Neemi 9
1 Alò, nan venn-katriyèm jou nan mwa sa a, fis Israël yo te rasanble fè jèn abiye ak twal sak ak tè yo mete sou yo.
Now on the twenty-fourth day of this month the children of Israel assembled with fasting, and in sackcloths, and with ashes on their head.
2 Desandan Israël yo te separe yo soti nan tout etranje yo, e te kanpe pou konfese peche pa yo avèk inikite a papa zansèt yo.
And the children of Israel separated themselves from every stranger, and stood and confessed their sins, and the iniquities of their fathers.
3 Pandan yo te kanpe nan plas yo, yo te li soti nan liv lalwa SENYÈ a, Bondye pa yo a, pou yon ka de jounen an. Pou yon lòt ka, yo te konfese e te adore SENYÈ a, Bondye pa yo a.
And they stood in their place, and read in the book of the law of the Lord their god: and they confessed [their sins] to the Lord, and worshipped the Lord their God.
4 Alò, sou etaj, Levit yo te kanpe Jousé, Bani, Dadmiel, Schebania, Bunni, Schérébia, Bani avèk Kenani. Yo t ap kriye ak vwa fò anlè a SENYÈ a, Bondye yo a.
[And] there stood upon the stairs, of the Levites, Jesus, and the sons of Cadmiel, Sechenia the son of Sarabia, sons of Choneni; and they cried with a loud voice to the Lord their God.
5 Konsa, Levit yo, Josué, Kadmiel, Bani, Haschabnia, Schérébia, Hodija, Schebania, avèk Pethachja te di: “Leve pou beni SENYÈ a, Bondye nou an, jis pou tout tan! O ke non Ou ki se leve wo sou tout benediksyon yo ak lwanj yo ranpli ak glwa kapab beni.
And the Levites, Jesus and Cadmiel, said, Rise up, bless the Lord our God forever and ever: and let them bless your glorious name, and exalt it with all blessing and praise.
6 Se Ou sèl ki SENYÈ a. Ou te fè syèl yo, syèl de syèl yo avèk tout lame pa yo, latè a avèk tout sa ki sou li, lanmè ak tout sa ki ladann. Se Ou ki bay yo tout lavi. Menm lame syèl la bese ba devan Ou.
And Esdras said, You are the only true Lord; you made the heaven, and the heaven of heavens, and all their array, the earth, and all things that are in it, the seas, and all things in them; and you quicken all things, and the hosts of heaven worship you.
7 Ou se SENYÈ a, ki te chwazi Abram nan, e ki te fè l sòti nan Ur a Kaldeyen yo, ki te bay li non Abraham.
You are the Lord God, you did choose Abram, and brought him out of the land of the Chaldeans, and gave him the name of Abraam:
8 Ou te twouve kè li fidèl devan Ou, epi te fè yon akò avèk li, pou bay li tout tè a Canaan yo, a Etyen yo avèk Amoreyen yo, a Ferezyen yo, Jebizyen yo, avèk Girezyen yo, pou livre bay li a desandan pa li yo. Konsa, Ou te akonpli pwomès Ou te fè a, paske Ou jis.
and you found his heart faithful before you, and did make a covenant with him to give to him and to his seed the land of the Chananites, and the Chettites, and Amorites, and Pherezites, and Jebusites, and Gergesites; and you have confirmed your words, for you [are] righteous.
9 Ou te wè afliksyon a zansèt nou yo an Egypte, epi te tande kri yo akote Lanmè Wouj.
And you saw the affliction of our fathers in Egypt, and you heard their cry at the Red Sea.
10 Ou te fè sign ak mèvèy kont Farawon, kont tout sèvitè li yo avèk moun a peyi li yo, paske Ou te konnen ke yo te aji avèk awogans kont yo, epi te fè yon non pou tèt Ou ki dire jis rive jodi a.
And you showed signs and wonders in Egypt, on Pharao and all his servants, and on all the people of his land: for you know that they behaved insolently against them: and you made yourself a name, as at this day.
11 Ou te divize lanmè a devan yo. Konsa yo te pase nan mitan lanmè a sou tè sèch. Epi sila ki te kouri dèyè yo te jete nan fon, tankou yon wòch nan dlo anraje.
And you did cleave the sea before them, and they passed through the midst of the sea on dry land; and you did cast into the deep them that were about to pursue them, as a stone in the mighty water.
12 Avèk yon pilye nwaj, Ou te mennen pèp la pandan lajounen, e avèk yon pilye dife pandan lannwit, pou limen chemen yo sou sila yo ta dwe mache yo.
And you guided them by day by a pillar of cloud, and by night by a pillar of fire, to enlighten for them the way wherein they should walk.
13 Anplis, Ou te desann sou Mon Sinaï, e te pale avèk yo soti nan syèl la. Ou te bay yo òdonans ki jis avèk lalwa ki te vrè, bon règleman avèk bon kòmandman yo.
Also you came down upon mount Sina, and you spoke to them out of heaven, and gave them right judgments, and laws of truth, ordinances, and good commandments.
14 Konsa, Ou te fè yo rekonèt Saba sen Ou an, epi te byen poze pou yo, kòmandman yo, règleman yo, avèk lalwa yo pa sèvitè Ou, Moïse.
And you did make known to them your holy sabbath; you did enjoin upon them commandments, and ordinances, and a law, by the hand of your servant Moses.
15 Ou te founi pen soti nan syèl la pou grangou yo, epi Ou te mennen dlo soti nan yon wòch pou yo menm, pou swaf yo, epi Ou te di yo antre ladann nan peyi ke Ou te sèmante pou bay yo pou posede a.
And you gave them bread from heaven for their food, and you brought them forth water from a rock for their thirst; and you bade them go in to inherit the land over which you stretched out your hand to give [it] them.
16 Men yo menm, zansèt nou yo, te aji avèk awogans. Yo te fè tèt di, epi te refize koute kòmandman Ou yo.
But they and our fathers behaved proudly, and hardened their neck, and did not listen to your commandments,
17 Yo te refize koute e yo pa t sonje mèvèy ke Ou te fè pami yo. Konsa, yo te vin tèt di, e te chwazi yon chèf ki pou mennen yo retounen an esklavaj yo an Egypte. Men Ou se yon Bondye ki padone, plen ak gras avèk mizerikòd, lan nan kòlè e plen avèk lanmou dous. Ou pa t abandone yo.
and refused to listen, and remembered not your wonders which you wrought with them; and they hardened their neck, and appointed a leader to return to their slavery in Egypt: but you, O God, [are] merciful and compassionate, longsuffering, and abundant in mercy, and you did not forsake them.
18 Menm lè yo te fè pou kont yo yon ti bèf an metal fonn, yo te di: ‘Sa se Bondye nou, ki te mennen nou monte soti an Egypte la’, epi te fè gran blasfèm,
And still farther they even made to themselves a molten calf, and said, These [are] the gods that brought us up out of Egypt: and they wrought great provocations.
19 Ou menm, nan gran mizerikòd Ou, pa t abandone yo nan dezè. Pilye nwaj la pa t kite yo pandan lajounen, pou gide yo nan chemen yo, ni pilye dife a pandan lannwit, pou klere pou yo chemen an, e montre yo direksyon ke yo dwe ale.
Yet you in your great compassions did not forsake them in the wilderness: you did not turn away from them the pillar of the cloud by day, to guide them in the way, nor the pillar of fire by night, to enlighten for them the way wherein they should walk.
20 Ou te bay bon lespri pa Ou pou enstwi yo. Lamàn Ou, Ou pa t refize fè antre nan bouch yo. Ou te bay yo dlo pou lè yo te swaf.
And you gave your good Spirit to instruct them, and you did not withhold your manna from their mouth, and gave them water in their thirst.
21 Anverite, pandan karantan, Ou te fè pwovizyon pou yo nan dezè a, e yo pa t manke anyen. Rad yo pa t epwize, ni pye yo pa t anfle.
And you did sustain them forty years in the wilderness; you did not allow anything to fail them: their garments did not wax old, and their feet were not bruised.
22 Anplis, Ou te bay yo wayòm yo avèk pèp yo, epi te divize bay yo tout selon pòsyon pa yo. Yo te pran posesyon a peyi Sihon, wa a Hesbon an ak peyi Og, wa Basan an.
Moreover, you gave them kingdoms, and did divide nations to them: and they inherited the land of Seon king of Esebon, and the land of Og king of Basan.
23 Ou te fè fis pa yo vin anpil kon zetwal syèl yo, epi Ou te mennen yo antre nan peyi ke Ou te mande zansèt pa yo antre pou posede a.
And you did multiply their children as the stars of heaven, and brought them into the land of which you spoke to their fathers;
24 Pou sa, fis pa yo te antre pou posede peyi a. Epi Ou te fè moun peyi a Canaan yo soumèt devan Ou. Konsa, Ou te livre yo nan men yo, avèk wa yo ak pèp peyi a, pou fè avèk yo sa yo te pito.
And they inherited it: and you did destroy from before them the dwellers in the land of the Chananites, and you gave into their hands them and their kings, and the nations of the land, to do to them as it pleased them.
25 Yo te kaptire vil fòtifye yo, avèk tèren byen fètil yo. Yo te vin posede kay yo plen avèk tout bon bagay, sitèn ki fin fouye, chan rezen, chan oliv avèk pye fwi an kantite. Konsa, yo te manje, te vin plen, epi te vin gra, e te pran plezi nan gran bonte Ou.
And they took lofty cities, and inherited houses full of all good things, wells dug, vineyards, and olive yards, and every fruit tree in abundance: so they ate, and were filled, and grew fat, and rioted in your great goodness.
26 Men yo te tanmen dezobeyi, epi te fè rebèl kont Ou. Yo te jete lalwa pa Ou dèyè do yo, e te touye pwofèt Ou yo ki te bay yo avètisman pou yo ta retounen kote Ou, epi yo te komèt gwo blasfèm.
But they turned, and revolted from you, and cast your law behind their backs; and they killed your prophets, who testified against them to turn them back to you, and they wrought great provocations.
27 Pou sa, Ou te livre yo nan men a opresè yo ki te oprime yo. Men lè yo te kriye a Ou menm nan tan gwo twoub yo, Ou te tande soti nan syèl la, epi pa gran lanmou dous Ou, Ou te bay yo chèf liberatè yo, ki te delivre yo nan men a opresè yo.
Then you gave them into the hand of them that afflicted them, and they did afflict them: and they cried to you in the time of their affliction, and you did hear them from your heaven, and in your great compassions gave them deliverers, and did save them from the hand of them that afflicted them.
28 Men soti lè yo te fin jwenn repo a, yo te fè mal ankò devan Ou. Pou sa, Ou te abandone yo nan men a lènmi yo, jiskaske yo te renye sou yo. Lè yo te kriye ankò a Ou menm, Ou te tande Soti nan syèl la, epi anpil fwa Ou te fè yo chape akoz gran lanmou dous Ou,
But when they rested, they did evil again before you: so you left them in the hands of their enemies, and they ruled over them: and they cried again to you, and you heard [them] from heaven, and did deliver them in your great compassions.
29 epi te fè tèmwen kont yo pou fè yo retounen kote lalwa Ou. Sepandan, yo te aji avèk awogans e pa t Koute kòmandman Ou yo, men te peche kont òdonans Ou yo, selon sila yo, si yon nonm ta swiv yo, li ta viv. Men yo te vire yon do byen di, yo te fè tèt di, epi te refize koute.
And you did testify against them, to bring them back to your law: but they listened not, but sinned against your commandments and your judgments, which if a man do, he shall live in them; and they turned their back, and hardened their neck, and heard not.
30 Malgre sa, Ou te sipòte yo pandan anpil ane, epi te avèti yo pa Lespri Ou, pa pwofèt Ou yo. Sepandan, yo te refize bay zòrèy yo. Akoz sa, Ou te livre yo nan men a pèp nasyon yo.
Yet you did bear long with them many years, and did testify to them by your Spirit by the hand of your prophets: but they listened not; so you gave them into the hand of the nations of the land.
31 Men nan gran mizerikòd Ou, Ou pa t fini ak yo, ni abandone yo, paske Ou menm se yon Bondye gras avèk mizerikòd.
But you in your many mercies did not appoint them to destruction, and did not forsake them; for you are strong, and merciful, and pitiful.
32 Alò, pou sa, Bondye Nou an, Bondye gran, pwisan e mèvèy la, ki kenbe akò li avèk Lanmou dous, pa kite tout twoub sa yo vin bliye devan Ou, ki te vin rive sou nou, wa nou yo, chèf nou yo, prèt nou yo, papa zansèt nou yo, ak sou tout pèp Ou yo, depi nan jou wa Assyrie yo, jis rive jodi a.
And now, O our God, the powerful, the great, the mighty, and the terrible, keeping your covenant and your mercy, let not all the trouble seem little in your sight which has come upon us, and our kings, and our princes, and our priests, and our prophets, and our fathers, and upon all your people, from the days of the kings of Assur even to this day.
33 Sepandan, Ou jis nan tout sa ki vin rive nou; paske Ou te aji avèk fidelite, men nou te aji mal.
But you [are] righteous in all the things that come upon us; for you have wrought faithfully, but we have greatly sinned.
34 Paske wa nou yo, chèf nou yo, prèt nou yo ak zansèt nou yo pa t kenbe lalwa Ou yo, ni okipe kòmandman Ou yo avèk avètisman Ou yo avèk sila Ou te avèti yo.
And our kings, and our princes, and our priests, and our fathers, have not performed your law, and have not given heed to your commandments, and [have not kept] your testimonies which you did testify to them.
35 Men yo, malgre nan pwòp wayòm pa yo ke Ou te bay yo, pa t sèvi Ou, ni kite zak mechan yo.
And they did not serve you in your kingdom, and in your great goodness which you gave to them, and in the large and fat land which you did furnish before them, and they turned not from their evil devices.
36 Gade byen, nou vin esklav yo jodi a, epi pou teren ke Ou te bay a zansèt Nou yo, pou manje fwi avèk bonte li, Gade byen, nou vin esklav ladann yo.
Behold, we are servants this day, and [as for] the land which you gave to our fathers to eat the fruit of it and the good things of it, behold, we are servants upon it:
37 Gran rekòlt li bay vin pou wa yo ke Ou te fin mete sou nou akoz peche nou yo. Anplis, yo renye sou kò nou epi sou bèt nou yo, jan yo pito; pou sa a, nou nan gran pwoblèm.
and its produce [is] abundant for the kings whom you did appoint over us because of our sins; and they have dominion over our bodies, and over our cattle, as it pleases them, and we are in great affliction.
38 Alò, akoz tout sa, nou ap fè yon akò ki si, ki ekri; epi dokiman an sele, pa Chèf nou yo, Levit nou yo ak prèt nou yo.”
And in regard to all these circumstances we make a covenant, and write [it], and our princes, our Levites, [and] our priests, set their seal to [it].
