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2 “Diakabi dikale kudi badi belangana meji a malu mabi,
Badi bapangadija malu mabi pa malalu abu!
Padi butoke bua mu dinda bulua, badi baakumbaja,
Bualu adi ku bukokeshi bua tshianza tshiabu.+
2 Badi balakana madimi ne baanyenga;+
Badi balakana kabidi nzubu, badi bayangata;
Badi bashimakaja muntu bua kuangata nzubu wende,+
Bashimakaja muntu bua kuangata bumpianyi buende.
3 Nunku, mona tshidi Yehowa wamba:
‘Monayi, ndi mpangadijila dîku edi dikenga+ dinuikala kanuyi mua kupanduka.*+
Kanuakuenda kabidi ne didibandisha nansha,+ bualu ntshikondo tshia dikenga.+
4 Dituku adi bantu nebele lusumuinu lua bualu buenu,
Ne nebadile ne kanyinganyinga kakole bua bualu buenu.+
Nebambe ne: “Tudi babutudibue butubutu!+
Yeye uvua muenze bua bumpianyi bua bantu banyi buye mu bianza bia bantu bakuabu, ke mudiye ubumbusha kundi nunku!+
Udi upesha muntu udi kayi ne lulamatu madimi etu.”
5 Nunku, kuakuikala ne muntu nansha umue bua kuolola nshinga wa kupima nende,
Bua kuabanya buloba mu
tshisumbu tshia Yehowa to.
6 Badi bayisha ne: “Lekelayi kuyisha,
Kabena ne bua kuyisha malu aa to;
Dipuekeshibua milongo kadiakutukuata to!”
7 Wewe nzubu wa Yakoba, badiku bamba ne:
“Nyuma wa Yehowa katshiena ne lutulu anyi?
Ebi ke bienzedi biende anyi?”
Mêyi anyi meme kaena apetesha bantu badi benda mu bululame malu mimpe anyi?
8 Kadi matuku adi panshi aa, bantu banyi mbajuke bu muena lukuna.
Nudi nukopola patoke tshilengejilu tshitambe buimpe ne* tshilamba
Bia bantu badi bapita ne njila talalaa, bu bantu badi bafuma ku mvita.
9 Nudi nuipata bakaji ba bantu banyi mu nzubu yabu milengele;
Nudi numbusha bulengele buanyi kudi bana babu bua kashidi.
10 Jukayi, ndayi, bualu eu ki mmuaba wa kuikishila to.
Bua bukoya,+ kudi kabutu, kabutu kabi menemene.+
11 Muntu yeye ulonda lupepele ne dishima, wamba bualu bua dishima ebu:
“Nennuyishe bua mvinyo ne bua maluvu makole,”
Nunku, yeye neikale anu muyishi bua bantu aba!+
12 Bushuwa, meme nensangishe bantu bebe bonso, wewe Yakoba;
Bushuwa, meme nenkunguije bashadile ba Isalele pamue.+
Nembateke mu buobumue, bu mikoko mu tshikumbi,
Bu tshisumbu tshia mikoko mu mpata wayi wa kudiila;+
Nemuikale mutoyi bua bantu.’+
13 Muntu udi utubula neaye kumpala kuabu;
Nebatubule ne nebapitshile mu tshiibi, ne nebapatukilaku.+
Mukalenge neapite kumpala kuabu,
Ne Yehowa muikale ku mutu kuabu.”+