Yudita
4: 1 Abayisraheli batuye muri Yudaya bumvise ibyo byose
Holofernes umutware mukuru wa Nabukodonosori umwami wa Ashuri yari afite
yakoreye amahanga, kandi ni mu buhe buryo yari yangije ibyabo byose
insengero, akazizana ubusa.
4: 2 Ni cyo cyatumye bamutinya cyane, kandi bahangayitse
Yerusalemu, no ku rusengero rw'Uwiteka Imana yabo:
3 Kuko basubijwe mu bunyage, n'abantu bose
Yudaya aherutse gukoranira hamwe: n'ibikoresho, n'urutambiro, na
inzu, bejejwe nyuma yo gutukwa.
4 Ni cyo cyatumye bohereza ku nkombe zose za Samariya, n'imidugudu kandi
i Bethoroni, na Belumeni, na Yeriko, na Choba, na Esora, no kuri
ikibaya cya Salemu:
4: 5 Kandi barigaruriye mbere yimisozi miremire
imisozi, akomeza imidugudu yari irimo, arashiraho
intsinzi yo gutanga intambara: kuko imirima yabo yatinze gusarurwa.
4: 6 Nanone Yowaki umutambyi mukuru, wari muri iyo minsi i Yeruzalemu
kubatuye i Betuliya, na Betomestamu, birangiye
Esdraelon yerekeza mugihugu cyuguruye, hafi ya Dothaim,
4: 7 Kubasaba kubika ibice byigihugu cyimisozi: kuberako ari bo
hari umuryango winjira muri Yudaya, kandi byari byoroshye kubahagarika ibyo
yazamuka, kuko igice cyari kigororotse, kubagabo babiri kuri
byinshi.
8 Abayisraheli bakora nk'uko Yowasi umutambyi mukuru yari yabitegetse
bo, hamwe nabakera b'Abisiraheli bose, babaga
Yeruzalemu.
9: 9 Umuntu wese wo muri Isiraheli yatakambiye Imana n'ishyaka ryinshi, hamwe na hamwe
gukomera kwinshi bicishije bugufi imitima yabo:
4:10 Bombi, abagore babo, abana babo, n'amatungo yabo, kandi
umuntu wese utazi no guha akazi, nabakozi babo baguze amafaranga, bashyira
umwambaro wo mu rukenyerero.
4:11 Nguko uko abagabo n'abagore bose, abana bato, n'abahatuye
y'i Yerusalemu, yikubita imbere y'urusengero, asuka ivu mu mutwe,
Bambura imifuka yabo imbere y'Uwiteka: na bo
shyira ibigunira hafi y'urutambiro,
4:12 Yatakambiye Imana ya Isiraheli bose babyumvikanyeho cyane, ko ari we
ntibari guha abana babo umuhigo, n'abagore babo ngo babone iminyago,
n'imigi y'umurage wabo kurimbuka, n'ahantu heranda
gutukwa no gutukwa, kandi amahanga akishima.
4:13 Imana yumva amasengesho yabo, ireba imibabaro yabo: kubwa Uwiteka
abantu biyiriza ubusa iminsi myinshi muri Yudaya na Yeruzalemu yose imbere yubuturo bwera
y'Uwiteka Ushoborabyose.
4:14 Yowasi umutambyi mukuru, n'abatambyi bose bahagaze imbere y'Uwiteka
Mwami, n'abakoreraga Uwiteka, bakenyeye
imifuka, kandi itanga amaturo yatwitse burimunsi, hamwe nindahiro nubuntu
impano z'abaturage,
4:15 Afite ivu kuri mitres zabo, atakambira Uhoraho hamwe n'ibyabo byose
mbaraga, ko azareba inzu yose ya Isiraheli abigiranye ubuntu.