Hezekiel 29
1 Le ƒe ewolia ƒe ɣleti ewolia me, le ŋkeke wuievelia gbe la, Yehowa ƒe nya va nam be,
In the tenth year, the tenth month, the eleventh day of the month, the word of the Lord came to me, saying:
2 “Ame vi, trɔ mo ɖe Farao, Egipte fia ŋu, eye nàgblɔ nya ɖi ɖe eya kple Egipte katã ŋu.
Son of man, set thy face against Pharao king of Egypt: and thou shalt prophesy of him, and of all Egypt:
3 Gblɔ nɛ be, ‘Alea Aƒetɔ Yehowa gblɔe nye esi: “‘Metso ɖe ŋuwò, Farao, Egipte fia, wò lã gã wɔadã le wò tɔsisiwo me. Egblɔna be, “Nil tɔsisi la nye tɔnye. Nyee wɔe na ɖokuinye.”
Speak, and say: Thus saith the Lord God: Behold, I come against thee, Pharao king of Egypt, thou great dragon that liest in the midst of thy rivers, and sayest: The river is mine, and I made myself.
4 Matsɔ ƒu aƒo ɖe wò glã me, eye mana wò tɔwo me lãwo nalé ɖe wò tsro ŋu, mahe wò ado goe le wò tɔsisiwo me kple tɔmelã siwo katã lé ɖe wò tsrokpa ŋuti.
But I will put a bridle in thy jaws: and I will cause the fish of thy rivers to stick to thy scales: and I will draw thee out of the midst of thy rivers, and all thy fish shall stick to thy scales.
5 Magblẽ wò ɖe gbegbe, wò kple wò tɔwo me lãwo katã; àdze gbadzaƒe dzi, womafɔ wò alo atsɔ wò o. Mawɔ wò nàzu nuɖuɖu na gbemelãwo kple dziƒoxeviwo.
And I will cast thee forth into the desert, and all the fish of thy river: thou shalt fall upon the face of the earth, thou shalt not be taken up, nor gathered together: I have given thee for meat to the beasts of the earth, and to the fowls of the air.
6 Ekema ame siwo katã le Egipte la anya be, nyee nye Yehowa. “‘Ènye aƒlati na Israel ƒe aƒe la.
And all the inhabitants of Egypt shall know that I am the Lord: because thou hast been a staff of a reed to the house of Israel.
7 Esi wolé wò kple asi la, èŋe woƒe abɔta, eye esi woziɔ ɖe ŋuwò la, èŋee heƒo ɖe woƒe dzime.
When they took hold of thee with the hand thou didst break, and rent all their shoulder: and when they leaned upon thee, thou brokest, and weakenest all their loins.
8 “‘Eya ta ale Aƒetɔ Yehowa gblɔe nye esi: “Mahe yi aɖe ɖe ŋuwò, wòawu wò amewo kple woƒe lãwo.
Therefore thus saith the Lord God: Behold, I will bring the sword upon thee: and cut off man and beast out of thee.
9 Egipte azu aƒedo kple gbegbe. Ekema woanya be nyee nye Yehowa.” “‘Esi nègblɔ be, “Nil tɔsisi la nye tɔnye, nyee wɔe” ta la,
And the land of Egypt shall become a desert, and a wilderness: and they shall know that I am the Lord: because thou hast said: The river is mine, and I made it.
10 metso ɖe wò kple wò tɔsisiwo ŋu, eye mana Egiptenyigba nazu aƒedo kple gbegbe tso Migdol va se ɖe Aswan, va do ɖe keke Kus ƒe liƒowo dzi.
Therefore, behold I come against thee, and thy rivers: and I will make the land of Egypt utterly desolate, and wasted by the sword, from the tower of Syene, even to the borders of Ethiopia.
11 Amegbetɔ alo lã aɖeke ƒe afɔ magato edzi o. Ame aɖeke maganɔ afi ma o ƒe blaene sɔŋ.
The foot of man shall not pass through it, neither shall the foot of beasts go through it: nor shall it be inhabited during forty years.
12 Mana Egiptenyigba nazu aƒedo le anyigba siwo wògblẽ la dome, eye eƒe duwo azu aƒedo ƒe blaene le du siwo wogbã la dome. Makaka Egiptetɔwo ɖe dukɔwo dome, akaka wo, ahlẽ ɖe anyigbawo dzi.
And I will make the land of Egypt desolate in the midst of the lands that are desolate, and the cities thereof in the midst of the cities that are destroyed, and they shall be desolate for forty years: and I will scatter the Egyptians among the nations, and will disperse them through the countries.
13 “‘Ke ale Aƒetɔ Yehowa gblɔe nye si. “Le ƒe blaene ƒe nuwuwu la, maƒo ƒu Egiptetɔwo tso dukɔ siwo me wokaka wo ɖo la me.
For thus saith the Lord God: At the end of forty years I will gather the Egyptians from the people among whom they had been scattered.
14 Magbugbɔ wo tso aboyome ava Egipte ƒe Dzigbeme, wo tɔgbuiwo ƒe anyigba dzi, eye woanye fiaɖuƒe sue aɖe le afi ma.
And I will bring back the captivity of Egypt, and will place them in the land of Phatures, in the land of their nativity, and they shall be there a low kingdom:
15 Anye fiaɖuƒe gblɔetɔ le fiaɖuƒewo dome, eye magado eɖokui ɖe dzi wu fiaɖuƒe bubuawo o. Mana wòagbɔdzɔ ale gbegbe be, magaɖu dukɔ bubuwo dzi azɔ o.
It shall be the lowest among other kingdoms, and it shall no more be exalted over the nations, and I will diminish them that they shall rule no more over the nations.
16 Egipte maganye dukɔ si ŋu Israelviwo naɖo dzi ɖo o, ke boŋ ana woaɖo ŋku woƒe nu vɔ̃ si na wotrɔ ɖe eŋu hebia kpekpeɖeŋu la dzi. Ekema woanya be nyee nye Aƒetɔ Yehowa.”’”
And they shall be no more a confidence to the house of Israel, teaching iniquity, that they may flee, and follow them: and they shall know that I am the Lord God.
17 Le ƒe blaeve-vɔ-adrelia ƒe ɣleti gbãtɔ ƒe ŋkeke gbãtɔ gbe la, Yehowa ƒe nya va nam be,
And it came to pass in the seven and twentieth year, in the first month, in the first of the month: that the word of the Lord came to me, saying:
18 “Ame vi, Nebukadnezar, Babilonia fia, ho aʋa kple eƒe dukɔ ɖe Tiro ŋu; tawo katã bebe, eye abɔtawo katã ɖe bo. Ke eya kple eƒe aʋakɔ mekpɔ fetu aɖeke tso aʋahoho ɖe Tiro ŋu me o.
Son of man, Nabuchodonosor king of Babylon hath made his army to undergo hard service against Tyre: every head was made bald, and every shoulder was peeled: and there hath been no reward given him, nor his army for Tyre, for the service that he rendered me against it.
19 Eya ta ale Aƒetɔ Yehowa gblɔ, ‘Matsɔ Egipte ana Nebukadnezar, Babilonia fia, eye wòalɔ eƒe kesinɔnuwo adzoe. Aha nuwo le anyigba la dzi atsɔ axe fee na eƒe aʋawɔlawo.
Therefore thus saith the Lord God: Behold, I will set Nabuchodonosor the king of Babylon in the land of Egypt: and he shall take her multitude, and take the booty thereof for a prey, and rifle the spoils thereof: and it shall be wages for his army.
20 Metsɔ Egipte nɛ abe fetu ene le eƒe agbagbadzedze ta, elabena nyee eya kple eƒe aʋakɔ wɔ dɔ la na.’ Aƒetɔ Yehowae gblɔe.
And for the service that he hath done me against it: I have given him the land of Egypt, because he hath laboured for me, saith the Lord God.
21 “Le ŋkeke ma dzi la, ŋusẽ aɖo Israel ƒe aƒe ŋu, eye maʋu wò nu na wò le wo dome. Ekema woanya be nyee nye Yehowa.”
In that day a horn shall bud forth to the house of Israel, and I will give thee an open mouth in the midst of them: and they shall know that I am the Lord.
