Zakari 8
1 Yawe, Mokonzi ya mampinga, alobaki na ngai:
And the word of Yahweh of hosts came, saying:
2 « Tala liloba oyo Yawe, Mokonzi ya mampinga, alobi: ‹ Nazali na zuwa makasi mpo na Siona, mpo ete nalingaka yango makasi na motema na Ngai. › »
Thus, saith Yahweh of hosts, I am jealous for Zion with a great jealousy, —Yea, with great wrath, am I jealous for her.
3 Tala liloba oyo Yawe alobi: « Nakozonga na Siona mpe nakovanda kati na Yelusalemi. Boye, Yelusalemi ekobengama Engumba ya bosolo; mpe ngomba ya Yawe, Mokonzi ya mampinga, ekobengama Ngomba ya bule. »
Thus, saith Yahweh, I have returned unto Zion, and will make my habitation in the midst of Jerusalem, —and Jerusalem, shall be called, The city of fidelity, and the mountain of Yahweh of hosts, The mountain of holiness.
4 Tala liloba oyo Yawe, Mokonzi ya mampinga, alobi: « Mibange ya mibali mpe ya basi bakotonda lisusu na babalabala ya Yelusalemi, moto na moto na nzete na ye na loboko mpo na kimobange.
Thus, saith Yahweh of hosts, Yet shall old men and old women sit in the broadways of Jerusalem, —Yea, each one with his staff in his hand for multitude of days:
5 Babalabala ya engumba ekotonda lisusu na bilenge mibali mpe basi oyo bakokoma kosakana kuna. »
And, the broadways of the city, shall be full of boys and girls, —playing in the broadways thereof.
6 Tala liloba oyo Yawe, Mokonzi ya mampinga, alobi: « Boni, soki, na tango wana, ekomonana lokola likambo ya kokamwa na miso ya batikali kati na bato oyo, Ngai mpe namona yango likambo ya kokamwa? » elobi Yawe, Mokonzi ya mampinga.
Thus, saith Yahweh of hosts, Because it will be marvellous in the eyes of the remnant of this people, in those days, In mine own eyes also, shall it be marvellous? Demandeth Yahweh of hosts.
7 Tala liloba oyo Yawe, Mokonzi ya mampinga, alobi: « Nakobikisa bato na Ngai, longwa na mokili ya este kino na mokili ya weste.
Thus, saith Yahweh of hosts, Behold me! saving my people out of the land of the dawn, —and out of the land of the going in of the sun;
8 Nakozongisa bango mpo ete bavanda na Yelusalemi; bakozala bato na Ngai, mpe Ngai nakozala Nzambe na bango na boyengebene mpe na bosembo. »
And I will bring them in, and they shall have their habitation in the midst of Jerusalem, —and shall become my people, and, I, will become their God, In faithfulness and in righteousness.
9 Tala liloba oyo Yawe, Mokonzi ya mampinga, alobi: « Bino ba-oyo, na mikolo oyo, bozali koyoka maloba kaka oyo basakoli balobaki, lokola bazalaki awa na tango miboko ya Tempelo ya Yawe, Mokonzi ya mampinga, ezalaki kotongama, boyika mpiko mpe bolendisa maboko na bino mpo na kotonga Tempelo oyo ya Yawe.
Thus, saith Yahweh of hosts, Let your hands be strong, ye who are hearing, in these days, these words, —from the mouth of the prophets who, on the day the house of Yahweh of hosts, was founded, [foretold] that, the temple, should be built: —
10 Pamba te, liboso ya tango wana, bato bazalaki kozwa lifuti ya malonga te na misala na bango, mpe banyama ezalaki kopesa ata litomba moko te; moto moko te azalaki kokende na mosala na ye na kimia likolo ya kobanga banguna, pamba te nasalaki ete moto moko na moko atelemela moninga na ye.
That, before those days, hire for man, could not be obtained, and, hire for beast, was there none, —and, neither to him who went out nor to him who came in, was there success by reason of the danger, Yea I let all men loose, each one against his neighbour.
11 Kasi sik’oyo, nakosala lisusu te, na ndambo ya bato oyo batikali, makambo oyo nasalaki na tango ya kala, » elobi Yawe, Mokonzi ya mampinga.
But, now, not as in the former days, am I to this remnant of the people, —Declareth Yahweh of hosts;
12 « Solo, milona ekokola malamu, bilanga ya vino ekobota bambuma na yango, mabele ekobimisa biloko ebele, mpe likolo ekonokisa mvula. Nakopesa biloko oyo nyonso lokola libula epai ya batikali kati na bato oyo.
For, the seed, shall be secure—the vine, shall yield her fruit, and the land, yield her increase, and the heavens, yield their dew, —and I will cause this remnant of the people to inherit all these things.
13 Libota ya Yuda mpe libota ya Isalaele, bobanga ata eloko moko te, boyika kaka mpiko; pamba te ndenge bokomaki bikolo elakelama mabe kati na bikolo mosusu, ndenge wana mpe nakobikisa bino, mpe bokozala lipamboli. »
And it shall come to pass that—Just as ye had become a curse among the nations, O house of Judah and house of Israel, So, will I save you, and ye shall become a blessing, —Do not fear, let your hands, be strong.
14 Tala liloba oyo Yawe, Mokonzi ya mampinga, alobi: « Ndenge kaka nazwaki mokano ya kotindela bino pasi mpe ya koyokela bino mawa te tango batata na bino batumbolaki kanda na Ngai, » elobi Yawe, Mokonzi ya mampinga,
For, thus, saith Yahweh of hosts, Just as I planned to bring calamity upon you, when your fathers provoked me, saith Yahweh of hosts, —and I relented not,
15 « ndenge wana mpe nazwi mokano sik’oyo ya komonisa lisusu bolamu na Yelusalemi mpe na Yuda. Bozala na bobangi te.
So, have I again planned, in these days, to do good unto Jerusalem, and unto the house of Judah, —Do not fear!
16 Tala makambo oyo bosengeli kosala: Tika ete moko na moko kati na bino alobaka solo na moninga na ye; bosambisaka na bosolo mpe bokataka makambo na bosembo kati na bisambiselo na bino,
These, are the things which ye shall do: Speak ye the truth, every man with his neighbour, truth and the sentence of peace, pronounce ye in your gates;
17 bosalaka mabongisi ya komonisa baninga na bino pasi te, bolingaka te kolapa ndayi ya lokuta; pamba te makambo wana nyonso, nayina yango makasi, » elobi Yawe.
And let, no man, devise, the injury of his neighbour, in your heart, and the oath of falsehood, do not love, —for, all these, are things which I hate, declareth Yahweh.
18 Yawe, Mokonzi ya mampinga, alobaki na ngai:
And the word of Yahweh of hosts came unto me, saying:
19 « Tala liloba oyo Yawe, Mokonzi ya mampinga, alobi: Mikolo ya kokila bilei ya sanza ya minei, ya mitano, ya sambo mpe ya zomi ekokoma mikolo ya esengo mpe ya kosepela, ekokoma bafeti ya nkembo mpe ya esengo mpo na libota ya Yuda. Kasi bolinga solo mpe kimia. »
Thus, saith Yahweh of hosts—The fast of the fourth, and the fast of the fifth, and the fast of the seventh, and the fast of the eleventh, shall become to the house of Judah a gladness and a rejoicing, and pleasant appointed meetings, —But, truth and peace, see that ye love.
20 Tala liloba oyo Yawe, Mokonzi ya mampinga, alobi: « Bato ya bikolo ebele mpe bavandi ya bingumba ya ndenge na ndenge bakoya lisusu;
Thus, saith Yahweh of hoses, —It shall yet be that there shall come in peoples, and the inhabitants of many cities;
21 bamoko bakowuta na engumba moko mpo na kokende na engumba mosusu mpe bakoloba: ‹ Tokende kobondela Yawe mpe koluka elongi na Yawe, Mokonzi ya mampinga! › Bongo bamosusu bakozongisela bango: ‹ Ngai mpe nakokende! ›
And the inhabitants of one city, shall go, unto them of another, saying, Let us be going on to pacify the face of Yahweh, and to seek Yahweh of hosts, —I also, will go!
22 Boye bato ebele mpe bikolo ya nguya bakoya na Yelusalemi mpo na koluka elongi na Yawe, Mokonzi ya mampinga, mpe bakobondela Ye. »
So shall enter many peoples, and strong nations, to seek Yahweh of hosts in Jerusalem, —and to pacify the face of Yahweh.
23 Tala liloba oyo Yawe, Mokonzi ya mampinga, alobi: « Na mikolo wana, bato zomi ya bikolo mpe ya nkota ya ndenge na ndenge bakokanga songe ya nzambala ya Moyuda moko mpe bakoloba: ‹ Tika ete tokende elongo na yo, pamba te toyoki ete Nzambe azali na bino elongo. › »
Thus, saith Yahweh of hosts, In those days, [it shall be] that ten men out of all the tongues of the nations, shall take hold, —yea take hold of the skirt of every one that is a Jew, saying—We will go with you! For we have heard [that], God, is with you.
