38. Nowa ku ki wubak' iyo nkuge?

Agakiza · 10 verses

1.

Nowa ku ki wubak’ iyo nkuge?

Urakor’ iby’ umupfapfa rwose

Dor’ utuy’ imusozi,

kandi nta maz’ ahari

Iby’ ukora biratuyobeye

(Noah, why are you building that ark?)

(You are doing a foolish thing)

(Look, you live on a mountain,)

(and there is no water here)

(What you are doing is beyond our understanding)

2.

Uwiteka ni we wabivuze,

Yukw abagizi ba nabi bose

Abujuj’ is’ ibyaha

bazamarwa n’ amazi

Ayo maz’ azabar’ umwuzure

(The LORD is the one who said it,)

(That all evildoers)

(Who fill the earth with sins)

(will be destroyed by water)

(That water will be a flood)

3.

Bagir’ inama yo kubazanya

None Nowa yab’ avug’ ukuri

Bati: Habe na gato,

ntidukwiye kwemera,

Twi komeze mu byo kwinezeza

(They deliberated together)

(Whether Noah was telling the truth)

(They said: Not at all,)

(we should not believe,)

(Let us continue in self-indulgence)

4.

Igihe na cyo gihita vuba

Nowa yubakan’ umwete rwose

Bose bamurebaga

ni ko bamusekaga

Bati: Noneho Noa yasaze

(And time was passing quickly)

(Noah built with great diligence)

(Everyone watched him)

(and mocked him)

(They said: Now Noah has gone mad)

5.

Nowa yumvir’ Iman’ Ihoraho

Yi njira muri ya nkuge vuba

Yinjirana n’ abandi

bagiriw’ imbabazi

Ubw’ Iman’ ibakingir’ urugi

(Noah obeyed God the Eternal)

(Enter into that ark quickly)

(He entered with others)

(who were shown mercy)

(When God closed the door for them)

6.

Nukw abantu baraseka cyane

Bakomanga ku rugi bavuga

Bati: Nowa, sohoka

Iyi mvur’ irahita

Wi tubeshya ng’ uri mu rugendo

(Then the people laughed greatly)

(They knocked on the door saying)

(They said: Noah, come out)

(This rain will pass)

(You are deceiving yourself as if on a journey)

7.

Ijuru risa n’ iritobotse

Ubwo ha gw’ imvur’ itey’ ubwoba

Bati: Turarimbutse

nk’ uko Nowa yavuze

Dor’ urupfu ruratuzengutse

(The sky seemed to have burst open)

(When there fell a terrifying rain)

(They said: We are destroyed)

(as Noah said)

(Look, death has surrounded us)

8.

Umv’ ukw Imana yabashubije:

Nowa yajyag’ abigisha rwose

Mubi gir’ ibikino,

mwanga kwumvir’ intumwa

Ni ryo teka muciriwe none

(Hear how God answered them:)

(Noah used to teach you truly)

(You were busy with entertainment,)

(refusing to listen to the messenger)

(That is the judgment you are sentenced to now)

9.

Nukw amaz’ aterura ya nkuge

Ireremba kuri wa mwuzure

Abicaye mu nkuge

bafitemw amahoro,

Kugez’ ubwo bazasohokamo

(Then the water lifted that ark)

(It floated upon that flood)

(Those seated in the ark)

(had peace,)

(Until when they would come out of it)

10.

None natwe dufit’ iyo nkuge:

N’ agakiza twahawe na Yesu

Nib’ ushak’ amahoro,

ngwino wihitiremo,

Agakiz’ ureke kurimbuka

(Now we also have that ark:)

(It is the salvation given to us by Jesus)

(If you want peace,)

(come and hurry into it,)

(Salvation - do not perish)