I am posting this with the permission–the blessing–of Jeremias Sanha, a talented composer and performer of Christian music in Kriol of Guinea-Bissau. I have been working with Jeremias for ten years on the Kriol Bible translation project. The songs he composes take their lyrics from the Kriol Bible. Today I will feature a song of his from Acts 17:22-25, which happened to be the chapter we were working on today.
| Deus, i garandi, i ka ta mora na kasa ku mon di omi kumpu.
Pabia el ku ta da omi tudu kusas, ate vida! Abo i jintis ku fia na manga di kusas. Bo ta adora ate deus ku bo ka kunsi. Ma e Deus ku no na fala bos del, I Deus garandi ku kumpu seu ku tera. Deus garandi. No tene Deus garandi. |
God, he is great, he does not live in a house that the hand of man has made.
Because it is he who gave man all things, even life! You are people that believe in many things. You worship even a god that you do not know. But this God that we are telling you about, He is the great God who made heaven and earth. God is great. We have a God that is great. |
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Neat! And he’s been in the project that long!