Banzembo 85
1 Wuta na buku ya mokambi ya bayembi. Nzembo ya bana ya Kore. Yawe, osalelaki mboka na Yo bolamu, ozongisaki bato ya Jakobi, oyo bazalaki na bowumbu,
“To the chief musician, by the sons of Korach, a psalm.” Thou hast been favorable, O Lord, unto thy land: thou hast brought back the captivity of Jacob.
2 olimbisaki mabe ya bato na Yo mpe olongolaki masumu na bango nyonso.
Thou hast forgiven the iniquity of thy people: thou hast covered over all their sin. (Selah)
3 Otikaki kanda na Yo nyonso ya makasi mpe okitisaki motema na Yo.
Thou hast taken away all thy wrath: thou hast relinquished the fierceness of thy anger.
4 Nzambe Mobikisi na biso, zongela biso! Longola kanda na Yo na tina na biso!
Return to us, O God of our salvation, and cause thy ill-will toward us to cease.
5 Boni, okosilikela biso penza mpo na libela? Okokangela penza biso kanda mpo na tango nyonso?
Wilt thou be wroth with us for ever? wilt thou extend thy anger from generation to generation?
6 Okozongisela biso lisusu bomoi te mpo ete bato na Yo basepela kati na Yo?
Wilt thou not [now] revive us again, that thy people may rejoice in thee?
7 Yawe, talisa biso bolingo na Yo, mpe pesa biso lobiko na Yo!
Show us thy kindness, O Lord, and grant us thy salvation.
8 Yawe, nakoyoka maloba na Nzambe; pamba te alobaka mpo na kimia ya bato na Ye mpe ya bayengebene na Ye. Kasi tika ete bazongela te botomboki na bango.
I will hear what God the Lord will speak; for he will speak peace unto his people, and to his pious ones: only let them not turn again to folly.
9 Solo, lobiko na Ye ezali pene ya bato oyo batosaka Ye mpo ete nkembo na Ye ewumela kati na mboka na biso.
Surely, nigh is his salvation unto those that fear him: that glory may dwell in our land.
10 Bolingo mpe boyengebene ekutanaka, bosembo mpe kimia eyambanaka.
Kindness and truth are met together: righteousness and peace kiss each other.
11 Bosolo ebotaka wuta na mabele, mpe bosembo etalaka wuta na likolo.
Truth will grow up out of the earth, and righteousness will look down from heaven.
12 Ye moko Yawe akopesa esengo, mpe mabele na biso ekobota bambuma.
Yea, the Lord will also give the good, and our land will yield its products.
13 Bosembo etambolaka liboso na Ye mpe elakisaka nzela oyo ekolekela.
Righteousness will walk firmly before him, and will make [level] the way by its steps.
