Banzembo 50
1 Nzembo ya Azafi. Nzambe ya banzambe, Yawe alobi, abengi mokili wuta na epai moyi ebimaka kino na epai elalaka.
The Mighty One, God, Jehovah, has spoken, and called the earth from the rising of the sun to the going down thereof.
2 Wuta na Siona, mboka kitoko, Nzambe azali kongenga lokola moyi.
Out of Zion, the perfection of beauty, God has shone forth.
3 Tika ete Nzambe na biso aya! Tika ete akanga monoko te! Liboso na Ye, moto makasi ezali kozikisa; mpe zingazinga na Ye, mopepe makasi ezali kopepa.
Our God comes, and does not keep silence. A fire devours before him, and it is very tempestuous round about him.
4 Abengi Likolo, kuna na likolo, mpe mabele mpo na kokata makambo ya bato na Ye.
He calls to the heavens above, and to the earth, that he may judge his people.
5 Alobi: « Bosangisela ngai bayengebene na ngai, ba-oyo basalaki Boyokani elongo na ngai na nzela ya mbeka. »
Gather my sanctified together to me, those who have made a covenant with me by sacrifice.
6 Likolo ekopanza sango ya bosembo na Ye, pamba te azali Nzambe ya bosembo.
And the heavens shall declare his righteousness, for God is judge himself. (Selah)
7 Bino bato na ngai, boyoka; nazali koloba na bino! Isalaele, nakoloba mpo na kotelemela yo: « Ngai Nzambe, nazali Nzambe na yo. »
Hear, O my people, and I will speak, O Israel, and I will testify to thee, I am God, even thy God.
8 Nakopamela yo te na tina na bambeka na yo, pamba te bambeka na yo ya kotumba ezalaka tango nyonso liboso na ngai.
I will not reprove thee for thy sacrifices, and thy burnt offerings being continually before me.
9 Nakozwa ngombe te kati na ndako na yo to ntaba mobali kati na etonga na yo ya bibwele,
I will take no bullock out of thy house, nor he-goats out of thy folds.
10 pamba te banyama nyonso ya zamba ezali ya ngai; ezala ata ebele ya banyama oyo ezali kati na bangomba, nyonso ezali ya ngai.
For every beast of the forest is mine, and the cattle upon a thousand hills.
11 Nayebi bandeke nyonso ya bangomba; mpe banyama ya bilanga ezali ya ngai.
I know all the birds of the mountains, and the wild beasts of the field are mine.
12 Soki nazalaki na nzala, nalingaki koyebisa yo te, pamba te mokili mpe nyonso oyo ezali kati na yango ezali ya ngai.
If I were hungry, I would not tell thee, for the world is mine, and the fullness thereof.
13 Boni, okanisi penza ete ngai naliaka misuni ya bangombe to namelaka makila ya bantaba?
Will I eat the flesh of bulls, or drink the blood of goats?
14 Bonzelaka Nzambe matondi lokola mbeka, mpe kokisaka bandayi na yo epai ya Ye-Oyo-Aleki-Likolo.
Offer to God the sacrifice of thanksgiving, and pay thy vows to the Most High.
15 Mpe belela ngai na tango ya pasi; nakokangola yo, mpe okopesa ngai nkembo.
And call upon me in the day of trouble. I will deliver thee, and thou shall glorify me.
16 Nzambe alobi na moto mabe: « Mpo na nini opanzaka sango ya mibeko na ngai mpe olobaka na tina na Boyokani na ngai?
But to the wicked man God says, What have thou to do to declare my statutes, and that thou have taken my covenant in thy mouth,
17 Nzokande oyinaka malako na ngai mpe oyokaka te maloba na ngai?
since thou hate instruction, and cast my words behind thee?
18 Soki omoni moyibi, wana nde osepeli; mpe ovandaka esika moko na bato na bikobo.
When thou saw a thief, thou consented with him, and have been partaker with adulterers.
19 Otikaka monoko na yo kosala mabe, lolemo na yo ebimisaka kaka lokuta.
Thou give thy mouth to evil, and thy tongue frames deceit.
20 Ovandaka mpo na kotonga ndeko na yo, mpe obebisaka lokumu ya bana ya mama na yo.
Thou sit and speak against thy brother; thou slander thine own mother's son.
21 Yango nde makambo oyo ozalaki kosala; mpe ngai nabatelaki kimia. Okanisi penza ete ngai nazali lokola yo? Nakopamela yo mpe nakotanda makambo nyonso oyo nazwa yo na miso na yo.
These things thou have done, and I kept silence. Thou thought that I was altogether such a one as thyself. But I will reprove thee, and set them in order before thine eyes.
22 Bino bato oyo bozali kobosana Nzambe, nabondeli bino: bososola makambo oyo; noki te nakobebisa bino, mpe moto moko te akokangola bino.
Now consider this, ye who forget God, lest I tear you in pieces, and there be none to deliver:
23 Moto oyo abonzaka matondi lokola mbeka, apesaka ngai lokumu; mpe moto oyo asalaka keba na etamboli na ye, nakotalisa ye lobiko ya Nzambe. »
Whoever offers the sacrifice of thanksgiving glorifies me. And to him who orders his way aright I will show the salvation of God.
