Psalms 104
1 [I tell] myself that I should praise Yahweh. Yahweh, my God, you are very great! Like a king has on his royal robes [MET], you have honor and majesty/greatness all around you!
Zitisa Yave, a muelꞌama. A Yave, Nzambi ama, ngeyo widi wunneni ngolo. Ngeyo vueti kiezila ayi nzitusu.
2 You [created/caused] light to be like your robe [MET]. You spread out the sky like [a man sets up] a tent.
Niandi wukifukidi muinda banga nledi; weti yalumuna diyilu banga nzo yi ngoto,
3 You made/put your home [in heaven], above the rain clouds in the sky, [like a man puts the] rafters of his house in place [MET]. You made/caused the clouds to be like chariots [to carry you].
ayi wutunga makunzi ma bivinga biandi bizangama va minlangu miawu. Niandi weti kitula matuti ditoma diandi di sengo ayi weti diatila mu mavavi ma phemo.
4 You caused the winds to be [like] your messengers [MET], and flames of fire to be [like] your servants.
Wunkitulanga phemo bamvuala bandi, minlaki mi mbazu bisadi biandi.
5 You placed the world firmly on its foundation so that it can never be moved/shaken.
Wuvuandisa ntoto va zifondasio ziandi; wulendi nikuka ko kadi fifioti.
6 [Later], you covered the earth with a flood, like a blanket, with the water that covered the mountains.
Ngeyo wufukidila wawu mu thipula banga ngeyo wumfukididi nledi, Minlangu mitelama nate ku mbata miongo.
7 [But] when you rebuked the water, the oceans receded; your voice spoke like thunder, and then the waters rushed away.
Vayi bu wutema, minlangu mitina, mu biyoko bi dumu kiaku, miawu mitina.
8 Mountains rose up [from the water], and the valleys sank down to the levels that you had determined for them.
Mikumbila va mbata miongo, mibua nate mu mindimba ku buangu kioki wukubikila miawu.
9 [Then] you set a boundary for the oceans, a boundary that they cannot cross; their water will never again cover the [whole] earth.
Ngeyo wumitudila zindilu ziozi ka milendi sabuka ko; milendi buela diamisa ntoto ko.
10 You make/cause springs to pour [water] into ravines; their [water] flows down between the mountains.
Niandi wukubika zitho zi minlangu mu zikhola zinkumbanga va khatitsika miongo.
11 Those [streams] provide water for all the animals [to drink]; the wild donkeys [drink the water and] are no longer thirsty.
Zilembo vani nlangu kuidi bibulu bioso bi tsola, ziphunda zi nsitu zimanisinanga phuilꞌawu.
12 Birds make their nests alongside [the streams], and they sing among the branches [of the trees].
Zinuni zi yilu zintunganga dianla mu yenda minlangu, zieti yimbila va khatitsika matafi.
13 From (your home in heaven/the sky) you send rain down on the mountains, and you fill the earth with many good things that you create.
Wulembo lembila miongo tona ku bivinga biandi bizangama; ntoto wuyukutidi mu mbutu wu kisalu kiandi.
14 You make/cause grass to grow for the cattle [to eat], and you make/cause plants to grow for people. In that way [animals and people] get their food from [what grows in] the soil.
Niandi weti menisa biti mu diambu di bibulu, ayi bikunusu mu diambu di batu bakuna, ayi totulanga bidia mu ntoto:
15 We get [grapes to make] [MTY] wine to [drink and] make us cheerful, and we get [olives to make] [MTY] olive oil to [put on our] skin and cause it to shine, and we get [grain to make] [MTY] bread to give us strength.
vinu kieti yangidika ntima wu mutu, mafuta meta kienzula zizi kiandi ayi dipha dieti kindisa ntimꞌandi.
16 Yahweh, you [send plenty of rain to] water your trees, the cedar [trees] that you planted in Lebanon.
Minti mi Yave midi milembolo bumboti; minti mi sedeli mi tsi Libani miomi kakuna.
17 Birds make their nests in those [trees]; even storks make their nests in pine/fir trees.
Muawu zinuni zieti tungila zindiala ziawu; nuni beti tedila ngongo yitungila nzo andi mu minti mimbutanga zimbala zi phutu.
18 High up in the mountains the wild goats live, and hyraxes/badgers live in the crags/crevices in the rocks.
Miongo mi nangama mivuiwulu kuidi zikhombo zi nsitu; zithadi zidi suamunu mu diambu di bibulu bieti tedolo damani.
19 [Yahweh], you made the moon to indicate the times for our festivals, and you made the sun that knows when to go down.
Ngondi yeti vasa zitsungi, ayi thangu zebi thangu mbi kafueti diamina.
20 You bring darkness, and it becomes night, when all the animals in the forest prowl around, [looking for food].
Ngeyo weti nata tombi, buisi bueti yila ayi buna bibulu bioso bi nsitu bilembo diengila-diengila.
21 At night the young lions roar as they seek their prey, [but] they depend on you to give them food.
Zikhosi zillembo kungi mu diambu di biobi zifueti buila ayi zieti tomba bidia biawu kuidi Nzambi.
22 At dawn, they go back to their dens and lie down.
Thangu yawu totuka, buna zivengumukini; zivutukidi ayi zilekidi mu minsuku miawu.
23 And during the daytime, people go to their work; they work until it is evening.
Buna mutu weti kuenda ku kisalu kiandi, ku kisalu kiandi nate buisi bu nyila.
24 Yahweh, you have made so many different kinds of things! You were [very] wise as you made them all. The earth is full of the creatures that you [made].
Phila bisalu biaku bididi woka, a Yave; mu nduenga wuvangila bibioso ntoto wufulukidi mu bivangu biaku.
25 [We see] the ocean which is very large [DOU]! It is full of many kinds of living creatures, big ones and little ones.
Vadi mbu wumosi, wunneni ayi wuyalumuka; muwedi bivangu ka bilendi baka bu tangulu ko; bima bimoyo bifioti ayi binneni.
26 We see the ships which sail along! We see the huge sea monster, which you made to (splash around/play) in the sea.
Muawu mu nkuendilanga ayi vutukilanga masuwa; ayi Leviatani, bulu kioki wuvanga, muawu kieti sakinina.
27 All of those creatures depend on you to give them the food that they need.
Bibioso bikutalanga muingi wuba vananga bidia biawu mu thangu yifuana.
28 When you give them the food that they need, they gather it. You give them what you have in your hand, and they [eat it and] are satisfied.
Thangu weti kubivana bidia, bieti bonga biawu; ngeyo zibula koko kuaku, bieti yukuta mu bima bimboti.
29 [But] if you refuse to give food to them, they become terrified. And when you cause them to stop breathing, they die; their bodies [decay and] become soil again.
Ngeyo sueka zizi kiaku, buna bieka mona tsisi. Ngeyo biziona vumunu kiawu, buna bieti fua ayi bieti vutuka mu mbungi-mbungi.
30 When you cause newborn creatures to begin to breathe, they start to live; you give new life to all the living creatures on the earth.
Ngeyo fidisa vumunu kiaku, buna bivangimini ayi ngeyo weti kitula diaka zizi ki ntoto kimona.
31 I want the glory of Yahweh to last forever. I want him to rejoice about [all] the things that he has created.
Bika Nkembo wu Nzambi wuzingila mu zithangu zioso; bika Yave kayangalala mu bisalu biandi!
32 He causes the earth to shake [just] by looking at it! By [merely] touching the mountains he makes/causes them to pour out fire and smoke!
Niandi wuntalanga ku ntoto, ayi ntoto wulembo titi. Niandi wulembo simba miongo ayi milembo totula muisi.
33 I will sing to Yahweh (as long as I live/throughout my entire life). I will praise my God until the day that I die.
Ndiela yimbidilanga Yave mu luzingu luama loso. Ndiela yimbidilanga Nzambi ama minzitusu thangu yoso yi luzingu luama.
34 I want Yahweh to be pleased by all those things that I have thought [about him], because I rejoice about [knowing] him.
Bika mambu mama ndinyindula mammonisa khini banga phila ndilembo muena khini mu Yave.
35 [But] I desire that sinners will disappear from the earth, so that there will be no more wicked [people]! [But as for] me, I will praise Yahweh! (Praise him/Hallelujah)!
Vayi bika bankua masumu balalukusu va ntoto, ayi bika batu bambimbi babika buela monika! Zitisa Yave, a muelꞌama! Bika Yave kazitusu!
