Yona 4
1 Yona asepelaki na yango ata moke te, asilikaki makasi.
But it displeased Jonah exceedingly, and he was angry.
2 Asambelaki Yawe: — Oh Yawe! Ezali te makambo ya boye nde nazalaki komilobela tango nazalaki epai na ngai? Yango wana nasalaki na ngai mobembo na Tarsisi mpo na koluka kokima, pamba te nayebaki malamu ete ozali Nzambe ya ngolu mpe ya mawa, osilikaka noki te mpe otonda na bolingo, obongolaka makanisi na Yo ya kosala bato mabe.
He prayed to the LORD, and said, “Please, LORD, wasn’t this what I said when I was still in my own country? Therefore I hurried to flee to Tarshish, for I knew that you are a gracious God and merciful, slow to anger, and abundant in loving kindness, and you relent of doing harm.
3 Sik’oyo, oh Yawe, kamata na Yo bomoi na ngai; pamba te eleki malamu ete nakufa na ngai, kasi nazala na bomoi te!
Therefore now, LORD, take, I beg you, my life from me, for it is better for me to die than to live.”
4 Kasi Yawe azongiselaki ye: — Boni, okanisi ete ozali kosala malamu ndenge ozali kosilika?
The LORD said, “Is it right for you to be angry?”
5 Yona abimaki na libanda ya engumba mpe akendeki kovanda na este na yango. Kuna, amitongelaki ndako moko ya matiti mpe avandaki na se ya pio na yango mpo na kozela makambo oyo ekokweyela engumba Ninive.
Then Jonah went out of the city and sat on the east side of the city, and there made himself a booth and sat under it in the shade, until he might see what would become of the city.
6 Yawe Nzambe abimisaki nzete moko mpe akolisaki yango mpo na kopesa pio na moto ya Yona mpe kokitisa ye motema. Nzete yango esepelisaki Yona makasi.
The LORD God prepared a vine and made it to come up over Jonah, that it might be a shade over his head to deliver him from his discomfort. So Jonah was exceedingly glad because of the vine.
7 Kasi na tongo-tongo ya mokolo oyo elandaki, Nzambe abimisaki mwa nyama moko oyo eliaka banzete; bongo eliaki nzete yango, mpe nzete yango ekawukaki.
But God prepared a worm at dawn the next day, and it chewed on the vine so that it withered.
8 Tango moyi ebimaki makasi, Nzambe atindaki mopepe ya este oyo epesaki molunge makasi. Moyi ebetaki moto ya Yona makasi. Yona alembaki nzoto, asengaki kokufa; alobaki: — Eleki malamu ete nakufa na ngai, kasi nazala na bomoi te!
When the sun arose, God prepared a sultry east wind; and the sun beat on Jonah’s head, so that he was faint and requested for himself that he might die. He said, “It is better for me to die than to live.”
9 Nzambe alobaki na Yona: — Okanisi ete ozali kosala malamu ndenge ozali kosilika mpo na nzete oyo? Yona azongisaki: — Ezali se bongo. Nazali kosala malamu ndenge nazali kosilika kino kosenga kufa na ngai.
God said to Jonah, “Is it right for you to be angry about the vine?” He said, “I am right to be angry, even to death.”
10 Yawe alobaki: — Oyoki pasi na motema mpo na nzete oyo omoneli ata pasi te mpe okolisi te, oyo ekoli kaka na butu moko mpe ekawuki na butu oyo elandi! Oyokeli yango mpe mawa!
The LORD said, “You have been concerned for the vine, for which you have not labored, neither made it grow; which came up in a night and perished in a night.
11 Bongo ndenge nini Ngai nayoka motema pasi te mpo na Ninive, engumba monene, oyo ezali na bato koleka nkoto nkama moko na tuku mibale oyo bayebi te kokesenisa makambo mabe mpe makambo malamu, mpe ezali na ebele ya bibwele?
Shouldn’t I be concerned for Nineveh, that great city, in which are more than one hundred twenty thousand persons who can’t discern between their right hand and their left hand, and also many animals?”
