Nnwom 78
1 Asaf dwom. Me nkurɔfo, muntie me nkyerɛkyerɛ; monyɛ aso mma mʼanom nsɛm.
A Psalme to give instruction committed to Asaph. Heare my doctrine, O my people: incline your eares vnto the wordes of my mouth.
2 Mɛkasa wɔ abebu mu, mɛka ahintasɛm, teteete nneɛma no,
I will open my mouth in a parable: I will declare high sentences of olde.
3 nneɛma a yɛate na yɛahu; nneɛma a yɛn agyanom aka ho asɛm akyerɛ yɛn.
Which we haue heard and knowen, and our fathers haue tolde vs.
4 Yɛremfa nkame wɔn mma; yɛbɛka akyerɛ nkyirimma Awurade nneyɛe a ɛfata nkamfo no, ne tumi ne anwonwade a wayɛ no.
Wee will not hide them from their children but to the generation to come we wil shewe the praises of the Lord his power also, and his wonderful woorkes that he hath done:
5 Ɔyɛɛ ahyɛde maa Yakob na ɔyɛɛ mmara wɔ Israel, nea ɔhyɛɛ yɛn nenanom sɛ wɔnkyerɛ wɔn mma,
How he established a testimonie in Iaakob, and ordeined a Law in Israel, which he commanded our fathers, that they shoulde teache their children:
6 sɛnea ɛbɛyɛ a nkyirimma besua, mpo mmofra a wonnya nwoo wɔn, na wɔn nso akyerɛkyerɛ wɔn mma.
That the posteritie might knowe it, and the children, which should be borne, should stand vp, and declare it to their children:
7 Afei wɔde wɔn ho bɛto Onyankopɔn so, na wɔn werɛ remfi ne nneyɛe, na wobedi nʼahyɛde so.
That they might set their hope on God, and not forget the workes of God but keepe his commandements:
8 Wɔrenyɛ sɛ wɔn nenanom, a na wɔyɛ asoɔdenfo ne atuatewfo, wɔn a wonni Onyankopɔn nokware wɔ wɔn koma mu na woyɛ honhom mu atorofo ma no no.
And not to bee as their fathers, a disobedient and rebellious generation: a generation that set not their heart aright, and whose spirite was not faithfull vnto God.
9 Ɛwɔ mu sɛ na Efraim mmarima kurakura agyan, nanso ɔko da no woguanee;
The children of Ephraim being armed and shooting with the bowe, turned backe in the day of battell.
10 Wɔanni Onyankopɔn apam no so, wɔampɛ sɛ wodi ne mmara no so.
They kept not the couenant of God, but refused to walke in his Lawe,
11 Wɔn werɛ fii nea wayɛ, anwonwade a wayɛ akyerɛ wɔn no.
And forgate his Actes, and his wonderfull woorkes that he had shewed them.
12 Ɔyɛɛ anwonwade wɔ wɔn nenanom anim, wɔ Soan mantam a ɛwɔ Misraim asase so.
Hee did marueilous thinges in the sight of their fathers in the lande of Egypt: euen in the fielde of Zoan.
13 Ɔkyɛɛ po mu na ɔde wɔn faa mu. Ɔmaa nsu no gyinaa sɛ afasu.
He deuided the Sea, and led them through: he made also the waters to stand as an heape.
14 Ɔde omununkum dii wɔn anim awia na ɔde ogyatɛn dii wɔn anim anadwo nyinaa.
In the day time also hee led them with a cloude, and all the night with a light of fire.
15 Ɔpaee ɔbotan mu wɔ sare so, na ɔmaa wɔn nsu a ɛdɔɔso sɛ po;
He claue the rockes in the wildernes, and gaue them drinke as of the great depths.
16 Ɔmaa asuti fii abotan mu na ɔmaa nsu sen sɛ nsubɔnten.
He brought floods also out of the stonie rocke; so that hee made the waters to descend like the riuers.
17 Nanso wɔkɔɔ so yɛɛ bɔne tiaa no, wɔsɔre tiaa Ɔsorosoroni no wɔ sare no so.
Yet they sinned stil against him, and prouoked the Highest in the wildernesse,
18 Wɔhyɛɛ da kaa aduan a wɔpɛ, de sɔɔ Onyankopɔn hwɛe.
And tempted God in their heartes in requiring meate for their lust.
19 Wɔkasa tiaa Onyankopɔn se, “Onyankopɔn betumi ato pon wɔ sare so ana?
They spake against God also, saying, Can God prepare a table in the wildernesse?
20 Ɔde ade bɔɔ ɔbotan mu no, nsu tue fii mu, na nsuwa sen buu so. Na obetumi ama yɛn aduan nso? Obetumi ama ne nkurɔfo nam ana?”
Behold, he smote the rocke, that the water gushed out, and the streames ouerflowed: can hee giue bread also? or prepare flesh for his people?
21 Bere a Awurade tee nea wɔreka no, ne bo fuw yiye; ne gya beguu Yakob so, na nʼabufuwhyew sɔre tiaa Israel,
Therefore the Lord heard and was angrie, and the fire was kindled in Iaakob, and also wrath came vpon Israel,
22 efisɛ na wonni Onyankopɔn mu gyidi anaasɛ ne nkwagye mu ahotoso.
Because they beleeued not in God, and trusted not in his helpe.
23 Nanso ɔkasa kyerɛɛ ɔsoro wɔ ɔhyɛ so; na obuee ɔsorosoro apon.
Yet he had comanded the clouds aboue, and had opened the doores of heauen,
24 Ɔtɔɔ mana guu fam maa nnipa no sɛ wunni, ɔmaa wɔn ɔsoro aduan.
And had rained downe MAN vpon them for to eate, and had giuen them of the wheate of heauen.
25 Nnipa dii abɔfo aduan; ɔmaa wɔn aduan a wobetumi adi nyinaa.
Man did eate the bread of Angels: hee sent them meate ynough.
26 Ogyaa apuei mframa fi ɔsoro, na ofi ne tumi mu bɔɔ atɔe mframa.
He caused the Eastwinde to passe in the heauen, and through his power he brought in the Southwinde.
27 Ɔtɔɔ nam sɛ mfutuma guu wɔn so, nnomaa a wotu bebree sɛ mpoano nwea.
Hee rained flesh also vpon them as dust, and feathered foule as the sand of the sea.
28 Ɔma wɔbaa fam kɔɔ wɔn atenae, ne wɔn ntamadan ho nyinaa.
And hee made it fall in the middes of their campe euen round about their habitations.
29 Wodidi maa aduan no boroo wɔn so efisɛ ɔmaa wɔn nea wɔhwehwɛ.
So they did eate and were well filled: for he gaue them their desire.
30 Nanso ansa na wobefi aduan a wɔhwehwɛ no ho, bere a ɛhyehyɛ wɔn anom mpo no,
They were not turned from their lust, but the meate was yet in their mouthes,
31 Onyankopɔn abufuw sɔree wɔn so; okum ahoɔdenfo a wɔwɔ wɔn mu twitwaa Israel mmerante gui.
When the wrath of God came euen vpon them, and slew the strongest of them, and smote downe the chosen men in Israel.
32 Eyinom nyinaa akyi, wɔkɔɔ so yɛɛ bɔne; nʼanwonwade akyi no, wɔannye anni.
For all this, they sinned stil, and beleeued not his wonderous woorkes.
33 Enti otwaa wɔn nna so te sɛ ahuru yɛɛ wɔn mfe awiei huhuuhu.
Therefore their daies did hee consume in vanitie, and their yeeres hastily.
34 Bere biara a Onyankopɔn bekum wɔn no, wɔhwehwɛ no na wɔpere wɔn ho san ba ne nkyɛn.
And when hee slewe them, they sought him and they returned, and sought God earely.
35 Wɔkaee sɛ Onyankopɔn yɛ wɔn botan, sɛ Ɔsorosoro Nyankopɔn no yɛ wɔn Gyefo.
And they remembred that God was their strength, and the most high God their redeemer.
36 Nanso wɔde wɔn ano bɛdaadaa no, na wɔde wɔn tɛkrɛma atwa atoro akyerɛ no;
But they flattered him with their mouth, and dissembled with him with their tongue.
37 wɔn koma nni no nokware, na wonni nʼapam no so.
For their heart was not vpright with him: neither were they faithfull in his couenant.
38 Nanso na ɔyɛ ahummɔbɔ; ɔde wɔn amumɔyɛ kyɛɛ wɔn a wansɛe wɔn. Mpɛn pii, ɔtwentwɛn nʼabufuw so na wanhwie nʼabufuwhyew nyinaa.
Yet he being merciful forgaue their iniquitie, and destroied them not, but oft times called backe his anger, and did not stirre vp all his wrath.
39 Ɔkaee sɛ wɔyɛ ɔhonam ara kwa, mframa bi a ɛbɔ twa mu na ɛnsan nʼakyi.
For he remembered that they were flesh: yea, a winde that passeth and commeth not againe.
40 Mpɛn ahe na wɔansɔre antia no wɔ sare no so hɔ, na mpɛn ahe na wɔamma ne werɛ anhow wɔ asase wosee no so!
How oft did they prouoke him in the wildernes? and grieue him in the desert?
41 Wɔsɔɔ Onyankopɔn hwɛɛ bere biara; na woyii Israel Ɔkronkronni no abufuw.
Yea, they returned, and tempted God, and limited the Holie one of Israel.
42 Wɔn werɛ fii ne tumi no, da a ogyee wɔn fii wɔn nhyɛsofo nsam no,
They remembered not his hand, nor the day when he deliuered them from the enemie,
43 da a ɔyɛɛ nsɛnkyerɛnne nwonwaso wɔ Misraim no ne nʼanwonwade wɔ Soan mantam mu no.
Nor him that set his signes in Egypt, and his wonders in the fielde of Zoan,
44 Ɔmaa wɔn nsubɔnten dan mogya; wɔantumi annom wɔn nsuten mu nsu.
And turned their riuers into blood, and their floods, that they could not drinke.
45 Ɔmaa nwansenadɔm baa wɔn so bɛhaw wɔn na mpɔtorɔ nso bɛsɛee wɔn asase.
Hee sent a swarme of flies among them, which deuoured them, and frogs, which destroyed them.
46 Ɔmaa tɛwtɛw bedii wɔn mfuw so aduan na ɔde wɔn nnɔbae nso maa mmoadabi.
He gaue also their fruites vnto the caterpiller, and their labour vnto the grassehopper.
47 Ɔde mparuwbo sɛee wɔn bobe na ɔde sukyerɛmma sɛee wɔn ankye nnua.
He destroied their vines with haile, and their wilde figge trees with the hailestone.
48 Ɔde sukyerɛmma kum wɔn anantwi ɔde anyinam kum wɔn nyɛmmoa.
He gaue their cattell also to the haile, and their flockes to the thunderboltes.
49 Ohwiee nʼabufuwhyew guu wɔn so, abufuw, anibere ne ɔtan; abɔfo asɛefo kuw no.
Hee cast vpon them the fiercenesse of his anger, indignation and wrath, and vexation by the sending out of euill Angels.
50 Ɔbɔɔ kwan maa nʼabufuw; na wamfa wɔn nkwa ankyɛ wɔn, mmom, ɔde wɔn maa ɔyaredɔm.
He made a way to his anger: he spared not their soule from death, but gaue their life to the pestilence,
51 Okunkum Misraimfo mmakan nyinaa, Ham ntamadan mu nnipa mu abakan.
And smote al the firstborne in Egypt, euen the beginning of their strength in the tabernacles of Ham.
52 Nanso oyii ne nkurɔfo fii mu sɛ nguankuw; odii wɔn anim sɛ nguan wɔ sare no so.
But hee made his people to goe out like sheepe, and led them in the wildernes like a flocke.
53 Odii wɔn anim dwoodwoo, enti wɔansuro; nanso wɔn atamfo de, po asorɔkye bu faa wɔn so.
Yea, he caried them out safely, and they feared not, and the Sea couered their enemies.
54 Sɛɛ na ɔyɛ de wɔn baa nʼasase kronkron no ahye so, bepɔw asase a ɔde ne nsa nifa gyee no.
And he brought them vnto the borders of his Sanctuarie: euen to this Mountaine, which his right hand purchased.
55 Ɔpam amanaman a wɔwɔ wɔn anim no na ɔkyekyɛɛ wɔn nsase no mu maa wɔn sɛ wɔn agyapade; ɔbɔɔ Israel mmusuakuw no atenase wɔ wɔn afi mu.
He cast out the heathe also before them, and caused them to fall to the lot of his inheritance, and made the tribes of Israel to dwell in their tabernacles.
56 Nanso wɔsɔɔ Onyankopɔn hwɛe, na wɔsɔre tiaa Ɔsorosoroni no; na wɔanni ne mmara so.
Yet they tempted, and prouoked the most high God, and kept not his testimonies,
57 Wɔyɛɛ sɛ wɔn agyanom, wɔanni nokware na wɔannya gyidi, ahotoso nni wɔn mu na wɔte sɛ agyan a asɛe.
But turned backe and delt falsely like their fathers: they turned like a deceitfull bowe.
58 Wɔde wɔn sorɔnsorɔmmea hyɛɛ no abufuw na wɔn ahoni maa ne ninkutwe mu yɛɛ den.
And they prouoked him to anger with their high places, and mooued him to wrath with their grauen images.
59 Onyankopɔn tee wɔn nka no, ne bo fuwii; na ɔpoo Israel korakora.
God heard this and was wroth, and greatly abhorred Israel,
60 Ogyaw nʼatenae a ɛwɔ Silo no, ntamadan a wasi wɔ nnipa mu no.
So that hee forsooke the habitation of Shilo, euen the Tabernacle where hee dwelt among men,
61 Ɔde Apam Adaka a ɛyɛ ne tumi no kɔɔ nnommum mu, nʼanuonyam kɔɔ atamfo nsam.
And deliuered his power into captiuitie, and his beautie into the enemies hand.
62 Ɔde ne nkurɔfo maa afoa; ne bo fuw nʼagyapade yiye.
And hee gaue vp his people to the sworde, and was angrie with his inheritance.
63 Ogya hyew wɔn mmerante kum wɔn, na wɔn mmabaa annya ayeforohyia dwom anto;
The fire deuoured their chosen men, and their maides were not praised.
64 Wɔn asɔfo wuwuu afoa ano, na wɔn akunafo antumi ansu.
Their Priestes fell by the sworde, and their widowes lamented not.
65 Afei Awurade sɔree sɛnea ofi nna mu no, sɛnea ɔbarima a wabow nsa nyan fi nnahɔɔ mu no.
But the Lord awaked as one out of sleepe, and as a strong man that after his wine crieth out,
66 Ɔbobɔɔ nʼatamfo ma woguan kɔɔ wɔn akyi; ɔhyɛɛ wɔn aniwu afebɔɔ.
And smote his enemies in the hinder parts, and put them to a perpetuall shame.
67 Afei ɔpoo Yosef ntamadan no, na wamfa Efraim abusuakuw no nso;
Yet he refused the tabernacle of Ioseph, and chose not the tribe of Ephraim:
68 Na mmom, ɔfaa Yuda abusuakuw no, Bepɔw Sion a ɔdɔ no no.
But chose the tribe of Iudah, and mount Zion which he loued.
69 Osii ne kronkronbea te sɛ sorɔnsorɔmmea, te sɛ asase a etim hɔ daa.
And he built his Sanctuarie as an high palace, like the earth, which he stablished for euer.
70 Oyii ne somfo Dawid, ɔfrɛɛ no fii nguannan mu;
He chose Dauid also his seruant, and tooke him from the shepefolds.
71 fii nguan akyi na ɔde no bae se ɔmmɛyɛ oguanhwɛfo mma ne nkurɔfo Yakob, mma Israel a wɔyɛ nʼagyapade.
Euen from behinde the ewes with yong brought he him to feede his people in Iaakob, and his inheritance in Israel.
72 Na Dawid de koma pa hwɛɛ wɔn so na ɔde ne nimdeɛ dii wɔn anim.
So he fed them according to the simplicitie of his heart, and guided them by the discretion of his hands.
