Zefaniya
3: 1 Uzabona ishyano uwanduye kandi wanduye, umujyi ukandamiza!
3: 2 Ntiyumvira ijwi; ntiyakosowe; ntiyizeye
muri Uhoraho; ntiyiyegereza Imana ye.
3: 3 Abatware be muri we ni intare zivuga; abacamanza be ni impyisi nimugoroba;
ntibahekenya amagufwa kugeza ejobundi.
3: 4 Abahanuzi be ni abantu boroheje kandi bahemukira: abatambyi be bafite
yanduye ahera, bakoreye amategeko amategeko.
Uwiteka ukiranuka ari hagati yacyo; ntazakora ibicumuro: buri wese
mu gitondo azashyira ahagaragara urubanza rwe, ntatsindwa; ariko
abakiranutsi ntibazi isoni.
3: 6 Natsembye amahanga, iminara yabo ni umusaka; Nabagize ibyabo
imihanda isesagura, ko ntanumwe urengana: imigi yabo yarasenyutse, kugirango
nta muntu uhari, ko nta muturage uhari.
3: 7 Navuze nti: Ni ukuri uzantinya, uzahabwa inyigisho; bityo
ubuturo bwabo ntibukwiye gucibwa, uko nabahannye: ariko
bahagurutse kare, bangiza ibikorwa byabo byose.
3 Uwiteka uvuze, kugeza igihe nzabyuka
ku muhigo: kuko icyemezo cyanjye ari uguteranya amahanga, kugira ngo nshobore
koranya ubwami, kugira ngo ubasukeho uburakari bwanjye, ndetse n'ubwanjye bwose
Uburakari bukaze, kuko isi yose izatwikwa n'umuriro wanjye
ishyari.
3: 9 Icyo gihe nzahindukirira abantu ururimi rutanduye, kugira ngo bose babe
hamagara izina rya NYAGASANI, kumukorera ubyemereye.
3:10 Uhereye hakurya y'inzuzi za Etiyopiya abasaba, ndetse n'umukobwa wa
abatatanye, bazazana ituro ryanjye.
3:11 Kuri uwo munsi, ntuzaterwe isoni n'ibikorwa byawe byose
wangiriye nabi, kuko icyo gihe nzakura hagati
muri wewe wishimira ubwibone bwawe, kandi ntuzongera kubaho ukundi
ubwibone kubera umusozi wanjye wera.
3:12 Nanjye nzagusiga hagati yawe abantu bababaye kandi bakennye, kandi
Baziringira izina ry'Uhoraho.
3:13 Abasigaye ba Isiraheli ntibazakora ibibi, cyangwa ngo babeshye; nta na kimwe
Ururimi rwibeshya ruzaboneka mu kanwa kabo, kuko bazarya
kandi uryame, nta n'umwe uzabatera ubwoba.
3:14 Muririmbe, mukobwa wa Siyoni; induru, Isiraheli; wishime kandi wishimane na bose
umutima, yewe mukobwa wa Yeruzalemu.
3:15 Uwiteka yakuyeho imanza zawe, yirukana umwanzi wawe:
umwami wa Isiraheli, ndetse n'Uwiteka, ari hagati yawe: uzabikora
ntuzongere kubona ikibi.
3:16 Uwo munsi uzabwirwa Yerusalemu, 'Ntutinye, na Siyoni,
Ntukareke amaboko yawe acogora.
3:17 Uwiteka Imana yawe hagati yawe irakomeye; azakiza, azakiza
wishime hejuru yawe n'ibyishimo; azaruhukira mu rukundo rwe, azishima cyane
nawe uririmba.
3:18 Nzabakoranya abababajwe n'iteraniro rikomeye, ari bo
yawe, uwo gutukwa byari umutwaro.
3:19 Dore icyo gihe nzakuraho ibyakubabaje byose, nzakiza
uhagarara, akamuteranya wirukanwe; Nzabona
basingize kandi bamenyekane mu bihugu byose batewe isoni.
3:20 Icyo gihe nzongera kukuzanira, ndetse no mu gihe nzaguteranyiriza:
kuko nzakugira izina n'ishimwe mu bantu bose bo ku isi,
Iyo nsubije imbohe yawe imbere y'amaso yawe, ni ko Uwiteka avuga.