Ezayi 59
1 Tala, loboko na Yawe ezali mokuse te mpo na kobikisa, litoyi na Ye ekangama te mpo na koyoka!
Has the hand of the Lord no power to save? or has he made his ear heavy, so that he should not hear?
2 Kasi ezali bambeba na bino nde ekaboli bino na Nzambe na bino, ezali masumu na bino nde esali ete abombela bino elongi na Ye mpo ete ayoka bino te.
Nay, your iniquities separate between you and God, and because of your sins has he turned away [his] face from you, so as not to have mercy [upon you].
3 Pamba te maboko na bino ebebi na makila, mpe misapi na bino ebebi na makambo mabe; bibebu na bino ezali koloba makambo ya lokuta, mpe minoko na bino ezali kobimisa makambo mabe.
For your hands are defiled with blood, and your fingers with sins; your lips also have spoken iniquity, and your tongue meditates unrighteousness.
4 Moko te azali kofunda makambo na bosolo, moko te azali kosamba na bosembo; bazali kotia mitema na makambo ezanga tina mpe bazali koloba lokuta; na mitema na bango, basalaka mabongisi ya kosala mabe mpe bakokisaka yango na misala na bango.
None speaks justly, neither is there true judgment: they trust in vanities, and speak empty [words]; for they conceive trouble, and bring forth iniquity.
5 Bazali kopasola maki ya etupa mpe bazali kotonga ndako ya lifofe. Moto nyonso oyo akolia maki na yango akokufa; mpe, soki apasoli liki moko, ekobimisa etupa.
They have hatched asps' eggs, and weave a spider's web: and he that is going to eat of their eggs, having crushed an addled egg, has found also in it a basilisk.
6 Basinga ya lifofe ekokoma bilamba te, misala na bango ekobomba bango te; misala na bango ezali misala mabe, mpe misala ya mobulu nde ezalaka na maboko na bango.
Their web shall not become a garment, nor shall they at all clothe themselves with their works; for their works are works of iniquity.
7 Matambe na bango epotaka mbangu mpo na kosala mabe, mpe bazalaka mbangu mpo na kosopa makila ya moto oyo asali mabe te. Makanisi na bango ezalaka kaka ya mabe; kobuka-buka mpe kobebisa nde ezalaka na nzela na bango.
And their feet run to wickedness, swift to shed blood; their thoughts also are thoughts of murder; destruction and misery are in their ways;
8 Bayebi nzela ya kimia te, mpe bosembo ezali na nzela na bango te; bakomisaka nzela na bango nyoka-nyoka, moko te oyo akotambola na nzela yango akotikala koyeba kimia.
and the way of peace they know not, neither is there judgment in their ways; for their paths by which they go are crooked, and they know not peace.
9 Yango wana bosembo ezali mosika na biso, mpe solo ezali kokomela biso te; tozali kozela pole, kasi nyonso ezali kaka molili; toluki moyi, kasi tozali kaka kotambola na molili.
Therefore has judgment departed from them, and righteousness shall not overtake them: while they waited for light, darkness came upon them; while they waited for brightness, they walked in perplexity.
10 Tozali kosimbasimba mir mpo na kotambola lokola bakufi miso, tozali kobanga kotambola lokola bato bazanga miso; tozali kobeta mabaku na moyi makasi lokola nde tozali na butu makasi, tozali na nzoto kolongono kasi tokomi lokola bakufi.
They shall feel for the wall as blind [men], and shall feel [for it] as if they had no eyes: and they shall feel at noon-day as at midnight; they shall groan as dying men.
11 Biso nyonso tozali konguna-nguna lokola bangombolo, mpe tozali kolelalela tango nyonso lokola ebenga; tozali koluka bosembo, kasi tozali komona yango te, tozali koluka lobiko, kasi ekimi mosika na biso!
They shall proceed together as a bear and as a dove: we have waited for judgment, and there is no salvation, it is gone far from us.
12 Pamba te mabe na biso ekomi mingi na miso na Yo, mpe masumu na biso ekomi kofunda biso; masumu na biso ezali liboso na biso mpe toyebi malamu bambeba na biso:
For our iniquity is great before you, and our sins have risen up against us: for our iniquities are in us, and we know our unrighteous deeds.
13 kotomboka mpe kowangana Yawe, kopesa Nzambe na biso mokongo, kosala mabongisi ya konyokola bato mpe kotombokisa bato, kokana na motema mpe koloba maloba ya lokuta.
We have sinned, and dealt falsely, and revolted from our God: we have spoken unrighteous words, and have been disobedient; we have conceived and uttered from our heart unrighteous words.
14 Boye, bosembo ezongi sima, mpe bosolo etelemi mosika; pamba te solo ekweyi na balabala, mpe bosembo elongi kokota te.
And we have turned judgment back, and righteousness has departed afar off: for truth is consumed in their ways, and they could not pass by a straight [path].
15 Solo ezali komonana lisusu na esika moko te; bazali konyokola moto oyo azali kokima mabe. Yawe amoni yango mpe asepeli te ete kosambisa na bosembo ezali te.
And truth has been taken away, and they have turned aside [their] mind from understanding. And the Lord saw it, and it pleased him not that there was no judgment.
16 Amoni ete ezali ata na moto moko te, akamwe ete ata molobeli moko te azali. Boye, loboko na Ye moko ememi Ye na lobiko, mpe bosembo na Ye elendisi Ye.
And he looked, and there was no man, and he observed, and there was none to help: so he defended them with his arm, and established [them] with [his] mercy.
17 Alati bosembo lokola ebombelo ya tolo, mpe ekoti ya lobiko na moto na Ye; alati kozongisa mabe na mabe lokola nzambala, mpe amizipi zuwa lokola kazaka.
And he put on righteousness as a breast-plate, and placed the helmet of salvation on his head; and he clothed himself with the garment of vengeance, and with his cloak,
18 Akofuta moto na moto kolanda misala na ye: kanda makasi epai ya bayini na Ye, mpe lifuti oyo ekoki epai ya banguna na Ye; akopesa na bisanga lifuti na yango.
as one about to render a recompence, [even] reproach to his adversaries.
19 Longwa na ngambo ya weste, bato bakobanga Kombo ya Yawe; mpe longwa na ngambo ya este, bato bakokumisa nkembo na Ye; pamba te akoya lokola ebale oyo etomboki, oyo pema ya Yawe ekomema.
So shall they of the west fear the name of the Lord, and they [that come] from the rising of the sun his glorious name: for the wrath of the Lord shall come as a mighty river, it shall come with fury.
20 « Mpo na Siona, mosikoli akoya epai ya bato ya Jakobi, oyo bakobongwana na masumu na bango, » elobi Yawe.
And the deliverer shall come for Sion's sake, and shall turn away ungodliness from Jacob.
21 « Bongo mpo na Ngai, » elobi Yawe, « tala boyokani na Ngai elongo na bango: Molimo na Ngai, oyo azali epai na yo, mpe maloba na Ngai, oyo natiaki na monoko na yo ekolongwa te, na monoko na yo to na minoko ya bana na yo to na minoko ya bakitani na bango, kobanda kaka na tango oyo mpe libela na libela, » elobi Yawe.
And this shall be my covenant with them, said the Lord; My Spirit which is upon you, and the words which I have put in your mouth, shall never fail from your mouth, nor from the mouth of your seed, for the Lord has spoken it, henceforth and for ever.
