Zekariya
3 Sonu iyu* wangundilongo Yoswa,+ wasembi mura yo wanguma pafupi ndi mungelu waku Yehova, ndipu Satana+ wanguma kujanja laki lamaryi kuti wamususki. 2 Pavuli paki, mungelu waku Yehova wangukambiya Satana kuti: “Yehova wakuchenyi, yiwi Satana,+ Yehova yo wakusankha Yerusalemu,+ wakuchenyi! Asi ichi ntchisindi chakukole cho achisonkho kumotu?”
3 Sonu Yoswa wanguvwala vakuvwala vawuyu ndipu wanguma pafupi ndi mungelu. 4 Mungelu yo wangukambiya wo anguma pafupi ndi iyu kuti, “Muzuweni vakuvwala vawuyu.” Pavuli paki, wangumukambiya kuti, “Awona, ndatuzgaku ubudi* waku kwaku yiwi ndipu akuvwalikengi vakuvwala vamampha.”*+
5 Sonu ndingukamba kuti: “Muvwalikeni mphumphu yakutowa kumutu kwaki.”+ Ndipu angumuvwalika mphumphu yakutowa kumutu kwaki kweniso angumuvwalika vakuvwala; ndipu mungelu waku Yehova wanguma pafupi. 6 Pavuli paki, mungelu waku Yehova wangukambiya Yoswa kuti: 7 “Yehova wa mizinda wakamba kuti, ‘Asani uyendengi mu nthowa zangu ndi kuchita ntchitu zaku pa masu pangu, uteŵetiyengi nge wakweruzga munyumba yangu+ ndipuso uphweriyengi* mabalaza ngangu; ndipu ndikuzomerezengi kufika pa masu pangu nge yaŵa, wo ama panu.’
8 “‘Chondi yivwa, yiwi Wasembi Mura Yoswa, yiwi kweniso anyaku wo aja pasi panthazi paku, pakuti ŵanthu yaŵa ŵe nge chisimikizu; awona! ndituza ndi mteŵeti wangu,+ Mphukira!+ 9 Wona mwa wo ndaŵika panthazi paku Yoswa! Pamwa wenuwu pe masu 7; ndipu ndilembengepu mazu mwakuchita kujoba,’ Yehova wa mizinda ndiyu wakamba, ‘ndipu ndituzgengepu ubudi wa charu cho, mu zuŵa limoza.’+
10 “‘Mu zuŵa lo, weyosi waku yimwi wazamudana munthu yo wakuzengezana nayu kuti wazije musina mwa chimiti chaki cha mphereska ndipuso musina mwa chimiti chaki cha mkuyu,’+ Yehova wa mizinda ndiyu wakamba.”