Banzembo 49
1 Nzembo ya bana ya Kore. Wuta na buku ya mokambi ya bayembi. Bino bikolo nyonso, boyoka malamu makambo oyo; bino bavandi nyonso ya mokili, boyoka,
to/for to conduct to/for son: descendant/people Korah melody to hear: hear this all [the] people to listen all to dwell lifetime/world
2 bato pamba mpe bato minene, bazwi mpe babola:
also son: descendant/people man also son: descendant/people man unitedness rich and needy
3 Monoko na ngai ekoloba maloba ya bwanya; motema na ngai ekanisi makambo oyo ekopesa bino bososoli.
lip my to speak: speak wisdom and meditation heart my understanding
4 Nayokaka masese, mpe nalimbolaka sambole na nzela ya lindanda.
to stretch to/for proverb ear my to open in/on/with lyre riddle my
5 Mpo na nini nabanga na tango ya pasi, tango mabe ya bakosi ezingeli ngai,
to/for what? to fear in/on/with day bad: evil iniquity: crime heel my to turn: surround me
6 ba-oyo batielaka bomengo na bango motema mpe bamikumisaka mpo na bofuluki ya bozwi na bango?
[the] to trust upon strength: rich their and in/on/with abundance riches their to boast: boast
7 Moko te akoki kosikola ndeko na ye, moko te akoki kofuta mbongo epai ya Nzambe mpo na lisiko na ye.
brother: compatriot not to ransom to ransom man: anyone not to give: give to/for God ransom his
8 Talo ya bomoi na ye eleki motuya makasi, mpe ekotikala kofutama te.
and be precious redemption soul their and to cease to/for forever: enduring
9 Akokaki kozala na bomoi libela na libela, mpe akokaki kokufa te.
and to live still to/for perpetuity not to see: see [the] Pit: hell (questioned)
10 Solo, tomonaka bato ya bwanya kokufa elongo na zoba mpe moto oyo azangi mayele, mpe batikaka bomengo na bango epai ya bato mosusu.
for to see: see wise to die unitedness fool and stupid to perish and to leave: forsake to/for another strength: rich their
11 Bakunda na bango nde ekomaka bandako na bango mpo na libela, mpe bisika na bango ya kovanda mpo na seko na seko, atako bapesaki na bitando na bango ya mabele bakombo na bango mpo ete ebengamaka na yango.
entrails: inner parts their house: home their to/for forever: enduring tabernacle their to/for generation and generation to call: call by in/on/with name their upon land: soil
12 Mozwi akowumelaka te na bomoi; ata aleki na lokumu, akokani na nyama oyo ezali kokufa.
and man in/on/with preciousness not to lodge to liken like/as animal to cease
13 Yango nde suka ya bato oyo batiaka elikya kati na bango moko, ya bato oyo balandaka bango mpe basepelaka na maloba na bango.
this way: conduct their loin to/for them and after them in/on/with lip: word their to accept (Selah)
14 Bazali lokola bameme mpe babongisami mpo na mboka ya bakufi; kufa ekokoma kobokola bango. Kala te, bato ya sembo bakonyata bango, kitoko na bango ekonzuluka, mpe mboka ya bakufi ekokoma ndako na bango. (Sheol h7585)
like/as flock to/for hell: Sheol to appoint death to pasture them and to rule in/on/with them upright to/for morning (and rock their *Q(K)*) to/for to become old hell: Sheol from elevation to/for him (Sheol h7585)
15 Kasi Nzambe akokangola bomoi na ngai wuta na maboko ya mboka ya bakufi, pamba te akokamata ngai. (Sheol h7585)
surely God to ransom soul my from hand: power hell: Sheol for to take: recieve me (Selah) (Sheol h7585)
16 Komitungisaka te soki moto moko akomi kofuluka na bozwi, soki kongenga ya ndako na ye ekomi komata se komata.
not to fear for to enrich man: anyone for to multiply glory house: home his
17 Pamba te akomema ata eloko moko te tango akokufa; bomengo na ye ekolanda ye te.
for not in/on/with death his to take: take [the] all not to go down after him glory his
18 Atako, wana azalaki na bomoi, azalaki komimona moto apambolama— atako bato bakokumisa yo, pamba te omisali bolamu—
for soul his in/on/with life his to bless and to give thanks you for be good to/for you
19 okokende kaka kokutana na bakoko na yo oyo bakotikala komona lisusu pole te.
to come (in): come till generation father his till perpetuity not to see: see light
20 Moto oyo azali mozwi, kasi azangi bososoli, azali lokola nyama oyo ezali kokufa.
man in/on/with preciousness and not to understand to liken like/as animal to cease
