It was in the twelfth year of the exile, on the fifth day of the tenth month, that a fugitive came to me with the news that Jerusalem had fallen.
Hi lembe ra vu-12 hi ri evukhumbini, hi siku ra vuntlhanu ra n'hweti ya vukhume, ku ta munhu un'wana eka mina loyi a balekeke eYerusalema, a fika a ndzi byela leswaku muti wa Yerusalema wu wile.