Romans 9
1 Mambu ndituba mu Klisto madi makiedika ayi ndikadi vuna. Mayindu mama ma ntima meti kuthelimina kimbangi mu Pheve Yinlongo:
I speak the truth in Christ; I am not lying, as confirmed by my conscience in the Holy Spirit.
2 ti kiadi kingolo kidi yama ayi phasi yika yilendi suka ko yidi yama mu ntima.
I have deep sorrow and unceasing anguish in my heart.
3 Bila minu veka nditomba singu kuidi Nzambi ayi vambana ayi Klisto mu diambu di bakhomba ziama, bibutu biama bi dikanda.
For I could wish that I myself were cursed and cut off from Christ for the sake of my brothers, my own flesh and blood,
4 Bawu badi basi Iseli, bobo bakitulu bana bandi ayi bavuidi nkembo, zinguizani, dikaba di tambula Mina; tsambudulu yi kiedika ayi zitsila;
the people of Israel. Theirs is the adoption as sons; theirs the divine glory and the covenants; theirs the giving of the law, the temple worship, and the promises.
5 bawu bavuidi bakulu. Mu kimutu, Klisto wutotukila mu bawu: Niandi wunyadila bima bioso. Nzambi niandi wunsakumunanga mu zithangu zioso. Amen. (aiōn g165)
Theirs are the patriarchs, and from them proceeds the human descent of Christ, who is God over all, forever worthy of praise! Amen. (aiōn g165)
6 Bika sia ti mambu ma Nzambi mabedoso bila baboso batotukila mu Iseli basiko basi Iseli.
It is not as though God’s word has failed. For not all who are descended from Israel are Israel.
7 Bobuawu, babo badi mu nkuna Abalahami basi ko bana bandi. Bila Nzambi wukamba Abalahami: Mu Isaki kaka muela totukila nkunꞌaku.
Nor because they are Abraham’s descendants are they all his children. On the contrary, “Through Isaac your offspring will be reckoned.”
8 Bu dinsundula ti: bika sia ti bana bobo babutukila mu kinsuni bawu bana ba Nzambi, vayi bobo babutukila mu tsila bawu bantangulungu bana ba nkuna.
So it is not the children of the flesh who are God’s children, but it is the children of the promise who are regarded as offspring.
9 Bila mambu mama madi mambu ma tsila: Mu tsungi yayi ndiela kuiza ayi Sala wela buta muana wu bakala.
For this is what the promise stated: “At the appointed time I will return, and Sarah will have a son.”
10 Bika sia ti mambu momo kaka vayi buawu bobo mu Lebeka, mutu wowo wubutulu bitsimba kuidi dise dimosi, nkulu eto Isaki.
Not only that, but Rebecca’s children were conceived by one man, our father Isaac.
11 Bila tuamina bitsimba bibutuka ayi buna bavengi ko kadi diambu dimosi di mboti voti di mbimbi mu diambu di dedikisa tsobodolo yi Nzambi; bika sia ti mu diambu di mavanga vayi mu diambu di mutu wowo wutela;
Yet before the twins were born or had done anything good or bad, in order that God’s plan of election might stand,
12 niandi bakamba ti: nleki wela yadila nkulutu.
not by works but by Him who calls, she was told, “The older will serve the younger.”
13 Banga bu disonimina: minu ndizola Yakobi ayi ndilenda Esawu.
So it is written: “Jacob I loved, but Esau I hated.”
14 Buna mbi tutuba e? Nzambi kasi wusonga ko e? Nana buawu ko.
What then shall we say? Is God unjust? Certainly not!
15 Bila niandi wukamba Moyize: Minu ndiela monina kiadi woso mutu thidi mona kiadi. Ayi ndiela vangila mamboti kuidi woso thidi vangila mamboti.
For He says to Moses: “I will have mercy on whom I have mercy, and I will have compassion on whom I have compassion.”
16 Momo masi ko mu diambu di luzolo lu mutu voti mu diambu di zingolo zi mutu vayi madi mu diambu di Nzambi wummonanga batu kiadi.
So then, it does not depend on man’s desire or effort, but on God’s mercy.
17 Bila mu masonoko Nzambi wukamba Falawo ti: Mu bila kioki minu nditotula muingi ndimonisa lulendo luama mu ngeyo; muingi dizina diama diyamukusu va ntoto wumvimba.
For the Scripture says to Pharaoh: “I raised you up for this very purpose, that I might display My power in you, and that My name might be proclaimed in all the earth.”
18 Diawu niandi weti mona kiadi woso mutu katidi mona kiadi ayi weta kitula mfua matu woso mutu wu kazodidi.
Therefore God has mercy on whom He wants to have mercy, and He hardens whom He wants to harden.
19 Buna ngeyo wela kukhamba: bila mbi kakidi tubidilanga e? Bila nani wulenda kakidila luzolo luandi e?
One of you will say to me, “Then why does God still find fault? For who can resist His will?”
20 Mutu, ngeyo widi nani mu findana ziphaka ayi Nzambi e? Kima kivangu kilenda tuba kuidi mutu wuvanga kiawu ti: “Bila mbiwuphangila buabu e?”
But who are you, O man, to talk back to God? Shall what is formed say to Him who formed it, “Why did You make me like this?”
21 Mbumbi kasi ko minsua mu vanga mu tuma tumosi nzungu yi nzitusu ayi yinkaka yikambulu nzitusu e?
Does not the potter have the right to make from the same lump of clay one vessel for special occasions and another for common use?
22 Buna mbi wulenda tuba enati Nzambi, bu kazola monisa nganzi andi ayi monisa lulendo luandi, wuvibidila mu thangu yinda zinzungu zituma zi nganzi zikubuku mu bivusu e?
What if God, intending to show His wrath and make His power known, bore with great patience the vessels of His wrath, prepared for destruction?
23 Bosi mbi diaka wulenda tuba enati Nzamni wuvanga buawu mu diambu di monisa kimvuama ki nkemboꞌandi mu zinzungu zituma zi kiadi zikakubika tona thama mu diambu di nkembo e?
What if He did this to make the riches of His glory known to the vessels of His mercy, whom He prepared in advance for glory—
24 Bila beto katela, bika sia ti muidi Bayuda kaka vayi ayi mu Bapakanu.
including us, whom He has called not only from the Jews, but also from the Gentiles?
25 Banga bu katubila mu nkanda Oze: Bobo basia ba batu bama ko, ndiela ku batedila “batu bama” Nketo wowo wusia ba kiluzolo kiama ko, ndiela kuntedila kiluzolo.
As He says in Hosea: “I will call them ‘My People’ who are not My people, and I will call her ‘My Beloved’ who is not My beloved,”
26 Va buangu kioki baba kambila ti: “beno luisi batu bama ko” vana bela ku batedila: “bana ba Nzambi yi moyo.”
and, “It will happen that in the very place where it was said to them, ‘You are not My people,’ they will be called ‘sons of the living God.’”
27 Ezayi wutuba mu diambu di Iseli ti: Enati thalu yi bana ba Iseli yilenda dedakana banga nzielo yi mbu, ndambu yela siala yawu kaka yela vuka.
Isaiah cries out concerning Israel: “Though the number of the Israelites is like the sand of the sea, only the remnant will be saved.
28 Bila mu nsualu ayi mu bufuana Pfumu kela zengila mambu va ntoto.
For the Lord will carry out His sentence on the earth thoroughly and decisively.”
29 Banga Ezayi bu katuama tuba: Enati Pfumu yi minkangu mi masodi kasia kutubikila ndambu wu nkuna wu batu ko, nganu tudedakana banga basi Sodoma; nganu tuba banga basi Ngomola.
It is just as Isaiah foretold: “Unless the Lord of Hosts had left us descendants, we would have become like Sodom, we would have resembled Gomorrah.”
30 A diambu mbi tutuba e? Bapakanu, bankambu kuawu landakananga busonga babakudi busonga; busonga bobo buntotukilanga mu minu.
What then will we say? That the Gentiles, who did not pursue righteousness, have obtained it, a righteousness that is by faith;
31 Vayi Iseli bu kalandakana Mina mu diambu di ba wusonga kasia tula ku Mina beni ko.
but Israel, who pursued a law of righteousness, has not attained it.
32 Bila mbi e? Bila Iseli kasia kumilandikinina ko mu minu vayi mu mavanga. Babumina thutu mu ditadi,
Why not? Because their pursuit was not by faith, but as if it were by works. They stumbled over the stumbling stone,
33 banga bu masonimina: Tala, minu thudidi ditadi mu Sioni ditadi di mbumina batu thutu ayi ditadi dinneni di mbuisa batu;
as it is written: “See, I lay in Zion a stone of stumbling and a rock of offense; and the one who believes in Him will never be put to shame.”
