Yoel 3
1 “Le ŋkeke mawo kple ɣe ma ɣi me ne megaɖo Yuda kple Yerusalem te la,
For behold in those days, and in that time when I shall bring back the captivity of Juda and Jerusalem:
2 maƒo dukɔwo nu ƒu ɖe Yehosafat ƒe Balime eye madrɔ̃ ʋɔnu wo le afi ma le nye amewo kple nye domenyinu Israel ta, elabena wokaka nye domenyinu la ɖe dukɔwo dome eye woma nye anyigba.
I will gather together all nations, and will bring them down into the valley of Josaphat: and I will plead with them there for my people, and for my inheritance Israel, whom they have scattered among the nations, and have parted my land.
3 “Wodzidze nu ɖe nye dukɔ dzi eye woma nye amewo. Wotsɔ ŋutsuviwo ɖɔli gbolowoe eye wotsɔ nyɔnuviwo na ɖe wain si woano amu ta.
And they have cast lots upon my people: and the boy they have put in the stews, and the girl they have sold for wine, that they might drink.
4 “Tiro kple Sidon kple Filistitɔwo ƒe duwo katã, ɖe miele didim be miabia hlɔ̃ mahã? Mikpɔ nyuie elabena nye asi atre tsɔtsɔ na mi eye nu si mieɖo la atrɔ adze miawo ŋutɔ ƒe ta dzi.
But what have you to do with me, O Tyre, and Sidon, and all the coast of the Philistines? will you revenge yourselves on me? and if you revenge yourselves on me, I will very soon return you a recompense upon your own head.
5 “Mieva lɔ nye klosalo kple sika kple nye kesinɔnu veviwo tsɔ yi ɖe miaƒe trɔ̃wo ƒe xɔwo mee.
For you have taken away my silver and my gold: and my desirable and most beautiful things you have carried into your temples.
6 Miedzra Yudatɔwo kple Yerusalemtɔwo na Trɔ̃subɔlawo eye wokplɔ wo dzoe le woawo ŋutɔ ƒe anyigba dzi yi didiƒe ke.
And the children of Juda, and the children of Jerusalem you have sold to the children of the Greeks, that you might remove them far off from their own country.
7 Gake magakplɔ wo agbɔe tso teƒe siwo katã wokplɔ wo yii eye maɖo nu vɔ̃ siwo katã miewɔ la teƒe na mi.
Behold, I will raise them up out of the place wherein you have sold them: and I will return your recompense upon your own heads.
8 Matsɔ mia viŋutsuwo kple nyɔnuwo adzra na Yudatɔwo eye woawo hã adzra wo na Sabeatɔwo le didiƒe ke. Yehowae gblɔe.
And I will sell your sons, and your daughters by the hands of the children of Juda, and they shall sell them to the Sabeans, a nation far off, for the Lord hath spoken it.
9 “Miɖe gbeƒã nu sia le dukɔwo dome be, ‘Midzra ɖo na aʋawɔwɔ!’ Mitia miaƒe asrafo kalẽtɔwo, miƒo miaƒe aʋawɔlawo katã nu ƒu na aʋawɔwɔ.
Proclaim ye this among the nations: prepare war, rouse up the strong: let them come, let all the men of war come up.
10 Mitsɔ miaƒe agblenuwo tu aʋawɔyiwoe eye mitsɔ miaƒe hɛ gobɛwo tu akplɔwoe. Ame gblɔewo negblɔ be, ‘Miawoe nye ŋusẽtɔwo.’
Cut your ploughshares into swords, and your spades into spears. Let the weak say: I am strong.
11 Mi dukɔ siwo kaka ɖe afi sia afi, miƒo mia ɖokuiwo nu ƒu ne miava. “O Yehowa, dɔ wò aʋakɔwo be woaɖiɖi ava anyi!
Break forth, and come, all ye nations, from round about, and gather yourselves together: there will the Lord cause all thy strong ones to fall down.
12 “Miƒo dukɔwo nu ƒu; mikplɔ wo va Yehosafat ƒe Balimee, afi ma manɔ adrɔ̃ ʋɔnu wo katã.
Let them arise, and let the nations come up into the valley of Josaphat: for there I will sit to judge all nations round about.
13 Azɔ nukuxahɛ newɔ eƒe dɔ elabena nukuawo tsi vɔ hele lalam na nuŋeɣi. Miva, mifanya waintsetseawo, elabena wainfiaƒe la yɔ, eye waindzraɖoƒe la yɔ gbagba, elabena woƒe nu tovowo wɔwɔ sɔ gbɔ.”
Put ye in the sickles, for the harvest is ripe: come and go down, for the press is full, the fats run over: for their wickedness is multiplied.
14 Ame akpe akpewo le Nyametsotso ƒe Balime elabena Yehowa ƒe Ŋkeke la tu aƒe le Nyametsotso Balime la.
Nations, nations in the valley of destruction: for the day of the Lord is near in the valley of destruction.
15 Ɣe kple ɣleti ado viviti eye ɣletiviwo magaklẽ o.
The sun and the moon are darkened, and the stars have withdrawn their shining.
16 Yehowa aɖe gbe tso Zion eye eƒe gbe aɖi tso Yerusalem eye dziƒo kple anyigba ade asi ʋuʋu me. Ke Yehowa anye sitsoƒe na eƒe amewo kple mɔ sesẽ na eƒe dukɔ Israel.
And the Lord shall roar out of Sion, and utter his voice from Jerusalem: and the heavens and the earth shall be moved, and the Lord shall be the hope of his people, and the strength of the children of Israel.
17 “Mlɔeba la, miava nya be nyee nye Yehowa, miaƒe Mawu, si le Zion, nye To Kɔkɔe la dzi. Yerusalem azu kɔkɔeƒe; ɣeyiɣi li gbɔna esi dutasrafowo magakpɔ mɔ aho aʋa ɖe eŋu o.
And you shall know that I am the Lord your God, dwelling in Sion my holy mountain: and Jerusalem shall be holy and strangers shall pass through it no more.
18 “Le ɣe ma ɣi me la, wain yeye anɔ tsyɔtsyɔm tso towo ŋuti eye nyinotsi anɔ sisim bababa tso togbɛwo tame. Tsi ayɔ Yɔdan tɔʋuwo me banaa, eye tsi asi tso Yehowa ƒe gbedoxɔ la me ade tsi Sitim ƒe Balime.
And it shall come to pass in that day, that the mountains shall drop down sweetness, and the hills shall flow with milk: and waters shall flow through all the rivers of Juda: and a fountain shall come forth of the house of the Lord, and shall water the torrent of thorns.
19 Egipte azu aƒedo eye Edom azu gbegbe elabena wowɔ vɔ̃ ɖe Yudatɔwo ŋuti, eye wokɔ ʋu maɖifɔwo ɖi le du mawo me.
Egypt shall be a desolation, and Edom a wilderness destroyed: because they have done unjustly against the children of Juda, and have shed innocent blood in their land.
20 Ke Yuda anɔ anyi tegbetegbe, eye Yerusalem anɔ anyi tso dzidzime yi dzidzime.
And Judea shall be inhabited for ever, and Jerusalem to generation and generation.
21 Mahe to na Egiptetɔwo kple Edomtɔwo ɖe woƒe ʋu maɖifɔ kɔkɔɖi ta.”
And I will cleanse their blood which I had not cleansed: and the Lord will dwell in Sion.
