Psalms 44
1 Unto the end. To the sons of Korah, toward understanding. We have heard, O God, with our own ears. Our fathers have announced to us the work that you wrought in their days and in the days of antiquity.
Dwom a wɔde ma dwonkyerɛfo. Koramma “maskil” dwom. Ao, Onyankopɔn, yɛde yɛn aso ate; yɛn agyanom aka akyerɛ yɛn; nea woyɛɛ wɔ wɔn bere so, wɔ tete mmere no mu.
2 Your hand dispersed the Gentiles, and you transplanted them. You afflicted a people, and you expelled them.
Wode wo nsa pam amanaman no na wobɔɔ yɛn agyanom atenase; wodwerɛw nnipa no na womaa yɛn agyanom dii yiye.
3 For they did not take possession of the land by their sword, and their own arm did not save them. But your right hand and your arm, and the light of your countenance did so, because you were pleased with them.
Ɛnyɛ wɔn afoa na wɔde nyaa asase no, na ɛnyɛ wɔn nsa na ɛmaa wɔn nkonimdi; ɛyɛ wo nsa nifa, wo basa, ne wʼanim hann, efisɛ na wodɔ wɔn.
4 You yourself are my king and my God, who commands the salvation of Jacob.
Woyɛ me Hene ne me Nyankopɔn, nea ɔhyɛ nkonimdi ma Yakob.
5 With you, we will brandish a horn before our enemies; and in your name, we will spurn those rising up against us.
Ɛnam wo so na yɛpam yɛn Atamfo; wo din mu na yetiatia wɔn a wokyi yɛn no so.
6 For I will not hope in my bow, and my sword will not save me.
Memmfa me ho nto mʼagyan so, mʼafoa remfa nkonimdi mmrɛ me;
7 For you have saved us from those who afflict us, and you have bewildered those who hate us.
na wo na woma yedi yɛn atamfo so wugu wɔn a wɔtan yɛn no anim ase.
8 In God, we will give praise all day long; and in your name, we will confess forever.
Onyankopɔn mu na yɛhoahoa yɛn ho da mu nyinaa, na yɛbɛkamfo wo din no daa daa.
9 But now, you have rejected and bewildered us, and you will not go forth with our armies, O God.
Nanso mprempren woapo yɛn abrɛ yɛn ase; wone yɛn asraafo nkɔ ɔsa bio.
10 You have turned our back to our enemies, and those who hated us have plundered for themselves.
Woma yeguan fii dɔm anim, ma yɛn atamfo fom yɛn agyapade.
11 You have given us over like sheep for food. You have scattered us among the Gentiles.
Wuyii yɛn maa sɛ wonkum yɛn sɛ nguan na woahwete yɛn wɔ amanaman no mu.
12 You have sold your people without a price, and no great number was exchanged for them.
Wotɔn wo nkurɔfo fofoofow, na woannya mfaso biara amfi mu.
13 You have set us as a disgrace to our neighbors, a scoff and a derision to those who are around us.
Woayɛ yɛn ahohorade ama yɛn afipamfo, animtiaabude ne aserewde ama wɔn a wɔatwa yɛn ho ahyia.
14 You have set us as a parable among the Gentiles, a shaking of the head among the peoples.
Woayɛ yɛn kasabebui wɔ aman no mu na nnipa no wosow wɔn ti de gu yɛn so.
15 All day long my shame is before me, and the confusion of my face has covered me,
Mʼanimguase di mʼanim daa, na aniwu akata mʼanim,
16 before the voice of the reproacher and the commentator, before the face of the adversary and the pursuer.
esiane wɔn a wɔbɔ me ahohora na wɔkasa tia me de yi me ahi, esiane ɔtamfo a nʼani abere sɛ ɔbɛtɔ were no nti.
17 All these things have come upon us, yet we have not forgotten you, and we have not acted unjustly in your covenant.
Eyinom nyinaa too yɛn de, nanso yɛn werɛ mfii wo, na yemmuu wʼapam no nso so ɛ.
18 And our heart has not turned back. And you have not diverted our steps from your way.
Yɛn koma ntwe mfii wo ho; na yɛn anan nso mman mfii wo kwan so ɛ.
19 For you humbled us in a place of affliction, and the shadow of death has covered us.
Nanso wodwerɛw yɛn yɛɛ yɛn sakraman tu na wode sum kabii kataa yɛn so.
20 If we have forgotten the name of our God, and if we have extended our hands to a foreign god,
Sɛ na yɛn werɛ afi yɛn Nyankopɔn din anaa sɛ yɛatrɛw yɛn nsam akyerɛ ananafo nyame a,
21 will not God find this out? For he knows the secrets of the heart.
anka Onyankopɔn behu, efisɛ onim koma mu ahintasɛm.
22 For, because of you, we are being killed all day long. We are considered as sheep for the slaughter.
Nanso wo nti wokum yɛn daa nyinaa; wobu yɛn sɛ nguan a wɔrekokum wɔn.
23 Rise up. Why do you fall asleep, O Lord? Rise up, and do not reject us in the end.
Nyan, Awurade! Adɛn nti na woada? Keka wo ho! Nnyaw yɛn hɔ afebɔɔ.
24 Why do you turn your face away, and why do you forget our needfulness and our tribulation?
Adɛn nti na wode wʼanim ahintaw na wo werɛ fi yɛn ahohia ne nhyɛso?
25 For our soul has been humbled into the dust. Our belly has been bound to the earth.
Wɔabrɛ yɛn ase kɔ dɔte mu na yɛn nipadua aka afam dɔte.
26 Rise up, O Lord. Help us and redeem us, because of your name.
Sɔre bɛboa yɛn; wʼadɔe a ɛnsa da no nti, gye yɛn.
