Psalmowo 102
1 Hiãtɔ aɖe ƒe gbedodoɖa, esi nu te eŋu, eye wòfa konyi le Yehowa ŋkume. O! Yehowa, se nye gbedodoɖa, eye nye kokoƒoƒo hena kpekpeɖeŋu neɖo gbɔwò.
A Prayer of the man who is in trouble, when he is overcome, and puts his grief before the Lord. Give ear to my prayer, O Lord, and let my cry come to you.
2 Mègaɣla wò ŋkume ɖem, ne mele xaxa me o. Trɔ wò to ɖe gbɔnye, eye ne meyɔ wò la, nàtɔ nam kaba.
Let not your face be veiled from me in the day of my trouble; give ear to me, and let my cry be answered quickly.
3 Elabena nye ŋkekewo nu va yi abe dzudzɔ ene, eye nye ƒuwo xɔ dzo hẽe abe dzokpo ene.
My days are wasted like smoke, and my bones are burned up as in a fire.
4 Nye dzi xɔ abi, eye wòyrɔ abe gbe ene. Meŋlɔ nye nuɖuɖu gɔ̃ hã be.
My heart is broken; it has become dry and dead like grass, so that I give no thought to food.
5 Le nye ŋeŋe sesĩe ta la, meɖi ku zu ƒu ɖeɖe.
Because of the voice of my sorrow, my flesh is wasted to the bone.
6 Mele abe ʋlukuku si le gbegbe ene, alo abe ʋlukuku si le gli gbagbãwo tome ene.
I am like a bird living by itself in the waste places; like the night-bird in a waste of sand.
7 Mele ŋu le aba dzi, eye mele abe xevi si tsi akogo le xɔ tame ene.
I keep watch like a bird by itself on the house-top.
8 Nye futɔwo le alɔme ɖem le ŋunye ŋkeke blibo la, eye ame siwo tso ɖe ŋunye la tsɔ nye ŋkɔ wɔ ɖiŋudonui.
My haters say evil of me all day; those who are violent against me make use of my name as a curse.
9 Elabena meɖu dzowɔ abe nuɖuɖu ene, eye metsɔ aɖatsi tɔtɔ nye nunonoe,
I have had dust for bread and my drink has been mixed with weeping:
10 le wò dziku helĩhelĩ la ta elabena èdom ɖe dzi, eye nètsɔm ƒu gbe ɖe adzɔge.
Because of your passion and your wrath, for I have been lifted up and then made low by you.
11 Nye ŋkekewo le abe fiẽ ƒe vɔvɔli ene, eye meyrɔ abe gbe ene.
My days are like a shade which is stretched out; I am dry like the grass.
12 O! Yehowa, wò la èle fia ɖum tegbetegbe, eye wò ŋkɔxɔxɔ li tso dzidzime yi dzidzime.
But you, O Lord, are eternal; and your name will never come to an end.
13 Ke wò la àtso, akpɔ nublanui na Zion, elabena ɣeyiɣi de be nàve enu, ɛ̃, ɣeyiɣi ɖoɖi la de.
You will again get up and have mercy on Zion: for the time has come for her to be comforted.
14 Elabena eƒe kpewo xɔ asi le wò dɔlawo gbɔ, eye eƒe ʋuʋudedi gɔ̃ hã ʋãa nublanuikpɔkpɔ le wo me.
For your servants take pleasure in her stones, looking with love on her dust.
15 Dukɔwo avɔ̃ Yehowa ƒe ŋkɔ, eye anyigbadzifiawo katã ade bubu wò ŋutikɔkɔe ŋu.
So the nations will give honour to the name of the Lord, and all the kings of the earth will be in fear of his glory:
16 Elabena Yehowa agbugbɔ Zion atso, eye wòado le eƒe ŋutikɔkɔe me.
When the Lord has put up the walls of Zion, and has been been in his glory;
17 Aɖo hiãtɔwo ƒe gbedodoɖa ŋu, eye mado vlo woƒe kokoƒoƒo o.
When he has given ear to the prayer of the poor, and has not put his request on one side.
18 Miŋlɔ esia ɖi hena dzidzime siwo ava dzɔ, ale be ame siwo womedzi haɖe o la nakafu Yehowa be:
This will be put in writing for the coming generation, and the people of the future will give praise to the Lord.
19 “Yehowa kpɔ nu tso eƒe kɔkɔeƒe la, eye wòkpɔ anyigba tso dziƒo,
For from his holy place the Lord has seen, looking down on the earth from heaven;
20 be wòase gamenɔlawo ƒe ŋeŋe, eye wòaɖe ga ame siwo wotso kufia na.”
Hearing the cry of the prisoner, making free those for whom death is ordered;
21 Ale woaɖe gbeƒã Yehowa ƒe ŋkɔ le Zion kple eƒe kafukafu le Yerusalem,
So that they may give out the name of the Lord in Zion, and his praise in Jerusalem;
22 ne dukɔwo kple fiaɖuƒewo ƒo ƒu be woasubɔ Yehowa.
When the peoples are come together, and the kingdoms, to give worship to the Lord.
23 Eŋe nye ŋusẽ le nye agbemɔ dzi, eye wòɖe nye ŋkekewo dzi kpɔtɔ,
He has taken my strength from me in the way; he has made short my days.
24 eya ta megblɔ be, “O! Nye Mawu, mègakplɔm dzoe le nye ŋkekewo ƒe titina o, wò ame si ƒe ƒewo li tso dzidzime yi dzidzime.
I will say, O my God, take me not away before my time; your years go on through all generations:
25 Le gɔmedzedzea me la, èɖo anyigba ƒe agunu anyi, eye dziƒowo nye wò asinudɔwɔwɔ.
In the past you put the earth on its base, and the heavens are the work of your hands.
26 Woatsrɔ̃, ke wò ya ànɔ anyi ɖaa; woanyunyɔ abe avɔ ene, eye àɖɔli wo abe avɔ ene ahatsɔ wo aƒu gbe.
They will come to an end, but you will still go on; they all will become old like a coat, and like a robe they will be changed:
27 Ke wò la, ègale ale si nènɔ, eye wò ƒewo mawu enu akpɔ o.
But you are the unchanging One, and your years will have no end.
28 Wò dɔlawo ƒe viwo anɔ ŋkuwò me, eye woaɖo woƒe dzidzimeviwo anyi le ŋkuwò me.”
The children of your servants will have a safe resting-place, and their seed will be ever before you.
