Deuteronomy 28

1 It shall happen, if you shall listen diligently to the voice of YHWH your God, to observe to do all his commandments which I command you this day, that YHWH your God will set you on high above all the nations of the earth:

Na sɛ motie Awurade, mo Onyankopɔn, na modi mmara a mede rema mo ɛnnɛ yi so a, Awurade, mo Onyankopɔn, bɛpagya mo asene aman a wɔwɔ ewiase nyinaa.

2 and all these blessings shall come on you, and overtake you, if you shall listen to the voice of YHWH your God.

Sɛ motie Awurade, mo Onyankopɔn a, mobɛnya saa nhyira yi nyinaa:

3 You shall be blessed in the city, and you shall be blessed in the field.

Wɔbɛhyira mo wɔ mo nkuro ne mo ɔman mu.

4 You shall be blessed in the fruit of your body, the fruit of your ground, the fruit of your animals, the increase of your livestock, and the young of your flock.

Wɔde mma bebree ne nsase bereɛ bɛhyira mo. Wɔde anantwie ne nnwan a wɔn ase dɔre bɛhyira mo.

5 Your basket and your kneading trough shall be blessed.

Wɔde nnuaba nkɛntɛn ma ma, ne mmɔre kodoɔ a burodo ahyɛ so ma bɛhyira mo.

6 You shall be blessed when you come in, and you shall be blessed when you go out.

Wɔbɛhyira mo wɔ baabiara a mobɛkɔ, mo fieba mu ne mo adifire mu.

7 YHWH will cause your enemies who rise up against you to be struck before you. They will come out against you one way, and will flee before you seven ways.

Sɛ atamfoɔ to hyɛ mo so a, Awurade bɛdi wɔn so. Wɔbɛfiri baabi ato ahyɛ mo so na wɔafa akwan nson so ahwete afiri mo anim.

8 YHWH will command the blessing on you in your storehouses, and in all that you put your hand to; and he will bless you in the land which YHWH your God gives you.

Biribiara a mobɛyɛ no, Awurade bɛhyira so na ɔde aburoo ahyɛ mo apata ma ma. Awurade, mo Onyankopɔn, bɛhyira mo wɔ asase a ɔde rema mo no so.

9 YHWH will establish you for a holy people to himself, as he has sworn to you; if you shall keep the commandments of YHWH your God, and walk in his ways.

Sɛ modi Awurade, mo Onyankopɔn, mmara no so na monante nʼakwan so a, Awurade bɛgyina mo sɛ ne nnipa kronkron sɛdeɛ ɔhyɛɛ mo bɔ sɛ ɔbɛyɛ no.

10 All the peoples of the earth shall see that you are called by the name of YHWH; and they shall be afraid of you.

Afei, ewiase aman nyinaa bɛhunu sɛ, moyɛ nnipa a Awurade afa mo, na wɔbɛsuro mo.

11 YHWH will make you plenteous for good, in the fruit of your body, and in the fruit of your livestock, and in the fruit of your ground, in the land which YHWH swore to your fathers to give you.

Awurade bɛma mo nneɛma pa ma aboro so ma—nyɛmmoa ne afudeɛ pii wɔ asase a ɔhyɛɛ mo agyanom bɔ sɛ ɔde bɛma wɔn no so.

12 YHWH will open to you his good treasure in the sky, to give the rain of your land in its season, and to bless all the work of your hand: and you shall lend to many nations, and you shall not borrow.

Awurade firi nʼahonya dodoɔ a ɛwɔ soro no mu bɛma osuo atotɔ wɔ ne berɛ mu, nam so ahyira mo nnwuma a moyɛ so. Mobɛfɛm aman pii nanso, mo deɛ, moremfɛm hwee mfiri wɔn nkyɛn.

13 YHWH will make you the head, and not the tail; and you shall be above only, and you shall not be beneath; if you shall listen to the commandments of YHWH your God, which I command you this day, to observe and to do,

Sɛ motie saa Awurade, mo Onyankopɔn, mmara yi na modi so a, Awurade bɛyɛ mo ti na ɛnyɛ nan, na moakorɔn.

14 and shall not turn aside from any of the words which I command you this day, to the right hand, or to the left, to go after other gods to serve them.

Ɛnsɛ sɛ motwe mo ho firi mmara a mede rema mo ɛnnɛ yi biara ho sɛ morekɔdi anyame foforɔ akyi asom wɔn.

15 But it shall come to pass, if you will not listen to the voice of YHWH your God, to observe to do all his commandments and his statutes which I command you this day, that all these curses shall come on you, and overtake you.

Na sɛ moantie Awurade, mo Onyankopɔn, anni ne mmara nyinaa a mede rema mo ɛnnɛ no so a, saa nnome yi nyinaa bɛba abɛbunkam afa mo so.

16 You shall be cursed in the city, and you shall be cursed in the field.

Nnome bɛka mo wɔ mo nkuro ne mo ɔman mu.

17 Your basket and your kneading trough shall be cursed.

Wɔde nkɛntɛn a aduaba biara nni mu ne mmɔre kodoɔ a burodo nni mu bɛdome mo.

18 The fruit of your body, the fruit of your ground, the increase of your livestock, and the young of your flock shall be cursed.

Wɔde mma kakra bi ne nsase bonini bɛdome mo. Wɔde anantwie ne nnwan abonini bɛdome mo.

19 You shall be cursed when you come in, and you shall be cursed when you go out.

Baabiara a mobɛkorɔ, mo fieba ne mo adifire mu, wɔbɛdome mo.

20 YHWH will send on you cursing, confusion, and rebuke, in all that you put your hand to do, until you are destroyed, and until you perish quickly; because of the evil of your doings, by which you have forsaken me.

Awurade bɛma nnome, basabasayɛ ne hwammɔdie aba adeɛ biara a moyɛ mu, kɔsi sɛ awieeɛ no wɔbɛsɛe mo koraa sɛ moayɛ bɔne na moagya me enti.

21 YHWH will make the pestilence cling to you, until he has consumed you from off the land, where you go in to possess it.

Awurade de nyarewa bɛba mo so akɔsi sɛ ɔbɛsɛe mo nyinaa wɔ asase a morebɛkɔ akɔfa no so.

22 YHWH will strike you with consumption, and with fever, and with inflammation, and with fiery heat, and with the sword, and with blight, and with mildew; and they shall pursue you until you perish.

Awurade de yadeɛ a ɛbɛma mo afonfɔn bɛka mo. Ɔbɛma huraeɛ ne ahonhono abɔ mo na wama ɔhyeɛ a ano yɛ den, mfudeɛ nyarewa ne kakawirewire aba mo so na aha mo ara kɔsi sɛ mo ase bɛhye.

23 Your sky that is over your head shall be bronze, and the earth that is under you shall be iron.

Ɔsoro a ɛkata mo tiri so no bɛdane sumpii na ɛfam adane dadeɛ.

24 YHWH will make the rain of your land powder and dust: from the sky shall it come down on you, until you are destroyed.

Awurade bɛdane osutɔ a ɛwɔ mo ɔman mu no mfuturo; ɛbɛpore afiri soro agu mo so kɔsi sɛ mobɛsɛe.

25 YHWH will cause you to be struck before your enemies; you shall go out one way against them, and shall flee seven ways before them: and you shall be tossed back and forth among all the kingdoms of the earth.

Awurade bɛma mo atamfoɔ adi mo so nkonim. Mobɛfa baabi akɔto ahyɛ mo atamfoɔ so, nanso, mobɛfa akwan nson so adwane afiri wɔn anim. Mobɛyɛ ahodwiredeɛ wɔ ahennie a ɛwɔ asase yi so nyinaa ani so.

26 Your dead body shall be food to all birds of the sky, and to the animals of the earth; and there shall be none to frighten them away.

Mo afunu bɛyɛ nnomaa ne wiram mmoa aduane, na obiara nso nni hɔ saa ɛberɛ no a ɔbɛpam wɔn.

27 YHWH will strike you with the boil of Egypt, and with the tumors, and with the scurvy, and with the itch, of which you can not be healed.

Awurade bɛma mpɔmpɔ a ɛsisii mo wɔ Misraim no bi asisi mo. Na ɔde nsisiiwa, ntutuiɛ ne ntwom a wɔrentumi nsa bɛbobɔ mo.

28 YHWH will strike you with madness, and with blindness, and with astonishment of heart;

Awurade de adammɔ, anifiraeɛ ne ayamhyehyeɛ bɛto mo so.

29 and you shall grope at noonday, as the blind gropes in darkness, and you shall not prosper in your ways: and you shall be only oppressed and robbed always, and there shall be none to save you.

Mode mo nsa bɛhwehwɛ ɛkwan awia ketee te sɛ deɛ onifirani de ne nsa keka anadwo. Biribiara a moyɛ no, morenni mu nkonim. Wɔbɛhyɛ mo so, abɔ mo korɔno daa na obiara mmɛgye mo.

30 You shall betroth a wife, and another man shall lie with her: you shall build a house, and you shall not dwell in it: you shall plant a vineyard, and shall not use its fruit.

Mobɛgye ɔbaa aware nso obi ne no bɛda. Mobɛsi dan nso obi hunu na ɔbɛtena mu. Mobɛdɔ bobefuo nanso monnni mu aba.

31 Your ox shall be slain before your eyes, and you shall not eat of it: your donkey shall be violently taken away from before your face, and shall not be restored to you: your sheep shall be given to your enemies, and you shall have none to save you.

Wɔbɛkum mo nantwie wɔ mo anim nanso morennya ne nam bi nwe. Wɔbɛgye mo afunumu afiri mo nsam a, ɔrensane mma bio. Wɔde mo dwan bɛma mo atamfoɔ na morennya ɔboafoɔ a ɔbɛgye no ama mo.

32 Your sons and your daughters shall be given to another people; and your eyes shall look, and fail with longing for them all the day: and there shall be nothing in the power of your hand.

Wɔde mo mmammarima ne mo mmammaa bɛma ɔman foforɔ na daa mobɛhwɛ wɔn ara ama mo ani atɔre sia, nanso morentumi nyɛ ho hwee.

33 The fruit of your ground, and all your labors, shall a nation which you do not know eat up; and you shall be only oppressed and crushed always;

Nnipa a monnim wɔn na wɔbɛfo mo mfuo mu nnɔbaeɛ adi, na daa wɔasane ahyɛ mo so.

34 so that you shall be mad for the sight of your eyes which you shall see.

Na mo ani so adeɛ a mobɛhunu no bɛbɔ mo dam.

35 YHWH will strike you in the knees, and in the legs, with a sore boil, of which you can not be healed, from the sole of your foot to the crown of your head.

Awurade bɛma mpɔmpɔ a ɛyɛ ya a wɔko a ɛnko abobɔ mo kotodwe ne mo nan ho na atrɛ afiri mo nan aseɛ akɔsi mo tiri so.

36 YHWH will bring you, and your king whom you shall set over you, to a nation that you have not known, you nor your fathers; and there you shall serve other gods, wood and stone.

Awurade bɛpamo mo ne mo ɔhene a ɔdi mo so no akɔ ɔman bi a mo ne mo agyanom nnim so so. Ɛhɔ na mobɛsom anyame foforɔ, anyame a wɔde nnua ne aboɔ ayɛ.

37 You shall become an astonishment, a proverb, and a byword, among all the peoples where YHWH shall lead you away.

Aman a Awurade de mobɛkɔ so no nyinaa so, mobɛyɛ akyiwadeɛ ne aseredeɛ ama wɔn.

38 You shall carry much seed out into the field, and shall gather little in; for the locust shall consume it.

Mobɛdua bebree nanso mobɛtwa kakraa bi, ɛfiri sɛ, ntutummɛ bɛwe mo mfudeɛ.

39 You shall plant vineyards and dress them, but you shall neither drink of the wine, nor harvest; for the worm shall eat them.

Mobɛyɛ bobe nturo ahwɛ so yie nanso monnnom anaa monnni so aba, ɛfiri sɛ, asonson bɛsɛe bobe no.

40 You shall have olive trees throughout all your borders, but you shall not anoint yourself with the oil; for your olives shall drop off.

Mobɛdua ngo nnua afa mo nsase so nyinaa nanso monnnya mu ngo biara, ɛfiri sɛ, aba no bɛte agu fam ɛberɛ a ɛmmereɛ.

41 You shall father sons and daughters, but they shall not be yours; for they shall go into captivity.

Mobɛwo mmammarima ne mmammaa nanso ɛnyɛ mo na mobɛtete wɔn, ɛfiri sɛ, wɔbɛkyere wɔn de wɔn akɔ nkoasom mu.

42 All your trees and the fruit of your ground shall the locust possess.

Mo mfuo nyinaa, mmoawa bɛsɛe no.

43 The foreigner who is in the midst of you shall mount up above you higher and higher; and you shall come down lower and lower.

Ahɔhoɔ a wɔte mo mu no bɛnya ahoɔden anya no mmorosoɔ, na mo deɛ, mobɛyɛ mmerɛ ayɛ mmerɛ mmorosoɔ.

44 He shall lend to you, and you shall not lend to him: he shall be the head, and you shall be the tail.

Wɔbɛbɔ mo bosea a moremmɔ wɔn bi. Wɔbɛyɛ tiri na moayɛ nan.

45 All these curses shall come on you, and shall pursue you, and overtake you, until you are destroyed; because you did not listen to the voice of YHWH your God, to keep his commandments and his statutes which he commanded you:

Sɛ moanyɛ ɔsetie amma Awurade, mo Onyankopɔn, anni mmara a ɔde ama mo no so a, saa nnome yi nyinaa bɛdi mo akyi na abunkam afa mo so kɔsi sɛ wɔbɛsɛe mo.

46 and they shall be on you for a sign and for a wonder, and on your descendants forever.

Saa nsɛm a ɛyɛ hu yi bɛba sɛ nsɛnkyerɛnneɛ ne kɔkɔbɔ ama mo ne mo asefoɔ daa nyinaa.

47 Because you did not serve YHWH your God with joyfulness, and with gladness of heart, by reason of the abundance of all things;

Esiane sɛ moamfa anigyeɛ ne ahosɛpɛ ansom Awurade mo Onyankopɔn wɔ mfasoɔ dodoɔ a moanya no ho enti,

48 therefore you shall serve your enemies whom YHWH shall send against you, in hunger, and in thirst, and in nakedness, and in want of all things: and he shall put a yoke of iron on your neck, until he has destroyed you.

mobɛsom mo atamfoɔ a Awurade, mo Onyankopɔn, bɛsoma wɔn abɛtia mo no. Ɛkɔm bɛde mo; sukɔm bɛde mo; mobɛda adagya na biribiara ho ahia mo. Wɔbɛhyɛ mo kɔnnua kɔsi sɛ wɔbɛsɛe mo.

49 YHWH will bring a nation against you from far away, from a distant land, as the eagle flies; a nation whose language you shall not understand;

Awurade de ɔman bi a ɛwɔ akyirikyiri baabi wɔ asase ano bɛba abɛtia mo na wɔato ahyɛ mo so te sɛ ɔkɔdeɛ. Ɛyɛ ɔman a monte wɔn kasa;

50 a nation of fierce facial expressions, that shall not respect the person of the old, nor show favor to the young,

ɔman a wɔn ho yɛ hu na wɔn akoma apirim na wɔmmu ɔpanin, nni ahummɔborɔ ma abɔfra.

51 and shall eat the fruit of your livestock, and the fruit of your ground, until you are destroyed; that also shall not leave you grain, new wine, or oil, the increase of your livestock, or the young of your flock, until they have caused you to perish.

Nʼasraadɔm bɛto ahyɛ mo nyɛmmoa ne mo nnɔbaeɛ so na ɛkɔm ade mo yie ama moawuwu. Wɔrennya aburoo, nsã, ngo, nantwie mma anaa nnwan mma mma mo, na ɛnam so ama mo asɛe.

52 They shall besiege you in all your gates, until your high and fortified walls come down, in which you trusted, throughout all your land; and they shall besiege you in all your gates throughout all your land, which YHWH your God has given you.

Wɔbɛtua mo nkuropɔn nyinaa. Afasuo denden a mode mo ho too so sɛ ɛbɛbɔ mo ho ban wɔ mo asase no so no nyinaa, wɔbɛka agu fam. Wɔbɛto ahyɛ nkuro a ɛwɔ asase a Awurade mo Onyankopɔn de ama mo no so.

53 You shall eat the fruit of your own body, the flesh of your sons and of your daughters, whom YHWH your God has given you, in the siege and in the distress with which your enemies shall distress you.

Esiane ɔhaw ne abɛbrɛsɛ a ɔtamfoɔ de bɛba mo so wɔ otua no mu no enti, mobɛwe mo mmammarima ne mmammaa a Awurade de ama mo no ɛnam mono.

54 The man who is tender among you, and very delicate, his eye shall be evil toward his brother, and toward the wife of his bosom, and toward the remnant of his children whom he has remaining;

Mpo, mo mu ɔhobrɛaseni ne mmɔborɔni a ɔwɔ mo mu no renhunu ɔno ara ne nuabarima anaa ne yere a ɔdɔ no no ne ne mma a wɔte ase no so mmɔbɔ,

55 so that he will not give to any of them of the flesh of his children whom he shall eat, because he has nothing left him, in the siege and in the distress with which your enemy shall distress you in all your gates.

na ɔremma wɔn mu biara ɛnam no bi nwe. Esiane sɛ, ɔnni biribi a aka a ɔbɛwe wɔ otua no a mo atamfoɔ no bɛtua mo nkuropɔn no nyinaa enti.

56 The tender and delicate woman among you, who would not adventure to set the sole of her foot on the ground for delicateness and tenderness, her eye shall be evil toward the husband of her bosom, and toward her son, and toward her daughter,

Mo mu ɔbaa a ɔbrɛ ne ho ase na ɔwɔ nkatedeɛ wɔ ne mu, a mpo ɔmpɛ sɛ ɔde ne nan bɛsi fam no, ɔbɛnya ne kunu a ɔdɔ no ne ɔno ara ne mmammarima anaa ne mmammaa ho menasepɔ.

57 and toward her young one who comes out from between her feet, and toward her children whom she shall bear; for she shall eat them for want of all things secretly, in the siege and in the distress with which your enemy shall distress you in your gates.

Ɔbaa no de awodeɛ ne abɔfra a wawo no foforɔ no bɛsie wɔn sɛdeɛ ɔbɛtumi awe ne nyinaa kɔkoam. Esiane ɔhaw ne abɛbrɛsɛ a mo atamfoɔ de bɛba mo nkuro nyinaa so no enti, biribiara renka a wɔbɛwe wɔ otua no mu.

58 If you will not observe to do all the words of this law that are written in this book, that you may fear this glorious and fearful name, YHWH your God;

Sɛ moanni mmara no nyinaa a wɔatwerɛ wɔ saa nwoma yi mu no so na moansuro onimuonyamfoɔ ne ɔnwanwani Awurade mo Onyankopɔn no din a,

59 then YHWH will make your plagues extraordinary, and the plagues of your descendants, even great plagues, and of long continuance, and severe sicknesses, and of long continuance.

Awurade de ɔyaredɔm a ɛyɛ hu bɛbrɛ mo ne mo asefoɔ. Saa yaredɔm yi ano bɛyɛ den na ɛrennyae. Mobɛka nnompe na moayɛ mmɔbɔ.

60 He will bring on you again all the diseases of Egypt, which you were afraid of; and they shall cling to you.

Ɔde yadeɛ a ɛbaa mo so wɔ Misraim a ɛbɔɔ mo hu no bɛbrɛ mo a ɛremfiri mo so da.

61 Also every sickness, and every plague, which is not written in the book of this law, YHWH will bring them on you, until you are destroyed.

Awurade bɛsane de nyarewa ahodoɔ bebree ne amanehunu a wɔntwerɛɛ no mmara nwoma no mu bɛbrɛ mo kɔsi sɛ mobɛsɛe.

62 You shall be left few in number, whereas you were as the stars of the sky for multitude; because you did not listen to the voice of YHWH your God.

Mo a na modɔɔso te sɛ ɔsoro nsoromma no, mo so bɛte koraa, ɛfiri sɛ, moantie Awurade, mo Onyankopɔn.

63 It shall happen that as YHWH rejoiced over you to do you good, and to multiply you, so YHWH will rejoice over you to cause you to perish, and to destroy you; and you shall be plucked from off the land where you go in to possess it.

Sɛdeɛ na ɛyɛ Awurade anisɔ sɛ ɔbɛma mo akɔ so no, saa ara nso na ɛbɛyɛ no anisɔ sɛ ɔbɛdwerɛ mo na wasɛe mo. Ɔbɛtutu mo ase afiri asase a morekɔ so akɔfa no so.

64 YHWH will scatter you among all peoples, from the one end of the earth even to the other end of the earth; and there you shall serve other gods, which you have not known, you nor your fathers, even wood and stone.

Na Awurade bɛbɔ mo apansam afra aman nyinaa firi asase ano kɔsi asase ano. Ɛhɔ na mobɛsom ahɔhoɔ anyame a mo anaa mo agyanom nhunuu bi da; anyame a wɔde nnua ne aboɔ ayɛ!

65 Among these nations you shall find no ease, and there shall be no rest for the sole of your foot: but YHWH will give you there a trembling heart, and failing of eyes, and pining of soul;

Saa aman no so morennya dwanekɔbea anaa ahomegyeɛ. Na Awurade bɛma mo akoma atutu na mo ani ayɛ siamoo na mo kra akusa.

66 and your life shall hang in doubt before you; and you shall fear night and day, and shall have no assurance of your life.

Mo asetena bɛdi nsensɛnmu. Anadwo ne awia nyinaa mobɛbɔ ehu a morennya gyidie biara sɛ mobɛhunu anɔpa hann.

67 In the morning you shall say, "I wish it were evening." and at evening you shall say, "I wish it were morning." for the fear of your heart which you shall fear, and for the sight of your eyes which you shall see.

Anɔpa mobɛka sɛ, “Sɛ ɛyɛɛ anadwo a!” Na anwummerɛ nso mobɛka sɛ, “Sɛ ɛyɛɛ anɔpa a!” Mobɛka saa, ɛfiri sɛ, mohunu sɛ ehu atwa mo ho ahyia.

68 YHWH will bring you into Egypt again with ships, by the way of which I said to you, You shall see it no more again: and there you shall sell yourselves to your enemies for bondservants and for bondmaids, and no man shall buy you.

Na Awurade bɛma mo asane akɔ Misraim wɔ ahyɛn mu, akwantuo a mehyɛɛ mo bɔ sɛ morentu bio no. Ɛhɔ na mode mo ho bɛma mo atamfoɔ sɛ wɔntɔ mo sɛ nkoa, nanso obiara rempɛ sɛ ɔbɛtɔ mo.