Banzembo 50
1 Nzembo ya Azafi. Nzambe ya banzambe, Yawe alobi, abengi mokili wuta na epai moyi ebimaka kino na epai elalaka.
A psalm of Asaph. The Mighty One, God, Yahweh, has spoken and called the earth from the rising of the sun to its setting.
2 Wuta na Siona, mboka kitoko, Nzambe azali kongenga lokola moyi.
Out of Zion, the perfection of beauty, God has shone.
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 stay silent; a fire devours before him, and it is very stormy around 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 so 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 faithful ones 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.
The heavens will declare his righteousness, for God himself is judge. (Selah)
7 Bino bato na ngai, boyoka; nazali koloba na bino! Isalaele, nakoloba mpo na kotelemela yo: « Ngai Nzambe, nazali Nzambe na yo. »
“Hear, my people, and I will speak; I am God, your 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 you for your sacrifices; your burnt offerings are always 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 bull out of your house, or male goats out of your 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 on 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 you; for the world is mine, and everything in it.
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 your vows to the Most High.
15 Mpe belela ngai na tango ya pasi; nakokangola yo, mpe okopesa ngai nkembo.
Call on me in the day of trouble; I will rescue you, and you will 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 God says, “What have you to do with declaring my statutes, that you have taken my covenant in your mouth,
17 Nzokande oyinaka malako na ngai mpe oyokaka te maloba na ngai?
since you hate instruction and throw my words away?
18 Soki omoni moyibi, wana nde osepeli; mpe ovandaka esika moko na bato na bikobo.
When you see a thief, you agree with him; you participate with those who commit adultery.
19 Otikaka monoko na yo kosala mabe, lolemo na yo ebimisaka kaka lokuta.
You give your mouth to evil, and your tongue expresses deceit.
20 Ovandaka mpo na kotonga ndeko na yo, mpe obebisaka lokumu ya bana ya mama na yo.
You sit and speak against your brother; you slander your 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.
You have done these things, but I have kept silent, so you thought that I was someone just like yourself. But I will reprove you and bring up, right before your eyes, all the things you have done.
22 Bino bato oyo bozali kobosana Nzambe, nabondeli bino: bososola makambo oyo; noki te nakobebisa bino, mpe moto moko te akokangola bino.
Give this careful consideration, you who forget God, otherwise I will tear you to pieces, and there will be no one to come to help you!
23 Moto oyo abonzaka matondi lokola mbeka, apesaka ngai lokumu; mpe moto oyo asalaka keba na etamboli na ye, nakotalisa ye lobiko ya Nzambe. »
The one who offers a sacrifice of thanksgiving praises me, and to anyone who plans his path in the right way I will show God's salvation.”
