Jeremiah 12
1 Lord, when I complain to you, you always show yourself to be in the right. Even so I still want to present my case to you. Why is it that wicked people do so well? Why do those who are unfaithful to you live so comfortably?
Oh Yawe, ozalaka tango nyonso sembo; mpe ngai nakokoka kosamba na Yo te. Nzokande nalingi kotuna Yo mwa mituna na tina na oyo etali bosembo na Yo. Mpo na nini misala ya bato mabe ekendaka liboso? Mpo na nini bato oyo batosaka Yo te bazalaka na bomoi ya kimia?
2 You planted them, and they've taken root, grown, and produced fruit. They're always talking about you but they don't think of you, even for a moment.
Olonaki bango mpe bazwi misisa; bazali kokola mpe kobota mbuma. Ozali tango nyonso pene ya minoko na bango, kasi mosika ya mitema na bango.
3 But you know me, Lord, you see me, and examine what I think about you. Drag off these people like sheep to be slaughtered; keep them apart for the time when they're killed.
Nzokande, oh Yawe, oyebi ngai, omonaka ngai mpe oyebi makanisi ya motema na ngai mpo na Yo. Tindika bango lokola bameme oyo babongisi mpo na koboma! Bongisa bango mpo na mokolo ya kufa.
4 How long will the land have to mourn and the grass in every field be dried up because of the evil of the people who live there? The animals and birds have died out because the people have said, “He doesn't know what's going to happen to us.”
Kino tango nini mokili ekowumela na kolela mpe matiti ya bilanga nyonso ekowumela ya kokawuka? Banyama mpe bandeke esili kokufa mpo ete bavandi ya mokili bazali mabe. Balobaka: « Yawe akoyeba te makambo oyo ekokomela biso. »
5 The Lord says, Once you've become worn out in a foot race against men, how would you win racing against horses? If you trip up in open ground, how would you do in the tangled undergrowth beside the Jordan?
Soki ozali kosala momekano ya kokima mbangu elongo na bato oyo bazali kotambola na makolo, mpe bango bazali komelisa yo pema, ndenge nini okoki komekana na bato oyo batambolaka likolo ya bampunda? Soki ozali komitungisa na mokili oyo ezali na kimia, ekozala boni liboso ya mpela ya ebale Yordani?
6 Even your own brothers and your father's family have betrayed you; they have publicly criticized you. Don't trust them when they talk nicely to you!
Pamba te ezala bandeko na yo mpe bato ya libota na yo moko bateki yo, bazali koganga makasi mpo na kotelemela yo. Kotiela bango motema te, ata tango bazali kobimisa maloba kitoko mpo na yo.
7 I have given up on my people; I have abandoned the nation I chose. I have handed over the ones I truly love to their enemies.
Nakobosana libota na ngai, nakosundola libula na ngai, nakokaba molingami na ngai na maboko ya banguna na ye.
8 They've turned into a wild lion, roaring at me—that's why I hate them.
Libula na ngai ekomi na miso na ngai lokola nkosi ya zamba: ezali kogangela ngai; yango wana nayini yango.
9 My people are like a spotted bird of prey to me with other birds of prey circling to attack it. Go and bring all the wild animals to eat up the carcass.
Boni, libula na ngai ekomi na miso na ngai lokola ndeke oyo eliaka misuni, bongo ebebi na makila, mpo ete bandeke mosusu oyo eliaka misuni eya kozingela mpe kobundisa yango? Bokende kosangisa banyama nyonso ya zamba mpe bobengisa yango mpo ete eya kolia nyama!
10 Many shepherds have come and destroyed my vineyard; they have trampled down the crops in my field. They have turned my pleasant land into an empty wasteland.
Babateli ebele ya bibwele babebisi elanga na ngai ya vino, banyati-nyati elanga na ngai, babongoli elanga na ngai ya kitoko mabele ya kokawuka.
11 They have made it into a desert; it mourns before me, lying desolate. The whole country is a wasteland, but no one cares.
Bakomisi yango esobe, etikali pamba na miso na ngai, ekomi eloko ya mawa. Mokili mobimba ebebisami, pamba te moto moko te azali lisusu komema yango na motema.
12 The destructive armies have crossed all the bare desert hills for the Lord's sword destroys from one end of the country to the other. No one has any peace.
Babebisi bakobimela na likolo ya bangomba nyonso ya esobe, pamba te mopanga ya Yawe ekoboma mokili mobimba; moto moko te akozala na kimia.
13 My people sowed wheat but harvested thorns. They wore themselves out but gained no benefit. You should be ashamed of such a poor harvest, caused by the Lord's furious anger.
Bakolona ble, kasi bakobuka banzube; bakobimisa mitoki na mosala, kasi bakozwa litomba ya malonga te. Boye, boyokela mbuma ya bilanga na bino soni, mpo na kanda makasi ya Yawe.
14 This is what the Lord says: When it comes these evil nearby nations who attack the country that I gave to my people Israel, I'm going to uproot them from their land. I'm also going to uproot the people of Judah from among them.
Tala liloba oyo Yawe alobi: « Nakobengana bato mabe oyo bavandaka zingazinga ya ekolo na Ngai, oyo bazali kobundisa libula oyo napesaki bato na Ngai, Isalaele, mpe nakolongola ekolo ya Yuda kati na bango.
15 However, once I have uprooted them, I will have mercy on them again, and bring each one back to their property and their land.
Kasi sima na Ngai kobengana bango, nakoyokela bango lisusu mawa mpe nakozongisa moko na moko kati na libula na ye mpe kati na mokili na ye.
16 If they will honestly learn the ways of my people and respect me, making their vows to me, just as they once taught my people to swear by Baal, then they will do well among my people.
Mpe soki bayekoli malamu bizaleli ya bato na Ngai mpe balapi ndayi na Kombo na Ngai, na maloba oyo: ‹ Na Kombo na Yawe, › ndenge balakisaki bato na Ngai kolapa ndayi na kombo ya Bala, nakopesa bango esika kati na bato na Ngai.
17 But if they refuse to obey, then I will not only uproot that nation but I will completely destroy it, declares the Lord.
Kasi ekolo oyo ekoyoka te, nakobengana bango nyonso mpe nakobebisa bango, » elobi Yawe.
