Nahumu 1 - Ebibulia 2001

¹ Ebi bikarangwa ahali Ninive; nikyo kitabo ky'ebyo Nahumu owa Elikoshi yabonekeirwe.

Omukama nanigalira Ninive

² Omukama aba Ruhanga w'eibuba, mara ayehoroza abamusimbalira. Agira ekiniga, ayehoroza ababishabe, aikara abanigaliire.

³ Taba mwangu wa kunigara, kandi agira amani gangi. Mara abaina entambara taburwa kubabonabonyia. Araba omu kazimu n'omu nkomaizi, kandi ebichwi niyo chuchu ey'atuntumuza amaguru.

⁴ Akabukira enyanja agyomesa, n'emiiga yona kwakwo. Bashani eyoma na Karimeli kutyo, enyakyo za Lebanoni zihotoka.

⁵ Amabanga gamubona gatengeta, enshozi zagilira. Ensi agihindura ndaara, ensi n'abagilimu baranduka.

⁶ Kayakunigara, ayakurokoka n'ohai? N'ohai ow'okukira aha kinigakye ekibi? Ekinigakye kishusha omuliro gulikurabagira, enyazi kumubona zigaruuka.

⁷ Omukama aba murungi; omu naku aba boma, abamuhungiraho abamanya.

⁸ Kyonkai ababishabe alibasilikisa omutunga, alibabinga abatahye omwa Rufu.

⁹ Inywe babisha b'Omukama, nimwenda kumugira mutai? Aije abarandamure; ababishabe abehoroza limoi lyonkai, ti kabili.

¹⁰ Mulihya nk'amahwa gashokeraine, musosotoke nk'ebishagate byomire.

¹¹ Ninive muntu ayabaire nayenda kushenga Omukama, akategekera kubi abandi, tiyarugire ahali iwe?

¹² Mbwenu Abaisiraeli Omukama nabagambira ati, “N'orwo baraba bali bangi baina amani, balisilika bahweho. Ndikaba mbahaire ekibonabonyio, tindikibaha rundi.

¹³ Abaasiria ndibamara amani g'okubatwara, nshube inywe mbaguture eminyororo ebakomire.”

¹⁴ Omukama agambire ati aha Baasiria, “Timuligira baijukuru ba kwijukirwaho. Omuli rwensinga ya baruhanga banyu ndichwamu ebishushani ebibaijano n'ebiheshano; nshube mbalimire enyanga, kuba nimushusha ebinyamunuge.”

¹⁵ Leba, entumwa elesirwe aha mabanga neleta amakuru garungi, nabatona emilembe! Inywe bantu ba Yuda mwekomye ebiro bikuru mara muhikye ebiragano byanyu. Omubisha talishuba kutabalira nsi yanyu; asilikire yahweraho kimoi.