2 Chronicles 6
1 Then Solomon said: “The Lord has promised that he would dwell in a cloud.
Na Salomo bɔɔ mpae se, “Awurade, woaka se wobɛtena omununkum kabii mu.
2 But I have built a house to his name, so that he may dwell there forever.”
Afei, masi Asɔredan a ɛho wɔ nyam ama wo, baabi a wubetumi atena afebɔɔ.”
3 And the king turned his face, and he blessed the entire multitude of Israel, (for the whole crowd was standing and attentive) and he said:
Na ɔhene no dan ne ho de kyerɛɛ Israelfo a wogyinagyina nʼanim no, hyiraa wɔn se,
4 “Blessed is the Lord, the God of Israel, who has completed the work that he spoke to David my father, saying:
“Nhyira nka Awurade, Israel Nyankopɔn, a wadi bɔ a ɔhyɛɛ mʼagya Dawid no so, efisɛ ɔka kyerɛɛ mʼagya se,
5 ‘From the day when I led my people away from the land of Egypt, I did not choose a city from all the tribes of Israel, so that a house would be built in it to my name. And I did not choose any other man, so that he would be the ruler of my people Israel.
‘Efi da a miyii me nkurɔfo fii Misraim no, minyii kuropɔn biara mfii Israel mmusuakuw no mu sɛ baabi a ɛsɛ sɛ wosi Asɔredan, de hyɛ me din anuonyam. Ɛnna nso, minyii ɔhene biara sɛ onni me nkurɔfo Israelfo anim.
6 But I chose Jerusalem, so that my name would be in it. And I chose David, so that I might appoint him over my people Israel.’
Nanso afei mayi Yerusalem sɛ kuropɔn no, ne Dawid sɛ ɔhene no.’”
7 And though David, my father, had decided that he would build a house to the name of the Lord God of Israel,
Afei, Salomo kae se, “Mʼagya Dawid pɛɛ sɛ osi Asɔredan yi de hyɛ Awurade, Israel Nyankopɔn din anuonyam.
8 the Lord said to him: ‘In so far as it was your will that you build a house to my name, certainly you have done well in having such a will.
Nanso Awurade ka kyerɛɛ no se, ‘Eye sɛ wopɛ sɛ wusi asɔredan de hyɛ me din anuonyam,
9 But you shall not build the house. Truly, your son, who will go forth from your loins, shall build a house to my name.’
nanso ɛnyɛ wo na wobɛyɛ. Mmom, wo mmabarima no mu baako na obesi.’
10 Therefore, the Lord has accomplished his word, which he had spoken. And I have risen up in place of my father David, and I sit upon the throne of Israel, just as the Lord spoke. And I have built a house to the name of the Lord, the God of Israel.
“Na afei Awurade ayɛ nea ɔhyɛɛ ho bɔ no, efisɛ efisɛ madi ade sɛ ɔhene, asi mʼagya anan mu. Masi saa Asɔredan yi de ahyɛ Awurade, Israel Nyankopɔn din anuonyam.
11 And I have placed in it the ark, in which is the covenant of the Lord that he formed with the sons of Israel.”
Ɛhɔ na mede Adaka no asi, na Adaka no mu nso na apam a Awurade ne Israelfo yɛe no hyɛ.”
12 Then he stood before the altar of the Lord, facing the entire multitude of Israel, and he extended his hands.
Na Salomo trɛw ne nsam wɔ Awurade afɔremuka ne Israel manfo no nyinaa anim.
13 For indeed, Solomon had made a bronze base, and he had positioned it in the midst of the hall; it held five cubits in length, and five cubits in width, and three cubits in height. And he stood upon it. And next, kneeling down while facing the entire multitude of Israel, and lifting up his palms towards heaven,
Na wabɔ kɔbere mfrafrae apa a ne ntwemu yɛ anammɔn ason ne fa, ne trɛw yɛ anammɔn ason ne fa, na ne sorokɔ yɛ anammɔn anan ne fa, de asi asɔredan no adiwo mfimfini. Ogyinaa apa no so wɔ nnipa no nyinaa anim. Obuu nkotodwe, maa ne nsa so kyerɛɛ ɔsoro.
14 he said: “O Lord God of Israel, there is no god like you in heaven or on earth. You preserve covenant and mercy with your servants, who walk before you with all their hearts.
Ɔbɔɔ mpae se, “Awurade, Israel Nyankopɔn, Onyankopɔn biara nni hɔ sɛ wo wɔ ɔsoro ne asase so nyinaa. Wodi wo bɔhyɛ so, na woda wo dɔ a ɛwɔ hɔ daa no adi kyerɛ wɔn a wotie wo na wɔn ani gye sɛ wɔbɛyɛ wʼapɛde nyinaa.
15 You fulfilled for your servant David, my father, whatsoever you had said to him. And you carried out the deed that you promised with your mouth, just as the present time proves.
Wo bɔ a wohyɛɛ wo somfo Dawid a ɔyɛ mʼagya no, woadi so. Wʼankasa wʼano na wode hyɛɛ bɔ no, na nnɛ, wonam wʼankasa wo nsa so ama aba mu.
16 Now then, O Lord God of Israel, fulfill for your servant David, my father, whatsoever you said to him, saying: ‘There shall not fail to be a man from you before me, who will sit upon the throne of Israel, yet only if your sons will guard their ways, and will walk in my law, just as you also have walked before me.’
“Afei, Awurade, Israel Nyankopɔn kɔ so di wo bɔ a woahyɛ wo somfo, mʼagya Dawid, no so. Efisɛ, woka kyerɛɛ no se, ‘Sɛ wʼasefo bɔ wɔn bra yiye, na wodi me mmara so sɛnea woayɛ no a, wobedi Israel so hene daa daa.’
17 And now, O Lord God of Israel, let your word be confirmed that you spoke to your servant David.
Afei, Awurade, Israel Nyankopɔn, di saa bɔ a woahyɛ wo somfo Dawid no so.
18 How then is it to be believed that God would dwell with men upon the earth? If heaven and the heavens of the heavens do not contain you, how much less this house that I have built?
“Ɛyɛ nokware sɛ Onyankopɔn bɛtena nnipa mu wɔ asase so? Ɔsorosoro nohɔ mpo ntumi nkora wo, na ɛbɛyɛ dɛn na Asɔredan a masi yi betumi akora wo.
19 But it has been done for this only, so that you may look with favor upon the prayer of your servant, and on his supplication, O Lord my God, and so that you may hear the prayers which your servant pours out before you,
Tie me mpaebɔ ne mʼabisade, Awurade, me Nyankopɔn. Tie sufrɛ ne mpae a wo somfo rebɔ no.
20 and so that you may open your eyes over this house, day and night, over the place where you promised that your name would be invoked,
Hwɛ saa Asɔredan yi so, baabi a woaka sɛ wode wo din bɛto so no, awia ne anadwo. Daa, tie me mpae a mebɔ wɔ ha no.
21 and so that you may heed the prayer which your servant is praying within it, and so that you may heed the prayers of your servant and of your people Israel. Whoever will pray in this place, listen from your habitation, that is, from heaven, and forgive.
Tie mʼahobrɛase ne nokware adebisa a me ne wo nkurɔfo Israelfo bɔ mpae wɔ ha de to wʼanim no. Yiw, tie yɛn fi ɔsoro faako a wote no; na sɛ wote nso a, fa kyɛ.
22 If anyone will have sinned against his neighbor, and he arrives to swear against him, and to bind himself with a curse before the altar in this house,
“Sɛ obi fom obi, na ɛho hia sɛ ɔka ho ntam sɛ onnim ho hwee wɔ afɔremuka no anim wɔ Asɔredan no mu a,
23 you will hear him from heaven, and you will execute justice for your servants, so that you return, to the iniquitous man, his own way upon his own head, and so that you vindicate the just man, repaying him according to his own justice.
tie fi ɔsoro, na bu wʼasomfo baanu no a ɛyɛ nea wɔabɔ no sobo no ne sobobɔfo no ntam atɛn. Nea odi fɔ no, twe nʼaso na gyaa nea odi bem no.
24 If your people Israel will have been overwhelmed by their enemies, (for they will sin against you) and having been converted will do penance, and if they will have beseeched your name, and will have prayed in this place,
“Sɛ wo nkurɔfo Israelfo yɛ bɔne tia wo, na ɛno nti wɔn atamfo di wɔn so nkonim na wɔsan ba wo nkyɛn, bɔ wo din na wɔbɔ wo mpae wɔ Asɔredan yi mu a,
25 you will heed them from heaven, and you will forgive the sin of your people Israel, and you will lead them back into the land that you gave to them and to their fathers.
tie fi ɔsoro, na fa wɔn bɔne kyɛ wɔn, na ma wɔnsan nkɔ asase a wode maa wɔn agyanom no so.
26 If the heavens have been closed, so that rain does not fall, because of the sin of the people, and if they will petition you in this place, and confess to your name, and be converted from their sins when you will afflict them,
“Sɛ wo nkurɔfo yɛ bɔne tia wo, na ɛno nti wɔto ɔsoro mu na osu antɔ na wɔbɔ mpae wɔ Asɔredan yi mu, bɔ wo din, twe wɔn ho fi wɔn bɔne ho, efisɛ woatwe wɔn aso a,
27 heed them from heaven, O Lord, and forgive the sins of your servants and of your people Israel, and teach them the good way, by which they may advance, and give rain to the land that you gave to your people as a possession.
tie fi ɔsoro, na fa wʼasomfo, wo nkurɔfo Israelfo, bɔne kyɛ wɔn. Kyerɛ wɔn ade trenee yɛ, na tɔ osu gu wʼasase a wode ama wo nkurɔfo sɛ wɔn agyapade sononko no so.
28 If a famine will have risen up in the land, or pestilence, or fungus, or mildew, or locusts, or beetles, or if enemies will have laid waste to the countryside and will have besieged the gates of the cities, or whatever scourge or infirmity will have pressed upon them,
“Sɛ ɔkɔm si asase no so anaa ɔyaredɔm ba so anaa nnɔbae nyarewa ba anaa mmoadabi ne asa begu nnɔbae so, anaa wo nkurɔfo atamfo ba asase no so betua wɔn nkurow a, sɛnea ɔhaw no te biara no,
29 if anyone from your people Israel, knowing his own scourge and infirmity, will have made supplication and will have extended his hands in this house,
sɛ wo nkurɔfo bɔ mpae wɔ wɔn haw ne awerɛhow ho, na wɔpagyaw wɔn nsa wɔ asɔredan yi mu a,
30 you will heed him from heaven, indeed from your sublime habitation, and you will forgive, and you will repay each one according to his ways, which you know him to hold in his heart. For you alone know the hearts of the sons of men.
tie fi ɔsoro, nea wote hɔ, na fa kyɛ. Fa biribiara a ɛfata wo nkurɔfo no ma wɔn, na wo na wunim wɔn koma mu, efisɛ wo nko ara na wunim nnipa koma mu.
31 So may they fear you, and so may they walk in your ways, during all the days that they live upon the face of the land, which you gave to our fathers.
Ɛno akyi no wobesuro wo na wɔanantew wʼakwan so mmere dodow a wɔte asase a wode maa yɛn agyanom no so.
32 Also, if the outsider, who is not from your people Israel, will have arrived from a far away land, because of your great name, and because of your robust hand and your outstretched arm, and if he will adore in this place,
“Na sɛ ananafo te wo nka ne wo nsɛnkyerɛnne akɛse no, na wofi akyirikyiri bɛsom wo din kɛse no, bɔ mpae de wɔn ani kyerɛ Asɔredan yi a,
33 you will heed him from heaven, your most firm habitation, and you will accomplish all the things about which this sojourner will have called out to you, so that all the people of the earth may know your name, and may fear you, just as your people Israel do, and so that they may know that your name is invoked over this house, which I have built.
tie fi ɔsoro nea wote hɔ, na yɛ wɔn abisade ma wɔn. Na ɛbɛma nnipa a wɔte asase so nyinaa ahu, asuro wo, sɛnea wo nkurɔfo Israelfo no yɛ pɛpɛɛpɛ. Wɔn nso behu sɛ, wo din na ɛda saa Asɔredan a masi yi so.
34 If, having gone out to war against their adversaries along the way that you will send them, your people adore you facing in the direction of this city, which you have chosen, and of this house, which I have built to your name,
“Sɛ wohyɛ wo nkurɔfo ma wopue, kɔko tia wɔn atamfo, na sɛ wɔbɔ mpae, srɛ Awurade fa saa kurow yi a woayi yi, ne saa Asɔredan a masi de wo din ato so yi ho a,
35 you will heed their prayers from heaven, and their supplications, and you will vindicate them.
tie wɔn mpaebɔ fi ɔsoro, na yɛ wɔn abisade ma wɔn.
36 But if they will have sinned against you (for there is no man who does not sin) and you will have become angry against them, and if you will have delivered them to their enemies, and so they lead them away as captives to a far away land, or even to one that is near,
“Sɛ wɔyɛ bɔne tia wo mpo a, hena na ɔnyɛɛ bɔne da? Wo bo befuw wɔn ama wɔn atamfo adi wɔn so, afa wɔn nkoa de wɔn akɔ ananasase so, sɛ ɛwɔ akyiri anaa ɛbɛn.
37 and if, having been converted in their heart in the land to which they had been led as captives, they will do penance, and beseech you in the land of their captivity, saying, ‘We have sinned; we have committed iniquity; we have acted unjustly,’
Na saa ahɔhosase no so, wɔde ahonu san ba wo nkyɛn, bɔ mpae se, ‘Yɛayɛ bɔne; yɛayɛ amumɔyɛsɛm ne atirimɔdensɛm,’
38 and if they will have returned to you, with their whole heart and with their whole soul, in the land of their captivity to which they were led away, and if they will adore you in the direction of their own land, which you gave to their fathers, and of the city, which you have chosen, and of the house, which I have built to your name,
na sɛ wɔde wɔn koma ne wɔn kra nyinaa ba wo nkyɛn, bɔ mpae fa asase a wode maa wɔn agyanom, saa kuropɔn yi a woayi ne saa asɔredan a masi de ahyɛ wo din anuonyam yi ho a,
39 from heaven, that is, from your firm habitation, you will heed their prayers, and you will accomplish judgment, and you will forgive your people, even though they are sinners.
tie wɔn mpaebɔ no fi ɔsoro, nea wote hɔ. Di wɔn asɛm ma wɔn, na fa bɔne a wo nkurɔfo ayɛ atia wo no kyɛ wɔn.
40 For you are my God. Let your eyes be open, I beg you, and let your ears be attentive to the prayer that is made in this place.
“Afei me Nyankopɔn, bue wʼaniwa na wɛn wʼaso tie mpae a wɔbɔ wɔ ha no nyinaa.
41 Now therefore, rise up, O Lord God, to your resting place, you and the ark of your strength. Let your priests, O Lord God, be clothed with salvation, and let your holy ones rejoice in what is good.
“Afei, Awurade Nyankopɔn, sɔre na bra wʼahomegyebea,
42 O Lord God, may you not turn away from the face of your Christ. Remember the mercies of your servant, David.”
“Awurade Nyankopɔn, nyi wʼani mfi nea woasra no ngo no so.
