Isaiah 8
1 And the Lord said to me: “Take up for yourself a large book, and with a man’s pen write in it: ‘Take away the spoils quickly; plunder swiftly.’”
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 summoned to myself faithful witnesses: Uriah, the priest, and Zechariah, the son of Berechiah.
Nabengaki Nganga-Nzambe Iri mpe Zakari, mwana mobali ya Yeberekia, mpo ete bazala batatoli na ngai ya sembo.
3 And I joined with the prophetess, and she conceived and gave birth to a son. And the Lord said to me: “Call his name: ‘Rush to take away the spoils; Hurry to be plundered.’
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 call to his father and his mother, the strength of Damascus and the spoils of Samaria will be taken away, in the sight of the king of the Assyrians.”
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, saying:
Yawe alobaki na ngai lisusu:
6 “Because this people has cast aside the waters of Shiloah, which go forth silently, and has instead chosen 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 for this reason, behold, the Lord will lead over them the waters of a river, strong and plentiful: the king of the Assyrians with all his glory. And he will rise up throughout all his streams, and he will overflow all his 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 And he will pass through Judah, inundating it, and he will cross over and arrive, even at its neck. And he will extend his wings, filling the breadth of your land, O Immanuel.”
Ekokota na Yuda mpe ekozindisa yango kino na kingo; mpe kopanzana ya mayi yango ekotondisa mokili na yo mobimba, Emanwele. »
9 O people, gather together, and be conquered! All distant lands, listen! Be strengthened, and be conquered! Gird yourselves, and be conquered!
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 Undertake a plan, and it will be dissipated! Speak a word, and it will not be done! 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 the Lord said this to me, and he has instructed this to me with a strong hand, lest I go forth in the way of this people, saying:
Yawe alobaki na ngai, tango asimbaki ngai na loboko na Ye ya nguya mpe akebisaki ngai ete nalanda te nzela ya bato oyo:
12 “You should not say ‘It is conspiracy!’ For all that this people speaks is a conspiracy. And you should not be frightened or alarmed with their fear.
« Bobengaka likita te eloko nyonso oyo bato babengaka likita; bobangaka te oyo bango babangaka, boyokela yango somo ata moke te.
13 Sanctify the Lord of hosts himself. Let him be your dread, and let him be your fear.
Kaka Yawe, Mokonzi ya mampinga, nde bosengeli komona lokola Mosantu, Ye kaka nde bosengeli kokumisa, Ye kaka nde bosengeli koyoka somo.
14 And so shall he be a sanctification to you. But he will be a stone of offense and a rock of scandal to the two houses of Israel, and a snare and a ruin to the inhabitants of Jerusalem.
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 And very many of them will stumble and fall, and they will be broken and entangled and seized.
Mingi kati na bango bakobeta mabaku, bakokweya mpe bakobukana, bakokangama na motambo, mpe bakozwa bango. »
16 Bind the testimony, seal the law, among my disciples.”
Bomba lisakoli oyo ete eyebana te, kangisa mobeko oyo kati na bayekoli na ngai.
17 And I will wait for the Lord, who has concealed his face from the house of Jacob, and I will stand before him.
Nakotalela Yawe oyo abombi elongi na Ye, oyo apesi ndako ya Jakobi mokongo; nakotia elikya na ngai kati na Ye.
18 Behold: I and my children, whom the Lord has given to me as a sign and a portent, in Israel, from the Lord of hosts, who lives 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 And though they say to you, “Seek from seers and diviners,” they who hiss in their incantations, should not the people seek from their God, for the sake of the living, and not from the dead?
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 And this is, moreover, for the sake of the law and the testimony. But if they do not speak according to this Word, then he will not have the morning light.
Na mobeko mpe na lisakoli! Soki bakoloba bongo te, bakomona tongo te.
21 And he will pass by it; he will fall and become hungry. And when he is hungry, he will become angry, and he will speak evil against his king and his God, and he will lift himself upward.
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 And he will gaze downward to the earth, and behold: tribulation and darkness, dissolution and distress, and a pursuing gloom. For he will not be able to fly away from its distress.
Mpe tango bakotala mabele, bakomona kaka pasi ya makasi, molili mpe molili ya somo makasi; mpe bakotindika bango kati na molili ya makasi.
