Psalms 71
1 In you, O LORD, do I put my trust: let me never be put to confusion.
Ao Awurade, wo mu na me dwane hinta; mma mʼanim ngu ase da.
2 Deliver me in your righteousness, and cause me to escape: incline your ear unto me, and save me.
Wo tenenee no enti, yi me na gye me; tie me na gye me nkwa.
3 Be you my strong habitation, unto which I may continually resort: you have given commandment to save me; for you are my rock and my fortress.
Yɛ me nkwagyeɛ botan faako a mɛtumi akɔ daa; hyɛ ma wɔmmɛgye me nkwa, na wo ne me botan ne mʼaban.
4 Deliver me, O my God, out of the hand of the wicked, out of the hand of the unrighteous and cruel man.
Ao me Onyankopɔn, gye me firi amumuyɛfoɔ nsam, gye me firi nnebɔneyɛfoɔ ne atirimuɔdenfoɔ nsam.
5 For you are my hope, O Lord GOD: you are my trust from my youth.
Na woayɛ mʼanidasoɔ, Ao Asafo Awurade, mʼahotɔsoɔ firi mʼababunu berɛ mu.
6 By you have I been held up from the womb: you are he that took me out of my mother's bowels: my praise shall be continually of you.
Ɛfiri awoɔ mu, mede me ho ato wo so; wo na woyii me firii me maame yafunu mu. Mɛkamfo wo daa.
7 I am as a wonder unto many; but you are my strong refuge.
Mayɛ nhwɛsodeɛ ama bebree, nanso wo ne me dwanekɔbea denden.
8 Let my mouth be filled with your praise and with your honour all the day.
Wo nkamfo ahyɛ mʼanom ma, mekamfo wʼanimuonyam da mu nyinaa.
9 Cast me not off in the time of old age; forsake me not when my strength fails.
Nto me ntwene ɛberɛ a mabɔ akɔkoraa; mʼahoɔden sa me mu a, nnya me.
10 For mine enemies speak against me; and they that lay wait for my soul take counsel together,
Ɛfiri sɛ mʼatamfoɔ kasa tia me wɔn a wɔtwɛn sɛ wɔbɛkum me no bom pam me tiri so.
11 Saying, God has forsaken him: persecute and take him; for there is none to deliver him.
Wɔka sɛ, “Onyankopɔn agya no mu; momma yɛnti no na yɛnkyere no, na obiara nni hɔ a ɔbɛgye no.”
12 O God, be not far from me: O my God, make haste for my help.
Ao Onyankopɔn, mfiri me nkyɛn nkɔ akyiri; Ao me Onyankopɔn, yɛ ntɛm bɛboa me.
13 Let them be confounded and consumed that are adversaries to my soul; let them be covered with reproach and dishonour that seek my hurt.
Ma wɔn a wɔbɔ me soboɔ no nsɛe animguaseɛ mu; wɔn a wɔpɛ sɛ wɔpira me no ma ahohora ne animguaseɛ nkata wɔn so.
14 But I will hope continually, and will yet praise you more and more.
Nanso me deɛ, mɛnya anidasoɔ daa; mɛkɔ so makamfo wo.
15 My mouth shall show forth your righteousness and your salvation all the day; for I know not the numbers thereof.
Mɛka wo tenenee ho asɛm, ne wo nkwagyeɛ da mu nyinaa, nanso mennim ano.
16 I will go in the strength of the Lord GOD: I will make mention of your righteousness, even of your only.
Ao Otumfoɔ Awurade, mɛba abɛpae mu aka wo nnwuma akɛseɛ no; mɛpae mu aka wo nko ara tenenee akyerɛ.
17 O God, you have taught me from my youth: and until now have I declared your wondrous works.
Ao Onyankopɔn, ɛfiri mʼababunu berɛ na wokyerɛkyerɛɛ me, na ɛbɛsi ɛnnɛ yi, meka wʼanwanwadeɛ a woayɛ kyerɛ.
18 Now also when I am old and greyheaded, O God, forsake me not; until I have showed your strength unto this generation, and your power to every one that is to come.
Mpo sɛ mebɔ akɔkoraa na mefu dwono a, Ao Onyankopɔn, nnya me, kɔsi sɛ mɛka wo tumi ho asɛm akyerɛ nkyirimma, ne wo kɛseyɛ akyerɛ wɔn a wɔbɛba nyinaa.
19 Your righteousness also, O God, is very high, who have done great things: O God, who is like unto you!
Ao Onyankopɔn, wo tenenee duru sorosoro, wo a woayɛ nneɛma akɛseɛ. Ao Onyankopɔn, hwan na ɔte sɛ wo?
20 You, which have showed me great and sore troubles, shall restore life in me again, and shall bring me up again from the depths of the earth.
Mmom woama mahunu ɔhaw bebree a ɛyɛ yea; nanso wobɛma me nkwa bio; na wobɛyi me bio afiri asase ase.
21 You shall increase my greatness, and comfort me on every side.
Wobɛhyɛ me animuonyam bebree na woakyekye me werɛ bio.
22 I will also praise you with the psaltery, even your truth, O my God: unto you will I sing with the harp, O you Holy One of Israel.
Mede sankuo bɛkamfo wo Ao me Onyankopɔn, wo tenenee enti mɛto wʼayɛyi dwom wɔ sankuten so Ao Israel Kronkronni.
23 My lips shall greatly rejoice when I sing unto you; and my soul, which you have redeemed.
Mʼanofafa de anigyeɛ bɛteam ɛberɛ a meto dwom kamfo woɔ, me a woagye me no.
24 My tongue also shall talk of your righteousness all the day long: for they are confounded, for they are brought unto shame, that seek my hurt.
Me tɛkrɛma bɛka wo tenenee nnwuma da mu nyinaa, ɛfiri sɛ wɔn a wɔpɛ sɛ wɔha me no kɔ animguaseɛ ne basabasayɛ mu.
