Psalms 146

1 Praise ye Jah! Praise, O my soul, Jehovah.

Bokumisa Yawe! Oh molimo na ngai, kumisa Yawe!

2 I praise Jehovah during my life, I sing praise to my God while I exist.

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

3 Trust not in princes — in a son of man, For he hath no deliverance.

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

4 His spirit goeth forth, he returneth to his earth, In that day have his thoughts perished.

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

5 O the happiness of him Who hath the God of Jacob for his help, His hope [is] on 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 Making the heavens and earth, The sea and all that [is] in them, Who is keeping truth to the age,

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

7 Doing judgment for the oppressed, Giving bread to the hungry.

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

8 Jehovah is loosing the prisoners, Jehovah is opening (the eyes of) the blind, Jehovah is raising the bowed down, Jehovah is loving the righteous,

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

9 Jehovah is preserving the strangers, The fatherless and widow He causeth to stand, And the way of the wicked He turneth upside down.

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

10 Jehovah doth reign to the age, Thy God, O Zion, to generation and generation, Praise ye Jah!

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