< 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 chief musician; set to the gittith style. A psalm of David. Yahweh our Lord, how magnificent is your name in all the earth, you who reveal your glory in the heavens above.
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.
Out of the mouth of babies and infants you have established praise because of your enemies, so that you might silence both the enemy and the avenger.
3 Tango natalaka Lola na Yo, mosala ya misapi na Yo, sanza mpe minzoto oyo otia,
When I look up at your heavens, which your fingers have made, the moon and the stars, which you have set in place,
4 namitunaka: Moto azali nini mpo ete okanisa ye, mpe moto azali nani mpo ete obatela ye?
Of what importance is the human race that you notice them, or mankind that you pay attention to them?
5 Osalaki ye moke koleka ba-anjelu mpe olatisaka ye motole ya nkembo mpe ya lokumu;
Yet you have made them only a little lower than the heavenly beings and have crowned them with glory and honor.
6 otia ye moyangeli ya misala ya maboko na Yo, otia nyonso na se ya matambe na ye:
You make him to rule over the works of your hands; you have put all things under his feet:
7 bameme, bantaba, bangombe mpe banyama ya zamba,
all sheep and oxen, and even the animals of the field,
8 bandeke ya likolo, mbisi ya ebale monene mpe nyonso oyo etambolaka na bibale.
the birds of the heavens, and the fish of the sea, everything that passes through the currents of the seas.
9 Oh Yawe, Nkolo na biso, Kombo na Yo ezali monene kati na mokili mobimba!
Yahweh our Lord, how magnificent is your name in all the earth!