Judges 2
1 And the Messenger of YHWH goes up from Gilgal to Bochim,
Na Awurade ɔbɔfoɔ firi Gilgal kɔɔ Bokim de nkra kɔmaa Israelfoɔ sɛ, “Meyii mo firii Misraim, de mo baa asase a mekaa ho ntam sɛ mede bɛma mo agyanom no so. Mekaa sɛ, Meremmu mʼapam a me ne mo ayɛ no so.
2 and says, “I cause you to come up out of Egypt, and bring you into the land which I have sworn to your fathers, and say, I do not break My covenant with you for all time; and you make no covenant with the inhabitants of this land—you break down their altars; and you have not listened to My voice—what [is] this you have done?
Mo fam deɛ ne sɛ, mo ne nnipa a wɔte asase yi so no nnyɛ apam biara na mmom mobɛsɛe wɔn afɔrebukyia nyinaa. Na adɛn enti na moanni me mmaransɛm so?
3 And I have also said, I do not cast them out from your presence, and they have been for adversaries to you, and their gods are for a snare to you.”
Deɛ moayɛ yi enti, merempam nnipa a wɔtete mo asase so no. Wɔbɛyɛ mo nkyɛnmu nkasɛɛ na wɔn anyame nso ayɛ mfidie ama mo.”
4 And it comes to pass, when the Messenger of YHWH speaks these words to all the sons of Israel, that the people lift up their voice and weep,
Awurade ɔbɔfoɔ kasa wieeɛ no Israelfoɔ no suu denden.
5 and they call the name of that place Bochim, and sacrifice to YHWH there.
Enti wɔtoo beaeɛ hɔ edin “Agyaadwotwa”. Na wɔbɔɔ afɔdeɛ wɔ hɔ maa Awurade.
6 And Joshua sends the people away, and the sons of Israel go, each to his inheritance, to possess the land;
Yosua gyaa nkurɔfoɔ no kwan akyi no, mmusuakuo no mu biara kɔfaa nʼagyapadeɛ a wɔde maa no sɛ ne kyɛfa no.
7 and the people serve YHWH all [the] days of Joshua, and all [the] days of [the] elderly who prolonged days after Joshua, who saw all the great work of YHWH which He did to Israel.
Na Israelfoɔ no somm Awurade wɔ Yosua ne mpanimfoɔ a wɔanyini sene Yosua a wɔhunuu nneɛma akɛseɛ a Awurade yɛ maa Israel, Yosua nkwa nna nyinaa mu no.
8 And Joshua son of Nun, servant of YHWH, dies, a son of one hundred and ten years,
Afei, Nun babarima Yosua, Awurade ɔsomfoɔ wuiɛ a na wadi mfirinhyia ɔha ne edu.
9 and they bury him in the border of his inheritance, in Timnath-Heres, in the hill-country of Ephraim, on the north of Mount Gaash;
Wɔsiee no wɔ nʼawunya asase a na ɛwɔ Timnat-Heres, Efraim bepɔ asase no a ɛwɔ Gaas bepɔ no atifi fam no.
10 and all that generation have also been gathered to their fathers, and another generation rises after them who have not known YHWH, and even the work which He has done to Israel.
Saa awoɔ ntoatoasoɔ no akyi no, awoɔ ntoatoasoɔ foforɔ nyiniiɛ a na wɔnnim Awurade, na wɔnkae nneɛma akɛseɛ a wayɛ ama Israel.
11 And the sons of Israel do evil in the eyes of YHWH, and serve the Ba‘alim,
Na Israelfoɔ no yɛɛ deɛ ɛnyɛ wɔ Awurade ani so, na wɔsom Baalim ahoni.
12 and forsake YHWH, God of their fathers, who brings them out from the land of Egypt, and go after other gods (of the gods of the peoples who [are] around them), and bow themselves to them, and provoke YHWH,
Wɔgyaa Awurade, wɔn agyanom Onyankopɔn a ɔyii wɔn firii Misraim no. Wɔdii anyame foforɔ akyi, somm saa anyame no a ɛyɛ nnipa a wɔatwa wɔn ho ahyia no dea. Na wɔmaa Awurade bo fuiɛ.
13 indeed, they forsake YHWH, and do service to Ba‘al and to Ashtaroth.
Wɔgyaa Awurade akyi die, kɔsom Baalim ne Astoret ahoni.
14 And the anger of YHWH burns against Israel, and He gives them into the hand of spoilers, and they spoil them, and He sells them into the hand of their surrounding enemies, and they have not been able to stand before their enemies anymore;
Yei maa Awurade bo fuu Israel, enti ɔde wɔn hyɛɛ afomfafoɔ nsa, ma wɔwiaa wɔn ahodeɛ. Ɔtɔn wɔn maa wɔn atamfoɔ a wɔatwa wɔn ho ahyia, na wɔantumi annyina wɔn ano.
15 in every [place] where they have gone out, the hand of YHWH has been against them for calamity, as YHWH has spoken, and as YHWH has sworn to them, and they are greatly distressed.
Ɛberɛ biara a Israelfoɔ bɛkɔ ɔko no, Awurade ko tia wɔn ma wɔdi nkoguo, sɛdeɛ ɔhyɛɛ bɔ no. Enti, wɔn ho hiahiaa wɔn papaapa.
16 And YHWH raises up judges, and they save them from the hand of their spoilers;
Afei, Awurade pagyaa atemmufoɔ ma wɔbɛgyee Israelfoɔ firi wɔn atamfoɔ nsam.
17 and they have also not listened to their judges, but have gone whoring after other gods, and bow themselves to them; they have turned aside [with] haste out of the way [in] which their fathers walked to obey the commands of YHWH—they have not done so.
Nanso, Israelfoɔ no antie atemmufoɔ no. Wɔkɔɔ so de wɔn ho bɔɔ anyame foforɔ, kotoo wɔn. Wɔtwee wɔn ho ntɛm so firii wɔn agyanom a wɔyɛɛ ɔsetie maa Awurade mmaransɛm no kwan so.
18 And when YHWH raised up judges for them—then YHWH was with the judge, and saved them out of the hand of their enemies all [the] days of the judge; for YHWH sighs, because of their groaning from the presence of their oppressors, and of those thrusting them away.
Ɛberɛ biara a Awurade de ɔtemmufoɔ bi bɛdua Israel so no, na ɔka saa ɔtemmufoɔ no ho na ɔgye nnipa no firi wɔn atamfoɔ no nsam wɔ saa ɔtemmufoɔ no nkwa nna nyinaa mu. Ɛfiri sɛ, Awurade hunuu ne nkurɔfoɔ a wɔredi wɔn nya na wɔrehunu amane no mmɔbɔ.
19 And it has come to pass, when the judge dies—they turn back and have done corruptly above their fathers, to go after other gods, to serve them, and to bow themselves to them; they have not fallen from their doings, and from their stiff way.
Nanso, atemmufoɔ no wuo akyi no, nnipa no sane kɔɔ wɔn bra bɔne no mu a, afei na wɔasɛesɛe sene wɔn a wɔdii wɔn anim ɛkan no. Wɔdii anyame foforɔ akyi. Wɔkotoo wɔn, somm wɔn. Na wɔampɛ sɛ wɔgyae wɔn nnebɔnesɛm ne kɔnseneeɛsɛm no.
20 And the anger of YHWH burns against Israel, and He says, “Because that this nation has transgressed My covenant which I commanded their fathers, and have not listened to My voice—
Enti, Awurade bo fuu Israel. Ɔkaa sɛ, “Esiane sɛ saa nnipa yi abu apam a me ne wɔn agyanom yɛeɛ so, na wɔapo me mmaransɛm enti,
21 I also do not continue to dispossess any from before them of the nations which Joshua has left when he dies,
merempamo aman a Yosua anni wɔn so ansa na ɔrewuo no.
22 in order to try Israel by them, whether they are keeping the way of YHWH, to go in it, as their fathers kept [it], or not.”
Meyɛɛ yei de sɔɔ Israel hwɛeɛ sɛ wɔbɛtie Awurade sɛdeɛ wɔn agyanom yɛeɛ no.”
23 And YHWH leaves these nations, so as not to dispossess them quickly, and did not give them into the hand of Joshua.
Ɛno enti na amma Awurade ampam aman no ntɛm so na wamma Yosua ammɛdi wɔn nyinaa so no.
