Isaiah 33
1 Woe to you who plunder! Will you yourselves not also be plundered? And woe to you who despise! Will you yourselves not also be despised? When you will have completed your plundering, you will be plundered. When, out of fatigue, you will have ceased acting with contempt, you will be treated with contempt.
Due, Ao ɔdesɛefoɔ Asiria, wo a wɔnnsɛee woɔ! Due, Ao ɔfatwafoɔ, wo a wɔnnii wo hwammɔ! Sɛ wowie ade sɛe a, wɔbɛsɛe wo; sɛ wowie hwammɔdie a, wɔbɛdi wo hwammɔ.
2 O Lord, take pity on us. For we have waited for you. Be our arm in the morning and our salvation in the time of tribulation.
Ao Awurade, hunu yɛn mmɔbɔ; yɛn ani da wo so. Yɛ yɛn ahoɔden anɔpa biara, ne yɛn nkwagyeɛ wɔ ahohia mu.
3 From the voice of the Angel, the people fled. And from your exultation, the nations were scattered.
Aman no te wo nne mmobɔmu a, wɔdwane; sɛ woma wo ho so a, amanaman no bɔ hwete.
4 And your spoils will be gathered together, just as the locusts are collected when the ditches have become filled with them.
Sɛdeɛ ntutummɛ tu hyɛ asase so we so nnɔbaeɛ no; saa ara na nnipa bɛto ahyɛ Asiria so.
5 The Lord has been magnified, because he has lived on high. He has filled Zion with judgment and justice.
Wɔama Awurade so, na ɔte ɔsorosoro; ɔde tenenee ne adeteneneeyɛ bɛhyɛ Sion ma.
6 And there will be faith in your times: the riches of salvation, wisdom and knowledge. For the fear of the Lord is his treasure.
Ɔbɛyɛ fapem a atim yie wɔ mo mmerɛ so, nkwagyeɛ, nyansa ne nhunumu mmorosoɔ akoraeɛ; Awurade suro bɛyɛ wʼademudeɛ.
7 Behold, outside, those who see will cry out. The Angels of peace will weep bitterly.
Monhwɛ, wɔn mmarima akokoɔdurufoɔ su teateaam wɔ mmɔntene so; asomdwoeɛ ho abɔfoɔ su yaayaaya.
8 The roads have become desolate. Travelers have ceased along the paths. The covenant has been nullified. He has tossed aside cities. He has disregarded men.
Akwantempɔn no so da hɔ kwa, akwantufoɔ biara nni akwan no so. Wɔabu apam no so; wɔbu nʼadansefoɔ animtia wɔmmu obiara.
9 The earth has mourned and languished. Lebanon has been confounded and desecrated. And Sharon has become like a desert. And Bashan and Carmel have been struck together.
Asase no awo wesee na ɛresɛe, Lebanon agyigya na nʼanim agu ase; Saron ayɛ sɛ Araba, Basan ne Karmel poro wɔn nhahan.
10 “Now, I will rise up!” says the Lord. “Now I will be exalted! Now I will lift myself up!”
“Afei na mɛsɔre,” sei na Awurade seɛ. “Afei na wɔbɛpagya me; afei na wɔbɛma me so akɔ soro.
11 You will conceive heat. You will give birth to stubble. Your own spirit will devour you like fire.
Monyinsɛne ntɛtɛ, na mo wo ɛserɛ; mo ahome yɛ ogya a ɛhye mo.
12 And the people will be like the ashes from a fire. They will be consumed by fire like a bundle of thorns.
Wɔbɛhye aman no ama wɔayɛ sɛ akaadoo; wɔbɛto wɔn mu ogya te sɛ nkasɛɛ a wɔatwa.”
13 “You who are far away, listen to what I have done! And you who are near, acknowledge my strength!”
Mo a mowɔ akyirikyiri no, montie deɛ mayɛ; mo a mobɛn no, monkamfo me kɛseyɛ!
14 The sinners in Zion are terrified; trembling has taken hold of the hypocrites. Who among you is able to live with a devouring fire? Who among you will live with an everlasting flame?
Nnebɔneyɛfoɔ a wɔwɔ Sion abɔ huboa; ahopopoɔ aka wɔn a wɔnnim Onyame: “Yɛn mu hwan na ɔbɛtumi ne ogya a ɛhye adeɛ atena? Yɛn mu hwan na ɔbɛtumi ne daa ogya dɛreɛ atena?”
15 The one who walks in justice and speaks the truth, who casts out avarice with oppression and shakes all bribes from his hands, who blocks his ears so that he may not listen to blood, and closes his eyes so that he may not see evil.
Deɛ ɔnante tenenee mu na ɔdi nokorɛ deɛ ɔpo mfasoɔ a nsisie de ba na ɔnnye adanmudeɛ, deɛ ɔntie awudie ho pɔ bɔ deɛ ɔmpɛ sɛ ɔhunu bɔneyɛ ho agyinatuo no,
16 Such a one will live on high; the fortification of rocks will be his lofty place. Bread has been given to him; his waters are reliable.
saa onipa yi na ɔbɛtena ɔsorosoro hɔ. Ne dwanekɔbea bɛyɛ bepɔ aban no. Wɔde nʼaduane bɛma no na ne nsuo mmɔ no.
17 His eyes will see the king in his elegance; they will discern the land from far away.
Mo ani bɛhunu ɔhene no wɔ nʼanimuonyam mu na moahunu asase a ɛtrɛ kɔ akyirikyiri no.
18 Your heart will meditate on fear. Where are the learned? Where are those who ponder the words of the law? Where are the teachers of little ones?
Mo adwendwene mu no, mobɛbooboo deɛ na ɔhunahuna mo no ho: “Odwumayɛfoɔ panin no wɔ he? Deɛ na ɔgyegye toɔ no wɔ he? Deɛ na ɔhwɛ aban tenten so no wɔ he?”
19 You will not look upon a shameless people, a people of exalted words. For you are not able to understand the dissertation of a tongue in which there is no wisdom.
Morenhunu saa ahantanfoɔ no bio, wɔn a wɔn kasa mu nna hɔ, na monte deɛ wɔka no ase no.
20 Look with favor upon Zion, the city of our solemnity. Your eyes will behold Jerusalem: an opulent habitation, a tabernacle that can never be taken away. Its stakes will not be taken away forever, nor will any of its cords be broken.
Monhwɛ Sion, yɛn afahyɛ kuropɔn no; mo ani bɛhunu Yerusalem, asomdwoeɛ tenaberɛ, ntomadan a wɔnntutu; wɔrentutu ne mpɛɛwa da, na wɔrentete ne ntampehoma mu nso.
21 For only in that place has our Lord been magnified. It is a place of rivers, very broad and open. No ship with oars will cross through it, nor will the great Greek ship pass through it.
Ɛhɔ na Awurade bɛyɛ yɛn Otumfoɔ. Ɛbɛyɛ sɛ beaeɛ a nsuo akɛseɛ ne nsuwansuwa wɔ. Ahyɛmma a wɔhare remfa so; ahyɛn akɛseɛ rennante so.
22 For the Lord is our judge. The Lord is our lawgiver. The Lord is our king. He himself will save us.
Na Awurade ne yɛn ɔtemmufoɔ, Awurade ne yɛn mmarahyɛfoɔ, Awurade ne yɛn ɔhene; na ɔno na ɔbɛgye yɛn nkwa.
23 Your ropes have become loose, and they will not prevail. Your mast will be such that you will not be able to unfurl a flag. Then the spoils of much plunder will be divided. The lame will seize the spoils.
Wo ntampehoma mu ago enti ɛhyɛn dua no nnyina hɔ yie, na wɔntrɛɛ ɛhyɛn so ntoma no mu. Afei wɔbɛkyɛ asadeɛ bebree no mu na mpakye mpo bɛsoa afodeɛ akɔ.
24 He who is nearby will not say: “I am too weak.” The people who live in it will have their iniquity taken away from them.
Obiara nni Sion a ɔbɛka sɛ, “Meyare”; na wɔde wɔn a wɔte hɔ no bɔne bɛkyɛ wɔn.
