Oze 3

1 Yawe alobaki na ngai: — Kende, linga mwasi mosusu oyo azali mwasi ya mobali mosusu to mpe azali mwasi ya ekobo. Linga ye ndenge Yawe alingaka bana ya Isalaele, ata soki basambelaka banzambe mosusu mpe baliaka bagato basala na bambuma ya vino ebulisama!

Yahweh said to me, “Go again, love a woman, loved by her husband, but who is an adulteress. Love her just as I, Yahweh, love the people of Israel, although they turn to other gods and love raisin cakes.”

2 Boye, nasombaki ye na motuya ya mbongo ya bibende ya palata, zomi na mitano, mpe na motuya ya bakilo ya orje, nkama minei na tuku mitano.

So I bought her for myself for fifteen pieces of silver and a homer and a lethek of barley.

3 Bongo nalobaki na ye: — Wumela na ngai tango molayi; okosala kindumba te mpe okomipesa na mobali mosusu te, ngai mpe nakosala kaka bongo epai na yo.

I said to her, “You must live with me many days. You will not be a prostitute or belong to any other man. In the same way, I will be with you.”

4 Solo, bana ya Isalaele bakowumela tango molayi bazanga mokonzi, bazanga mokambi, bazanga mbeka, bazanga libanga ya ekaniseli, bazanga efode mpe bazanga banzambe ya bikeko.

For the people of Israel will live for many days without a king, prince, sacrifice, stone pillar, ephod or household idols.

5 Sima na yango, bana ya Isalaele bakozongela mpe bakoluka Yawe, Nzambe na bango, mpe Davidi, mokonzi na bango; bakobelema epai na Yawe, na kolenga nyonso, mpo na kozwa mapamboli na Ye, na mikolo oyo ekolanda.

Afterward the people of Israel will return and seek Yahweh their God and David their king, and in the last days, they will come trembling before Yahweh and his goodness.