Yudita
5: 1 Hanyuma hamenyeshwa Holofernes, umugaba mukuru w'ingabo za
Assur, ko abana ba Isiraheli bari biteguye intambara, kandi baracecetse
ibice byumusozi wigihugu, kandi byari byarakomeje hejuru y Uwiteka
imisozi miremire kandi yari yarashyizeho inzitizi mu bihugu bya champaign:
5 Arakara cyane, ahamagara ibikomangoma byose bya Mowabu, n'Uwiteka
abatware ba Amoni, na ba guverineri bose bo ku nkombe z'inyanja,
3 Arababwira ati: “Mbwira, yemwe bana b'Abanyakanani, abo bantu ni bande?
ni, ituye mugihugu cyimisozi, niyihe mijyi iyo ari yo
gutura, kandi ingabo zabo ni izihe, kandi ni izihe?
imbaraga n'imbaraga, nicyo umwami yabashyizeho, cyangwa umutware wabo
ingabo;
5: 4 Kandi ni ukubera iki biyemeje kutaza kunsanganira, kuruta byose?
abatuye iburengerazuba.
5: 5 Akiyori, umutware w'abahungu bose ba Amoni, ati: "Noneho databuja."
umva ijambo ryo mu kanwa k'umugaragu wawe, ndakubwira
ukuri kwerekeye aba bantu batuye hafi yawe, kandi
atuye mu bihugu by'imisozi, kandi nta kinyoma kizava muri Uhoraho
umunwa w'umugaragu wawe.
5: 6 Aba bantu bakomoka mu Bakaludaya:
5: 7 Batura kuva muri Mezopotamiya, kuko batabishaka
ukurikire imana za ba sekuruza, bari mu gihugu cya Kalidaya.
8 Kuko baretse inzira ya ba sekuruza, basenga Imana ya
ijuru, Imana bari bazi: nuko babirukana imbere yabo
imana zabo, bahungira muri Mezopotamiya, bahatura benshi
iminsi.
5: 9 Imana yabo ibategeka kuva aho bari
barahatuye, no kujya mu gihugu cya Kanani: aho batuye, kandi
zongerewe zahabu na feza, hamwe ninka nyinshi cyane.
5:10 Ariko inzara ikwira igihugu cyose cya Kanani, baramanuka
Egiputa, barahatura, mugihe bagaburiwe, bahagerayo
imbaga nyamwinshi, ku buryo umuntu adashobora kubara igihugu cyabo.
5:11 Ni cyo cyatumye umwami wa Egiputa abahagurukira kubarwanya, abigiranye ubuhanga
hamwe na bo, maze abazana hasi bakora cyane mu matafari, arabakora
imbata.
5:12 Batakambira Imana yabo, atsemba igihugu cyose cya Egiputa
ibyorezo bidakira: Abanyamisiri rero babirukana mu maso yabo.
5:13 Imana yumisha inyanja Itukura imbere yabo,
5:14 Abazanira umusozi wa Sina, na Cade-Barne, bajugunya ibyo byose
atura mu butayu.
15:15 Batura mu gihugu cy'Abamori, barimbura ababo
komera bose muri Esebon, unyure kuri Yorodani batunze byose
umusozi.
5:16 Barirukana imbere yabo Umunyakanani, Perezite, Uwiteka
Yebusite, Abasikemite, n'Abadage bose, barahatura
icyo gihugu iminsi myinshi.
5:17 Mugihe batacumuye imbere yImana yabo, barateye imbere, kuko Uwiteka
Imana yanga gukiranirwa yari kumwe nabo.
5:18 Ariko igihe bava mu nzira yabashizeho, bari
yarimbuwe mu ntambara nyinshi cyane, kandi bajyanwa mu bunyage mu gihugu
ibyo ntibyari ibyabo, kandi urusengero rw'Imana yabo rwajugunywe Uwiteka
Ubutaka, imigi yabo ifatwa n'abanzi.
5:19 Ariko noneho basubiye ku Mana yabo, kandi bazamutse bava ahantu
aho batatanye, bakigarurira Yerusalemu, aho ari
ahera ni, kandi bicaye mu misozi; kuko yari umusaka.
5:20 Noneho rero, databuja na guverineri, niba hari ikosa rirwanya iki
abantu, kandi bacumura ku Mana yabo, reka dusuzume ko ibyo bizashoboka
bibe amatongo yabo, reka tuzamuke, tuzabatsinda.
5:21 Ariko niba mu gihugu cyabo hatabayeho gukiranirwa, databuja arengere,
kugira ngo Umwami wabo atabarengera, kandi Imana yabo ibabere, natwe duhinduke a
gutukwa imbere y'isi yose.
5:22 Achior arangije aya magambo, abantu bose bahagaze
bazengurutse ihema bitotomba, n'abayobozi bakuru ba Holofernes, na bose
wari utuye ku nyanja, no muri Mowabu, avuga ko agomba kumwica.
5:23 Kuberako, bavuga, ntituzatinya mumaso yabana
Isiraheli: kuko, dore, ubwoko butagira imbaraga cyangwa imbaraga kuri a
intambara ikomeye
5:24 Noneho rero, nyagasani Holofernes, tuzamuka, bazabe umuhigo
kuribwa n'ingabo zawe zose.