Jeremi 10
1 Eh libota ya Isalaele, yoka liloba oyo Yawe azali koloba na yo!
Give ear to the word which the Lord says to you, O people of Israel:
2 Tala liloba oyo Yawe alobi: « Kolanda bizaleli ya bikolo ya bapaya te mpe kobanga bilembo ya likolo te ata soki ezali kobangisa bato ya bikolo.
This is what the Lord has said: Do not go in the way of the nations; have no fear of the signs of heaven, for the nations go in fear of them.
3 Pamba te bizaleli ya bikolo ya bapaya ezali se pamba, banzambe na bango ezali se banzete ya pamba oyo bakataka kati na zamba, bongo moto ya misala ya maboko nde abongisaka yango na bambeli na ye.
For that which is feared by the people is foolish: it is the work of the hands of the workman; for a tree is cut down by him out of the woods with his axe.
4 Bapakolaka yango palata mpe wolo, babetaka yango basete na marto mpo ete eningana te.
They make it beautiful with silver and gold; they make it strong with nails and hammers, so that it may not be moved.
5 Banzambe yango ya bikeko ezali lokola bikeko oyo batiaka na elanga ya bapasiteki mpo na kokimisa bandeke: elobaka te, bamemaka yango mpo ete etambolaka te. Kobanga yango te, pamba te ekokaka kosala bato mabe to malamu te. »
It is like a pillar in a garden of plants, and has no voice: it has to be lifted, for it has no power of walking. Have no fear of it; for it has no power of doing evil and it is not able to do any good.
6 Eh Yawe, moko te akokani na Yo! Ozali monene, mpe Kombo na Yo ezali na nguya monene.
There is no one like you, O Lord; you are great and your name is great in power.
7 Oh Mokonzi ya bikolo, nani akoki koboya kotosa Yo? Obongi na lokumu, pamba te moko te azali lokola Yo kati na bato nyonso ya bwanya ya bikolo mpe kati na mikili na bango nyonso.
Who would not have fear of you, O King of the nations? for it is your right: for among all the wise men of the nations, and in all their kingdoms, there is no one like you.
8 Bango nyonso bazangi mayele mpe bazali bazoba; mateya na bango ezalaka ya pamba, mpe banzambe na bango ezalaka se banzete ya pamba!
But they are together like beasts and foolish: the teaching of false gods is wood.
9 Bapakola yango palata balekisa na moto, oyo ewuta na Tarsisi, mpe wolo oyo ewuta na Ufazi; bato oyo basalaka bililingi na banzete mpe ba-oyo balambaka bibende na moto nde basalaka yango: balatisaka yango bilamba ya langi ya ble mpe ya motane; ezali misala ya bato oyo basalaka misala ya maboko, oyo bayebi penza mosala malamu.
Silver hammered into plates is sent from Tarshish, and gold from Uphaz, the work of the expert workman and of the hands of the gold-worker; blue and purple is their clothing, all the work of expert men.
10 Kasi Yawe azali Nzambe ya solo, Nzambe na bomoi mpe Mokonzi ya seko. Soki asiliki, mokili eninganaka, bikolo ekokoka te kotelema liboso ya kanda na Ye.
But the Lord is the true God; he is the living God and an eternal king: when he is angry, the earth is shaking with fear, and the nations give way before his wrath.
11 Tala maloba oyo bokoloba na bango: « Banzambe oyo esala te likolo mpe mabele ekolimwa na mabele mpe na se ya likolo. »
This is what you are to say to them: The gods who have not made the heavens and the earth will be cut off from the earth and from under the heavens.
12 Kasi Yawe asala mabele na nguya na Ye, alendisa mokili na bwanya na Ye mpe atanda likolo na mayele na Ye.
He has made the earth by his power, he has made the world strong in its place by his wisdom, and by his wise design the heavens have been stretched out.
13 Tango agangaka, mayi etiaka makelele makasi kuna na likolo, asangisaka mapata wuta na basuka ya mokili, apelisaka mikalikali, anokisaka mvula mpe abimisaka mopepe wuta na bibombelo na Ye.
At the sound of his voice there is a massing of waters in the heavens, and he makes the mists go up from the ends of the earth; he makes the thunder-flames for the rain, and sends out the wind from his store-houses.
14 Bato nyonso bakomaka lokola bazoba, lokola bato oyo basili mayele; monyangwisi bibende na moto atikalaka na soni likolo na bikeko na ye, pamba te bikeko na ye ezalaka na yango biloko ya lokuta, ezalaka na pema te kati na yango.
Then every man becomes like a beast without knowledge; every gold-worker is put to shame by the image he has made: for his metal image is deceit, and there is no breath in them.
15 Ezali biloko ya pamba, biloko ya kotiola; ekolimwa na tango ya kosambisama.
They are nothing, a work of error: in the time of their punishment, destruction will overtake them.
16 Kasi Ye oyo azali libula ya Jakobi akokani na bikeko wana te, pamba te azali Mokeli ya biloko nyonso, ezala ata Isalaele, ekolo oyo ezali libula na Ye; Kombo na Ye ezali Yawe, Mokonzi ya mampinga.
The heritage of Jacob is not like these; for the maker of all things is his heritage: the Lord of armies is his name.
17 Yo ekolo oyo bazingeli, kamata bisaka na yo mpe bima na mokili!
Get your goods together and go out of the land, O you who are shut up in the walled town.
18 Pamba te, tala liloba oyo Yawe alobi: « Ya mbala oyo, nakobengana bavandi ya mokili oyo mpe nakotindela bango pasi mpo ete bakanga bango. »
For the Lord has said, I will send the people in flight like a stone from the land at this time, troubling them so that they will be conscious of it.
19 Mawa na ngai, pamba te nazoki makasi na motema! Pota na ngai ezali kosila te! Namilobelaki: « Ezali pasi na ngai moko, esengeli na ngai kokanga motema. »
Sorrow is mine for I am wounded! my wound may not be made well; and I said, Cruel is my disease, I may not be free from it.
20 Ndako na ngai ya kapo ebebisami, basinga na yango nyonso ekatani, bamemi bana na ngai ya mibali, natikali lisusu ata na mwana moko te. Nazali lisusu na moto ata moko te oyo akotelemisela ngai ndako ya kapo to akobongisela ngai esika ya kovanda.
My tent is pulled down and all my cords are broken: my children have gone from me, and they are not: no longer is there anyone to give help in stretching out my tent and hanging up my curtains.
21 Pamba te bakambi bazangaki mayele, balukaki Yawe te; yango wana, balongaki te, mpe bato nyonso oyo bango bazalaki kokamba bapanzanaki.
For the keepers of the sheep have become like beasts, not looking to the Lord for directions: so they have not done wisely and all their flocks have been put to flight.
22 Boyoka! Makelele moko ezali koya, lokito moko ya makasi ewuti na mokili ya nor, ekosilisa bato kati na bingumba ya Yuda mpe ekokomisa yango bandako ya mbwa ya zamba.
News is going about, see, it is coming, a great shaking is coming from the north country, so that the towns of Judah may be made waste and become the living-place of jackals.
23 Oh Yawe, nayebi ete moto moko te azali mokonzi ya bomoi na ye; moto oyo azali kotambola azali na bokonzi te ya kokamba matambe na ye.
O Lord, I am conscious that a man's way is not in himself: man has no power of guiding his steps.
24 Oh Yawe, pesa biso etumbu oyo ekoki na biso; kasi kopesa yango na kanda te, noki te okosilisa koboma biso.
O Lord, put me right, but with wise purpose; not in your wrath, or you will make me small.
25 Sopa kanda na Yo likolo ya bikolo ya bapaya oyo endimaka Yo te, likolo ya bato oyo babelelaka Kombo na Yo te, pamba te babebisi Jakobi, babebisi ye mobimba mpe bapanzi mokili na ye.
Let your wrath be let loose on the nations which have no knowledge of you, and on the families who give no worship to your name: for they have made a meal of Jacob, truly they have made a meal of him and put an end to him and made his fields a waste.
