16 Nangitsi ngiphakamisa inhloko yami, wena ungihoshobela ungifunise kwelibhubesi, uphindze futsi ungihluphe ngetigemegeme temandla akho lesabekako.
Ubufihlelani buso bakho, ungitsatse njengesitsa sakho?
Ngentfukutselo yakhe Nkulunkulu uyanginwabulula, wehlukanisa sankhala nesiphanga, angibuke ngeliso lelibi.
Yena wenta timangaliso letingeke tichazwe ngumuntfu, ente nemigilingwane lengeke ibalwe ngumuntfu.
Ngilindzile ngekubeketela kwaze kwadzabuka kusa; kodvwa yena njengelibhubesi uwabhobabhobe onkhe ematsambo ami. Busuku nemini wetamana nekungicedza.
Ngako-ke batawuhlaselwa libhubesi leliphuma ehlatsini, batawuphangwa yimphisi lephuma ehlane, ingwe itawubalalela endleleni edvutane nemadolobha abo; itemdzabudzabula abe ticucu nome ngubani lotsi uyaphuma, ngobe kuhlubuka kwabo kukhulu, nekweduka kwabo kunyenti.
Njengelibhele lelibhacele inyamatane, nanjengelibhubesi lelitifihlile,
Ngobe ngiyawuba njengelibhubesi ku-Efrayimu, ngifanane nelibhubesi lelikhulu kuJuda. Ngiyawubadzabudzabula babe ticucu, ngisuke lapho ngibashiye. Ngiyawubetfwala ngibesuse, kubete nalobalamulelako.
Nakubhodla libhubesi, ngubani longahlala angesabi? INkhosi Simakadze seyikhulumile, ngubani longahlala angaphrofethi?
Simakadze uyawunehlisela tinhlupho letesabekako, atehlisele ngisho nakubantfwabenu tinhlupho letimatima naletingapheli, letibuhlungu nekugula lokungenawuncamuka.