Nnwom 146

1 Monkamfo Awurade. Ao me ɔkra, kamfo Awurade!

Praise ye the LORD. Praise the LORD, O my soul.

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 unto my God while I have any being.

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

Put not your trust in princes, nor in the son of man, in whom there is no help.

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

His breath goeth forth, he returneth to his earth; in that very day his thoughts perish.

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

Happy is he that hath the God of Jacob for his help, 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.

Which made heaven and earth, the sea, and all that in them is; which keepeth truth for ever:

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

Which executeth judgment for the oppressed; which giveth food to the hungry: the LORD looseth the prisoners;

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

The LORD openeth [the eyes of] the blind; the LORD raiseth up them that are bowed down; the LORD loveth the righteous;

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

The LORD preserveth the strangers; he upholdeth the fatherless and widow; but the way of the wicked he turneth upside down.

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

The LORD shall reign for ever, thy God, O Zion, unto all generations. Praise ye the LORD.