Oze 8
1 Tia kelelo na monoko na yo! Lokola mpongo, pasi ekokitela Ndako ya Yawe, mpo ete babebisi boyokani na Ngai mpe batombokeli Mobeko na Ngai.
“Put the shofar to your lips! Something like an eagle is over the LORD’s house, because they have broken my covenant and rebelled against my law.
2 Isalaele azali kobelela Ngai: « Oh Nzambe na biso, toyebi Yo! »
They cry to me, ‘My God, we, Israel, acknowledge you!’
3 Kasi Isalaele abwaki makambo malamu; yango wana, monguna akolanda ye.
Israel has cast off that which is good. The enemy will pursue him.
4 Batunaki Ngai te tango batiaki bakonzi mpe baponaki bakambi. Bamisalelaki banzambe ya bikeko na palata mpe na wolo na bango mpo na libebi na bango moko.
They have set up kings, but not by me. They have made princes, and I didn’t approve. Of their silver and their gold they have made themselves idols, that they may be cut off.
5 Oh Samari, nzambe na yo ya ekeko ya mwana ngombe ya mobali ezali nkele! Kanda na Ngai epeli mpo na kobebisa bango. Kino tango nini bakokoka te kotambola na bopeto?
Let Samaria throw out his calf idol! My anger burns against them! How long will it be until they are capable of purity?
6 Ewuti na Isalaele! Ekeko wana ya mwana ngombe ya mobali, ezali monyangwisi bibende na moto nde asala yango; ezali Nzambe te. Bakobuka yango biteni-biteni, mwana ngombe wana ya Samari.
For this is even from Israel! The workman made it, and it is no God; indeed, the calf of Samaria shall be broken in pieces.
7 « Lokola baloni mopepe, bakobuka mopepe ya makasi. Nzete ya ble oyo ezanga moto ebimisaka farine te. Ezala soki ebimisi mito, ezali bapaya nde bakolia yango.
For they sow the wind, and they will reap the whirlwind. He has no standing grain. The stalk will yield no head. If it does yield, strangers will swallow it up.
8 Isalaele abebisami; tala bango wana kati na bikolo, bazali komonana lokola biloko pamba!
Israel is swallowed up. Now they are among the nations like a worthless thing.
9 Pamba te bakendeki na Asiri lokola ane ya zamba oyo ezali kotelengana yango moko. Efrayimi apesaki bakado epai ya bamakangu na ye.
For they have gone up to Assyria, like a wild donkey wandering alone. Ephraim has hired lovers for himself.
10 Ata apesaki bakado kati na bikolo, sik’oyo Ngai nakosangisa bango esika moko mpe bakobanda kosila kokufa na se ya minyoko ya mokonzi moko ya nguya.
But although they sold themselves among the nations, I will now gather them; and they begin to waste away because of the oppression of the king of mighty ones.
11 Ata Efrayimi atongi bitumbelo ebele mpo na kolongola masumu na ye, kasi bitumbelo yango ekomemisa ye kaka masumu.
Because Ephraim has multiplied altars for sinning, they became for him altars for sinning.
12 Nakomelaki bango makambo ebele ya Mobeko na Ngai, kasi bamonaki yango lokola eloko moko ya mopaya.
I wrote for him the many things of my law, but they were regarded as a strange thing.
13 Bazali kobonza bambeka lokola likabo mpo na Ngai, mpe bazali kolia misuni; kasi Yawe azali kosepela na bango te. Sik’oyo, akokanisa mabe na bango mpe akopesa bango etumbu mpo na masumu na bango: bakozonga na Ejipito.
As for the sacrifices of my offerings, they sacrifice meat and eat it, but the LORD doesn’t accept them. Now he will remember their iniquity, and punish their sins. They will return to Egypt.
14 Isalaele abosani Mokeli na ye mpe atongi bandako ya kitoko; Yuda atongi bingumba ebele batonga makasi; kasi Ngai nakotinda moto kati na bingumba na bango, mpe ekotumba bandako na bango ya kitoko. »
For Israel has forgotten his Maker and built palaces; and Judah has multiplied fortified cities; but I will send a fire on his cities, and it will devour its fortresses.”
