Malashi 2
1 « Sik’oyo, bino Banganga-Nzambe, likebisi oyo epesami epai na bino:
And now, O you priests, this commandment is for you.
2 Soki boyoki te, soki boboyi kozwa mokano ya kopesa Kombo na Ngai lokumu, » elobi Yawe, Mokonzi ya mampinga, « nakotindela bino elakeli mabe mpe nakolakela lipamboli na bino mabe. Solo, nasili kolakela yango mabe, pamba te bozwaki mokano te ya kopesa Kombo na Ngai lokumu.
If you will not hear, and if you will not lay it to heart, to give glory to my name, says the LORD of hosts, I will even send a curse on you, and I will curse your blessings: yes, I have cursed them already, because you do not lay it to heart.
3 Likolo na bino, nakopamela bakitani na bino, nakobwakela bino basalite ya banyama na bino na bilongi, salite ya banyama oyo bobonzaka na mikolo ya bafeti na bino, mpe bakomema bino nzela moko na basalite yango.
Behold, I will corrupt your seed, and spread dung on your faces, even the dung of your solemn feasts; and one shall take you away with it.
4 Bokoyeba solo ete napesi bino likebisi oyo mpo ete boyokani na Ngai elongo na Levi esuka te, » elobi Yawe, Mokonzi ya mampinga.
And you shall know that I have sent this commandment to you, that my covenant might be with Levi, says the LORD of hosts.
5 « Boyokani na Ngai elongo na ye ezali boyokani ya bomoi mpe ya kimia, mpe nakopesa ye yango mpo ete atosa Ngai. Atosaki Ngai solo mpe azalaki kolenga liboso ya Kombo na Ngai.
My covenant was with him of life and peace; and I gave them to him for the fear with which he feared me, and was afraid before my name.
6 Monoko na ye ezalaki kobimisa malakisi ya solo; lokuta etikalaki komonana na bibebu na ye te. Azalaki kotambola elongo na Ngai na kimia mpe na alima. Na nzela na ye, bato ebele batikaki kotambola na nzela ya masumu.
The law of truth was in his mouth, and iniquity was not found in his lips: he walked with me in peace and equity, and did turn many away from iniquity.
7 Pamba te bibebu ya Nganga-Nzambe esengeli kobatela boyebi, mpe bato basengeli kozwa boyebi na monoko na ye mpo ete azali ntoma ya Yawe, Mokonzi ya mampinga.
For the priest’s lips should keep knowledge, and they should seek the law at his mouth: for he is the messenger of the LORD of hosts.
8 Kasi bino, bopengwi na nzela mpe bobetisi bato ebele mabaku na malakisi na bino; bobebisi boyokani elongo na Balevi, » elobi Yawe, Mokonzi ya mampinga.
But you are departed out of the way; you have caused many to stumble at the law; you have corrupted the covenant of Levi, says the LORD of hosts.
9 « Boye, nasalaki ete botiolama mpe bosambwa liboso ya bato nyonso, pamba te bolandaki banzela na Ngai te, kasi bozalaki kopona bilongi na makambo oyo etali mibeko. »
Therefore have I also made you contemptible and base before all the people, according as you have not kept my ways, but have been partial in the law.
10 Boni, biso nyonso tozali bana ya tata moko te? Boni, tokelama na Nzambe moko te? Bongo mpo na nini tozali kobebisa boyokani ya batata na biso na ndenge tozali kosalana mabe biso na biso?
Have we not all one father? has not one God created us? why do we deal treacherously every man against his brother, by profaning the covenant of our fathers?
11 Bato ya Yuda batamboli na boyengebene te, bakotisi likambo ya nkele kati na Isalaele mpe na Yelusalemi, pamba te bato ya Yuda babebisi bosantu ya Esika ya bule ya Yawe, Esika ya bule oyo Yawe alingaka makasi: babali basi oyo basambelaka nzambe mopaya.
Judah has dealt treacherously, and an abomination is committed in Israel and in Jerusalem; for Judah has profaned the holiness of the LORD which he loved, and has married the daughter of a strange god.
12 Mpo na mobali nyonso oyo akosala bongo, azala nani, tika ete Yawe alongola ye na bandako ya kapo ya Jakobi, ata amemi makabo epai na Yawe, Mokonzi ya mampinga.
The LORD will cut off the man that does this, the master and the scholar, out of the tabernacles of Jacob, and him that offers an offering to the LORD of hosts.
13 Tala makambo mosusu oyo bosalaka: bozali kotondisa etumbelo ya Yawe na mayi ya miso, bozali kolelalela mpo ete Yawe azali kotala lisusu makabo na bino te mpe aboyi koyamba yango na maboko na bino.
And this have you done again, covering the altar of the LORD with tears, with weeping, and with crying out, so that he regards not the offering any more, or receives it with good will at your hand.
14 Bozali kotuna: « Mpo na nini boye? » Ezali mpo ete Yawe azali Motatoli kati na yo mpe mwasi na yo ya bolenge, kasi yo okosaki ye. Nzokande, azali mwasi oyo okangani na ye na nzela ya boyokani.
Yet you say, Why? Because the LORD has been witness between you and the wife of your youth, against whom you have dealt treacherously: yet is she your companion, and the wife of your covenant.
15 Boni, Yawe akomisaki bango te moto moko? Bazali ya Yawe na mosuni mpe na molimo. Moto yango alukaka nini? Alukaka bana kowuta epai na Nzambe. Boye, bosala keba mpo na bomoi na bino. Tika ete moto moko te akosa mwasi na ye ya bolenge!
And did not he make one? Yet had he the residue of the spirit. And why one? That he might seek a godly seed. Therefore take heed to your spirit, and let none deal treacherously against the wife of his youth.
16 Pamba te Yawe, Nzambe ya Isalaele, alobi: « Nayinaka likambo ya koboma libala; ekokani na moto oyo elamba na ye ezwi makila tango abomi moto, » elobi Yawe, Mokonzi ya mampinga. Yango wana, bosala keba mpo na bomoi na bino mpe botikala sembo.
For the LORD, the God of Israel, says that he hates putting away: for one covers violence with his garment, says the LORD of hosts: therefore take heed to your spirit, that you deal not treacherously.
17 Bolembisi Yawe na maloba na bino mpe bozali lisusu kotuna: « Tolembisi Yo na likambo nini? » Ezali tango bozali koloba: « Moto oyo asalaka mabe azali malamu na miso ya Yawe, mpe Yawe asepelaka na ye » to mpe « Wapi Nzambe ya bosembo? »
You have wearied the LORD with your words. Yet you say, Wherein have we wearied him? When you say, Every one that does evil is good in the sight of the LORD, and he delights in them; or, Where is the God of judgment?
