabuya kimi esekwenzile konke lokhu; kodwa kabuyanga, lodadewabo ongathembekanga uJuda wakubona lokho. |
| 8. | Wabona ukuthi ngenxa yobufebe bonke bukaIsrayeli ongathembekanga, ngamxotsha ngamnika lencwadi yesehlukaniso; kodwa udadewabo ongathembekanga uJuda kesabanga, laye wasuka wafeba. |
| 9. | Ngoba ubufebe babuyinto elula kuye wangcolisa ilizwe ngokufeba kwakhe langokukhonza amatshe lezihlahla. |
| 10. | Kodwa kukho konke lokho udadewabo ongathembekanga uJuda kabuyanga kimi ngenhliziyo yonke, kuphela ngokuzenzisa nje, kutsho i Nkosi. |
| 11. | I Nkosi yathi kimi: UIsrayeli ongathembekanga ungcono kuloJuda okhohlisayo. |
| 12. | Hamba uyememezela lamazwi ngenyakatho uthi: Buya wena Israyeli ongathembekanga, kutsho i Nkosi. Kangiyikukuthukuthelela, ngoba ngilesihawu, itsho i Nkosi. Kangiyikuthukuthela kokuphela. |
| 13. | Vuma kuphela icala lakho ukuthi uyihlamukele i Nkosi uNkulunkulu wakho, wakhonza onkulunkulu bezizweni ngaphansi kwazo zonke izihlahla eziluhlaza, lokuthi kawulalelanga ilizwi lami kutsho i Nkosi. |
| 14. | Buyani, bantwana abangathembekanga, kutsho i Nkosi; ngoba ngiyiNkosi yenu. Ngizalithatha, abe munye emzini, babe babili kulo usendo, ngililethe eZiyoni. |
| 15. | Ngizalinika abelusi abathandekayo kimi, abazalelusa ngokwazi langokuhlakanipha. |
| 16. | Kuzakuthi lapho selandile laba banengi elizweni, ngalezonsuku kabasayikukhuluma ngomtshokotsho wesivumelwano se Nkosi, kutsho i Nkosi. Kakusayikucatshangwa ngawo, kawusayikukhunjulwa, kawusayikuhanjelwa, kakusayikwenziwa omunye. |
| 17. | Ngalesosikhathi iJerusalema izakuthiwa yisihlalo sobukhosi se Nkosi; zonke izizwe zizabuthana khona, phambi kwe Nkosi eJerusalema; kazisayikulandela inhliziyo zazo ezilenkani. |
| 18. | Ngalezonsuku indlu yakoJuda izahlangana lendlu yakoIsrayeli, ziphume kanyekanye elizweni lenyakatho, zize elizweni engalinika oyihlo ukuze libe ngelabo. |
| 19. | Mina bengisithi ngizakubeka njani phakathi kwabantwana bami, ngikunike ilizwe elihle, ilizwe elihle kakhulu phakathi kwazo zonke izizwe. Ngathi uzangibiza ngokuthi Baba, ungadeli ukungilandela. |
| 20. | Isibili, njengomfazi ongathembekanga etshiya umkakhe, lawe ungikhohlisile, wena ndlu kaIsrayeli, itsho i Nkosi. |
| 21. | Ilizwi liyezwakala emadundulwini angelalutho, elokukhala lokukhuleka kwabantwana bakoIsrayeli, ngoba beyonile indlela yabo, bayikhohlwa i Nkosi uNkulunkulu wabo. |
| 22. | Buyani, lina bantwana abangathembekanga. Ngizakwelapha ukungathembeki kwenu. Khangela, siyeza kuwe, ngoba wena uyi Nkosi uNkulunkulu wethu. |
| 23. | Isibili ukukhonza phezu kwamaqaqa kakusizi lutho kanye lomsindo wakhona. Isibili ukukhululwa kukaIsrayeli kuse Nkosi ni uNkulunkulu wethu. |
| 24. | UBhali, into elehlazo iqedile umsebenzi wabobaba kusukela ebutsheni bethu, izimvu zabo lenkomo zabo, amadodana abo lamadodakazi abo. |
| 25. | Asilale phansi silenhloni, sibanjwe zinhloni zethu; ngoba sonile e Nkosi ni uNkulunkulu wethu, thina labobaba, kusukela ebutsheni bethu kuze kube lamuhla; kasilalelanga ilizwi le Nkosi uNkulunkulu wethu. |
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