Konyifahawo 3
1 Nyee nye ŋutsu si kpe fu le eƒe dziku ƒe ameƒoti te.
I am the man who has seen affliction by the rod of his wrath.
2 Enyam ɖe nu eye wòna mezɔ viviti me, menye kekeli me o;
He has led me and caused me to walk in darkness, and not in light.
3 Vavã etrɔ eƒe asiwo ɖe ŋutinye atraɖii le ŋkeke blibo la me.
Surely he turns his hand against me again and again all day long.
4 Ena be nye ŋutilã kple nye ŋutigbalẽ do xoxo eye wògbã ƒu ɖe lãme nam.
He has made my flesh and my skin old. He has broken my bones.
5 Eva dze dzinye eye wòtsɔ veve helĩhelĩ kple fukpekpe tɔ kpɔ ɖe ŋunye.
He has built against me, and surrounded me with bitterness and hardship.
6 Ena menɔ viviti me abe ame siwo ku gbe aɖe gbe ke ene.
He has made me dwell in dark places, as those who have been long dead.
7 Etɔ kpɔ ƒo xlãm ale be nyemate ŋu asi o, eɖom anyi kple gakɔsɔkɔsɔ.
He has walled me about, so that I can’t go out. He has made my chain heavy.
8 Ne meyɔe alo do ɣli be wòaxɔ nam gɔ̃ hã la, edoa ʋɔ ɖe nye gbedodoɖa nu.
Yes, when I cry, and call for help, he shuts out my prayer.
9 Etsɔ kpe gãwo xe mɔ me nam eye wòglɔ̃ nye mɔwo.
He has walled up my ways with cut stone. He has made my paths crooked.
10 Abe sisiblisi si de xa ɖi kple dzata si le adeklo dzi ene la,
He is to me as a bear lying in wait, as a lion in hiding.
11 ehem ɖa le mɔ me eye wòvuvum, hegblẽm ɖi kpeɖeŋutɔmanɔsitɔe.
He has turned away my path, and pulled me in pieces. He has made me desolate.
12 Evu eƒe da me eye wòdzidze eƒe dati ɖe dzinye.
He has bent his bow, and set me as a mark for the arrow.
13 Etsɔ aŋutrɔwo le eƒe daku me tsɔ ŋɔ nye dzi.
He has caused the shafts of his quiver to enter into my kidneys.
14 Mezu nu ɖikokoe le nye amewo katã dome, woɖua fewu le ŋunye to hadzidzi me ŋkeke blibo la katã.
I have become a derision to all my people, and their song all day long.
15 Etsɔ ama veve ɖi ƒo nam eye wòkpe veve nam meno.
He has filled me with bitterness. He has stuffed me with wormwood.
16 Etsɔ kpe ŋe aɖu nam eye wòfanyam ɖe kewɔ me.
He has also broken my teeth with gravel. He has covered me with ashes.
17 Woxɔ ŋutifafa le asinye, meŋlɔ nu si dzɔgbenyui nye la be.
You have removed my soul far away from peace. I forgot prosperity.
18 Eya ta megblɔ be, “Nye atsyɔ̃nu yi eye nu siwo katã mele mɔ kpɔm na tso Yehowa gbɔ la hã nu va yi.”
I said, “My strength has perished, along with my expectation from Yahweh.”
19 Meɖo ŋku nye hiã, tsaglalãtsatsa, dzigbagbã kple vevesese dzi.
Remember my affliction and my misery, the wormwood and the bitterness.
20 Meɖo ŋku wo katã dzi nyuie eye nye luʋɔ bɔbɔ eɖokui le menye.
My soul still remembers them, and is bowed down within me.
21 Ke esia dzi meɖo ŋkue eye mɔkpɔkpɔ ɖo asinye:
This I recall to my mind; therefore I have hope.
22 Le Yehowa ƒe lɔlɔ̃ deto la ta wometsrɔ̃ mí o elabena eƒe nublanuikpɔkpɔ mevɔna o.
It is because of Yahweh’s loving kindnesses that we are not consumed, because his mercies don’t fail.
23 Wozua yeye ŋdi sia ŋdi, wò nuteƒewɔwɔ lolo ŋutɔ.
They are new every morning. Great is your faithfulness.
24 Megblɔ na ɖokuinye be, “Yehowae nye nye gomekpɔkpɔ, eya ta manɔ esinu kpɔm.”
“Yahweh is my portion,” says my soul. “Therefore I will hope in him.”
25 Yehowa ƒe dɔ me nyo na ame siwo tsɔ woƒe mɔkpɔkpɔ da ɖe edzi, kple ame siwo dinɛ vevie.
Yahweh is good to those who wait for him, to the soul who seeks him.
26 Enyo be woalala le ɖoɖoezizi me na Yehowa ƒe ɖeɖe.
It is good that a man should hope and quietly wait for the salvation of Yahweh.
27 Enyo na ame be wòatsɔ kɔkuti le ɖekakpuime.
It is good for a man that he bear the yoke in his youth.
28 Nenɔ anyi le ɖoɖoezizi me elabena Yehowae tsɔ kɔkuti la da ɖe edzi.
Let him sit alone and keep silence, because he has laid it on him.
29 Netsɔ eƒe mo ƒo ɖe ke me, ɖewohĩ mɔkpɔkpɔ gali.
Let him put his mouth in the dust, if it is so that there may be hope.
30 Neɖo to me anyi na ame si le eƒo ge eye ŋukpe neyɔe fũu.
Let him give his cheek to him who strikes him. Let him be filled full of reproach.
31 Elabena Aƒetɔ la metsɔa ame ƒua gbe ɖikaa o
For the Lord will not cast off forever.
32 Togbɔ be ehea nuxaxa vɛ hã la, egakpɔa nublanui na ame, eye eƒe lɔlɔ̃ si nu metsina gbeɖe o la de to ŋutɔ.
For though he causes grief, yet he will have compassion according to the multitude of his loving kindnesses.
33 Elabena mehea fukpekpe kple nuxaxa vaa amegbetɔviwo dzi ɖe dzidzɔ teƒe o.
For he does not afflict willingly, nor grieve the children of men.
34 Woafanya anyigbadzigamenɔlawo katã kple afɔ.
To crush under foot all the prisoners of the earth,
35 Ne woagbe nu si nye ame tɔ la tsɔtsɔ nɛ le Dziƒoʋĩtɔ la ŋkume,
to turn away the right of a man before the face of the Most High,
36 eye wotrɔ gbo ame dzɔdzɔe ƒe nya; ɖe Aƒetɔ la makpɔ esiawo oa?
to subvert a man in his cause, the Lord doesn’t approve.
37 Ame ka aƒo nu eye wòava eme, ne menye Aƒetɔ lae ɖe gbe o?
Who is he who says, and it comes to pass, when the Lord doesn’t command it?
38 Ɖe menye Dziƒoʋĩtɔ la ƒe nu mee dzɔgbevɔ̃enyawo kple dzidzɔnyawo siaa doa go tsona oa?
Doesn’t evil and good come out of the mouth of the Most High?
39 Nu ka ta amegbetɔ ahe nya ne wohe to nɛ ɖe eƒe nu vɔ̃wo ta?
Why should a living man complain, a man for the punishment of his sins?
40 Mina míalé ŋku ɖe míaƒe zɔzɔme ŋu ne míado wo akpɔ eye mina míatrɔ ɖe Yehowa ŋu.
Let us search and try our ways, and turn again to Yahweh.
41 Mina míado míaƒe dziwo kple asiwo ɖe Mawu gbɔ le dziƒo ahagblɔ bena:
Let’s lift up our heart with our hands to God in the heavens.
42 “Míewɔ nu vɔ̃ hedze aglã eye mètsɔe ke mi o.
“We have transgressed and have rebelled. You have not pardoned.
43 “Ètsɔ dziku tsyɔ ɖokuiwò dzi eye nèti mía yome hewu mí nublanuimakpɔmakpɔtɔe.
“You have covered us with anger and pursued us. You have killed. You have not pitied.
44 Ètsɔ lilikpo tsyiɔ ɖokuiwò dzi ale be, gbedodoɖa aɖeke mate ŋu aɖo gbɔwò o.
You have covered yourself with a cloud, so that no prayer can pass through.
45 Ètsɔ mí wɔ ŋunyɔnu kple gbeɖuɖɔe le dukɔwo dome.
You have made us an off-scouring and refuse in the middle of the peoples.
46 “Míaƒe futɔwo katã ke nu baa ɖe mía ŋuti.
“All our enemies have opened their mouth wide against us.
47 Ŋɔdzi lé mí; míedze ʋe me eye tsɔtsrɔ̃ kple gbegblẽ va mía dzi.”
Terror and the pit have come on us, devastation and destruction.”
48 Nye ŋkuwo le aɖatsi fam yoyoyo elabena wotsrɔ̃ nye amewo.
My eye runs down with streams of water, for the destruction of the daughter of my people.
49 Nye ŋkuwo le aɖatsi fam ɖaa, enu gbe tsotso,
My eye pours down and doesn’t cease, without any intermission,
50 va se ɖe esime Yehowa aɖo ŋku anyi tso dziƒo akpɔe.
until Yahweh looks down, and sees from heaven.
51 Nu si mekpɔ la na nye luʋɔ xa nu ɖe nyɔnu siwo katã le nye dua me la ta.
My eye affects my soul, because of all the daughters of my city.
52 Ame siwo nye nye futɔwo madzemadzee la ɖem ɖe nu abe xevi ene.
They have chased me relentlessly like a bird, those who are my enemies without cause.
53 Wodze agbagba be woatso nye agbe nu le vudo me eye wofɔ kpe ƒum.
They have cut off my life in the dungeon, and have cast a stone on me.
54 Tsi fie le tanye eye mesusu be evɔ nam.
Waters flowed over my head. I said, “I am cut off.”
55 O Yehowa, wò ŋkɔe meyɔ le vudoa ƒe gogloƒe ke.
I called on your name, Yahweh, out of the lowest dungeon.
56 Èse nye kukuɖeɖe be, “Mègado toku nye ɣlidodo eye nàgbe akɔfafa nam o.”
You heard my voice: “Don’t hide your ear from my sighing, and my cry.”
57 Ète va gbɔnye esi meyɔ wò eye nègblɔ be, “Mègavɔ̃ o.”
You came near in the day that I called on you. You said, “Don’t be afraid.”
58 O, Aƒetɔ, èxɔ nye nya ɖe akɔ eye nèɖe nye agbe.
Lord, you have pleaded the causes of my soul. You have redeemed my life.
59 Wò ŋutɔ èkpɔ, O Yehowa, vɔ̃ si wowɔ ɖe ŋutinye. Na nye nya nadzɔ!
Yahweh, you have seen my wrong. Judge my cause.
60 Èkpɔ woƒe hlɔ̃biabia ƒe kpekpeme kple nugbe siwo woɖo ɖe ŋunye.
You have seen all their vengeance and all their plans against me.
61 O Yehowa, èse woƒe dzudzuwo kple nu siwo katã woɖo ɖe ŋunye
You have heard their reproach, Yahweh, and all their plans against me,
62 kple nye futɔwo ƒe dalĩdodo kple nuƒoƒo le ŋunye ŋkeke blibo la.
the lips of those that rose up against me, and their plots against me all day long.
63 Nye kɔ nàkpɔ wo ɖa! Wole anyinɔƒe o, wole tsitrenu o, woɖua fewu le ŋunye le woƒe hadzidziwo me.
You see their sitting down and their rising up. I am their song.
64 O Yehowa, xe fe si dze wo la na wo, ɖe nu siwo woƒe asiwo wɔ la ta.
You will pay them back, Yahweh, according to the work of their hands.
65 Tsɔ nutsyɔnu tsyɔ woƒe dziwo dzi eye nàna be wò fiƒode nanɔ wo dzi!
You will give them hardness of heart, your curse to them.
66 Ti wo yome kple dziku eye nàtsrɔ̃ wo le Yehowa ƒe dziƒo te.
You will pursue them in anger, and destroy them from under the heavens of Yahweh.
