Jeremiah 24
1 Yahweh shewed me, and lo! two baskets of figs, which had been set before the temple of Yahweh, —after that Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon had carried away captive, Jeconiah son of Jehoiakim king of Judah and the princes of Judah and the carpenters and the smiths out of Jerusalem, and had brought them into Babylon: —
Babiloniahene Nebukadnessar faa Yudahene Yehoiakin a ɔyɛ Yehoiakim babarima, nʼadwumayɛfoɔ, nʼadwumfoɔ ne nʼatomfoɔ a wɔwɔ Yuda firii Yerusalem kɔɔ nnommumfa mu wɔ Babilonia no akyi no, Awurade kyerɛɛ me borɔdɔma nkɛntɛn mmienu a wɔde asisi Awurade asɔredan no anim.
2 the one basket, was of very good figs, like the first-ripe figs; and, the other basket, was of very bad figs, which could not be eaten for badness.
Kɛntɛn baako mu borɔdɔma no yɛ papa te sɛ deɛ ɛbere ntɛm; borɔdɔma a ɛwɔ kɛntɛn a ɛka ho no mu no nyɛ mma sɛdeɛ wɔdie mpo.
3 Then said Yahweh unto me, —What canst thou see, Jeremiah? And I said, Figs: the good figs, very good; and the bad, very bad, which cannot be eaten, for badness.
Na Awurade bisaa me sɛ, “Ɛdeɛn na wohunu, Yeremia?” Mebuaa sɛ, “Borɔdɔma, deɛ ɛyɛ pa ara, ne deɛ ɛnyɛ mma sɛdeɛ wɔdie mpo.”
4 Then came the word of Yahweh unto me, saying:
Ɛna Awurade asɛm baa me nkyɛn sɛ,
5 Thus, saith Yahweh God of Israel, Like these good figs, so, will I regard them of Judah who are carried into captivity, whom I have sent out of this place into the land of the Chaldeans, for good.
“Yei ne deɛ Awurade, Israel Onyankopɔn seɛ: ‘Borɔdɔma papa no gyina hɔ ma atukɔfoɔ a wɔfiri Yuda, wɔn a metwaa wɔn asuo kɔɔ Babilonia asase so no.
6 Therefore will I set mine eye upon them for good, and will bring them back upon this land, —and will build them up, and not pull them down, and will plant them and not root them up;
Mɛma mʼani aku wɔn ho, ama wɔn yiedie, na mɛsane de wɔn aba ha bio. Mɛsiesie wɔn na merensɛe wɔn. Mɛdua wɔn, na merentu wɔn ase.
7 and will give them a heart to know, me, that, I, am Yahweh, So shall they become my people, And, I, will become their God; for they will return unto me with all their heart.
Mɛma wɔn akoma a wɔde bɛhunu me sɛ, me ne Awurade. Wɔbɛyɛ me nkurɔfoɔ, na mɛyɛ wɔn Onyankopɔn, ɛfiri sɛ, wɔde wɔn akoma nyinaa bɛsane aba me nkyɛn.
8 And like the bad figs, which cannot be eaten for badness, Surely thus, saith Yahweh—so, will I deliver up Zedekiah king of Judah, and his princes and the remnant of Jerusalem that remain in this land, and them who are dwelling in the land of Egypt;
“‘Nanso te sɛ borɔdɔma a ɛnyɛ no, deɛ ɛnyɛ mma sɛdeɛ wɔdie mpo no,’ deɛ Awurade seɛ nie, ‘saa ara na mɛyɛ Yudahene Sedekia, nʼadwumayɛfoɔ ne Yerusalem nkaeɛfoɔ, sɛ wɔte asase yi so anaa wɔte Misraim.
9 yea I will deliver them up, as a terror of calamity, to all the kingdoms of the earth, —as a reproach and as a byword, as a mockery and as a contempt, in every place whither I will drive them;
Mɛma wɔn ayɛ akyiwadeɛ ne mfomsodeɛ ama ahennie a ɛwɔ asase so nyinaa, wɔbɛyɛ ahɔhora na wɔabɔ wɔn din bɔne, wɔbɛyɛ asredeɛ ne mmusuo baabiara a mɛpam wɔn akɔ.
10 and I will send among them, sword famine and pestilence, —until they are consumed from off the soil which I gave to them and to their fathers.
Mɛsoma akofena, ɛkɔm ne yaredɔm akɔ wɔn so kɔsi sɛ wɔbɛsɛe wɔn koraa afiri asase a mede maa wɔn ne wɔn agyanom.’”
