Daniel 9
1 Ahasweros babarima Dario (a nʼase fi Media) a wɔyɛɛ no ɔhene wɔ Babilonia ahenni so no,
In the first year of Darius the son of Assuerus, of the seed of the Medes, who reigned over the kingdom of the Chaldeans,
2 afe a edi kan no, me, Daniel, metee ase fii kyerɛwsɛm mu sɛnea Awurade de maa Odiyifo Yeremia se, Yerusalem bɛda mpan mfirihyia aduɔson.
I Daniel understood by books the number of the years which was the word of the Lord to the prophet Jeremias, [even] seventy years for the accomplishment of the desolation of Jerusalem.
3 Ɛno nti, mifuraa atweaatam de nsõ yɛɛ me ho dii mmuada. Afei mede nkotosrɛ kɔɔ Awurade Nyankopɔn anim kɔbɔɔ mpae srɛe.
And I set my face toward the Lord God, to seek [him] diligently by prayer and supplications, with fastings and sackcloth.
4 Mebɔɔ Awurade me Nyankopɔn mpae, na mepaee mu kae se: “Awurade, wo a wo so na woyɛ Onyankopɔn nwonwani! Wo a wudi ɔdɔ apam so—ɔdɔ apam a woayɛ ama wɔn a wɔdɔ wo na wodi wo mmara so.
And I prayed to the Lord my God, and confessed, and said, O Lord, the great and wonderful God, keeping your covenant and your mercy to them that love you, and to them that keep your commandments; we have sinned,
5 Yɛayɛ bɔne, na yɛayɛ mfomso. Yɛabɔ atirimɔden na yɛatew atua; yɛakwati wo mmara ne wʼahyɛde.
we have done iniquity, we have transgressed, and we have departed and turned aside from your commandments and from your judgments:
6 Yɛantie wʼasomfo adiyifo a wɔkasaa wɔ wo din mu kyerɛɛ yɛn ahemfo ne ahenemma ne agyanom ne nnipa a wɔwɔ asase no so nyinaa.
and we have not listened to your servants the prophets, who spoke in your name to our kings, and our princes, and our fathers, and to all the people of the land.
7 “Awurade, woyɛ ɔtreneeni, nanso nnɛ de, yɛn anim agu ase, Yudafo ne Yerusalemfo ne Israelfo nyinaa, wɔn a wɔbɛn ne wɔn a wɔwɔ akyirikyiri a wɔabɔ apansam. Esiane yɛn amumɔyɛ nti, yɛn anim agu ase.
To you, O Lord, [belongs] righteousness, an to us confusion of face, as at this day; to the men of Juda, and to the dwellers in Jerusalem, and to all Israel, to them that are near, and to them that are far off in all the earth, wherever you has scattered them, for the sin which they committed.
8 Awurade, aniwu aka yɛn ne yɛn ahemfo, ahenemma ne yɛn agyanom, efisɛ yɛayɛ bɔne atia wo.
In you, O Lord, is our righteousness, and to us [belongs] confusion of faced, and to our kings, and to our princes, and to our fathers, forasmuch as we have sinned.
9 Ɛwɔ mu sɛ, yɛatew Awurade yɛn Nyankopɔn anim atua, nanso ɔyɛ ahummɔbɔ na ɔde bɔne kyɛ.
To you, the Lord our God, [belong] compassions and forgivenesses, whereas we have departed [from you];
10 Yɛanyɛ osetie amma Awurade yɛn Nyankopɔn, na yɛanni ne mmara a ɔnam nʼasomfo adiyifo so de maa yɛn no so.
neither have we listened to the voice of the Lord our God, to walk in his laws, which he set before us by the hands of his servants the prophets.
11 Israel nyinaa abu wo mmara so, na wɔafi ho a wɔmpɛ sɛ wɔyɛ osetie ma wo. “Enti nnome ne atemmu a wɔaka ntam akyerɛw wɔ Onyankopɔn somfo Mose Mmara mu no, wɔahwie agu yɛn so, sɛ yɛayɛ bɔne atia wo nti.
Moreover all Israel have transgressed your law, and have refused to listen to your voice; so the curse has come upon us, and the oath that is written in the law of Moses the servant of God, because we have sinned against him.
12 Ɔhaw kɛse a wobɔɔ ho kɔkɔ sɛ wobɛyɛ atia yɛn ne yɛn ahemfo no, woayɛ. Ɔsoro ase nyinaa, biribiara nsii sɛnea asi wɔ Yerusalem no bi da.
And he has confirmed his words, which he spoke against us, and against our judges who judged us, [by] bringing upon us great evils, such as have not happened under the whole heaven, according to what has happened in Jerusalem.
13 Sɛnea wɔakyerɛw wɔ Mose mmara mu no, saa amanehunu yi nyinaa aba yɛn so, nanso yɛnhwehwɛɛ Awurade yɛn Nyankopɔn mmɔborɔhunu, sɛ yebefi yɛn bɔne ho na yɛapɛ nokware akyi kwan.
As it is written in the law of Moses, all these evils have come upon us: yet we have not implored the Lord our God, that we might turn away from our iniquities, and have understanding in all your truth.
14 Awurade antwentwɛn sɛ ɔde amanehunu no bɛba yɛn so, efisɛ Awurade yɛn Nyankopɔn yɛ pɛ wɔ biribiara a ɔyɛ mu, nanso yɛanyɛ osetie amma no.
The Lord also has watched, and brought the evils upon us: for the Lord our God is righteous in all his work which he has executed, but we have not listened to his voice.
15 “Awurade yɛn Nyankopɔn, wo a wode nsa a ɛyɛ den yii wo nkurɔfo fii Misraim, de gyee din a atena hɔ abesi nnɛ yi, yɛayɛ bɔne, yɛayɛ mfomso.
And now, O Lord our God, who brought your people out of the land of Egypt with a mighty hand, and made to yourself a name, as [at] this day; we have sinned, we have transgressed.
16 Awurade, sɛnea wo trenee nneyɛe nyinaa te no nti, yi wʼabufuw ne wʼanibere fi wo kuropɔn Yerusalem ne wo bepɔw kronkron no so. Esiane yɛn bɔne ne yɛn agyanom amumɔyɛ nti, nnipa a wɔatwa Yerusalem ho ahyia no nyinaa di Yerusalem ne wo nkurɔfo ho fɛw.
O Lord, your mercy is over all: let, I pray you, your wrath turn away, and your anger from your city Jerusalem, [even] your holy mountain: for we have sinned, and because of our iniquities, and those of our fathers, Jerusalem and your people are become a reproach among all that are round about us.
17 “Na afei yɛn Nyankopɔn, tie wʼakoa mpaebɔ, ne ne nkotosrɛ. Wo nti, Awurade, tew wʼanim bio kyerɛ wo kronkronbea hɔ a agyigya no.
And now, O lord our God, listen to the prayer of your servant, and his supplications, and cause your face to shine on your desolate sanctuary, for your [own] sake, O Lord.
18 Yɛ aso, me Nyankopɔn na tie; bue wʼani, na hwɛ kuropɔn a wo Din da so a agyigya no. Ɛnyɛ yɛn trenee nti na yɛde yɛn nkotosrɛ aba wʼanim, na mmom ɛyɛ wo mmɔborɔhunu bebrebe no nti.
Incline your ear, O my God, and hear; open your eyes and behold our desolation, and that of your city on which your name is called: for we do not bring our pitiful case before you on [the ground of] our righteousness, but on [the ground of] your manifold compassions, O Lord.
19 Awurade, tie! Awurade, fa kyɛ! Awurade, tie na yɛ! Wo nti, me Nyankopɔn, ntwentwɛn wʼanan ase, efisɛ wo Din da wo kuropɔn ne wo nkurɔfo so.”
Listen, O Lord; be propitious, O Lord; attend, O Lord; delay not, O my God, for your own sake: for your name is called upon your city and upon your people.
20 Bere a merekasa na merebɔ mpae, na mereka me ne me nkurɔfo Israelfo bɔne akyerɛ, na mede mʼadesrɛ reto Awurade me Nyankopɔn anim ama ne bepɔw kronkron no,
And while I was yet speaking, and praying, and confessing my sins and the sins of my people Israel, and bringing my pitiful case before the Lord my God concerning the holy mountain;
21 na migu so rebɔ mpae no, Gabriel a mihuu no kan anisoadehu mu no de ahoɔhare baa me nkyɛn bɛyɛ anwummere afɔrebɔ bere mu.
yes, while I was yet speaking in prayer, behold the man Gabriel, whom I had seen in the vision at the beginning, [came] flying, and he touched me about the hour of the evening sacrifice.
22 Ɔkyerɛkyerɛɛ me se, “Daniel, maba ha sɛ merebrɛ wo nhumu ne ntease.
And he instructed me, and spoke with me, and said, O Daniel, I am now come forth to impart to you understanding.
23 Wufii ase sɛ worebɔ mpae pɛ no, mmuae bae, na maba sɛ merebɛka akyerɛ wo, efisɛ, wobu wo yiye. Enti dwene asɛm no ho na te anisoadehu no ase.
At the beginning of your supplication the word came forth, and I am come to tell you; for you are a man much beloved: therefore consider the matter, understand the vision.
24 “‘Mmere aduɔson ahorow ason’ na wɔahyɛ ama wo nkurɔfo ne wo kuropɔn kronkron no sɛ wɔmfa nnyae mmarato, na wontwa bɔneyɛ so, na wɔmpata atirimɔden, na trenee a to ntwa da mmra, na wɔnsɔw anisoadehu ne nkɔmhyɛ ano, na wɔnsra Kronkron mu Kronkronbea hɔ ngo.
Seventy weeks have been determined upon your people, and upon the holy city, for sin to be ended, and to seal up transgressions, and to blot out the iniquities, and to make atonement for iniquities, and to bring in everlasting righteousness, and to seal the vision and the prophet, and to anoint the Most Holy.
25 “Tie na te eyi ase: Efi bere a asɛm no bɛkɔ ama wɔasi Yerusalem ayɛ no foforo, kosi sɛ Nea Wɔasra no Ngo no bɛba no bɛyɛ mmere ason ahorow ‘ason’, ne aduosia abien ahorow ‘ason.’ Wobeyiyi mmorɔn ne akwan na wɔayɛ bammɔ a ɛyɛ den, nanso ɛbɛyɛ ahohiahia bere mu.
And you shall know and understand, that from the going forth of the command for the answer and for the building of Jerusalem until Christ the prince [there shall be] seven weeks, and sixty-two weeks; and then [the time] shall return, and the street shall be built, and the wall, and the times shall be exhausted.
26 Mmere aduosia abien ahorow ason akyi no, wobekum Nea Wɔasra no ngo no a wɔrennya ne ho asɛm biara. Ɔhene a ɔbɛba no nkurɔfo bɛba abɛsɛe kuropɔn ne kronkronbea no. Awiei no bɛba sɛ nsuyiri, na ɔko ne mu ahoyeraw bɛba akosi awiei sɛnea wɔahyɛ no.
And after the sixty-two weeks, the anointed one shall be destroyed, and there is no judgment in him: and he shall destroy the city and the sanctuary with the prince that is coming: they shall be cut off with a flood, and to the end of the war which is rapidly completed he shall appoint [the city] to desolations.
27 Ɔbɛhoro ɔno ne nnipa bebree ntam apam so dua wɔ mmere ‘ason’ baako mu. Na mmere ‘ason’ no mfimfini no, obegyae afɔrebɔ ne ayɛyɛdema. Obedua abusude a ɛde ɔsɛe bɛba wɔ asɔredan no mu, kosi sɛ awiei a wɔahyɛ no behwie agu ne so.”
And one week shall establish the covenant with many: and in the midst of the week my sacrifice and drink-offering shall be taken away: and on the temple [shall be] the abomination of desolations; and at the end of time an end shall be put to the desolation.
