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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 vnto them, that imagine iniquitie, and worke wickednesse vpon their beddes: when the morning is light they practise it because their hande hath power.
2 Wɔn ani bere mfuo na wɔgye. Na afie nso wɔfa. Wɔde nyansa korɔno gye nkurɔfoɔ afie, na ayɔnkofoɔ agyapadeɛ nso wɔgye.
And they couet fields, and take them by violence, and houses, and take them away: so they oppresse a man and his house, euen man and his heritage.
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 saieth the Lord, Beholde, against this familie haue I deuised a plague, whereout yee shall not plucke your neckes, and ye shall not go so proudly, for this time is euill.
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 daye shall they take vp a parable against you, and lament with a dolefull lamentation, and say, We be vtterly wasted: hee hath changed the portion of my people: how hath he taken it away to restore it vnto mee? he hath deuided our fieldes.
5 Enti morennya obi wɔ Awurade asafo mu a ɔde ntontobɔ bɛkyɛ asase no.
Therefore thou shalt haue none that shall cast a corde by lot in the Congregation of the Lord.
6 “Monnhyɛ nkɔm,” saa na wɔn nkɔmhyɛfoɔ no ka. “Monnhyɛ saa nneɛma yi ho nkɔm; animguaseɛ rento yɛn.”
They that prophecied, Prophecie ye not. They shall not prophecie to them, neither shall they take shame.
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?
O thou that art named of the house of Iaakob, is the Spirite of the Lord shortened? are these his workes? are not my wordes good vnto him that walketh vprightly?
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 hee that was yesterday my people, is risen vp on the other side, as against an enemie: they spoyle the beautifull garment from them that passe by peaceably, as though they returned from the warre.
9 Mopam mmaa a wɔwɔ me nkurɔfoɔ mu firi wɔn afie fɛfɛ mu. Mogye me nhyira firi wɔn mma nsam afebɔɔ.
The women of my people haue ye cast out from their pleasant houses, and from their childre haue ye taken away my glorie continually.
10 Sɔre, firi ha kɔ! Ɛha nyɛ beaeɛ a wɔhome, ɛfiri sɛ ɛho agu fi, Wɔasɛe no, na ɛrenyɛ yie bio.
Arise and depart, for this is not your rest: because it is polluted, it shall destroy you, euen with a sore destruction.
11 Sɛ ɔtorofoɔ ne ɔdaadaafoɔ ba bɛka sɛ, ‘Mɛhyɛ nkɔm ama moanya nsã bebree a’ ɔbɛyɛ odiyifoɔ a saa nkurɔfoɔ yi pɛ.
If a man walke in the Spirit, and would lie falsely, saying, I wil prophecie vnto thee of wine, and of strong drinke, he shall euen be the prophet of this people.
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 surely gather thee wholy, O Iaakob: I will surely gather the remnant of Israel: I will put them together as the sheepe of Bozrah, euen as the flocke in the mids of their folde: the cities shall be full of brute of the 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.”
The breaker vp shall come vp before them: they shall breake out, and passe by the gate, and goe out by it, and their King shall goe before them, and the Lord shalbe vpon their heades.

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