4 ukuba bamjume ongelacala, bamdumele bengelakwesaba.
4 Batshoka becathemele umuntu ongonanga lutho; bayaphanga ukumciba bengelavalo.
Wasesithi uDavida encekwini zakhe zonke ezazilaye eJerusalema: Asibalekeni masinyane, ngoba uba singenzi njalo, kakuyikuphepha lamunye wethu kuAbisalomu. Phangisani, hlezi asifice asehlisele okubi, awuchithe umuzi ngomkhonto.
Lezitha zethu zathi: Bengakazi, bengakaboni lutho, sizatheleka kibo sibabulale, siwumise umsebenzi.
ngoba, khangela, ababi bayagobisa amadandili abo, sebebekile imitshoko yabo entanjeni, ukuba bacibe emnyameni abaqotho ngenhliziyo.
UNkulunkulu uzakungizwa, abathobise, yena okhona kusukela endulo, ngoba bengaphenduki, bengamesabi uNkulunkulu.
Wethulele phezu kweNkosi umthwalo wakho, yona izakukusekela; kayiyikuvuma lanini ukuba olungileyo anyikinywe.
Phakama, Nkulunkulu, ngaphezu kwamazulu; ubukhosi bakho bube phezu komhlaba wonke.
Kodwa uNkulunkulu uzakubaphosa ngemitshoko yakhe, bagwazwe ngokuphangisa.
Ngemitshoko yakho ucibile umkhokheli wamabutho akhe, afika njengesivunguzane ukusichitha, ethokoza kungathi azakudla abahluphekayo ekusithekeni.
Bathi bembona abapristi abakhulu lamanxusa, bamemeza bathi: Mbethele, mbethele! UPilatu wathi kubo: Mthatheni lina, limbethele, ngoba kangifumani cala kuye.
wawuphosa umkhonto ngoba wathi: Ngizambandakanya lomduli uDavida. Kodwa uDavida wavika kabili.
USawuli wazama ukumbandakanya lomduli ngomkhonto; kodwa wawuvika, umkhonto wahlaba umduli. UDavida waphunyuka, wabaleka.