Psalms 81

1 Unto the end. For the wine and oil presses. A Psalm of Asaph himself. Exult before God our helper. Sing joyfully to the God of Jacob.

Wuta na buku ya mokambi ya bayembi. Nzembo ya Azafi. Ezali ya koyemba na lindanda ya bato ya Gati. Boganga na esengo epai ya Nzambe, makasi na biso! Bobetela Nzambe ya Jakobi maboko!

2 Take up a psalm, and bring forth the timbrel: a pleasing Psalter with stringed instruments.

Boyemba banzembo, bobeta bambunda mike, lindanda oyo ebimisaka lokito kitoko mpe nzenze!

3 Sound the trumpet at the new moon, on the noteworthy day of your solemnity,

Bobeta kelelo na ebandeli ya sanza, na tango oyo sanza mobimba engengaka, mpo na mokolo ya feti na biso!

4 for it is a precept in Israel and a judgment for the God of Jacob.

Pamba te ezali mobeko mpo na Isalaele, mpe mokano ya Nzambe ya Jakobi.

5 He set it as a testimony with Joseph, when he went out of the land of Egypt. He heard a tongue that he did not know.

Atiaki yango lokola mobeko mpo na Jozefi tango abundisaki Ejipito. Nazali koyoka lokota oyo nayebi te:

6 He turned the burdens away from his back. His hands had been a slave to baskets.

« Nalongolaki mokumba oyo ezalaki na mapeka na ye, mpe maboko na ye elongwaki na bowumbu ya kosimba bitunga. »

7 You called upon me in tribulation, and I freed you. I heard you within the hidden tempest. I tested you with waters of contradiction.

Tango ozalaki koganga mpo na pasi, nakangolaki yo, nayanolaki yo kati na kake epai wapi nabombamaki, namekaki yo pembeni ya mayi ya Meriba.

8 My people, listen and I will call you to testify. If, O Israel, you will pay heed to me,

Bato na ngai, boyoka ngai! Mpe nakokebisa bino. Ah Isalaele, soki kaka ozalaki koyokela ngai!

9 then there will be no new god among you, nor will you adore a foreign god.

Okozala na nzambe ya mopaya te kati na yo, okogumbamela nzambe mosusu te, longola kaka ngai!

10 For I am the Lord your God, who led you out of the land of Egypt. Widen your mouth, and I will fill it.

Nazali Yawe, Nzambe na yo, oyo abimisaki yo na Ejipito; fungola malamu monoko na yo, mpe nakotondisa yango.

11 But my people did not hear my voice, and Israel was not attentive to me.

Kasi bato na ngai bayokaki mongongo na ngai te, Isalaele aboyaki kotosa ngai.

12 And so, I sent them away, according to the desires of their heart. They will go forth according to their own inventions.

Mpo na yango, natikaki bango kotambola kolanda baposa ya mitema makasi na bango; mpe balandaki makanisi na bango.

13 If my people had heard me, if Israel had walked in my ways,

Soki bato na ngai bazalaki koyokela ngai, soki Isalaele azalaki kolanda banzela na ngai,

14 I would have humbled their enemies, as if it were nothing, and I would have sent my hand upon those who troubled them.

nalingaki mbala moko koyokisa banguna na bango soni mpe kobundisa bayini na bango.

15 The enemies of the Lord have lied to him, and their time will come, in every age.

Mpe bato oyo bayinaka Yawe balingaki komikitisa liboso na Ye, mpe etumbu na bango elingaki kowumela mpo na libela.

16 And he fed them from the fat of the grain, and he saturated them with honey from the rock.

Yawe alingaki koleisa Isalaele bilei ya kitoko mpe kotondisa bango na mafuta ya nzoyi.