Banzembo 113

1 Bokumisa Yawe! Bino basali ya Yawe, bokumisa Ye; bokumisa Yawe!

Praise ye the Lord. Praise, O ye seruants of the Lord, prayse the Name of the Lord.

2 Tika ete Kombo ya Yawe epambolama kobanda sik’oyo kino libela na libela!

Blessed be the Name of the Lord from hencefoorth and for euer.

3 Longwa na este kino na weste, tika ete Kombo ya Yawe epambolama!

The Lordes Name is praysed from the rising of ye sunne, vnto ye going downe of the same.

4 Yawe azali na likolo ya bikolo nyonso, nkembo na Ye ezali na likolo koleka Lola.

The Lord is high aboue all nations, and his glorie aboue the heauens.

5 Nani akokani na Yawe, Nzambe na biso, oyo avandi na Kiti ya Bokonzi kati na bisika oyo eleki likolo?

Who is like vnto the Lord our God, that hath his dwelling on high!

6 Agumbamaka mpo na kotala likolo mpe mokili.

Who abaseth himselfe to beholde things in the heauen and in the earth!

7 Wuta na putulu, atombolaka moto oyo akelela; wuta na fulu ya matiti, abimisaka mobola

He raiseth the needie out of the dust, and lifteth vp the poore out of the dung,

8 mpo na kovandisa ye esika moko na bakambi, na bankumu ya bato na Ye.

That he may set him with the princes, euen with the princes of his people.

9 Avandisaka mwasi ekomba kati na ndako na ye, lokola mama ya esengo kati na bana na ye. Bokumisa Yawe!

He maketh the barren woman to dwell with a familie, and a ioyfull mother of children. Prayse ye the Lord.