UYeremiya
1:1 Amazwi kaYeremiya unyana kaHilekiya, wakubabingeleli ababephakathi
eAnatoti, ezweni lakwaBhenjamin;
1:2 elafika kuye ilizwi likaYehova ngemihla kaYosiya unyana ka-Amon
ukumkani wakwaYuda, ngomnyaka weshumi elinesithathu wobukumkani bakhe.
1:3 Kwafika nangemihla kaYehoyakim unyana kaYosiya, ukumkani wakwaYuda.
kwada kwaba sekupheleni komnyaka weshumi elinamnye kaZedekiya unyana kaYosiya, ukumkani waseAsiriya
elakwaYuda, kwasa ekufuduselweni kweYerusalem ngenyanga yesihlanu.
1:4 Kwafika ilizwi likaYehova kum, lisithi,
1:5 Ndingekakubumbi esizalweni, bendikwazi; nangaphambi kokuba ufike
Ndakungcwalisa esibelekweni, ndakumisa waba ngumprofeti
ezintlangeni.
1:6 Ndathi, Kwowu, Nkosi Yehova! yabona, andikwazi ukuthetha, ngokuba ndingumntwana.
1:7 Wathi uYehova kum, Musa ukuthi, Ndingumntwana: ngokuba ùya kuya
konke endikuthuma kona, ukwenze konke endikuwisela umthetho ngako
thetha.
1:8 Musa ukoyika ebusweni babo; ngokuba ndinawe ukuba ndikuhlangule, utsho
iNkosi.
1:9 Wasolula uYehova isandla sakhe, wachukumisa umlomo wam. Kwaye uYehova
Wathi kum, Yabona, ndibeke amazwi am emlonyeni wakho.
1:10 Khangela, ndikwenza namhla umveleli weentlanga nezikumkani, ukuze
kuncothula, nokudiliza, nokutshabalalisa, nokudiliza, nokuba kwakha;
nokutyala.
1:11 Kwafika ilizwi likaYehova kum, lisithi, Yeremiya, into oyibonayo
wena? Ndathi, Ndibona intonga yomthi wom-amangile.
1:12 Wathi uYehova kum, Ubone walungisa;
ilizwi lokuyenza.
1:13 Kwafika ilizwi likaYehova kum ngokwesibini, lisithi, Yintoni na?
uyabona? Ndathi, Ndibona imbiza evuthayo; ubuso bayo buso
ngasemntla.
1:14 Wathi ke uYehova kum, Kuya kuphuma ububi, buphume entla
phezu kwabemi bonke belizwe.
1:15 Ngokuba, yabona, ndiya kubiza yonke imizalwane yezikumkani zasentla;
utsho uYehova; kwaye baya kuza, kwaye baya kumisa elowo owakhe
itrone ekungeneni kwamasango eYerusalem, naphezu kwayo yonke itrone
neendonga zayo ngeenxa zonke, nemizi yonke yakwaYuda.
1:16 Kwaye ndiza kuthetha izigwebo zam kubo bonke abo
bandishiyile, baqhumisela kwabanye
oothixo, baqubuda kwizenzo zezandla zabo.
1:17 Ke wena, bhinqa amanqe akho, usukume, uthethe kubo bonke
musa ukuqhiphuka umbilini ebusweni babo, hleze ndidane
wena phambi kwabo.
1:18 Ngokuba, uyabona, ndikwenze namhla umzi onqatyisiweyo, wasisinyithi;
iintsika, neendonga zobhedu kulo lonke ilizwe, kookumkani basezweni
amaYuda nabathetheli bakhe, nababingeleli bakhe, nababingeleli bakhe
ngokuchasene nabantu belizwe.
1:19 Baya kulwa nawe; kodwa abayi koyisa
wena; ngokuba ndinawe, utsho uYehova, ukuze ndikuhlangule.