2 Samuele 14
1 Joabi, mwana mobali ya Tseruya, asosolaki ete motema ya mokonzi ekomi na posa ya Abisalomi.
And Joab son of Zeruial knows that the heart of the king [is] on Absalom,
2 Boye, Joabi atindaki moto moko na mboka Tekoa, mpo na koluka mwasi moko ya bwanya mpe komema ye longwa kuna. Alobaki na ye: « Sala lokola moto oyo azali na matanga, lata bilamba ya matanga, kopakola mafuta te: sala lokola mwasi oyo alata pili wuta mikolo ebele mpo na kolela ebembe;
and Joab sends to Tekoah, and takes a wise woman from there, and says to her, “Please feign yourself a mourner, and now put on garments of mourning, and do not anoint yourself with oil, and you have been as a woman mourning for the dead [for] these many days,
3 mpe kende epai ya mokonzi, yebisa ye maloba oyo. » Joabi ayebisaki maloba oyo asengelaki koloba.
and you have gone to the king, and spoken to him, according to this word”; and Joab puts the words into her mouth.
4 Tango mwasi ya mboka Tekoa akomaki epai ya mokonzi, agumbamaki elongi na ye kino na mabele mpe alobaki: — Oh mokonzi, sunga ngai!
And the woman of Tekoah speaks to the king, and falls on her face to the earth, and pays respect, and says, “Save, O king.”
5 Mokonzi atunaki ye: — Eloko nini ezali kotungisa yo? Azongisaki: — Nazali mwasi akufisa mobali; mobali na ngai akufaki.
And the king says to her, “What do you [want]?” And she says, “I [am] truly a widow woman, and my husband dies,
6 Ngai, mwasi mosali na yo, nazalaki na bana mibali mibale. Bango mibale baswanaki kati na bilanga, mpe moto moko te azalaki kuna mpo na kokabola bango. Moko abetaki mosusu mpe abomaki ye.
and your maidservant has two sons; and both of them strive in a field, and there is no deliverer between them, and one strikes the other, and puts him to death;
7 Sik’oyo, libota mobimba etelemeli mwasi mosali na yo, bazali koloba: « Kaba na maboko na biso ye oyo abetaki ndeko na ye ya mobali mpo ete toboma ye mpo na bomoi ya ndeko na ye ya mobali oyo ye abomaki. Na nzela wana, tokolongola mokitani ya libula. » Na bongo, bakoki koboma mwa likala ya moto oyo natikali na yango mpe kozangisa mobali na ngai kombo mpe bakitani kati na mokili.
and behold, the whole family has risen against your maidservant, and say, Give up him who strikes his brother, and we put him to death for the life of his brother whom he has slain, and we also destroy the heir; and they have quenched my coal which is left—so as not to set a name and remnant on the face of the ground for my husband.”
8 Mokonzi alobaki na mwasi: — Zonga na ndako na yo, nakopesa mitindo na tina na yo.
And the king says to the woman, “Go to your house, and I give charge concerning you.”
9 Kasi mwasi ya mboka Tekoa alobaki na mokonzi: — Oh mokonzi, nkolo na ngai, tika ete ngambo ekweya na moto na ngai mpe na libota ya tata na ngai; kasi tika ete mokonzi mpe kiti na ye ya bokonzi bazala mosika ya likambo oyo.
And the woman of Tekoah says to the king, “On me, my lord, O king, [is] the iniquity, and on the house of my father; and the king and his throne [are] innocent.”
10 Mokonzi alobaki na ye: — Soki moto moko ameki kotombokela yo, yaka na ye epai na ngai, mpe akozongela lisusu te kotungisa yo.
And the king says, “He who speaks to you, and you have brought him to me, then he does not add to come against you anymore.”
11 Mwasi alobaki: — Tika ete mokonzi alapa ndayi na Kombo na Yawe, Nzambe na ye, ete akopekisa mobukanisi makila mpo ete akoba te kobebisa na koboma mwana na ngai ya mobali, oyo atikali. Mokonzi alobaki: — Na Kombo na Yawe, suki ata moko te ya moto ya mwana na yo ya mobali ekokweya na mabele.
And she says, “Please let the king remember by your God YHWH, that the redeemer of blood does not add to destroy, and they do not destroy my son”; and he says, “YHWH lives; if there falls [even one] hair of your son to the earth.”
12 Mwasi yango alobaki: — Tika ete mwasi mosali na yo aloba likambo moko epai ya mokonzi, nkolo na ngai. Mokonzi azongisaki: — Loba!
And the woman says, “Please let your maidservant speak a word to my lord the king”; and he says, “Speak.”
13 Mwasi alobaki: — Mpo na nini osali mabongisi ya boye mpo na kotelemela bato ya Nzambe? Wana mokonzi abimisi maloba oyo, ye moko azali komikweyisa te mpo ete azongisi te mwana mobali oyo akimaki na mboka ya bapaya?
And the woman says, “And why have you thought thus concerning the people of God? Indeed, the king is speaking this thing as a guilty one, in that the king has not brought back his outcast;
14 Solo, ndenge bakokaka te kolokota mayi oyo esili kosopana, ndenge mpe biso tosengeli kokufa. Kasi sik’oyo, ezali te mokano ya Nzambe mpo na Abisalomi, pamba te asalaki mabongisi mpo ete moto oyo abungi nzela awumela te mosika na Ye.
for we surely die, and [are] as water which is running down to the earth, which is not gathered, and God does not accept a person, and has devised plans in that the outcast is not outcast by Him.
15 Mpe sik’oyo, soki nayei kobimisa maloba oyo epai ya mokonzi, nkolo na ngai, ezali mpo ete bato babangisaki ngai. Yango wana mwasi mosali na yo amilobelaki: « Tika ete naloba na mokonzi, nkolo na ngai. Tango mosusu, akosala kolanda makambo oyo mwasi mosali na ye akosenga.
And now that I have come to speak this word to my lord the king, [it is] because the people made me afraid, and your maidservant says, Please let me speak to the king; it may be the king does the word of his handmaid,
16 Tango mosusu, mokonzi akondima kokangola mwasi mosali na ye wuta na loboko ya mobali oyo azali koluka kobwaka ngai mpe mwana na ngai ya mobali mosika ya libula oyo Nzambe apesaki biso. »
for the king listens to deliver his handmaid out of the paw of the man [seeking] to destroy me and my son together out of the inheritance of God,
17 Mpe sik’oyo, tala makambo oyo mwasi mosali na yo azali koloba: « Tika ete liloba ya mokonzi, nkolo na ngai, epesa ngai bopemi, pamba te mokonzi, nkolo na ngai, azali lokola Anjelu na Nzambe oyo ayebaka kososola mabe mpe malamu. Tika ete Yawe, Nzambe na yo, azala elongo na yo! »
and your maidservant says, Please let the word of my lord the king be for ease; for as a messenger of God so [is] my lord the king, to understand the good and the evil; and your God YHWH is with you.”
18 Mokonzi alobaki na mwasi: — Kobombela ngai te eyano ya likambo oyo nalingi kotuna yo. Mwasi azongisaki: — Tika ete mokonzi, nkolo na ngai, aloba!
And the king answers and says to the woman, “Please do not hide from me the thing that I am asking you”; and the woman says, “Please let my lord the king speak.”
19 Mokonzi atunaki: — Boni, loboko ya Joabi ezali elongo na yo te na makambo oyo nyonso? Mwasi azongisaki: — Na kombo na yo mokonzi, nkolo na ngai, kati na makambo nyonso oyo mokonzi, nkolo na ngai, awuti koloba, moto moko te akoki kokende, ezala na ngambo ya loboko ya mobali to na ngambo ya loboko ya mwasi. Solo, ezali mosali na yo, Joabi, nde atindaki ngai kosala makambo oyo, mpe ye nde atiaki maloba oyo na monoko na ngai mwasi mosali na yo.
And the king says, “Is the hand of Joab with you in all this?” And the woman answers and says, “Your soul lives, my lord, O king, none [turn] to the right or to the left from all that my lord the king has spoken; for your servant Joab commanded me, and he put all these words in the mouth of your maidservant.
20 Mosali na yo, Joabi, asalaki boye mpo na kobongola mpe kokomisa makambo oyo ndenge mosusu. Kasi nkolo na ngai azali na bwanya lokola Anjelu na Nzambe, ayebi makambo nyonso oyo ezali koleka kati na mokili.
Your servant Joab has done this thing in order to bring around the appearance of the thing, and my lord [is] wise, according to the wisdom of a messenger of God, to know all that [is] in the land.”
21 Mokonzi alobaki na Joabi: — Malamu! Nakosala yango. Kende, zongisa elenge mobali Abisalomi.
And the king says to Joab, “Now behold, you have done this thing; and go, bring back the young man Absalom.”
22 Bongo Joabi agumbamaki elongi kino na mabele mpo na kopesa mokonzi lokumu mpe apambolaki ye. Joabi alobaki: — Lelo, mosali na yo asosoli ete azwi ngolu na miso na yo mokonzi, nkolo na ngai, pamba te mokonzi andimi kosala makambo oyo mosali na ye asengi.
And Joab falls on his face to the earth, and pays respect, and blesses the king, and Joab says, “Today your servant has known that I have found grace in your eyes, my lord, O king, in that the king has done the word of his servant.”
23 Bongo Joabi akendeki na Geshuri mpe azongisaki Abisalomi, na Yelusalemi.
And Joab rises and goes to Geshur, and brings in Absalom to Jerusalem,
24 Kasi mokonzi alobaki: — Asengeli kokende na ndako na ye; asengeli te komona elongi na ngai. Boye Abisalomi akendeki na ndako na ye, mpe amonaki elongi ya mokonzi te.
and the king says, “Let him turn around to his house, and he does not see my face.” And Absalom turns around to his house, and he has not seen the face of the king.
25 Kati na Isalaele mobimba, ezalaki na moto moko te oyo azalaki kitoko koleka Abisalomi mpe oyo bazalaki kokumisa lokola ye. Azalaki ata na mbeba moko te, banda na moto kino na misapi ya makolo.
And there was no man [so] beautiful in all Israel like Absalom, to praise greatly; from the sole of his foot even to his crown there was no blemish in him;
26 Na suka ya mibu nyonso, azalaki kokata suki ya moto na ye, mpo ete ezalaki kokoma kilo makasi. Boye tango bazalaki kotia yango na bimekelo, ezalaki na bakilo mibale na bagrame nkama mitano, kolanda ndenge bamekaka kilo kati na ndako ya mokonzi.
and in his shaving his head—and it has been at the end of year by year that he shaves [it], for it [is] heavy on him, and he has shaved it—he has even weighed out the hair of his head—two hundred shekels by the king’s weight.
27 Abisalomi azalaki na bana mibali misato mpe mwana moko ya mwasi. Kombo ya mwana na ye ya mwasi ezalaki Tamari, mpe azalaki mwasi moko ya kitoko makasi.
And there are born to Absalom three sons and one daughter, and her name [is] Tamar; she was a woman of beautiful appearance.
28 Abisalomi avandaki na Yelusalemi mibu mibale mpe atikalaki komona te elongi ya mokonzi.
And Absalom dwells in Jerusalem [for] two years of days, and he has not seen the face of the king;
29 Bongo Abisalomi abengisaki Joabi mpo ete atinda ye epai ya mokonzi, kasi Joabi aboyaki kokende epai na ye. Abengisaki lisusu Joabi na mbala ya mibale, kasi Joabi aboyaki kaka kokende.
and Absalom sends to Joab, to send him to the king, and he has not been willing to come to him; and he sends again a second time, and he has not been willing to come.
30 Abisalomi alobaki na basali na ye: « Botala! Elanga ya Joabi ezali pembeni ya elanga na ngai, ezali na bambuma ya orje. Bokende kotia yango moto. » Basali ya Abisalomi batiaki yango moto.
And he says to his servants, “See, the portion of Joab [is] by the side of mine, and he has barley there; go and burn it with fire”; and the servants of Absalom burn the portion with fire.
31 Joabi akendeki na ndako ya Abisalomi mpe alobaki na ye: — Mpo na nini otie moto na elanga na ngai?
And Joab rises and comes to Absalom in the house, and says to him, “Why have your servants burned the portion that I have with fire?”
32 Abisalomi azongiselaki Joabi: — Tala, natindelaki yo maloba; nalobaki: « Yaka awa mpo ete natinda yo epai ya mokonzi mpo na kotuna ye: ‹ Mpo na nini nalongwaki na Geshuri? Elingaki kozala malamu mpo na ngai soki natikalaki na ngai kuna. Sik’oyo, nalingi komona elongi ya mokonzi; mpe soki namemaki ngambo na likambo moko, tika ete baboma ngai! › »
And Absalom says to Joab, “Behold, I sent to you, saying, Come here, and I send you to the king to say, Why have I come in from Geshur? [It was] good for me while I [was] there—and now, let me see the king’s face, and if there is iniquity in me then you have put me to death.”
33 Boye Joabi akendeki epai ya mokonzi mpe ayebisaki ye makambo nyonso. Mokonzi abengisaki Abisalomi, mpe Abisalomi akendeki liboso ya mokonzi, agumbamaki elongi kino na mabele, mpe mokonzi ayambaki ye.
And Joab comes to the king, and declares [it] to him, and he calls to Absalom, and he comes to the king, and bows himself to him, on his face, to the earth, before the king, and the king gives a kiss to Absalom.
