Banzembo 8

1 Wuta na buku ya mokambi ya bayembi. Nzembo ya Davidi; ezali ya koyemba na lindanda ya bato ya Gati. Oh Yawe, Nkolo na biso, Kombo na Yo ezali monene kati na mokili mobimba! Ovandisi nkembo na Yo kati na Lola.

For the leader: A psalm of David, to be accompanied by a stringed instrument. Lord our God! How glorious in all the earth is your name! Your praise reaches as high as the heavens,

2 Na nzela ya masanzoli ya bana mpe bana mike, otelemisi ndako batonga makasi, mpo na kotelemela bayini na Yo mpe kokanga monoko ya monguna mpe ya moto oyo alingaka kozongisa mabe na mabe.

from the mouths of children and infants. You have built a fortress against your enemies, to silence the foe and the rebel.

3 Tango natalaka Lola na Yo, mosala ya misapi na Yo, sanza mpe minzoto oyo otia,

When I look at your heavens, the work of your fingers, the moon and the stars, which you have set there,

4 namitunaka: Moto azali nini mpo ete okanisa ye, mpe moto azali nani mpo ete obatela ye?

what are mortals, that you think of them, humans, that you visit them?

5 Osalaki ye moke koleka ba-anjelu mpe olatisaka ye motole ya nkembo mpe ya lokumu;

Yet you made them little less than divine, crowned them with glory and majesty,

6 otia ye moyangeli ya misala ya maboko na Yo, otia nyonso na se ya matambe na ye:

made them lord of the works of your hands, put all things under their feet –

7 bameme, bantaba, bangombe mpe banyama ya zamba,

sheep and oxen, all of them; and the wild beasts also:

8 bandeke ya likolo, mbisi ya ebale monene mpe nyonso oyo etambolaka na bibale.

birds of the air, and fish of the sea, and all that crosses the paths of the ocean.

9 Oh Yawe, Nkolo na biso, Kombo na Yo ezali monene kati na mokili mobimba!

Lord our God! How glorious in all the earth is your name!