Utsi unemasu nemabutfo emphi lanemandla, kodvwa ukhuluma lite nje. Ngubani lona lowetsembele kuye kutsi ungaze uvukele mine?
Ezra 4:12 - Siswati 1996 Bible “Inkhosi kufanele yati kutsi lamaJuda lafike lapha, esuka lapho kuwe asaye eJerusalema kuyewulakha kabusha lelidolobha lelibi nalelihlubukako. Balwakha kabusha lubondza, kantsi nesisekelo bayasivusetela. |
Utsi unemasu nemabutfo emphi lanemandla, kodvwa ukhuluma lite nje. Ngubani lona lowetsembele kuye kutsi ungaze uvukele mine?
Ngesikhatsi sekubusa kwaJehoyakimu, Nebukhadnezari, inkhosi yaseBhabhulona, wahlasela live. Jehoyakimu waba yinceku yaNebukhadnezari, iminyaka lemitsatfu. Kodvwa wabe sewugucula ingcondvo yakhe, wavukela Nebukhadnezari.
Sedekiya-ke wayivukela inkhosi Nebukhadnezari lowamfungisa ngelibito laNkulunkulu. Wacinisa inhloko nenhlitiyo yakhe, wala kuphendvukela kuSimakadze, Nkulunkulu wema-Israyeli.
Nayi-ke inkhulumo leyayibhalwe kulencwadzi: “Iya ku-Athazeksesi, inkhosi. “Iphuma etincekwini takho letingemadvodza lakhe eNshonalanga Yufrathe:
khona utawuke uphenyisise emilandvweni yabokhokho bakho. Kuleyo ndzawo utawukhandza kutsi lelidolobha linenkhani, liluhlupho emakhosini kusukela endvulo. Bantfu balo kulukhuni kubabusa. Nguko nje labhujiswa lelidolobha.
Ngivele ngakhipha umtsetfo kutsi kuphenyisiswe, kwatfolakala kutsi vele lelidolobha linemlandvo lomudze wekuhlubuka emakhosi. Bekuyindzawo yekuhlubuka nekuphambana nembuso.
Ngasona leso sikhatsi Thathenayi, umbusi waseNshonalanga Yufrathe, naShethari Boznayi kanye nebangani babo bahamba baya kubo, bafike bababuta batsi: “Ngubani lona loninike leligunya lekwakha kabusha lelithempeli nelekuvusetela lesakhiwo?”
“Labaholi sibabutile satsi: ‘Ngubani lona loninike leligunya lekwakha kabusha lelithempeli kanye nekuvusetela lesakhiwo?’
Bangiphendvula batsi: “Insali yalesifundza leyasindza ekutfunjweni, isekuhluphekeni lokukhulu nasekuhlazweni. Lubondza lwaseJerusalema luhhihlitelwe phansi; nemasango ayo ashiswa ngemlilo.”
utsi: “Geshemu ungitjele watsi kunemahemuhemu lasandzile kuletive letibomakhelwane kutsi wena kanye nemaJuda nitilungiselela kuvukela umbuso, nguko nje sewulwakha kabusha lolubondza. Ngetulu kwaloko lamahemuhemu atsi wena sewucondze kutibeka inkhosi,
Ngako-ke Hamani wabikela inkhosi, watsi: “Kukhona sive lesisakateke nalo lonkhe lelive lakho sigcwele tonkhe tifundza. Siyatehlukisa emasikweni etfu. Emasiko nemihambo yaso yehlukile, ayifani nemasiko ato tonkhe letinye tive; futsi asiyilaleli imitsetfo yalelive lakho. Ngako akukafaneli kutsi inkhosi isiyekele.
Kwabangelwa yintfukutselo yaSimakadze lokutsi kwenteke loku eJerusalema nakaJuda, kwaze kwatsi ekugcineni wabasusa ebukhoneni bakhe. Sedekiya wase uyayivukela inkhosi yaseBhabhulona.
“Yati loku ukucondzisise: Kusukela ekumisweni kwesimiso sekutsi kubuye kuvuswe kabusha iJerusalema yakhiwe, kuze kufike umbusi Logcotjiwe, kuyawuba netikhatsi letisikhombisa netikhatsi letingema-62. Iyakwakhiwa kabusha netitaladi tayo, kumbiwe nemsele wayo, kodvwa kuyawube sekutikhatsi tenhlupheko.
“Jerusalema, Jerusalema! Ubulala baphrofethi, ugcobe ngematje titfunywa taNkulunkulu letitfunyelwe kuwe! Sekukangaki ngifuna kufukamela bonkhe bantfu bakho, njengesikhukhukati sifukamela emantjwele ngaphansi kwemaphiko aso, kodvwa awuzange ungivumele!
Sikhandze kutsi lomuntfu uyingoti, ngobe ususa tiphitsiphitsi emkhatsini wemaJuda wonkhe umhlaba, kantsi futsi ungumholi walelicembu lekutsiwa ngemaNazaretha.