Jeremi 16
1 Yawe alobaki na ngai:
The word of Jehovah came to me, saying:
2 « Okobala te mpe okotikala kobota bana mibali to bana basi na esika oyo te. »
Take thee not a wife; Have no sons or daughters in this place!
3 Pamba te, tala liloba oyo Yawe alobi na tina na bana mibali mpe bana basi oyo bakobotama na mboka oyo, mpe na tina na basi oyo bazali bamama na bango mpe mibali oyo bazali batata na bango:
For thus saith Jehovah concerning the sons and the daughters That are born in this place, And concerning their mothers that bore them, And concerning their fathers that begat them in this land;
4 « Bakokufa na kufa ya somo, bakolela bango te mpe bakokunda bango te, kasi bakozala lokola matiti ya kopola na mabele. Bakokufa na mopanga mpe na nzala makasi, bongo bibembe na bango ekokoma bilei ya bandeke ya likolo mpe ya banyama ya zamba. »
By deadly diseases shall they die; They shall not be lamented nor buried; They shall become dung upon the face of the earth; By the sword also and by famine shall they be consumed, And their carcasses shall be food for the birds of heaven And the beasts of the earth.
5 Pamba te, tala liloba oyo Yawe alobi: « Kokota na ndako oyo ezali na matanga te, kokende na matanga te mpe koyokela bato oyo bazali na matanga mawa te, pamba te nalongoli kimia na Ngai, bolingo na Ngai mpe mawa na Ngai epai ya bato oyo, » elobi Yawe,
For thus saith Jehovah: Enter not into the house of wailing; Go not to lament; Comfort them not! For I have taken away my peace from this people, saith Jehovah, My kindness and mercy.
6 « ezala mikolo to bana mike, bango nyonso bakosila kokufa kati na mokili oyo. Bakokunda bango te mpe bakosalela bango matanga te, bongo moto moko te akomikata banzoloko to kokokola suki ya moto mpo na bango.
The great and the small in this land shall die; They shall not be buried nor lamented; No one shall cut himself for them, Nor shall any one make himself bald for them.
7 Moto moko te akopesa bilei mpo na kobondisa bato oyo bazali na matanga sima na kufa, mpe moto moko te akopesa bango masanga mpo na kobondisa bango, ezala ata mpo na kufa ya batata to ya bamama na bango.
Men shall not break bread for them in their grief, To comfort them for the dead, Nor give them the cup of consolation to drink, On account of a lost father or mother.
8 Mpe kokota te na ndako oyo bazali kosala feti mpo na kovanda mpe komela,
Neither enter thou into the house of feasting, To sit down with them to eat and to drink!
9 pamba te tala liloba oyo Yawe, Mokonzi ya mampinga, Nzambe ya Isalaele, alobi: Nakosilisa kati na esika oyo, na miso na bino mpe na tango na bino, makelele ya esengo mpe makelele ya kosepela, mingongo ya babalani mpe ya babandami na libala.
For thus saith Jehovah of hosts, the God of Israel: Behold, I am about to cause to cease from this place, Before your eyes, in your days, The voice of joy and the voice of mirth, The voice of the bridegroom and the voice of the bride.
10 Tango okotatola maloba oyo nyonso na bato oyo, soki batuni yo: ‹ Mpo na nini Yawe akateli biso etumbu ya pasi makasi boye? Mabe nini tosalaki Ye? Masumu nini tosalaki liboso ya Yawe, Nzambe na biso? ›
And when thou shalt have declared to this people all these things, and they shall say to thee, “Why hath Jehovah pronounced against us all this great evil? What is our iniquity, and what our sin, which we have committed against Jehovah our God?”
11 Okoloba na bango: ‹ Ezali mpo ete batata na bino basundolaki Ngai, › elobi Yawe, ‹ basalaki banzambe ya bapaya, basalelaki yango mpe bafukamelaki yango. Batikaki Ngai mpe babatelaki Mobeko na Ngai te.
Then shalt thou say to them: Because your fathers have forsaken me, saith Jehovah, And have walked after strange gods, And have served them and worshipped them, And have forsaken me, and not kept my law.
12 Bongo bino, bozali mpe kotambola na ezaleli mabe koleka ata ezaleli mabe ya batata na bino. Botala ndenge nini moko na moko kati na bino azali kolanda makanisi mabe ya motema na ye, na esika ya kotosa Ngai.
And ye yourselves have done worse than your fathers; For, behold, ye walk every one after the perverseness of his evil heart, And do not hearken to me.
13 Yango wana, nakobwaka bino libanda ya mokili oyo mpe nakomema bino na mokili oyo, ezala bino to batata na bino, botikala koyeba te; mpe kuna, bokosalela banzambe ya bapaya, butu mpe moyi; pamba te nakoyokela bino mawa te. ›
Therefore will I cast you forth from this land Into a land unknown to you and to your fathers; And there shall ye serve strange gods day and night; For I will show you no favor.
14 Yango wana, na mikolo oyo ezali koya, » elobi Yawe, « bato bakotika koloba: ‹ Na Kombo na Yawe oyo abimisaki bana ya Isalaele na Ejipito; ›
Yet behold the days shall come, saith Jehovah, When men shall no more say, “As Jehovah liveth Who brought up the children of Israel from the land of Egypt,”
15 kasi bakokoma koloba: ‹ Na Kombo na Yawe oyo abimisaki bana ya Isalaele na mokili ya nor mpe na mikili nyonso epai wapi abenganaki bango. › Nakozongisa bango na mokili na bango, mokili oyo napesaki bakoko na bango.
But, “As Jehovah liveth Who brought up the children of Israel from the land of the North, And from all the lands whither he had driven them.” For I will bring them again into their own land, Which I gave to their fathers.
16 Solo, nakotinda balobi mbisi ebele, » elobi Yawe, « mpe bakoboma mbisi ebele; bato ya bokila ebele mpe bakoboma banyama ebele na likolo ya bangomba nyonso ya milayi mpe ya mikuse kino kati na madusu ya mabanga.
Behold, I will send many fishers, saith Jehovah, who shall fish them, And then will I send many hunters who shall hunt them From every mountain, and from every hill, and from the holes of the rocks.
17 Nazali kotala malamu banzela na bango nyonso; moto moko te akoki kobombama na miso na Ngai, mpe masumu na bango ekoki ata moke te kobombama na miso na Ngai.
For mine eyes are upon all their ways; They are not concealed from my view, Nor is their iniquity hidden from mine eyes.
18 Nakofutisa bango mbala mibale lifuti ya mabe na bango mpe ya masumu na bango, pamba te bakomisi mokili na Ngai mbindo na nzela ya bililingi mpe ya bikeko na bango oyo ezanga bomoi, mpe batondisi libula na Ngai na banzambe na bango ya bikeko mpe ya nkele. »
And I will requite their former and their repeated iniquities and sins, Because they have polluted my land with carcasses offered to their idols, And filled my inheritance with their abominable things.
19 Oh Yawe, Makasi na ngai mpe Ndako na ngai batonga makasi, Ekimelo na ngai na tango ya pasi, bato ya bikolo nyonso bakoya epai na Yo wuta na basuka ya mokili mpe bakoloba: « Batata na biso bazalaki kaka na banzambe ya lokuta, banzambe ya pamba oyo etikalaki kosalela bango bolamu ata moko te.
O Jehovah, my strength and my fortress, My refuge in the day of distress! To thee shall the nations come from the ends of the earth, And shall say, “Truly our fathers inherited delusion, Vain and unprofitable things.
20 Boni, bato bakoki solo komisalela banzambe, tango bango moko bazali banzambe te?
Shall one make for himself gods Which are no gods?”
21 Yango wana, nakolakisa bango, nakolakisa bango nguya mpe makasi na ngai; bongo bakoyeba penza ete Kombo na Ngai ezali Yawe. »
Therefore, behold, I will this time cause them to feel, I will cause them to feel my hand and my might, And they shall know that my name is Jehovah.
