Yeremia 22
1 Yei ne deɛ Awurade seɛ, “Siane kɔ Yudahene ahemfie na kɔpae mu ka saa asɛm yi:
Thus says the Lord; Go you, and go down to the house of the king of Juda, and you shall speak there this word,
2 ‘Tie Awurade asɛm, Ao, Yudahene, wo a wote Dawid ahennwa so, wo, wʼadwumayɛfoɔ ne wo nkurɔfoɔ a wɔfa apono yi mu.
and you shall say, Hear the word of the Lord, O king of Juda, that sit on the throne of David, you, and your house, and your people, and they that go in at these gates:
3 Yei ne deɛ Awurade seɛ: Monyɛ deɛ ɛtene na ɛda ɛkwan mu. Monnye deɛ wɔabɔ no korɔno mfiri ne hyɛsofoɔ nsam. Monnyɛ ɔhɔhoɔ, awisiaa ne okunafoɔ bɔne na monnyɛ wɔn basabasa nso, na monnhwie mogya a ɛdi bem ngu wɔ ha.
thus says the Lord; Execute you judgment and justice, and rescue the spoiled out of the hand of him that wrongs him: and oppress not the stranger, and orphan, and widow, and sin not, and shed no innocent blood in this place.
4 Sɛ moyɛ ahwɛyie na modi saa ahyɛdeɛ yi so a, ɛnneɛ ahemfo a wɔte Dawid ahennwa so ne wɔn adwumayɛfoɔ ne wɔn nkurɔfoɔ bɛfa saa ahemfie apono yi mu, a wɔtete nteaseɛnam mu ne apɔnkɔ so.
For if you will indeed perform this word, then shall there enter in by the gates of this house kings sitting upon the throne of David, and riding on chariots and horses, they, and their servants, and their people.
5 Enti sɛ moanni saa nhyehyɛeɛ yi so a, Awurade na ɔseɛ, Meka me ho ntam sɛ, saa ahemfie yi bɛdane fituo.’”
But if you will not perform these words, by myself have I sworn, says the Lord, that this house shall be [brought] to desolation.
6 Deɛ Awurade ka fa Yudahene ahemfie ho nie: “Ɛwom sɛ medɔ wo te sɛ Gilead na wote sɛ Lebanon mmepɔ atifi, nanso, mɛyɛ wo sɛ anweatam, sɛ nkuro a obiara nte mu.
For thus says the Lord concerning the house of the king of Juda; You are Galaad to me, [and] the head of Libanus: [yet] surely I will make you a desert, [even] cities that shall not be inhabited:
7 Mɛsoma asɛefoɔ abɛtoa mo, obiara ne nʼakodeɛ, wɔbɛtwitwa mo ntweneduro mpunan fɛfɛ no mu na wɔato agu ogya no mu.
and I will bring upon you a destroying man, and his axe: and they shall cut down your choice cedars, and cast [them] into the fire.
8 “Nnipa a wɔfifiri aman bebree so bɛtwam wɔ kuropɔn yi so, na wɔbɛbisabisa wɔn ho wɔn ho sɛ, ‘Adɛn enti na Awurade ayɛ saa kuropɔn kɛseɛ yi sei?’
And nations shall pass through this city, and each shall say to his neighbor, Why has the Lord done thus to this great city?
9 Na mmuaeɛ no bɛyɛ sɛ, ‘Ɛfiri sɛ, wɔagya Awurade, wɔn Onyankopɔn apam no akɔsɔre anyame foforɔ asom wɔn.’”
And they shall say, Because they forsook the covenant of the Lord their God, and worshipped strange gods, and served them.
10 Monnsu ɔhene a wafiri mu, na monni ne ho awerɛhoɔ; mmom, monsu denden mma deɛ ɔkɔ nnommumfa mu, ɛfiri sɛ ɔrensane nʼakyi na ɔrenhunu asase a wɔwoo no wɔ so no bio.
Weep not for the dead, nor lament for him: weep bitterly for him that goes away: for he shall return no more, nor see his native land.
11 Na yei ne deɛ Awurade ka faa Yosia babarima Salum a ɔdii nʼagya adeɛ sɛ Yudahene na wafiri ha no ho: “Ɔrensane mma bio.
For thus says the Lord concerning Sellem the son of Josias, who reigns in the place of Josias his father, who has gone forth out of this place; He shall not return there any more:
12 Ɔbɛwu wɔ baabi a wɔafa no nnommum akɔ hɔ; na ɔrenhunu saa asase yi bio.”
but in that place whither I have carried him captive, there shall he die, and shall see this land no more.
13 “Nnome nka deɛ ɔmfa ɛkwan tenenee so nsi nʼahemfie, na ɔde nsisie si nʼabansoro. Nnome nka deɛ ɔma ne ɔmanfoɔ yɛ adwuma kwa, na ɔntua wɔn apaadie so ka.
He that builds his house not with justice, and his upper chambers not with judgment, who works by means of his neighbor for nothing, and will by no means give him his reward.
14 Ɔka sɛ, ‘Mɛsi ahemfie kɛseɛ ama me ho deɛ ɛwɔ abansoro adan a emu soso.’ Enti ɔyɛ mpomma akɛseɛ wɔ mu; ɔde ntweneduro dura mu na ɔde ahosu kɔkɔɔ hyehyɛ mu.
You have built for yourself a well-proportioned house, airy chambers, fitted with windows, and wainscoted with cedar, and painted with vermilion.
15 “Wowɔ ntweneduro bebree a na ɛma woyɛ ɔhene anaa? Na wʼagya nni aduane ne nsã anaa? Ɔyɛɛ deɛ ɛfa ne ɛkwan mu na ɛtene, enti ɛsii no yie.
Shall you reign, because you are provoked with your father Achaz? they shall not eat, and they shall not drink: it is better for you to execute judgment and justice.
16 Ɔdii mmɔborɔni ne ohiani asɛm maa wɔn, enti biribiara yɛɛ yie maa no. Na ɛnyɛ yei na ɛkyerɛ sɛ obi nim me anaa?” Awurade na ɔseɛ.
They understood not, they judged not the cause of the afflicted, nor the cause of the poor: is not this your not knowing me? says the Lord.
17 “Mo ani ne mo akoma wɔ mfasoɔ bɔne nko ara so, sɛ mohwie mogya a ɛdi bem guo na moyɛ nhyɛsoɔ ne nsisie nso.”
Behold, your eyes are not good, nor your heart, but [they go] after your covetousness, and after the innocent blood to shed it, and after acts of injustice and slaughter, to commit them.
18 Ɛno enti, yei ne deɛ Awurade ka fa Yudahene Yosia babarima Yehoiakim ho: “Wɔrensu no sɛ: ‘Aa, me nuabarima! Aa me nuabaa!’ Wɔrensu no sɛ: ‘Aa, me wura! Aa nʼahoɔfɛ!’
Therefore thus says the Lord concerning Joakim son of Josias, king of Juda, even concerning this man; they shall not bewail him, [saying], Ah brother! neither shall they at all weep for him, [saying], Alas Lord.
19 Wɔbɛsie no sɛ afunumu. Wɔbɛtwe nʼase na wɔato no atwene Yerusalem apono akyi.”
He shall be buried with the burial of an ass; he shall be dragged roughly along and cast outside the gate of Jerusalem.
20 “Monkɔ Lebanon nkɔ su, momma wɔnte mo nne wɔ Basan; monsu mfiri Abarim, ɛfiri sɛ wɔadwerɛ mo mpamfoɔ nyinaa.
Go up to Libanus, and cry; and utter your voice to Basan, and cry aloud to the extremity of the sea: for all your lovers are destroyed.
21 Mebɔɔ wo kɔkɔ, ɛberɛ a na ɛyɛ wo sɛ wʼasom adwo wo, nanso wokaa sɛ, ‘Merentie!’ Yei ne ɛkwan a wonam so firi wo mmerante berɛ mu; woanyɛ ɔsetie amma me.
I spoke to you on [occasion of] your trespass, but you said, I will not listen. This [has been] your way from your youth, you have not listened to my voice.
22 Mframa bɛbɔ wo nnwanhwɛfoɔ nyinaa akɔ, na wʼampamfoɔ nyinaa bɛkɔ nnommumfa mu. Afei wʼani bɛwu na wʼanim agu ase ɛsiane wʼamumuyɛ nyinaa enti.
The wind shall tend all your shepherds, and your lovers shall go into captivity; for then shall you be ashamed and disgraced because of all your lovers.
23 Mo a mote Lebanon, na modeda ntweneduro adan mu, ɛrenkyɛre koraa, sɛ ɔyea ba mo so a, mobɛsi apene te sɛ ɔbaa a ɔreko awoɔ.
O you that dwell in Libanus, making your nest in the cedars, you shall groan heavily, when pangs as of a travailing woman are come upon you.
24 “Nokorɛm, sɛ mete ase yi,” Awurade na ɔseɛ, “Mpo sɛ wo Yehoiakin, Yudahene Yehoiakim babarima yɛɛ me nsa nifa so nsɔano kaa a, anka mɛworɔ wo.
[As] I live, says the Lord, though Jechonias son of Joakim king of Juda were indeed the seal upon my right hand, thence would I pluck you;
25 Mede wo bɛma wɔn a wɔrehwehwɛ wo kra, wɔn a wosuro wɔn no; Babiloniahene Nebukadnessar ne Babiloniafoɔ.
and I will deliver you into the hands of them that seek your life, before whom you are afraid, into the hands of the Chaldeans.
26 Mɛpam wo ne wo maame a ɔwoo wo akɔgu ɔman foforɔ so, baabi a ɛnyɛ hɔ na wɔwoo mo mu biara, ɛhɔ na mo baanu bɛwuwu.
And I will cast forth you, and your mother that bore you, into a land where you were not born; and there you shall die.
27 Morensane mma asase a mo kɔn dɔ sɛ mobɛsane aba so no bio.”
But they shall by no means return to the land which they long for in their souls.
28 Adɛn enti na saa ɔbarima Yehoiakin te sɛ ayowaa a abɔ, adeɛ a obiara mpɛ anaa? Adɛn enti na wɔbɛpam ɔne ne mma, akɔgu asase a wɔnnim soɔ so?
Jechonias is dishonored as a good-for-nothing vessel; for he is thrown out and cast forth into a land which he knew not.
29 Ao, asase, asase, asase! Tie Awurade asɛm!
Land, land, hear the word of the Lord.
30 Yei ne deɛ Awurade seɛ: “Montwerɛ ɔbarima yi ho asɛm nto hɔ te sɛ obi a ɔnni ba, ɔbarima a ɔrennya nkɔsoɔ ne nkwa nna nyinaa na nʼasefoɔ mu biara renya nkɔsoɔ, na wɔn mu biara rentena Dawid ahennwa so na wɔrenni Yuda so ɔhene bio.”
Write you this man an outcast: for there shall none of his seed at all grow up to sit on the throne of David, [or as] a prince yet in Juda.
