Yesaia 30

1 “Monnue mmɔfra asoɔdenfoɔ,” sɛi na Awurade seɛ, “Wɔn a wɔde nhyehyɛeɛ a ɛmfiri me yɛ adwuma, na wɔyɛ apam a ɛmfiri me honhom mu, na wɔboaboa bɔne ano;

Woe to the rebellious children, says the LORD, that take counsel, but not of me; and that cover with a covering, but not of my spirit, that they may add sin to sin:

2 wɔn a wɔkɔ Misraim a wɔmmisa me ansa. Wɔhwehwɛ mmoa a ɛyɛ banbɔ firi Farao nkyɛn. Wɔkɔ Misraim kɔpɛ hintabea,

That walk to go down into Egypt, and have not asked at my mouth; to strengthen themselves in the strength of Pharaoh, and to trust in the shadow of Egypt!

3 nanso Farao banbɔ bɛyɛ animguaseɛ ama mo. Misraim nwunu de ahohora bɛbrɛ mo.

Therefore shall the strength of Pharaoh be your shame, and the trust in the shadow of Egypt your confusion.

4 Ɛwom sɛ wɔwɔ adwumayɛfoɔ wɔ Soan na wɔn ananmusifoɔ aduru Hanes deɛ,

For his princes were at Zoan, and his ambassadors came to Hanes.

5 nanso wɔn nyinaa anim bɛgu ase nnipa bi a wɔn ho nni wɔn mfasoɔ enti. Wɔmmfa mmoa anaa mfasoɔ mma, na mmom animguaseɛ ne ahohora.”

They were all ashamed of a people that could not profit them, nor be an help nor profit, but a shame, and also a reproach.

6 Nkɔmhyɛ a ɛfa Negeb mmoa ho: wɔfa ahokyere ne ahohiahia asase so, deɛ agyata ne agyatabereɛ, ananka ne awɔ a wɔn ho yɛ herɛ wɔ. Ananmusifoɔ no de wɔn ahonyadeɛ soa mfunumu ne wɔn ademudeɛ wɔ nyoma afu so, de kɔ saa ɔman a ne ho nni mfasoɔ no so,

The burden of the beasts of the south: into the land of trouble and anguish, from where come the young and old lion, the viper and fiery flying serpent, they will carry their riches on the shoulders of young asses, and their treasures on the bunches of camels, to a people that shall not profit them.

7 de kɔ Misraim a ne mmoa ho nni mfasoɔ. Enti mefrɛ no Rahab, deɛ Ɔnka Hwee.

For the Egyptians shall help in vain, and to no purpose: therefore have I cried concerning this, Their strength is to sit still.

8 Kɔ afei, twerɛ wɔ twerɛpono so ma wɔn krukyire wɔ nwoma mmobɔeɛ so sɛdeɛ nna a ɛreba no mu no ɛbɛyɛ adansedeɛ a ɛbɛtena hɔ afebɔɔ.

Now go, write it before them in a table, and note it in a book, that it may be for the time to come for ever and ever:

9 Saa nnipa yi yɛ adɔnyɛfoɔ, mma asisifoɔ, mma a wɔmpɛ sɛ wɔtie Awurade nkyerɛkyerɛ.

That this is a rebellious people, lying children, children that will not hear the law of the LORD:

10 Wɔka kyerɛ adehufoɔ sɛ, “Monnhunu mo ani so adeɛ bio!” ne adiyifoɔ no nso sɛ, “Monnka anisoadehunu a ɛyɛ nokorɛ no nkyerɛ yɛn bio! Monka ahomekasɛm nkyerɛ yɛn, monhyɛ nnaadaa nkɔm.

Which say to the seers, See not; and to the prophets, Prophesy not to us right things, speak to us smooth things, prophesy deceits:

11 Momfiri saa tempɔn yi so, mommane mfiri saa kwan yi ho na monnyae Israel Kronkronni a mode no ha yɛn yi!”

Get you out of the way, turn aside out of the path, cause the Holy One of Israel to cease from before us.

12 Enti sei na Israel Ɔkronkronni no seɛ: “Esiane sɛ moapo saa nkra yi, na mode mo ho ato nhyɛsoɔ ne nnaadaa so enti,

Why thus says the Holy One of Israel, Because you despise this word, and trust in oppression and perverseness, and stay thereon:

13 saa bɔne yi bɛyɛ sɛ ɔfasuo tentene bi a ate kam na akyea na ɛbu mpofirim, ama mo.

Therefore this iniquity shall be to you as a breach ready to fall, swelling out in a high wall, whose breaking comes suddenly at an instant.

14 Ɛbɛbubu nketenkete ayɛ sɛ kukuo. Ɛbɛyam pasaa a esini koraa renka a wɔbɛtumi de ayi ogya afiri bukyia mu anaa wɔde bɛsa nsuo afiri ankorɛ mu.”

And he shall break it as the breaking of the potters’ vessel that is broken in pieces; he shall not spare: so that there shall not be found in the bursting of it a shard to take fire from the hearth, or to take water with out of the pit.

15 Yei ne deɛ Otumfoɔ Awurade, Israel Kronkronni no seɛ: “Ahonumu ne ntoboaseɛ mu na mo nkwagyeɛ wɔ; kommyɛ ne ahotosoɔ mu na mo ahoɔden wɔ, nanso, morennya emu biara.

For thus says the Lord GOD, the Holy One of Israel; In returning and rest shall you be saved; in quietness and in confidence shall be your strength: and you would not.

16 Mokaa sɛ, ‘Dabi, yɛbɛtena apɔnkɔ so adwane.’ Enti mobɛdwane! Mokaa sɛ, ‘yɛbɛtena apɔnkɔ a wɔn ho yɛ herɛ so akɔ.’ Enti wɔn a wɔtaa mo no ho bɛyɛ herɛ!

But you said, No; for we will flee on horses; therefore shall you flee: and, We will ride on the swift; therefore shall they that pursue you be swift.

17 Apem bɛdwane ɔbaako ho hu nti; baanum ho hu enti mo nyinaa bɛdwane akɔ, kɔsi sɛ wɔbɛgya mo te sɛ frankaa dua a ɛsi bepɔ atifi, te sɛ frankaa a ɛsi kokoɔ so.”

One thousand shall flee at the rebuke of one; at the rebuke of five shall you flee: till you be left as a beacon on the top of a mountain, and as an ensign on an hill.

18 Nanso, Awurade pɛ sɛ ɔdom mo; ɔbɛma ne ho so akyerɛ wo nʼahummɔborɔ. Ɛfiri sɛ Awurade yɛ ɔteneneeni Onyankopɔn. Nhyira ne wɔn a wɔtwɛn no nyinaa!

And therefore will the LORD wait, that he may be gracious to you, and therefore will he be exalted, that he may have mercy on you: for the LORD is a God of judgment: blessed are all they that wait for him.

19 Ao, Sionfoɔ a mote Yerusalem, morentwa adwo bio. Sɛ mosu frɛ no hwehwɛ mmoa a, ɔbɛdom mo! Sɛ ɔte a, ɔbɛgye mo so prɛko pɛ.

For the people shall dwell in Zion at Jerusalem: you shall weep no more: he will be very gracious to you at the voice of your cry; when he shall hear it, he will answer you.

20 Ɛwom sɛ Awurade brɛ mo amanehunu sɛ aduane ne ɔhaw sɛ nsuo deɛ, nanso, afei mobɛhunu Awurade, mo ɔkyerɛkyerɛfoɔ no bio, na ɔbɛkyerɛ mo kwan.

And though the Lord give you the bread of adversity, and the water of affliction, yet shall not your teachers be removed into a corner any more, but your eyes shall see your teachers:

21 Sɛ mofa nifa anaa benkum a, mobɛte ɛnne bi wɔ mo akyi a ɛka sɛ, “Ɛkwan no nie na momfa so.”

And your ears shall hear a word behind you, saying, This is the way, walk you in it, when you turn to the right hand, and when you turn to the left.

22 Afei, mobɛto mo ahoni a mode dwetɛ adura ho ne nsɛsodeɛ a mode sikakɔkɔɔ afa ho no nyinaa agu. Mobɛto wɔn agu sɛ ntomago fi, na mo aka akyerɛ wɔn sɛ, “Momfiri yɛn so nkɔ.”

You shall defile also the covering of your graven images of silver, and the ornament of your molten images of gold: you shall cast them away as a menstruous cloth; you shall say to it, Get you hence.

23 Afei, ɔde osutɔ bɛhyira mo ɛberɛ a modua nnuaba, na aduane a asase no bɛbɔ no bɛyɛ papa na ɛbɛdɔɔso nso. Ɛda no, mo anantwie bɛdidi wɔ adidibea a ɛtrɛ soɔ.

Then shall he give the rain of your seed, that you shall sow the ground with; and bread of the increase of the earth, and it shall be fat and plenteous: in that day shall your cattle feed in large pastures.

24 Mo anantwie ne mo mfunumu a wɔfuntum asase no bɛwe atokoɔ pa ne ne ntɛtɛ a wɔde sofi ne nkorata trɛtrɛ mu.

The oxen likewise and the young asses that ear the ground shall eat clean provender, which has been winnowed with the shovel and with the fan.

25 Saa okum kɛseɛ da no a abantenten ahwehwe ase no, nsuwa bɛtene wɔ bepɔ tenten ne kokoɔ a ɛkorɔn biara so.

And there shall be on every high mountain, and on every high hill, rivers and streams of waters in the day of the great slaughter, when the towers fall.

26 Ɔsrane bɛhyerɛn sɛ owia, na owia hyerɛn no bɛyɛ mprɛnson, te sɛ nnafua nson mu hyerɛn, ɛberɛ a Awurade kyekyere ne nkurɔfoɔ akuro na ɔsa apirakuro a ɔde ama wɔn no.

Moreover the light of the moon shall be as the light of the sun, and the light of the sun shall be sevenfold, as the light of seven days, in the day that the LORD binds up the breach of his people, and heals the stroke of their wound.

27 Hwɛ! Awurade firi akyirikyiri reba, ɔde abufuhyeɛ ne wisie kumɔnn; abufuo ahyɛ nʼanom ma, na ne tɛkrɛma yɛ ogya a ɛhye nneɛma.

Behold, the name of the LORD comes from far, burning with his anger, and the burden thereof is heavy: his lips are full of indignation, and his tongue as a devouring fire:

28 Nʼahomeɛ te sɛ nsuworoeɛ a ɛsene ntɛm ntɛm, na ɛforo kɔdeda kɔn mu. Ɔwoso aman no wɔ ɔsɛeɛ sɔneɛ so; ɔde nnareka a ɛma wɔfom ɛkwan hyehyɛ nnipa no nnyepi.

And his breath, as an overflowing stream, shall reach to the middle of the neck, to sift the nations with the sieve of vanity: and there shall be a bridle in the jaws of the people, causing them to err.

29 Na mobɛto dwom te sɛ anadwo a modi afahyɛ kronkron no; mo akoma bɛdi ahurisie te sɛ ɛberɛ a nnipa de atɛntɛbɛn foro kɔ Awurade bepɔ no so kɔ Israel Ɔbotan no nkyɛn.

You shall have a song, as in the night when a holy solemnity is kept; and gladness of heart, as when one goes with a pipe to come into the mountain of the LORD, to the mighty One of Israel.

30 Awurade bɛma nnipa ate nʼaberempɔn nne, na ɔbɛma wɔahunu ne basa a ɛresiane na ɛde abufuhyeɛ ne ogya a ɛhye nneɛma, osutɔ denden, aprannaa ne ampariboɔ reba.

And the LORD shall cause his glorious voice to be heard, and shall show the lighting down of his arm, with the indignation of his anger, and with the flame of a devouring fire, with scattering, and tempest, and hailstones.

31 Awurade nne bɛdwerɛ Asiria; ɔde nʼahenpoma bɛbɔ wɔn ahwe fam.

For through the voice of the LORD shall the Assyrian be beaten down, which smote with a rod.

32 Awurade bɛbɔ wɔn wɔ ɔko mu, na ɛberɛ biara a ɔbɛbɔ wɔn no ɛbɛyɛ sɛdeɛ akasaeɛ ne sankuten so nnwontoɔ korɔ.

And in every place where the grounded staff shall pass, which the LORD shall lay on him, it shall be with tabrets and harps: and in battles of shaking will he fight with it.

33 Wɔasiesie Topet dadaada; wɔayɛ no krado ama ɔhene no. Wɔahyehyɛ ogya ne nnyentia bebree wɔ ne ogya amena no a emu dɔ na ɛtrɛ no mu; Awurade ahome a ɛte sɛ sɔfe asutene no bɛsɔ mu ogya.

For Tophet is ordained of old; yes, for the king it is prepared; he has made it deep and large: the pile thereof is fire and much wood; the breath of the LORD, like a stream of brimstone, does kindle it.