Yeremia 12
1 Woyɛ ɔtreneeni bere biara, Awurade, sɛ mede asɛm to wʼanim a. Nso me ne wo bɛkasa afa wʼatɛntrenee ho: Adɛn nti na amumɔyɛfo kwan si wɔn yiye? Adɛn nti na wɔn a wonni gyidi ho dwo wɔn?
Righteous are You, O LORD, when I plead before You. Yet about Your judgments I wish to contend with You: Why does the way of the wicked prosper? Why do all the faithless live at ease?
2 Woadua wɔn, na wɔagye ntin; wonyinyin na wɔsow aba. Wɔbɔ wo din bere biara nanso wɔn koma mmɛn wo.
You planted them, and they have taken root. They have grown and produced fruit. You are ever on their lips, but far from their hearts.
3 Nanso wunim me, Awurade; wuhu me, na wosɔ mʼadwene a mewɔ wɔ wo ho no hwɛ. Twe wɔn kɔ sɛ nguan a wɔrekotwitwa wɔn mu! Yi wɔn si nkyɛn ma okumda!
But You know me, O LORD; You see me and test my heart toward You. Drag away the wicked like sheep to the slaughter and set them apart for the day of carnage.
4 Asase no nkyen nkosi da bɛn na prama so sare nguan nkosi da bɛn? Esiane sɛ wɔn a wɔte so no yɛ amumɔyɛfo nti mmoa ne nnomaa a wɔwɔ so awuwu. Na nnipa no da so ka se, “Ɔrenhu nea ɛba yɛn so.”
How long will the land mourn and the grass of every field be withered? Because of the evil of its residents, the animals and birds have been swept away, for the people have said, “He cannot see what our end will be.”
5 “Sɛ wo ne mmarima atu mmirika ama woabrɛ a, ɛbɛyɛ dɛn na wo ne apɔnkɔ besi mmirikakan? Sɛ wuhintiw wɔ asase petee so a, ɛno de, dɛn na wobɛyɛ wɔ Yordan ho nkyɛkyerɛ mu?
“If you have raced with men on foot and they have worn you out, how can you compete with horses? If you stumble in a peaceful land, how will you do in the thickets of the Jordan?
6 Wo nuabarimanom, wʼankasa abusuafo, wɔn mpo ayi wo ama; wɔteɛ mu dennen tia wo. Mfa wo ho nto wɔn so, sɛ mpo wɔka wo ho asɛm pa a.
Even your brothers— your own father’s household— even they have betrayed you; even they have cried aloud against you. Do not trust them, though they speak well of you.
7 “Megyaw me fi, ato mʼagyapade asaworam; mede nea medɔ no no bɛhyɛ nʼatamfo nsa.
I have forsaken My house; I have abandoned My inheritance. I have given the love of My life into the hands of her enemies.
8 Mʼagyapade ayɛ me sɛ gyata a ɔwɔ kwae mu. Ɔbobɔ mu gu me so; ɛno nti metan no.
My inheritance has become to Me like a lion in the forest. She has roared against Me; therefore I hate her.
9 So mʼagyapade nyɛɛ me sɛ anomaa a nkekae sisi ne ho a ɔkyere mmoa na nnomaa foforo a wɔkyere mmoa atwa ne ho ahyia resosɔw no ana? Monkɔboaboa nkekaboa nyinaa ano. Momfa wɔn mmra na wonkum wɔn.
Is not My inheritance to Me like a speckled bird of prey with other birds of prey circling against her? Go, gather all the beasts of the field; bring them to devour her.
10 Nguanhwɛfo bebree bɛsɛe me bobeturo, na wɔatiatia me mfuw so; wɔbɛdan me mfuw fɛɛfɛ no ayɛ no asase hunu a ɛda mpan.
Many shepherds have destroyed My vineyard; they have trampled My plot of ground. They have turned My pleasant field into a desolate wasteland.
11 Ɛbɛyɛ asase a ada mpan a, awo wosee na ɛda hɔ kwa wɔ mʼanim; asase no nyinaa bɛda mpan efisɛ obiara nni hɔ a ɔhwɛ so.
They have made it a desolation; desolate before Me, it mourns. All the land is laid waste, but no man takes it to heart.
12 Nkoko wosee a ɛwɔ nweatam no nyinaa so no na asɛefo bɛba abegu bebree, Awurade afoa bekunkum wɔn afi asase ano de akosi ano nohɔ; obiara remfa ne ho nni.
Over all the barren heights in the wilderness the destroyers have come, for the sword of the LORD devours from one end of the earth to the other. No flesh has peace.
13 Wobedua atoko, nso wobetwa nsɔe; wɔbɛbrɛ wɔn ho nanso wɔrennya hwee. Wɔn ani bewu wɔ wɔn nnɔbaetwa ho. Awurade abufuwhyew nti.”
They have sown wheat but harvested thorns. They have exhausted themselves to no avail. Bear the shame of your harvest because of the fierce anger of the LORD.”
14 Nea Awurade se ni: “Na me yɔnkonom amumɔyɛfo a wɔfa agyapade a, mede maa me nkurɔfo Israelfo no de, metu wɔn afi wɔn nsase so na metu Yudafi afi wɔn mu.
This is what the LORD says: “As for all My evil neighbors who attack the inheritance that I bequeathed to My people Israel, I am about to uproot them from their land, and I will uproot the house of Judah from among them.
15 Na sɛ mitu wɔn wie a, mehu wɔn mmɔbɔ bio, na mede wɔn mu biara bɛba nʼagyapade, ne nʼasase so.
But after I have uprooted them, I will once again have compassion on them and return each one to his inheritance and to his land.
16 Na sɛ wosua me nkurɔfo akwan yiye na wɔbɔ me din ka ntam se, ‘Nokware sɛ Awurade te ase yi’ a, ɛwɔ mu sɛ mmere bi wɔkyerɛɛ me nkurɔfo ma wɔde Baal kaa ntam de, nanso wɔn ase betim wɔ me nkurɔfo mu.
And if they will diligently learn the ways of My people and swear by My name, saying, ‘As surely as the LORD lives’—just as they once taught My people to swear by Baal—then they will be established among My people.
17 Nanso sɛ ɔman bi antie a, metu nʼase, na masɛe no korakora,” Awurade na ose.
But if they will not obey, then I will uproot that nation; I will uproot it and destroy it, declares the LORD.”
