Nnwom 146

1 Monkamfo Awurade. Ao me ɔkra, kamfo Awurade!

Alleluia, [a Psalm] of Aggaeus and Zacharias. My soul, praise the Lord.

2 Mɛkamfo Awurade me nkwa nna nyinaa; mɛto ayɛyi dwom ama me Onyankopɔn, sɛ mete ase yi.

While I live will I praise the Lord: I will sing praises to my God as long as I exist.

3 Mommfa mo ho nto mmapɔmma so, adasamma a wɔrentumi nnye nkwa.

Trust not in princes, nor in the children of men, in whom there is no safety.

4 Sɛ wɔn honhom tu kɔ a, wɔsane kɔ dɔteɛ mu, saa da no ara wɔn nsusuiɛ nyinaa yɛ kwa.

His breath shall go forth, and he shall return to his earth; in that day all his thoughts shall perish.

5 Nhyira ne deɛ ne ɔboafoɔ ne Yakob Onyankopɔn, deɛ nʼanidasoɔ wɔ Awurade, ne Onyankopɔn mu.

Blessed is he whose helper is the God of Jacob, whose hope is in the Lord his God:

6 Ɔno ne ɔsoro ne asase Yɛfoɔ, ɛpo ne biribiara a ɛwɔ mu nyinaa Awurade a ɔyɛ nokwafoɔ daa no.

who made heaven, and earth, the sea, and all things in them: who keeps truth for ever:

7 Ɔdi ma wɔn a wɔhyɛ wɔn so, na ɔma wɔn a ɛkɔm de wɔn aduane. Awurade gyaa nneduafoɔ,

who executes judgment for the wronged: who gives food to the hungry. The Lord looses the fettered ones:

8 Awurade ma anifirafoɔ hunu adeɛ. Awurade pagya wɔn a wɔakom. Awurade dɔ teneneefoɔ.

the Lord gives wisdom to the blind: The Lord sets up the broken down: the Lord loves the righteous: the Lord preserves the strangers;

9 Awurade hwɛ ahɔhoɔ so na ɔwowa nwisiaa ne akunafoɔ, na amumuyɛfoɔ akwan deɛ, ɔdane ani.

he will relieve the orphan and widow: but will utterly remove the way of sinners.

10 Sion, Awurade wo Onyankopɔn di ɔhene daa daa, wɔ awoɔ ntoatoasoɔ nyinaa so. Monkamfo Awurade.

The Lord shall reign for ever, [even] your God, O Sion, to all generations.