Jonah 4
1 Therefore it displeased Ionah exceedingly, and he was angry.
Yona asepelaki na yango ata moke te, asilikaki makasi.
2 And he prayed vnto the Lord, and saide, I pray thee, O Lord, was not this my saying, when I was yet in my countrey? therefore I preuented it to flee vnto Tarshish: for I knewe that thou art a gratious God, and merciful, slow to anger, and of great kindnes, and repentest thee of the euill.
Asambelaki Yawe: — Oh Yawe! Ezali te makambo ya boye nde nazalaki komilobela tango nazalaki epai na ngai? Yango wana nasalaki na ngai mobembo na Tarsisi mpo na koluka kokima, pamba te nayebaki malamu ete ozali Nzambe ya ngolu mpe ya mawa, osilikaka noki te mpe otonda na bolingo, obongolaka makanisi na Yo ya kosala bato mabe.
3 Therefore nowe O Lord, take, I beseech thee, my life from me: for it is better for me to die then to liue.
Sik’oyo, oh Yawe, kamata na Yo bomoi na ngai; pamba te eleki malamu ete nakufa na ngai, kasi nazala na bomoi te!
4 Then saide the Lord, Doest thou well to be angry?
Kasi Yawe azongiselaki ye: — Boni, okanisi ete ozali kosala malamu ndenge ozali kosilika?
5 So Ionah went out of the citie and sate on the East side of the citie, and there made him a boothe, and sate vnder it in the shadowe till he might see what should be done in the citie.
Yona abimaki na libanda ya engumba mpe akendeki kovanda na este na yango. Kuna, amitongelaki ndako moko ya matiti mpe avandaki na se ya pio na yango mpo na kozela makambo oyo ekokweyela engumba Ninive.
6 And the Lord God prepared a gourde, and made it to come vp ouer Ionah, that it might be a shadowe ouer his head and deliuer him from his griefe. So Ionah was exceeding glad of the gourde.
Yawe Nzambe abimisaki nzete moko mpe akolisaki yango mpo na kopesa pio na moto ya Yona mpe kokitisa ye motema. Nzete yango esepelisaki Yona makasi.
7 But God prepared a worme when the morning rose the next day, and it smote the gourd, that it withered.
Kasi na tongo-tongo ya mokolo oyo elandaki, Nzambe abimisaki mwa nyama moko oyo eliaka banzete; bongo eliaki nzete yango, mpe nzete yango ekawukaki.
8 And when the sunne did arise, God prepared also a feruent East winde: and the sunne beat vpon the head of Ionah, that he fainted, and wished in his heart to die, and said, It is better for me to dye, then to liue.
Tango moyi ebimaki makasi, Nzambe atindaki mopepe ya este oyo epesaki molunge makasi. Moyi ebetaki moto ya Yona makasi. Yona alembaki nzoto, asengaki kokufa; alobaki: — Eleki malamu ete nakufa na ngai, kasi nazala na bomoi te!
9 And God said vnto Ionah, Doest thou well to be angrie for the gourde? And he said, I doe well to be angrie vnto the death.
Nzambe alobaki na Yona: — Okanisi ete ozali kosala malamu ndenge ozali kosilika mpo na nzete oyo? Yona azongisaki: — Ezali se bongo. Nazali kosala malamu ndenge nazali kosilika kino kosenga kufa na ngai.
10 Then said the Lord, Thou hast had pitie on the gourde for the which thou hast not laboured, neither madest it growe, which came vp in a night, and perished in a night,
Yawe alobaki: — Oyoki pasi na motema mpo na nzete oyo omoneli ata pasi te mpe okolisi te, oyo ekoli kaka na butu moko mpe ekawuki na butu oyo elandi! Oyokeli yango mpe mawa!
11 And shoulde not I spare Nineueh that great citie, wherein are sixe score thousande persons, that cannot discerne betweene their right hand, and their left hand, and also much cattell?
Bongo ndenge nini Ngai nayoka motema pasi te mpo na Ninive, engumba monene, oyo ezali na bato koleka nkoto nkama moko na tuku mibale oyo bayebi te kokesenisa makambo mabe mpe makambo malamu, mpe ezali na ebele ya bibwele?
