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3 Ndingukamba kuti: “Vwani, yimwi mitu ya mabanja ngaku Yakobe
Ndipuso yimwi alongozgi a nyumba yaku Isirayeli.+
Asi mutenere kuziŵa urunji?
2 Kweni mutinkha vinthu vamampha+ ndipu mutanja vinthu viheni;+
Mufyopo khungu la ŵanthu ŵangu kweniso muswaluwa mnofu kuviwanga vawu.+
3 Muturya so mnofu wa ŵanthu ŵangu+
Ndipuso mufuŵa khungu lawu,
Muphwanya viwanga vawu, ndipu mutivivikita,+
Nge vinthu vo vabikika mumumphika,* nge nyama yo ye mumumphika.
4 Pa nyengu yeniyo, azamudana Yehova kuti waŵawovyi,
Kweni wazakuŵamuka cha.
5 Ivi ndivu Yehova wakambiya achimi wo alandizga ŵanthu ŵangu,+
Wo apharazga kuti ‘Chimangu’+ pa nyengu yo aluma* ndi minyu ngawu+
Kweni apharazga nkhondu ku ŵanthu wo aŵikamu kanthu cha mumulomu mwawu, iyu wakamba kuti:
6 ‘Mwazamukuŵa ndi usiku;+ kweni kwazamuŵavi viwona;+
Kwaku yimwi kwazamukuŵa mdima pe, kwazamuŵavi kuloska vamunthazi.
Lumwi lazakuŵaselere achimi,
Ndipu msana wazakuŵasambukiya mdima.+
7 Akuwona viwona azamulengeseka,+
Ndipu akuloska vamunthazi azamuguŵa.
Wosi azamubenekere mwembi wawu wapamphunu,*
Pakuti Chiuta wazakuŵamuka cha.’”
8 Kweni ini, ndazazika ndi nthazi chifukwa cha mzimu waku Yehova,
Ndazazika so ndi urunji kweniso chiganga,
Kuti ndikambiyi Yakobe kugaruka kwaki kweniso Isirayeli ubudi waki.
9 Vwani ivi, yimwi mitu ya mabanja ngaku Yakobe
Ndipuso yimwi alongozgi a nyumba yaku Isirayeli,+
Wo aseruka ndi urunji kweniso wo abendezga vinthu vosi vakunyoloka.+
10 Wo azenga Ziyoni mwakugwiriskiya ntchitu kudira ndopa kweniso wo azenga Yerusalemu mwakugwiriskiya ntchitu vinthu vambula urunji.+
11 Alongozgi ŵaki alonde vinyeda asani ayeruzga milandu,+
Asembi ŵaki asambiza kuti alonde malipiru,+
Kweni akamba kuti athemba Yehova, ndipu atiti:
“Asi Yehova we nasi?+
Palivi soka lo lazakutiwiya.”+