Psalms 146

1 Hallelujah! Praise Jehovah, O my soul.

Bokumisa Yawe! Oh molimo na ngai, kumisa Yawe!

2 As long as I live will I praise Jehovah; I will sing psalms unto my God while I have my being.

Nakokumisa Yawe bomoi na ngai mobimba, nakosanzola Nzambe na ngai tango nyonso nakozala na bomoi.

3 Put not confidence in nobles, in a son of man, in whom there is no salvation.

Botia elikya te na bakambi to na bato oyo bazangi makoki ya kobikisa.

4 His breath goeth forth, he returneth to his earth; in that very day his purposes perish.

Soki bakufi, bazongaka na mabele, mpe, mbala moko, mabongisi na bango elimwaka.

5 Blessed is he who hath the God of Jacob for his help, whose hope is in Jehovah his God,

Esengo na moto oyo Nzambe ya Jakobi azali mosungi na ye, oyo atiaka elikya na ye kati na Yawe, Nzambe na ye!

6 Who made the heavens and the earth, the sea and all that is therein; who keepeth truth for ever;

Yawe akelaki Likolo mpe mabele, ebale monene mpe nyonso oyo ezali kati na yango; azali sembo seko na seko.

7 Who executeth judgment for the oppressed, who giveth bread to the hungry. Jehovah looseth the prisoners;

Yawe akataka na sembo makambo ya banyokolami mpe apesaka bilei na bato oyo bazali na nzala; abimisaka bakangami na boloko.

8 Jehovah openeth [the eyes of] the blind; Jehovah raiseth up them that are bowed down; Jehovah loveth the righteous;

Yawe abikisaka miso ya bakufi miso; Yawe asembolaka bato oyo bazali ya kogumbama; Yawe alingaka bato ya sembo.

9 Jehovah preserveth the strangers; he lifteth up the fatherless and the widow; but the way of the wicked doth he subvert.

Yawe abatelaka bapaya, asungaka mwana etike mpe mwasi oyo akufisa mobali, kasi abebisaka banzela ya bato mabe.

10 Jehovah will reign for ever, [even] thy God, O Zion, from generation to generation. Hallelujah!

Yawe azali Mokonzi seko na seko; Nzambe na yo, oh Siona, libela na libela! Bokumisa Yawe!