Yudita
15: 1 Abari mu mahema bumvise, baratangara
ikintu cyakozwe.
15: 2 Ubwoba no guhinda umushyitsi birabageraho, ku buryo nta muntu wariho
gutinyuka kuguma imbere yumuturanyi we, ariko wihuta byose hamwe,
bahungira mu nzira zose zo mu kibaya, no mu gihugu cy'imisozi.
15 Abari bakambitse ku misozi ikikije Betuliya barahunga
kure. Noneho Abayisraheli, umuntu wese wari umurwanyi muri bo
bo, basohoka kuri bo.
4 Hanyuma yohereza Oziya i Betomasthemu, i Bebai, Kobayi, na Kola na
ku nkombe zose za Isiraheli, nko kuvuga ibintu byari
byakozwe, kandi ko bose bagomba kwihutira abanzi babo kubatsemba.
5 Abayisraheli babyumvise, bose barabagwa
umwe arabyemera, abicira Chobayi: kimwe n'abaje
Kuva i Yerusalemu no mu misozi yose, (kuko abantu bari bababwiye
ni ibihe bintu byakorewe mu nkambi y'abanzi babo) n'abari
i Galadi, no muri Galilaya, babirukana babicishije bikomeye, kugeza
bari barenze Damasiko n'imbibi zayo.
15 Igisigisigi c'abatuye i Betuliya, kigwa mu nkambi ya Assur, kandi
barabasahuye, kandi barakungahaye cyane.
7 Abayisraheli bagarutse bava mu ibagiro bari bafite ibyo
cyasigaye; n'imidugudu n'imigi, byari muri
imisozi no mu kibaya, gati iminyago myinshi: kuko imbaga yari myinshi cyane
bikomeye.
8 Yowasi umutambyi mukuru, n'abakurambere b'Abisirayeli
wabaga i Yerusalemu, yaje kureba ibintu byiza Imana yari ifite
yeretse Isiraheli, no kureba Yudita, no kumusuhuza.
15: 9 Bageze aho ari, bamuha umugisha umwe, baravuga
kuri we, uri hejuru ya Yerusalemu, uri icyubahiro gikomeye
wa Isiraheli, uri umunezero mwinshi w'igihugu cyacu:
15:10 Ibyo byose wabikoze ukoresheje ukuboko kwawe: wakoze ibyiza byinshi
kuri Isiraheli, kandi Imana irabyishimira: uhimbazwe Ushoborabyose
Uhoraho ubuziraherezo. Abantu bose baravuga bati: Niko bigenda.
Abantu bangiza ingando mu gihe cy'iminsi mirongo itatu, baratanga
Kuri Judith Holofernes ihema rye, isahani ye yose, n'ibitanda, na
inzabya, n'ibintu bye byose: arabifata abishyira ku nyumbu ye; na
ategura amagare ye, ayashyira kuri yo.
15:12 Abagore bose ba Isiraheli biruka bajya kumureba, baramuha umugisha,
amukinira muri bo: afata amashami mu ntoki,
kandi aha n'abagore bari kumwe na we.
15:13 Bamushiraho indabyo z'umwelayo n'umuja we bari kumwe,
nuko yagiye imbere yabantu bose babyina, ayobora abagore bose:
Abisiraheli bose bakurikira intwaro zabo bafite indabyo, kandi
n'indirimbo mu kanwa kabo.