< Zechariah 12 >

1 A prophecy: This message came from the Lord concerning Israel, a declaration of the Lord who spread out the heavens, who laid the foundations of the earth, and who placed the breath of life within human beings.
Nkɔmhyɛ: Eyi ne Awurade asɛm a ɛfa Israel ho. Awurade a ɔtrɛw ɔsoro mu, nea ɔto asase fapem, nea ɔyɛ honhom a ɔte onipa mu asɛm ni:
2 Look! I am going to make Jerusalem like a cup containing alcoholic drink that will make all the surrounding nations stagger like drunks when they come to attack Judah and Jerusalem.
“Merebɛyɛ Yerusalem kuruwa a ɛbɛma aman a atwa ne ho ahyia no atɔ ntintan. Wɔbɛtow ahyɛ Yuda ne Yerusalem so.
3 On that day I will make Jerusalem like a heavy rock to all peoples. Anyone who tries to lift the rock will injure themselves badly. All the nations will join together to attack Jerusalem.
Saa da no a wiase aman nyinaa aboa wɔn ho ano retia no no, mɛma Yerusalem ayɛ ɔbotantim ama aman no nyinaa. Wɔn a wɔbɛpɛ sɛ wopirew no no nyinaa bepirapira wɔn ho.
4 On that day I will make every horse panic-stricken and every rider go mad, declares the Lord, but I will watch over the people of Judah while I blind all the horses of their enemies.
Saa da no, mɛma ɔpɔnkɔ biara abɔ huboa, na mɛma ne sotefo nso abɔ dam,” sɛnea Awurade se ni. “Mebue mʼani ahwɛ Yudafi, na mefurafura aman ahorow no apɔnkɔ ani.
5 Then the families of Judah will say to themselves, the people of Jerusalem are strong in their God, the Lord Almighty.
Na Yuda mmusua bɛka wɔ wɔn koma mu se, ‘Yerusalemfo yɛ ahoɔdenfo, efisɛ Asafo Awurade yɛ wɔn Nyankopɔn.’
6 On that day I will make the families of Judah like burning coals in a wood, like a flaming torch in a field of straw. They will burn up to the right and to the left all the surrounding peoples, while the people of Jerusalem will live safely in their city.
“Saa da no, mɛyɛ Yuda mmusua sɛ ogya asanka a ɛhyɛ nnyina mu, te sɛ ogyatɛn a ɛredɛw wɔ nwura a wɔaboa ano mu. Wɔbɛhyew nnipa a wɔatwa wɔn ho ahyia nyinaa wɔ benkum ne nifa, nanso hwee renka Yerusalem wɔ faako a ɔwɔ.
7 The Lord will give the victory to the soldiers of Judah first so that the glory of the house of David and the glory of the inhabitants of Jerusalem shall not be greater than that of Judah.
“Awurade bɛbɔ Yuda atenae ho ban kan, sɛnea Dawidfi ne wɔn a wɔte Yerusalem anuonyam renkyɛn Yudafo anuonyam.
8 On that day the Lord will place a shield around the people of Jerusalem so that even the clumsiest of them will be as skilled a warrior as David, and the house of David will be like God, like the angel of the Lord who leads them.
Saa da no, Awurade bɛbɔ wɔn a wɔte Yerusalem ho ban, nea ɔyɛ mmerɛw koraa wɔ wɔn mu no bɛyɛ sɛ Dawid. Na Dawid asefo bɛyɛ sɛ Onyankopɔn, te sɛ Awurade Bɔfo a odi wɔn anim.
9 On that day I will start destroying all those nations that attack Jerusalem.
Saa da no, mefi ase asɛe aman a wɔko tia Yerusalem nyinaa.
10 I will pour out a spirit of grace and prayer on the house of David and the inhabitants of Jerusalem. They will look at me whom they pierced, and they will wail in grief over him, mourning as for an only child, weeping bitterly as for a firstborn.
“Mehwie adom ne nkotosrɛ honhom agu Dawidfi ne wɔn a wɔte Yerusalem so. Wɔbɛhwɛ me a wɔahwirew me, na wɔatwa adwo ama no te sɛ obi a ɔretwa adwo wɔ ɔba koro ho, na wɔasu yayaayaw te sɛ obi a ɔresu ne ba barima piesie.
11 On that day the mourning in Jerusalem will be as great as the mourning in Hadad-Rimmon in the valley of Megiddo.
Saa da no agyaadwotwa a ɛwɔ Yerusalem no ano bɛyɛ den te sɛ Hadad-Rimon agyaadwotwa wɔ Megido asasetam so.
12 The land will mourn, every family alone: the family house of David alone and their women by themselves, the families of Nathan,
Asase no sofo nyinaa bedi awerɛhow, abusua biara ne wɔn yerenom; Dawid abusua ne wɔn yerenom, Natan abusua ne wɔn yerenom,
13 Levi, and Shimei—
Lewi abusua ne wɔn yerenom, Simei abusua ne wɔn yerenom,
14 and all the surviving families and their women, each group mourning alone by themselves.
ne mmusua a aka no nyinaa ne wɔn yerenom.

< Zechariah 12 >