Mika 2
1 Nnome nka wɔn a wɔfa amumuyɛ ho adwene, wɔn a wɔbɔ ɛpɔ bɔne wɔ wɔn mpa so! Wɔsɔre anɔpa kɔdi dwuma no ɛfiri sɛ wɔwɔ tumi sɛ wɔyɛ.
Woe to you that devise that which is unprofitable, and work evil in your beds: in the morning light they execute it, because their hand is against God.
2 Wɔn ani bere mfuo na wɔgye. Na afie nso wɔfa. Wɔde nyansa korɔno gye nkurɔfoɔ afie, na ayɔnkofoɔ agyapadeɛ nso wɔgye.
And they have coveted fields, and taken them by violence, and houses they have forcibly taken away: and oppressed a man and his house, a man and his inheritance.
3 Enti, sɛdeɛ Awurade seɛ nie, “Meredwene amanehunu a ɛtia saa nkurɔfoɔ yi ho na worentumi nnyi wo ho mfiri mu. Worentumi nnante ahantan so bio, ɛfiri sɛ ɛbɛyɛ ɛberɛ bɔne.
Therefore thus saith the Lord: Behold, I devise an evil against this family: from which you shall not withdraw your necks, and you shall not walk haughtily, for this is a very evil time.
4 Saa ɛda no, nnipa bɛsere mo. Wɔde saa awerɛhoɔ dwom yi bɛdi mo ho fɛ sɛ: ‘wɔasɛe yɛn koraa; wɔakyekyɛ me nkurɔfoɔ ahodeɛ mu. Ɔgye firi me nsa mu! Na ɔde yɛn mfuo ma akɔnkɔnsafoɔ.’”
In that day a parable shall be taken up upon you, and a song shall be sung with melody by them that say: We are laid waste and spoiled: the portion of my people is changed: how shall he depart from me, whereas he is returning that will divide our land?
5 Enti morennya obi wɔ Awurade asafo mu a ɔde ntontobɔ bɛkyɛ asase no.
Therefore thou shalt have none that shall cast the cord of a lot in the assembly of the Lord.
6 “Monnhyɛ nkɔm,” saa na wɔn nkɔmhyɛfoɔ no ka. “Monnhyɛ saa nneɛma yi ho nkɔm; animguaseɛ rento yɛn.”
Speak ye not, saying: It shall not drop upon these, confusion shall not take them.
7 Ao, Yakob efie, mma monnka nsɛm a ɛte saa. Awurade Honhom nni boasetɔ? Ɔyɛ nneɛma a ɛte sei anaa? “Ne nsɛm nyɛ deɛ nʼakwan tene no yie anaa?
The house of Jacob saith: Is the spirit of the Lord straitened, or are these his thoughts? Are not my words good to him that walketh uprightly?
8 Akyire no, me nkurɔfoɔ asɔre te sɛ asraafoɔ. Moworɔ ntadeɛ pa firi wɔn a wɔretwam a wɔnni adwemmɔne biara ho, ma wɔyɛ te sɛ asraafoɔ a wɔfiri akono.
But my people, on the contrary, are risen up as an enemy: you have taken away the cloak off from the coat: and them that passed harmless you have turned to war.
9 Mopam mmaa a wɔwɔ me nkurɔfoɔ mu firi wɔn afie fɛfɛ mu. Mogye me nhyira firi wɔn mma nsam afebɔɔ.
You have cast out the women of my people from their houses, in which they took delight: you have taken my praise for ever from their children.
10 Sɔre, firi ha kɔ! Ɛha nyɛ beaeɛ a wɔhome, ɛfiri sɛ ɛho agu fi, Wɔasɛe no, na ɛrenyɛ yie bio.
Arise ye, and depart, for there is no rest here for you. For that uncleanness of the land, it shall be corrupted with a grievous corruption.
11 Sɛ ɔtorofoɔ ne ɔdaadaafoɔ ba bɛka sɛ, ‘Mɛhyɛ nkɔm ama moanya nsã bebree a’ ɔbɛyɛ odiyifoɔ a saa nkurɔfoɔ yi pɛ.
Would God I were not a man that hath the spirit, and that I rather spoke a lie: I will let drop to thee of wine, and of drunkenness: and it shall be this people upon whom it shall drop.
12 “Mɛboaboa mo nyinaa ano Ao, Yakob; nokorɛm mɛka Israel nkaeɛfoɔ no nyinaa abɔ mu. Mɛka wɔn abɔ mu te sɛ nnwan a wɔgu nnwammuo mu, te sɛ nnwankuo a wɔwɔ adidibea; nnipa bɛhyɛ beaeɛ ho manyamanya.
I will assemble and gather together all of thee, O Jacob: I will bring together the remnant of Israel, I will put them together as a flock in the fold, as the sheep in the midst of the sheepcotes, they shall make a tumult by reason of the multitude of men.
13 Deɛ ɔbɔ ɛkwan no bɛdi wɔn anim wɔbɛbu apono no na wɔafiri akɔ. Wɔn ɔhene bɛsene adi wɔn anim, Awurade bɛyɛ wɔn ti.”
For he shall go up that shall open the way before them: they shall divide, and pass through the gate, and shall come in by it: and their king shall pass before them, and the Lord at the head of them.
