Isaiah 1
1 The vision of Isaias the son of Amos I which he saw concerning Juda and Jerusalem in the days of Ozias, Joathan, Achaz, and Ezechias, kings of Juda.
Emoniseli oyo Ezayi, mwana mobali ya Amotsi, amonaki na tina na mokili ya Yuda mpe ya engumba Yelusalemi tango Oziasi, Yotami, Akazi mpe Ezekiasi bazalaki bakonzi ya Yuda.
2 Hear, O ye heavens, and give ear, O earth, for the Lord hath spoken. I have brought up children, and exalted them: but they have despised me.
Oh Lola, yoka! Mabele, pesa matoyi mpo na koyoka! Pamba te Yawe nde azali koloba: « Nabokoli bana mpe nakolisi bango, kasi batombokeli Ngai.
3 The ox knoweth his owner, and the ass his master’s crib: but Israel hath not known me, and my people hath not understood.
Ngombe eyebi nkolo na yango, ane mpe eyebi elielo oyo nkolo na yango apeselaka yango bilei; kasi Isalaele ayebi te, bato na Ngai basosoli te. »
4 Woe to the sinful nation, a people laden with iniquity, a wicked seed, ungracious children: they have forsaken the Lord, they have blasphemed the Holy One of Israel, they are gone away backwards.
Mawa na yo, ekolo ya bato ya masumu, bato oyo batonda na mabe, libota oyo esalaka mabe mpe bana mabe! Batiki Yawe, batioli Mosantu ya Isalaele mpe bapesi Ye mokongo.
5 For what shall I strike you any more, you that increase transgression? the whole head is sick, and the whole heart is sad.
Boni, babeta bino lisusu wapi, bino bato oyo botingami kaka na botomboki? Moto na yo mobimba ezali kobela, motema na yo mobimba ezali na pasi.
6 From the sole of the foot unto the top of the head, there is no soundness therein: wounds and bruises and swelling sores: they are not bound up, nor dressed, nor fomented with oil.
Longwa na litambe kino na moto, eloko moko te ezali malamu, kaka bapota mpe matutu oyo basukola te, batia kisi te mpe bapakola mafuta te.
7 Your land is desolate, your cities are burnt with fire: your country strangers devour before your face, and it shall be desolate as when wasted by enemies.
Mokili na bino ebebisami, bingumba na bino esili kozika na moto; bapaya bazali kobebisa bilanga na bino na miso na bino, nyonso ebebisami solo, lokola tango bapanzaka yango na moto ya mobulu.
8 And the daughter of Sion shall be left as a covert in a vineyard, and as a lodge in a garden of cucumbers, and as a city that is laid waste.
Siona, mboka kitoko, etikali kaka yango moko lokola mwa ndako moko ya matiti kati na elanga ya vino, lokola ndako ya kobombamela kati na bilanga ya bapasiteki, lokola engumba oyo ebatelami.
9 Except the Lord of hosts had left us seed, we had been as Sodom, and we should have been like to Gomorrha.
Soki Yawe, Mokonzi ya mampinga, abikisaki te ndambo ya bato kati na biso, tolingaki kokoma lokola engumba Sodome, tolingaki kokokana na engumba Gomore.
10 Hear the word of the Lord, ye rulers of Sodom, give ear to the law of our God, ye people of Gomorrha.
Boyoka Liloba na Yawe, bino bakambi ya engumba Sodome! Boyoka mobeko ya Nzambe na biso, bino bato ya engumba Gomore!
11 To what purpose do you offer me the multitude of your victims, saith the Lord? I am full, I desire not holocausts of rams, and fat of fatlings, and blood of calves, and lambs, and buck goats.
« Ebele ya bambeka na bino ekosala Ngai nini, » elobi Yawe? « Nasili kolemba bambeka na bino ya kotumba, bambeka na bino ya bameme ya mibali mpe mafuta ya bibwele na bino ya mafuta; nazali kosepela ata moke te na makila ya bangombe ya mibali, ya bana meme mpe ya bantaba ya mibali.
12 When you came to appear before me, who required these things at your hands, that you should walk in my courts?
Tango boyaka liboso na Ngai, nani abengaka bino ete boya kokota na lopango na Ngai?
13 Offer sacrifice no more in vain: incense is an abomination to me. The new moons, and the sabbaths, and other festivals I will not abide, your assemblies are wicked.
Botika komemela Ngai makabo oyo ezanga tina! Nazali koyoka malasi na bino ya ansa nkele. Bafeti na bino ya ebandeli ya sanza, ya Saba mpe mayangani na bino: bafeti wana ya mabe, nazali kokoka yango lisusu te.
14 My soul hateth your new moons, and your solemnities: they are become troublesome to me, I am weary of bearing them.
Motema na Ngai eyini bafeti na bino wana ya ebandeli ya sanza mpe bafeti na bino wana ekatama. Ekomi penza mokumba mpo na Ngai, nalembi komema yango.
15 And when you stretch forth your hands, I will turn away my eyes from you: and when you multiply prayer, I will not hear: for your hands are full of blood.
Tango bokotombola maboko na bino mpo na kobondela, nakolongola miso na Ngai likolo na bino; ezala soki bosambeli mingi, nakoyoka bino te, pamba te maboko na bino etondi na makila.
16 Wash yourselves, be clean, take away the evil of your devices from my eyes: cease to do perversely,
Bomisukola mpe bomipetola, bolongola misala mabe na bino na miso na Ngai! Botika kosala mabe!
17 Learn to do well: seek judgment, relieve the oppressed, judge for the fatherless, defend the widow.
Boyekola nde kosala malamu, boluka bosembo, bosunga moto oyo bazali konyokola, bobundela mwana etike, bokotela mwasi oyo akufisa mobali!
18 And then come, and accuse me, saith the Lord: if your sins be as scarlet, they shall be made as white as snow: and if they be red as crimson, they shall be white as wool.
Boya sik’oyo, tosilisa likambo, » elobi Yawe. « Ezala masumu na bino ezali motane makasi, ekokoma pembe lokola mvula ya pembe; ata ezali motane lokola ngola, ekokoma lokola bapwale ya meme.
19 If you be willing, and will hearken to me, you shall eat the good things of the land.
Soki bozwi mokano ya kotosa Ngai, bokolia mbuma kitoko ya mokili.
20 But if you will not, and will provoke me to wrath: the sword shall devour you because the mouth of the Lord hath spoken it.
Kasi soki kaka botie moto makasi mpe botomboki, bokokufa na mopanga. » Pamba te monoko ya Yawe nde elobi.
21 How is the faithful city, that was full of judgment, become a harlot? justice dwelt in it, but now murderers.
Tala ndenge nini engumba ya boyengebene ekomi lokola mwasi ya ndumba! Ezalaki liboso engumba etonda na bosembo, boyengebene ezalaki kovanda kati na yango; kasi lelo oyo ekomi kobomba babomi.
22 Thy silver is turned into dress: thy wine is mingled with water.
Palata na yo ekomi bosoto, vino na yo ya kitoko ekomi mayi-mayi.
23 Thy princes are faithless, companions of thieves: they all love bribes, the run after rewards. They judge not for the fatherless: and the widow’s cometh not in to them.
Bakambi na yo bazali batomboki, baninga ya miyibi; bango nyonso balingaka kaka kanyaka mpe batonda na lokoso ya lifuti. Bakotelaka mwana etike te, mpe likambo ya mwasi oyo akufisa mobali etalaka bango te.
24 Therefore saith the Lord the God of hosts, the mighty one of Israel: Ah! I will comfort myself over my adversaries: and I will be revenged of my enemies.
Yango wana, Yawe, Mokonzi ya mampinga, Elombe ya Isalaele alobi: Ah, mawa! Nakosepela na pasi na bino, bino bayini na Ngai; mpe nakofutisa bino masumu, bino banguna na Ngai!
25 And I will turn my hand to thee, and I will clean purge away thy dress, and I will take away all thy tin.
Nakotelemela bino, nakopetola bosoto ya palata na bino mpe nakolongola salite na bino,
26 And I will restore thy judges as they were before, and thy counsellors as of old. After this thou shalt be called the city of the just, a faithful city.
nakokomisa lisusu basambisi na bino malamu lokola na tango ya kala; mpe bapesi toli na bino, ndenge ezalaka na ebandeli. Sima na yango, bakobenga bino lisusu Engumba ya Bosembo, Engumba ya Boyengebene.
27 Sion shall be redeemed in judgment, and they shall bring her back in justice.
Siona ekosikolama na nzela ya boyengebene, mpe bato na yango oyo bakobongola mitema bakobika na nzela ya bosembo.
28 And he shall destroy the wicked, and the sinners together: and they that have forsaken the Lord, shall be consumed.
Kasi batomboki mpe bato ya masumu bakobebisama, bato oyo bakobosana Yawe bakosila.
29 For they shall be confounded for the idols, to which they have sacrificed: and you shall be ashamed of the gardens which you have chosen.
« Bokoyoka soni mpo na banzete ya terebente oyo bozalaki kolinga mingi; bokoyoka pasi na mitema mpo na bilanga oyo boponaki;
30 When you shall be as an oak with the leaves falling off, and as a garden without water.
bokokoma lokola nzete ya terebente oyo ekawuka makasa.
31 And your strength shall be as the ashes of tow, and your work as a spark: and both shall burn together, and there shall be none to quench it.
Moto ya makasi akokoma moto ya bolembu, mpe mosala na ye ekokoma lokola mokalikali; bango mibale bakozika nzela moko na moto, mpe moto oyo koboma yango akozala te. »
