Yesaia 30

1 “Munnue mmofra asoɔdenfo,” sɛɛ na Awurade se, “Wɔn a wɔde nhyehyɛe a emfi me yɛ adwuma, na wɔyɛ apam a emfi me honhom mu, na wɔboaboa bɔne ano;

“Woe to the rebellious children”, says the LORD, “who take counsel, but not from me; and who make an alliance, but not with my Spirit, that they may add sin to sin;

2 wɔn a wɔkɔ Misraim a wommisa me ansa; wɔhwehwɛ mmoa a ɛyɛ bammɔ fi Farao nkyɛn, wɔkɔ Misraim kɔhwehwɛ hintabea.

who set out to go down into Egypt without asking for my advice, to strengthen themselves in the strength of Pharaoh, and to take refuge in the shadow of Egypt!

3 Nanso Farao bammɔ bɛyɛ animguase ama mo, Misraim nwini de ahohora bɛbrɛ mo.

Therefore the strength of Pharaoh will be your shame, and the refuge in the shadow of Egypt your confusion.

4 Ɛwɔ mu, wɔwɔ adwumayɛfo wɔ Soan na wɔn ananmusifo adu Hanes de,

For their princes are at Zoan, and their ambassadors have come to Hanes.

5 nanso wɔn nyinaa anim begu ase nnipa bi a wɔn so nni wɔn mfaso nti, wɔmmfa mmoa anaa mfaso mma, na mmom animguase ne ahohora.”

They shall all be ashamed because of a people that can’t profit them, that are not a help nor profit, but a shame, and also a reproach.”

6 Adehunu a ɛfa Negeb mmoa ho: wɔfa ahokyere ne ahohiahia asase so, nea gyata ne gyatabere, nhurutoa ne awɔ a wɔn ho yɛ hare wɔ, ananmusifo no de wɔn ahonyade soa mfurum ne wɔn ademude wɔ yoma afu so, de kɔ saa ɔman a ne so nni mfaso no so,

The burden of the animals of the South. Through the land of trouble and anguish, of the lioness and the lion, the viper and fiery flying serpent, they carry their riches on the shoulders of young donkeys, and their treasures on the humps of camels, to an unprofitable people.

7 de kɔ Misraim a ne mmoa so nni mfaso, enti mefrɛ no Rahab nea Onsi Hwee.

For Egypt helps in vain, and to no purpose; therefore I have called her Rahab who sits still.

8 Kɔ afei, kyerɛw wɔ kyerɛwpon so ma wɔn, kurukyerɛw wɔ nhoma mmobɔwee so sɛnea nna a ɛreba no mu no ɛbɛyɛ adansede a ɛbɛtena hɔ afebɔɔ.

Now go, write it before them on a tablet, and inscribe it in a book, that it may be for the time to come forever and ever.

9 Saa nnipa yi yɛ atuatewfo, mma asisifo, mma a wɔmpɛ sɛ wotie Awurade nkyerɛkyerɛ.

For it is a rebellious people, lying children, children who will not hear the LORD’s law;

10 Wɔka kyerɛ adehufo se, “Munhu mo ani so ade bio!” ne adiyifo no nso se, “Monnka anisoadehu a ɛyɛ nokware no nkyerɛ yɛn bio! Monka abodwosɛm nkyerɛ yɛn, monhyɛ nnaadaa nkɔm.

who tell the seers, “Don’t see!” and the prophets, “Don’t prophesy to us right things. Tell us pleasant things. Prophesy deceits.

11 Mumfi saa ɔtempɔn yi so, momman mfi saa ɔkwan yi ho na munnyae Israel Kronkronni a mode no haw yɛn yi!”

Get out of the way. Turn away from the path. Cause the Holy One of Israel to cease from before us.”

12 Enti sɛɛ na Israel Ɔkronkronni no se: “Esiane sɛ moapo saa nkra yi, na mode mo ho ato nhyɛso ne nnaadaa so nti,

Therefore the Holy One of Israel says, “Because you despise this word, and trust in oppression and perverseness, and rely on it,

13 saa bɔne yi bɛyɛ sɛ ɔfasu tenten bi a ahyɛ kam na akyea na ebu mpofirim, ama mo.

therefore this iniquity shall be to you like a breach ready to fall, swelling out in a high wall, whose breaking comes suddenly in an instant.

14 Ebebubu nketenkete ayɛ sɛ kuku. Ɛbɛyam pasaa a, sin koraa renka a wobetumi de asɔ gya afi muka mu anaa wɔde bɛsaw nsu afi ahina mu.”

He will break it as a potter’s vessel is broken, breaking it in pieces without sparing, so that there won’t be found amongst the broken pieces a piece good enough to take fire from the hearth, or to dip up water out of the cistern.”

15 Sɛɛ na Otumfo Awurade, Israel Kronkronni no se: “Ahonu mu ne ntoboase mu na mo nkwagye wɔ kommyɛ ne ahotoso mu na mo ahoɔden wɔ, nanso, morennya mu biara.

For thus said the Lord GOD, the Holy One of Israel, “You will be saved in returning and rest. Your strength will be in quietness and in confidence.” You refused,

16 Mokaa se, ‘Dabi da, yɛbɛtena apɔnkɔ so aguan.’ Enti mubeguan! Mokaa se, ‘yɛbɛtena apɔnkɔ a wɔn ho yɛ hare so akɔ.’ Enti wɔn a wɔtaa mo no ho bɛyɛ hare!

but you said, “No, for we will flee on horses;” therefore you will flee; and, “We will ride on the swift;” therefore those who pursue you will be swift.

17 Apem beguan ɔbaako ho hu nti; baanum ho hu nti mo nyinaa beguan akɔ, akosi sɛ wobegyaw mo te sɛ frankaa dua a esi bepɔw atifi, te sɛ frankaa a esi koko so.”

One thousand will flee at the threat of one. At the threat of five, you will flee until you are left like a beacon on the top of a mountain, and like a banner on a hill.

18 Nanso Awurade pɛ sɛ ɔdom mo; ɔma ne ho so, kyerɛ wo nʼahummɔbɔ. Efisɛ Awurade yɛ ɔtreneeni Nyankopɔn. Nhyira ne wɔn a wɔtwɛn no nyinaa!

Therefore the LORD will wait, that he may be gracious to you; and therefore he will be exalted, that he may have mercy on you, for the LORD is a God of justice. Blessed are all those who wait for him.

19 Sionfo a mote Yerusalem, morentwa adwo bio. Sɛ musu frɛ no hwehwɛ mmoa a, ɔbɛdom mo! Sɛ ɔte a obegye mo so prɛko pɛ.

For the people will dwell in Zion at Jerusalem. You will weep no more. He will surely be gracious to you at the voice of your cry. When he hears you, he will answer you.

20 Ɛwɔ mu, Awurade brɛ mo amanehunu sɛ aduan ne ɔhaw sɛ nsu de, nanso, afei mubehu Awurade, mo kyerɛkyerɛfo no bio, na ɔbɛkyerɛ mo kwan.

Though the Lord may give you the bread of adversity and the water of affliction, yet your teachers won’t be hidden any more, but your eyes will see your teachers;

21 Sɛ mofa nifa anaa benkum a, mobɛte nne bi wɔ mo akyi a ɛka se, “Ɔkwan no ni na momfa so.”

and when you turn to the right hand, and when you turn to the left, your ears will hear a voice behind you, saying, “This is the way. Walk in it.”

22 Afei mobɛtow mo ahoni a mode dwetɛ adura ho ne nsɛsode a mode sikakɔkɔɔ afa ho no nyinaa agu. Mobɛtow wɔn agu sɛ ntamagow fi, na moaka kyerɛ wɔn se, “Mumfi yɛn so nkɔ.”

You shall defile the overlaying of your engraved images of silver, and the plating of your molten images of gold. You shall cast them away as an unclean thing. You shall tell it, “Go away!”

23 Afei ɔde osu behyira mo bere a mudua nnuaba, na aduan a asase no bɛbɔ no bɛyɛ papa na ɛbɛdɔɔso nso. Da no, mo anantwi bedidi wɔ adidibea a ɛtrɛw so.

He will give the rain for your seed, with which you will sow the ground; and bread of the increase of the ground will be rich and plentiful. In that day, your livestock will feed in large pastures.

24 Mo anantwi ne mo mfurum a wofuntum asase no bɛwe atoko pa ne ne ntɛtɛ a, wɔde sofi ne nkorata trɛtrɛw mu.

The oxen likewise and the young donkeys that till the ground will eat savoury feed, which has been winnowed with the shovel and with the fork.

25 Saa okum kɛse da no a abantenten ahwehwe ase no, nsuwa bɛteɛ wɔ bepɔw tenten ne koko a ɛkorɔn biara so.

There will be brooks and streams of water on every lofty mountain and on every high hill in the day of the great slaughter, when the towers fall.

26 Ɔsram bɛhyerɛn sɛ owia, na owia hyerɛn no bɛyɛ mpɛn ason, te sɛ nnafua ason mu hyerɛn, bere a Awurade kyekyere ne nkurɔfo akuru na ɔsa apirakuru a ɔde ama wɔn no.

Moreover the light of the moon will be like the light of the sun, and the light of the sun will be seven times brighter, like the light of seven days, in the day that the LORD binds up the fracture of his people, and heals the wound they were struck with.

27 Hwɛ! Awurade fi akyirikyiri reba, ɔde abufuwhyew ne wusiw kumɔnn; abufuw ahyɛ nʼanom ma, na ne tɛkrɛma yɛ ogya a ɛhyew nneɛma.

Behold, the LORD’s name comes from far away, burning with his anger, and in thick rising smoke. His lips are full of indignation. His tongue is as a devouring fire.

28 Ne home te sɛ asuworoe a ɛsen ntɛmntɛm, na ɛforo kɔdeda kɔn mu. Ɔwosow aman no wɔ ɔsɛe sɔnee so; ɔde nnareka a ɛma wɔfom kwan hyehyɛ nnipa no nnyepi.

His breath is as an overflowing stream that reaches even to the neck, to sift the nations with the sieve of destruction. A bridle that leads to ruin will be in the jaws of the peoples.

29 Na mobɛto dwom te sɛ anadwo a mudi afahyɛ kronkron no; mo koma bedi ahurusi te sɛ bere a nnipa de atɛntɛbɛn foro kɔ Awurade bepɔw no so, kɔ Israel Ɔbotan no nkyɛn.

You will have a song, as in the night when a holy feast is kept, and gladness of heart, as when one goes with a flute to come to the LORD’s mountain, to Israel’s Rock.

30 Awurade bɛma nnipa ate nʼabrɛmpɔnnne na ɔbɛma wɔahu ne basa a ɛresian na ɛde abufuwhyew ne ogya a ɛhyew nneɛma osu dennen, aprannaa ne mparuwbo reba.

The LORD will cause his glorious voice to be heard, and will show the descent of his arm, with the indignation of his anger and the flame of a devouring fire, with a blast, storm, and hailstones.

31 Awurade nne bɛhwe Asiria; ɔde nʼabaa bɛbɔ wɔn ahwe fam.

For through the LORD’s voice the Assyrian will be dismayed. He will strike him with his rod.

32 Ɔbɛbɔ wɔn wɔ ɔko mu, na bere biara a ɔbɛbɔ wɔn no ɛbɛyɛ sɛ akasae ne sankuten so nnwonto koro.

Every stroke of the rod of punishment, which the LORD will lay on him, will be with the sound of tambourines and harps. He will fight with them in battles, brandishing weapons.

33 Wɔasiesie Topet dedaada; wɔayɛ no krado ama ɔhene no. Wɔahyehyɛ ogya ne nnyentia bebree wɔ ne gya amoa no a emu dɔ na ɛtrɛw no mu; Awurade home te sɛ sufre asuten no bɛsɔ mu gya.

For his burning place has long been ready. Yes, it is prepared for the king. He has made its pyre deep and large with fire and much wood. The LORD’s breath, like a stream of sulphur, kindles it.