Banzembo 129

1 Nzembo ya mobembo mpo na kokende na Tempelo ya Yawe. Wuta bolenge na ngai, banyokoli ngai bambala ebele. Tika ete Isalaele ezongela koloba:

A Song of Ascents. Many times they have afflicted me from my youth up. Let Israel now say:

2 « Wuta bolenge na ngai, banyokoli ngai bambala ebele, kasi batikali kolonga ngai te! »

many times they have afflicted me from my youth up, yet they have not prevailed against me.

3 Bato mabe batimoli mokongo na ngai, bazokisi ngai bapota ya banzela milayi na mokongo.

The plowers plowed on my back. They made their furrows long.

4 Kasi lokola Yawe azali sembo, akati basinga ya bato mabe.

The LORD is righteous. He has cut apart the cords of the wicked.

5 Tika ete bato nyonso oyo bayinaka Siona bakufa soni mpe bazonga sima!

Let them be disappointed and turned backward, all those who hate Zion.

6 Tika ete bakoma lokola matiti oyo ebotaka na likolo ya ndako mpe ekawukaka liboso ete balongola yango;

Let them be as the grass on the housetops, which withers before it grows up,

7 tika ete mobuki bambuma ya bilanga atondisa na yango te maboko na ye, tika ete mokangi maboke ya banzete atondisa na yango te saki na ye.

with which the reaper doesn’t fill his hand, nor he who binds sheaves, his bosom.

8 Tika ete baleki nzela baloba na bango te: « Tika ete Yawe apambola bino! » Topamboli bino na Kombo na Yawe!

Neither do those who go by say, “The blessing of the LORD be on you. We bless you in the LORD’s name.”