Zakari 7
1 Na mobu ya minei ya mokonzi ya Dariusi, na mokolo ya minei ya sanza ya libwa, sanza ya kisilevi, Yawe alobaki na Zakari.
And it came about in the fourth year of King Darius, that the word of the Lord came to Zechariah on the fourth day of the ninth month, the month Chislev.
2 Bato ya Beteli batindaki Saretseri, Regemi-Meleki elongo na bato na bango mpo na kobondela Yawe
Now they of Beth-el had sent Sharezer and Regem-melech to make a request for grace from the Lord,
3 mpe mpo na kotuna motuna oyo epai ya Banganga-Nzambe oyo basalaka kati na Tempelo ya Yawe, Mokonzi ya mampinga, mpe epai ya basakoli: — Boni, tosengeli kaka kokoba kolela mpe kokila bilei na sanza ya mitano ndenge tosalaka wuta kala?
And to say to the priests of the house of the Lord of armies and to the prophets, Am I to go on weeping in the fifth month, separating myself as I have done in past years?
4 Bongo Yawe, Mokonzi ya mampinga, alobaki na ngai:
Then the word of the Lord of armies came to me, saying
5 — Tuna bato nyonso ya ekolo mpe Banganga-Nzambe: « Wuta mibu tuku sambo, tango bokilaka bilei mpe bolelaka na sanza ya mitano mpe ya sambo, bosalaka yango mpo na Ngai?
Say to all the people of the land and to the priests, When you went without food and gave yourselves to grief in the fifth and the seventh months for these seventy years, did you ever do it because of me?
6 Bongo tango bozalaki kolia mpe komela, ezalaki te mpo na esengo na bino moko?
And when you are feasting and drinking, are you not doing it only for yourselves?
7 Yango ezali te liloba oyo Yawe alobaki na nzela ya basakoli na Ye wuta kala tango Yelusalemi mpe bingumba oyo ezingelaki yango ezalaki na kimia mpe na boyokani, mpe Negevi mpe Shefela etondaki na bato ebele? »
Are not these the words which the Lord said to you by the earlier prophets, when Jerusalem was full of people and wealth, and the towns round about her and the South and the Lowland were peopled?
8 Mpe Yawe alobaki lisusu na Zakari:
And the word of the Lord came to Zechariah, saying,
9 — Tala liloba oyo Yawe, Mokonzi ya mampinga, alobi: « Bokataka makambo na bosembo, mpe tika ete moko na moko kati na bino azala na bolingo mpe na mawa ya moto mosusu.
This is what the Lord of armies has said: Let your judging be upright and done in good faith, let every man have mercy and pity for his brother:
10 Bonyokolaka te mwasi oyo akufisa mobali to mwana etike to mopaya to mpe mobola, mpe tika ete moko te kati na bino asala, na motema na ye, mabongisi ya kosala moninga na ye mabe. »
Do not be hard on the widow, or the child without a father, on the man from a strange country, or on the poor; let there be no evil thought in your heart against your brother.
11 Kasi baboyaki kotosa, bamatisaki mapeka mpe bakangaki matoyi na bango mpo ete bayoka Ngai te.
But they would not give attention, turning their backs and stopping their ears from hearing;
12 Bakomisaki mitema na bango makasi lokola diama mpo kaka bayoka te mibeko mpe maloba oyo Yawe, Mokonzi ya mampinga, azalaki koloba na bango na lisungi ya Molimo na Ye na nzela ya basakoli na Ye ya kala. Mpo na yango, Yawe, Mokonzi ya mampinga, atombokaki makasi.
And they made their hearts like the hardest stone, so that they might not give ear to the law and the words which the Lord of armies had said by the earlier prophets: and there came great wrath from the Lord of armies.
13 Boye, Yawe, Mokonzi ya mampinga, alobaki: « Lokola bayokaki Ngai te tango nazalaki kobenga bango, Ngai mpe nayokaki bango te tango babengaki Ngai.
And it came about that as they would not give ear to his voice, so I would not give ear to their voice, says the Lord of armies:
14 Na bongo, napanzaki bango kati na bikolo nyonso epai wapi bakomaki bapaya, mpe mokili na bango ebebisamaki makasi: moto moko te akokaki lisusu kokota to kobima kuna. Ndenge wana nde bakomisaki mokili ya kitoko libebi. »
But with a storm-wind I sent them in flight among all the nations of whom they had no knowledge. So the land was waste after them, so that no man went through or came back: for they had made waste the desired land.
