Banzembo 50
1 Nzembo ya Azafi. Nzambe ya banzambe, Yawe alobi, abengi mokili wuta na epai moyi ebimaka kino na epai elalaka.
A Psalm by Asaph. The Mighty One, God, the LORD, speaks, and calls the earth from sunrise to sunset.
2 Wuta na Siona, mboka kitoko, Nzambe azali kongenga lokola moyi.
Out of Zion, the perfection of beauty, God shines out.
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 silent. A fire devours before him. 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, 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 holy 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 shall 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. Israel, I will testify against you. 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 don’t rebuke you for your sacrifices. Your burnt offerings are continually before me.
9 Nakozwa ngombe te kati na ndako na yo to ntaba mobali kati na etonga na yo ya bibwele,
I have no need for a bull from your stall, nor male goats from your pens.
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 animal of the forest is mine, and the livestock 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. The wild animals 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 all that is in it.
13 Boni, okanisi penza ete ngai naliaka misuni ya bangombe to namelaka makila ya bantaba?
Will I eat the meat 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. 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 deliver you, and you will honor 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 right do you have to declare my statutes, that you have taken my covenant on your lips,
17 Nzokande oyinaka malako na ngai mpe oyokaka te maloba na ngai?
since you hate instruction, and throw my words behind you?
18 Soki omoni moyibi, wana nde osepeli; mpe ovandaka esika moko na bato na bikobo.
When you saw a thief, you consented with him, and have participated with adulterers.
19 Otikaka monoko na yo kosala mabe, lolemo na yo ebimisaka kaka lokuta.
“You give your mouth to evil. Your tongue frames 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, and I kept silent. You thought that I was just like you. I will rebuke you, and accuse you in front of your 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, you who forget God, lest I tear you into pieces, and there be no one 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 prepares his way so that I will show God’s salvation to him.”
