Banzembo 81
1 Wuta na buku ya mokambi ya bayembi. Nzembo ya Azafi. Ezali ya koyemba na lindanda ya bato ya Gati. Boganga na esengo epai ya Nzambe, makasi na biso! Bobetela Nzambe ya Jakobi maboko!
“For the leader of the music. On the Gittith. A psalm of Asaph.” Sing joyfully to God, our strength! Shout with gladness to the God of Jacob!
2 Boyemba banzembo, bobeta bambunda mike, lindanda oyo ebimisaka lokito kitoko mpe nzenze!
Raise a song, and strike the timbrel, The sweet-sounding harp, and the psaltery!
3 Bobeta kelelo na ebandeli ya sanza, na tango oyo sanza mobimba engengaka, mpo na mokolo ya feti na biso!
Blow the trumpet at the new moon; At the full moon, also, on our festal day!
4 Pamba te ezali mobeko mpo na Isalaele, mpe mokano ya Nzambe ya Jakobi.
For this is a statute for Israel, A law of the God of Jacob;
5 Atiaki yango lokola mobeko mpo na Jozefi tango abundisaki Ejipito. Nazali koyoka lokota oyo nayebi te:
He appointed it as a memorial in Joseph, When he went out of the land of Egypt, Where he heard a language which he knew not.
6 « Nalongolaki mokumba oyo ezalaki na mapeka na ye, mpe maboko na ye elongwaki na bowumbu ya kosimba bitunga. »
“I relieved [[said he]] thy shoulders from their burden; Thy hands were removed from the hod.
7 Tango ozalaki koganga mpo na pasi, nakangolaki yo, nayanolaki yo kati na kake epai wapi nabombamaki, namekaki yo pembeni ya mayi ya Meriba.
Thou didst call in trouble, and I delivered thee; In the secret place of thunder I answered thee; I proved thee at the waters of Meribah. (Pause)
8 Bato na ngai, boyoka ngai! Mpe nakokebisa bino. Ah Isalaele, soki kaka ozalaki koyokela ngai!
Hear, O my people! and I will admonish thee! O Israel! that thou wouldst hearken to me!
9 Okozala na nzambe ya mopaya te kati na yo, okogumbamela nzambe mosusu te, longola kaka ngai!
Let there be no strange god within thee, Nor worship thou any foreign god!
10 Nazali Yawe, Nzambe na yo, oyo abimisaki yo na Ejipito; fungola malamu monoko na yo, mpe nakotondisa yango.
I Jehovah am thy God, Who brought thee out of the land of Egypt: Open wide thy mouth, and I will fill it!
11 Kasi bato na ngai bayokaki mongongo na ngai te, Isalaele aboyaki kotosa ngai.
But my people would not listen to my voice, And Israel would not hearken to me.
12 Mpo na yango, natikaki bango kotambola kolanda baposa ya mitema makasi na bango; mpe balandaki makanisi na bango.
So I gave them up to the obstinacy of their hearts, And they walked according to their own devices.
13 Soki bato na ngai bazalaki koyokela ngai, soki Isalaele azalaki kolanda banzela na ngai,
“O that my people had hearkened to me! That Israel had walked in my ways!
14 nalingaki mbala moko koyokisa banguna na bango soni mpe kobundisa bayini na bango.
Soon would I have brought low their enemies, And turned my hand against their adversaries.
15 Mpe bato oyo bayinaka Yawe balingaki komikitisa liboso na Ye, mpe etumbu na bango elingaki kowumela mpo na libela.
The haters of Jehovah should have become suppliants to them, And their prosperity should have endured for ever.
16 Yawe alingaki koleisa Isalaele bilei ya kitoko mpe kotondisa bango na mafuta ya nzoyi.
With the finest of the wheat I would have fed them, And with honey out of the rock would I have satisfied them.”
