5 Unina abengaketsembeki, wabemitsa ngekwelihlazo, watsi: ‘Ngitawulandzela emashende ami, labo labangipha kudla kwami nemanti ami, insontfo yami, nelineni yami, emafutsa ami kanye nesinatfo sami.’
Ase nibuke kutsi lelidolobha lebeletsembekile seligucuke laba yingwadla kanjani! Lona lake lagcwala umtsetfocotfo, belilikhaya lekulunga, kodvwa manje seligcwele babulali!
Naku lokushiwo nguSimakadze, utsi: “Iphi incwadzi yenyoko yesehlukaniso, lengamcosha ngayo kutsi ahambe? Nome-ke nganitsengisa kumuphi kulengibakweledako? Natsengiswa ngenca yetono tenu, ngenca yemacala enu unyoko wacoshwa.
Ninabonkulunkulu labanyenti labangangalamadolobha enu, nine maJuda; nalamalati leniwamisele kutfuncisa imphepho kuwo, niyitfuncisele sithico lesilihlazo lesinguBhali, manyenti angangetitaladi taseJerusalema.’
Nawutibuta utsi: “Loku kwentekeleni kimi?” phela kungenca yetono takho letinyenti, lokutsi tidvwaba takho tidzatjulwe, nemtimba wakho uphatseke kabi.
“Lijoko lakho walephula, lokwa kadzeni, watidzabula tibopho takho, watsi: ‘Ngingeke ngikukhonte!’ Ngempela, kuwo onkhe emagcuma laphakeme nangaphansi kwato tonkhe tihlahla letendlala emagala ato, walala phansi, walala njengengwababane.
Tsatsa seluleko, wena Jerusalema, nome-ke ngitakufulatsela nawungasitsatsi, live lakho ngilente lisale lilihlane, khona kutebate umuntfu lohlala kulo.”
“ ‘Ngako-ke, wena ngwababane, vani livi laSimakadze!
Ngiyawube sengikunikela kulamashende akho, layawutihhihlitela phansi letibundvuma takho, abhubhise letindzawo takho letiphakeme tekukhontela tithico. Ayakukhumula tonkhe timphahla takho, atsatse lemihlobiso yakho lemihle kakhulu, akushiye ungcunu, uhamba bhushubhushu.
Ngelilanga lowatalwa ngalo, inongwane yakho ayizange ijutjwe, futsi nawe awuzange ugezwe ngemanti kuze utewuhloba, futsi awuzange ukhuhlelwe ngeluswayi nome uphutfwe ngeticephu.
Watsi kube Simakadze acale kukhuluma naHoseya, Simakadze wakhuluma kuye, watsi: “Hamba utsatse umfati loyingwadla lonebantfwana labatelwe ngebugwadla, ngobe live linelicala lebugwadla lobesabekako, selisukile kuSimakadze.”
“Yekhutani make wenu, mekhuteni, ngobe akasesiye umkami, nami angisesiyo indvodza yakhe. Ase akususe lokubukeka kwebugwadla ebusweni bakhe, nalokungetsembeki lokusemkhatsini wemabele akhe.
Usengakatsandzi kuvuma kutsi kwakungimi lona lowamnika kudla lokutinhlavu, neliwayini lelisha, nemafutsa, lowatfululela kuye isiliva negolide, lababekusebentisa kuBhali.
Simakadze wakhuluma kimi watsi: “Hamba, uphindze umtsandze umkakho, lite nome asatsandvwe ngulomunye futsi, ayingwadla. Mtsandze wena njengobe Simakadze atsandza ema-Israyeli, kwala nome sebagucukele kulabanye bonkulunkulu, batsandza emacebelengwane emagelebisi lomisiwe.”
Nikhubateka emini nasebusuku, nebaphrofethi bakhubateka kanye nani, nine baphristi. Ngako ngitambhubhisa unyoko,
Ngobe sebakhuphukele e-Asiriya kuyawufuna lusito njengembongolo yesiganga lezulazula yodvwana. Efrayimu sewutitsengise yena emashendeni akhe.
“Ngesikhatsi nangitfola Israyeli, bekungatsi ngitfola emagelebisi elugwadvule; ngesikhatsi ngibona boyihlo, bekungatsi ngibona titselo tekucala esihlahleni semakhiwa. Kodvwa kwatsi nabefika eBhali Pheyori, batehlukanisela leso sithico lesilihlazo, nabo baze benyanyeka njengalentfo bebayitsandza.
“Ngalelo langa tintfombi letinhle nemajaha lanemandla bayawucaleka ngenca yekoma.
Baholi bemaFilisti babutsana ndzawonye batekwenta lidzili lelikhulu lekwenta umhlatjelo lomkhulu kuDagoni, sithico sabo, batewubonga kuso, batsi: “Sithico setfu sinikele Samsoni, sitsa setfu, etandleni tetfu.”