Joeli 3
1 « Na mikolo mpe na tango wana, tango nakozongisa bakangami ya Yuda mpe ya Yelusalemi,
For beholde, in those dayes and in that time, when I shall bring againe the captiuitie of Iudah and Ierusalem,
2 nakosangisa bato ya bikolo nyonso mpe nakokitisa bango na lubwaku ya Jozafati. Nakosambisa bango kuna na tina na libula na Ngai, Isalaele, bato na Ngai; pamba te bapanzi bato na Ngai kati na bikolo mpe bakaboli mokili na Ngai.
I will also gather all nations, and wil bring them downe into the valley of Iehoshaphat, and will pleade with them there for my people, and for mine heritage Israel, whom they haue scattered among the nations, and parted my land.
3 Babeti zeke mpo na kokabola bato na Ngai, bapesi bilenge mibali basi ya ndumba, bateki bilenge basi mpo na kozwa kaka vino, mpe balangwe yango.
And they haue cast lottes for my people, and haue giuen the childe for the harlot, and sold the girle for wine, that they might drinke.
4 Eh bongo bino, Tiri mpe Sidoni, bituka ya bato ya Filisitia, likambo nini lisusu kati na Ngai mpe bino? Bolingi kozongisela Ngai mabe to kotombokela Ngai? Soki yango nde ezali makanisi na bino, Ngai nde nasengeli kozongisela bino mabe na lombangu.
Yea, and what haue you to do with me, O Tyrus and Zidon and all the costes of Palestina? will ye render me a recompence? and if ye recompence mee, swiftly and speedily will I render your recompence vpon your head:
5 Pamba te bozwaki palata mpe wolo na Ngai, bomengo na Ngai ya motuya makasi mpe bomemaki yango na batempelo na bino.
For ye haue taken my siluer and my golde, and haue caried into your temples my goodly and pleasant things.
6 Botekaki bato ya Yuda mpe ya Yelusalemi epai ya Bagreki mpo na komema bango mosika ya mokili na bango.
The children also of Iudah and the children of Ierusalem haue you solde vnto the Grecians, that ye might send them farre from their border.
7 Ngai moko nakopesa bango makasi mpo ete babima na bisika nyonso epai wapi botekaki bango.
Beholde, I will rayse them out of the place where ye haue sold them, and will render your reward vpon your owne head,
8 Nakoteka bana na bino ya mibali mpe ya basi epai ya bato ya Yuda, mpe bango bakoteka bango epai ya bato ya Sabe, ekolo ya mosika penza, » elobi Yawe.
And I will send your sonnes and your daughters into the hande of the children of Iudah, and they shall sell them to the Sabeans, to a people farre off: for the Lord hath spoken it.
9 « Bosakola likambo oyo kati na bikolo: Bobulisa mampinga mpo na bitumba! Bolamusa bilombe! Tika ete bilombe nyonso ya bitumba bapusana mpe baya!
Publish this among the Gentiles: prepare warre, wake vp the mightie men: let all the men of warre drawe neere and come vp.
10 Bosala mipanga, na nzela ya bakongo na bino; mpe makonga, na nzela ya bipasola na bino! Tika ete moto na bolembu aloba: ‹ Nazali makasi. ›
Breake your plowshares into swords, and your sithes into speares: let the weake say, I am strong.
11 Bino bikolo nyonso ya zingazinga, boya na lombangu mpe bosangana! Oh Yawe, kitisa bilombe na Yo!
Assemble your selues, and come all yee heathen and gather your selues together round about: there shall the Lord cast downe the mightie men.
12 Tika ete bikolo nyonso elamuka mpe emata kino na lubwaku ya Jozafati! Pamba te kuna nde nakovanda mpo na kosambisa bikolo nyonso ya zingazinga.
Let the heathen be wakened, and come vp to the valley of Iehoshaphat: for there will I sit to iudge all the heathen round about.
13 Bosimba bambeli, pamba te bambuma eteli. Boya, bokamola bambuma ya vino, pamba te ekamolelo etondi, banzungu etondi, mabe na bango eleki ndelo.
Put in your sithes, for the haruest is ripe: come, get you downe, for the winepresse is full: yea, the winepresses runne ouer, for their wickednesse is great.
14 Bato bazali ebele, ebele penza, na lubwaku ya kosambisama. Mokolo ya Yawe ekomi pene, na lubwaku ya kosambisama.
O multitude, O multitude, come into the valley of threshing: for the day of the Lord is neere in the valley of threshing.
15 Sanza mpe moyi ekoyinda, minzoto ekongenga lisusu te.
The sunne and moone shalbe darkened, and the starres shall withdrawe their light.
16 Wuta na Siona, Yawe akoloba makasi; wuta na Yelusalemi, akoloba na mongongo makasi lokola kake; Lola mpe mabele ekoningana. Kasi Yawe akozala ekimelo mpo na bato na Ye, engumba batonga makasi mpo na bana ya Isalaele.
The Lord also shall roare out of Zion, and vtter his voyce from Ierusalem, and the heauens and the earth shall shake, but the Lord wil be the hope of his people, and the strength of the children of Israel.
17 Boye, bokoyeba solo ete Ngai nazali Yawe, Nzambe na bino; navandaka na Siona, ngomba na Ngai ya bule. Yelusalemi ekozala engumba ya bule, bapaya bakolekela lisusu wana te.
So shall ye know that I am the Lord your God dwelling in Zion, mine holy Mountaine: then shall Ierusalem bee holy, and there shall no strangers go thorowe her any more.
18 Na mokolo wana, bangomba ekotangisa vino ya sika, mpe miliki ekotanga na bangomba mikuse. Miluka nyonso ya Yuda ekotonda na mayi, etima moko ya mayi ekobima wuta na Tempelo ya Yawe mpe ekosopela lubwaku ya banzete ya akasia mayi.
And in that day shall the mountaines drop downe newe wine, and the hilles shall flowe with milke, and al the riuers of Iudah shall runne with waters, and a fountaine shall come forth of the House of the Lord, and shall water the valley of Shittim.
19 Kasi mokili ya Ejipito ekobebisama, mokili ya Edomi ekokoma esobe mpo na makambo mabe oyo basalaki epai ya bato ya Yuda, pamba te basopaki makila ya bato ya Yuda na mabele na bango, atako basalaki mabe te.
Egypt shalbe waste, and Edom shall be a desolate wildernesse, for the iniuries of the childre of Iudah, because they haue shed innocent blood in their land.
20 Bato bakokoma kovanda na mokili ya Yuda mpo na libela, mpe na engumba Yelusalemi, libela na libela.
But Iudah shall dwell for euer, and Ierusalem from generation to generation.
21 Nakopetola bino mpo na ngambo ya makila, mpo ete nanu napetola bino te. »
For I will clense their blood, that I haue not clensed, and the Lord will dwell in Zion.
