Micah 7
1 I am very miserable/frustrated! I am like [SIM] someone who is hungry, [who searches for fruit to pick] after all the fruit had been picked and who finds no grapes or figs to eat.
Mayɛ mmɔbɔ! Mete sɛ otwabere nnuaba tasefo a otwabere akyi mikodi mpɛpɛ wɔ bobeturo mu; minnya bobe kasiaw na madi, borɔdɔma aba a edi kan a mekɔn dɔ nso, saa ara.
2 [All] the godly people have disappeared from this land; there is not one of them left. [The people who are left] are all murderers [MTY]; [it is as though] everyone is eager to kill his fellow countryman.
Wɔapra Onyamefɛrefo nyinaa afi asase so. Anka ɔbaako a ɔteɛ mpo. Nnipa nyinaa tetɛw na wɔhwehwɛ sɛ wɔbɛka mogya agu; wɔde ɔtan sunsum wɔn ho wɔn ho mfiri.
3 They [all] use both hands to do what is evil. [Government] officials and judges [all] ask for bribes. Important people tell others what they want, and they plot/scheme together [about how to get it done].
Nsa abien no nyinaa akokwaw bɔneyɛ mu; ɔsodifo bisa akyɛde, otemmufo gye adanmude, wɔn a tumi wɔ wɔn nsa mu no yɛ nea wɔpɛ, wɔn nyinaa bɔ mu dwene amumɔyɛ ho.
4 [Even] the best people are [as worthless] [SIM] as briers; the people [who are considered by others to be] [IRO] the most honest are worse than clumps of thornbushes. But, [Yahweh] will soon judge them; now is the time that he will punish people, a time when they will be [very] confused [because of being defeated].
Nea oye wɔ wɔn mu no te sɛ ohwirem; nea ɔteɛ pa ara no, nsɔeban ye sen no. Wʼatemmuda no aso, da a Onyankopɔn reba wo nsrahwɛ. Eyi ne bere a wɔn ani so bɛyɛ wɔn totɔtotɔ.
5 [So], do not trust anyone! Do not trust [even] a friend; [even] be careful what you say to your wife whom you love!
Nnye obiara nni; mfa wo werɛ nhyɛ adamfo mu. Mpo, ɔbea a ɔda wo koko mu no to wo tɛkrɛma nnareka wɔ ne ho.
6 Boys will despise their fathers, and girls will defy their mothers. Women will defy their mothers-in-law. Your enemies will be those who live in your own houses.
Ɔbabarima twiri nʼagya, Ɔbabea sɔre tia ne na, asebea nso tia nʼase onipa atamfo ne nʼankasa ne fifo.
7 As for me, I wait for Yahweh [to help me]. I confidently expect that God, my Savior, will answer me [when I pray].
Me de, mede anidaso hwɛ Awurade, Metwɛn me Nkwagye Nyankopɔn; na me Nyankopɔn betie me.
8 You who are our enemies, do not gloat/rejoice about [what has happened to] us, [because even] if we have experienced disasters, [those disasters will end and] we will be restored. [Even] if [it is as though] we are sitting in the darkness, Yahweh will be our light.
Mma wʼani nnye, me tamfo! Mahwe ase de, nanso mɛsɔre. Sum aduru me de, nanso Awurade bɛyɛ me hann.
9 We must be patient while Yahweh punishes us because we have sinned against him. But later, [it will be as though] he will go to court and defend us, and he will make sure that the judge makes a right decision about us. [It will be as though] he will bring us out into the light, and we will see it when he rescues us.
Sɛ mayɛ bɔne atia no nti, Awurade abufuw bɛba me so, kosi sɛ ɔbɛka mʼasɛm ama me na wada me bembu adi. Ɔde me bɛba hann no mu; na mehu ne trenee.
10 Our enemies will [also] see that, and they will be disgraced because they [ridiculed us], saying “Why is [RHQ] Yahweh, that God of yours, [not helping you]?” But with our own eyes we will see them when they are defeated; we will see them trampled like [SIM] mud in the streets.
Afei, mʼatamfo behu na wɔn ani bewu, nea osee me sɛ, “Ɛhe na Awurade wo Nyankopɔn no wɔ?” Mʼani behu nʼasehwe; mpo mprempren no, wobetiatia no so te sɛ dontori a ɛwɔ mmɔnten so.
11 [You people of Israel, ] at that time your cities will be rebuilt, and your territory will become larger.
Da a wɔbɛto wʼafasu no bɛba, da a wɔbɛtrɛw wʼahye mu.
12 [People from many countries will come to honor you]: people from Assyria and from [near] the [Euphrates] River [in the east] and from Egypt [in the south], from distant seas, and from many mountains.
Da no, nnipa bɛba wo nkyɛn afi Asiria ne Misraim nkuropɔn mu, mpo wobefi Misraim akosi Eufrate afi po akosi po ne bepɔw so akosi bepɔw so.
13 But [the other countries on] the earth will become desolate because of the [evil] things that their people have done.
Asase no bɛyɛ amamfo, esiane nnipa a wɔtete so ne wɔn nneyɛe nti.
14 Yahweh, protect your people like [MET] [a shepherd protects his sheep] by using his walking stick; lead your people [MET] whom you have chosen to belong to you. [Even though some of them] live by themselves in a forest, give them the fertile pastureland in the Bashan and Gilead [regions] that they possessed long ago.
Fa wo pema di wo nkurɔfo anim, nguan a wɔyɛ wʼagyapade no, a wɔn nko ara tete kwae mu, wura frɔmfrɔm adidibea hɔ. Ma wonnidi wɔ Basan ne Gilead sɛ tete nna no mu.
15 [Yahweh says/replies], “[Yes], I will perform miracles for you like the miracles that I performed when I rescued your [ancestors] from [being slaves in] Egypt.”
“Mɛyɛ anwonwade akyerɛ wo, sɛnea meyɛɛ nna a wufi Misraim bae mu no.”
16 [People from many] nations will see [what Yahweh does for you], and they will be ashamed because they do not have any power. They will put their hands over their mouths and their ears [because they will be very amazed because of what Yahweh does], [and they will not be able to say anything or hear anything].
Aman behu wo na wɔn ani bewu, wɔn a tumi nyinaa afi wɔn nsa no. Wɔde wɔn nsa betuatua wɔn ano na wɔn aso besisiw.
17 [Being very humiliated, ] they will crawl on the ground [MTY] like [SIM] snakes. They will come out of their homes trembling, and stand revering Yahweh our God. They will be very afraid of him, and will tremble in front of him.
Wobedi dɔte sɛ awɔ, ne mmoa a wɔwea wɔ fam. Wɔde ahopopo befi wɔn abon mu aba; wɔde osuro bɛdan wɔn ho ama Awurade yɛn Nyankopɔn, na wobesuro wo.
18 [Yahweh], there is no [RHQ] God like you; you forgive the sins [DOU] that were committed by the people who have survived, the people who belong to you. You do not remain angry forever; you are very happy [to show us] that you faithfully love [us].
Hena na ɔte sɛ wo, Onyankopɔn a wode bɔne kyɛ? Wo a wode agyanom asefo nkae amumɔyɛ kyɛ wɔn. Wʼabufuw ntena hɔ daa, na mmom wʼani gye sɛ wobɛda mmɔborɔhunu adi.
19 You will again act kindly/compassionately toward us. You will get rid of [the scroll on which you have written] the sins that we have committed [as though you were] trampling it under your feet or throwing it into the deep ocean.
Wubehu yɛn mmɔbɔ bio, wubetiatia yɛn bɔne so, na woatow yɛn amumɔyɛ agu po bun mu.
20 You will show that you faithfully [do what you promised for us] and faithfully love us, just like you solemnly promised long ago to our ancestors Abraham and Jacob that you would do.
Wobɛyɛ ɔnokwafo ama Yakob na woahu Abraham mmɔbɔ sɛnea wokaa yɛn agyanom ntam teteete no.
