Deuteronomy 9
1 Hear, O Israel: Today you are about to cross the Jordan to go in and dispossess nations greater and stronger than you, with large cities fortified to the heavens.
Oh Isalaele, yoka malamu! Okomi sik’oyo pene ya kokatisa Yordani mpo na kokota mpe kobengana bikolo oyo eleki yo na monene mpe na makasi, bikolo oyo evandaka kati na bingumba minene oyo ezali na bamir batonga makasi mpe ekenda kino na likolo.
2 The people are strong and tall, the descendants of the Anakim. You know about them, and you have heard it said, “Who can stand up to the sons of Anak?”
Bato yango bazali makasi mpe bingambe, bana ya Anaki! Oyebi bango mpe osila koyoka bato koloba na tina na bango: « Nani akoki kotelema liboso ya bana ya Anaki? »
3 But understand that today the LORD your God goes across ahead of you as a consuming fire; He will destroy them and subdue them before you. And you will drive them out and annihilate them swiftly, as the LORD has promised you.
Kasi lelo, yeba malamu ete Yawe, Nzambe na yo, azali Ye moko kotambola liboso na yo lokola moto oyo ezikisaka; akobebisa bango mpe akobuka bango liboso na yo; bongo yo okokamata mabele na bango mpe okosilisa bango noki-noki, ndenge Yawe alakaki yo.
4 When the LORD your God has driven them out before you, do not say in your heart, “Because of my righteousness the LORD has brought me in to possess this land.” Rather, the LORD is driving out these nations before you because of their wickedness.
Tango Yawe, Nzambe na yo, akosilisa kobengana bango liboso na yo, komilobela te kati na motema na yo: « Ezali mpo na bosembo na ngai nde Yawe amemaki ngai mpo ete nakamata mokili oyo. » Te, ezali bongo te! Ezali nde mpo na mabe ya bikolo yango nde Yawe abengani yango liboso na yo.
5 It is not because of your righteousness or uprightness of heart that you are going in to possess their land, but it is because of their wickedness that the LORD your God is driving out these nations before you, to keep the promise He swore to your fathers, to Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob.
Ezali te mpo na bosembo na yo to mpo ete otambolaki alima nde okokota mpo na kozwa mokili na bango, kasi ezali solo mpo na mabe ya bikolo yango nde Yawe, Nzambe na yo, akobengana yango liboso na yo, mpo na kokokisa ndayi oyo alapaki epai ya bakoko na yo Abrayami, Izaki mpe Jakobi.
6 Understand, then, that it is not because of your righteousness that the LORD your God is giving you this good land to possess, for you are a stiff-necked people.
Boye sosola malamu ete ezali te mpo na bosembo na yo nde Yawe, Nzambe na yo, azali kopesa yo mokili oyo ya malamu mpo ete okamata yango, pamba te yo mpe ozali libota ya batomboki.
7 Remember this, and never forget how you provoked the LORD your God in the wilderness. From the day you left the land of Egypt until you reached this place, you have been rebelling against the LORD.
Kanisaka malamu likambo oyo mpe kobosanaka te ndenge nini opelisaki kanda ya Yawe, Nzambe na yo, kati na esobe: banda mokolo oyo bobimaki wuta na Ejipito kino bokomaki na esika oyo, bozalaki kaka kotosa Yawe te.
8 At Horeb you provoked the LORD, and He was angry enough to destroy you.
Na ngomba Orebi, bopesaki Yawe kanda makasi mpe asilikelaki bino makasi kino akomaki na posa ya kobebisa bino.
9 When I went up on the mountain to receive the tablets of stone, the tablets of the covenant that the LORD made with you, I stayed on the mountain forty days and forty nights. I ate no bread and drank no water.
Tango namataki likolo ya ngomba mpo na kozwa bitando ya mabanga ya boyokani oyo Yawe asalaki elongo na bino, natikalaki likolo ya ngomba mikolo tuku minei mpe babutu tuku minei; naliaki lipa te mpe namelaki mayi te.
10 Then the LORD gave me the two stone tablets, inscribed by the finger of God with the exact words that the LORD spoke to you out of the fire on the mountain on the day of the assembly.
Yawe apesaki ngai bitando mibale ya mabanga oyo mosapi ya Nzambe ekomaki. Na likolo na yango, ezali na mibeko nyonso Yawe oyo ayebisaki bino likolo ya ngomba longwa kati na moto, na mokolo oyo bosanganaki.
11 And at the end of forty days and forty nights, the LORD gave me the two stone tablets, the tablets of the covenant.
Na suka ya mikolo tuku minei mpe babutu tuku minei, Yawe apesaki ngai bitando yango mibale ya mabanga ya boyokani.
12 And the LORD said to me, “Get up and go down from here at once, for your people, whom you brought out of Egypt, have corrupted themselves. How quickly they have turned aside from the way that I commanded them! They have made for themselves a molten image.”
Bongo Yawe alobaki na ngai: « Kende, kita mbangu na ngomba oyo, pamba te bato na yo, oyo obimisaki na Ejipito bamikomisi mbindo; bapesi noki mokongo na mibeko oyo napesaki bango mpe bamisaleli ekeko ya ebende banyangwisa na moto. »
13 The LORD also said to me, “I have seen this people, and they are indeed a stiff-necked people.
Mpe Yawe alobaki na ngai: « Natali malamu bato oyo; bazali penza libota ya batomboki!
14 Leave Me alone, so that I may destroy them and blot out their name from under heaven. Then I will make you into a nation mightier and greater than they are.”
Tika Ngai kosala: nakobebisa bango mpe nakolimwisa bakombo na bango kati na mokili, kasi nakokomisa yo ekolo ya nguya mpe ya bato ebele koleka bango. »
15 So I went back down the mountain while it was blazing with fire, with the two tablets of the covenant in my hands.
Bongo nabalukaki mpe nakitaki wuta na ngomba oyo ekomaki kopela moto; nasimbaki na maboko na ngai bitando mibale ya mabanga ya boyokani.
16 And I saw how you had sinned against the LORD your God; you had made for yourselves a molten calf. You had turned aside quickly from the way that the LORD had commanded you.
Tango natalaki, namonaki ete bosalaki solo masumu epai na Yawe, Nzambe na bino: bomisalelaki ekeko ya mwana ngombe ya ebende banyangwisa na moto; bopengwaki noki na nzela oyo Yawe atindaki bino.
17 So I took the two tablets and threw them out of my hands, shattering them before your eyes.
Boye, nazwaki bitando yango mibale ya mabanga, nabwakaki yango wuta na maboko na ngai mpe napanzaki yango na biteni na miso na bino.
18 Then I fell down before the LORD for forty days and forty nights, as I had done the first time. I did not eat bread or drink water because of all the sin you had committed in doing what was evil in the sight of the LORD and provoking Him to anger.
Bongo nakweyaki mbala moko liboso ya Yawe mikolo tuku minei mpe babutu tuku minei, naliaki lipa te mpe namelaki mayi te mpo na lisumu monene oyo bosalaki wana bosalaki mabe na miso ya Yawe mpe, na bongo, bopesaki Ye kanda.
19 For I was afraid of the anger and wrath that the LORD had directed against you, enough to destroy you. But the LORD listened to me this time as well.
Nabangaki kanda mpe kotomboka ya Yawe, pamba te asilikelaki bino makasi kino akomaki na posa ya kobebisa bino; kasi Yawe ayokelaki ngai lisusu.
20 The LORD was angry enough with Aaron to destroy him, but at that time I also prayed for Aaron.
Yawe asilikelaki mpe Aron makasi kino alingaki koboma ye; kasi na tango wana, nabondelaki mpe mpo na Aron.
21 And I took that sinful thing, the calf you had made, and burned it in the fire. Then I crushed it and ground it to powder as fine as dust, and I cast it into the stream that came down from the mountain.
Nazwaki lisusu eloko oyo ememisaki bino masumu, ekeko ya mwana ngombe oyo bosalaki, natumbaki yango na moto, natutaki mpe nanikaki yango malamu kino ekomaki putulu; mpe nabwakaki putulu yango na mayi oyo ezalaki kotiola wuta na ngomba.
22 You continued to provoke the LORD at Taberah, at Massah, and at Kibroth-hattaavah.
Na Tabeera, na Masa, na Kibiroti-Atava, bokobaki kaka kopesa Yawe kanda.
23 And when the LORD sent you out from Kadesh-barnea, He said, “Go up and possess the land that I have given you.” But you rebelled against the command of the LORD your God. You neither believed Him nor obeyed Him.
Mpe tango Yawe alingaki ete bolongwa na Kadeshi-Barinea, apesaki bino mitindo: « Bokende! Bokamata mokili oyo napesi bino. » Kasi botosaki te mitindo ya Yawe, Nzambe na bino; botiaki elikya te kati na Ye mpe botosaki Ye te.
24 You have been rebelling against the LORD since the day I came to know you.
Wuta mokolo oyo nayeba bino, botikala te kotosa Yawe.
25 So I fell down before the LORD for forty days and forty nights, because the LORD had said He would destroy you.
Nakweyaki liboso ya Yawe mikolo tuku minei mpe babutu tuku minei, pamba te Yawe azalaki koloba ete akoboma bino.
26 And I prayed to the LORD and said, “O Lord GOD, do not destroy Your people, Your inheritance, whom You redeemed through Your greatness and brought out of Egypt with a mighty hand.
Nabondelaki Yawe mpe nalobaki: « Nkolo Yawe, kobebisa bato na Yo te, bazali libula na Yo moko oyo osikolaki na nguya monene na Yo mpe obimisaki na Ejipito na loboko na Yo ya nguya.
27 Remember Your servants Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob. Overlook the stubbornness of this people and the wickedness of their sin.
Kanisa basali na Yo Abrayami, Izaki mpe Jakobi! Kotala te botomboki ya bato oyo, mabe na bango mpe masumu na bango;
28 Otherwise, those in the land from which You brought us out will say, ‘Because the LORD was not able to bring them into the land He had promised them, and because He hated them, He has brought them out to kill them in the wilderness.’
noki te bato ya mokili oyo longwa kuna obimisaki biso, bakoloba: ‹ Ezali mpo ete Yawe azalaki na makoki te ya kokotisa bango na mokili oyo alakaki bango to ezali mpo ete azalaki koyina bango, yango wana abimisaki bango wuta na Ejipito mpo na koboma bango na esobe. ›
29 But they are Your people, Your inheritance, whom You brought out by Your great power and outstretched arm.”
Nzokande bazali bato na Yo mpe libula na Yo, oyo obimisaki na nguya monene na Yo mpe na loboko na Yo ya nguya. »
