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 OVERSEER. A PSALM OF THE SONS OF KORAH. You have accepted, O YHWH, Your land, You have turned [to] the captivity of Jacob.
2 olimbisaki mabe ya bato na Yo mpe olongolaki masumu na bango nyonso.
You have carried away the iniquity of Your people, You have covered all their sin. (Selah)
3 Otikaki kanda na Yo nyonso ya makasi mpe okitisaki motema na Yo.
You have gathered up all Your wrath, You have turned back from the fierceness of Your anger.
4 Nzambe Mobikisi na biso, zongela biso! Longola kanda na Yo na tina na biso!
Turn back [to] us, O God of our salvation, And make void Your anger with us.
5 Boni, okosilikela biso penza mpo na libela? Okokangela penza biso kanda mpo na tango nyonso?
Are You angry against us for all time? Do You draw out Your anger To generation and generation?
6 Okozongisela biso lisusu bomoi te mpo ete bato na Yo basepela kati na Yo?
Do You not turn back? You revive us, And Your people rejoice in You.
7 Yawe, talisa biso bolingo na Yo, mpe pesa biso lobiko na Yo!
Show us, O YHWH, your kindness, And You give to us Your 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 hear what God, YHWH, speaks, For He speaks peace to His people, And to His saints, and they do not turn back 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 His salvation [is] near to those fearing Him, That glory may dwell in our land.
10 Bolingo mpe boyengebene ekutanaka, bosembo mpe kimia eyambanaka.
Kindness and truth have met, Righteousness and peace have kissed,
11 Bosolo ebotaka wuta na mabele, mpe bosembo etalaka wuta na likolo.
Truth springs up from the earth, And righteousness looks out from the heavens,
12 Ye moko Yawe akopesa esengo, mpe mabele na biso ekobota bambuma.
YHWH also gives that which is good, And our land gives its increase.
13 Bosembo etambolaka liboso na Ye mpe elakisaka nzela oyo ekolekela.
Righteousness goes before Him, And makes a way for His footsteps!
