8 Shangatsi labo labacalekisa emalanga bangacalekisa lelo langa, tingcweti letingavusa Leviyathani.
Jeremiya wacamba tingoma tesililo saJosaya, kuze kube ngulamuhla bonkhe bahlabeli besilisa nebesifazane basamkhumbula Josaya ngaletingoma tesililo sakhe. Letingoma tase tiba tingoma temihambo yema-Israyeli, tabhalwa encwadzini yetililo.
Shangatsi lobo busuku bungabate namunye umuntfu lowemitfwa ngabo, nekujabula kungevakali kubo.
Shangatsi tinkhanyeti talo tentsatsakusa tingaba mnyama; shangatsi busuku balo bungemela kukhanya lokungeke kufike, bungaboni ngisho nemisebe yentsatsakusa,
“Ungamdvonsa yini Leviyathani ngelidweba? Ungalubopha yini lulwimi lwakhe ngentsambo?
Kute lonesibindzi sekumchukuluta. Pho, ngubani longakhona kumelana nami?
Nakaphakama, labanemandla bayatfutfumela, bahlehla nyova yena asengakagadli.
Ngalelo langa Simakadze uyawujezisa ngenkemba yakhe leyesabekako, lenkhulu nalenemandla lamakhulu, uyawujezisa Leviyathani, inyoka lenyelelako, yebo, Leviyathani, inyoka letibutsako; yena uyawubulala silo saselwandle.
Ngako-ke naku lokushiwo yiNkhosi, Nkulunkulu longuSomandla, Simakadze, itsi: “Kuyawuba khona kudzindza sililo kuto tonkhe titaladi, nekukhala kabuhlungu kuto tonkhe tinkhundla. Kutawubitwa balimi kutsi nabo balile, kubitwe nalabati tililo kutsi bakhale.
batsi: ‘Sanishayela tigubhu, anigidzanga; sahlabela tingoma tesililo, kodvwa anikhalanga.’
Batsi nabefika endlini yalomphatsi welisinagoge, beva sililo kutse mpu, bantfu bakhala.