Ezira
5: 1 Hanyuma abahanuzi, umuhanuzi Hagayi, na Zekariya mwene Iddo,
yahanuye Abayahudi bari i Yuda na Yerusalemu mwizina rya
Imana ya Isiraheli, ndetse kuri bo.
2 Zerubabeli mwene Shealtieli na Yezu mwene
Jozadak, atangira kubaka inzu y'Imana iri i Yerusalemu: na
hamwe nabo bari abahanuzi b'Imana babafasha.
5: 3 Muri icyo gihe, baza kuri bo Tatnai, guverineri hakurya y'uruzi,
Shetharboznai na bagenzi babo, barababwira bati: Ninde
yagutegetse kubaka iyi nzu, no kubaka uru rukuta?
5: 4 Hanyuma tubabwira dukurikije ubu buryo, Abagabo bitwa bande?
iyi nyubako?
5: 5 Ariko ijisho ry'Imana yabo ryarebaga abakuru b'Abayahudi, ko ari bo
Ntibashoboraga gutuma bahagarika, kugeza ikibazo cya Dariyo: hanyuma
basubije mu ibaruwa yerekeye iki kibazo.
5: 6 Kopi y'urwandiko Tatnai, guverineri hakurya y'uruzi, na
Shetharboznai, na bagenzi be ba Apharsachite, bari kuriyi
hakurya y'uruzi, yoherereza Dariyo umwami:
5: 7 Bamwoherereza ibaruwa yanditseho ngo; Kuri Dariyo
mwami, amahoro yose.
5: 8 Umwami amenye ko twinjiye mu ntara ya Yudaya, kugira ngo
inzu y'Imana ikomeye, yubatswe n'amabuye manini, kandi
ibiti byashyizwe mu rukuta, kandi iki gikorwa kigenda cyihuta, kandi kigatera imbere
mu biganza byabo.
5: 9 Hanyuma tubaza abo basaza, tubabwira muti: Ninde wagutegetse
kubaka iyi nzu, no gukora izi nkuta?
5:10 Twabasabye kandi amazina yabo, kugira ngo tubemeze, kugira ngo twandike Uwiteka
amazina y'abagabo bari umutware wabo.
5:11 Nuko badusubiza baravuga bati: "Turi abakozi b'Imana."
y'ijuru n'isi, kandi wubake inzu yubatswe aba benshi
imyaka yashize, umwami ukomeye wa Isiraheli yubatse kandi arashiraho.
5:12 Ariko nyuma y'ibyo, abakurambere bacu bararakariye Imana yo mu ijuru, we
abaha mu kuboko kwa Nebukadinezari umwami wa Babiloni, Uhoraho
Abakaludaya, washenye iyi nzu, ayijyana abantu
Babuloni.
5:13 Ariko mu mwaka wa mbere wa Kuro umwami wa Babiloni umwami umwe Kuro
yafashe itegeko ryo kubaka iyi nzu y'Imana.
5:14 N'ibindi bikoresho bya zahabu na feza byo mu nzu y'Imana, aribyo
Nebukadinezari asohoka mu rusengero rwari i Yeruzalemu, arazana
babinjira mu rusengero rwa Babiloni, abo Kuro umwami yakuyemo
urusengero rwa Babiloni, babigeza ku muntu witwa
Sheshbazari, uwo yari yagize guverineri;
5:15 Aramubwira ati: Fata ibyo bikoresho, genda ubijyane mu rusengero
ibyo ni i Yerusalemu, kandi inzu y'Imana yubakwe mu cyimbo cyayo.
5 Sheshbazari araza, ashinga urufatiro rw'inzu ya
Imana iri i Yerusalemu: kandi kuva icyo gihe kugeza na n'ubu iracyafite
yabaye mu kubaka, nyamara ntabwo irangiye.
5:17 Noneho rero, niba ari byiza ku mwami, habeho gushakisha
inzu y'ubutunzi y'umwami, iri i Babiloni, niba aribyo,
ko hashyizweho itegeko rya Kuro umwami ryo kubaka iyi nzu y'Imana
Yerusalemu, reka umwami atwoherereze ibinezeza kuri ibyo
ikibazo.