1 Masolo ya Kala 21
1 Satana atelemelaki Isalaele mpe atindikaki Davidi na kotanga motango ya bato ya Isalaele.
Satan stood up against Israel, and moved David to take a census of Israel.
2 Boye, Davidi apesaki mitindo na Joabi mpe na bakambi ya bato: — Bokende kotanga bato ya Isalaele, longwa na Beri-Sheba kino na Dani, mpe boyebisa ngai motango na bango mpo ete nayeba.
David said to Joab and to the princes of the people, “Go, count Israel from Beersheba even to Dan; and bring me word, that I may know how many there are.”
3 Kasi Joabi azongisaki: — Tika ete Yawe akomisa bato na Ye ebele koleka mbala nkama! Oh mokonzi, nkolo na ngai, bango nyonso bazali te basali ya nkolo na ngai? Mpo na nini nkolo na ngai alingi kosala bongo? Mpo na nini komemisa Isalaele ngambo?
Joab said, “May the LORD make his people a hundred times as many as they are. But, my lord the king, aren’t they all my lord’s servants? Why does my lord require this thing? Why will he be a cause of guilt to Israel?”
4 Kasi mokonzi atingamaki kaka na mitindo oyo apesaki na Joabi. Boye, Joabi abimaki, atambolaki kati na Isalaele mobimba mpe azongaki na Yelusalemi.
Nevertheless the king’s word prevailed against Joab. Therefore Joab departed and went throughout all Israel, then came to Jerusalem.
5 Joabi ayebisaki Davidi motango ya bato oyo atangaki, bato oyo bakoki kosalela mopanga na bitumba: bato monkoko moko na nkoto nkama moko kati na Isalaele mobimba, mpe nkoto nkama minei na tuku sambo kati na Yuda.
Joab gave the sum of the census of the people to David. All those of Israel were one million one hundred thousand men who drew a sword; and in Judah were four hundred seventy thousand men who drew a sword.
6 Kasi kati na bango, Joabi atangaki te ekolo ya Levi mpe ya Benjame; pamba te etinda ya mokonzi esepelisaki ye te.
But he didn’t count Levi and Benjamin among them, for the king’s word was abominable to Joab.
7 Etinda yango esepelisaki Nzambe te mpe Nzambe apesaki Isalaele etumbu.
God was displeased with this thing; therefore he struck Israel.
8 Davidi alobaki na Nzambe: — Nasali lisumu monene na kotanga bato. Sik’oyo, nabondeli Yo, limbisa mabe ya mosali na Yo; pamba te nasali makambo lokola moto ya liboma.
David said to God, “I have sinned greatly, in that I have done this thing. But now put away, I beg you, the iniquity of your servant, for I have done very foolishly.”
9 Yawe alobaki na mosakoli Gadi, mopesi toli ya Davidi:
The LORD spoke to Gad, David’s seer, saying,
10 — Kende koyebisa Davidi: « Tala liloba oyo Yawe alobi: ‹ Nazali kotalisa yo bitumbu misato; pona moko kati na yango mpo ete Ngai nakokisa yango lokola etumbu mpo na yo. › »
“Go and speak to David, saying, ‘The LORD says, “I offer you three things. Choose one of them, that I may do it to you.”’”
11 Gadi akendeki koyebisa Davidi makambo oyo Yawe alobaki na ye: — Tala makambo oyo Yawe alobi: « Oponi etumbu nini:
So Gad came to David and said to him, “The LORD says, ‘Take your choice:
12 mibu misato ya nzala makasi; sanza misato oyo banguna na yo bakolonga yo mpe mipanga na bango ekoboma basoda na yo; to mikolo misato elongo na mopanga ya Yawe mpe bokono oyo ebomaka, mikolo oyo anjelu ya Yawe akobebisa etuka nyonso ya Isalaele? Kanisa sik’oyo malamu mpe yebisa ngai eyano oyo ngai nasengeli komema epai na Ye oyo atindi ngai. »
either three years of famine; or three months to be consumed before your foes, while the sword of your enemies overtakes you; or else three days of the sword of the LORD, even pestilence in the land, and the LORD’s angel destroying throughout all the borders of Israel. Now therefore consider what answer I shall return to him who sent me.’”
13 Davidi azongiselaki Gadi: — Nazali na pasi makasi kati na motema. Eleki malamu mpo na ngai kokweya na maboko ya Yawe, pamba te mawa na Ye ezali solo monene; kasi tika ete nakweya te na maboko ya bato!
David said to Gad, “I am in distress. Let me fall, I pray, into the LORD’s hand, for his mercies are very great. Don’t let me fall into man’s hand.”
14 Boye, Yawe atindaki kati na Isalaele bokono oyo ebomaka, mpe bato ya Isalaele nkoto tuku sambo bakufaki.
So the LORD sent a pestilence on Israel, and seventy thousand men of Israel fell.
15 Nzambe atindaki anjelu na Yelusalemi mpo na kobebisa yango; kasi wana anjelu azalaki kobebisa, Yawe atalaki mpe ayokaki mawa mpo na pasi wana. Alobaki na anjelu oyo azalaki kobebisa: « Ekoki! Longola loboko na yo! » Anjelu na Yawe atelemaki pembeni ya etando ya Orinani, moto ya Yebusi.
God sent an angel to Jerusalem to destroy it. As he was about to destroy, the LORD saw, and he relented of the disaster, and said to the destroying angel, “It is enough. Now withdraw your hand.” the LORD’s angel was standing by the threshing floor of Ornan the Jebusite.
16 Davidi atombolaki miso mpe amonaki anjelu ya Yawe atelemi kati ya likolo mpe mabele, bongo na loboko na ye oyo asembolaki likolo ya Yelusalemi, asimbaki mopanga ezanga ebombelo. Davidi mpe bampaka balataki basaki mpe bakweyaki bilongi kino na mabele.
David lifted up his eyes, and saw the LORD’s angel standing between earth and the sky, having a drawn sword in his hand stretched out over Jerusalem. Then David and the elders, clothed in sackcloth, fell on their faces.
17 Davidi alobaki na Nzambe: — Boni, ezali ngai nde napesaki mitindo ete batanga motango ya bato? Ngai moko nde nasalaki masumu, ngai moko nde nasalaki mbeba oyo eleki mabe. Bango, bato ya ekolo na ngai, basali mabe moko te. Oh Yawe, Nzambe na ngai, ebongi nde opesa ngai mpe libota na ngai etumbu; kasi tika ete bokono oyo ebomaka ekweyela te bato na Yo!
David said to God, “Isn’t it I who commanded the people to be counted? It is even I who have sinned and done very wickedly; but these sheep, what have they done? Please let your hand, O LORD my God, be against me and against my father’s house; but not against your people, that they should be plagued.”
18 Anjelu na Yawe atindaki Gadi koloba na Davidi: — Kende kotonga etumbelo mpo na Yawe, na etando ya Orinani, moto ya Yebusi.
Then the LORD’s angel commanded Gad to tell David that David should go up and raise an altar to the LORD on the threshing floor of Ornan the Jebusite.
19 Davidi akendeki kuna kolanda liloba oyo Gadi alobaki na Kombo na Yawe.
David went up at the saying of Gad, which he spoke in the LORD’s name.
20 Bongo, wana Orinani azalaki kotuta ble, abalukaki mpe amonaki anjelu. Boye bana na ye ya mibali minei oyo bazalaki na ye elongo babombamaki.
Ornan turned back and saw the angel; and his four sons who were with him hid themselves. Now Ornan was threshing wheat.
21 Davidi apusanaki pembeni ya Orinani; mpe tango Orinani atalaki mpe amonaki Davidi, abimaki na etando mpe agumbamaki liboso ya Davidi, elongi kino na mabele.
As David came to Ornan, Ornan looked and saw David, and went out of the threshing floor, and bowed himself to David with his face to the ground.
22 Davidi alobaki na Orinani: — Pesa ngai etando na yo, tekela ngai yango na motuya ya mbongo oyo ekoki na yango, mpo ete natonga etumbelo mpo na Yawe; tekela ngai yango mpo ete etumbu ya bokono oyo ezali koboma bato esila.
Then David said to Ornan, “Sell me the place of this threshing floor, that I may build an altar to the LORD on it. You shall sell it to me for the full price, that the plague may be stopped from afflicting the people.”
23 Orinani azongiselaki Davidi: — Kamata yango; mpe tika ete mokonzi, nkolo na ngai, asala na yango nyonso oyo amoni ete ezali malamu mpo na ye. Tala, ngai, nakopesa bangombe ya mibali lokola mbeka ya kotumba, banzete oyo babetelaka ble lokola koni, mpe ble lokola mbeka ya bambuma. Nakopesa nyonso wana.
Ornan said to David, “Take it for yourself, and let my lord the king do that which is good in his eyes. Behold, I give the oxen for burnt offerings, and the threshing instruments for wood, and the wheat for the meal offering. I give it all.”
24 Kasi mokonzi Davidi alobaki na Orinani: — Te! Nasengeli kaka kosomba yango mpe kopesa yo motuya oyo ekoki na yango; nakomema te epai na Yawe eloko oyo ezali ya yo, nakobonzela Yawe te bambeka ya kotumba oyo nazwi na ofele.
King David said to Ornan, “No, but I will most certainly buy it for the full price. For I will not take that which is yours for the LORD, nor offer a burnt offering that costs me nothing.”
25 Boye, Davidi asombaki etando yango epai ya Orinani, na motuya ya mbongo ya bibende ya wolo, nkama motoba.
So David gave to Ornan six hundred shekels of gold by weight for the place.
26 Davidi atongaki kuna etumbelo mpo na Yawe mpe abonzaki bambeka ya kotumba mpe bambeka ya boyokani. Abelelaki Yawe, mpe Yawe ayanolaki ye na moto oyo ewutaki likolo mpe ekweyaki na etumbelo ya bambeka.
David built an altar to the LORD there, and offered burnt offerings and peace offerings, and called on the LORD; and he answered him from the sky by fire on the altar of burnt offering.
27 Boye Yawe alobaki na anjelu, mpe anjelu azongisaki mopanga na ye na ebombelo na yango.
Then the LORD commanded the angel, and he put his sword back into its sheath.
28 Banda na tango wana, lokola Davidi amonaki ete Yawe ayanolaki ye na etando ya Orinani, moto ya Yebusi, akomaki kobonza bambeka tango nyonso na esika wana.
At that time, when David saw that the LORD had answered him in the threshing floor of Ornan the Jebusite, then he sacrificed there.
29 Mongombo na Yawe oyo Moyize atongaki na esobe mpe etumbelo ya bambeka ya kotumba ezalaki na tango wana, na esambelo ya likolo ya ngomba ya Gabaoni.
For the LORD’s tabernacle, which Moses made in the wilderness, and the altar of burnt offering, were at that time in the high place at Gibeon.
30 Nzokande Davidi azalaki kokoka te kozwa mokano ya kokende kotuna Nzambe liboso ya Mongombo, pamba te azalaki kobanga mopanga na Yawe.
But David couldn’t go before it to inquire of God, for he was afraid because of the sword of the LORD’s angel.
