Banzembo 95

1 Boya, toganga na esengo mpo na Yawe! Tobetela Libanga na biso maboko, pamba te azali Mobikisi na biso!

Come, let us sing aloud to Jehovah, let us shout for joy to the rock of our salvation;

2 Tokende liboso na Ye elongo na mabondeli ya kozongisa matondi, tobetela Ye maboko elongo na banzembo.

Let us come before his face with thanksgiving; let us shout aloud unto him with psalms.

3 Pamba te Yawe azali Nzambe Monene, azali Mokonzi Monene, na likolo ya banzambe nyonso.

For Jehovah is a great God, and a great king above all gods.

4 Asimbi mozindo ya mokili kati na loboko na Ye; mpe basonge ya bangomba ezali ya Ye.

In his hand are the deep places of the earth; the heights of the mountains are his also:

5 Ebale monene ezali ya Ye, azali Mokeli na yango; mabele ya kokawuka ezali mpe ya Ye, asala yango na maboko na Ye.

The sea is his, and he made it, and his hands formed the dry [land].

6 Boya, togumbama mpe tofukama, tobuka mabolongo na biso liboso ya Yawe, Mokeli na biso!

Come, let us worship and bow down; let us kneel before Jehovah our Maker.

7 Pamba te azali Nzambe na biso; tozali bato oyo aleisaka, etonga oyo abatelaka. Lelo, soki boyoki mongongo na Ye,

For he is our God; and we are the people of his pasture and the sheep of his hand. To-day if ye hear his voice,

8 « boyeisa mitema na bino mabanga te, ndenge bosalaki na Meriba; ndenge bosalaki na mokolo wana ya Masa kati na esobe

Harden not your heart, as at Meribah, as [in] the day of Massah, in the wilderness;

9 epai wapi batata na bino batombokelaki ngai mpe bamekaki ngai atako bamonaki ngai kosala.

When your fathers tempted me, proved me, and saw my work.

10 Mibu tuku minei, nayinaki bato ya ekeke wana mpe nalobaki: ‹ Bazali bato oyo mitema na bango ebeba, bayebaka banzela na ngai te. ›

Forty years was I grieved with the generation, and said, It is a people that do err in their heart, and they have not known my ways;

11 Yango wana, kati na kanda na ngai, nakati seleka: ‹ Bakotikala kokota te kati na bopemi na ngai! › »

So that I swore in mine anger, that they should not enter into my rest.