Luke 11
1 Bu kaba sambila va buangu kimso; bu kamanisa, nlonguki andi wumosi wuyiza ayi wunyuvula: —A Pfumu, wutulongisa sambila banga Yowani bu kalongisila minlonguki miandi.
When he finished praying in a certain place, one of his disciples said to him, “Lord, teach us to pray, just as Yochanan also taught his disciples.”
2 Buna wuba vutudila: —Mu thangu lunsambila, lutubanga: Tata, Bika dizina diaku diba dinlongo Bika Kipfumu kiaku kiza
He said to them, “When you pray, say, ‘Our Father in heaven, may your name be kept holy. May your Kingdom come. May your will be done on earth, as it is in heaven.
3 Wutuvana, kadika lumbu, bidia bioni bifueni
Give us day by day our daily bread.
4 Wutulemvukila masumu meto bila beto mamveto tueti lemvukila bobo bakutu vangilanga mambimbi ayi kadi kutubika tubua mu phukumunu.
Forgive us our sins, for we ourselves also forgive everyone who is indebted to us. Bring us not into temptation, but deliver us from the evil one.’”
5 Buna wubuela diaka: —Zimbukila mutu wumosi mu beno widi ayi nkundi andi, ayi wedi va khatitsika builu mu kunkamba: “A nkundi ama, ndevisa mapha matatu
He said to them, “Which of you, if you go to a friend at midnight and tell him, ‘Friend, lend me three loaves of bread,
6 bila nkundi ama wumosi meba mu nzietolo weka yama kuna nzo vayi ndisi ko kadi kima ki kunyakudila.”
for a friend of mine has come to me from a journey, and I have nothing to set before him,’
7 Vayi mutu wowo widi mu khati nzo maka mvutudila: “Bila kundiamisa, muelo wukangiminingi ayi bana bama ayi minu veka tukilekidingi; diawu ndilendi kotuka ko mu diambu ndivana mawu.”
and he from within will answer and say, ‘Don’t bother me. The door is now shut, and my children are with me in bed. I can’t get up and give it to you’?
8 Bukiedika ndikulukamba, kadiambu ko kalendi kotuka ko mu diambu di kumvana mawu bila kadi nkundi andi vayi wela kotuka bila mutu wunawulembu nyamisa, buna wela kumvana bibioso, boso buididi mfunu andi.
I tell you, although he will not rise and give it to him because he is his friend, yet because of his persistence, he will get up and give him as many as he needs.
9 —Diawu ndikulukambila ti: lulomba ayi luela tambula; lutomba ayi luela bakula; lukokuta ayi luela zibudulu.
“I tell you, keep asking, and it will be given you. Keep seeking, and you will find. Keep knocking, and it will be opened to you.
10 Bila woso wunlombanga niandi wuntambulanga; woso wuntombanga niandi wumbakulanga ayi woso wunkokutanga niandi wunzibudulungu.
For everyone who asks receives. He who seeks finds. To him who knocks it will be opened.
11 Nani mu beno, madise, lenda vana muanꞌandi nioka bu kanlombidi mbizi yi nlangu e?
“Which of you fathers, if your son asks for bread, will give him a stone? Or if he asks for a fish, he won’t give him a snake instead of a fish, will he?
12 Voti kumvana khutu niandi bu kanlombidi diki e?
Or if he asks for an egg, he won’t give him a scorpion, will he?
13 Buna enati beno batu bambimbi luzebi vana bana beno bima bimbotebuna dise dieno didi ku diyilu wela luta vana Mpeve yinlongo kuidi bobobakunlombanga yawu.
If you then, being evil, know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more will your heavenly Father give the Holy Spirit to those who ask him?”
14 Buna wutotula mpeve yimbimbi yi dibaba. Mpeve yimbimbi bu yitotuka, dibaba dieka yoluka ayi nkangu wu batu wusimina.
He was casting out a demon, and it was mute. When the demon had gone out, the mute man spoke; and the multitudes marvelled.
15 Vayi ndambu yi batu mu bawu batuba: —Keti mu lulendo lu Belezebuli, pfumu yi ziphevi zimbimbi, kalembo totudila ziphevi zimbimbi.
But some of them said, “He casts out demons by Beelzebul, the prince of the demons.”
16 Bankaka mu kumfiela banlomba dimbu kintotukila ku diyilu.
Others, testing him, sought from him a sign from heaven.
17 Vayi kazaba mayindu mawu, buna wuba kamba: —Kipfumu kioso kivasukidi kiawu veka kifueti muangana ayi nzo yivasukidi yawu veka yifueti bua.
But he, knowing their thoughts, said to them, “Every kingdom divided against itself is brought to desolation. A house divided against itself falls.
18 Enati satana vasukidi niandi veka, buna buevi kipfumu kiandikilenda zingila e? Bila beno lulembo tubi ti mu lulendo lu Belezebuli ndilembo totudila ziphevi zimbimbi.
If Satan also is divided against himself, how will his kingdom stand? For you say that I cast out demons by Beelzebul.
19 Enati bukiedika ti mu lulendo lu Belezebuli ndilembo totudila ziphevi zimbimbi, buna nani wuvana bana beno lulendo lutotudila ziawu e? Diawu bela ba mazuzi meno.
But if I cast out demons by Beelzebul, by whom do your children cast them out? Therefore they will be your judges.
20 Vayi enati mu lulendo lu Nzambi ndilembu totudila ziphevi zimbimbibuna luzaba ti kipfumu ki Nzambi kieka vadi beno.
But if I by God’s finger cast out demons, then God’s Kingdom has come to you.
21 Mutu widi ngolu ayi widi binduanina bifuana bu kalembu sungi nzoꞌandi buna bima biandi bidi mu ndembama.
“When the strong man, fully armed, guards his own dwelling, his goods are safe.
22 Vayi enati vatotukidi mutu wunlutidi ngolu ayi wunnungini buna ma kanziona binduanina biandi bioso bi kabedi tudilanga diana, ma kanziona bima biandi bioso ayi ma kakabula biawu.
But when someone stronger attacks him and overcomes him, he takes from him his whole armour in which he trusted, and divides his plunder.
23 Woso kambulu ku ndambu ama buna mbeni ama, ayi woso wunkamba kupika yama buna niandi lembu sasikisa.
“He who is not with me is against me. He who doesn’t gather with me scatters.
24 —Mu thangu mpeve yimbimbi yitotukidi mu mutu, buna yindiengilangamu bibuangu biyuma mu tomba luvundulu vayi enati yikadi baka buangu, buna yintubanga: “Bika ndivutuka mu nzoꞌama yoyi nditotukila.”
The unclean spirit, when he has gone out of the man, passes through dry places, seeking rest; and finding none, he says, ‘I will turn back to my house from which I came out.’
25 Bu yivutukidi buna yimbabanga nzoꞌandi yinkombulu ayi yikubulu bumboti.
When he returns, he finds it swept and put in order.
26 Bosi yimvutukanga ayi yimbonganga tsambudi di ziphevi zinkaka, zimviatukidi nganzi. Bu zikotidi buna zinkalanga muna. Buna khadulu yi zimunina yi mutu wowo yilutidi biva ayi yina yithete.
Then he goes and takes seven other spirits more evil than himself, and they enter in and dwell there. The last state of that man becomes worse than the first.”
27 Muthangu kaba tuba bobo, nketo wumosi wuba muna nkangu wuyamikina: —Khini kuidi nketo wubuta ayi wuyemika.
It came to pass, as he said these things, a certain woman out of the multitude lifted up her voice and said to him, “Blessed is the womb that bore you, and the breasts which nursed you!”
28 Vayi Yesu wumvutudila: —Khini kuidi bobo beti wanga ayi beti tumukinanga mambu ma Nzambi.
But he said, “On the contrary, blessed are those who hear the word of God, and keep it.”
29 Nkangu wu batu bu wukutakana, buna wutuba: —Tsungi yayi yidi tsungi yimbimbi yilembo tombi dimbu. Dimbu … Yilendi tambula dimbu dinkaka ko boyula kaka ko botula kakakioki ki Zonasi.
When the multitudes were gathering together to him, he began to say, “This is an evil generation. It seeks after a sign. No sign will be given to it but the sign of Jonah the prophet.
30 Bila banga bubela Zonasi dimbu kuidi basi Ninive, buawu bobo Muana Mutu kela bela dimbu kuidi batu ba tsungi yayi.
For even as Jonah became a sign to the Ninevites, so the Son of Man will also be to this generation.
31 Mu lumbu ki tsambusu, ntinu wu nketo wu Sude wela telama va kimosiayi batu ba tsungi yayi ayi wela bazengila nkanu. Bila niandi wubaku tsongi ntoto mu diambu di kuiza wa malongi ma diela ma Salomo. Muaki tala mutu widi vava viatukidi Salomo.
The Queen of the South will rise up in the judgement with the men of this generation and will condemn them, for she came from the ends of the earth to hear the wisdom of Solomon; and behold, one greater than Solomon is here.
32 Mu lumbu ki tsambusu basi Ninive bela telama va kimosi ayi batu ba tsungi yayi ayi bela bazingila nkanu bila bawu babalula mavanga mawu bu bawa malongi ma Zonasi. Muaki vava vadi mutu wuviatukidi Zonasi.
The men of Nineveh will stand up in the judgement with this generation, and will condemn it, for they repented at the proclaiming of Jonah; and behold, one greater than Jonah is here.
33 Kuisi ko mutu bu kameni lemisa muinda, wuntulanga wawu va buangu kisuama voti ku tsi katini. Vayi wuntulanga wawu va yilu meza mu diambu babo bankota mu nzo bamona kiezila kiandi.
“No one, when he has lit a lamp, puts it in a cellar or under a basket, but on a stand, that those who come in may see the light.
34 —Meso maku mawu muinda mu nitu aku. Mu thangu meso maku madi mamboti buna nitu aku yimvimba yidi mu kiezila. Vayi enati madi mambimbibuna nitu aku yimvimba yidi mu tombi.
The lamp of the body is the eye. Therefore when your eye is good, your whole body is also full of light; but when it is evil, your body also is full of darkness.
35 Diawu lubuka mu diambu di kiezila kidi mu ngeyo kibika kituka tombi.
Therefore see whether the light that is in you isn’t darkness.
36 Diawu enati nitu aku yimvimba yidi mu kiezila, mu kambu ndambu yi nitu mu tombi buna yela ba yikienzuka ngolo banga mu thangu muinda wukukienzulanga mu nlaki andi.
If therefore your whole body is full of light, having no part dark, it will be wholly full of light, as when the lamp with its bright shining gives you light.”
37 Bu kaba yoluka, Mfalisi wumosi wuntumisa mu dia ku nzoꞌandi. Bu kakota wuvuanda va meza.
Now as he spoke, a certain Pharisee asked him to dine with him. He went in and sat at the table.
38 Mfalisi bu kamona bobo, wusimina bila Yesu kasi kisukula ko tuamina kadia.
When the Pharisee saw it, he marvelled that he had not first washed himself before dinner.
39 Buna Pfumu wunkamba: —Bena Bafalisi lunsukulanga bumboti va mbata yi kopo ayi yi dilonga vayi mu khati lufulukidi ayi mayindu ma buivi ayi mambimbi.
The Lord said to him, “Now you Pharisees cleanse the outside of the cup and of the platter, but your inward part is full of extortion and wickedness.
40 Beno luidi bivulu! Mutu wowo wuvanga va mbata kasia vanga ko mu khati e?
You foolish ones, didn’t he who made the outside make the inside also?
41 Luvana bima biobi bidi yeno kuidi minsukami buna bosi bima bioso biela ba bivedila.
But give for gifts to the needy those things which are within, and behold, all things will be clean to you.
42 Vayi mabienga kuidi beno Bafalisi bila lumvananga kuku ki kumi ki mintindu mioso mi biti ayi ki “meti ayi li” vayi lunlenzanabusongaayi luzolo lu Nzambi. Nganu mawu mama mambu lufueti vanganga ayi kadi zimbaka mana.
But woe to you Pharisees! For you tithe mint and rue and every herb, but you bypass justice and God’s love. You ought to have done these, and not to have left the other undone.
43 Mabienga kuidi beno Bafalisi bila lunzolanga vuanda mu bibuangubinzitusu mu zinzo zi zikhutukunu; lunzolanga baluvaninanga mbotimu bibuangu bi batu bawombo.
Woe to you Pharisees! For you love the best seats in the synagogues and the greetings in the marketplaces.
44 Mabienga kuidi beno! Ludedikini banga mabumbi mankumbu monika; batu balembu madiatidila mu kambu zaba.
Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! For you are like hidden graves, and the men who walk over them don’t know it.”
45 Vana vawu nlongi wumosi wu mina wuyuvula Yesu ti: —Nlongi, bu wulembu tubi mambu momo buna beto kuandi wulembo fingi.
One of the Torah scholars answered him, “Rabbi, in saying this you insult us also.”
46 Buna Yesu wumvutudila ti: —Mabienga ayi kuidi beno minlongi mi mina bila lueta kuika batu bizitu bidi zitu mu nata vayi beno veka kadi nlembo eno wumosi wusimbanga ko bizitu beni.
He said, “Woe to you Torah scholars also! For you load men with burdens that are difficult to carry, and you yourselves won’t even lift one finger to help carry those burdens.
47 Mabienga kuidi beno bila lueta tunga mabumbi ma mimbikudi ayi bakulu beno baba vonda.
Woe to you! For you build the tombs of the prophets, and your fathers killed them.
48 Lueta telimina mavanga ma bakulu beno kimbangi ayi lueti monangakhini. Bila bawu baba vonda vayi beno luntunganga mabumbi mawu.
So you testify and consent to the works of your fathers. For they killed them, and you build their tombs.
49 Diawu nzayilu yi Nzambi yitubila ti: “Ndiela kuba fidisila mimbikudi ayi bamvuala, bela vondabankaka ayi bela yamisa bankaka.”
Therefore also the wisdom of God said, ‘I will send to them prophets and emissaries; and some of them they will kill and persecute,
50 Muingi menga ma mimbikudi mioso matengulu tona va vangimina ntoto mela tombulu va tsungi yayi
that the blood of all the prophets, which was shed from the foundation of the world, may be required of this generation,
51 tona mu menga ma Abeli nate mu menga ma Zakali, mutu wowo bavondila va khatitsika diziku dinyokulungu makaba ayi nzo Nzambi. Bukiedika ndikulukamba mambu moso momo mela builu batu ba tsungi yayi.
from the blood of Abel to the blood of Zechariah, who perished between the altar and the sanctuary.’ Yes, I tell you, it will be required of this generation.
52 Mabienga kuidi beno minlongi mi Mina, beno luziona tsabi yinzayilu. Kadi sia ti beno veka lu kotanga ko vayi lunkandikanga bobo bazola kota.
Woe to you Torah scholars! For you took away the key of knowledge. You didn’t enter in yourselves, and those who were entering in, you hindered.”
53 Bu kabotuka vana, minsoniki ayi Bafalisi batona kumfietikisaayi banzonzisa mu mambu mawombo;
As he said these things to them, the scribes and the Pharisees began to be terribly angry, and to draw many things out of him,
54 banlekila mintambu; batomba diambu dilenda totukila mu munuꞌandi muingibabaka bila ki kumfundila.
lying in wait for him, and seeking to catch him in something he might say, that they might accuse him.
