Yeremia 24

1 Babiloniahene Nebukadnessar faa Yudahene Yehoiakin a ɔyɛ Yehoiakim babarima, nʼadwumayɛfoɔ, nʼadwumfoɔ ne nʼatomfoɔ a wɔwɔ Yuda firii Yerusalem kɔɔ nnommumfa mu wɔ Babilonia no akyi no, Awurade kyerɛɛ me borɔdɔma nkɛntɛn mmienu a wɔde asisi Awurade asɔredan no anim.

The Lord shewed me, and beholde, two baskets of figges were set before the Temple of the Lord, after that Nebuchad-nezzar King of Babel had caryed away captiue Ieconiah ye sonne of Iehoiakim King of Iudah, and the princes of Iudah with the workemen, and cunning men of Ierusalem, and had brought them to Babel.

2 Kɛntɛn baako mu borɔdɔma no yɛ papa te sɛ deɛ ɛbere ntɛm; borɔdɔma a ɛwɔ kɛntɛn a ɛka ho no mu no nyɛ mma sɛdeɛ wɔdie mpo.

One basket had verie good figges, euen like the figges that are first ripe: and the other basket had verie naughtie figges, which could not be eaten, they were so euill.

3 Na Awurade bisaa me sɛ, “Ɛdeɛn na wohunu, Yeremia?” Mebuaa sɛ, “Borɔdɔma, deɛ ɛyɛ pa ara, ne deɛ ɛnyɛ mma sɛdeɛ wɔdie mpo.”

Then saide the Lord vnto mee, What seest thou, Ieremiah? And I said, Figges: ye good figges verie good, and the naughtie verie naughtie, which cannot be eaten, they are so euill.

4 Ɛna Awurade asɛm baa me nkyɛn sɛ,

Againe the worde of the Lord came vnto me, saying,

5 “Yei ne deɛ Awurade, Israel Onyankopɔn seɛ: ‘Borɔdɔma papa no gyina hɔ ma atukɔfoɔ a wɔfiri Yuda, wɔn a metwaa wɔn asuo kɔɔ Babilonia asase so no.

Thus sayeth the Lord, the God of Israel, Like these good figges, so will I knowe them that are caryed away captiue of Iudah to bee good, whome I haue sent out of this place, into the land of the Caldeans.

6 Mɛma mʼani aku wɔn ho, ama wɔn yiedie, na mɛsane de wɔn aba ha bio. Mɛsiesie wɔn na merensɛe wɔn. Mɛdua wɔn, na merentu wɔn ase.

For I wil set mine eyes vpon them for good, and I will bring them againe to this lande, and I will build them, and not destroy them, and I will plant them, and not roote them out,

7 Mɛma wɔn akoma a wɔde bɛhunu me sɛ, me ne Awurade. Wɔbɛyɛ me nkurɔfoɔ, na mɛyɛ wɔn Onyankopɔn, ɛfiri sɛ, wɔde wɔn akoma nyinaa bɛsane aba me nkyɛn.

And I will giue them an heart to knowe me, that I am the Lord, and they shalbe my people, and I wil be their God: for they shall returne vnto mee with their whole heart.

8 “‘Nanso te sɛ borɔdɔma a ɛnyɛ no, deɛ ɛnyɛ mma sɛdeɛ wɔdie mpo no,’ deɛ Awurade seɛ nie, ‘saa ara na mɛyɛ Yudahene Sedekia, nʼadwumayɛfoɔ ne Yerusalem nkaeɛfoɔ, sɛ wɔte asase yi so anaa wɔte Misraim.

And as the naughtie figges which can not bee eaten, they are so euill (surely thus saith the Lord) so wil I giue Zedekiah the King of Iudah, and his princes, and the residue of Ierusalem, that remaine in this lande, and them that dwell in the lande of Egypt:

9 Mɛma wɔn ayɛ akyiwadeɛ ne mfomsodeɛ ama ahennie a ɛwɔ asase so nyinaa, wɔbɛyɛ ahɔhora na wɔabɔ wɔn din bɔne, wɔbɛyɛ asredeɛ ne mmusuo baabiara a mɛpam wɔn akɔ.

I will euen giue them for a terrible plague to all the kingdomes of the earth, and for a reproche, and for a prouerbe, for a common talke, and for a curse, in all places where I shall cast them.

10 Mɛsoma akofena, ɛkɔm ne yaredɔm akɔ wɔn so kɔsi sɛ wɔbɛsɛe wɔn koraa afiri asase a mede maa wɔn ne wɔn agyanom.’”

And I will sende the sworde, the famine, and the pestilence among them, till they bee consumed out of the land, that I gaue vnto them and to their fathers.