Obadiah 1
1 This is the vision of Obadiah: This is what the Lord GOD says about Edom— We have heard a message from the LORD; an envoy has been sent among the nations to say, “Rise up, and let us go to battle against her!”—
Anisoadehunu a Awurade Onyankopɔn daa no adi faa Edom asase ho kyerɛɛ Obadia nie: Yɛate asɛm a ɛfiri Awurade nkyɛn. Wɔsomaa ɔnanmusini bi kɔɔ aman so kɔkaa sɛ, “Monsɔre na momma yɛnkɔko ntia Edom.”
2 “Behold, I will make you small among the nations; you will be deeply despised.
Awurade ka kyerɛ Edom sɛ: “Hwɛ mɛbrɛ wo ase, mɛyɛ wo akumaa wɔ aman no mu, na wɔabu wo animtia.
3 The pride of your heart has deceived you, O dwellers in the clefts of the rocks whose habitation is the heights, who say in your heart, ‘Who can bring me down to the ground?’
Wayɛ ahantan adaadaa wo ho, Wo a wote abotan ntokuro mu na wayɛ wʼatenaeɛ wɔ mmepɔ so, na woka kyerɛ wo ho sɛ, ‘Hwan na ɔbɛtumi ayi me asi fam?’
4 Though you soar like the eagle and make your nest among the stars, even from there I will bring you down,”
Sɛ wotu kɔ ewiem sɛ akɔdeɛ, na woyɛ wo pirebuo wɔ nsoromma ntam mpo a, ɛhɔ na mɛba abɛtwe wo adwera fam.” Sɛdeɛ Awurade seɛ nie.
5 “If thieves came to you, if robbers by night— oh, how you will be ruined— would they not steal only what they wanted? If grape gatherers came to you, would they not leave some gleanings?
“Sɛ akorɔmfoɔ ba wo so a, anaa adwotwafoɔ ba wo so anadwo a, atoyerɛnkyɛm bɛn na ɛrento wo? Na wɔrenwia wo nneɛma dodoɔ a wɔpɛ anaa? Sɛ bobe abatefoɔ ba wo so a, ɛnyɛ bobe aba kakra bi pɛ na wɔbɛgya wo anaa?
6 But how Esau will be pillaged, his hidden treasures sought out!
Na wo Esau deɛ wɔbɛwia wʼademudeɛ a wode asie na wɔayɛ wo dosodoso.
7 All the men allied with you will drive you to the border; the men at peace with you will deceive and overpower you. Those who eat your bread will set a trap for you without your awareness of it.
Wɔn a wo ne wɔn wɔ nkabom nyinaa bɛdi wo hwammɔ. Wɔn a wʼadwene yɛ wo sɛ wo ne wɔn te asomdwoeɛ mu no bɛdaadaa wo adi wo so, wɔn a wɔdi wʼaduane no asum wo afidie, nanso, wonhunuiɛ.
8 In that day, declares the LORD, will I not destroy the wise men of Edom and the men of understanding in the mountains of Esau?
“Saa ɛda no,” Awurade na ɔseɛ, “Merensɛe anyansafoɔ a ɛwɔ Edom anaa, mmarima a wɔte asɛm ase a wɔwɔ Esau mmepɔ so anaa?
9 Then your mighty men, O Teman, will be terrified, so that everyone in the mountains of Esau will be cut down in the slaughter.
Ao Teman wʼakofoɔ bɛbɔ hu ne obiara a ɔwɔ Esau bepɔ so no, wɔbɛtwitwa mo atɔre mo ase.
10 Because of the violence against your brother Jacob, you will be covered with shame and cut off forever.
Esiane basabasayɛ a woyɛ tiaa wo nua Yakob no enti aniwuo bɛka wo, na wɔbɛsɛe wo koraa.
11 On the day you stood aloof while strangers carried off his wealth and foreigners entered his gate and cast lots for Jerusalem, you were just like one of them.
Ɛda a wogyinaa ntentenso hwɛɛ no haa, na ananafoɔ faa nʼahonyadeɛ kɔeɛ na ahɔhoɔ hyɛnee ne kuro apono mu, na wɔbɔɔ Yerusalem so ntonto no, na wote sɛ wɔn mu baako.
12 But you should not gloat in that day, your brother’s day of misfortune, nor rejoice over the people of Judah in the day of their destruction, nor boast proudly in the day of their distress.
Anka ɛnsɛ sɛ wobu wo nua animtiaa ɛberɛ a ɔwɔ asaneɛ mu, anaa sɛ wodi ahurisie wɔ Yudafoɔ so ɛberɛ a wɔwɔ ɔsɛeɛ mu, na mpo wohoahoa wo ho ɛberɛ a wɔwɔ ahohiahia mu no.
13 You should not enter the gate of My people in the day of their disaster, nor gloat over their affliction in the day of their disaster, nor loot their wealth in the day of their disaster.
Anka ɛnsɛ sɛ wode nsrabɔ hyɛne me nkurɔfoɔ kuro apono no mu wɔ wɔn amanehunu ɛda, anka ɛnsɛ sɛ wosere wɔ ɛberɛ a wɔwɔ ɔhaw mu. Afei nso anka ɛnsɛ sɛ wode wo nsa to wɔn ahodeɛ so gye wɔ ɛberɛ a wɔwɔ amanehunu mu.
14 Nor should you stand at the crossroads to cut off their fugitives, nor deliver up their survivors in the day of their distress.
Anka ɛnsɛ sɛ wotɛ wɔn nkwantanan soɔ kunkumm nʼadwanefoɔ Na woyi wɔn a aka no ma wɔ wɔn amanehunu ɛda no mu.
15 For the Day of the LORD is near for all the nations. As you have done, it will be done to you; your recompense will return upon your own head.
“Awurade ɛda no abɛn ama amanaman nyinaa. Na hwɛ, Edom sɛdeɛ woyɛeɛ no saa ara na wɔbɛyɛ woɔ. Wo nneyɛeɛ bɛsane abɛgu wo tiriso.
16 For as you drank on My holy mountain, so all the nations will drink continually. They will drink and gulp it down; they will be as if they had never existed.
Sɛdeɛ mononom nsã wɔ me bepɔ kronkron so no, saa ara na amanaman no nyinaa bɛkɔ so anom, saa ara na ɛbɛkɔ so ɛda biara na wɔbɛyɛ te sɛ deɛ wonni hɔ.
17 But on Mount Zion there will be deliverance, and it will be holy, and the house of Jacob will reclaim their possession.
Na ɔgyeɛ bɛba Sion bepɔ so na ɛbɛyɛ kronkron beaeɛ, na Yakob efie nsa bɛsane aka nʼagyapadeɛ.
18 Then the house of Jacob will be a blazing fire, and the house of Joseph a burning flame; but the house of Esau will be stubble— Jacob will set it ablaze and consume it. Therefore no survivor will remain from the house of Esau.”
Yakob efie bɛyɛ ogya na Yosef efie ayɛ ogyaframa; Esau efie deɛ ɛbɛyɛ adehunu bi na wɔde ogya bɛto mu ahye no a obiara renka wɔ efie hɔ.” Deɛ Awurade seɛ nie.
19 Those from the Negev will possess the mountains of Esau; those from the foothills will possess the land of the Philistines. They will occupy the fields of Ephraim and Samaria, and Benjamin will possess Gilead.
Nkurɔfoɔ a wɔfiri Negeb no bɛtena Esau mmepɔ so, Na wɔn a wɔfiri nkokoɔ no ase no, bɛfa Filistia asase no, na wɔbɛfa Efraim ne Samaria mfuo atena so, na Benyamin nso afa Gilead.
20 And the exiles of this host of the Israelites will possess the land of the Canaanites as far as Zarephath; and the exiles from Jerusalem who are in Sepharad will possess the cities of the Negev.
Nipakuo a wɔyɛ Israel atukɔfoɔ bɛfa Kanaan asase no akɔsi Sarefat; na atukɔfoɔ a wɔfiri Yerusalem a wɔte Safarad no bɛfa Negeb nkuro no adi so.
21 The deliverers will ascend Mount Zion to rule over the mountains of Esau. And the kingdom will belong to the LORD.
Agyefoɔ bɛkɔ Sion bepɔ so, akɔdi Edom mmepɔ so. Na ahennie no bɛyɛ Awurade dea!
