Jeremi 51
1 Tala liloba oyo Yawe alobi: « Tala, nakotinda mopepe ya makasi mpo na kobebisa mokili ya Babiloni mpe bato ya Lebi-Kamayi.
This is what the LORD says: “Behold, I will stir up against Babylon and against the people of Leb-kamai the spirit of a destroyer.
2 Nakotinda bapaya na Babiloni mpo na koyungola mpe kobebisa yango: bakobundisa yango na bangambo nyonso na mokolo na yango ya kosambisama.
I will send strangers to Babylon to winnow her and empty her land; for they will come against her from every side in her day of disaster.
3 Basoda oyo babundaka na matolotolo bakozwa tango te ya kobeta makonga na bango; bakozwa tango te ya kolata bibombelo ya tolo, bakobikisa te basoda na bango ya bilenge mpe bakoboma mampinga na bango nyonso.
Do not let the archer bend his bow or put on his armor. Do not spare her young men; devote all her army to destruction!
4 Bato oyo bakokweya na mopanga bakotondisa mokili ya Babiloni mpe babalabala na yango ekotonda na bato bazoka bapota.
And they will fall slain in the land of the Chaldeans, and pierced through in her streets.
5 Ata soki mokili na bango etondaki na masumu liboso ya Mosantu ya Isalaele, Nzambe na bango, Yawe, Mokonzi ya mampinga, abosanaki Isalaele na Yuda te.
For Israel and Judah have not been abandoned by their God, the LORD of Hosts, though their land is full of guilt before the Holy One of Israel.”
6 Bobima na Babiloni, bobikisa bomoi na bino! Soki te, bokokufa likolo ya masumu na bango. Ezali tango oyo Yawe alingi kozongisela bango mabe na mabe mpe kofuta bango ndenge ezali misala na bango.
Flee from Babylon! Escape with your lives! Do not be destroyed in her punishment. For this is the time of the LORD’s vengeance; He will pay her what she deserves.
7 Babiloni ezali lokola kopo ya wolo na loboko ya Yawe; ezalaki kolangwisa mokili mobimba. Bongo bato ya bikolo bameli masanga na yango mpe bakomi lokola bazoba.
Babylon was a gold cup in the hand of the LORD, making the whole earth drunk. The nations drank her wine; therefore the nations have gone mad.
8 Babiloni ekokweya na mbalakata mpe ekobukana! Bosala matanga mpo na yango mpe botia kisi na pota na yango, tango mosusu akobika.
Suddenly Babylon has fallen and been shattered. Wail for her; get her balm for her pain; perhaps she can be healed.
9 ‹ Tozalaki na posa ya kobikisa Babiloni, kasi akobika te; yango wana, tobima kati na yango mpe tokende, moto na moto na engumba na ye; pamba te esambiselo na ye ekomi kino na Lola, emati likolo lokola mapata. ›
“We tried to heal Babylon, but she could not be healed. Abandon her! Let each of us go to his own land, for her judgment extends to the sky and reaches to the clouds.”
10 ‹ Yawe apesi biso etumbu! Boya totatola na Siona makambo oyo Yawe, Nzambe na biso, asali. ›
“The LORD has brought forth our vindication; come, let us tell in Zion what the LORD our God has accomplished.”
11 Bopelisa basonge ya makonga, bokamata banguba na bino; pamba te Yawe atindi bakonzi ya Medi mpo ete mokano na Ye ezali ya kobebisa Babiloni. Yawe akozongisa mabe na mabe, akosala yango mpo na Tempelo na Ye.
Sharpen the arrows! Fill the quivers! The LORD has aroused the spirit of the kings of the Medes, because His plan is aimed at Babylon to destroy her, for it is the vengeance of the LORD— vengeance for His temple.
12 Botelemisa bendele na bino liboso ya bamir ya Babiloni! Bobakisa motango ya bakengeli mpe ya basinzili, botia mitambo! Yawe akokokisa mabongisi na Ye mpe ekateli ya etumbu na Ye mpo na bato ya Babiloni.
Raise a banner against the walls of Babylon; post the guard; station the watchmen; prepare the ambush. For the LORD has both devised and accomplished what He spoke against the people of Babylon.
13 Yo oyo ovandaka pembeni ya bibale minene, yo oyo otonda na bomengo mingi, suka na yo ebelemi, tango na yo ya kobebisama ekoki!
You who dwell by many waters, rich in treasures, your end has come; the thread of your life is cut.
14 Yawe, Mokonzi ya mampinga, alapi ndayi na Kombo na Ye moko: Solo, nakotondisa yo na bato lokola liboke ya mabanki, bongo bakobeta milolo ya elonga likolo na yo.
The LORD of Hosts has sworn by Himself: “Surely I will fill you up with men as with locusts, and they will shout in triumph over you.”
15 Asala mabele na nguya na Ye, alendisa mokili na bwanya na Ye mpe atanda likolo na mayele na Ye.
The LORD made the earth by His power; He established the world by His wisdom and stretched out the heavens by His understanding.
16 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.
When He thunders, the waters in the heavens roar; He causes the clouds to rise from the ends of the earth. He generates the lightning with the rain and brings forth the wind from His storehouses.
17 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.
Every man is senseless and devoid of knowledge; every goldsmith is put to shame by his idols. For his molten images are a fraud, and there is no breath in them.
18 Ezali biloko ya pamba, biloko ya kotiola; ekolimwa na tango ya kosambisama.
They are worthless, a work to be mocked. In the time of their punishment they will perish.
19 Ye oyo azali libula ya Jakobi akokani na bikeko wana te, pamba te azali Mokeli ya biloko nyonso, ezala ata ekolo oyo ezali libula na Ye; Kombo na Ye ezali Yawe, Mokonzi ya mampinga.
The Portion of Jacob is not like these, for He is the Maker of all things, and of the tribe of His inheritance— the LORD of Hosts is His name.
20 Ozalaki solo marto, ebundeli na Ngai ya bitumba: elongo na yo, napanzaki bikolo; elongo na yo, nabebisaki mikili;
“You are My war club, My weapon for battle. With you I shatter nations; with you I bring kingdoms to ruin.
21 elongo na yo, napanzaki mpunda mpe motambolisi na yango; elongo na yo, napanzaki shar mpe motambolisi na yango;
With you I shatter the horse and rider; with you I shatter the chariot and driver.
22 elongo na yo, napanzaki mwasi mpe mobali; elongo na yo, napanzaki mibange mpe bilenge; elongo na yo, napanzaki bilenge mibali mpe bilenge basi;
With you I shatter man and woman; with you I shatter the old man and the youth; with you I shatter the young man and the maiden.
23 elongo na yo, napanzaki babateli bibwele mpe bibwele na bango; elongo na yo, napanzaki mosali bilanga mpe bangombe na ye; elongo na yo, napanzaki bayangeli mpe bakalaka.
With you I shatter the shepherd and his flock; with you I shatter the farmer and his oxen; with you I shatter the governors and officials.
24 Nakozongisela Babiloni mpe bavandi na yango nyonso mabe nyonso oyo basalaki Siona, » elobi Yawe.
Before your very eyes I will repay Babylon and all the dwellers of Chaldea for all the evil they have done in Zion,”
25 « Yo ngomba oyo obebisaka, yo oyo obebisaka mokili, nakotelemela yo, » elobi Yawe, « nakosembola loboko na Ngai mpo na kotelemela yo, nakokitisa yo wuta na likolo ya mabanga, mpe nakokomisa yo ngomba ezika na moto.
“Behold, I am against you, O destroying mountain, you who devastate the whole earth, declares the LORD. I will stretch out My hand against you; I will roll you over the cliffs and turn you into a charred mountain.
26 Bakotikala lisusu te kozwa epai na yo libanga oyo batongelaka basonge ya bamir to libanga oyo batongelaka miboko; pamba te okobebisama mpo na libela, » elobi Yawe.
No one shall retrieve from you a cornerstone or a foundation stone, because you will become desolate forever,”
27 « Botelemisa bendele kati na mokili! Bobeta kelelo kati na bikolo! Bobongisa bikolo mpo na kobundisa Babiloni, bobenga bakonzi ya basoda ya mikili ya Ararati, ya Mini mpe ya Ashikenazi mpo ete babundisa yango. Bopona mokonzi moko ya basoda mpo ete atambolisa bitumba, botinda bampunda lokola liboke ya mabanki.
“Raise a banner in the land! Blow the ram’s horn among the nations! Prepare the nations against her. Summon the kingdoms against her— Ararat, Minni, and Ashkenaz. Appoint a captain against her; bring up horses like swarming locusts.
28 Bobongisa bikolo mpo na kobundisa yango: bakonzi ya Medi, bayangeli na bango mpe bakalaka na bango nyonso mpe bamboka nyonso oyo bazali kokamba.
Prepare the nations for battle against her— the kings of the Medes, their governors and all their officials, and all the lands they rule.
29 Mikili ezali koningana mpe kotepatepa, pamba te mikano ya Yawe mpo na Babiloni ezali kokokisama mpo na kobebisa yango mpo ete, ata moto moko te atikala kovanda lisusu kuna.
The earth quakes and writhes because the LORD’s intentions against Babylon stand: to make the land of Babylon a desolation, without inhabitant.
30 Basoda ya Babiloni batiki kobunda, babombami kati na bandako batonga makasi. Makasi na bango esili, bakomi lokola basi. Bandako ya Babiloni etumbami mpe babuki bikangelo bikuke na yango.
The warriors of Babylon have stopped fighting; they sit in their strongholds. Their strength is exhausted; they have become like women. Babylon’s homes have been set ablaze, the bars of her gates are broken.
31 Bato oyo bamemaka mikanda bazali kolandana mbangu, mpe bamemi sango bazali kolandana mbangu mpo na koyebisa mokonzi ya Babiloni ete babotoli engumba mobimba,
One courier races to meet another, and messenger follows messenger, to announce to the king of Babylon that his city has been captured from end to end.
32 bakangi bapon mpe bibale; banzete oyo ebotaka na mayi esili na kozika moto mpe basoda bakomi na somo. »
The fords have been seized, the marshes set on fire, and the soldiers are terrified.”
33 Tala liloba oyo Yawe, Mokonzi ya mampinga, Nzambe ya Isalaele, alobi: « Elenge mwasi Babiloni azali lokola etando ya ble na tango banyataka-nyataka yango; mpe etikali moke, tango ya kokata ble ekokoka mpo na yango.
For this is what the LORD of Hosts, the God of Israel, says: “The Daughter of Babylon is like a threshing floor at the time it is trampled. In just a little while her harvest time will come.”
34 Nabukodonozori, mokonzi ya Babiloni, abomaki biso; solo, atiaki biso na mobulu, akomisaki biso lokola mbeki ya pamba; amelaki biso ndenge nguma emelaka nyama, atondisaki libumu na ye na biloko na biso ya kitoko; mpe sima, asanzaki biso.
“Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon has devoured me; he has crushed me. He has set me aside like an empty vessel; he has swallowed me like a monster; he filled his belly with my delicacies and vomited me out.
35 Tika ete mabe oyo basali biso mpe bana na biso ekweyela Babiloni, » elobi bavandi ya Siona! « Tika ete makila na biso etangama na mito ya bavandi ya Babiloni, elobi bavandi ya Yelusalemi! »
May the violence done to me and to my flesh be upon Babylon,” says the dweller of Zion. “May my blood be on the dwellers of Chaldea,” says Jerusalem.
36 Yango wana, tala liloba oyo Yawe alobi: « Tala, nakozwa likambo na yo na maboko mpe nakozongisa mabe na bato oyo basalaki yo mabe, nakokawusa ebale na yango ya monene mpe nakokawusa maziba na yango.
Therefore this is what the LORD says: “Behold, I will plead your case and take vengeance on your behalf; I will dry up her sea and make her springs run dry.
37 Mokili ya Babiloni ekokoma liboke ya mabanga, ndako ya mbwa ya zamba, eloko ya somo mpe ya kotiola; bongo, bato bakovanda lisusu kuna te.
Babylon will become a heap of rubble, a haunt for jackals, an object of horror and scorn, without inhabitant.
38 Bato na yango nyonso bakokoma koganga lokola nkosi ya mike mpe kolela lokola bana ya nkosi.
They will roar together like young lions; they will growl like lion cubs.
39 Kasi tango bakokoma na posa makasi ya kosangisa nzoto, nakobongisela bango feti mpe nakolangwisa bango masanga mpo ete batondisama na esengo; bongo, bakolala pongi ya libela mpe bakoka lisusu kolamuka te, » elobi Yawe,
While they are flushed with heat, I will serve them a feast, and I will make them drunk so that they may revel; then they will fall asleep forever and never wake up, declares the LORD.
40 « nakomema bango ndenge bamemaka bampate to bameme ya mibali to mpe bantaba ya mibali na esika oyo babomelaka bibwele.
I will bring them down like lambs to the slaughter, like rams with male goats.
41 Ndenge nini bakangi Sheshaki! Ndenge nini basukisi lolendo ya ekolo oyo ezalaki kosala lokumu ya mokili mobimba! Ndenge nini penza Babiloni ekomi penza eloko ya somo kati na bikolo!
How Sheshach has been captured! The praise of all the earth has been seized. What a horror Babylon has become among the nations!
42 Ebale monene ekozindisa Babiloni, makelele ya bambonge na yango ekozipa mokili ya Babiloni.
The sea has come up over Babylon; she is covered in turbulent waves.
43 Bingumba na yango ekobebisama, ekokoma lokola mokili oyo ekawuka to lokola esobe, mokili oyo bato bavandaka te, mokili epai wapi bato bayaka na mibembo te.
Her cities have become a desolation, a dry and arid land, a land where no one lives, where no son of man passes through.
44 Nakopesa Beli etumbu kati na Babiloni, nakobimisa ye eloko oyo ameli na monoko; ekolo moko te ekoya lisusu epai na ye mpe bamir ya Babiloni ekokweya.
I will punish Bel in Babylon. I will make him spew out what he swallowed. The nations will no longer stream to him; even the wall of Babylon will fall.
45 Oh bato na Ngai, bobima na Babiloni! Bobikisa bomoi na bino liboso ya kanda makasi ya Yawe!
Come out of her, My people! Save your lives, each of you, from the fierce anger of the LORD.
46 Bobanga te mpe bolemba nzoto te tango bokoyoka basango ya mabe kati na mokili: mobu oyo, sango ya mabe; mobu oyo elandi, sango mosusu ya mabe; kaka sango ya mobulu kati na mokili to sango ya mokonzi moko abundisi mokonzi mosusu.
Do not let your heart grow faint, and do not be afraid when the rumor is heard in the land; for a rumor will come one year— and then another the next year— of violence in the land and of ruler against ruler.
47 Pamba te tango ekoya solo, tango oyo nakopesa etumbu na banzambe ya Babiloni; mpe mokili na yango nyonso ekozala na soni, mpe bato na yango nyonso oyo bazokisa makasi na mopanga bakokufa kuna.
Therefore, behold, the days are coming when I will punish the idols of Babylon. Her entire land will suffer shame, and all her slain will lie fallen within her.
48 Bongo likolo, mabele mpe biloko nyonso oyo ezali kati na yango ekoganga na esengo mpo na komona kobebisama ya Babiloni, pamba te babebisi bakobimela na nor mpo na kobundisa yango, » elobi Yawe.
Then heaven and earth and all that is in them will shout for joy over Babylon because the destroyers from the north will come against her,”
49 « Babiloni mpe esengeli kokweya, mpo na bana ya Isalaele oyo bakufaki, ndenge kaka bato ya mokili mobimba bakufaki mpo na Babiloni.
“Babylon must fall on account of the slain of Israel, just as the slain of all the earth have fallen because of Babylon.
50 Bino bato oyo bobiki na mopanga, bokima, bolekisa tango te! Wuta na mokili ya mosika, bokanisa Yawe mpe Yelusalemi!
You who have escaped the sword, depart and do not linger! Remember the LORD from far away, and let Jerusalem come to mind.”
51 Tosambwe, pamba te totiolami; mpe bilongi na biso ezipami na soni mpo ete bapaya bakoti kino na bisika ya bule ya Tempelo ya Yawe.
“We are ashamed because we have heard reproach; disgrace has covered our faces, because foreigners have entered the holy places of the LORD’s house.”
52 Kasi na mikolo ekoya, » elobi Yawe, « nakopesa etumbu na banzambe ya Babiloni, mpe mokili mobimba ekotonda na makelele ya bato oyo bazoka bapota ya somo.
“Therefore, behold, the days are coming,” declares the LORD, “when I will punish her idols, and throughout her land the wounded will groan.
53 Ata soki mokili ya Babiloni emati kino na Lola mpe elendisi bandako na yango oyo batonga makasi, nakotindela yango bato mpo na kokweyisa yango, » elobi Yawe.
Even if Babylon ascends to the heavens and fortifies her lofty stronghold, the destroyers I send will come against her,” declares the LORD.
54 « Makelele ya koganga ekoyokana, wuta na mokili ya Babiloni, lokito makasi ya kobebisama ya mokili ya bato ya Babiloni.
“The sound of a cry comes from Babylon, the sound of great destruction from the land of the Chaldeans!
55 Pamba te Yawe akobebisa Babiloni mpe akokanga yango monoko. Lokito ya banguna ekoyokana lokola makelele ya bambonge ya bibale minene; bongo mingongo ya bato ekoyokana makasi.
For the LORD will destroy Babylon; He will silence her mighty voice. The waves will roar like great waters; the tumult of their voices will resound.
56 Mobebisi akoya kobundisa Babiloni; bongo bakokanga basoda na yango ya mpiko mpe bakobuka matolotolo na bango, pamba te Yawe azali Nzambe oyo afutaka: afutaka kolanda misala ya moto na moto.
For a destroyer is coming against her— against Babylon. Her warriors will be captured, and their bows will be broken, for the LORD is a God of retribution; He will repay in full.
57 Nakolangwisa masanga: bakalaka mpe bato na yango ya bwanya, bayangeli, bakonzi ya basoda mpe basoda na yango ya mpiko. Bakolala pongi ya libela mpe bakolamuka lisusu te, » elobi Mokonzi oyo Kombo na Ye ezali: Yawe, Mokonzi ya mampinga.
I will make her princes and wise men drunk, along with her governors, officials, and warriors. Then they will fall asleep forever and not wake up,” declares the King, whose name is the LORD of Hosts.
58 Tala liloba oyo Yawe, Mokonzi ya mampinga, alobi: « Bamir nyonso ya milayi ya Babiloni ekokweyisama mpe bikuke na yango nyonso ya minene ekozikisama na moto; bato bazali kosala bobele mosala ya pamba mpe bato ya bikolo mosusu bazali komimonisa pasi mpo na mosala oyo ekobeba na moto. »
This is what the LORD of Hosts says: “Babylon’s thick walls will be leveled, and her high gates consumed by fire. So the labor of the people will be for nothing; the nations will exhaust themselves to fuel the flames.”
59 Tala sango oyo mosakoli Jeremi apesaki epai ya Seraya, mwana mobali ya Neriya, mwana mobali ya Maaseya, tango akendeki na Babiloni elongo na Sedesiasi, mokonzi ya Yuda, na mobu ya minei ya bokonzi na ye. Seraya azalaki mokonzi ya molako.
This is the message that Jeremiah the prophet gave to the quartermaster Seraiah son of Neriah, the son of Mahseiah, when he went to Babylon with King Zedekiah of Judah in the fourth year of Zedekiah’s reign.
60 Jeremi akomaki kati na buku pasi nyonso oyo esengelaki kokomela Babiloni. Makambo wana nyonso ekomamaki na tina na mokili ya Babiloni.
Jeremiah had written on a single scroll about all the disaster that would come upon Babylon—all these words that had been written concerning Babylon.
61 Jeremi alobaki na Seraya: « Tango okokoma kati na Babiloni, sala ete otanga makambo oyo nyonso na mongongo makasi.
And Jeremiah said to Seraiah, “When you get to Babylon, see that you read all these words aloud,
62 Bongo okoloba: ‹ Oh Yawe, Yo moko nde olobaki ete okobebisa esika oyo mpo ete bato mpe bibwele bavanda lisusu awa te, kasi etikala pamba mpo na libela. ›
and say, ‘O LORD, You have promised to cut off this place so that no one will remain—neither man nor beast. Indeed, it will be desolate forever.’
63 Tango okosilisa kotanga buku yango, kangisa yango na libanga, bwaka yango na ebale Efrate mpe loba:
When you finish reading this scroll, tie a stone to it and cast it into the Euphrates.
64 ‹ Ezali boye nde Babiloni ekozinda mpe ekomata lisusu te, likolo ya pasi oyo nakotindela yango. Mpe bato na yango bakokweya. › » Maloba ya Jeremi esuki awa.
Then you are to say, ‘In the same way Babylon will sink and never rise again, because of the disaster I will bring upon her. And her people will grow weary.’” Here end the words of Jeremiah.
