Yeremia 24

1 Babiloniahene Nebukadnessar faa Yudahene Yehoiakyin a ɔyɛ Yehoiakim babarima, nʼadwumayɛfo, nʼadwumfo ne nʼatomfo a wɔwɔ Yuda fii Yerusalem kɔɔ nnommum mu wɔ Babilonia no akyi no, Awurade kyerɛɛ me borɔdɔma nkɛntɛn abien a wɔde asisi Awurade asɔredan no anim.

The Lord shewed me, and beholde, two baskets of figges were set before the Temple of the Lord, after that Nebuchad-nezzar King of Babel had caryed away captiue Ieconiah ye sonne of Iehoiakim King of Iudah, and the princes of Iudah with the workemen, and cunning men of Ierusalem, and had brought them to Babel.

2 Kɛntɛn baako mu borɔdɔma no yɛ papa te sɛ nea ɛbere ntɛm; borɔdɔma a ɛwɔ kɛntɛn a ɛka ho no mu no nye sɛ wodi mpo.

One basket had verie good figges, euen like the figges that are first ripe: and the other basket had verie naughtie figges, which could not be eaten, they were so euill.

3 Na Awurade bisaa me se, “Dɛn na wuhu, Yeremia?” Mibuae se, “Borɔdɔma, nea eye pa ara, ne nea enye mma sɛ wodi mpo.”

Then saide the Lord vnto mee, What seest thou, Ieremiah? And I said, Figges: ye good figges verie good, and the naughtie verie naughtie, which cannot be eaten, they are so euill.

4 Na Awurade asɛm baa me nkyɛn se,

Againe the worde of the Lord came vnto me, saying,

5 “Sɛɛ na Awurade, Israel Nyankopɔn se: ‘Borɔdɔma papa no gyina hɔ ma atukɔfo a wofi Yuda, wɔn a mitwaa wɔn asu kɔɔ Babilonia asase so no.

Thus sayeth the Lord, the God of Israel, Like these good figges, so will I knowe them that are caryed away captiue of Iudah to bee good, whome I haue sent out of this place, into the land of the Caldeans.

6 Mɛma mʼani aku wɔn ho, ama wɔn yiyedi, na mɛsan de wɔn aba ha bio. Mesiesie wɔn na merensɛe wɔn. Medua wɔn, na merentu wɔn ase.

For I wil set mine eyes vpon them for good, and I will bring them againe to this lande, and I will build them, and not destroy them, and I will plant them, and not roote them out,

7 Mɛma wɔn koma a wɔde behu me sɛ, me ne Awurade. Wɔbɛyɛ me nkurɔfo, na mɛyɛ wɔn Nyankopɔn, efisɛ wɔde wɔn koma nyinaa bɛsan aba me nkyɛn.

And I will giue them an heart to knowe me, that I am the Lord, and they shalbe my people, and I wil be their God: for they shall returne vnto mee with their whole heart.

8 “‘Nanso te sɛ borɔdɔma a enye no, nea enye sɛnea wodi mpo no,’ nea Awurade se ni, ‘saa ara na mɛyɛ Yudahene Sedekia, nʼadwumayɛfo ne Yerusalem nkae no, sɛ wɔte asase yi so anaa wɔte Misraim.

And as the naughtie figges which can not bee eaten, they are so euill (surely thus saith the Lord) so wil I giue Zedekiah the King of Iudah, and his princes, and the residue of Ierusalem, that remaine in this lande, and them that dwell in the lande of Egypt:

9 Mɛma wɔn ayɛ akyide ne mfomsode ama ahenni a ɛwɔ asase so nyinaa, wɔbɛyɛ ahohora na wɔabɔ wɔn din bɔne, wɔbɛyɛ akyiwade ne mmusu baabiara a mɛpam wɔn akɔ.

I will euen giue them for a terrible plague to all the kingdomes of the earth, and for a reproche, and for a prouerbe, for a common talke, and for a curse, in all places where I shall cast them.

10 Mɛsoma afoa, ɔkɔm ne ɔyaredɔm akɔ wɔn so kosi sɛ wɔbɛsɛe wɔn koraa afi asase a mede maa wɔn ne wɔn agyanom no so.’”

And I will sende the sworde, the famine, and the pestilence among them, till they bee consumed out of the land, that I gaue vnto them and to their fathers.