Deteronomi 9
1 Oh Isalaele, yoka malamu! Okomi sik’oyo pene ya kokatisa Yordani mpo na kokota mpe kobengana bikolo oyo eleki yo na monene mpe na makasi, bikolo oyo evandaka kati na bingumba minene oyo ezali na bamir batonga makasi mpe ekenda kino na likolo.
Hear, O Israel: You go this day across Jordan to inherit nations greater and stronger than yourselves, cities great and walled up to heaven;
2 Bato yango bazali makasi mpe bingambe, bana ya Anaki! Oyebi bango mpe osila koyoka bato koloba na tina na bango: « Nani akoki kotelema liboso ya bana ya Anaki? »
a people great and many and tall, the sons of Enac, whom you know, and concerning whom you have heard [say], Who can stand before the children of Enac?
3 Kasi lelo, yeba malamu ete Yawe, Nzambe na yo, azali Ye moko kotambola liboso na yo lokola moto oyo ezikisaka; akobebisa bango mpe akobuka bango liboso na yo; bongo yo okokamata mabele na bango mpe okosilisa bango noki-noki, ndenge Yawe alakaki yo.
And you shall know today, that the Lord your God he shall go before your face: he is a consuming fire; he shall destroy them, and he shall turn them back before you, and shall destroy them quickly, as the Lord said to you.
4 Tango Yawe, Nzambe na yo, akosilisa kobengana bango liboso na yo, komilobela te kati na motema na yo: « Ezali mpo na bosembo na ngai nde Yawe amemaki ngai mpo ete nakamata mokili oyo. » Te, ezali bongo te! Ezali nde mpo na mabe ya bikolo yango nde Yawe abengani yango liboso na yo.
Speak not in your heart, when the Lord your God has destroyed these nations before your face, saying, For my righteousness the Lord brought me in to inherit this good land.
5 Ezali te mpo na bosembo na yo to mpo ete otambolaki alima nde okokota mpo na kozwa mokili na bango, kasi ezali solo mpo na mabe ya bikolo yango nde Yawe, Nzambe na yo, akobengana yango liboso na yo, mpo na kokokisa ndayi oyo alapaki epai ya bakoko na yo Abrayami, Izaki mpe Jakobi.
Not for your righteousness, nor for the holiness of your heart, do you go in to inherit their land, but because of the wickedness of these nations the Lord will destroy them from before you, and that he may establish the covenant, which the Lord sware to our fathers, to Abraam, and to Isaac, and to Jacob.
6 Boye sosola malamu ete ezali te mpo na bosembo na yo nde Yawe, Nzambe na yo, azali kopesa yo mokili oyo ya malamu mpo ete okamata yango, pamba te yo mpe ozali libota ya batomboki.
And you shall know today, that [it is] not for your righteousnesses the Lord your God gives you this good land to inherit, for you are a stiff-necked people.
7 Kanisaka malamu likambo oyo mpe kobosanaka te ndenge nini opelisaki kanda ya Yawe, Nzambe na yo, kati na esobe: banda mokolo oyo bobimaki wuta na Ejipito kino bokomaki na esika oyo, bozalaki kaka kotosa Yawe te.
Remember, forget not, how much you provoked the Lord your God in the wilderness: from the day that you came forth out of Egypt, even till you came into this place, you continued to be disobedient towards the Lord.
8 Na ngomba Orebi, bopesaki Yawe kanda makasi mpe asilikelaki bino makasi kino akomaki na posa ya kobebisa bino.
Also in Choreb you provoked the Lord, and the Lord was angry with you to destroy you;
9 Tango namataki likolo ya ngomba mpo na kozwa bitando ya mabanga ya boyokani oyo Yawe asalaki elongo na bino, natikalaki likolo ya ngomba mikolo tuku minei mpe babutu tuku minei; naliaki lipa te mpe namelaki mayi te.
when I went up into the mountain to receive the tables of stone, the tables of the covenant, which the Lord made with you, and I was in the mountain forty days and forty nights, I ate no bread and drank no water.
10 Yawe apesaki ngai bitando mibale ya mabanga oyo mosapi ya Nzambe ekomaki. Na likolo na yango, ezali na mibeko nyonso Yawe oyo ayebisaki bino likolo ya ngomba longwa kati na moto, na mokolo oyo bosanganaki.
And the Lord gave me the two tables of stone written with the finger of God, and on them there had been written all the words which the Lord spoke to you in the mountain in the day of the assembly.
11 Na suka ya mikolo tuku minei mpe babutu tuku minei, Yawe apesaki ngai bitando yango mibale ya mabanga ya boyokani.
And it came to pass after forty days and forty nights, the Lord gave me the two tables of stone, the tables of the covenant.
12 Bongo Yawe alobaki na ngai: « Kende, kita mbangu na ngomba oyo, pamba te bato na yo, oyo obimisaki na Ejipito bamikomisi mbindo; bapesi noki mokongo na mibeko oyo napesaki bango mpe bamisaleli ekeko ya ebende banyangwisa na moto. »
And the Lord said to me, Arise, go down quickly from hence, for your people whom you brought out of the land of Egypt have transgressed; they have gone aside quickly out of the way which I commanded them, and have made themselves a molten image.
13 Mpe Yawe alobaki na ngai: « Natali malamu bato oyo; bazali penza libota ya batomboki!
And the Lord spoke to me, saying, I have spoken to you once and again, saying, I have seen this people, and, behold, it is a stiff-necked people.
14 Tika Ngai kosala: nakobebisa bango mpe nakolimwisa bakombo na bango kati na mokili, kasi nakokomisa yo ekolo ya nguya mpe ya bato ebele koleka bango. »
And now suffer me utterly to destroy them, and I will blot out their name from under heaven, and will make of you a nation great and strong, and more numerous than this.
15 Bongo nabalukaki mpe nakitaki wuta na ngomba oyo ekomaki kopela moto; nasimbaki na maboko na ngai bitando mibale ya mabanga ya boyokani.
And I turned and went down from the mountain; and the mountain burnt with fire to heaven; and the two tables of the testimonies [were] in my two hands.
16 Tango natalaki, namonaki ete bosalaki solo masumu epai na Yawe, Nzambe na bino: bomisalelaki ekeko ya mwana ngombe ya ebende banyangwisa na moto; bopengwaki noki na nzela oyo Yawe atindaki bino.
And when I saw that you had sinned against the Lord your God, and had made to yourselves a molten image, and had gone astray out of the way, which the Lord commanded you to keep;
17 Boye, nazwaki bitando yango mibale ya mabanga, nabwakaki yango wuta na maboko na ngai mpe napanzaki yango na biteni na miso na bino.
then I took hold of the two tables, and cast them out of my two hands, and broke them before you.
18 Bongo nakweyaki mbala moko liboso ya Yawe mikolo tuku minei mpe babutu tuku minei, naliaki lipa te mpe namelaki mayi te mpo na lisumu monene oyo bosalaki wana bosalaki mabe na miso ya Yawe mpe, na bongo, bopesaki Ye kanda.
And I made my petition before the Lord as also at the first forty days and forty nights: I ate no bread and drank no water, on account of all your sins which you sinned in doing evil before the Lord God to provoke him.
19 Nabangaki kanda mpe kotomboka ya Yawe, pamba te asilikelaki bino makasi kino akomaki na posa ya kobebisa bino; kasi Yawe ayokelaki ngai lisusu.
And I was greatly terrified because of the wrath and anger, because the Lord was provoked with you utterly to destroy you; yet the Lord listened to me at this time also.
20 Yawe asilikelaki mpe Aron makasi kino alingaki koboma ye; kasi na tango wana, nabondelaki mpe mpo na Aron.
And he was angry with Aaron to destroy him utterly, and I prayed for Aaron also at that time.
21 Nazwaki lisusu eloko oyo ememisaki bino masumu, ekeko ya mwana ngombe oyo bosalaki, natumbaki yango na moto, natutaki mpe nanikaki yango malamu kino ekomaki putulu; mpe nabwakaki putulu yango na mayi oyo ezalaki kotiola wuta na ngomba.
And your sin which you had made, [even] the calf, I took, and burnt it with fire, and pounded it and ground it down till it became fine; and it became like dust, and I cast the dust into the brook that descended from the mountain.
22 Na Tabeera, na Masa, na Kibiroti-Atava, bokobaki kaka kopesa Yawe kanda.
Also in the burning, and in the temptation, and at the graves of lust, you provoked the Lord.
23 Mpe tango Yawe alingaki ete bolongwa na Kadeshi-Barinea, apesaki bino mitindo: « Bokende! Bokamata mokili oyo napesi bino. » Kasi botosaki te mitindo ya Yawe, Nzambe na bino; botiaki elikya te kati na Ye mpe botosaki Ye te.
And when the Lord sent you forth from Cades Barne, saying, Go up and inherit the land which I give to you, then you disobeyed the word of the Lord your God, and believed him not, and listened not to his voice.
24 Wuta mokolo oyo nayeba bino, botikala te kotosa Yawe.
You were disobedient in the things relating to the Lord from the day in which he became known to you.
25 Nakweyaki liboso ya Yawe mikolo tuku minei mpe babutu tuku minei, pamba te Yawe azalaki koloba ete akoboma bino.
And I prayed before the Lord forty days and forty nights, the number that I prayed [before], for the Lord said that he would utterly destroy you.
26 Nabondelaki Yawe mpe nalobaki: « Nkolo Yawe, kobebisa bato na Yo te, bazali libula na Yo moko oyo osikolaki na nguya monene na Yo mpe obimisaki na Ejipito na loboko na Yo ya nguya.
And I prayed to God, and said, O Lord, King of gods, destroy not your people and your inheritance, whom you did redeem, whom you brought out of the land of Egypt with your great power, and with your strong hand, and with your high arm.
27 Kanisa basali na Yo Abrayami, Izaki mpe Jakobi! Kotala te botomboki ya bato oyo, mabe na bango mpe masumu na bango;
Remember Abraam, and Isaac, and Jacob your servants, to whom you sware by yourself: look not upon the hardness of heart of this people, and their impieties, and their sins.
28 noki te bato ya mokili oyo longwa kuna obimisaki biso, bakoloba: ‹ Ezali mpo ete Yawe azalaki na makoki te ya kokotisa bango na mokili oyo alakaki bango to ezali mpo ete azalaki koyina bango, yango wana abimisaki bango wuta na Ejipito mpo na koboma bango na esobe. ›
Lest the inhabitants of the land whence you brought us out speak, saying, Because the Lord could not bring them into the land of which he spoke to them, and because he hated them, has he brought them forth to kill them in the wilderness.
29 Nzokande bazali bato na Yo mpe libula na Yo, oyo obimisaki na nguya monene na Yo mpe na loboko na Yo ya nguya. »
And these [are] your people and your portion, whom you brought out of the land of Egypt with your great strength, and with your mighty hand, and with your high arm.
