Hesekiel 5
1 “Afei onipa ba, fa akofena nnamnnam yi yɛ sɛ obi a ɔyi ti yiwan na fa yi wo tirinwi ne wʼabɔgyesɛ. Fa nsania na kyekyɛ nwi no mu.
And you, son of man, take you a sharp knife, take you a barber’s razor, and cause it to pass on your head and on your beard: then take you balances to weigh, and divide the hair.
2 Sɛ wo otua nna no ba awieeɛ a, fa ogya hye nwi no nkyɛmu mmiɛnsa mu baako wɔ kuropɔn no mu. Fa akofena twitwa nkyɛmu mmiɛnsa no mu baako wɔ kuropɔn no afanan nyinaa. Na hwete nkyɛmu mmiɛnsa mu baako wɔ mframa mu, ɛfiri sɛ mɛtwe akofena ataa wɔn.
You shall burn with fire a third part in the middle of the city, when the days of the siege are fulfilled: and you shall take a third part, and smite about it with a knife: and a third part you shall scatter in the wind; and I will draw out a sword after them.
3 Nanso fa nwi no kakra bi kyekyere wʼatadeɛ ano.
You shall also take thereof a few in number, and bind them in your skirts.
4 Afei nso, fa saa nwi no kakra bi na to gu ogya mu na hye. Ogya no bɛtrɛ afiri hɔ akɔ Israel efie nyinaa.
Then take of them again, and cast them into the middle of the fire, and burn them in the fire; for thereof shall a fire come forth into all the house of Israel.
5 “Yei ne deɛ Otumfoɔ Awurade seɛ: Yei ne Yerusalem a mede asi amanaman no ntam na nsase atwa ho ahyia.
Thus says the Lord GOD; This is Jerusalem: I have set it in the middle of the nations and countries that are round about her.
6 Nanso, nʼamumuyɛ mu, wayɛ dɔm atia me mmara ne me nhyehyɛeɛ asene aman ne nsase a atwa ne ho ahyia. Wapo me mmara, na wanni mʼahyɛdeɛ so.
And she has changed my judgments into wickedness more than the nations, and my statutes more than the countries that are round about her: for they have refused my judgments and my statutes, they have not walked in them.
7 “Enti sei na Otumfoɔ Awurade seɛ: Woayɛ asoɔden asene amanaman a wɔatwa wo ho ahyia na woanni mʼahyɛdeɛ anaa me mmara so. Woanyɛ sɛdeɛ aman a atwa wo ho ahyia no yɛ mpo.
Therefore thus says the Lord GOD; Because you multiplied more than the nations that are round about you, and have not walked in my statutes, neither have kept my judgments, neither have done according to the judgments of the nations that are round about you;
8 “Enti sei na Otumfoɔ Awurade seɛ: Me ne wo anya, Yerusalem, na mede asotwe bɛba wo so wɔ amanaman no anim.
Therefore thus says the Lord GOD; Behold, I, even I, am against you, and will execute judgments in the middle of you in the sight of the nations.
9 Esiane wʼahoni nyinaa a ɛyɛ akyiwadeɛ no enti, mɛyɛ wo deɛ menyɛɛ bi da, na merenyɛ bi bio nso da.
And I will do in you that which I have not done, and which I will not do any more the like, because of all your abominations.
10 Enti, wɔ mo mu, agyanom bɛdi wɔn mma nam na mma adi wɔn agyanom nam. Mɛtwe wʼaso na mahwete wo nkaeɛfoɔ akɔ mmaa nyinaa.
Therefore the fathers shall eat the sons in the middle of you, and the sons shall eat their fathers; and I will execute judgments in you, and the whole remnant of you will I scatter into all the winds.
11 Enti sɛ mete ase yi, Otumfoɔ Awurade na ɔseɛ, ɛsiane sɛ wode nsɛsodeɛ tantan ne akyiwadeɛ nneyɛɛ agu me kronkronbea ho fi enti, mʼankasa mɛyi mʼadom afiri wo so; merenhunu wo mmɔbɔ na meremfa wo ho nkyɛ wo.
Why, as I live, says the Lord GOD; Surely, because you have defiled my sanctuary with all your detestable things, and with all your abominations, therefore will I also diminish you; neither shall my eye spare, neither will I have any pity.
12 Wo nkurɔfoɔ no mu nkyɛmu mmiɛnsa mu baako bɛwuwu wɔ ɔyaredɔm no mu, anaasɛ ɛkɔm bɛkunkum wɔn; nkyɛmu mmiɛnsa mu baako bɛtotɔ wɔ akofena ano wɔ wʼafasuo akyi, na mabɔ nkyɛmu mmiɛnsa mu baako nso ahwete mmaa nyinaa, na matwe akofena ataa wɔn.
A third part of you shall die with the pestilence, and with famine shall they be consumed in the middle of you: and a third part shall fall by the sword round about you; and I will scatter a third part into all the winds, and I will draw out a sword after them.
13 “Afei me bo bɛdwo na mʼabufuhyeɛ a ɛtia wɔn no nso ano bɛbrɛ ase na matɔ were. Na sɛ meda mʼabufuhyeɛ adi kyerɛ wɔn a, wɔbɛhunu sɛ ɛyɛ me Awurade na akasa wɔ me tumi mu.
Thus shall my anger be accomplished, and I will cause my fury to rest on them, and I will be comforted: and they shall know that I the LORD have spoken it in my zeal, when I have accomplished my fury in them.
14 “Mɛyɛ wo mmubuiɛ ne ahohora wɔ amanaman a atwa wo ho ahyia no mu, ne wɔn a wɔtwam hɔ no ani so.
Moreover I will make you waste, and a reproach among the nations that are round about you, in the sight of all that pass by.
15 Wobɛyɛ ahohora ne fɛdideɛ, kɔkɔbɔ ne ahodwiredeɛ ama amanaman a wɔatwa wo ho ahyia no, wɔ ɛberɛ a mede abufuo ne abufuhyeɛ ne animka a ano yɛ den mɛtwe wʼaso. Me Awurade na maka.
So it shall be a reproach and a taunt, an instruction and an astonishment to the nations that are round about you, when I shall execute judgments in you in anger and in fury and in furious rebukes. I the LORD have spoken it.
16 Sɛ meto me kɔm agyan a, borɔ wɔ ano, na ɛbɛsɛe wo. Mede ɛkɔm a emu yɛ den bɛba wo so, na masi wʼaduane a wonya ho ɛkwan.
When I shall send on them the evil arrows of famine, which shall be for their destruction, and which I will send to destroy you: and I will increase the famine on you, and will break your staff of bread:
17 Mede ɛkɔm ne nkekaboa bɛba wo mu, na wo mma bɛsa ama woayɛ sɛ obi a na ɔnni mma. Ɔyaredɔm ne mogyahwiegu bɛfa wo mu, na mɛtwe akofena wɔ wo so. Me Awurade na maka.”
So will I send on you famine and evil beasts, and they shall bereave you: and pestilence and blood shall pass through you; and I will bring the sword on you. I the LORD have spoken it.
