Jeremiah 14
1 The word of the Lord came to Jeremiah when there was no water.
Tala liloba oyo Yawe alobaki na Jeremi na tina na bokawuki:
2 Judah is weeping and its doors are dark with sorrow, and people are seated on the earth clothed in black; and the cry of Jerusalem has gone up.
« Bato ya Yuda bazali na matanga, bingumba na bango esili kobebisama, bazali kolela mpo na mokili na bango, mpe koganga ezali koyokana wuta na Yelusalemi.
3 Their great men have sent their servants for water: they come to the holes and there is no water to be seen; they come back with nothing in their vessels; they are overcome with shame and fear, covering their heads.
Bakambi bazali kotinda basali na bango mpo ete bakende kotoka mayi; kasi soki bakomi na libulu ya mayi, mayi ezali te, bongo bazali kozonga na mbeki ya pamba, bazipi bilongi na soni mpe na mawa.
4 Those who do work on the land are in fear, for there has been no rain on the land, and the farmers are shamed, covering their heads.
Mabele esili kokawuka, pamba te mvula ezali konoka lisusu te, basali bilanga bakomi na pasi mpe bazipi bilongi na bango mpo na soni.
5 And the roe, giving birth in the field, lets her young one be uncared for, because there is no grass.
Ezala mboloko kati na zamba ekomi kokima ata mwana na yango oyo esili kobota, pamba te matiti ya kolia ezali lisusu te.
6 And the asses of the field on the open hilltops are opening their mouths wide like jackals to get air; their eyes are hollow because there is no grass.
Ba-ane ya zamba etelemi na basonge ya bangomba ekawuka mpe ezali kobenda mopepe lokola mbwa ya zamba; miso na yango elembi kotala, pamba te matiti ya kolia ezali te. »
7 Though our sins give witness against us, do something, O Lord, for the honour of your name: for again and again we have been turned away from you, we have done evil against you.
Oh Yawe, ata masumu na biso ezali kofunda biso, sala mpo na lokumu ya Kombo na Yo, pamba te towangani Yo mpe mingi, tosalaki masumu liboso na Yo.
8 O you hope of Israel, its saviour in time of trouble, why are you like one who is strange in the land, and like a traveller putting up his tent for a night?
Oh Elikya ya Isalaele, Mobikisi na ye na tango ya pasi, mpo na nini ozali kosala makambo lokola mopaya kati na mboka oyo to lokola moleki nzela oyo atelemaka kaka na mboka mpo na kolekisa butu?
9 Why are you like a man surprised, like a man of war who is not able to give help? but you, O Lord, are with us, and we are named by your name; do not go away from us.
Mpo na nini ozali kosala makambo lokola moto oyo asutuki to lokola elombe oyo azangi makoki ya kobikisa moto? Nzokande, Yo, Yawe, ozali kati na biso mpe tobengami solo na Kombo na Yo! Kosundola biso te!
10 This is what the Lord has said about this people: Even so they have been glad to go from the right way; they have not kept their feet from wandering, so the Lord has no pleasure in them; now he will keep their wrongdoing in mind and send punishment for their sins.
Tala liloba oyo Yawe alobi na tina na bato oyo: « Bato oyo balingaka kaka kotambola-tambola, bavandaka esika moko te. Yango wana, Yawe asepelaka na bango te, akobosana mabe na bango te mpe akopesa bango etumbu mpo na masumu na bango. »
11 And the Lord said to me, Make no prayer for this people for their good.
Bongo, Yawe alobaki na ngai: — Kosambela mpo na bolamu ya bato oyo te!
12 When they go without food, I will not give ear to their cry; when they give burned offerings and meal offerings, I will not take pleasure in them: but I will put an end to them by the sword and by need of food and by disease.
Ata soki bakili bilei, nakoyoka kolela na bango te; ata soki babonzi mbeka ya kotumba mpe ya bagato, nakondima yango te. Nzokande, nakobebisa bango na mopanga, na nzala makasi mpe na bokono oyo ebomaka.
13 Then I said, Ah, Lord God! see, the prophets say to them, You will not see the sword or be short of food; but I will give you certain peace in this place.
Kasi nazongiselaki Ye: — Oh Nkolo Yawe, basakoli bazali kokoba koloba na bango: « Te! Bokotikala komona mopanga to nzala makasi te, kasi nakopesa bino kimia ya solo na esika oyo. »
14 Then the Lord said to me, The prophets say false words in my name, and I gave them no orders, and I said nothing to them: what they say to you is a false vision and wonder-working words without substance, the deceit of their hearts.
Yawe alobaki na ngai: — Basakoli bazali kosakola makambo ya lokuta na Kombo na Ngai. Natindaki bango te, naponaki bango te mpe nalobaki na bango likambo moko te. Bimoniseli mpe masakoli na bango ezali ya lokuta; makambo nyonso oyo bazali kosakola ezali pamba, ewutaka nde na makanisi ya mitema na bango moko.
15 So this is what the Lord has said about the prophets who make use of my name, though I sent them not, and say, The sword and need of food will not be in this land: the sword and need of food will put an end to those prophets.
Yango wana, tala liloba oyo Yawe alobi mpo na basakoli oyo bazali koloba na Kombo na Ngai: « Natindaki bango te, atako bazali koloba: ‹ Mopanga mpe nzala makasi ekokweya na mokili oyo te. › Basakoli yango bakokufa na mopanga mpe na nzala makasi.
16 And the people to whom they are prophets will be pushed out dead into the streets of Jerusalem, because there is no food, and because of the sword; and they will have no one to put their bodies into the earth, them or their wives or their sons or their daughters: for I will let loose their evil-doing on them.
Bongo, bato oyo bazali kondima masakoli na bango bakobwakama na libanda, na babalabala ya Yelusalemi likolo ya nzala makasi mpe ya mopanga. Moto moko te akozala mpo na kokunda bango, ezala bango to basi na bango to mpe bana na bango ya mibali to ya basi. Nakozongisela bango mabe na mabe oyo basalaki.
17 And you are to say this word to them, Let my eyes be streaming with water night and day, and let it not be stopped; for the virgin daughter of my people is wounded with a great wound, with a very bitter blow.
Loba na bango maloba oyo: ‹ Butu mpe moyi, miso na ngai ezali kobimisa mpinzoli, ezali kokawuka te! Pamba te moseka na ngai, bato na ngai, bazali na pasi mingi mpo ete babetami makasi.
18 If I go out into the open country, there are those put to death by the sword! and if I go into the town, there are those who are diseased from need of food! for the prophet and the priest go about in the land and have no knowledge.
Soki nakeyi na zamba, nazali komona bibembe ya bato oyo babomi na mopanga; soki nakoti kati na engumba, nazali komona bato oyo bazali kokufa na nzala. Basakoli mpe Banganga-Nzambe bazali kososola likambo moko te tango bazali kotambola na mokili. › »
19 Have you completely given up Judah? is your soul turned in disgust from Zion? why have you given us blows from which there is no one to make us well? we were looking for peace, but no good came; and for a time of well-being, but there was only a great fear.
Boni, obwaki solo Yuda? Oyini penza Siona? Mpo na nini otindeli biso pasi makasi oyo ezangeli nzela ya kobika? Tokanisaki ete tokozwa kimia; nzokande, eloko moko ya malonga esalemi te! Tokanisaki ete tokozala na nzoto kolongono; nzokande, tozali kaka komona pasi na pasi!
20 We are conscious, O Lord, of our sin and of the wrongdoing of our fathers: we have done evil against you.
Oh Yawe, tososoli solo mabe na biso mpe masumu ya batata na biso! Solo, tosali penza masumu liboso na Yo.
21 Do not be turned from us in disgust, because of your name; do not put shame on the seat of your glory: keep us in mind, let not your agreement with us be broken.
Koyina biso te mpo na lokumu ya Kombo na Yo! Kobebisa te nkembo ya Kiti ya Bokonzi na Yo! Kanisa boyokani oyo osalaki elongo na biso mpe kobebisa yango te!
22 Are any of the false gods of the nations able to make rain come? are the heavens able to give showers? are you not he, O Lord our God? so we will go on waiting for you, for you have done all these things.
Boni, ezali na nzambe moko ya ekeko, kati na bikolo, oyo enokisaka mvula? Boni, likolo ekoki penza konokisa yango moko mvula? Te! Ezali nde Yo, Yawe, Nzambe na biso! Totie elikya na biso nyonso epai na Yo, pamba te Yo nde osala biloko oyo nyonso.
