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 army of] King Nebuchadnezzar of Babylon captured Jehoiachin, the king of Judah, and his officials, and all his skilled workers [DOU] and took them to Babylon. After that happened, Yahweh gave me a vision. [In the vision] I saw two baskets of figs that had been placed in front of the temple.

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 was full of good figs, like the kind that ripen first. The other basket was filled with figs that were bad/rotten, with the result that they could not be eaten.

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 Yahweh said to me, “Jeremiah, what do you see?” I replied, “[I see some] figs. Some are very good ones, but some are very bad, with the result that no one would eat them.”

4 Na Awurade asɛm baa me nkyɛn se,

Then Yahweh gave me this message:

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.

“This is what [I], Yahweh, the God whom the Israeli people [say that they worship], say: ‘The good figs represent [SIM] the people of Judah whom I exiled to Babylonia.

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.

I [SYN] will (watch over/take care of) them well, and [some day] I will bring them back here [to Judah]. I will establish them and cause them to be strong. I will cause them to be prosperous [MET], and I will not exile them [again].

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.

I will enable them to desire to know [IDM] that I am Yahweh. They will be my people, and I will be their God, because they will return to me sincerely.’

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.

But [I], Yahweh, [also] say, ‘The bad figs represent [SIM] Zedekiah, the king of Judah, and his officials, and all the [other] people who remain in Jerusalem, and those who have gone to Egypt. I will do to them like people do to rotten figs.

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 [get rid of them], with the result that people in every nation on the earth will be horrified, and will hate them because they are evil people. Wherever I scatter them, people will make fun of them, and say that they are disgraced, and ridicule them, and curse 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 cause them to experience wars and famines and diseases, until they have disappeared from this land which I gave to them and to their ancestors.’”