Nnwom 146

1 Monkamfo Awurade. Ao me ɔkra, kamfo Awurade!

Praise YAH! Praise, O my soul, YHWH.

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

I praise YHWH during my life, I sing praise to my God while I exist.

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

Do not trust in princes—in a son of man, For he has no deliverance.

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

His spirit goes forth, he returns to his earth, In that day his thoughts have perished.

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

O the blessedness of him Who has the God of Jacob for his help, His hope [is] on his God YHWH,

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

Making the heavens and earth, The sea and all that [is] in them, Who is keeping truth for all time,

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

Doing judgment for the oppressed, Giving bread to the hungry.

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

YHWH is loosing the prisoners, YHWH is opening (the eyes of) the blind, YHWH is raising the bowed down, YHWH is loving the righteous,

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

YHWH is preserving the strangers, He causes the fatherless and widow to stand, And He turns the way of the wicked upside down.

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

YHWH reigns for all time, Your God, O Zion, to generation and generation, Praise YAH!