Yeremia 19
1 Yei ne deɛ Awurade seɛ: “Kɔ na kɔtɔ dɔteɛ kuruwa firi ɔnwomfoɔ nkyɛn. Fa nnipa no mpanimfoɔ no mu bi ne asɔfoɔ no mu bi ka wo ho
Thus said Yahweh, Go and buy a potter’s earthen bottle, —and take of the elders of the people, and of the elders of the priests;
2 na firi adi kɔ Ben Hinom Bɔnhwa a ɛbɛn Pɔthɛd Ɛpono ano no. Ɛhɔ na pae mu ka nsɛm a meka kyerɛ wo no,
Then shalt thou go forth into the valley of Ben-hinnom, which is at the opening of the gate of potsherds; and proclaim there the words which I shall speak unto thee;
3 sɛ, ‘Montie Awurade asɛm, Ao Yuda ahemfo ne Yerusalemfoɔ. Yei ne deɛ Asafo Awurade Israel Onyankopɔn seɛ: Montie, mede amanehunu reba ha, na obiara a ɔbɛte no aso mu bɛyɛ no yɔnn.
and shalt say, —Hear ye the word of Yahweh, O kings of Judah And inhabitants of Jerusalem, —Thus, saith Yahweh of hosts—God of Israel Behold me! bringing in calamity upon this place, which shall cause the ears of every one that heareth it, to tingle:
4 Ɛfiri sɛ, wɔagya me na wɔde ha ama ananafoɔ anyame; wɔahye afɔrebɔdeɛ wɔ so ama anyame a wɔn anaa wɔn agyanom, anaa Yuda ahemfo nhunuu wɔn da, na wɔde mogya a ɛdi bem ahyɛ ha ma.
Because they have forsaken me, And have treated this as a foreign place, And have burned incense therein to other gods, which neither they, nor their fathers nor the kings of Judah, have known; And have filled this place with the blood of innocents;
5 Wɔasisi Baal sorɔnsorɔmmea sɛ wɔde ogya bɛhye wɔn mmammarima sɛ afɔrebɔdeɛ ama Baal, adeɛ a manhyɛ anaa mammɔ so, anaa amma mʼadwene mu.
And have built the high places of Baal for burning up their sons in the fire as ascending-sacrifices to Baal, —Which I commanded not, Nor spake, Neither came it up on my heart,
6 Ɛno enti, monhwɛ yie na nna bi reba, Awurade na ɔseɛ, a nnipa remfrɛ ha sɛ Tofet anaa Ben Hinom Bɔnhwa bio, na mmom, Okum Bɔnhwa.
Therefore, lo! days coming, Declareth Yahweh, When this place shall be called no longer The Topheth, or The Valley of Ben-hinnom, —but—The Valley of Slaughter;
7 “‘Mɛsɛe Yuda ne Yerusalem nhyehyɛeɛ wɔ ha. Mɛma wɔatotɔ wɔ akofena ano wɔ wɔn atamfoɔ a wɔrepɛ wɔn nkwa no anim, na mede wɔn afunu bɛma ewiem nnomaa ne asase so mmoa sɛ wɔn aduane.
And I will pour out the counsel of Judah and Jerusalem in this place, And I will cause them to fall by the sword, before their enemies, and by the hand of them who seek their life, —
8 Mɛsɛe saa kuropɔn yi na mayɛ no animtiabudeɛ; wɔn a wɔtwam hɔ no nyinaa ho bɛdwiri wɔn, na nʼapirakuro no enti wɔbɛdi ne ho fɛw.
And I will give their dead bodies for food, to the bird of the heavens and to the beast of the earth; And I will make this city a desolation and a hissing, —every one that passeth by it, shall be astonished and hiss over all her wounds;
9 Mɛma wɔawe wɔn mmammarima ne wɔn mmammaa nam, na wɔbɛfiri ahohia a atamfoɔ a wɔrepɛ wɔn nkwa no tua de bɛba wɔn so no mu awe wɔn ho wɔn ho nam.’
And I will suffer them to eat the flesh of their sons, and the flesh of their daughters, yea every one—the flesh of his friend, will they eat, —in the siege and in the straitness, wherewith, their enemies, and they who seek their lives, will straiten them.
10 “Afei, bɔ kuruwa no wɔ wɔn a wɔka wo ho no anim ma wɔnhwɛ,
Then shalt thou break the bottle, before the eyes of the men who are walking with thee;
11 na ka kyerɛ wɔn sɛ, ‘Yei ne deɛ Asafo Awurade seɛ: Mɛbɔ saa ɔman yi ne kuropɔn yi sɛdeɛ wɔabɔ ɔnwomfoɔ kuruwa yi a wɔrentumi nsiesie bio. Wɔbɛsie awufoɔ wɔ Tofet kɔsi sɛ, ɛhɔ bɛyɛ ma.
and shalt say unto them—Thus, saith Yahweh of hosts—Thus and thus, will I break this people, and this city, As one breaketh the vessel of a potter, which cannot be made whole any more, —And in Topheth, shall they bury, for want of place to bury.
12 Sei ara na mɛyɛ saa beaeɛ yi ne wɔn a wɔtete so, Awurade na ɔseɛ. Mɛyɛ kuropɔn yi sɛ Tofet.
Thus, will I do to this place Declareth Yahweh, And to the inhabitants thereof, —Even making this city like Topheth:
13 Afie a ɛwɔ Yerusalem ne Yuda ahemfo ahemfie ho bɛgu fi te sɛ Tofet ha. Afie a, wɔhyee nnuhwam wɔ adan atifi maa ɔsoro asafo nyinaa na wɔguu nsã maa anyame foforɔ.’”
Yea, the houses of Jerusalem and the houses of the kings of Judah, shall like the place of Topheth, be places defiled, —even all the houses upon whose roofs they burned incense to all the host of the heavens, and poured out drink-offerings to other gods.
14 Afei Yeremia sane firii Tofet, baabi a Awurade somaa no sɛ ɔnkɔhyɛ nkɔm hɔ no baeɛ, na ɔbɛgyinaa Awurade asɔredan abangua mu na ɔka kyerɛɛ nnipa no nyinaa sɛ,
Then entered Jeremiah out of Topheth, whither Yahweh had sent him to prophesy, —and stood in the court of the house of Yahweh, and said unto all the people:
15 “Yei ne deɛ Asafo Awurade, Israel Onyankopɔn seɛ, ‘Montie! Mede amanehunu a meka guu kuropɔn yi ne ɛho nkuraase no nyinaa so no bɛba wɔn so, ɛfiri sɛ wɔyɛɛ kɔnsenee na wɔantie me nsɛm.’”
Thus, saith Yahweh of hosts, God of Israel, Behold me! brining in against this city, and upon all the cities thereof, The whole calamity which I have pronounced against her, —Because they stiffened their neck, that they might not hear my words.
