Emoniseli 9
1 Anjelu ya mitano abetaki kelelo, mpe namonaki monzoto kokweya na mokili wuta na Lola. Fungola ya libulu ya monene mpe ya molili makasi epesamaki na monzoto yango. (Abyssos g12)
Then the fifth angel sounded his trumpet. I saw a star from heaven that had fallen to the earth. The star was given the key to the shaft of the bottomless pit. (Abyssos g12)
2 Tango efungolaki libulu yango, milinga ebele emataki longwa kuna; ezalaki lokola milinga oyo ebimaka na fulu monene ya moto makasi, mpe eyindisaki moyi mpe mopepe. (Abyssos g12)
He opened the shaft of the bottomless pit, and smoke went up out of the shaft like smoke from a huge furnace. The sun and the air turned dark by the smoke pouring out of the shaft. (Abyssos g12)
3 Wuta na milinga yango, mankoko ebimaki, epanzanaki na mokili mpe epesamelaki bokonzi lokola oyo ya bakoto.
Out of the smoke locusts came on the earth, and they were given power like that of scorpions on the earth.
4 Nzokande epesamelaki mitindo ete esala mabe te na matiti ya mokili to na nkona nyonso ya mobesu to na nzete nyonso, kasi esala mabe kaka na bato oyo bazangi kashe ya Nzambe na bambunzu na bango.
They were told not to damage the grass on the earth or any green plant or tree, but only the people who did not have the seal of God on their foreheads.
5 Esengelaki konyokola bango basanza mitano, kasi esengelaki te koboma bango. Pasi oyo ezalaki kopesa ekokanaki na oyo moto ayokaka soki koto eswi ye.
They were not given permission to kill those people, but only to torture them for five months. Their agony would be like the sting of a scorpion when it strikes a person.
6 Na basanza wana mitano, bato bakoluka kufa, kasi bakozwa yango te; bakolinga kokufa, kasi kufa ekokima bango.
In those days people will seek death, but will not find it. They will greatly desire to die, but death will flee from them.
7 Mankoko yango ezalaki lokola bampunda oyo babongisi mpo na etumba. Na mito na yango, ezalaki na biloko moko lokola mitole ya wolo, mpe bilongi na yango ezalaki lokola bilongi ya bato.
The locusts looked like horses prepared for war. On their heads were something like crowns of gold, and their faces were like human faces.
8 Suki na yango ezalaki lokola suki ya basi, mpe minu na yango ezalaki lokola minu ya nkosi.
They had hair like women's hair, and their teeth were like lions' teeth.
9 Tolo na yango ezalaki lokola bibende oyo basoda balataka na tolo, mpe makelele ya mapapu na yango ezalaki lokola makelele ya bashar oyo bampunda ebele ezali kobenda mpo na etumba.
They had breastplates like iron breastplates, and the sound of their wings was like the sound made by many chariots and horses running into battle.
10 Mikila na yango ezalaki na basonge lokola mikila ya bakoto, mpe nguya na yango ya konyokola bato basanza mitano ezalaki kati na mikila na yango.
They had tails with stingers like scorpions; in their tails they had power to harm people for five months.
11 Anjelu ya libulu ya monene mpe ya molili makasi nde azalaki mokonzi na yango. Kombo na ye, na lokota ya Ebre, « Abadoni; » mpe, na lokota ya Greki, « Apolioni. » (Abyssos g12)
They had as king over them the angel of the bottomless pit. His name in Hebrew was Abaddon, and in Greek he had the name Apollyon. (Abyssos g12)
12 Tango pasi ya liboso elekaki, bapasi mosusu mibale elandaki.
The first woe is past. Look! After this there are still two disasters to come.
13 Anjelu ya motoba abetaki kelelo, mpe nayokaki mongongo moko kobima longwa na maseke minei ya etumbelo oyo basala na wolo, etumbelo oyo ezalaki liboso ya Nzambe.
The sixth angel sounded his trumpet, and I heard a voice coming from the horns of the golden altar that is present before God.
14 Mongongo yango ezalaki koloba na anjelu ya motoba oyo azalaki na kelelo na maboko: « Fungola ba-anjelu minei oyo bazali ya kokangama na minyololo pembeni ya ebale monene Efrate. »
The voice said to the sixth angel who had the trumpet, “Release the four angels who are bound at the great Euphrates River.”
15 Boye ba-anjelu wana minei oyo babongisamaki mpo na ngonga wana, mokolo wana, sanza wana mpe mobu wana, bafungolamaki mpo ete baboma eteni moko kati na biteni misato ya bato.
The four angels who had been prepared for that hour, that day, that month, and that year, were released to kill a third of mankind.
16 Bazalaki minkoko nkama mibale ya basoda oyo babundaka na likolo ya bampunda. Yango nde motango na bango oyo nayokaki.
The number of the soldiers on horseback was 200,000,000. I heard their number.
17 Tala ndenge nini, kati na emoniseli na ngai, bampunda mpe basoda oyo babundaka na likolo na yango bazalaki: balataki bibende oyo basoda balataka mpo na kobatela tolo. Bibende yango ezalaki ya motane makasi lokola moto, ya langi ya bule ya pete mpe ya langi ya mosaka; bongo mito ya bampunda ezalaki lokola mito ya bankosi, mpe minoko na yango ezalaki kobimisa moto, milinga mpe sofolo.
This is how I saw the horses in my vision and those who rode on them: Their breastplates were fiery red, dark blue and sulfurous yellow. The heads of the horses resembled the heads of lions, and out of their mouths came fire, smoke, and sulfur.
18 Tala bapasi misato oyo ezalaki kobima na minoko ya bampunda: moto, milinga mpe sofolo. Ebomaki eteni moko kati na biteni misato ya bato.
A third of the people were killed by these three plagues: the fire, smoke, and sulfur that came out of their mouths.
19 Nguya ya bampunda ezalaki kati na minoko mpe na mikila na yango, pamba te mikila na yango ezalaki lokola banyoka, mpe ezalaki na mito oyo, na nzela na yango, ezalaki kosala bato mabe.
For the power of the horses was in their mouths and in their tails—for their tails were like snakes, and they had heads with which they inflicted wounds on people.
20 Kasi bato oyo bakufaki te na nzela ya bapasi wana batikaki te banzambe oyo maboko na bango moko esalaki; batikaki te kogumbamela milimo mabe mpe banzambe ya bikeko oyo basala na wolo, na palata, na bronze, na mabanga mpe na mabaya atako emonaka te, eyokaka te mpe eninganaka te.
The rest of mankind, those who were not killed by these plagues, did not repent of the deeds they had done, nor did they stop worshiping demons and idols of gold, silver, bronze, stone, and wood—things that cannot see, hear, or walk.
21 Batikaki mpe te koboma bato, misala na bango ya maji, kindumba na bango mpe moyibi na bango.
Neither did they repent of their murders, their sorcery, their sexual immorality or their acts of theft.
