Psalms 102
1 A Prayer of the man who is in trouble, when he is overcome, and puts his grief before the Lord. Give ear to my prayer, O Lord, and let my cry come to you.
Hiãtɔ aɖe ƒe gbedodoɖa, esi nu te eŋu, eye wòfa konyi le Yehowa ŋkume. O! Yehowa, se nye gbedodoɖa, eye nye kokoƒoƒo hena kpekpeɖeŋu neɖo gbɔwò.
2 Let not your face be veiled from me in the day of my trouble; give ear to me, and let my cry be answered quickly.
Mègaɣla wò ŋkume ɖem, ne mele xaxa me o. Trɔ wò to ɖe gbɔnye, eye ne meyɔ wò la, nàtɔ nam kaba.
3 My days are wasted like smoke, and my bones are burned up as in a fire.
Elabena nye ŋkekewo nu va yi abe dzudzɔ ene, eye nye ƒuwo xɔ dzo hẽe abe dzokpo ene.
4 My heart is broken; it has become dry and dead like grass, so that I give no thought to food.
Nye dzi xɔ abi, eye wòyrɔ abe gbe ene. Meŋlɔ nye nuɖuɖu gɔ̃ hã be.
5 Because of the voice of my sorrow, my flesh is wasted to the bone.
Le nye ŋeŋe sesĩe ta la, meɖi ku zu ƒu ɖeɖe.
6 I am like a bird living by itself in the waste places; like the night-bird in a waste of sand.
Mele abe ʋlukuku si le gbegbe ene, alo abe ʋlukuku si le gli gbagbãwo tome ene.
7 I keep watch like a bird by itself on the house-top.
Mele ŋu le aba dzi, eye mele abe xevi si tsi akogo le xɔ tame ene.
8 My haters say evil of me all day; those who are violent against me make use of my name as a curse.
Nye futɔwo le alɔme ɖem le ŋunye ŋkeke blibo la, eye ame siwo tso ɖe ŋunye la tsɔ nye ŋkɔ wɔ ɖiŋudonui.
9 I have had dust for bread and my drink has been mixed with weeping:
Elabena meɖu dzowɔ abe nuɖuɖu ene, eye metsɔ aɖatsi tɔtɔ nye nunonoe,
10 Because of your passion and your wrath, for I have been lifted up and then made low by you.
le wò dziku helĩhelĩ la ta elabena èdom ɖe dzi, eye nètsɔm ƒu gbe ɖe adzɔge.
11 My days are like a shade which is stretched out; I am dry like the grass.
Nye ŋkekewo le abe fiẽ ƒe vɔvɔli ene, eye meyrɔ abe gbe ene.
12 But you, O Lord, are eternal; and your name will never come to an end.
O! Yehowa, wò la èle fia ɖum tegbetegbe, eye wò ŋkɔxɔxɔ li tso dzidzime yi dzidzime.
13 You will again get up and have mercy on Zion: for the time has come for her to be comforted.
Ke wò la àtso, akpɔ nublanui na Zion, elabena ɣeyiɣi de be nàve enu, ɛ̃, ɣeyiɣi ɖoɖi la de.
14 For your servants take pleasure in her stones, looking with love on her dust.
Elabena eƒe kpewo xɔ asi le wò dɔlawo gbɔ, eye eƒe ʋuʋudedi gɔ̃ hã ʋãa nublanuikpɔkpɔ le wo me.
15 So the nations will give honour to the name of the Lord, and all the kings of the earth will be in fear of his glory:
Dukɔwo avɔ̃ Yehowa ƒe ŋkɔ, eye anyigbadzifiawo katã ade bubu wò ŋutikɔkɔe ŋu.
16 When the Lord has put up the walls of Zion, and has been been in his glory;
Elabena Yehowa agbugbɔ Zion atso, eye wòado le eƒe ŋutikɔkɔe me.
17 When he has given ear to the prayer of the poor, and has not put his request on one side.
Aɖo hiãtɔwo ƒe gbedodoɖa ŋu, eye mado vlo woƒe kokoƒoƒo o.
18 This will be put in writing for the coming generation, and the people of the future will give praise to the Lord.
Miŋlɔ esia ɖi hena dzidzime siwo ava dzɔ, ale be ame siwo womedzi haɖe o la nakafu Yehowa be:
19 For from his holy place the Lord has seen, looking down on the earth from heaven;
“Yehowa kpɔ nu tso eƒe kɔkɔeƒe la, eye wòkpɔ anyigba tso dziƒo,
20 Hearing the cry of the prisoner, making free those for whom death is ordered;
be wòase gamenɔlawo ƒe ŋeŋe, eye wòaɖe ga ame siwo wotso kufia na.”
21 So that they may give out the name of the Lord in Zion, and his praise in Jerusalem;
Ale woaɖe gbeƒã Yehowa ƒe ŋkɔ le Zion kple eƒe kafukafu le Yerusalem,
22 When the peoples are come together, and the kingdoms, to give worship to the Lord.
ne dukɔwo kple fiaɖuƒewo ƒo ƒu be woasubɔ Yehowa.
23 He has taken my strength from me in the way; he has made short my days.
Eŋe nye ŋusẽ le nye agbemɔ dzi, eye wòɖe nye ŋkekewo dzi kpɔtɔ,
24 I will say, O my God, take me not away before my time; your years go on through all generations:
eya ta megblɔ be, “O! Nye Mawu, mègakplɔm dzoe le nye ŋkekewo ƒe titina o, wò ame si ƒe ƒewo li tso dzidzime yi dzidzime.
25 In the past you put the earth on its base, and the heavens are the work of your hands.
Le gɔmedzedzea me la, èɖo anyigba ƒe agunu anyi, eye dziƒowo nye wò asinudɔwɔwɔ.
26 They will come to an end, but you will still go on; they all will become old like a coat, and like a robe they will be changed:
Woatsrɔ̃, ke wò ya ànɔ anyi ɖaa; woanyunyɔ abe avɔ ene, eye àɖɔli wo abe avɔ ene ahatsɔ wo aƒu gbe.
27 But you are the unchanging One, and your years will have no end.
Ke wò la, ègale ale si nènɔ, eye wò ƒewo mawu enu akpɔ o.
28 The children of your servants will have a safe resting-place, and their seed will be ever before you.
Wò dɔlawo ƒe viwo anɔ ŋkuwò me, eye woaɖo woƒe dzidzimeviwo anyi le ŋkuwò me.”
