Yeremia 19

1 Sɛɛ na Awurade se: “Kɔ na kɔtɔ dɔtekuruwa fi ɔnwemfo nkyɛn. Fa nnipa no mpanyimfo no mu bi ne asɔfo no mu bi ka wo ho

Thus said Jehovah, "Go, and buy a potter's earthen bottle, and take with you some of the elders of the people, and of the elders of the priests;

2 na fi adi kɔ Ben Hinom Bon a ɛbɛn Pɔthɛd Pon ano no. Ɛhɔ na pae mu ka nsɛm a meka kyerɛ wo no,

and go forth to the Valley of Ben Hinnom, which is by the entry of the Potsherd Gate, and proclaim there the words that I shall tell you;

3 se, ‘Muntie Awurade asɛm, mo Yuda ahemfo ne Yerusalemfo. Sɛɛ na Asafo Awurade Israel Nyankopɔn se. Muntie, mede amanehunu reba ha, na obiara a ɔbɛte no aso mu bɛyɛ no yonn.

and say, 'Hear the word of Jehovah, kings of Judah, and inhabitants of Jerusalem: thus says Jehovah of hosts, the God of Israel, "Look, I will bring evil on this place, which whoever hears, his ears shall tingle.

4 Efisɛ wɔagyaw me na wɔde ha ama ananafo anyame; wɔahyew afɔrebɔde wɔ so ama anyame a wɔn anaa wɔn agyanom, anaa Yuda ahemfo nhuu wɔn da, na wɔde mogya a edi bem ahyɛ ha ma.

Because they have forsaken me, and have estranged this place, and have burned incense in it to other gods, that they did not know, they and their fathers and the kings of Judah; and have filled this place with the blood of innocents,

5 Wɔasisi Baal sorɔnsorɔmmea sɛ wɔde ogya bɛhyew wɔn mmabarima sɛ afɔrebɔde ama Baal, ade a manhyɛ anaa mammɔ so, anaa amma mʼadwene mu.

and have built the high places of Baal, to burn their sons in the fire for burnt offerings to Baal; which I did not command, nor spoke it, neither came it into my mind:

6 Ɛno nti, monhwɛ yiye na nna bi reba, Awurade na ose, a nnipa remfrɛ ha se Tofet anaa Ben Hinom Bon bio, na mmom, Okum Bon.

therefore, look, the days come," says Jehovah, "that this place shall no more be called Topheth, nor The Valley of Ben Hinnom, but The Valley of Slaughter.

7 “‘Mɛsɛe Yuda ne Yerusalem nhyehyɛe wɔ ha. Mɛma wɔatotɔ wɔ afoa ano wɔ wɔn atamfo a wɔrehwehwɛ wɔn nkwa no anim, na mede wɔn afunu bɛma wim nnomaa ne asase so mmoa sɛ wɔn aduan.

I will make void the counsel of Judah and Jerusalem in this place; and I will cause them to fall by the sword before their enemies, and by the hand of those who seek their life: and their dead bodies will I give to be food for the birds of the sky, and for the animals of the earth.

8 Mɛsɛe saa kuropɔn yi na mayɛ no ahodwiriwde; wɔn a wotwa mu wɔ hɔ no nyinaa ho bedwiriw wɔn, na nʼapirakuru no nti wobedi ne ho fɛw.

I will make this city an astonishment, and a hissing; everyone who passes thereby shall be astonished and hiss because of all its plagues.

9 Mɛma wɔawe wɔn mmabarima ne wɔn mmabea nam, na wobefi ahohia a atamfo a wɔrehwehwɛ wɔn nkwa no anotua de bɛba wɔn so no mu awe wɔn ho wɔn ho nam.’

I will cause them to eat the flesh of their sons and the flesh of their daughters; and they shall eat everyone the flesh of his friend, in the siege and in the distress, with which their enemies, and those who seek their life, shall distress them."'

10 “Afei bɔ kuruwa no wɔ wɔn a wɔka wo ho no anim ma wɔnhwɛ,

Then you shall break the bottle in the sight of the men who go with you,

11 na ka kyerɛ wɔn se, ‘Sɛɛ na Asafo Awurade se: Mɛbɔ saa ɔman yi ne kuropɔn yi sɛnea wɔabɔ ɔnwemfo kuruwa yi a wɔrentumi nsiesie bio. Wobesie awufo wɔ Tofet kosi sɛ, ɛhɔ bɛyɛ ma.

and shall tell them, 'Thus says Jehovah of hosts: "Even so will I break this people and this city, as one breaks a potter's vessel, that can't be made whole again; and they shall bury in Topheth, until there is no place to bury.

12 Sɛɛ ara na mɛyɛ saa beae yi ne wɔn a wɔtete so, Awurade na ose. Mɛyɛ kuropɔn yi sɛ Tofet.

Thus will I do to this place," says Jehovah, "and to its inhabitants, even making this city as Topheth:

13 Afi a ɛwɔ Yerusalem ne Yuda ahemfo ahemfi ho begu fi te sɛ Tofet ha. Afi a wɔhyew nnuhuam wɔ adan atifi maa ɔsoro asafo nyinaa na woguu nsa maa anyame foforo no.’”

and the houses of Jerusalem, and the houses of the kings of Judah, which are defiled, shall be as the place of Topheth, even all the houses on whose roofs they have burned incense to all the host of heaven, and have poured out drink offerings to other gods."'"

14 Afei Yeremia san fii Tofet, faako a Awurade somaa no se ɔnkɔhyɛ nkɔm wɔ hɔ no bae, na Obegyinaa Awurade asɔredan abangua mu na ɔka kyerɛɛ nnipa no nyinaa se,

Then came Jeremiah from Topheth, where Jehovah had sent him to prophesy; and he stood in the court of Jehovah's house, and said to all the people:

15 “Sɛɛ na Asafo Awurade, Israel Nyankopɔn se, ‘Muntie! Mede amanehunu a meka guu kuropɔn yi ne ho nkuraase no nyinaa so no bɛba wɔn so, efisɛ wɔyɛɛ asoɔden, na wɔantie me nsɛm.’”

"Thus says Jehovah of hosts, the God of Israel, 'Look, I will bring on this city and on all its towns all the evil that I have pronounced against it; because they have made their neck stiff, that they may not hear my words.'"