Hesekiel 4
1 “Na afei, onipa ba, fa ntayaa bi to wʼanim na kurukyire Yerusalem kuropɔn mfoni wɔ so.
"You also, son of man, take a tile, and lay it before yourself, and portray on it a city, even Jerusalem:
2 Si otua ho nnwuma ma no: yɛ apie tia no, yɛ mpampim ne nsraban wɔ ho, na fa obubuadaban nnua twa ho hyia.
and lay siege against it, and build forts against it, and cast up a mound against it; set camps also against it, and plant battering rams against it all around.
3 Afei, fa dadeɛ kyɛmferɛ to ɔfasuo wɔ wo ne kuropɔn no ntam na dane wʼani kyerɛ no. Wɔbɛtua kuropɔn no, na wo na wobɛtua no. Yei bɛyɛ nsɛnkyerɛnneɛ ama Israel efie.
Take for yourself an iron pan, and set it for a wall of iron between you and the city: and set your face toward it, and it shall be besieged, and you shall lay siege against it. This shall be a sign to the house of Israel.
4 “Afei, da wo benkum so na fa Israel bɔne to wo ho so. Wobɛsoa wɔn bɔne nna dodoɔ a wode da wo fa so no.
"Moreover lie on your left side, and lay the iniquity of the house of Israel on it; according to the number of the days that you shall lie on it, you shall bear their iniquity.
5 Mede wɔn bɔne mfeɛ no mayɛ nna dodoɔ mama wo. Enti nnafua ahasa ne aduɔkron na wode bɛsoa Israelfoɔ bɔne.
For I have appointed the years of their iniquity to be to you a number of days, even three hundred ninety days: so you shall bear the iniquity of the house of Israel.
6 “Ɛno akyi, da bio wɔ wo nifa so na soa Yudafoɔ bɔne adaduanan a ɛda koro biara bɛyɛ afe baako.
"Again, when you have accomplished these, you shall lie on your right side, and shall bear the iniquity of the house of Judah: forty days, each day for a year, have I appointed it to you.
7 Dane wʼani kyerɛ Yerusalem mpampim na fa nsa pan hyɛ nkɔm tia no.
You shall set your face toward the siege of Jerusalem, with your arm uncovered; and you shall prophesy against it.
8 Mede ntampehoma bɛkyekyere wo sɛdeɛ worentumi nnane wo ho kɔsi sɛ otua nna no bɛba nʼawieeɛ.
Look, I lay bands on you, and you shall not turn you from one side to the other, until you have accomplished the days of your siege.
9 “Fa atokoɔ ne ayuo, asɛ ne asɛdua, kɔkɔte ne aburoo; fa ne nyinaa gu adekora kuruwa mu na fa to burodo a wobɛdi. Yei na wobɛdi wɔ nnafua ahasa ne aduɔkron a woda wo fa so no.
"Take for yourself also wheat, and barley, and beans, and lentils, and millet, and spelt, and put them in one vessel, and make bread of it; according to the number of the days that you shall lie on your side, even three hundred ninety days, you shall eat of it.
10 Kari aduane gram ahanu ne aduasa a wobɛdi no ɛda koro biara wɔ ɛberɛ ano, berɛ ano.
Your food which you shall eat shall be by weight, twenty shekels a day: from time to time you shall eat it.
11 Afei, susu nsuo sukuruwa baako na nom no berɛ ano berɛ ano.
You shall drink water by measure, the sixth part of a hin: from time to time you shall drink.
12 Di aduane no sɛdeɛ anka wobɛdi atokoɔ ɔfam; to ma nnipa nhunu, na fa onipa agyanan yɛ ogya.”
You shall eat it as barley cakes, and you shall bake it in their sight with dung that comes out of man."
13 Awurade kaa sɛ: “Saa ara na Israelfoɔ bɛdi aduane a wɔagu ho fi wɔ amanaman a mɛpam wɔn akɔ so no.”
The LORD said, "Even thus shall the children of Israel eat their bread unclean, among the nations where I will drive them."
14 Na mekaa sɛ, “Ɛnte saa, Otumfoɔ Awurade! Menguu me ho fi da. Ɛfiri me mmɔfraase bɛsi saa ɛberɛ yi, mennii aboa funu anaa deɛ nkekaboa bi akum no atete ne mu da. Ɛnam a ɛho agu fi nkaa mʼano da.”
Then I said, "Ah Lord GOD. Look, my soul has not been polluted; for from my youth up even until now have I not eaten of that which dies of itself, or is torn of animals; neither came there abominable flesh into my mouth."
15 Awurade kaa sɛ, “Ɛyɛ, mɛma wode nantwie agyanan asi onipa deɛ anan mu, na wato wo burodo wɔ so.”
Then he said to me, "Look, I have given you cow's dung for man's dung, and you shall prepare your bread thereon."
16 Afei ɔka kyerɛɛ me sɛ, “Onipa ba, mɛtwa aduane a wɔde ba Yerusalem so. Nnipa no de ahoyera bɛdi aduane a wɔkyekyɛ mu, na wɔde abasamutuo anom nsuo a wɔkyekyɛ,
Moreover he said to me, "Son of man, look, I will break the staff of bread in Jerusalem: and they shall eat bread by weight, and with fearfulness; and they shall drink water by measure, and in dismay:
17 ɛfiri sɛ aduane ne nsuo ho bɛyɛ den. Wɔn ho bɛdwiri wɔn sɛ wɔhunu wɔn ho wɔn ho, na wɔn bɔne enti, wɔbɛfonfɔn.”
that they may want bread and water, and be dismayed one with another, and pine away in their iniquity.
