U-Ezra 1
1 Ngomnyaka wakuqala wenkosi yasePhezhiya uKhurosi, ukuze kugcwaliseke ilizwi likaThixo elakhulunywa nguJeremiya, uThixo wathinta inhliziyo kaKhurosi inkosi yasePhezhiya ukuba yenze isimemezelo kuwo wonke umbuso wayo, ukuthi sibhalwe phansi kuthiwe:
and in/on/with year one to/for Cyrus king Persia to/for to end: destroy word LORD from lip Jeremiah to rouse LORD [obj] spirit Cyrus king Persia and to pass voice: message in/on/with all royalty his and also in/on/with writing to/for to say
2 “Nanku okutshiwo yinkosi uKhurosi wasePhezhiya: ‘UThixo, uNkulunkulu wasezulwini, ungiphile yonke imbuso yasemhlabeni njalo ungikhethile ukuthi ngimakhele ithempeli eJerusalema koJuda.
thus to say Cyrus king Persia all kingdom [the] land: country/planet to give: give to/for me LORD God [the] heaven and he/she/it to reckon: overseer upon me to/for to build to/for him house: home in/on/with Jerusalem which in/on/with Judah
3 Loba ngubani wabantu bakhe phakathi kwenu angahamba aye eJerusalema koJuda ayekwakha ithempeli likaThixo, uNkulunkulu ka-Israyeli, uNkulunkulu oseJerusalema njalo sengathi uNkulunkulu wabo angaba labo.
who? in/on/with you from all people his to be God his with him and to ascend: rise to/for Jerusalem which in/on/with Judah and to build [obj] house: temple LORD God Israel he/she/it [the] God which in/on/with Jerusalem
4 Akuthi abantu loba ngabakuyiphi indawo lapho okungabe kuseselensalela kabamuphe isiliva legolide, impahla lezifuyo, leminikelo yokuzithandela yethempeli likaNkulunkulu eJerusalema.’”
and all [the] to remain from all [the] place which he/she/it to sojourn there to lift: aid him human place his in/on/with silver: money and in/on/with gold and in/on/with property and in/on/with animal with [the] voluntariness to/for house: temple [the] God which in/on/with Jerusalem
5 Kwasekusithi abazinhloko zemizi yakoJuda lakoBhenjamini, kanye labaphristi labaLevi, labo bonke ababethintwe inhliziyo zabo nguNkulunkulu, bazilungisela ukuhamba ukuyakwakha indlu kaThixo eJerusalema.
and to arise: rise head: leader [the] father to/for Judah and Benjamin and [the] priest and [the] Levi to/for all to rouse [the] God [obj] spirit his to/for to ascend: rise to/for to build [obj] house: temple LORD which in/on/with Jerusalem
6 Bonke omakhelwane babo babancedisa ukuzuza izinto zesiliva legolide, impahla lezifuyo, lezipho eziligugu phezu kwayo yonke iminikelo yokuzizwela.
and all around them to strengthen: strengthen in/on/with hand their in/on/with article/utensil silver: money in/on/with gold in/on/with property and in/on/with animal and in/on/with precious thing to/for alone: besides upon all be willing
7 Phezu kwalokho iNkosi uKhurosi yakhupha zonke izitsha ezazingezethempeli likaThixo ezazithunjwe nguNebhukhadineza eJerusalema zabekwa ethempelini likankulunkulu wakhe.
and [the] king Cyrus to come out: send [obj] article/utensil house: temple LORD which to come out: send Nebuchadnezzar from Jerusalem and to give: put them in/on/with house: temple God his
8 UKhurosi inkosi yasePhezhiya wathi kazilethwe nguMithiredathi umgcinisikhwama onguye owazibalayo ezibalela uSheshibhazari inkosana yakoJuda.
and to come out: send them Cyrus king Persia upon hand: power Mithredath [the] treasurer and to recount them to/for Sheshbazzar [the] leader to/for Judah
9 Nanzi-ke lezompahla: imiganu yegolide yayingamatshumi amathathu, imiganu yesiliva yayiyinkulungwane, amapane esiliva ayengamatshumi amabili lasificamunwemunye,
and these number their basin gold thirty basin silver: money thousand knife nine and twenty
10 imiganu yegolide ezingubhe yayingamatshumi amathathu, eyesiliva efana layo yayingamakhulu amane letshumi, ezinye impahla zaziyinkulungwane.
bowl gold thirty bowl silver: money second four hundred and ten article/utensil another thousand
11 Sekukonke, kwakuyizinkulungwane ezinhlanu lamakhulu amane ezinto zegolide lesiliva. USheshibhazari weza lazozonke lezizinto lapho izithunjwa zafika eJerusalema zivela eBhabhiloni.
all article/utensil to/for gold and to/for silver: money five thousand and four hundred [the] all to ascend: establish Sheshbazzar with to ascend: establish [the] captivity from Babylon to/for Jerusalem
