Konyifahawo 5
1 O, Yehowa, ɖo ŋku nu si dzɔ ɖe mía dzi la dzi, ɖo ŋku anyi eye nàkpɔ míaƒe ŋukpe ɖa.
Keep in mind, O Lord, what has come to us: take note and see our shame.
2 Wotsɔ míaƒe domenyinu, na amedzrowo eye wotsɔ míaƒe aƒewo na du bubu me tɔwo.
Our heritage is given up to men of strange lands, our houses to those who are not our countrymen.
3 Míezu tsyɔ̃eviwo kple tɔmanɔsitɔwo eye mía nɔwo zu ahosiwo.
We are children without fathers, our mothers are like widows.
4 Ɖe míedzea tsi hafi nona eye ɖe míeƒlea míawo ŋutɔ ƒe nake.
We give money for a drink of water, we get our wood for a price.
5 Ame siwo ti mía yome la gogo, ɖeɖi te mía ŋu, ke gbɔɖeme meli o.
Our attackers are on our necks: overcome with weariness, we have no rest.
6 Míetsɔ mía ɖokui dzra na Egipte kple Asiria be míakpɔ abolo aɖu.
We have given our hands to the Egyptians and to the Assyrians so that we might have enough bread.
7 Mía fofowo wɔ nu vɔ̃ eye womegale agbe o gake woƒe tohehe va mía dzi.
Our fathers were sinners and are dead; and the weight of their evil-doing is on us.
8 Kluviwo ɖu amegã ɖe mía dzi eye ame aɖeke meli axɔ mí le woƒe asi me o.
Servants are ruling over us, and there is no one to make us free from their hands.
9 Míetsɔ míaƒe agbe ɖo anyi hafi kpɔa abolo ɖuna, le yi si le gbegbe la ta.
We put our lives in danger to get our bread, because of the sword of the waste land.
10 Míaƒe ŋutilã xɔ dzo abe kpodzo ene eye asrã lé mí le dɔwuame ta.
Our skin is heated like an oven because of our burning heat from need of food.
11 Wogblẽ Zion nyɔnuwo kple ɖetugbi manyaŋutsuwo le Yuda duwo me.
They took by force the women in Zion, the virgins in the towns of Judah.
12 Wobla dumegãwo tsɔ ku ati eye womede bubu ame tsitsiwo ŋu o.
Their hands put princes to death by hanging: the faces of old men were not honoured.
13 Ɖekakpuiwo le te tum atraɖii, eye ŋutsuviwo le ŋeŋem le nakegba te.
The young men were crushing the grain, and the boys were falling under the wood.
14 Ame tsitsiwo vɔ le agbonu eye ɖekakpuiwo ƒe hadzidzi nu tso.
The old men are no longer seated in the doorway, and the music of the young men has come to an end.
15 Dzidzɔ vavã dzo le míaƒe dziwo me eye míaƒe ɣeɖuɖu trɔ zu nuxaxa.
The joy of our hearts is ended; our dancing is changed into sorrow.
16 Fiakuku ge le ta na mí. Baba na mí elabena míewɔ nu vɔ̃!
The crown has been taken from our head: sorrow is ours, for we are sinners.
17 Le esia ta míaƒe dziwo le nu xam, le nu siawo ta míaƒe ŋkuwo dzi tsyɔ,
Because of this our hearts are feeble; for these things our eyes are dark;
18 Elabena Zion to tsi ƒuƒlu eye amegaxiwo koe le fefem le afi ma.
Because of the mountain of Zion which is a waste; jackals go over it.
19 O, Yehowa, èle fia ɖum tegbee, wò fiazikpui li ke tso dzidzime yi dzidzime.
You, O Lord, are seated as King for ever; the seat of your power is eternal.
20 Nu ka ta nèŋlɔa mí be ɣe sia ɣi? Nu ka ta nègblẽ mi ɖi eteƒe didi alea?
Why have we gone from your memory for ever? why have you been turned away from us for so long?
21 O Yehowa, trɔ mí ɖe ɖokuiwò ŋu be míate ŋu atrɔ agbɔ, wɔ míaƒe ŋkekewo yeye abe le blema ene.
Make us come back to you, O Lord, and let us be turned; make our days new again as in the past.
22 Ne menye ɖe nègbe mí keŋkeŋ, eye nèdo dziku ɖe mía ŋu wu ale si dze hã o.
But you have quite given us up; you are full of wrath against us.
