Nnwom 44
1 Dwom a wɔde ma dwonkyerɛfo. Koramma “maskil” dwom. Ao, Onyankopɔn, yɛde yɛn aso ate; yɛn agyanom aka akyerɛ yɛn; nea woyɛɛ wɔ wɔn bere so, wɔ tete mmere no mu.
Unto the end, for the sons of Core, to give understanding. We have heard, O God, with our ears: our fathers have declared to us, The work, thou hast wrought in their days, and in the days of old.
2 Wode wo nsa pam amanaman no na wobɔɔ yɛn agyanom atenase; wodwerɛw nnipa no na womaa yɛn agyanom dii yiye.
Thy hand destroyed the Gentiles, and thou plantedst them: thou didst afflict the people and cast them out.
3 Ɛnyɛ wɔn afoa na wɔde nyaa asase no, na ɛnyɛ wɔn nsa na ɛmaa wɔn nkonimdi; ɛyɛ wo nsa nifa, wo basa, ne wʼanim hann, efisɛ na wodɔ wɔn.
For they got not the possession of the land by their own sword: neither did their own arm save them. But thy right hand and thy arm, and the light of thy countenance: because thou wast pleased with them.
4 Woyɛ me Hene ne me Nyankopɔn, nea ɔhyɛ nkonimdi ma Yakob.
Thou art thyself my king and my God, who commandest the saving of Jacob.
5 Ɛnam wo so na yɛpam yɛn Atamfo; wo din mu na yetiatia wɔn a wokyi yɛn no so.
Through thee we will push down our enemies with the horn: and through thy name we will despise them that rise up against us.
6 Memmfa me ho nto mʼagyan so, mʼafoa remfa nkonimdi mmrɛ me;
For I will not trust in my bow: neither shall my sword save me.
7 na wo na woma yedi yɛn atamfo so wugu wɔn a wɔtan yɛn no anim ase.
But thou hast saved us from them that afflict us: and hast put them to shame that hate us.
8 Onyankopɔn mu na yɛhoahoa yɛn ho da mu nyinaa, na yɛbɛkamfo wo din no daa daa.
In God shall we glory all the day long: and in thy name we will give praise for ever.
9 Nanso mprempren woapo yɛn abrɛ yɛn ase; wone yɛn asraafo nkɔ ɔsa bio.
But now thou hast cast us off, and put us to shame: and thou, O God, wilt not go out with our armies.
10 Woma yeguan fii dɔm anim, ma yɛn atamfo fom yɛn agyapade.
Thou hast made us turn our back to our enemies: and they that hated us plundered for themselves.
11 Wuyii yɛn maa sɛ wonkum yɛn sɛ nguan na woahwete yɛn wɔ amanaman no mu.
Thou hast given us up like sheep to be eaten: thou hast scattered us among the nations.
12 Wotɔn wo nkurɔfo fofoofow, na woannya mfaso biara amfi mu.
Thou hast sold thy people for no price: and there was no reckoning in the exchange of them.
13 Woayɛ yɛn ahohorade ama yɛn afipamfo, animtiaabude ne aserewde ama wɔn a wɔatwa yɛn ho ahyia.
Thou hast made us a reproach to our neighbours, a scoff and derision to them that are round about us.
14 Woayɛ yɛn kasabebui wɔ aman no mu na nnipa no wosow wɔn ti de gu yɛn so.
Thou hast made us a byword among the Gentiles: a shaking of the head among the people.
15 Mʼanimguase di mʼanim daa, na aniwu akata mʼanim,
All the day long my shame is before me: and the confusion of my face hath covered me,
16 esiane wɔn a wɔbɔ me ahohora na wɔkasa tia me de yi me ahi, esiane ɔtamfo a nʼani abere sɛ ɔbɛtɔ were no nti.
At the voice of him that reproacheth and detracteth me: at the face of the enemy and persecutor.
17 Eyinom nyinaa too yɛn de, nanso yɛn werɛ mfii wo, na yemmuu wʼapam no nso so ɛ.
All these things have come upon us, yet we have not forgotten thee: and we have not done wickedly in they covenant.
18 Yɛn koma ntwe mfii wo ho; na yɛn anan nso mman mfii wo kwan so ɛ.
And our heart hath not turned back: neither hast thou turned aside our steps from thy way.
19 Nanso wodwerɛw yɛn yɛɛ yɛn sakraman tu na wode sum kabii kataa yɛn so.
For thou hast humbled us in the place of affliction: and the shadow of death hath covered us.
20 Sɛ na yɛn werɛ afi yɛn Nyankopɔn din anaa sɛ yɛatrɛw yɛn nsam akyerɛ ananafo nyame a,
If we have forgotten the name of our God, and if we have spread forth our hands to a strange god:
21 anka Onyankopɔn behu, efisɛ onim koma mu ahintasɛm.
Shall not God search out these things: for he knoweth the secrets of the heart.
22 Nanso wo nti wokum yɛn daa nyinaa; wobu yɛn sɛ nguan a wɔrekokum wɔn.
Because for thy sake we are killed all the day long: we are counted as sheep for the slaughter.
23 Nyan, Awurade! Adɛn nti na woada? Keka wo ho! Nnyaw yɛn hɔ afebɔɔ.
Arise, why sleepest thou, O Lord? arise, and cast us not off to the end.
24 Adɛn nti na wode wʼanim ahintaw na wo werɛ fi yɛn ahohia ne nhyɛso?
Why turnest thou face away? and forgettest our want and our trouble?
25 Wɔabrɛ yɛn ase kɔ dɔte mu na yɛn nipadua aka afam dɔte.
For our soul is humbled down to the dust: our belly cleaveth to the earth.
26 Sɔre bɛboa yɛn; wʼadɔe a ɛnsa da no nti, gye yɛn.
Arise, O Lord, help us and redeem us for thy name’s sake.
