Nnwom 104
1 Me kra, kamfo Awurade! Awurade me Nyankopɔn, woyɛ ɔkɛse! Wɔafura wo tumi ne anuonyam.
[I tell] myself that I should praise Yahweh. Yahweh, my God, you are very great! Like a king has on his royal robes [MET], you have honor and majesty/greatness all around you!
2 Ɔde hann akata ne ho sɛ atade; ɔtrɛw ɔsoro mu te sɛ ntamadan,
You [created/caused] light to be like your robe [MET]. You spread out the sky like [a man sets up] a tent.
3 na ɔde ne mpia mu mpuran sisi nsu so. Ɔde omununkum yɛ ne teaseɛnam na ɔde nantew mframa ntaban so.
You made/put your home [in heaven], above the rain clouds in the sky, [like a man puts the] rafters of his house in place [MET]. You made/caused the clouds to be like chariots [to carry you].
4 Ɔsoma nʼabɔfo sɛ mframa, na ɔsoma nʼasomfo sɛ ogyaframa.
You caused the winds to be [like] your messengers [MET], and flames of fire to be [like] your servants.
5 Ɔde asase asi ne fapem so na ɛrenhinhim da.
You placed the world firmly on its foundation so that it can never be moved/shaken.
6 Wode bun kataa so sɛ atade na nsu gyinaa mmepɔw no so.
[Later], you covered the earth with a flood, like a blanket, with the water that covered the mountains.
7 Nanso wʼanimka maa nsu no guanee, wʼaprannaa nnyigyei maa woguanee;
[But] when you rebuked the water, the oceans receded; your voice spoke like thunder, and then the waters rushed away.
8 Wɔsen faa mmepɔw so, kɔɔ aku mu tɔnn, koguu faako a wode ama wɔn no.
Mountains rose up [from the water], and the valleys sank down to the levels that you had determined for them.
9 Wotoo ɔhye a wɔrentumi ntra; na wɔammɛkata asase so bio.
[Then] you set a boundary for the oceans, a boundary that they cannot cross; their water will never again cover the [whole] earth.
10 Ɔma nsuwa sen fa abon mu, ɛsen fa mmepɔw ntam.
You make/cause springs to pour [water] into ravines; their [water] flows down between the mountains.
11 Wɔma wuram mmoa nyinaa nsu nom; atorɔm de kum wɔn sukɔm.
Those [streams] provide water for all the animals [to drink]; the wild donkeys [drink the water and] are no longer thirsty.
12 Wim nnomaa nwen wɔn berebuw wɔ nsu no ho; na wɔto nnwom wɔ nnua no mman so.
Birds make their nests alongside [the streams], and they sing among the branches [of the trees].
13 Ofi ne soro mpia mu tɔ nsu gugu mmepɔw so; ne nnwuma so aba mee asase.
From (your home in heaven/the sky) you send rain down on the mountains, and you fill the earth with many good things that you create.
14 Ɔma sare fifi ma anantwi, na ɔbɔɔ nnua maa onipa sɛ onnua na ɛmma aduan mfi asase mu:
You make/cause grass to grow for the cattle [to eat], and you make/cause plants to grow for people. In that way [animals and people] get their food from [what grows in] the soil.
15 nsa a ɛma onipa koma tɔ ne yam, ngo a ɛma onipa anim tɔ so, ne aduan a ekura onipa koma.
We get [grapes to make] [MTY] wine to [drink and] make us cheerful, and we get [olives to make] [MTY] olive oil to [put on our] skin and cause it to shine, and we get [grain to make] [MTY] bread to give us strength.
16 Wogugu Awurade nnua no so yiye, Lebanon sida a oduae no.
Yahweh, you [send plenty of rain to] water your trees, the cedar [trees] that you planted in Lebanon.
17 Ɛsow na nnomaa yɛ wɔn mmerebuw, na asukɔnkɔn nso yɛ nʼatenae wɔ ɔpepaw nnua no mu.
Birds make their nests in those [trees]; even storks make their nests in pine/fir trees.
18 Mmepɔw atenten no yɛ wuram mmirekyi de; na abotan yɛ guankɔbea ma ewi.
High up in the mountains the wild goats live, and hyraxes/badgers live in the crags/crevices in the rocks.
19 Ɔsram kyerɛ bere nkyekyɛmu, na owia nim bere a ɔkɔtɔ.
[Yahweh], you made the moon to indicate the times for our festivals, and you made the sun that knows when to go down.
20 Wode sum ba ma ɛyɛ adesae na kwae mu mmoa nyinaa kɔ ahayɛ.
You bring darkness, and it becomes night, when all the animals in the forest prowl around, [looking for food].
21 Gyata bobɔ mu pɛ wɔn hanam, wɔhwehwɛ wɔn aduan fi Onyankopɔn hɔ.
At night the young lions roar as they seek their prey, [but] they depend on you to give them food.
22 Owia pue ma wɔsan wɔn akyi; wɔsan kɔdeda wɔn atu mu.
At dawn, they go back to their dens and lie down.
23 Afei, onipa kɔ nʼadwuma so kɔyɛ adwuma ara kosi anwummere.
And during the daytime, people go to their work; they work until it is evening.
24 Awurade, wo nnwuma dɔɔso! Nyansa mu na woyɛɛ ne nyinaa; wʼabɔde ahyɛ asase so ma.
Yahweh, you have made so many different kinds of things! You were [very] wise as you made them all. The earth is full of the creatures that you [made].
25 Po na ɛda hɔ tɛtrɛɛ tamaa yi, a abɔde bebree a enni ano; akɛse ne nketewa ahyɛ no ma.
[We see] the ocean which is very large [DOU]! It is full of many kinds of living creatures, big ones and little ones.
26 So na ahyɛn di akɔneaba, na ɔdɛnkyɛmmirampɔn a woyɛɛ no di agoru.
We see the ships which sail along! We see the huge sea monster, which you made to (splash around/play) in the sea.
27 Wɔn nyinaa hwɛ wo kwan sɛ wobɛma wɔn wɔn aduan wɔ bere a ɛsɛ mu.
All of those creatures depend on you to give them the food that they need.
28 Wode ma wɔn a, wɔtase; wubue wo nsam a nnepa mee wɔn.
When you give them the food that they need, they gather it. You give them what you have in your hand, and they [eat it and] are satisfied.
29 Wode wʼanim hintaw wɔn a, wɔbɔ hu; sɛ wugye wɔn home a, wowuwu na wɔsan kɔ mfutuma mu.
[But] if you refuse to give food to them, they become terrified. And when you cause them to stop breathing, they die; their bodies [decay and] become soil again.
30 Sɛ wode wo Honhom no ma wɔn a na wɔabɔ wɔn, na woyɛ asase ani foforo.
When you cause newborn creatures to begin to breathe, they start to live; you give new life to all the living creatures on the earth.
31 Ma Awurade anuonyam ntena hɔ daa; ma Awurade ani nnye ne nnwuma ho,
I want the glory of Yahweh to last forever. I want him to rejoice about [all] the things that he has created.
32 nea ɔhwɛ asase na ɛwosow, na ɔde ne nsa ka mmepɔw a wusiw fi mu ba.
He causes the earth to shake [just] by looking at it! By [merely] touching the mountains he makes/causes them to pour out fire and smoke!
33 Mɛto dwom ama Awurade me nkwa nna nyinaa; sɛ mete ase yi, mɛto ayeyi dwom ama me Nyankopɔn.
I will sing to Yahweh (as long as I live/throughout my entire life). I will praise my God until the day that I die.
34 Ɔmma me mpaebɔ nsɔ nʼani bere a meregye mʼani wɔ Awurade mu yi.
I want Yahweh to be pleased by all those things that I have thought [about him], because I rejoice about [knowing] him.
35 Ma nnebɔneyɛfo nyera wɔ asase so; na amumɔyɛfo ase nhyew. Me kra, kamfo Awurade. Kamfo Awurade.
[But] I desire that sinners will disappear from the earth, so that there will be no more wicked [people]! [But as for] me, I will praise Yahweh! (Praise him/Hallelujah)!
