Jeremiah 12
1 You are righteous, YHWH, when I contend with you; yet I would reason the cause with you: why does the way of the wicked prosper? Why are they all at ease who deal very treacherously?
Ao Awurade, sɛ mede asɛm to wʼanim ɛberɛ biara a mehunu sɛ wobu atɛntenenee. Ɛno enti, mepɛ sɛ mene wo bɛkasa afa wʼatɛntenenee ho: Adɛn enti na amumuyɛfoɔ ɛkwan si wɔn yie? Adɛn enti na wɔn a wɔnni gyidie ho dwo wɔn?
2 You have planted them, yes, they have taken root; they grow, yes, they bring forth fruit: you are near in their mouth, and far from their heart.
Woadua wɔn, na wɔagye nhini; wɔnyinyini na wɔso aba. Wɔbɔ wo din ɛberɛ biara nanso wɔn akoma mmɛn wo.
3 But you, YHWH, know me; you see me, and try my heart toward you: pull them out like sheep for the slaughter, and prepare them for the day of slaughter.
Nanso, wonim me, Ao Awurade; wohunu me, na wosɔ mʼadwene a mewɔ wɔ wo ho hwɛ. Twe wɔn kɔ sɛ nnwan a wɔrekɔkum wɔn! Yi wɔn si nkyɛn ma okum da!
4 How long shall the land be parched, and the grass of every field wither? For the wickedness of those who dwell in it, the animals are consumed, and the birds; because they said, "He shall not see our latter end."
Asase no ntwɛn nkɔsi da bɛn? Prama so ɛserɛ no mpo adwan. Esiane sɛ wɔn a wɔte so no yɛ amumuyɛfoɔ enti mmoa ne nnomaa a wɔwɔ so awuwu. Na nnipa no da so ka sɛ, “Ɔrenhunu deɛ ɛba yɛn so.”
5 "If you have run with the footmen, and they have wearied you, then how can you contend with horses? And though in a land of peace you are secure, yet how will you do in the pride of the Jordan?
“Sɛ wo ne mmarima tu mmirika na sɛ wɔma wo abrɛ a, ɛbɛyɛ dɛn na wo ne apɔnkɔ asi mmirikakan? Sɛ wosunti wɔ asase petee so a, ɛnneɛ wobɛyɛ dɛn wɔ Yordan ho nkyɛkyerɛ mu?
6 For even your brothers, and the house of your father, even they have dealt treacherously with you; even they have cried aloud after you: do not believe them, though they speak beautiful words to you.
Wo nuammarima, wʼankasa abusuafoɔ, wɔn mpo ayi wo ama; wɔteam denden tia wo. Sɛ mpo wɔka wo ho asɛm pa a, mfa wo ho nto wɔn so.
7 I have forsaken my house, I have cast off my heritage; I have given the dearly beloved of my soul into the hand of her enemies.
“Magya me nkurɔfoɔ, mato mʼagyapadeɛ agu; mede deɛ medɔ noɔ no bɛhyɛ nʼatamfoɔ nsa.
8 My heritage has become to me as a lion in the forest: she has uttered her voice against me; therefore I have hated her.
Mʼagyapadeɛ ayɛ me sɛ gyata a ɔwɔ kwaeɛm. Ɔbobɔ mu gu me so; ɛno enti metane no.
9 Is my heritage to me as a speckled bird of prey? Are the birds of prey against her all around? Go, assemble all the animals of the field, bring them to devour.
Mʼagyapadeɛ ayɛ sɛ anomaa a nkekaeɛ sisi ne ho a ɔkyere mmoa, nanso, nnomaa a wɔkyere mmoa atwa ne ho ahyia resosɔ no. Monkɔboaboa nkekaboa nyinaa ano. Momfa wɔn mmra na wɔnkum wɔn.
10 Many shepherds have destroyed my vineyard, they have trodden my portion under foot, they have made my pleasant portion a desolate wilderness.
Nnwanhwɛfoɔ bebree bɛsɛe me bobeturo, na wɔatiatia me mfuo so; wɔbɛdane me mfuo fɛfɛ no ayɛ no asase wesee a ada mpan.
11 They have made it a desolation; it mourns to me, being desolate; the whole land is made desolate, because no man lays it to heart.
Ɛbɛyɛ asase a ada mpan a awo wesee na ɛda hɔ kwa wɔ mʼanim; asase no nyinaa bɛda mpan ɛfiri sɛ obiara nni hɔ a ɔhwɛ soɔ.
12 Destroyers have come on all the bare heights in the wilderness; for the sword of YHWH devours from the one end of the land even to the other end of the land: no flesh has peace.
Wɔ nkokoɔ wesee a ɛwɔ anweatam no nyinaa so no, asɛefoɔ bɛba abɛgu so bebree, Awurade akofena bɛkunkum wɔn afiri asase ano de akɔsi ano nohoa; obiara remfa ne ho nni.
13 They have sown wheat, and have reaped thorns; they have put themselves to pain, and profit nothing: and you shall be ashamed of your fruits, because of the fierce anger of YHWH.
Wɔbɛdua atokoɔ, nso wɔbɛtwa nkasɛɛ; wɔbɛbrɛ wɔn ho, nanso wɔrennya hwee. Enti ma wʼani nwu wɔ wo otwa berɛ ho. Awurade abufuhyeɛ nti.”
14 Thus says YHWH against all my evil neighbors, who touch the inheritance which I have caused my people Israel to inherit: 'look, I will pluck them up from off their land, and will pluck up the house of Judah from among them.
Deɛ Awurade seɛ nie: “Na amumuyɛfoɔ a wɔfa agyapadeɛ a mede maa me nkurɔfoɔ Israelfoɔ no deɛ, mɛtu wɔn afiri wɔn nsase so na mɛtu Yudafie afiri wɔn mu.
15 It shall happen, after that I have plucked them up, I will return and have compassion on them; and I will bring them again, every man to his heritage, and every man to his land.
Na sɛ metu wɔn wie a, mɛhunu wɔn mmɔbɔ bio, na mede wɔn mu biara bɛba nʼagyapadeɛ ne nʼasase so.
16 It shall happen, if they will diligently learn the ways of my people, to swear by my name, "As YHWH lives;" even as they taught my people to swear by Baal; then shall they be built up in the midst of my people.
Na sɛ wɔsua me nkurɔfoɔ akwan yie na wɔbɔ me din ka ntam sɛ, ‘Nokorɛm sɛ Awurade te ase yi’ a, ɛwom sɛ mmerɛ bi wɔkyerɛɛ me nkurɔfoɔ sɛdeɛ wɔde Baal kaa ntam deɛ, nanso wɔn ase bɛtim wɔ me nkurɔfoɔ mu.
17 But if they will not hear, then will I pluck up that nation, plucking up and destroying it,'" says YHWH.
Nanso, sɛ ɔman bi antie a, mɛtu nʼase, na masɛe no korakora,” Awurade na ɔseɛ.
