< Micah 7 >
1 Woe is me! For I am like one gathering summer fruit at the gleaning of the vineyard; there is no cluster to eat, no early fig that I crave.
Mayɛ mmɔbɔ! Mete sɛ otwabere nnuaba tasefo a otwabere akyi mikodi mpɛpɛ wɔ bobeturo mu; minnya bobe kasiaw na madi, borɔdɔma aba a edi kan a mekɔn dɔ nso, saa ara.
2 The godly man has perished from the earth; there is no one upright among men. They all lie in wait for blood; they hunt one another with a net.
Wɔapra Onyamefɛrefo nyinaa afi asase so. Anka ɔbaako a ɔteɛ mpo. Nnipa nyinaa tetɛw na wɔhwehwɛ sɛ wɔbɛka mogya agu; wɔde ɔtan sunsum wɔn ho wɔn ho mfiri.
3 Both hands are skilled at evil; the prince and the judge demand a bribe. When the powerful utters his evil desire, they all conspire together.
Nsa abien no nyinaa akokwaw bɔneyɛ mu; ɔsodifo bisa akyɛde, otemmufo gye adanmude, wɔn a tumi wɔ wɔn nsa mu no yɛ nea wɔpɛ, wɔn nyinaa bɔ mu dwene amumɔyɛ ho.
4 The best of them is like a brier; the most upright is sharper than a hedge of thorns. The day for your watchmen has come, the day of your visitation. Now is the time of their confusion.
Nea oye wɔ wɔn mu no te sɛ ohwirem; nea ɔteɛ pa ara no, nsɔeban ye sen no. Wʼatemmuda no aso, da a Onyankopɔn reba wo nsrahwɛ. Eyi ne bere a wɔn ani so bɛyɛ wɔn totɔtotɔ.
5 Do not rely on a friend; do not trust in a companion. Seal the doors of your mouth from her who lies in your arms.
Nnye obiara nni; mfa wo werɛ nhyɛ adamfo mu. Mpo, ɔbea a ɔda wo koko mu no to wo tɛkrɛma nnareka wɔ ne ho.
6 For a son dishonors his father, a daughter rises against her mother, and a daughter-in-law against her mother-in-law. A man’s enemies are the members of his own household.
Ɔbabarima twiri nʼagya, Ɔbabea sɔre tia ne na, asebea nso tia nʼase onipa atamfo ne nʼankasa ne fifo.
7 But as for me, I will look to the LORD; I will wait for the God of my salvation. My God will hear me.
Me de, mede anidaso hwɛ Awurade, Metwɛn me Nkwagye Nyankopɔn; na me Nyankopɔn betie me.
8 Do not gloat over me, my enemy! Though I have fallen, I will arise; though I sit in darkness, the LORD will be my light.
Mma wʼani nnye, me tamfo! Mahwe ase de, nanso mɛsɔre. Sum aduru me de, nanso Awurade bɛyɛ me hann.
9 Because I have sinned against Him, I must endure the rage of the LORD, until He argues my case and executes justice for me. He will bring me into the light; I will see His righteousness.
Sɛ mayɛ bɔne atia no nti, Awurade abufuw bɛba me so, kosi sɛ ɔbɛka mʼasɛm ama me na wada me bembu adi. Ɔde me bɛba hann no mu; na mehu ne trenee.
10 Then my enemy will see and will be covered with shame— she who said to me, “Where is the LORD your God?” My eyes will see her; at that time she will be trampled like mud in the streets.
Afei, mʼatamfo behu na wɔn ani bewu, nea osee me sɛ, “Ɛhe na Awurade wo Nyankopɔn no wɔ?” Mʼani behu nʼasehwe; mpo mprempren no, wobetiatia no so te sɛ dontori a ɛwɔ mmɔnten so.
11 The day for rebuilding your walls will come— the day for extending your boundary.
Da a wɔbɛto wʼafasu no bɛba, da a wɔbɛtrɛw wʼahye mu.
12 On that day they will come to you from Assyria and the cities of Egypt, even from Egypt to the Euphrates, from sea to sea and mountain to mountain.
Da no, nnipa bɛba wo nkyɛn afi Asiria ne Misraim nkuropɔn mu, mpo wobefi Misraim akosi Eufrate afi po akosi po ne bepɔw so akosi bepɔw so.
13 Then the earth will become desolate because of its inhabitants, as the fruit of their deeds.
Asase no bɛyɛ amamfo, esiane nnipa a wɔtete so ne wɔn nneyɛe nti.
14 Shepherd with Your staff Your people, the flock of Your inheritance. They live alone in a woodland, surrounded by pastures. Let them graze in Bashan and Gilead, as in the days of old.
Fa wo pema di wo nkurɔfo anim, nguan a wɔyɛ wʼagyapade no, a wɔn nko ara tete kwae mu, wura frɔmfrɔm adidibea hɔ. Ma wonnidi wɔ Basan ne Gilead sɛ tete nna no mu.
15 As in the days when you came out of Egypt, I will show My wonders.
“Mɛyɛ anwonwade akyerɛ wo, sɛnea meyɛɛ nna a wufi Misraim bae mu no.”
16 Nations will see and be ashamed, deprived of all their might. They will put their hands over their mouths, and their ears will become deaf.
Aman behu wo na wɔn ani bewu, wɔn a tumi nyinaa afi wɔn nsa no. Wɔde wɔn nsa betuatua wɔn ano na wɔn aso besisiw.
17 They will lick the dust like a snake, like reptiles slithering on the ground. They will crawl from their holes in the presence of the LORD our God; they will tremble in fear of You.
Wobedi dɔte sɛ awɔ, ne mmoa a wɔwea wɔ fam. Wɔde ahopopo befi wɔn abon mu aba; wɔde osuro bɛdan wɔn ho ama Awurade yɛn Nyankopɔn, na wobesuro wo.
18 Who is a God like You, who pardons iniquity and passes over the transgression of the remnant of His inheritance— who does not retain His anger forever, because He delights in loving devotion?
Hena na ɔte sɛ wo, Onyankopɔn a wode bɔne kyɛ? Wo a wode agyanom asefo nkae amumɔyɛ kyɛ wɔn. Wʼabufuw ntena hɔ daa, na mmom wʼani gye sɛ wobɛda mmɔborɔhunu adi.
19 He will again have compassion on us; He will vanquish our iniquities. You will cast out all our sins into the depths of the sea.
Wubehu yɛn mmɔbɔ bio, wubetiatia yɛn bɔne so, na woatow yɛn amumɔyɛ agu po bun mu.
20 You will show faithfulness to Jacob and loving devotion to Abraham, as You swore to our fathers from the days of old.
Wobɛyɛ ɔnokwafo ama Yakob na woahu Abraham mmɔbɔ sɛnea wokaa yɛn agyanom ntam teteete no.