Isaiah 8
1 Then the LORD said to me, “Take a large scroll and write on it with an ordinary stylus: Maher-shalal-hash-baz.
Yawe alobaki na ngai: « Kamata etando monene ya libanga mpe salela ekomeli mpo na kokoma makambo oyo na likolo na yango: Maher-Shalal-Hash-Baz (pene bomengo ya bitumba, pene kobebisama). »
2 And I will appoint for Myself trustworthy witnesses—Uriah the priest and Zechariah son of Jeberekiah.”
Nabengaki Nganga-Nzambe Iri mpe Zakari, mwana mobali ya Yeberekia, mpo ete bazala batatoli na ngai ya sembo.
3 And I had relations with the prophetess, and she conceived and gave birth to a son. The LORD said to me, “Name him Maher-shalal-hash-baz.
Nakendeki epai ya mwasi mosakoli; akomaki na zemi mpe abotaki mwana mobali. Yawe alobaki na ngai: « Pesa ye kombo Maher-Shalal-Hash-Baz.
4 For before the boy knows how to cry ‘Father’ or ‘Mother,’ the wealth of Damascus and the plunder of Samaria will be carried off by the king of Assyria.”
Liboso ete mwana ayeba ndenge babengaka ‹ Tata na ngai › to ‹ mama na ngai, › bakomema bozwi ya Damasi mpe bomengo ya bitumba ya Samari epai ya mokonzi ya Asiri. »
5 And the LORD spoke to me further:
Yawe alobaki na ngai lisusu:
6 “Because this people has rejected the gently flowing waters of Shiloah and rejoiced in Rezin and the son of Remaliah,
« Mpo ete bato oyo basundoli mayi ya Siloe oyo etiolaka na kimia, mpe basepeli na Retsini mpe na mwana mobali ya Remalia,
7 the Lord will surely bring against them the mighty floodwaters of the Euphrates — the king of Assyria and all his pomp. It will overflow its channels and overrun its banks.
Yawe akotindela bango mayi ya nguya mpe mayi ebele lokola mayi ya ebale Efrate: ekozala nde mokonzi ya Asiri elongo na mampinga na ye nyonso. Ekotonda penza meke mpe ekozipa bangambo nyonso.
8 It will pour into Judah, swirling and sweeping over it, reaching up to the neck; its spreading streams will cover your entire land, O Immanuel!
Ekokota na Yuda mpe ekozindisa yango kino na kingo; mpe kopanzana ya mayi yango ekotondisa mokili na yo mobimba, Emanwele. »
9 Huddle together, O peoples, and be shattered; pay attention, all you distant lands; prepare for battle, and be shattered; prepare for battle, and be shattered!
Bino bikolo, boganga na somo mpe bopalangana! Bino bituka nyonso ya mosika, boyoka! Bobongama mpo na bitumba mpe bopalangana! Bobongama mpo na bitumba mpe bopalangana!
10 Devise a plan, but it will be thwarted; state a proposal, but it will not happen. For God is with us.”
Bosala malamu mabongisi na bino, kasi ekobebisama; boloba oyo bokoki koloba, kasi eloko moko te ekosalema, pamba te Nzambe azali elongo na biso!
11 For this is what the LORD has spoken to me with a strong hand, instructing me not to walk in the way of this people:
Yawe alobaki na ngai, tango asimbaki ngai na loboko na Ye ya nguya mpe akebisaki ngai ete nalanda te nzela ya bato oyo:
12 “Do not call conspiracy everything these people regard as conspiracy. Do not fear what they fear; do not live in dread.
« Bobengaka likita te eloko nyonso oyo bato babengaka likita; bobangaka te oyo bango babangaka, boyokela yango somo ata moke te.
13 The LORD of Hosts is the One you shall regard as holy. Only He should be feared; only He should be dreaded.
Kaka Yawe, Mokonzi ya mampinga, nde bosengeli komona lokola Mosantu, Ye kaka nde bosengeli kokumisa, Ye kaka nde bosengeli koyoka somo.
14 And He will be a sanctuary— but to both houses of Israel a stone of stumbling and a rock of offense, to the dwellers of Jerusalem a trap and a snare.
Akozala lokola Esika ya bule; kasi mpo na bandako mibale ya Isalaele, akozala lokola libanga oyo ebetisaka bato mabaku, lokola libanga monene oyo ekweyisaka bato; bongo mpo na bato ya Yelusalemi, akozala motambo mpe monyama.
15 Many will stumble over these; they will fall and be broken; they will be ensnared and captured.”
Mingi kati na bango bakobeta mabaku, bakokweya mpe bakobukana, bakokangama na motambo, mpe bakozwa bango. »
16 Bind up the testimony and seal the law among my disciples.
Bomba lisakoli oyo ete eyebana te, kangisa mobeko oyo kati na bayekoli na ngai.
17 I will wait for the LORD, who is hiding His face from the house of Jacob. I will put my trust in Him.
Nakotalela Yawe oyo abombi elongi na Ye, oyo apesi ndako ya Jakobi mokongo; nakotia elikya na ngai kati na Ye.
18 Here am I, and the children the LORD has given me as signs and symbols in Israel from the LORD of Hosts, who dwells on Mount Zion.
Ngai elongo na bana oyo Yawe apesi ngai, tozali bilembo mpe bandakisa kati na Isalaele, kowuta na Yawe, Mokonzi ya mampinga, oyo avandaka na ngomba Siona.
19 When men tell you to consult the spirits of the dead and the spiritists who whisper and mutter, shouldn’t a people consult their God instead? Why consult the dead on behalf of the living?
Soki bato balobi na bino: « Bokende kotalisa makambo epai ya bato oyo basololaka na milimo ya bakufi mpe epai ya bato oyo balobaka makambo oyo ekoya, oyo balobaka-lobaka lokola bandeke. Boni, bato baluka banzambe na bango te? Mpo na nini te babelela bakufi mpo na bato ya bomoi? »
20 To the law and to the testimony! If they do not speak according to this word, they have no light of dawn.
Na mobeko mpe na lisakoli! Soki bakoloba bongo te, bakomona tongo te.
21 They will roam the land, dejected and hungry. When they are famished, they will become enraged; and looking upward, they will curse their king and their God.
Bakokatisa mokili, na pasi mpe na nzala; mpe tango bakokoma na nzala, bakokoma kanda-kanda, bakotala likolo mpe bakolakela mokonzi mpe Nzambe na bango mabe.
22 Then they will look to the earth and see only distress and darkness and the gloom of anguish. And they will be driven into utter darkness.
Mpe tango bakotala mabele, bakomona kaka pasi ya makasi, molili mpe molili ya somo makasi; mpe bakotindika bango kati na molili ya makasi.
