Kwadwom 5
1 Awurade, kae nea aba yɛn so; hwɛ, na hu yɛn animguase.
Remember, O Yhwh, what is come upon us: consider, and behold our reproach.
2 Wɔadan yɛn agyapade ama ahɔho, wɔde yɛn afi ama ananafo.
Our inheritance is turned to strangers, our houses to aliens.
3 Yɛayɛ nyisaa na yenni agyanom, yɛn nanom yɛ akunafo.
We are orphans and fatherless, our mothers are as widows.
4 Ɛsɛ sɛ yɛtɔ nsu a yɛnom; yebenya nnyina a, gye sɛ yɛtɔ.
We have drunken our water for money; our wood is sold unto us.
5 Wɔn a wɔtaa yɛn no abɛn yɛn pɛɛ; Yɛabrɛ na yennya ahomegye.
Our necks are under persecution: we labour, and have no rest.
6 Yɛde yɛn ho maa Misraim ne Asiria sɛnea yebenya aduan a ɛbɛso yɛn.
We have given the hand to the Egyptians, and to the Assyrians, to be satisfied with bread.
7 Yɛn agyanom yɛɛ bɔne, na wonni hɔ bio, na yɛn na wɔn asotwe abɛda yɛn so.
Our fathers have sinned, and are not; and we have borne their iniquities.
8 Nkoa di yɛn so, na obiara nni hɔ a obegye yɛn afi wɔn nsam.
Servants have ruled over us: there is none that doth deliver us out of their hand.
9 Yɛde yɛn nkwa bɔ afɔre de pɛ yɛn anoduan, afoa a ɛwɔ sare so no nti.
We gat our bread with the peril of our lives because of the sword of the wilderness.
10 Yɛn honam adɔ sɛ fononoo. Ɔkɔm ama atiridii abɔ yɛn.
Our skin was black like an oven because of the terrible famine.
11 Wɔato mmea mmonnaa wɔ Sion, ne mmabun a wɔwɔ Yuda nkurow so.
They ravished the women in Zion, and the maids in the cities of Judah.
12 Wɔkyekyere mmapɔmma nsa na wɔasɛn wɔn; wɔmmfa nidi mma mpanyimfo.
Princes are hanged up by their hand: the faces of elders were not honoured.
13 Mmerante yɛ adwumaden wɔ awiyammo so; na mmerantewa nan toto wɔ nnyina duruduru ase.
They took the young men to grind, and the children fell under the wood.
14 Mpanyimfo ntena kuropɔn apon ano bio; mmerante agyae wɔn nnwonto.
The elders have ceased from the gate, the young men from their musick.
15 Ahosɛpɛw afi yɛn koma mu; yɛn asaw adan agyaadwotwa.
The joy of our heart is ceased; our dance is turned into mourning.
16 Ahenkyɛw afi yɛn ti so. Yɛn ara, yennue sɛ yɛayɛ bɔne!
The crown is fallen from our head: woe unto us, that we have sinned!
17 Eyi nti yɛn koma atɔ beraw, eyinom nti yɛn ani so ayɛ kusuu
For this our heart is faint; for these things our eyes are dim.
18 wɔ Sion bepɔw a ada mpan na sakraman nenam so no nti.
Because of the mountain of Zion, which is desolate, the foxes walk upon it.
19 Wo, Awurade, di hene afebɔɔ; wʼahengua fi awo ntoatoaso kosi awo ntoatoaso.
Thou, O Yhwh, remainest for ever; thy throne from generation to generation.
20 Adɛn nti na wo werɛ fi yɛn daa yi? Adɛn nti na wagyaw yɛn, mmere tenten mu yi?
Wherefore dost thou forget us for ever, and forsake us so long time?
21 Ka yɛn bata wo ho bio, Awurade, na yɛatumi asan aba wo nkyɛn; yɛ yɛn nna foforo sɛ tete no
Turn thou us unto thee, O Yhwh, and we shall be turned; renew our days as of old.
22 gye sɛ woapo yɛn koraa anaasɛ wo bo afuw yɛn mmoroso.
But thou hast utterly rejected us; thou art very wroth against us.
