URuthe 3:9 - IsiZulu 2020 Wambuza wathi: “Ungubani wena, na?” Waphendula wathi: “NginguRuthi, incekukazi yakho. Ake welule ichopho lengubo yakho ungifukamele, ngokuba ungumhlengi.” IBHAYIBHELI ELINGCWELE Yathi: “Ungubani?” Wathi: “NginguRuthe incekukazi yakho; yembesa incekukazi yakho umphetho wengubo yakho, ngokuba ungumhlengi.” Contemporary Zulu Bible 2024 Wathi: “Ungubani na?” Wathi: “Ngiyincekukazi yakho uRuthe; wendlala ingubo yakho phezu kwencekukazi yakho; ngoba uyisihlobo esiseduze. |
“ ‘ “Ngesikhathi ngiphinda ngidlula ngakuwe, ngakubuka; ngabona ukuthi usukhulile, usungathanda. Ngase ngendlala isembatho sami phezu kwakho, ngafihla ubunqunu bakho, yebo, ngafunga kuwe, ngenza nawe isivumelwano,” ’ ” kusho iNkosi uSimakade, waba ngowami.
Ngokuba bonke abaziphakamisayo bayakuthotshiswa; nozithobayo uyakuphakanyiswa.”
UNawomi wathi kumalokazana wakwakhe: “USimakade makambusise lowo muntu ongakaze ayeke ukubenzela umusa abaphilayo nabafileyo.” UNawomi wayeseqhubeka ethi kuRuthi: “Leyo ndoda iyisihlobo sethu esisondele; ingomunye wabahlengi bethu.”
Waphendula wathi: “USimakade makakubusise, ndodakazi yami. Ekugcineni ukhombise ukwethembeka okukhulu kunasekuqaleni; awuzange ugijimele ezinsizweni ezicebile noma ezimpofu.
Impela kuliqiniso ukuthi ngiyisihlobo sakho, kodwa kukhona omunye umhlengi oseduze kakhulu kunami.
Kuthe phakathi kwamabili uBhowazi waphaphama. Mamo! Nangu owesifazane elele ezinyaweni zakhe!
Ngibone ukuthi kungcono lolu daba ngikwazise lona phambi kwalawa malunga abantu bakithi, ukuze uma ufuna ukusithenga ukwenze lokho phambi kwawo. Kodwa uma ungathandi ungitshele ukuze ngazi ngoba akekho omunye ngaphandle kwakho ongasihlenga, mina ngingomncane.” Umnewabo wathi: “Kulungile, ngizosihlenga.”
Umhlengi wathi: “Qha, uma kunjalo, ngeke ngiyithenge leyo ndawo funa ngone ifa lami. Zihlengele wena, mina ngeke ngikwazi ukuyihlenga.”
Wasukuma, wakhothama, ubuso bakhe bubheke phansi, wathi: “Bheka, incekukazi yakho mayibe yisigqila esigeza izinyawo zezinceku zenkosi yami.”